<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: chondl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chondl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:38:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chondl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: How are parents who program teaching their kids today?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When my child was in the 9-12 year range we did programming with Godot.  He liked building games so it maintained interest.  Previously he had been working Scratch and the Godot editor was a much easier on ramp to building more complicated games than trying to do them in Java or Python.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 18:20:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152775</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-Time<p>Finale Inventory is a SaaS application that helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We’re a remote-first fully bootstrapped company that has built a thriving business grounded on long term relationships with our customers and employees.<p>Our culture is focused on delighting our customers, honesty, transparency, learning and innovating with our colleagues and customers, and constant improvement.<p>You'll be joining a team of 15 engineers spread across North America, South America, and Western Europe. We use continuous deployment practices to ship code to production several times per day and have a strong test driven development approach. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript (Node.js, React) with C++ used in select places for performance.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com. I am leading the interview process which will include coding interviews and phone interviews with the co-founders and other engineers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:34:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570380</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory is a SaaS application that helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We’re a remote-first fully bootstrapped company that has built a thriving business grounded on long term relationships with our customers and employees.<p>Our culture is focused on delighting our customers, honesty, transparency, learning and innovating with our colleagues and customers, and constant improvement.<p>You'll be joining a team of 15 engineers spread across North America, South America, and Western Europe. We use continuous deployment practices to ship code to production frequently and have a strong test driven development approach. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript (Node.js, React) with C++ used in select places for performance.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com. I am leading the interview process which will include coding interviews and phone interviews with the co-founders and other engineers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:44:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39221882</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39221882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39221882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Software Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | REMOTE | Full time
Finale Inventory helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We are a remote first bootstrapped startup led by a founding team with decades of experience building companies. You'll be joining a team of 14 engineers who hail from North America, South America, and Europe.<p>Our culture is focused on delighting our customers, honesty, transparency, learning and innovating with our colleagues and customers, and constant improvement.<p>Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript with some use of C++ for performance sensitive code.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:34:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848638</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Software Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | REMOTE | Full time<p>Finale Inventory helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We are a remote first bootstrapped startup led by a founding team with decades of experience building companies.  You'll be joining a team of 14 engineers who hail from North America, South America, and Europe.<p>Our culture is focused on delighting our customers, honesty, transparency, learning and innovating with our colleagues and customers, and constant improvement.<p>Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript with some use of C++ for performance sensitive code.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 06:20:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38496417</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38496417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38496417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full time | <a href="https://www.finaleinventory.com/careers" rel="nofollow">https://www.finaleinventory.com/careers</a><p>Finale Inventory is a SaaS application that helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We’re a remote-first fully bootstrapped company that has built a thriving business grounded on long term relationships with our customers and employees.<p>You'll be joining a team of 15 engineers spread across North America, South America, and Western Europe. We use continuous deployment practices to ship code to production frequently and have a strong test driven development approach. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript (Node.js, React) with C++ used in select places for performance.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com. I am leading the interview process which will include coding interviews and phone interviews with the co-founders and other engineers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:54:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34985694</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34985694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34985694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Wine 101: The Beginners Guide to Wine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was hoping this would be about printing barcode labels under Wine:
<a href="https://www.seagullscientific.com/software/" rel="nofollow">https://www.seagullscientific.com/software/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 23:30:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33157602</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33157602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33157602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had the same thought.  Living in the past.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2022 14:22:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31273731</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31273731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31273731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full time | <a href="https://www.finaleinventory.com/careers" rel="nofollow">https://www.finaleinventory.com/careers</a><p>Finale Inventory is a SaaS application that helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently.  We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We’re a remote first fully bootstrapped company that has built a thriving business grounded on long term relationships with our customers and employees.  Not having outside investors keeps us focused on building sustainable growth based on our revenues.<p>You'll be joining a team of 15 engineers spread across North America, South America, and Western Europe.  We use continuous deployment practices to ship code to production frequently and have a strong test driven development approach. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript (Node.js, React) with C++ used in select places for performance.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com.  I am leading the interview process which will include coding interviews and phone interviews with the co-founders and other engineers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 18:33:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31238983</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31238983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31238983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Software Engineers | Fulltime | REMOTE<p>We’re a fully bootstrapped company that has built a thriving business on SaaS inventory management system for ecommerce companies.  We have a team of a dozen engineers working remotely across the Americas and Europe.  We make remote work work by trusting each other, collaborating with each other, and focusing on results over process.  We ask questions, answer them, and learn from each other.<p>The major components of our technology stack are Node.js, React, MySQL, Redis, Linux, and AWS. Our JavaScript code uses modern idioms such as functional reactive programming.<p><a href="https://www.finaleinventory.com/experienced-software-engineer" rel="nofollow">https://www.finaleinventory.com/experienced-software-enginee...</a><p>I'm Chris Hondl, co-founder and CTO.  Contact me directly at chris@finaleinventory.com to learn more or apply.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:21:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784181</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems most likely to be an error in the document: "median checking account balances at account creation are only around $3,000 ... At a 4% net interest margin, this account would only contribute about $120 in margin during its first year...." 4% of $3,000 is $12.  I suspect both $350 and $120 are 10x too big.  Alternatively the average checking account is 10x the median which seems unlikely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:22:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210349</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mostly was on BBS between the ages of 12 and 15, starting with a giant 300 baud modem on a card in our Apple ][2.  Most of the systems were forums and 300 baud wasn't bad for reading text.  Way too slow for warez, so mostly exchanged floppies for games.<p>When everyone got on the Internet a few years later my younger sister didn't think it was a big deal since she had seen me reading forums and trading email for years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:18:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141952</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Experienced Software Engineer | remove | Full-time | www.finaleinventory.com<p>Finale Inventory is the best cloud inventory software for applications involving high volume, multichannel eCommerce and warehouse management.  We’ve worked with small and medium businesses for nearly ten years creating a SaaS inventory management system that is precisely adaptable to the finest details of each customer's processes.<p>We’re a fully bootstrapped company that has built a thriving business grounded on long term relationships with our customers and employees.  Not having outside investors keeps us focused on building sustainable growth based on our revenues.<p>Our twenty person team has been fully remote since the company’s inception.  We make remote work work by trusting each other, collaborating with each other, and focusing on results over process.  We are looking for people in North America, South America, and Europe.<p>The major components of our technology stack are Node.js, React, GraphQL, MySQL, Redis, Linux, and AWS.  We make use of C++ and WebAssembly for specific computation and data intensive modules.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28720573</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28720573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28720573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "I don't think Elasticsearch is a good logging system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A million times this.  Crazy fast flexible searching.  I'm nervous they'll lose focus on the logging product after the SentinelOne acquisition but so much easier than anything else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683427</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Senior Software Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | REMOTE | Full time<p>Finale Inventory helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We are a bootstrapped startup led by a founding team with decades of experience building companies.  We have been a remote first company since we started in 2014.  You will be joining a small engineering team with members located in the Americas and Europe. <a href="https://www.finaleinventory.com/company" rel="nofollow">https://www.finaleinventory.com/company</a><p>You will have personal responsibility for designing and delivering features that delight customers and grow the business. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript, using Node.js on the server, GraphQL for APIs, and React for the user interface. We also use C++ for performance sensitive components of our application.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:34:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28385211</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28385211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28385211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Senior Software Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | REMOTE | Full time
Finale Inventory helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We are a bootstrapped startup led by a founding team with decades of experience building companies. We have been a remote first company since we started in 2014. You will be joining a small engineering team with members located in the Americas and Europe. <a href="https://www.finaleinventory.com/company" rel="nofollow">https://www.finaleinventory.com/company</a><p>You will have personal responsibility for designing and delivering features that delight customers and grow the business. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript, using Node.js on the server, GraphQL for APIs, and React for the user interface. We also use C++ for performance sensitive components of our application.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:45:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28039098</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28039098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28039098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Architecture of the Playstation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reverse engineering the assembly code required to drive the Geometry Transformation Engine efficiently from the compiled output of the C libraries is to this day one of my favorite technical puzzles I've worked on in my career.<p>I remember sitting in a meeting with our technical contact at Sony's headquarters in San Mateo where he basically asked without asking if we were using the C libraries.  From the way he asked the question it was clear that the correct answer was "No, not using the libraries" since otherwise our game wouldn't be performant.  At the same time we both knew we couldn't say that explicitly since that would violate Sony's contracts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:32:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27604988</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27604988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27604988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Senior Software Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | REMOTE | Full time<p>Finale Inventory helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We are a bootstrapped startup led by a founding team with decades of experience building companies. We have been a remote first company since we started in 2014. You will be joining a small engineering team with members located in the Americas and Europe. <a href="https://www.finaleinventory.com/company" rel="nofollow">https://www.finaleinventory.com/company</a><p>You will have personal responsibility for designing and delivering features that delight customers and grow the business. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript, using Node.js on the server, GraphQL for APIs, and React for the user interface. We also use C++ for performance sensitive components of our application.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:44:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27361770</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27361770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27361770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finale Inventory | Senior Software Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | REMOTE | Full time<p>Finale Inventory helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.<p>We are a bootstrapped startup led by a founding team with decades of experience building companies. We have been a remote first company since we started in 2014. You will be joining a small engineering team with members located in the Americas and Europe. <a href="https://www.finaleinventory.com/company" rel="nofollow">https://www.finaleinventory.com/company</a><p>You will have personal responsibility for designing and delivering features that delight customers and grow the business. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript, using Node.js on the server, GraphQL for APIs, and React for the user interface. We also use C++ for performance sensitive components of our application.<p>Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:49:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306524</link><dc:creator>chondl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chondl in "Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You might want to check out MicroConf Connect.  I'm a founder of a bootstrapped startup and find the Slack community pretty interesting.  <a href="https://microconf.com/microconf-connect" rel="nofollow">https://microconf.com/microconf-connect</a></p>
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