Hacker News: cpinto

New comment by cpinto in "The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Orgs Are Flying Blind"

cpinto — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:26:41 +0000

You’re absolutely right, but just to a point. It should be easy to clearly quantify the desired financial outcome of a sprint, but not of its components. I don’t want to spend a single minute figuring out the financial outcome of a single ticket.

Building a production-grade SaaS product just with AI

cpinto — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:46:32 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/cpinto/100-made-by-ai-creating-onboardinghub-a-git-history-documentary-cca13895

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975584

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New comment by cpinto in "LLMs are mirrors of operator skill"

cpinto — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:22:44 +0000

Have you tried writing rules for how you want things done, instead of repeating the same things every time?

New comment by cpinto in "Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams"

cpinto — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:22:31 +0000

what are the plans to support design systems? no one seems to be able to do this. prototyping doesn't happen in a vacuum, I'll always want to use the design system we spent months building in Figma.

New comment by cpinto in "What If We Made Advertising Illegal?"

cpinto — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:16:09 +0000

How many things on the internet do you really need and that are paid for via advertising?

New comment by cpinto in "Show HN: CommitAsync – $100K+ dev jobs 100% remote only"

cpinto — Fri, 31 May 2024 22:09:43 +0000

NullPointerException, ie crash; I assume, but I’m a business guy

New comment by cpinto in "The Angel, Islington"

cpinto — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:14:43 +0000

exactly! I do not understand the British obsession for preserving insane amounts of crooked-walled buildings with horrible insulation ratings. zero historical interest, 100% NIMBY-ism. then the general populace mopes about the lack of housing, and dreams 15-minute cities without realising the only way to solve both is tear down what’s taking up space and build tall instead.

New comment by cpinto in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)"

cpinto — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 18:14:08 +0000

Pixie | https://usepixie.com | Lisbon, Portugal | Full time | Onsite/Hybrid

Our app helps small accounting firms streamline and automate workflows for thousands of clients in just 2 weeks or less.

We're already supporting ~700 accounting firms worldwide with just a tiny seed round led by A-tier tech VC investors like Seedcamp, MMC Ventures, and TriplePoint. Players in the space have approached us about acquisitions but we want to go all the way.

Our goal is to have 100,000 firms running on Pixie in the next ten years and we're looking for great talent to join our product team in sunny Lisbon:

- Senior full-stack/product engineers (Ruby on Rails + VueJS): https://landing.jobs/at/pixie/sr-full-stack-engineer-rails-j...

- Mid-level product manager: https://landing.jobs/at/pixie/product-manager-in-lisbon-2022...

- Mid/Senior Product Designer: https://landing.jobs/at/pixie/product-designer-in-lisbon-202...

- Junior/Mid-level full stack engineers (Ruby on Rails + VueJS): https://landing.jobs/at/pixie/mid-level-full-stack-engineer-...

New comment by cpinto in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)"

cpinto — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:24:29 +0000

Pixie | https://usepixie.com | Lisbon, Portugal | Full time | Onsite/Hybrid

Our app helps small accounting firms streamline and automate workflows for thousands of clients in just 2 weeks or less.

Our goal is to have 100,000 firms running on Pixie in the next ten years and we're looking for great talent to join our product team in sunny Lisbon:

- Senior full-stack/product engineers

- Mid-level product manager

Our stack is based on the latest RoR, VueJS 3, Postgresql, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI.

Email celso [at] usepixie.com if you'd like to have an initial chat about these roles.

New comment by cpinto in "Quiet.js – Transmit and receive data in the browser at 44.1kHz"

cpinto — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:12:35 +0000

At max 44kilobits per second, or 5.5KB/second.

New comment by cpinto in "Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?"

cpinto — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:40:57 +0000

I am bootstrapping UsePixie.com, which is a Basecamp for accountants. Just barely launched in fact. Feedback has been really good and a few firms are using it. Tiny team, distributed, but the company’s UK based.

I’m looking for a full stack tech lead to take over from me, but I’d surely prefer a more experienced/senior long term partner/co-founder.

Tech stack is Rails running on AWS, with sprinkles of Vue in a few key parts of the app.

These are the principles that have guided us so far: https://medium.com/pomarhq/pomars-guiding-principles-ca00356...

If anyone’s interested my email is celso@usepixie.com

New comment by cpinto in "Ask HN: Do you want email parsing API for free?"

cpinto — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 10:40:10 +0000

No. Although the email parser as a service idea is nice, it has a couple of major downsides.

For starters, it’s now a GDPR world: I want to avoid the risk of breaches on your side affecting mine. Secondly, today you want to send nice compensation emails, tomorrow (under pressure from your board) you start mining the emails for competitive research and increased monetisation. I wouldn’t want to put the reputation of my service on the line for this.