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Launch HN: Living Carbon (YC W20) – Trees that capture and store more carbon
Hi HN! Maddie and Patrick here. We founded Living Carbon ( https://www.livingcarbon.com ), a biotech company developing trees that grow faster, capture more carbon, and produce more durable wood. Our mission is to help rebalance the planet's carbon cycle using the power of plants. We released research results indicating that photosynthesis enhanced trees grow faster and capture more carbon compared to control seedlings [1, 2]. After multiple generations of vegetatively propagated tree seedlings studied in a controlled environment, our lead photosynthesis-enhanced poplar tree seedling showed a 53% increase in above ground biomass. Data from our molecular, morphology, and physiology analyses indicate that our photosynthesis-enhancement design works as intended. We’re continuing to study these seedlings in field trials and pilot projects across the US. Forest carbon drawdown
Why it failed: Hi HN! Maddie and Patrick here. We founded Living Carbon ( https://www.livingcarbon.com ), a biotech company developing trees that grow faster, capture more carbon, and produce more durable wood. Our mission is to help rebalance the planet's carbon cycle using the
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Launch HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Query any database via Postgres
Hi HN, we’re Joe and JD from Hydra ( https://hydras.io/ ). Hydra is a Postgres extension that intelligently routes queries through Postgres to other databases. Engineers query regular Postgres, and Hydra extends a Postgres-compliant SQL layer to non-relational, columnar, and graph DBs. It currently works with Postgres and Snowflake, and we have a roadmap to support MongoDB, Google BigQuery, and ClickHouse. Different databases are good at different things. For example, Postgres is good at low-latency transactional workloads, but slow when running analytical queries. For the latter, you're better off with a columnar database like Snowflake. The problem is that for each new database added to a system, application complexity increases quickly. Working at Microsoft Azure, I saw many companies juggle database trade-offs in complex architectures. When organizations adopted n
Why it failed: Hi HN, we’re Joe and JD from Hydra ( https://hydras.io/ ). Hydra is a Postgres extension that intelligently routes queries through Postgres to other databases. Engineers query regular Postgres, and Hydra extends a Postgres-compliant SQL layer to non-relational, col
coatue
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Launch HN: Iollo (YC S22) – At-home metabolomics test to extend healthy lifespan
Hi Hacker News! We’re Dan, Jan, and Brent from iollo ( https://www.iollo.com/ ). We’re developing an at-home metabolomics test that measures hundreds of “metabolites” in blood, which studies have shown can inform about health status, disease risk, dietary patterns, and physical activity. We will then provide evidence-based dietary, behavioral, and therapeutic treatments to help extend the number of years you’re disease-free (your “healthspan”). Today’s healthcare system is reactive, meaning diseases are treated only after symptoms are present. By the time they are detected, they’re often already serious issues that require irreversible interventions, like taking lifelong medications and living with their side effects. Collectively, we end up spending trillions of dollars treating diseases reactively that can often be prevented with good health monitoring and management. Al
Why it failed: Hi Hacker News! We’re Dan, Jan, and Brent from iollo ( https://www.iollo.com/ ). We’re developing an at-home metabolomics test that measures hundreds of “metabolites” in blood, which studies have shown can inform about health status, disease risk, dietary patterns,
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Launch HN: Stock Unlock (YC W22) – Investment Education for Everyone
Hi there HN! My name is Jake Ruth, and together with Nick Puljic and Daniel Pronk we are building Stock Unlock ( https://stockunlock.com/ ), a web app that provides investment education and analysis tools. It’s great to meet you all… and speaking of “meeting”, Nick and I only met Daniel in real life a couple weeks ago even though we have been working on this for over a year… but more to come on that later in the post :) As retail investors we noticed that many retail products have some combo of the following shortcomings: high paywalls, tricky to navigate web design, oversimplification of investing principles, and misaligned incentives that push users to trade more—instead of giving them adequate education to manage a successful portfolio. They are very non noob friendly. Further, I am personally very “triggered” by the lack of financial education myself and friends were n
Why it failed: Hi there HN! My name is Jake Ruth, and together with Nick Puljic and Daniel Pronk we are building Stock Unlock ( https://stockunlock.com/ ), a web app that provides investment education and analysis tools. It’s great to meet you all… and speaking of “meeting”, Nick
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Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%
Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce AWS EC2 spend by 50% for 5 minutes of work. To reduce by 50%+, we don't touch the instances, require any code change, or change the performance of your instances. We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change onl
Why it failed: Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. Prev
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Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%
Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps engineers end up becoming cloud accountants trying to figure out what commitments are expiring soon and how much they're saving. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of medium-sized startups. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce AWS EC2 spend by 57% for 5 minutes of work. To reduce by ~57%, we don't touch the instances, require any code change, or change the performance of your instances. We buy Reserved Instances on yo
Why it failed: Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps engineers end up becoming cloud accountants trying to figure out what commitments are expiring soon and ho
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Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in Slack
Hi HN, Quentin and JJ here! We are co-founders at Rootly ( https://rootly.com/ ), an incident management platform built on Slack. Rootly helps automate manual admin work during incidents like the creation of Slack channels, Jira tickets, Zoom rooms & more. We also help you get data on your incidents and help automate postmortem creation. We met at Instacart, where I was the first SRE and JJ was on the product side owning ~20% GMV on the enterprise and last-mile delivery business. As Instacart grew from processing hundreds to millions of orders, we had to scale our infrastructure, teams, and processes to keep up with this growth. Unsurprisingly, this led to our fair share of incidents (e.g. checkout issues, site outages, etc.) and a lot of restless nights while on-call. This was further compounded by COVID-19 and the first wave of lockdowns. We surged in traffic by 500%
Why it failed: Hi HN, Quentin and JJ here! We are co-founders at Rootly ( https://rootly.com/ ), an incident management platform built on Slack. Rootly helps automate manual admin work during incidents like the creation of Slack channels, Jira tickets, Zoom rooms & more. We a
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Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups
Hi HN, we’re Josh, Yoav and Matan and we’re building Spinach.io ( https://spinach.io ). We help development teams run projects more effectively, starting with better daily standups. I (Matan) am an engineer, and Josh and Yoav led design and product teams. One of the big pains we’ve all experienced is the massive overhead that goes on in dev projects: meetings, planning, goal setting, communication, project and task management—and on and on. All this is time consuming, slows you down, and can burn you out. It was already challenging in an office setting, but for us it amplified even further in remote work with back-to-back meetings and endless pings on Slack. If you’re like us, you want to spend more time building stuff and simplify the rest. With Spinach.io, we’re making tools to support that and to help projects run with far less overhead. We’re starting by taking on the daily
Why it failed: Hi HN, we’re Josh, Yoav and Matan and we’re building Spinach.io ( https://spinach.io ). We help development teams run projects more effectively, starting with better daily standups. I (Matan) am an engineer, and Josh and Yoav led design and product teams. One of the big
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AWS RDS Postmortem: Is AWS Collapsing Under its Own Weight ?
Hi everyone, I have been working with AWS with many years and the service over the years has been outstanding. A few months ago I started the migration of (yet another business) to AWS, and we had an incident. This made me think that maybe AWS is starting not to be good any more. I would like to share the postmortem report with the community, and please comment on what you think. I would like to know if we made a fundamental mistake or if AWS is actually degrading. Times are UTC. Personal opinions are removed from the report, just facts are stated. ---------- POSTMORTEM REPORT The project consists on moving several services to AWS. The system consists Services in 1 autoscaling group, and a PostgreSQL Database in RDS. - Sunday 4.30 am: we migrate the PostgreSQL database to RDS. RDS is configured with 200 GB in the disk, the database size is 15 GB. - Sunday 10.17 am: RDS detects that we ar
Why it failed: Hi everyone, I have been working with AWS with many years and the service over the years has been outstanding. A few months ago I started the migration of (yet another business) to AWS, and we had an incident. This made me think that maybe AWS is starting not to be good any more.
ruben81adelaide
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Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Hi HN, This is Tom, Adam, and Brandon from Clover ( https://cloverapp.com ) – a digital notebook that blends notes, tasks, whiteboards, and a daily planner into one streamlined app. We've spent our careers working on creative tools. Tom started building web-based design products with Apple back in 2011. Our first startup – Macaw – was one of the first no-code tools on the market. It was acquired by InVision years ago, where we went on to build numerous other design tools. We are also long-time productivity junkies, having built nine different note-taking and task management apps over the past eight years. These were passion projects that were fun to build and use. Working in the design industry, we noticed how designers struggle to communicate their ideas with design tools alone. They often spend more time in a text document outlining feature specifications than they do in
Why it failed: Hi HN, This is Tom, Adam, and Brandon from Clover ( https://cloverapp.com ) – a digital notebook that blends notes, tasks, whiteboards, and a daily planner into one streamlined app. We've spent our careers working on creative tools. Tom started building web-based d
attasi
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Launch HN: Gravitl (YC W22) – VPN Platform Based on WireGuard
Hi HN, this is Alex and Dillon from Gravitl, based in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. We built Netmaker ( https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker ), a virtual networking platform for cross-cloud computing and Kubernetes. It’s secure, automated, and extremely fast. Networking across environments is hard and slow. WireGuard can solve this, but it’s tough to run at scale. WireGuard is a fast and efficient VPN protocol that is growing quickly in popularity. Linus Torvalds called it a “work of art,” and it was added to the Linux kernel in 2020. It now runs on most major operating systems. We created Netmaker to automate WireGuard-based networks at scale. It opens up a bunch of use cases that are otherwise infeasible. With Netmaker, our users are managing edge networks, connecting fleets of unmanned aerial drones, and cloud-bursting k8s clusters for machine learning
Why it failed: Hi HN, this is Alex and Dillon from Gravitl, based in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. We built Netmaker ( https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker ), a virtual networking platform for cross-cloud computing and Kubernetes. It’s secure, automated, and ext
afeiszli
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Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
Hi HN! We’re Fabien and Naren, co-founders of Wolfia ( https://www.wolfia.com ). Wolfia lets you share a link to a mobile emulator running your app. Developers can get feedback instantly on a feature they just built by sharing a link to an interactive version of their app. We’re starting with Android but iOS is coming soon! Mobile app development in 2022 is harder than it should be - you can't easily change a line of code, rebuild the app, and have someone on the other side of the world see the result in seconds. Instead of the rapid iterations that web app developers enjoy, mobile app developers are stuck with pushing builds every night and waiting a day for the team to see the new code. That's if they even have a nightly build setup. Most people also only have one phone, so they can never test the Android app if they have an iPhone and vice versa. We've been de
Why it failed: Hi HN! We’re Fabien and Naren, co-founders of Wolfia ( https://www.wolfia.com ). Wolfia lets you share a link to a mobile emulator running your app. Developers can get feedback instantly on a feature they just built by sharing a link to an interactive version of their a
fabiendevos
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Ask HN: Feeling Depressed and Choked. How to handle it?
Hi all Sorry for the sad post at this time of the day. I am a new father who has been getting very busy with family/work time lately and depression seems to have gotten the better of me. For some background, I have always had the entrepreneurial spirit in me and I knew that path was something I loved the most ever since I was a little kid. When I was in college I had a couple of websites I owned that paid well, and that sort of reinforced my sentiment towards building my own business. Now fast forward to this day, where I am 33 years old and have welcomed a baby 3 months ago into this world. I can clearly see that I enjoy spending time with the little guy but again I feel I am choked because of lack of availability of time to do anything else. I work on a regular Software Engineering job at a big company and I can tell you that I don't enjoy it a single bit. I have had a few si
Why it failed: Hi all Sorry for the sad post at this time of the day. I am a new father who has been getting very busy with family/work time lately and depression seems to have gotten the better of me. For some background, I have always had the entrepreneurial spirit in me and I knew that
princevegeta89
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Show HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Copilot Alternative for VS Code
Hi HN! We’re MutableAI (YC W22) ( https://mutable.ai ). Our mission is to reduce the time and cost to create high quality code using AI. We have worked at the full gamut of companies ranging from startups to big tech and have gotten the sense that many of the rote aspects of software development could be made easier, freeing up precious mental energy. Devs love Copilot, but autocomplete is just one of many ways that AI should make programming easier. We’re taking a more comprehensive approach to developer tooling that bundles Copilot-like autocomplete with documentation, custom AI instruction, and some early refactoring capabilities (Python only) in one extension. We currently support Javascript/Typescript, Python, Go, and Rust, with more coming soon. Overview (w/ bg music) [1]. In addition to autocomplete, which can be triggered either automatically or manually, we c
Why it failed: Hi HN! We’re MutableAI (YC W22) ( https://mutable.ai ). Our mission is to reduce the time and cost to create high quality code using AI. We have worked at the full gamut of companies ranging from startups to big tech and have gotten the sense that many of the rote aspec
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Launch HN: Method Financial (YC S19) – API to embed debt repayment into your app
Hi HN, we’re Jose and Marco from Method ( https://methodfi.com ). We are building a developer-first API that makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment into their applications. We enable your business to push money to any type of consumer debt, like student loans, credit cards, and mortgages, on behalf of your users. Making payments to consumer debt on behalf of individuals is an archaic process. In most instances it involves mailing physical checks. If APIs exist at all, they are brittle. Figuring out how to do this with reasonable UX is costly, time-consuming, and involves lengthy compliance processes. Fintechs have innovated to help users manage savings and investments, but so far have done little with debt, which is actually many people’s biggest anxiety. Ballooning American consumer debt means there’s a great need in this space, but fintechs attempting to enter i
Why it failed: Hi HN, we’re Jose and Marco from Method ( https://methodfi.com ). We are building a developer-first API that makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment into their applications. We enable your business to push money to any type of consumer debt, like student lo
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Ask HN: How to Stay Focused at Work?
Hi everyone, For context, I work as a design engineer on what I would normally consider interesting projects. Lately I’ve been having an increasingly difficult time focusing while at work and it’s been negatively affecting my performance. Luckily nobody has said anything yet but I fear that they will if I keep moving down this path. Typically I’ll come into work and immediately find myself wandering off task one way or another, then maybe do some work, then wander off again. Even with me blocking distracting sites like Reddit, I’ll end up on a Wikipedia or google maps tangent or something to distract myself. All told I normally only get a couple hours of real work done in a day. This week was especially bad with me doing maybe 5 hours of functional work in total, if that. I even spent time putting together a detailed to-do list for my current project with tasks broken into small items bu
Why it failed: Hi everyone, For context, I work as a design engineer on what I would normally consider interesting projects. Lately I’ve been having an increasingly difficult time focusing while at work and it’s been negatively affecting my performance. Luckily nobody has said anything yet but
theduemmer
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Show HN: PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) – a new type of mobile privacy service
Hi, we're Barath and Paul. We co-founded INVISV to build Pretty Good Phone Privacy (PGPP) [ https://invisv.com/pgpp ], an app and service that provides mobile identifier privacy (IMSI) and Internet privacy (IP) so that neither we nor other providers learn your network identity. We've been thinking about how phones are tracking devices in disguise (at a few layers) and what we can do about it. But the problem is that mobile networks are hard to change, and existing companies are reluctant to change things. A couple years ago we had the idea that we could decouple your identity from your SIM (IMSI), so the mobile operator wouldn't know who you are but still provides you service. We did research, figured it out, and published it last year at Usenix Security. Then we took it to every mobile operator we could to see if they'd do it, but mostly got shrugs, co
Why it failed: Hi, we're Barath and Paul. We co-founded INVISV to build Pretty Good Phone Privacy (PGPP) [ https://invisv.com/pgpp ], an app and service that provides mobile identifier privacy (IMSI) and Internet privacy (IP) so that neither we nor other providers learn your
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Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Prevention Kit
Hi! My name is Rob and I’m working with my cofounder Kareem on Koko ( https://www.kokocares.org ). We’re a nonprofit that provides free digital mental health services to millions of people struggling online — particularly adolescents. Today, we are launching our Online Suicide Prevention Kit ( https://www.kokocares.org/suicide-prevention-toolkit ). The goal is to help social networks and online communities better support at-risk individuals on their platforms. Many social platforms have built-in lists of keywords that detect mental health-related search terms (e.g., “self-harm” or “depression”). There is already an established practice to suppress content or surface disclaimers for such searches. Search “suicide” on most platforms and you’ll at least get shown a 1-800 number. But there are a few problems with this. The keyword lists always have glaring omissions.
Why it failed: Hi! My name is Rob and I’m working with my cofounder Kareem on Koko ( https://www.kokocares.org ). We’re a nonprofit that provides free digital mental health services to millions of people struggling online — particularly adolescents. Today, we are launching our Online
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Show HN: No-code alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Internal, etc.
Hi, founders! We’ve actually launched quite some time ago, but (semi)pivoted a few times along the way. Jet Admin is an app builder for creating internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, external portals, and so on without coding. You can connect to any backend, assemble a UI through the visual builder, and set up data binding, transformations, conditionals, etc. through the point-and-click interface. If you need to, you can create custom HTTP, SQL queries, make data transformations with JS, and embed custom UI components. We believe that product, data, operations teams should be able to build the very tools they use. And with HN being mostly the coder community, it’d be particularly interesting to hear your feedback/thoughts!
Why it failed: Hi, founders! We’ve actually launched quite some time ago, but (semi)pivoted a few times along the way. Jet Admin is an app builder for creating internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, external portals, and so on without coding. You can connect to any backend, assemble a UI thr
antonsv
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Ask HN: I scanned an old paper book. How to turn it into an eBook?
Hi, I have scanned a couple of books written by an ancestor. He was not famous, and I doubt too many people are interested but I wanted to give the books a new digital life. I think the enormous back catalog of things that have been published but then disappeared is sad. Anyways I have a few hundred pdf files. They have an image of the page and the OCR text. The text will have to be edited by hand I think. Its not in English. I was wondering if anyone knew of scripts or applications that can take that as an input, do some decent formatting and typesetting and spit out a couple of different formats of eBooks at the other end. There are photos and illustrations on some pages. I am hoping to keep them. The images are ok but given the curvature of the page, and other factors the images are not I feel ready to be used. I could try to cut and paste it all into Word There is also an extensive c
Why it failed: Hi, I have scanned a couple of books written by an ancestor. He was not famous, and I doubt too many people are interested but I wanted to give the books a new digital life. I think the enormous back catalog of things that have been published but then disappeared is sad. Anyways
ThinkBeat
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Launch HN: Unthread (YC S22) – Customer support, entirely within Slack
Howdy HN! Tom and Jake here from Unthread ( https://unthread.io ). We make it easy for businesses to manage customer experience (CX) end-to-end inside of Slack. We automatically create tickets for new conversations, handle assignments & escalations, triage with other teams, etc — all without leaving Slack. Here’s a quick Loom showing how it works: https://www.loom.com/share/8158371d29c84550863adbd6719bb112 Unthread was born out of a failed B2B SaaS startup that we were running for about 2 years. We found clients preferred sending bug reports and feature requests through Slack instead of email or the Intercom widget embedded in our app. This was great for us - Slack is a tool we were already using every day, it’s quick and easy to respond, and it’s less formal than composing an email. The problem is that chat != ticketing, and we struggled to keep track o
Why it failed: Howdy HN! Tom and Jake here from Unthread ( https://unthread.io ). We make it easy for businesses to manage customer experience (CX) end-to-end inside of Slack. We automatically create tickets for new conversations, handle assignments & escalations, triage with othe
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Launch HN: Shimmer (YC S21) – ADHD coaching for adults
Hi, I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer ( https://shimmer.care ). We offer one-to-one ADHD Coaching for adults. It was born out of my own roller coaster of a journey navigating my ADHD diagnosis. Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult is complicated—equally heartbreaking and liberating. You literally need to rewrite your whole life narrative in light of this new realization. The process currently is super confusing and expensive (medications, therapy, coaching, tools, apps, etc.) and I just wished someone would guide me through it. Someone to personalize things for me, ask me good questions, and encourage me when I was feeling down. My experience was the basis for what Shimmer is today. We’re creating an ADHD coaching service that is actually affordable (5-10X cheaper than traditional ADHD coaching, in fact!), personalized to your life (because what works for me may n
Why it failed: Hi, I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer ( https://shimmer.care ). We offer one-to-one ADHD Coaching for adults. It was born out of my own roller coaster of a journey navigating my ADHD diagnosis. Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult is complicated—equally he
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Show HN: RSS Brain
I wrote an RSS reader called RSS Brain recently. The motivate is the current RSS readers either don't sort articles by priority, which makes it hard to read posts from HackerNews and Reddit, or sort it with some "smart" algorithm which I don't trust. I also like the Google News feature that can show related story from different source, but the sources are not configurable and the algorithm is not transparent either. So with RSS Brain, I implemented these features: * Recommend related articles from the feeds of your choice. It's backed by ElasticSearch and the algorithm is described on RSS Brain's website. * Option to sort articles by upvotes and time. The algorithm is similar to the old Reddit and you can find it on the website as well. * Save search terms into folders so you can filter the articles. I've been using it for a while and found these featur
Why it failed: I wrote an RSS reader called RSS Brain recently. The motivate is the current RSS readers either don't sort articles by priority, which makes it hard to read posts from HackerNews and Reddit, or sort it with some "smart" algorithm which I don't trust. I also li
wb14123
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Ask HN: Should I move to California or Germany as a SWE with 2 small kids? (pt2)
I asked this same question a week ago[1]. I got lots of really great perspectives which I very much appreciated. Overwhelmingly, people suggested we move to Bavaria. A couple of responders pointed out (I think rightfully) that the answers may have be skewed slightly due to my having posted around 2pm CET. Most of CA was still waking up. I'd like to ask one last time in a more CA-friendly time. Sorry if posting again is noisy. This will be the last time I ask. I'm at a crossroads in my life. My wife and I are trying to figure out if we should move back to California or move to Germany to be closer to her parents. A bit of background: We're in our mid-30s. Both in tech. I'm a software engineer. She's a product manager. I'm American and she's German. We met in SF in 2014 and left together in 2017. We traveled for a while, then moved to Amsterdam where we l
Why it failed: I asked this same question a week ago[1]. I got lots of really great perspectives which I very much appreciated. Overwhelmingly, people suggested we move to Bavaria. A couple of responders pointed out (I think rightfully) that the answers may have be skewed slightly due to my hav
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