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urlgrey_on Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm

The title suggested that they stole/borrowed a train in an Italian Job style heist...

urlgrey_on Signs that a business idea will probably fail

5. You can’t build a story / brand around it

Many articles focus on the idea of building your community etc, but few actually focus on how to do it amidst all the noise

urlgrey_on MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life

This might make me fire up my Windows box... I miss MS Flight Simulator

urlgrey_on My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs

I enjoyed the write-up. Iteresting that you say you invested too much time in writing. What are your readership stats if I may ask?

urlgrey_on Show HN: Pesky – a way to send multiple text messages

Back when I was freelancing, I noticed how other freelancers had to deal with non-payments and trying to get hold of clients to no avail. I’ve had it myself, and thought of the least professional thing to do with said toxic clients - send a daily email… It worked

But emails can be ignored, and WhatsApp too… Then something caught my eye. You’ve probably seen the videos of someone’s phone going crazy with notifications and such… Bragging rights though.

So with that idea in mind, I thought of the one “app” that everyone has - SMS - and thought what if you could send a crazy stream of SMS messages to someone AND have the bragging rights of paying large to do it

It’s a crazy and silly idea, but imagine sending 50, 1000, or 10,000 text messages each second to one individual?!

Here is https://pesky.badideas.life

urlgrey_on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

An app that lets you send thousands of messages to one person every second..