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by nip 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words!
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by nip 5y ago
Shameless plug: I built https://simplePDF.eu as I was similarly frustrated by the lack of a good PDF editor when filling French paperwork. Checkboxes for example did not seem to be available in any of the tools I found. I also f
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by nip 5y ago
Hi HN! As a micro-business owner, every year I'm faced with the same challenge: collecting bills from various places. The services automating this collection of bills I found always required me to provide them with my credentials, whic
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Show HN: I built an open source automation to collect your bills(github.com)
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by nip 5y ago
Tartu, Estonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Tartu
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by nip 5y ago
I run https://simplePDF.eu . It’s a web-based PDF editor: add text fields, checkboxes, pictures (watermark) and signatures to otherwise non-interactive PDF documents. Tech stack: Server: DigitalOcean droplet (10€/month but o
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by nip 5y ago
If you live in a place where black ice is a thing: Icebug shoes / boots. They are very comfortable and supporting shoes with metal studs so that you don’t slip on that black ice patch ever again. Not exactly cheap but totally worth the
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by nip 5y ago
Thank you so much for this kind comment: you made my day
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by nip 5y ago
I’m working on https://simplePDF.eu ! It’s a web-based PDF editor: add text fields, checkboxes, pictures (watermark) and signatures to otherwise non-interactive PDF documents
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by nip 5y ago
"Solopreneur" for 2 years now: in quotation marks as I have kept my job on the side, effectively not working full-time on it. Prior to covid times, I would usually work 4 to 8 hours every weekend, with longer stretches of time dur
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Experiment with the digital euro illustrated new possibilities for blockchain(eestipank.ee)
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Why we chose and why we don’t switch away from TypeScript?(sixfold.medium.com)
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Doubling our ETA accuracy with machine learning in production(sixfold.medium.com)
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by nip 5y ago
For most people that’s an implementation detail (that they are unaware of), combined with the overall lack of IT hygiene: I don’t see this being an issue (even if your points are very valid) With web apps becoming more complex by the day, h
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Reducing database queries to a minimum with DataLoaders(sixfold.medium.com)
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by nip 6y ago
Hi HN! I'm one of the engineers working at Sixfold. We hope that you'll like reading the article as much as we did writing it. If you have any questions, be it on our tech stack (Kafka, PostgreSQL, Node.JS, GraphQL...), business,
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Preparing for the “known” unknown – scaling a service 10x in 30 days(sixfold.medium.com)
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System split registered in the synchronous area of Continental Europe(entsoe.eu)
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by nip 6y ago
One day you come home and realize that you locked yourself out of your home. You call the locksmith. He arrives, looks at the door, fiddles with the lock for one minute, opens the door then leaves. The next day you receive the bill, 150€. A
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by nip 6y ago
In that case, all is well indeed. The problem I was referring to, is when one is expected to fill a PDF that was not built to be filled, such as the scan of a paper form.
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by nip 6y ago
I posted a link (above) to the app I built to solve that problem. The vast majority of form is indeed not « ready » for input, requiring users to go through hoops to fill them. And that work is done again by the next person.
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by nip 6y ago
In case he meant regular (drawn) signature, it can be done via Preview on Mac. For a local web use, I built for myself https://formulairemagique.fr for this very reason
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by nip 6y ago
Somewhat related, I ran (and am still running) into a very uncanny issue related to another product of Microsoft: Live / Outlook. When Live and Outlook got merged (IIRC a couple of years ago), my @msn.com address got an @outlook.com al
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by nip 6y ago
- NEXT.js - Hosted on a 5€ DigitalOcean droplet (alongside 3 other projects) - Deployed via a one-liner script (ie not automatic but really easy)
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by nip 7y ago
- refrain from using hooks everywhere, instead, prefer using them in « container » type of components to separate the hard logic from the soft one (cosmetic logic, such as color changes, hiding / showing parts of the UI) - Hook-based c
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by nip 7y ago
Tallinn is better in that regard. Salaries range from 1500 to 5000€ netto per month (or « super net » for french HNers reading this comment) for an average rent of 600€.
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by nip 8y ago
Sixfold (Logistics) | Software Engineer | Data Scientist | Tallinn or Tartu, Estonia | ONSITE | Full-time We are building a bird's eye view of truck shipments. We aim to solve latent inefficiences in the logistic industry: millions of
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by nip 8y ago
He knows (is aware of) what he doesn’t know: you can be sure that he will learn by himself or seek someone with more knowledge when he faces a challenge involving a new (to him) topic / concept / technology.
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by nip 8y ago
Sixfold (Logistics) | Software Engineer | Data Scientist | Tallinn or Tartu, Estonia | ONSITE | Full-time We are building a bird's eye view of truck shipments. We aim to solve latent inefficiences in the logistic industry: millions of
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by nip 8y ago
Sixfold (Logistics) | Software Engineer | Data Scientist | Tallinn or Tartu, Estonia | ONSITE | Full-time We are building a bird's eye view of truck shipments. We aim to solve latent inefficiences in the logistic industry: millions of

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