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New comment by AussieCoder in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

AussieCoder — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:43:52 +0000

Just out of interest, is this a US based product? I'm in Australia and most of the major banks have this as a built-in capability in their apps.

New comment by AussieCoder in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

AussieCoder — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:43:42 +0000

I have friends in the Abingdon area and the primary objection, from what they've told me, is that locals objected to a reservoir that would mainly be used to supply London. Little Englanders at their worst.

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

AussieCoder — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:59:47 +0000

I invested in Small Robots Co (https://smallrobotco.com/) who were doing something similar. They had a good product, good brand, raised some funding, and were starting to get traction, with robots in trials on a number of farms, but at the end of the day they ran out of funding before they reached default-alive.

It's a tough space - convincing farmers to give it a go and running trials takes time and the UK isn't a very startup-friendly environment - investors are too often looking for a quick return.

This is such an important area - it's only going to become more critical to be able to grow more food whilst using less fertiliser and weed killer - so I wish you the very best of luck!

New comment by AussieCoder in "Ask HN: Do directory listing sites help boost SEO"

AussieCoder — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:59:20 +0000

That's what I was concerned about. They're all charging $29-$99 to list on them and there's a risk that they harm my SEO.

Good point about timing. Sometimes I forget we live in the future here :-)

Ask HN: Do directory listing sites help boost SEO

AussieCoder — Sat, 17 May 2025 22:39:08 +0000

I've built a SAAS application and am now working on marketing it. There are a growing number of directory listing sites that claim that that listing on them will boost your "domain ranking" and in turn boost your search result positioning.

Do they work?

They seem a bit like the old webrings, all publishing the same content and referring to each other, with monetization added. I would have thought that the search engines were wise to this, but interested in other people's thoughts?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017555

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by AussieCoder in "Dr. Dobb's Journal interviews Jef Raskin (1986)"

AussieCoder — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:20:48 +0000

Completely agree. An infinite canvas sounds great until you need to find anything, then you end up with having to create a structure to it, and you rapidly end up grouping stuff into "pages" - Miro's "frames".

New comment by AussieCoder in "People running Windows 11, are you all running Sluggish Incarnate?"

AussieCoder — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:42:36 +0000

4 year old Lenovo laptop here, 16GB RAM and SSD. Bootup from cold is around 5-seconds, everything is pretty snappy even with lots of browser tabs open and VSCode running. Never had the start menu lag other people have reported. Definitely faster than it was when Windows 10 was installed.

Have you checked for viruses? Last time I saw a machine that slow booting up, even with a spinning disk, it was riddled with viruses.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?"

AussieCoder — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:07:41 +0000

I'm building SiteSentry: https://sitesentry.app

It checks your website for the kind of things that get missed when you go from dev to production or can go wrong later - expired domains and SSL certs, broken links, robot options blocking search engine crawlers, etc. Adding more checks all the time and always keen to hear suggestions.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Modeling a Wealth Tax"

AussieCoder — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:54:19 +0000

Every proposal I have seen kicks in after $100m. That's a level of wealth where even paying a 5% tax is likely to result in an annual net increase in wealth, as when you have that amount of money to invest achieving 5%+ returns is not unusual. The net result is that wealth would still increase, just at a slower rate.

Additionally, even amongst the general population, let alone startup founders, the number of people with wealth in excess of $100m is tiny. Numbers are hard to come by but I've seen estimates of 5,000 people in the US. What this means is that people arguing against a wealth tax are happy to disadvantage 330m people to protect the wealth of a low number of thousands.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites"

AussieCoder — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:09:20 +0000

Shameless plug - StaticForms (https://staticforms.co).

It's not free because I want it to be sustainable, but also because it does more than just capture form data and send you an email. You might not need more than that, but if you do then it's probably even more important that it's a sustainable business.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Ask HN: What are your favourite podcasts?"

AussieCoder — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:35:48 +0000

Exponent, a weekly podcast covering a topic from Stratechery, Ben Thompson and James Allworth on business and technology strategy.

Friday Night Comedy from the BBC. If you like satirical comedy and an English sense of humour then The News Quiz and The Now Show are the best there is.

The Art of Product , Build Your SaaS and Out of Beta are great if following along as people build bootstrapped start-ups is your thing.

Startups for the Rest of Us is the OG bootstrapped start-up podcast.

Planet Money and The Indicator, both from PBS, cover business, economics and society and make it interesting.

Flash Forward, by Rose Eveleth, a trip to a possible future then a walk through how we get there.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Show HN: Have I Been Pwned donations page is awesome"

AussieCoder — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 20:44:50 +0000

This is a great service and Troy gives a lot to the community generally.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder?"

AussieCoder — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 20:41:08 +0000

I've been using this a lot recently and love it. Fast, simple and VueJS-based so easy to extend.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Beyond uptime, what should I be monitoring on my web site?"

AussieCoder — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:47:37 +0000

I'm hosting on Microsoft Azure, so Application Insights gives me most of the server monitoring, but you make a good point about checking 3rd party services that I have dependencies on and tracking license expiration dates, which I have no process for at the moment. I'll check in to that.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Beyond uptime, what should I be monitoring on my web site?"

AussieCoder — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:11:29 +0000

That post makes really interesting reading. I'm hosting on Microsoft Azure, so I'm hoping they have a lot of that stuff covered, but I guess I need to dive in and make sure.

Beyond uptime, what should I be monitoring on my web site?

AussieCoder — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:14:39 +0000

I have uptime monitoring in place, but I’m worried that there are other things I should be checking regularly to make sure my site is working as expected.

What would anyone recommend I monitor?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325414

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

Digg Reader shutting down on March 26, 2018

AussieCoder — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:29:44 +0000

Am I the only one still using it? Seems like a sudden decision with no explanation.

Shame - I still like RSS as a way of getting updates from people and sites I follow.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591619

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AussieCoder in "Ask HN: How did you launch your product?"

AussieCoder — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 06:26:45 +0000

I think an RSS feed would be great too. I use Digg Reader and just headlines, or headlines and key facts (revenue, founders, etc.) would be fine.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Ask HN: Where to host ASP.NET MVC app"

AussieCoder — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:06:35 +0000

Depending on the nature of the application, you may be able to sign up for Microsoft's BizSpark program. That includes $160 of credit for Azure per month for three years. That would be more than enough to host your application on either an Azure website or Azure Cloud Service.

I've been running applications on Azure Web Sites and Cloud Services for several years now and have found it to be much more reliable and better performng than the cheap shared hosting option I'd been using previously.

New comment by AussieCoder in "Actually launching"

AussieCoder — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 07:35:04 +0000

I like this idea in principle but I struggle with the idea of charging someone to use an experiment. My personal feeling is that once you take someone's money you have an obligation but, until you hit some level of scale, you may not be able to commit the time and effort to meet that obligation. With creative endeavours there is really a once-off transaction whereas for a SAAS application the customer expects an ongoing service.