Hacker News: chezmo

We’ve Launched a Survey Software Without a Reporting Dashboard

chezmo — Fri, 22 May 2020 15:49:18 +0000

Article URL: https://refiner.io/blog/survey-software-dashboard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273353

Points: 1

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Show HN: Refiner.io – Gradually profile your users and drive engagement

chezmo — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 14:13:52 +0000

Article URL: https://refiner.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22474556

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chezmo in "Ask HN: What tools do you use to automate your business?"

chezmo — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:57:08 +0000

Great to hear that you like Mailparser and that you are using it since a couple of years already! I'm the founder of Mailparser and reading your comment made my day! :-)

I thought I should mention that we also launched a sister-product called https://docparser.com two years. Docparser is basically like Mailparser, but for documents (PDFs or scanned documents).

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Www.rlog.io query high volume of flat files using SQL or web API"

chezmo — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:13:10 +0000

I really like the idea and I think there might be a lot of demand for this kind of stuff. Did you already do consulting work for customers with this kind of problem? That would be a great way to kick-start the business.

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: bndr – jsFiddle for Slack commands"

chezmo — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:28:45 +0000

love the idea! Curious how this will evolve once people start adding more commands.

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

chezmo — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:42:50 +0000

Awesome feedback!

So far, it's the user who would need to decide which document goes to which parser. A routing engine is however on our list and probably be one of the next features to add.

Regarding the stats, I'm not sure yet as we just launched. OCR was however one of the first things early users asked for.

For the 'unpaper' function we are using http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/unpaper.1.ht...

I would love to discuss things more in detail with you. Could you contact me contact [at] docparser.com please?

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

chezmo — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:22:00 +0000

For scanned images we use https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract. For text based PDFs we pull the text directly from the file and all languages are supported.

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

chezmo — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:18:05 +0000

We do position based text extraction. We add however an 'unpaper' function which tries to correct misalignments and increases the quality of the scan.

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

chezmo — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 06:19:33 +0000

That's right! The user defines a rectangular area and we then extract the raw text based on the position. For table extraction we use tabula.java under the hood.

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

chezmo — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 06:17:16 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, I just fixed it! mailparser.io is my other product which I launched a couple of years ago. Customers kept asking for document parsing capabilities so I thought it would be a good idea to start Docparser. For the FAQ I copied some text and apparently forgot to properly proof read it :)

Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data

chezmo — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://docparser.com?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=showhn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131406

Points: 107

# Comments: 23

Show HN: Convert PDF documents into structured data

chezmo — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:28:26 +0000

Article URL: https://docparser.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12115205

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

chezmo — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:11:40 +0000

This weekend I waded through a couple of old projects and I thought about all the stuff I built over the years. I posted a couple of "Show HN" projects a couple of years ago and it was funny reading those posts again.

Basically all of the projects went on 'auto-pilot' right away, meaning that I didn't touch them since I posted them. However, my latest 'Show-HN' turned into a real business and three years later we are a three people remote team and we are growing quite fast (the project is called mailparser.io).

I was wondering what your 'Show HN' turned into? Any stories you want to share?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030863

Points: 382

# Comments: 279

Build a food delivery startup without a single line of code

chezmo — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:17:05 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@michaeloblak/fully-automated-delivery-system-without-a-single-line-of-code-25b556c7742a#.3ijfgoei2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12004468

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chezmo in "Fully automated delivery system without a single line of code"

chezmo — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:07:08 +0000

Hey Guys! I'm the founder of mailparser.io and I'm super happy to see this showcase of Michael on Medium. Please let me know if you have any questions about mailparser.io or how to pull data out of e-mails.

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Talkus – Chat with your website users from Slack"

chezmo — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 11:41:53 +0000

I love the fact that you don't need to add another app to your startup stack.

Building Businesses on Top of Messaging

chezmo — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:37:21 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@decodingVC/3-key-reasons-to-build-businesses-on-top-of-messaging-7aa57a6e49e9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9783023

Points: 2

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Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access to Paris’s Roissy Airport

chezmo — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:37:28 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/paris-uber-protests-set-to-gum-up-traffic-as-taxis-start-strike

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9776613

Points: 46

# Comments: 56

Three Takeaways on Recruiting and Scaling Tech Team

chezmo — Wed, 13 May 2015 15:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/unexpected-token/3-takeaways-from-point-nine-s-cto-event-on-scaling-up-tech-and-tech-teams-bf617a8ec175

Hacker News: chezmo

We’ve Launched a Survey Software Without a Reporting Dashboard

Show HN: Refiner.io – Gradually profile your users and drive engagement

New comment by chezmo in "Ask HN: What tools do you use to automate your business?"

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Www.rlog.io query high volume of flat files using SQL or web API"

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: bndr – jsFiddle for Slack commands"

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data"

Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data

Show HN: Convert PDF documents into structured data

Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

Build a food delivery startup without a single line of code

New comment by chezmo in "Fully automated delivery system without a single line of code"

New comment by chezmo in "Show HN: Talkus – Chat with your website users from Slack"

Building Businesses on Top of Messaging

Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access to Paris’s Roissy Airport

Three Takeaways on Recruiting and Scaling Tech Team

Parse e-mail notifications and post the content to Slack