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New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?"

akarshhegde18 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:20:23 +0000

It runs on your machine locally, understands your work and takes care of your Jira task updates for you. No data leaves your machine

This is where it is right now, but the idea is that it does all the boring stuff developers hate to do and don't have to do, if it can see what you do then it can learn and take care of those things that can be taken care of

Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?

akarshhegde18 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:11:26 +0000

What are your suggestions for an open-source developer efficiency product to get more engagement and reach. The product is for software developers right now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769906

Points: 3

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New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?"

akarshhegde18 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:02:29 +0000

What do you mean this is the worst time for saas?

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?"

akarshhegde18 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:15:11 +0000

Would you pay for this? And what would be the expectation?

Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?

akarshhegde18 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:14:08 +0000

Built a product that runs on your machine, understands your work and takes care of your Jira task updates for you. No data leaves your machine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765335

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?"

akarshhegde18 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:44:37 +0000

Makes sense. I'll ask sonnet 5 to help me out with the comparison

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit"

akarshhegde18 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:03:40 +0000

Not in SF, so no SOMA sign for me. I'll just keep yelling into Reddit and hope the algorithm mistakes it for foot traffic.

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit"

akarshhegde18 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:59:29 +0000

This is the repo: https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?"

akarshhegde18 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:38:35 +0000

Why 36 months?

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?"

akarshhegde18 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:36:30 +0000

Thanks for the share, really good read!

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?"

akarshhegde18 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:34:37 +0000

64GB is good for me for now, I'll wait for the M5 upgrade

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?"

akarshhegde18 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:33:40 +0000

The memory size looks insane! Is that even real? But they had the 512GB version in M3 Ultra so highly likely that it is

Claude Tag

akarshhegde18 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.com/docs/claude-tag/overview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736040

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?

akarshhegde18 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:19:23 +0000

As a developer building projects with AI coding agents, I need to have the system running day and night. Do you think buying mac studio is worth it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735969

Points: 5

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Ask HN: How is Claude Slack app performing in your organisation?

akarshhegde18 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:33:55 +0000

Is the hype real? I am currently not working with a bug team so I am just curious on how good the context management and memory is

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730357

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Which is the best local model under 3B parameters today?

akarshhegde18 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:59:55 +0000

I am building a product for worklog updation automation for developers, so the model should be able to process the developer's coding agent session/screen capture ocr/screen accessibility tree text and then classify them and post update on what was the progress made on their connected project management tool. Which model would you suggest for this usecase?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728991

Points: 1

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New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit"

akarshhegde18 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:09:27 +0000

I think we’re talking about two different problems. I know who my initial users are—that’s how I got the prototype to where it is today. What I’m trying to figure out now is distribution beyond my personal network. Once you’ve validated with the people you already know, how do you find the next 100 developers who have the same problem but don’t know you yet? That’s the part I was hoping to get advice on.

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit"

akarshhegde18 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:57:35 +0000

I will try this out, thanks! Starring the repo

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit"

akarshhegde18 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:56:28 +0000

I know only few people in my network that I can pitch this product to, but need suggestion to put it out on the net for others to see, gain more traction and visibility that something like this exists if they are already looking for it

New comment by akarshhegde18 in "Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit"

akarshhegde18 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:54:32 +0000

That’s a good point. I did deploy an early version for my team of developers, and it helped me understand what each one was working on without constant status updates. It also surfaced context that was usually lost across Slack and meetings. The challenge now is that I’m only one data point. I’m trying to figure out whether this pain is common enough outside my own team, and if so, who feels it the most—engineering managers, tech leads, or someone even outside tech (like finance or something). When I had this problem, I mostly looked for better engineering analytics and developer productivity tools, but nothing really gave me how work was actually happening. That’s the hypothesis I’m trying to validate now. Let me know if you know of ways to reach these kind of audience that might potentially use this product