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New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

7237139812 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:24:09 +0000

Still working on https://fabric.shivan.dev/ - its a local-first app which lets you review markdown, answer Q&As and review code with your agents. Still working out a few bugs as I use it in my workflow. Also added a CLI.

Not sure if I should be monetising this in anyway - maybe through a cloud sync feature. But it's useful enough for me right now.

New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

7237139812 — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:27:00 +0000

I've been working on a web based tool to review markdown and HTML collaboratively with your agents. Wrote about it on my blog. No aspirations to make it more widely available just yet. I'm mostly focusing on getting it right for my day-to-day (making it feel light and easy).

https://shivan.dev/writing/post/markdown-wrangling

New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

7237139812 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:56:31 +0000

I'm working on adding an API and WhatsApp integration to my scam / AI detection tool - https://legitornot.co.za

New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

7237139812 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:05:32 +0000

Scam SMS and AI detection from screenshots, primarily for South Africa - hoping to make it available via WhatsApp soon.

No real monetization plans yet - just experimenting / improving the detection at the moment.

https://legitornot.co.za

New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

7237139812 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:26:56 +0000

Nice! I'm working on a similar thing focused on the South African market

https://propertyagentpro.ai

I've recently started building out the image -> video feature.

New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

7237139812 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:02:51 +0000

My nights and weekends project at the moment is a virtual staging tool for real estate agents.

I'm focusing on the South African market (I know a bunch of agents and I've noticed an increase of very obviously ChatGPT generated images on property listing websites)

My hope is that I can own a nice slice of the listing marketing workflow:

- Creating great, but realistic staging images for listing websites - Improve property descriptions and copy

There is some early interest from agents, hoping to start marketing properly this week!

https://propertyagentpro.ai/

New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)"

7237139812 — Wed, 03 May 2023 06:51:49 +0000

Location: South Africa

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Possibly - with assistance

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pKnSWG0aWLrmIRyNrbkAvWHD... or https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivanmoodley/

Email: mshivanc@gmail.com

I'm a really passionate engineer/leader with a mix of experience across insurance, payroll and SaaS. I've worked in large corps and startups, with a few freelancing stints along the way. I'm always hacking on my own stuff in the background and looking for interesting problems. Good at working with really high ambiguity and figuring things out.

Ask HN: Does your team pay for any Slack apps or integrations?

7237139812 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:36:27 +0000

Hey HN! I am asking out of genuine curiosity, and perhaps doing a little market research.

My team uses https://www.donut.com/ and https://officevibe.com/ but I'm pretty sure we're on the free tier for both.

Do you work in a team that pays monthly for any cool Slack apps or integrations? Which ones? If you're not the one paying, do you find it useful - or annoying?

Cheers!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34771392

Points: 20

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New comment by 7237139812 in "How to prioritize tasks?"

7237139812 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 06:21:39 +0000

I tried something similar a while back. It made me feel like I was doing really we;; at prioritising my work, but it's honestly a hard thing to do well and without over-engineering prioritisation.

These days I just have a list of weekly objectives (TODOs), and a daily list of things that I'm "doing". The doing list is based mostly on gut feel about what's important right now, and is in part - based on what my team / the business feels is important right now.

All the things in the weekly objective list are always high priority / important, if it isn't, then it doesn't go on a list.

New comment by 7237139812 in "Be Less Technical"

7237139812 — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 08:55:00 +0000

OP here. I think it serves as a loanword, but I concede that linking to an _English_ dictionary can blur the point I was trying to make. Edited for clarity, thanks!

New comment by 7237139812 in "Be Less Technical"

7237139812 — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 08:43:31 +0000

OP here - I think your interpretation (the former) is pretty spot on. I also think the less charitable interpretation is not _exactly_ wrong. The title and repetition of "Be Less Technical" are definitely not devoid of "click thirst" - but the content is intended to be more in line with "we need to find ways to talk to each other, irrespective of whether we talk to customers or compilers".

Be Less Technical

7237139812 — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 21:46:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sequential.dev/posts/be-less-technical/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31046268

Points: 141

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New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?"

7237139812 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:13:01 +0000

+1 on Obsidian I quite like the categorization on your site. Do you have a background in tech or are you coming from a different industry?

New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?"

7237139812 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:09:16 +0000

Thanks for the detailed reply!

I like the idea of a monolithic journal per year. How long have you been at it (if you don't mind me asking)?

New comment by 7237139812 in "Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?"

7237139812 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:05:11 +0000

Obsidian seems to be quite a prevalent solution for personal knowledge base building. (Personally I don't really make use of the 'web of knowledge' feature - it takes some time to do it well for me). How long would you say it takes you to make them into something more useful on average?

Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?

7237139812 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:37:05 +0000

Recently I've been really curious how engineers take ad-hoc notes throughout their work days.

Personally I've been using Obsdian.md and creating a new file for each day that I work.

Anyone using a specific tool, or maybe even a physical notebook?

Follow up question is whether you ever reference your notes or go back and look through them again.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28508811

Points: 65

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