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wirddin

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Abhishek Biswal.

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wirddin··on Mozilla Acquires Pocket
Huge fan of the Pocket App. Any guesses for how much the deal would be worth?
wirddin··on Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?
> 1. A response looks like this: https://monosnap.com/file/CbRNrj7TUUhaLolVTLYJhrPxUdsYOK

That's quite expensive for $100. Also, doesn't sound like an advice, more like a judge for an elevator pitch.

wirddin··on Mozilla Acquires Pocket
This problem got solved when YouTube started allowing offline videos. Idk if it is available in your country, but in India you don't need to be a paying customer to save offline videos.
wirddin··on Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
I feel the same way. Whenever I see an app compatible with all three platforms, I check if it's built on electron.

The less electron-based running apps, the better. The only electron app I (sometimes) use is Atom.

I have switched to slack on browser, instead of the app.

wirddin··on Ghost is shit. Node.js is shit
And of all the time you'll be spending on driving over the usb and other methods you have mentioned, the ghost will stay online, with people working on it, using it.

I haven't used much of Ghost. But this is sad that people say that a some tech is Sh*t, just because it didn't work out for them.

wirddin··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? 2017 Edition
But doesn't twitter have a huge amount users with incomplete profiles (or eggheads)? Or is it an assumption?

My main concern is that I won't be able to get the user's picture and basic info.

wirddin··on Do Developers Need College Degrees?
In the latter part, this post stresses on 'keep learning'. That's the only thing the people who have this doubt in their head need to know.

I have met great developers who never went to college and some developers who can't even ship a small segment of a product with Masters.

wirddin··on Ask HN: What browser zoom level do you use on HN?
150%. Chrome has saved this zoom setting for me. Just tried 100%, and I had to squint.

Even though HN now works great on mobile browsers, I remember I had to zoom in on mobile earlier. Guess they'll do something about this as well.

wirddin··on Ask HN: What is your side project?
https://matchr.in

An app which connects you with an anonymous person who might share the same interests as you. Once you're comfortable, you can unlock each other's profiles. Done with most of the programming.

wirddin··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? 2017 Edition
Hey! Which account do you suggest should I add? One of the biggest reasons I chose facebook was the authentic data I got : less fakes, more genuine information. Plus, can't risk email+password with an app like this, anonymity without verification is scary.
wirddin··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? 2017 Edition
Hey there! Read your medium post yesterday about a competition. Great work there man! :D
wirddin··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? 2017 Edition
Have you deployed the HN-like forum somewhere?

Also, off-topic, but why bitbucket?

wirddin··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? 2017 Edition
An app which connects you anonymously with other people online, based on similar interests. Just published an MVP on Play Store ( and will soon release Apple ) and now I'm planning to go for a few user acquisitions who would help me build a better version of this. I'm calling it Matchr.

You can find it on https://matchr.in

wirddin··on Ask HN: Can we find out why a specific ad appears in our Facebook feed?
Something similar happened with me. I don't have Facebook's app but I use Messenger (location - allowed), So I'm guessing this is location based. You went inside a restaurant, spent time there. And Campari turned out to be a hot selling thing for restaurants.
wirddin··on Ask HN: My site is better than that of competitors, how do I make my site known?
Yep. I agree on this. Also, that's how you can possibly solve this chicken and egg problem.
wirddin··on Ask HN: Does anyone dream of code?
Oh wait, is someone doing this?
wirddin··on Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use?
Nope. And you can use it even if you aren't using their premium version. It allows me to save some link (without opening) to my Pocket, save the current page to my pocket and also puts a small link to websites with links (like HN) to quick-save a link. Been using it since they launched it.
wirddin··on Ask HN: How do you describe the zone where you do great work?
I call it the Deep state. If I think about it now, I'm just in it. No other things come to mind.

Obstacle : Not starting already.

Preparation : Trello board of a collection of tasks. Labeling them one by one as done.

wirddin··on Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use?
uBlock Origin, The Great Suspender, Tunello, ColorZilla & Pocket.
wirddin··on Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use?
Off-topic but why do you (still) use Firefox? Is it speed? Because I have tried switching just to come back to Chrome.
wirddin··on Ask HN: What are the pros/cons of deleting Facebook if you a developer?
By the time I had decided not to use Facebook (around 2 years ago) I had already signed up at a lot of places using Facebook. I could have gone to each and every product and set a password there but I thought "why not just keep it there, remove everything and use it as it is". So I have been using Facebook since then only for the sign ins.

Apart from that, I don't have Facebook's app. I have killed my habit of randomly opening facebook.com. So I'm good. I just use it for Logins even on the apps I have made.

More pros than cons. Also, I think it's a better idea to create a fake profile just for the apps & make one of your active friends an admin so that even if you lose the account, the other person holds it.

As a developer, you need a Facebook account even if your product doesn't use Facebook's data. For example : Facebook ads.

wirddin··on Ask HN: How to find someone to post your product on Product Hunt?
What I was saying was that you can't put everything on PH for success of a company. PH is not about companies. If you have a really nice product and you need people who can give valuable feedback, you put it there. A lot of people think about PH first for their initial traffic, which makes sense.

As you said, people just scroll through products. While scrolling, if they find your product attractive (or thumbnail / tagline) then it's a win-win for you.

As a user, I go to PH to check out new things. And I have stuck to most of the apps which I liked on PH.

wirddin··on Ask HN: Which book have you re-read recently?
Zero to One. If I had to highlight the most important parts of the book, I would end up highlighting the whole book. :S
wirddin··on Ask HN: How to find someone to post your product on Product Hunt?
"Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?"

^ It's too soon to judge any product/startup by its PH launch at this moment. But then, a lot of huge companies launch their products there.

wirddin··on Ask HN: Who owns the legal rights to the yellow ES6- / JS-Logo?
The Yellow JS (not sure about the ES6 one) logo was make by Chris Williams for the community and he has put up a repository for the same : https://github.com/voodootikigod/logo.js

As for the legal rights, Quoting: "We are releasing this under a MIT license so you can print it on anything, use it anywhere, and never have to worry about royalties, licenses, and other such things."

wirddin··on Ask HN: Suggestions for chat bot frameworks?
Try out bottr? https://github.com/Bottr-js/Bottr
wirddin··on YC application Winter Batch
Is this from the email we all have received for a 10-day reminder? I guess by that they meant that you can apply with the same idea (updated content). You won't get to see your last application or update your last application, you have to start afresh (or copy paste from wherever you had backed it up last time). Good luck!
wirddin··on Ask HN: Google Apps vs. Fastmail
Why not try out Zoho? I haven't tried out their whole suite, but their Mail works well. They have a free plan(forever) with a limit of 25 email accounts.
wirddin··on Ask HN: What good books have you read lately?
Rework By Jason Friend & DHH / Basecamp. Ignored it for quite some time now, but got hooked to it, and finished it up in a weekend.
wirddin··on The Secret Button
"There's a secret button hidden in Windows 7. At least, it's a secret to some people. Many modern users won't know about it, whereas some like me have used it every day for over 25 years." 25 Years? How?
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