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New comment by adim86 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

adim86 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:49:57 +0000

I am working on Sidequests HQ:

SideQuests HQ is a mobile app that turns real life into a series of small, optional quests.

The idea came from noticing that most productivity apps optimize for work, and most social media optimizes for consumption. There aren’t many tools that encourage you to actually do interesting things in the real world.

The app generates challenges across categories like meeting new people, exploring your city, learning something new, creating, or helping someone else. Complete a quest, skip it, or save it for later.You can also add your own quests. There’s no streak anxiety, no leaderboard. The app is just quests designed to make life a little less repetitive.

Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sidequests-hq/id6751321255 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inc.sidequests...

New comment by adim86 in "Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?"

adim86 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:16:40 +0000

What my company does is the following:

1. We schedule payment up front before we do work (retainer), but we do not force payment due to emergency or cash flow issues of companies.

2. After 2 weeks we start charging compounding interest on the payment.

3. If 2 months go by and we have not been paid, we stop all services, and the outstanding invoices continue to accrue interest till paid

New comment by adim86 in "AI made coding more enjoyable"

adim86 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:21:56 +0000

> The customer/user can't tell the difference between a good working app and a poor working app.

Come on man, this is the whole reason Duolingo was people's favourite language learning app, or people claim they like iPhones over Android phones or Photoshop over Canva. These apps and devices all work, but which one is good or better is a debate. People have preferences; some apps in a category are easier to use than others, and some apps have branding that signals status. Now, those things become more important in differentiating your app than "It does what it is supposed to do". Until now, just getting an app to do what you wanted it to do was a competitive advantage, that's becoming a smaller advantage day by day

New comment by adim86 in "MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format"

adim86 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:04:13 +0000

I find it shocking that a reputable resource such as this is still displaying the size of Greenland or Africa wrong (Mercator projection) in relation to other land masses in its marketing material and documentation, like here. It just brings doubt to the whole project, which is a shame considering all the time they must have put in. Why show the map that way when majority of its users will never use it for nautical navigation? https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/examples/display-a-...

New comment by adim86 in "Thin desires are eating life"

adim86 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:03:42 +0000

I was being sarcastic, but I get your point

New comment by adim86 in "Thin desires are eating life"

adim86 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:58:17 +0000

I think this article is really true, and I think a consequence is that people are really hungry for thick desires these days but they cannot put a finger on it. They notice themselves not growing, they get the dopamine hit they were looking for but it feel like empty calories.

As a software engineer, I decided to build an app about side quests. Reading this article I realized I could not put a finger on what I was getting at either, but I just knew I hadd to add wholesome activities that were not part of my life into my life and I kinda built this app for myself (initially for a hackathon) and just shared it with friends.

Hopefully it's useful to someone else on here (nasty self promotion): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sidequests-hq/id6751321255

New comment by adim86 in "The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)"

adim86 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:00:34 +0000

This is so nostalgic for me. In 1999, I watched a couple of movies, and I decided I wanted to be a hacker. I watched the movie Hackers, Swordfish and let's not forget The Matrix. These were all influntial to me, I went down a rabbit hole and found the Hacker Manifesto, which I resonated with. I slurped up all the information I could find (There wasn't much), and then came a realization that changed everything for me. Hacking was as hard as writing software to me, one was creating and inventing things and the other was tearing down what others had made...not to mention it was also illegal (White hat was not really big at the time). I was like, if I was gonna do one, I'd rather develop software and make things that made people's day and got praised for than ruin people's day and possibly go to jail. Hence my origin story as a software developer :)

New comment by adim86 in "U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say"

adim86 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:10:50 +0000

The idea that criminals are not sophisticated is a weak excuse for this system.

Once the government starts mining data from iPhones, criminals will quickly adapt while every law-abiding citizen gets caught in the crossfire. It opens the door for abuse: officials could easily spy on their partners, dig up dirt on rivals, or target those they dislike without breaking any laws. Meanwhile, cybercriminals will have an easy target since every phone comes with this built-in vulnerability.

This system is likely to snag small-time offenders, not the real masterminds behind organized crime. This isn’t a smart solution for crime. It just sacrifices our privacy for a few token arrests.

New comment by adim86 in "Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean"

adim86 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:42:55 +0000

I think its crazy that we find a discovery like this in our eco-system that we barely understand and the first thing people want to do is mine them for profit. Like the race to profit with the disregard for consequences is mind-blowing

New comment by adim86 in "1Password Has Raised $620M"

adim86 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:01:00 +0000

I am surprised people are worried about 1Password getting this money and not caring about their users. How about at least they have money to be alive for the foreseeable future. I am worried about free password managers because they are broke and could sunset the app at any point and now I have to go find something else, or better yet, no financial incentive to do the best thing for the app. They do it for fun. My security is not for fun. LOL

New comment by adim86 in "Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are"

adim86 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:53:48 +0000

I find the article disappointing. I would say this article itself is not what it says it is. Its title is written in click-bait fashion in that they are about to reveal something we don't know about blockchain technology and then the first paragraphs are written in the tone that they realize theoretically blockchain technology ideally runs a certain way but they want to tell us how it runs today and then proceeds to bash the implementation of the technology today even though they realize it probably wont work that way in the future.

It is like bashing the internet of not fulfilling the potential people pitched about it in the 90s. Blockchain is currently in the dail up stage of the internet, it is centralized, slow and needs adoption and lots of man hours to unleash its potential. There are second and third order effects that need to actualize before the "dream" of blockchain technology can be realised. The article purports the lack of this actualisation of the blockchain dream as if we are being deceived.

It's like when people bashed Tesla and said it wont work because there were not enough charging stations across the USA, as if world changing technologies are realized in a day. I find it boring that people push these kind of articles as think pieces. We can do better

New comment by adim86 in "El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so"

adim86 — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:02:55 +0000

Actually it is because we are dealing with an factual data point (I), rather than someone using hyperbole by saying something is ONLY used for x. one data point proves that wrong

New comment by adim86 in "The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen"

adim86 — Mon, 31 May 2021 21:29:37 +0000

I have to agree with you, as someone who lived in the US for 10 years and moved back to my home country, I see the influence of Western culture from TV and the internet, but in my absence the local culture also tweaked itself and started exporting it to neighbouring countries also via the same internet.

There will be influence of the West for a while, but I think other countries are using these mediums also to push their own thought simultaneously. I have watched more spanish TV shows via netflix that I ever would if there was only cable (for example)

New comment by adim86 in "Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?"

adim86 — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:52:39 +0000

There is a bias in this article and that is the context of time. Over time there will be less and less software engineers at the top of this list as software engineering becomes more common field of study. If you look at the people listed, they were people who set up these companies not to make money. I am not saying they are not interested in money, but if you were someone interested in mainly in making money within a reasonable time frame and you were intelligent at the times Google, FB and others were invented, building these companies would have not been the easiest way to make money at those times (dot com bubble etc). These people started these companies due to an obsession with the problem, the need to make a change etc.

These companies have grown to be insane empires, not because it has been software engineers running them, but software engineering is a new field that greatly impacts the world at this time and they are the people that solved the harder mainstream problems at the time. If this was in the industrial age, we would see more blacksmiths and manufacturers and railroad builders on the list, than farmers or accountants or whatever. It is a mixture of time, depth of problem and an obsession to solve it. Not that there is something intrinsically special about software engineers

Data Transfer Project

adim86 — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:04:42 +0000

Article URL: https://datatransferproject.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26354630

Points: 1

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New comment by adim86 in "Nigeria's Central Bank has prohibited banks from processing cryptocurrencies"

adim86 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:17:38 +0000

This is already true. Actually P2P was the primary way of trading crypto in the country till last 2019-2020. So there is already an established P2P market here

New comment by adim86 in "Nigeria's Central Bank has prohibited banks from processing cryptocurrencies"

adim86 — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:19:59 +0000

I live in Nigeria and this story is not being reported accurately. Back in 2017 the Central Bank asked banks to keep an eye out on people trading crypto and report suspicious activity. At the time there were many multi-level pyramid schemes running in the country and even one that included bitcoin in its name and the govt was clamping down on these issues and cryptocurrencies fell into that bucket

Come 2021 we are in a Bull run again and crypto action is high in the country. The govt sends this letter to banks again to keep an eye out.

This is not a Ban on Bitcoin or cryptocurrency it is shutting down the onramps of fiat into crypto. There are also other nuanced issues in the country about the Central bank needing people to hold the currency (Naira) due to heavy devaluation going on at the moment but lots of people are converting all their money to BTC and this is a way to halt it.

Hope this clarifies this for some people

New comment by adim86 in "Vercel raise $40M Series B"

adim86 — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:48:13 +0000

Hi, serious question what is Vercel? As a developer, what do I use it for? Back-end as a service? Hosting? Database? from reading their homepage several times and looking at their products I still cant tell... can some explain?

New comment by adim86 in "Your Move, iPad"

adim86 — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:37:04 +0000

All what your saying makes sense, but OP is just saying look, professionals are looking for a high powered computer in the form factor of an iPad. If you look at it that way Apple can still make their simple tablet but have a Pro version for Pros. There is a whole market that would love to do work on "a portable iMac"

New comment by adim86 in "Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book"

adim86 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:15:08 +0000

This is a great story thanks for sharing, and I think it can be useful for the poster of screenbreak above. My knee jerk reaction when I saw the product was, wow I can create a book of all the articles I read in 2020 and make it a coffee table book. It is a good gift to give close friends as the articles that shaped your year, or one to reminisce on, but above all this book needs to be picture heavy, it needs to feel like a magazine or coffee table book to have mainstream appeal. I hope OP tests this out, there is def a market here