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truetauruson Show HN: Artist Kit – One-Page Website Builder for DJs and Music Artists

Looking for recommendations how to get this in front of more music artists. Appreciate if anyone can spread the word. Feedback is welcomed!

truetauruson Show HN: Artist Kit – One-Page Website Builder for DJs and Music Artists

Looking for feedback!

truetauruson Show HN: ShellSelf – A Developer Portfolio That Feels Like Home

Hey HN,

The goal is to make portfolios feel a bit more fun, interactive, and more like something a developer would actually enjoy using.

With ShellSelf, you can make a portfolio that looks like a real terminal. Visitors can type commands like about, projects, and skills to explore your profile.

I would love your feedback

http://shellself.com/

Thanks!

truetauruson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

  Location: Berlin, Germany, EU

  Remote: Ideally yes! But depending on the opportunity I am open to hybrid/onsite

  Willing to relocate: Never say never

  Technologies: React, Typescript, NodeJS, NextJS, Postgresql, MonogDB, PHP, Supabase, Vercel, and more!

  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipmetzger/

  Email: truetaurus [at] gmail [.] com

I can start immediately!

I’m Phil, a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building high-impact web applications across frontend and backend. I’ve spent my career shipping fast, solving real problems, and turning ideas into real products.

I specialize in React, Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Node.js, and everything required to take a product from prototype → production → scale. I love working where engineering, UX, and product meet — designing features, running growth experiments, and delivering end-to-end systems that actually move the needle.

I see my self as a product engineer as I love to take a problem and go from 0 to production! I take ownership!

I’ve built and launched 10+ products, mostly solo — sharpening my skills across engineering, UX, distribution, and growth. I love creating tools that are useful, weird, or just fun to build. Some of my projects include:

• InterestingBars.com – Unique bars around the world • puzzlepostcards.shop – Send a puzzle postcard • ReclaimDesk.com – Modern lost & found management • UseStockStore.com – Simple inventory management app • DumpIt.app – AI-powered audio note-taking • ChronaGraph – Simple graph workflows for AI • TallyTabby.com – Minimal counting app • QRFeedback.app – Instant customer feedback via a QR code • ShiftingTicTacToe.com – Real-time twist on a classic game • DecodeBodyLanguage.com – AI nonverbal insights

truetauruson Ask HN: Where to find cool companies to work for?

Yeah good idea, its limited though to what i know, also interesting in the companies i dont know :)

But i can start with the companies i know and use i guess

truetauruson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

  Location: Berlin, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: React, Supabase, NextJS, aiSDK, etc etc!
  Résumé/CV: https://x.com/strange_quirks
  Email: I have over 15 years of experience, hit me up!

truetauruson Ask HN: App to create a podcast from my notes

Oh this is cool!

truetauruson Ask HN: Managing Multiple Email Addresses

Update: I have gone with zoho mail

truetauruson Ask HN: Managing Multiple Email Addresses

This sounds quite complicated, was hoping for a web client to easily switch between multiple domains

truetauruson Show HN: Super Simple Inventory Management

For sure! Its just very much early stages so I need to figure out what people want. If you have a specific usecase or idea ill happily use that as the blueprint :)

truetauruson Show HN: Super Simple Inventory Management

StockStore is a streamlined, powerful solution designed to help businesses of all sizes manage their inventory with ease and precision. With a clean, modern dashboard, StockStore gives you an immediate overview of your stock levels, alerts, and recent activity—enabling informed decisions at a glance.

Key Features:

Inventory Management Effortlessly track products, set reorder points, and update your catalog in real time.

Barcode & QR Code Scanning Speed up operations with quick and accurate inventory updates using scanning technology.

Multi‑Location Support Manage multiple warehouses or retail sites from one centralized dashboard—track stock transfers between locations for full visibility.

Detailed Audit Trail Every stock movement—whether in or out—is logged with user details and reason codes, ensuring complete traceability.

Flexible Settings Tailor your account with customizable organization settings, user roles, and preferences to match your workflow.

How It Works—In 3 Simple Steps:

Set Up Your Inventory Add products, define stock levels, and configure your business settings.

Track & Analyze Monitor inventory, movements, and performance—all in one place.

Grow Smarter Leverage insights and analytics to optimize operations—boost efficiency and scale with confidence.

Pricing Plans That Grow With You:

StockStore offers fair and transparent pricing that caters to businesses at every stage:

Basic (Free) Up to 150 product items, including multi-location support and priority help.

Growth (most popular) at $7.99/month Manage up to 500 products, with all Basic features included.

Business at $23.99/month Unlimited product items plus all features applicable to multi-location businesses.

truetauruson Show HN: Decode Body Language and Understand Nonverbal Cues

I get your concern, but honestly, we all read and respond to body language subconsciously—whether we realize it or not. It's just part of how humans communicate.

truetauruson Show HN: Decode Body Language and Understand Nonverbal Cues

little harder to spell I feel haha, also the .com domain costs way too much!

truetauruson Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

Still the early stages and in the process of finding the best most interesting bars. If you know any there I would love to hear from you. Feel free to submit them on the website or here!

truetauruson How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph

Interesting, i am just going to plug something I just built around this concept: https://skillriskaudit.com/

Would love for some feedback!

truetauruson Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

https://interestingbars.com: Discover the best, most interesting bars in your area

https://tallytabby.com: The simplest way to keep track of anything in your life. From habits to inventory, TallyTabby makes counting effortless.

https://qrfeedback.app: Get honest customer feedback with a simple QR code

https://skillriskaudit.com: Knowledge Risk Management

https://shiftingtictactoe.com: The classic game with a twist—play in real-time, and there’s never a draw!

truetauruson Show HN: Simple Graph Framework for Workflow Orchestration (LangGraph Alt.)

OP Here.

It is very much in its early stages. I was using langgraph and thought it was pretty cool but found it quite over complicated for my use cases. SO I decided to build a simple version.

Looking for any feedback!

truetauruson Show HN: Shifting Tic Tac Toe

great minds think alike :)

I like the idea of randomly starting my removing the 5th or 6th move!

truetauruson Show HN: Get honest customer feedback with a simple QR code

Also i used some geo tester and loads fine in a bunch of locations. Where are you located?

truetauruson Show HN: Get honest customer feedback with a simple QR code

Oh what really? it works for me, hmm, what do you see? like never loads?

truetauruson Show HN: Get honest customer feedback with a simple QR code

Hey OP here!

I just launched my solo project: https://qrfeedback.app It’s a simple way to collect customer feedback through a QR code, helping businesses improve.

I’m eager to get it in front of users and would love any advice on quick, low-cost marketing tactics that have worked for others here. What strategies would you recommend to rapidly attract the right audience and start gathering feedback?

Any tips or insights would be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Also highly appreciate any feedback!

Bonus: If you know anyone that runs small businesses such as restaurants, hotels, etc and you could show them it :)

truetauruson Ask HN: How to integrate a Blog system into my NextJS app

cool makes sense, thats for the tips!

truetauruson Ask HN: How to integrate a Blog system into my NextJS app

ah yes im open to any option. I feel wordpress requires quite a bit of setup, and also not lookign to spend much. But ill check out wix maybe

truetauruson Simple HTML email template that works in outlook too

ah cool will check it out thanks

truetauruson Show HN: A Simple Counter Offline First Web App

Anything really. Keep track of things in your life, e.g. how many times you go to the gym, etc etc.

(i plan on adding a history so you can see on what day the counter value was)

truetauruson Show HN: A Simple Counter Offline First Web App

I recently built this simple counter app to get the juices flowing for the new year.

It is at a stage where the core features are implemented.

So I come to you for any additional features as well as general feedback :)

https://www.tallytabby.com/

truetauruson Anyone building open source software in AI or Crypto?

We opened up applications for 100 Builders, a 4-week online program/hackathon for builders to collaborate on bold open source projects for AI (and crypto), organized by a small team and supported by amazing partners and sponsors. It is 100% free to participate, light on time commitment, and 100% on builders' terms. Just a BIG build-that-thing energy between 100 projects that get in. I don't need to convince you about how important it is to have this new tech be built as open as possible, and we hope this will help with that!

We have a lot more to announce, including details about $20k+ (and counting) in sponsorship and prize money for participants. You can apply directly on the site https://100.builders/?ref=hn&code=Py8aPO - it takes 2 minutes.

Applications close on August 10th.

There is a little FAQ here: https://docs.100.builders/100-builders-qs-and-as

If you have any questions or feedback, let me know!

truetauruson Show HN: Apply to 100.builders – building together open source in AI and Crypto

Interesting! Is it for solo builders or can I apply with my team?

truetauruson Show HN: Second Longest Word Wins [fun social game]

As a matter of fact I have those exact features planned! Thanks for the feedback!

truetauruson Show HN: Second Longest Word Wins [fun social game]

Created this quick little game that you can play with friends.

It is quite simple: Given a letter, come up with a word. Then the person with the second longest word wins! You dont need you my app, you can even play it at your next social gathering using pen and paper!

Very much inspired from a task on TaskMaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOUR26pLz0&t=2305s

How to play this game with friends in real life: https://sociallotion.com/game/second-longest-word_elUbYc6lZ5...

Still an MVP, but have a play and let me know any feedback.

Also any designers out there? would love for ideas on how to improve it (i am not a designer :)).

<3 Thanks!