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vsakos··on Introduction to Obsidian
GitSync works fine, you can find my previous comment about it (I don't want to spam the whole thread over and over with the same message)
vsakos··on Introduction to Obsidian
GitSync works for me both on Android and iOS. I'm not using it that frequently tho, and you have make it a habit to open GitSync first, sync the changes (pull) and then open Obsidian. Also, after changing the notes you should again open GitSync and do a sync (commit + push).

https://gitsync.viscouspotenti.al/

vsakos··on Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros
Go + Qt and/or QML
vsakos··on “I have toyota corola”
You can do that with Fastmail easily.
vsakos··on Ask HN: Foreign founder, can't find a payment processor
Take a look at 2Checkout.
vsakos··on Facebook seems not to be paying app developer $160K in ad revenue
It means "content", I don't think it's the name of the app.
vsakos··on Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client
I think he meant the only option as a web developer. Maybe he doesn't know C++ and C#, and it's not that easy with a web-oriented mindset to start writing desktop apps in C++ (it's not easy the other way either, I had a friend who after years of programming in Delphi started with the web by absolutely positioning every single HTML element).

When someone asks in which lang should he implement a webapp/SaaS/whatever, the first comment is to use the tech he knows the most. Why so much hate when the same principle is used for desktop app development?

vsakos··on Ask HN: How much do you make from Google AdSense per day?
The "API for advertising" you described is called native advertisement and is already a thing out there :)
vsakos··on Ask HN: Worth looking for cheaper VPS than Digital Ocean?
Check OVH [0] ($3.49 is the lowest plan) or for even less, take a look at Time4VPS [1], they have really cheap servers, but I wouldn't use them in production only for dev and private use.

[0]: https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml

[1]: https://www.time4vps.eu/pricing/

vsakos··on Ask HN: Describe the perfect side project
Can I ask you where do you look for potential project ideas?
vsakos··on Ask HN: Do you have any repeating tasks that can be automated?
Anything you could either do manually or write a bash/python/javascript/php/whatever script for, or use a SaaS.

It can be anything, like scraping some site and exporting the data as csv, getting raw text from pdf, doc files etc.

Do you use something like this, or do something that can be automated this way? Just give some examples that first come to mind.

vsakos··on Ask HN: Do you have any repeating tasks that can be automated?
Can you please tell me what exactly?
vsakos··on [dead]
Then it's not just me...

You get the "Service Unavailable" message, too?

vsakos··on Tell HN: Now is the perfect time to roll out a new freelance platform
I never understood how can people earn that much on these sites. I'm trying since mid-july and earned about $120. I'm looking for HTML/JS/PHP jobs with little/no luck. Can you give some advice?
vsakos··on Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely
To be honest, it's pretty bad, you can't imagine. Everything is in one single C++ file (+ the main.cpp), the chat is a webkit widget (it was the easiest and fastest solution), there is no error checking or anything so it can crash any time, etc etc...

Actually, this is my first C++ project, I don't even know C++ (only a bit C from high school).

vsakos··on Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely
I recently made a similar desktop app to watch movies with my gf. It has only video sync and text based chat.

Check the screenshot: http://i.pics.rs/64I0n

Maybe I will open source it when it's done. Btw I used Qt and libVLC.

vsakos··on Ask HN: How to sell desktop software online?
Check out Envato market[1], they support both bank transfer and Skrill[2] (which supports your country, and is a relatively good alternative to PayPal).

Also, if you want to sell software directly to customers, Skrill can work here too.

[1] http://market.envato.com

[2] https://www.skrill.com/en/home/

vsakos··on Show HN: Denglish – OS X keyboard layout for German speaking developers
I did the same thing for the Hungarian layout, and it took me I think max an hour, you should try it too.

You can find the link to Ukelele in the end of the README file.

vsakos··on Show HN: Kolor Game
It would be better if I can choose the color with keyboard buttons, like with

    Q W E R T
    A S D F G
Moving the cursor is really slow and is a disadvantage, especially with a touchpad, however I haven't tried on touchscreen.

Btw,

    setInterval(function() {
     var color = document.querySelector("#kolor-kolor").style.backgroundColor;
     var links = document.querySelectorAll("#kolor-options a");
     for(i in links) {
      if(links[i].style.backgroundColor == color) {
       links[i].click();
       return;
      }
     }
    }, 10);
vsakos··on Building a raspberry pi into a laptop
I myself don't have experience with this, but a friend of mine tried to revive a ZX Spectrum with a RasPi 1. As far as I remember he had trouble connecting te ZX keyboard to the Raspi.
vsakos··on Ask HN: Sources of people for very early app testing
BetaList is what you're looking for.

http://betalist.com/

vsakos··on Show HN: Coplay – synchonizing video play between browsers
I'm creating something like this, but as a desktop app in java using VLC api.

There is a screenshot[1] of the current state, but it's a bit ugly since I had to stop working on it because of my exams. The idea is to replace the VLC+Skype combo for watching movies together with automatically syncing the play/pause.

But there is another problem I haven't decided yet, and it's the communication channel for chat and syncing. I'm torn between creating a server on an own VPS or adding an IRC client to the app (since you can always find a free irc server and create a room).

[1]: http://i.pics.rs/jDvun

vsakos··on Ask HN: How much do you make in side projects?
There was a similar thread about a month ago, you should check it. Also, in the first comment you can find another 7 threads about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844083

vsakos··on Is Facebook really down?
It's back (Serbia, EU)
vsakos··on Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic
For personal use it's really affordable, but what about companies like saas, online magazine, newspaper etc?
vsakos··on Ask HN: Getting a name for a startup
1) Thanks, I will definitely read this. I didn't mentioned but I also tried Wordoid and some other similar services. My problem with these is that I need a word as the starting point, but I can't find one for which wordoid can generate words that sounds good and is easy to pronounce (the generated word is either crap or the com domain is not available).

2) I tried jamming words, but nothing... I even tried finding keywords for this on BetaLis and YCList.

vsakos··on Google Domains
Actually, namesilo offers free whois privacy. http://www.namesilo.com/
vsakos··on Ask HN: Validate my idea
It's smartphone era, you like it or not. And it's more paper saver.
vsakos··on CubeSlam
https://code.google.com/p/cubeslam/
vsakos··on Facebook was down
It's definitely Anonymous and Operation Facebook. A bit late but with success...
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