mmarian

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   Show HN: I open-sourced my HN comment/reply alerts service(github.com)

   13 points by mmarian 2y ago|7 comments
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   by mmarian 2y ago

   For my personal projects - Inside my CapRover managed cluster of services, all on the cheapest Hetzner VPS. At work it's AWS RDS.
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   by mmarian 2y ago

   Thank you, really glad to hear that!
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   Show HN: I open-sourced my HEX code to Tailwind color converter(github.com)

   1 points by mmarian 2y ago|2 comments
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   by mmarian 2y ago

   I use netdata, works like a charm https://github.com/netdata/netdata
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   by mmarian 2y ago

   If you use Atlassian Confluence, their draw.io integration is really nice.
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   by mmarian 2y ago

   Oh, yes you're right, I never read that properly, how odd. Well, it's been working fine and I can't be bothered but I'll keep this service in mind. Thanks!
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   by mmarian 2y ago

   Formspree has a free plan, 50 subs/month: https://formspree.io/plans . No ads either. I'm in a similar situation, a site with one form submission a month ( https://ukcompanydatabase.com ) , and it works
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   by mmarian 2y ago

   Fair enough, I was wondering whether I was missing something out. How many users do you have at the moment?
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    There are already plenty of services that do this though, eg formspree.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    > Downsizing ain't a knee-jerk thing here, it's a costly process. Not if you're less than 2 years in the company (in the UK). Which probably applies to a large proportion of software engineers.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    Alerts for any replies you receive from your posts/comments: https://hackernewsalerts.com . It's a side project.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    I've been using Astro with React and it's a breeze.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    I've built https://hackernewsalerts.com which does that, and also checks for comments on your posts too.
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    China's banking turmoil: 40 banks vanish, Jiangxi leads collapse(msn.com)

    2 points by mmarian 2y ago|0 comments
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    > The UK is "MBAs eating the world" on steroids, except they're History graduates who went to Eton Aren't political leaders from most democracies from an elite background? > Money can be magically made by...shuffli
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    The many ways you can promote your product on Hacker News(hackernewsalerts.com)

    2 points by mmarian 2y ago|1 comments
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    Appreciate the level-headed take.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    99% of tech companies have bigger problems then :) I say this as someone who's done interviews for several different professions; tech is by far and wide the most binary and detached from business reality unfortunately.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    At worst you can just go into sales engineering no? Better paid anyway, same amount of travel probably.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    Sorry, I don't follow, more of what?
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    > If you know some interesting project you can share it here Indeed. My post is more about making people aware of how to raise awareness of products in a way they haven't thought of. > As a sugestion, don't post two articles
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    While this approach makes sense in theory, in practice it doesn't work because most tech interviewers don't know what's actually essential to the job. Ie they'll probably end up asking some trivia Java question thinking
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    I see your point. My perspective is that HN is already a social media platform with a lot of noise already (AI, latest JS fad, non-tech news). But I've spoken to a lot of people who have produced something relevant for developers and h
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    Heresy, I know :) But I genuinely think it can be beneficial for everyone.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    I know I'm not revealing anything to you all here, but I figured it might be somewhat entertaining to see me try to explain this to people who aren't familiar with Hacker News :)
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    What is this thing called Hacker News?(hackernewsalerts.com)

    1 points by mmarian 2y ago|1 comments
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    Appreciate the feedback! I'll look into the suggestions tomorrow.
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    Yes! That's what prompted me to build it. And it's already paying off for me as I got a notification about your comment which I would've missed otherwise: https://imgur.com/a/uSeahaK
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    by mmarian 2y ago

    I tend to separate my frontend (Cloudflare Pages) from my backend (VPS/CapRover).