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wallawe··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
i misread it - apologies - happy to delete. there's not currently a button for it so i will reach out to the hn team.
wallawe··on The React Foundation
This is just silly, Don. HN has gotten so mired in negativity that someone who's a genuine fan of a product, and dares to go against the narrative is now a "shill." Also: see definition of shill. I'm just a happy user that runs a startup, and my life is easier because of their existence.
wallawe··on The React Foundation
do you consider Vercel a monopoly?
wallawe··on The React Foundation
I've been using Next.js since 2017 (before dynamic routes were even a thing!).

The app router kinda sucks so we're staying with /pages. No complaints thus far with a team of 6 engineers.

wallawe··on The React Foundation
I've been using Vercel for > 5 years. Suppose it's possible but that's true for any platform.
wallawe··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
Rebolt | Atlanta (onsite) | Full-stack engineer (AI focus) | Full-Time | 120-180k + equity | https://rebolthq.com

We've raised $4.6M to date to help home service businesses (think HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, roofing) with their digital marketing, building everything with an AI-first mindset.

We are a small team still (16 total in the company).

I'm the founder/CEO and have 13 years experience as an SWE so we very much take an engineering-first approach. If you're interested and your Github profile goes back to at least 2019, email me directly - will[@]rebolthq.com

wallawe··on Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)
> retaining wealth means choosing not to see and positively act on the state of the world

This is just silly. Just because you retain wealth doesn't mean you aren't positively acting to improve the current state of the world.

wallawe··on Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
Can vouch for this as well. The API has breaking changes all the time and there's no notice whatsoever. We'll transition away soon.
wallawe··on Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
More than half that voted is all that matters
wallawe··on Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
More than half of us voted for this. And we love what is going on; that action is being taken. Don't presume everyone thinks the same way you do.
wallawe··on Launch HN: Fresco (YC F24) – AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents
Solid idea, and best of luck.

If I could make one recommendation: hire a UX/UI designer ASAP. The less technical the audience, the more intuitive and easy to navigate the UI needs to be.

Our company focuses on home service businesses and they get roadblocked super easily. I think you'll be glad you did it earlier rather than later. Otherwise, the ux debt will pile up and it will be quite a project a year down the line.

wallawe··on Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components
The Mux marketing strategy is brilliant.

Take over or create new open source projects so that every developer comes across your company in the search for a video package.

Another example I noticed recently is https://github.com/cookpete/react-player

wallawe··on How do you allow non-technical folks to edit prompts?
If anyone finds this in the future, we found three solutions we're evaluating:

https://www.promptlayer.com/

https://freeplay.ai/

https://www.helicone.ai/

wallawe··on How do you allow non-technical folks to edit prompts?
Many of the best SEO understand technical aspects but don't actually code. The vast majority. Source: built and sold company on the back of SEO and worked with many great SEOs.
wallawe··on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake
Many such similar stories, except where the crutch is alcohol. Back to the original question, would you propose banning alcohol as well?
wallawe··on Vercel Is Down
And we're down again. This is awful.
wallawe··on I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
This is capital gains, meaning 15-20% in taxes. Nowhere near half.
wallawe··on Reddit shares plunge 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close
Why wouldn't they? It's been pumped up way beyond the IPO price that they and the bankers thought was reasonable.

Even if you are bullish long-term, it makes sense to cash out while it's overbought and buy back later.

Also, keep in mind 500,000 shares might sound like a lot to us, but it's not even close to a majority of their position.

Looking at this as a signal as to whether you should hold as an employee would be silly.

wallawe··on Show HN: NeedleDrop – Guess the movie from a song
Same - here's the scene from the first movie I guessed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alyx4QeRRdg which was marked as incorrect
wallawe··on Mistral Large
Yeah this confused me - I thought that my browser language settings had gotten messed up especially after see thing the CTA in the top right with "le chat"
wallawe··on Abandoned villages of Hong Kong
I tried it and only got 80 requests. Then turned off uBlock Origin and got the same 2k ish you did. That's pretty wild.
wallawe··on Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024
Here's a little help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89cto-IvD98
wallawe··on Online Job Posts Contain Little Wage Information [pdf]
This doesn't make sense from the hiring side to me. I have a small agency with 10 employees and it's just common sense to put salary info in the job listing.

Otherwise we both waste each other's time if it's not up to their expectations. What is the benefit of obscuring it until it's time to present an offer?

wallawe··on Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?
Let's say I own a bunch of SPLK and want to make some passive income. I am the counterparty to the call purchaser in this example.

I can sell call options 10% out of the money each week and make some nice cash. If my plan was to hold the stock long term, there's no downside risk because if the stock goes down, I get to keep the cash (premium) from selling the calls. If it goes sideways or slightly up I get to keep it as well.

The only "downside" is it goes up >10% in which case i've made that 10% + premium, but I've now had my stock taken away from me.

In this case, I lose out on an additional 10% in upside because it went up 20% overnight.

wallawe··on Launch HN: Loops (YC W22) – Email for SaaS Companies
This is great, congrats on the launch. I can't wait to get away from customer.io but unfortunately the Make.com integration is a necessity for us. As soon as you have that, we'll be customers!
wallawe··on Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
A lot of complaining from one of the most privileged and highest paid classes of workers ever to exist in human kind. Talk of "exploitation", etc. To put it in perspective, you sit at a computer and type, and get paid $200k+ a year for it.

Forget other people in the other part of the world, just compare your situation to the average American for a second - they don't have a choice of whether or not to be at the office, because their office is our schools, our fire stations, our construction sites. And they get 1/4th the salary you do.

Entitlement doesn't even begin to describe it.

wallawe··on I open sourced my failed side project
Well, another side project down the drain. Such is life. TLDR: spent a few months building this on the side (probably 3-4 hours each night), launched to crickets and got 1 sale at $39.

My mistake this time was not doing a vibe check on the market - seems like this isn't something many people need other than myself.

Still if only a few developers that find it useful, it will not have been built entirely in vain.

wallawe··on Function calling and other API updates
amazing, thank you
wallawe··on Function calling and other API updates
Can this handle multiple input URLs? For example, I have 100 local business home pages, and I want you to get the email and phone number if they exists for each. Here are the 100 URLs..

I would be a happy paying customer if so.

wallawe··on Show HN: Sod Calculator
This was a weekend project after having a really difficult time just getting a sod quote for my yard. A lot of these companies are stuck in the stone ages tech wise, and it takes days to hear back from them. Would love any feedback you have.
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