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New comment by amrit_b in "Show HN: Poor man's VPN (simple WireGuard playbook)"

amrit_b — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:58:40 +0000

This playbook doesn't give you any anonymity (unless you secretly use someone else' server).

Here's the motivation: Lately due to GDPR many websites are closing doors in EU. For me, I cannot order medicines for my parents back home via netmeds.com or book flights/hotels via makemytrip.com

With wireguard and this playbook it becomes trivial to perform these tasks for very little cost.

Show HN: Poor man's VPN (simple WireGuard playbook)

amrit_b — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:04:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/amritb/poor-mans-vpn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29560609

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

For the first time, DDG gave me better results than Google

amrit_b — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 21:05:35 +0000

Article URL: https://imgur.com/a/hy2NJly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18418020

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by amrit_b in "Alibaba Cloud"

amrit_b — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:04:35 +0000

Reminds me of something similar I did with videos couple of years back - http://www.transcode.io/

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

amrit_b — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 08:39:21 +0000

This is really awesome! The generated names are amazing. How do you do it!? Please don't kill this project!

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?"

amrit_b — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:27:27 +0000

I am using iwantmyname for .io domains. They are charging 59 USD per year. Gandi.net is charging $35 only! Will transfer the domain soon.. Thanks for the info!

New comment by amrit_b in "Show HN: Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash"

amrit_b — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:27:09 +0000

This is incredible.

Show HN: Easily test your socket.io connections

amrit_b — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:14:02 +0000

Article URL: http://amritb.github.io/socketio-client-tool/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9647810

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amrit_b in "How to Be Happy"

amrit_b — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:17:32 +0000

I felt happy when I decided not to read the article :)

New comment by amrit_b in "Show HN: Find a Bootstrap theme for your next project"

amrit_b — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:52:02 +0000

Good stuff! I had something similar in mind, but you already made it. Thanks!

New comment by amrit_b in "HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement"

amrit_b — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 02:37:07 +0000

I use this tool on a regular basis and just love it. Thanks for building HTTPie :)

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io"

amrit_b — Tue, 27 May 2014 22:07:43 +0000

I have already integrated with 2Checkout which works fine. But the initial idea was to integrate it with an Indian gateway. The govt here wants to see a decent office in a commercial location before giving access to a local payment gateway.

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io"

amrit_b — Tue, 27 May 2014 22:05:50 +0000

Definitely (2).. and that puts me in deciding mode again!

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io"

amrit_b — Tue, 27 May 2014 22:04:32 +0000

Thanks! Do you know any site to find marketing people?

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io"

amrit_b — Tue, 27 May 2014 21:26:20 +0000

Yeah definitely demotivated.

But there are ~40 customers and I needed that invoicing system to bill them :)

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io"

amrit_b — Tue, 27 May 2014 21:24:40 +0000

the transcoding price different and transferring price is different.. The invoice generation calculates it. transcoding_cost = 0.003 per second transferring_cost = 0.0003 per byte gets downloaded

Profit margin is double the expenditure.

but its flexible. need to tweak the values after production launch.

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io"

amrit_b — Tue, 27 May 2014 20:23:48 +0000

Okay. Thats a valid point.

But I got ~40 customers without any kind of marketing and effort. All most all of them own video related websites.

Zencoder / bitsontherun have their own branding on user's videos. Even in the paid plans (which is extremely expensive) they show branded messages when some error occurs. Moreover you need to "upload" the videos somehow to initiate the process.

AWS elastic transcoder is of-course a good option, but again tat needs uploading and immense amount of code & development time. Not to mention, the developer should have enough experience to touch the AWS api/SDKs in the first place.

Transcode.io product takes care of your videos completely. From transcoding to hosting in a CDN. And you are free to theme your own video element. This absolutely needs no integration with api or sdk or anything.

Its like scaling and cropping images - just put the video path, and the rest will be taken care by the tool.

New comment by amrit_b in "Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io"

amrit_b — Tue, 27 May 2014 19:54:28 +0000

1> Frankly speaking I have no idea. If there are more than one buyer, then will give it to the higher payer.

2> Right now, users are using a free version - so no income.

3> As far as I know, there is no other product in the market with makes video transcoding this simple. So I don't think its tough to get users.

4> From a developer's prospective, it only needs a "forgot password" function before it can go to production. Everything else is ready.

5, 6> Here are the details -> http://amritbera.com/journal/why-i-built-transcode-io (transcode.io is a completely different thing - its code-less transcoding and CDN hosting)

Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io

amrit_b — Tue, 27 May 2014 19:26:16 +0000

I am facing a lot of troubles with govt polices to run this startup. And also its getting tougher to take it forward alone. I got an exciting response when I launched it last September http://goo.gl/JHoMQK (~10k visits in a 3 hours span).

I built many missing parts, and also worked on the UI, payment gateways (2checkout), invoicing system, support ticketing system, etc. Everything works fine now and good to go for production.

Many of you (from the HN community) have registered and tested it, and gave valuable feedback (and few are already using it on production) - Thank you all for your support! And sorry, many accounts are still not activated.

Many of you tweeted about it https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=transcode.io&src=typd - Thanks you guys as well for spreading the word :)

I tried to team up, but failed miserably. There are so many things to do - coding, testing, marketing, support, financing, fraud detection, refunds, taking care of customers, expansion, new features, legal, etc.

English is not my first language, hence I face a lot of difficulties while writing official emails and stuff.

I need suggestions/directions for selling it or getting funded or getting co-founders.

Cheers!

(http://amritbera.com/journal/why-i-built-transcode-io)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7806318

Points: 10

# Comments: 20

New comment by amrit_b in "Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology in the Enterprise"

amrit_b — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:43:16 +0000

Then why no job?