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soulchild37

266 karma · joined August 17, 2015

Howdy! I am soulchild, I like to code and draw stuff.

https://fluffy.es

iOS Auto Layout guide book! https://autolayout.fluffy.es

feel free to reach my email : axel at the website above.

meet.hn/city/my-Kuala-Lumpur Socials: - x.com/soulchildpls ---

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soulchild37··on One decision put Ruby into a downward spiral. It's not too late to fix it
Eww a sponsored post writing about another sponsored tool
soulchild37··on Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It
> Senior interface designer > The website fails accessibility color contrast
soulchild37··on What if users start cloning SaaS using AI
Those aren't serious users anyway, business users who are focusing on their business don't have the time to clone and maintain their own software. People who claim to successfully clone and replace SaaS are never good customers anyway, they will either churn after free trial has ended, or post on reddit searching for free alternative
soulchild37··on Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
Hello IRS
soulchild37··on The Amphibious Villagers of Indonesia
The paywall is so huge I can't even view the title of the article lol, bye Economist
soulchild37··on Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 Nginx Security Update Breaks Many Dynamic Modules
Yep, I got affected by this issue, OS should never run automatic update (security update included), this security update caused 4 hours of downtime to my SaaS : https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/2662
soulchild37··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
it takes 10 prompts, 5 fuse jumps, and hiring one electrician to change a lightbulb
soulchild37··on Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
> Travelers going between cities/countries carry items for people who need to send stuff.

What the hell, why would anyone perform such high risk activity

soulchild37··on Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?
You can copy a product, but you can't make people pay for it as easily
soulchild37··on Digital Ocean blocked my account
Are you using a newly issued card to pay for the servers? (or a prepaid card). Reddit has several threads like this, and a common issue is using a newly issued card to pay, which DigitalOcean might classify it as a fraudulent card.
soulchild37··on Ask HN: Does the World need more software?
Customers want a hole in the wall, not drill , drill is just one of the tool that can make the hole happen (a manual hammer works too but too time consuming and less accuracy)

Software is just one of the ways for users to achieve their desired outcome (eg: keeping track of business expenses / flow etc) , excel can do it, but some other software might make it easier than excel, with better UI etc.

If you want to succeed in making software, study the users workflow rigorously. "Users don't love software, users tolerate software to achieve the outcome they want"

soulchild37··on Show HN: The Lottery of Life
The random seed seems fixed, I tried 100 clicks and get Nematode
soulchild37··on Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?
Prediction, the company posting this listing will go under in 2 years
soulchild37··on I keep building projects nobody wants. So this time I'm doing it backwards
You are progressing backwards, and I can tell you from 10 miles away this is not something people want and need and not useful.

"I'd use this" is easy to click, giving email is easy. The hard part is giving credit card details and commit to "yes I would buy this"

soulchild37··on The only moat left is money?
This article sounds like "I can't make a profitable SaaS, hence others can't too, and those who can, are using absurd amount of money or prior reputation to do so"

I advice to grow up and do some proper research on what problem to solve, and how to build trust with audience before pushing your products.

I dont have much money or prior reputation when starting out, I blogged weekly, then slowly launched technical ebooks, one time utility app, and finally SaaS , took me about 6 years of showing up every day to have a job-replacing income.

Your other post mentioned you gave up and declared failure after 3 weeks of launching your SaaS, I think the timeframe expectation you had might be unrealistic.

soulchild37··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
Bingo, the OP is selling AI, and wrote multiple blog posts to promote his tool, this is just fear induced sales pitch.
soulchild37··on Your app subscription is now my weekend project
And one day your day job will be someone else weekend project
soulchild37··on iOS: Apps persist data after full deletion
Apple local keychain data seems to be persisted even after the app uninstallation : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255712703?sortBy=rank
soulchild37··on Show HN: Iframetest.com
Good tool, but I am sure there will be a lot of bounty beggar who will use this tool to automate scanning for vulnerable small blogs / website for iFrame / clickjacking , and then send email to the website owner saying they have discovered "high impact security issue" and begging for bounty.
soulchild37··on Era of Bloated Software Is Over
Lmao, wake me up when Notion become actually usable
soulchild37··on Don't animate height
The lesson should be don't use Electron, animating height in AppKit has no problem
soulchild37··on Ask HN: How to make money with SaaS without network or VC funding?
Whats your SaaS?
soulchild37··on Tell HN: GitHub gists are great for private/public bookmarks
I hope Github can add tagging / folders for gists some day, it is a pain to search for gist when there's a lot of it
soulchild37··on The best programmers I know
I am really interested to read articles about "people best at having business impact by making software" , so far I only discovered resources like kalzumeus (patio11), indiehackers, microconf, business of software forum (very old).
soulchild37··on What if we made advertising pay the user?
Why would any big platform do so? What incentive it is for them?
soulchild37··on Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?
I think a better title would be "What would you do if money is not a concern for you"
soulchild37··on WP Engine Tracker
So they are proud of this?
soulchild37··on Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
tried to input "Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" and it says it is not valid unfortunately.

Can this be fixed?

soulchild37··on Ask HN: Trying to find an old HN post, failing at search
Source Hut? https://sr.ht
soulchild37··on Nvidia CEO says "coding is a dying profession"
Let him cook
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