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New comment by amukbils in "[dead]"

amukbils — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:20:29 +0000

Falling (life mistakes) used to break me. Now they don't. An article about how I handle them now.

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amukbils — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:47:02 +0000

The company was started by Stripe's CTO, raised ~$50M seed round less than 2 years ago launched dreamer a month or so ago and now acquired by Meta.

New comment by amukbils in "Hard Work and Success"

amukbils — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:09:54 +0000

My thoughts on hard work and success

Hard Work and Success

amukbils — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:09:54 +0000

Article URL: https://almowry.com/writing/hard-work-and-success/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965190

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by amukbils in "It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change"

amukbils — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:02:16 +0000

That's a good guess .. but I bet they are also paying price for this in support costs .. I'd be curious what percentage of their support tickets are related to this (also the require you to cancel subscription, create a new account, create a new subscription if you want to change a pro account)

New comment by amukbils in "It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change"

amukbils — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:24 +0000

Drives more revenue too. But I still think in the long run, APIs will bring more revenue.

New comment by amukbils in "It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change"

amukbils — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:57:41 +0000

You cannot change your google email itself .. because there's no other reference to identify you with them. But you can use your email as the "inbox" for all other services. OpenAI doesn't have an "inbox" .. they accept other "inboxes" so they should allow you to change it.

New comment by amukbils in "It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change"

amukbils — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:55:52 +0000

According to Gemini, it's because OpenAI uses the email as the unique identifier of the user. But if that were the case, it's probably an week's project for a single engineer at most. I thought there was a better reason for this like some security measure for such a fast growing company, it never occurred to me that the reason could be so simple

New comment by amukbils in "It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change"

amukbils — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:13:16 +0000

No mention of the reason why. Seems like a foundation feature. Ran into trouble more than once by their bad auth system.

It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change

amukbils — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936827-how-to-change-your-email-address

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198994

Points: 59

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New comment by amukbils in "And fastest domain search website"

amukbils — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:47:40 +0000

Just freaking love this thing!

And fastest domain search website

amukbils — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:47:40 +0000

Article URL: https://instantdomainsearch.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048437

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by amukbils in "[dead]"

amukbils — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:51:53 +0000

We send & receive a lot of emails internally. One of the first things we have to do in every project is build sending & receiving emails. So this is open source and reusable so that every new project can use it.

Please try it out, give feedback and contribute.

Next: - Templated emails (AWS only) - Simple editor (God knows we had to do it more than a few times) & AWS sucks at it.

New comment by amukbils in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

amukbils — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:15:54 +0000

OpenAI & chatGPT also down from this

Show HN: Open-source email JavaScript validation

amukbils — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:37:55 +0000

Open-source email validation full stack app tested on production with hundreds of thousands of signups a month.

We were using third party providers for a long time but ultimately decided to switch away because they required tiered pricing and we were always underutilizing. So opening this up to help anyone who wants to host their own version.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773962

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amukbils in "Ask HN: Writers, how do you consolidate paper, digital pieces?"

amukbils — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:37:48 +0000

This is really novel. I like it. I've never gone this far. I just lump everything together. I've used tear-able notebooks before for the reason of moving them around but never stopped to consciously think about it the way you did.

I noticed you didn't say anything about digital writing, about half of my writings are in digital format. I do try to write the full idea that comes to mind before ending my writing session.

Ask HN: Writers, how do you consolidate paper, digital pieces?

amukbils — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:20:02 +0000

I like to write on paper, but I don't carry my notebook everywhere. So I end up writing some pieces in my notes, some in notion, some on my various notebooks.

How do you consolidate them while also being ready to write anywhere the mood strikes?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561237

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

Show HN: Structured Output Schema Generator Based on Prompt

amukbils — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:26:05 +0000

We use structured outputs a lot. But building those darn schemas to be ready for OpenAI is a real pain. So I built a simple service where I can post the prompt, or just my broken JSON, and it spits out a valid schema output for consumption the the LLM directly. Hope it helps other devs. Test it out, let me know if there's something I should improve. I'm here jamming on this today.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391343

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by amukbils in "Ask HN: Small Ideas vs. Big Ideas?"

amukbils — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:27:58 +0000

This! Data! okay, so it's actually rare to get there .. and you'd need skills to get there .. wouldn't it be better to push harder for compounded results?

New comment by amukbils in "Ask HN: Small Ideas vs. Big Ideas?"

amukbils — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:26:38 +0000

While $10K was a rough number, the same can be said about $20K .. it "should be", "relatively easier" to get to that solo .. the point is should you aim for that, or aim for much bigger .. which will mak you realistically hit that goal .. and my perspective had been that aiming big, while starting small (smallest complete unit to get you to a reasonable income). What you do after is another story.