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nshntarora

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nshntarora··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
A free and open source chrome extension to help people review code - https://guidedreview.dev

It upgrades your GitHub pull request review experience with a guided walkthrough of the PR optimized for reading.

nshntarora··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
This is a great app! Simple and does the job.

The F1TV app is not available in my country on play store on my Google TV. The first time, I logged into the device using the android debugger to install the APK - I didn't want to use an ad-full app. Then I tried LocalSend, and it is now my default to send the APK from my mac to my android tv. Love the simple experience. Minor quirks in the UI, but gets the job done.

nshntarora··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
This is good - I previously used Buffalo https://gobuffalo.io/ at my startup, but eventually decided to move off it. Go doesn't seem like the kind of language that could support a framework like rails (it's safety takes away from the flexibility).

Would love to see how this turns out though! Great work

nshntarora··on Automate writing changelog using ChatGPT
Hey! Yes, I'm one of the co-founders of Olvy. Should've mentioned in the earlier comment.
nshntarora··on Automate writing changelog using ChatGPT
Hi! You can do that too. but Olvy already stores your user feedback and user requests to make the workflow easier. You also get a hosted changelog, a feedback management system and a lot more with it.
nshntarora··on Show HN: Create an automated test in minutes for any app
Hey! This looks great! Do you folks have automated API testing?

We're in the process of moving from a REST API to a GraphQL one, and I really want to do things right this time with an automated test suite.

nshntarora··on Skillsoft Buys Codecademy for $525M
Since my university's curriculum was stuck in the 90s, I used Codecademy to teach myself JS, and Ruby. Thank you Zach, and everyone who has been part of the team!
nshntarora··on GitHub Broken Download URLs
Gitlab is uniquely positioned to do this

Activity Pub integration issue on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21582

nshntarora··on Ask HN: How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?
What worked for us:

We did something like this with our early users. Called the thing "The Builders Program"

For the medium, have one default you use but don't limit things to it. If one of your early users wants to use twitter to contact you and give you feedback, use that. We created a Discord server, had a group Twitter DM, used Email.

One thing you should do early on with these users is show them you are listening. Pick something they say and ship it as soon as you can. If they see you're listening, they'll be more active in sharing feedback.

In exchange for being part of the builders program we gave them lifetime free access to the product later on.

nshntarora··on Libreselery: Solving the Donation Distribution Problem in Free Software
This is a nice idea, and amazing execution on this. Really excited to see how this picks up.

But here are my concerns with the Git contributions to reward performance.

A company I interned at installed a Git history analysis tool, and used stats from that in 1:1s and performance reviews.

About a month after I joined, I had one such 1:1 with my manager. He was like, "Congratulations! You made 53% of all contributions to frontend last month. You're our star performer."

I wasn't. I was responsible for upgrading our frontend from React 15 to React 16. Most of the changes that happened were thanks to the Codemod, and a lot of find / replace magic.

nshntarora··on Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
Option + Click

And

Command + Option + Shift + Click

Works on most default OS things you can click on. Reveals a whole new set of amazing functionality.

Example: Doing so on the bluetooth icon on your menu bar, gives you the debug option for you to reset / restart bluetooth module.

nshntarora··on Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
Awesome! @photomatt would also love to know the company's plans with HappyTools (https://happy.tools/), what's coming next?