Hacker News: apineda

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

apineda — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:10:24 +0000

Location: Toronto Remote: Yes/Hybrid Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

apineda — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:35:02 +0000

Goofy youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@dailyspacejazz

Building on my 2.5D renderer and now going to introduce 3d models for funsies.

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: Is there an AI that can read code aloud and explain it?"

apineda — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:38:50 +0000

I wrote explain o matic for this, it's an open source vscode extension. It creates sections of code and uses your os tts. It allows you to break down sections further as well. With a bit more work on my end could be quite a potent tool.

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)"

apineda — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 08:51:26 +0000

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

Rules Clobber Goals

apineda — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:36:39 +0000

Article URL: https://kupajo.com/rules-clobber-goals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576060

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)"

apineda — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:35:51 +0000

Location: Toronto Remote: Yes/Hybrid Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

New comment by apineda in "Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"

apineda — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:44:20 +0000

If I were to want to experiment with my own gym app idea, would I be able to license the data set?

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

apineda — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:13:54 +0000

Location: Toronto Remote: Yes/Hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: What did you learn from your recent project failure?"

apineda — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:52:34 +0000

even small projects cost a lot of time ( marketing !! ), better to focus on something you really care about rather than opportunistic items

New comment by apineda in "Show HN: HN top 30 summarized by Gemini 2.5 Pro"

apineda — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:33:35 +0000

Cool, but needs a TLDR a top each entry, tiny paragraph.

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)"

apineda — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:48:43 +0000

Location: Toronto

Remote: Yes/Hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

apineda — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:18:31 +0000

just finished https://www.treesnap.app/ now just doing some light marketing on the daily. next project is multi-vendor monstrosity so happy to have gotten that win.

Show HN: I built TreeSnap – turn your code into a prompt ready bundle

apineda — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:46:05 +0000

I built over 3-4 weeks to solve my own pain point, picking up rust along the way. It has a browser version that works online/offline and cross platform desktop as well. It was a pretty intense sprint.

About TreeSnap, well it simplifies this preparation of sharing code with Chat LLMs. In my use case, making o3 via ChatGPT a lot more cost-effective to use for these tasks compared to Cursor:

How it works:

Select files/folders → generates a single text bundle + ASCII tree

Instantly shows per-file and total token counts (list & treemap views)

Quickly trim unnecessary files or folders to match context limits

Fully offline and private (Tauri desktop app)

Also available as a free browser app—offline and private

Built in ~3 weeks, I use it daily to aid my workflow and reduce my expenses by minimizing the need to rely on Cursor's pricier model usage. I still rely on Cursor with grok 3 or gemini pro 2.5 pro mostly without getting crazy with usage fees. Feedback welcome—especially UX, performance, and pricing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821497

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: What is bad about Homebrew?"

apineda — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:23:40 +0000

I've been a light user for ~5 years maybe? Never really had issues, it's convenient, if a little obtuse relative to say npm install -g.

New comment by apineda in "Show HN: I made "specloop" – O1 prompts to codegen"

apineda — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:19:58 +0000

Hello HN,

I made a local nextjs app that walks you step by step through ideation, specification, and implementation planning for a fresh dev project. It's a utility that pieces together prompts so that o1 can do the heavy lifting.

Ideally you would use the prompts from https://www.jointakeoff.com/prompts ( no affiliation ) or craft your own if you have inclination. You the put the prompts into the app and run through the steps.

Warning! It works really well if you have a good project scaffold already to feed into it. I'd be great to collect a bunch of excellent starter templates for this purpose.

Check my tweet on it for a quick step by step illustrated view! https://x.com/weloveoov/status/1902059178849444119

Show HN: I made "specloop" – O1 prompts to codegen

apineda — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:19:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexpineda/specloop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436737

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by apineda in "[dead]"

apineda — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:10:07 +0000

I don't know the absolute answer to this but this one looks pretty good https://replicate.com/ideogram-ai/ideogram-v2a

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)"

apineda — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:04:05 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | REMOTE: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Bun/Node, Astro, Python, Serverless (Cloudflare, etc.), AI tooling (Cursor, Claude, O1 Pro) Portfolio: https://weloveoov.com Email: hireme@weloveoov.com

About Me: I'm a hands-on, visually oriented product designer and developer with deep experience in web tech. I build intuitive user experiences, often focusing on unique, market-driven challenges. Currently boosting my mathematics background to sharpen problem-solving.

Notable Projects:

• Black Sheep Wall – 2.5D online viewer for StarCraft (1.16 & Remastered).

• SearchLoom – AI-driven domain name generator + search tool.

• LLMPricingTable – LLM provider pricing comparison.

Let’s chat if you have an interesting project or a unique market opportunity in mind!

New comment by apineda in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)"

apineda — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:49:00 +0000

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open to relocation for the right opportunity

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Bun/Node, Next.js, Astro, Python (data analysis or processing usually), Cloudflare, Serverless architectures, Cursor, O1 Pro, Claude console

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: hireme@weloveoov.com

Portfolio: https://weloveoov.com/

I am a hands-on, visually oriented product designer and developer with extensive experience in web technologies. I excel at creating intuitive user experiences and am currently enhancing my mathematical knowledge to improve my problem-solving abilities. I'm an exceedingly curious person and thrive on unique market-driven problems.

Notable projects:

Black Sheep Wall: A 2.5D online viewer for StarCraft 1.16 & Remastered.

SearchLoom: An AI-powered domain name generation and search tool.

LLMPricingTable: A comparison tool for LLM pricing across providers.

New comment by apineda in "Show HN: OpenAstra – Chat based open-source alternative to Postman"

apineda — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:37:51 +0000

I think this is pretty cool.