jonathan-kosgei

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by jonathan-kosgei 5y ago
Stripe Atlas, don't waste your time with anything else
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Ask HN: What are some unfulfilled promises of the internet
4 points by jonathan-kosgei 5y ago|2 comments
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by jonathan-kosgei 6y ago
I built something similar for https://ipdata.co . The API will return a time object like this for any IP: "time_zone": { "name": "America/Chicago", "abbr": "
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by jonathan-kosgei 6y ago
It feels designed for larger monitors.
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by jonathan-kosgei 6y ago
It's insane how I was thinking of doing this exact same thing this same week and how similar our stories are! Though we're much earlier in our journey :) I launched ipdata here 3 yrs ago, at 21 while still in college and now 3yrs
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by jonathan-kosgei 7y ago
You could modify the example here - https://ipdata.co/blog/how-to-block-website-visitors-from-a-... to work with states easily enough.
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Free IP Geolocation Utility(ipgeolocation.com)
1 points by jonathan-kosgei 7y ago|0 comments
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by jonathan-kosgei 7y ago
Agreed! We had quite a few false starts on HN before getting any traction.
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Thank you! Edit; I have to say the tips you share are very well thought out and they're things I've always intuitively known but never put in words like that! Awesome stuff! I signed up :)
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Ask HN: Where and how do I hire a UI/UX designer for my startup?
2 points by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago|2 comments
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Ash HN: What has your experience been with Toptal, 99designs or Dribble?
3 points by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Toptal vs. 99designs vs. Dribble for finding design talent?
1 points by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What's the best platform to get front end hires from?
1 points by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
How does this actually work?
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
You use vatlayer.com?
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
I wasn't that great with frontends or particularly patient enough to learn it all, so I built an API - ipdata.co 8 months later, and I'm glad I did it.
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
We use a lot of the same stack. I particularly love imgix and stripe.
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Ask HN: What APIs do you use the most?
29 points by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago|16 comments
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Comparing the Best IP Geolocation APIs(medium.com)
1 points by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago|0 comments
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A Comparison of Several Commercial IP Geolocation APIs(medium.com)
5 points by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Carrier Detection from IP Address(ipdata.co)
4 points by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Should fasthttp be used in production? It seems to get a lot of flak for not fully implementing HTTP. https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5w3ang/switching_fr...
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Someone shared this with me https://blog.golang.org/share-memory-by-communicating - Share memory by communicating. And also pointed me to nats.io, a messaging system that handles 10M messages per second on a $50 server. See
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Here's the article mentioned; https://www.rdegges.com/2018/to-30-billion-and-beyond/
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Thanks for linking to that. Let me include it in the question.
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
I think I remember coming across this. Thanks for sharing!
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Awesome! I've always thought Django to be terribly bloated. Go seems like the best option for any kind of API.
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Totally agree, but I'm looking for more case studies like the one I shared.
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Very impressive, do you have a write up on this?
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by jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
Same thing I'm looking for :)

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