Hacker News: eigilsagafos

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce"

eigilsagafos — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:34:16 +0000

Kind of funny that the government needs AI to navigate all the red tape and paperwork it has created

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Fauna Service Winding Down"

eigilsagafos — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:21:17 +0000

Update: I created a placeholder repo on Github with some more information on what is currently supported. Please engage if this could help anyone https://github.com/eigilsagafos/fauna-postgres/issues/1

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Fauna Service Winding Down"

eigilsagafos — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:17:23 +0000

Would be open source for sure

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Fauna Service Winding Down"

eigilsagafos — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:23:34 +0000

We were Fauna users for several years and invested a lot of time working with it and around it. The time travel capability was one of the stand out features for us in addition to FQL which opened some interesting capabilities. That being said for various reasons we had to transition away from it and did so by creating a FQL compatible solution on top of Postgres. It is implemented in JavaScript/TypeScript and runs in Postgres through the plv8 extension. Is this something that would be interesting to other current users?

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me"

eigilsagafos — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:18:13 +0000

I don’t think easy unsubscribe falls under «sharp edges and one-way doors». But high friction unsubscribe probably goes hand in hand with sharp edges and one-way doors at those lead you to want to unsubscribe…therefore they make it hard.

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles"

eigilsagafos — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:26:20 +0000

A love that HN doesn’t have pics and that they strive for short meaningful titles, so I’ll stay here :)

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

eigilsagafos — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:03:23 +0000

I’m working on a state library for JS/React very similar to Recoil and Jotai. Have been using both but struggled with different performance issues that I was able to overcome seeing 10x to 100x improvements in some cases. I’m working on documentation at the moment and plan to open source soon

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Rio: Web apps in pure Python"

eigilsagafos — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:24:59 +0000

As developers/engineers we love to solve problems. Too many times though we mislabel "friction" as "problem" and then start trying to solve the friction based on our current skill set or viewpoint. So frontend devs feel friction working backend and vice versa leading to all sorts of efforts like this that mostly fail. Good luck though :)

Show HN: Streaming AI powered prompt/image to process

eigilsagafos — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:52:10 +0000

We just released AI backed text to process and image to process.

Training ChatGPT to understand our process notation and structured format was the easy part of this. Isolating our editor and make it work with streaming was what took time.

Let us know what you think! We belive it will be a great way to quickly test our product and to import processes made in other tools or drawn on the whiteboard.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076249

Points: 3

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New comment by eigilsagafos in "Ask HN: Diagramming AI Tools?"

eigilsagafos — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:53:40 +0000

You can try our experimental BPM/Flow tool at shiftx.com/ai. Importing the AI generated flows will be possible in a few days

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight"

eigilsagafos — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:28:14 +0000

I wonder if the tide will ever turn? That it would become a competitive advantage to build enterprises with values other than maximizing the returns to their shareholders.

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?"

eigilsagafos — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:48:19 +0000

Definitely still work

New comment by eigilsagafos in "We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel"

eigilsagafos — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:33:48 +0000

Co-Founder of ShiftX here. We are building a flowchart/BPM/knowledge-graph hybrid. We also use a grid and support splits/loops/joins in a way where we try to optimize for readability. Feel free to try: https://shiftx.com. Feedback welcome!

New comment by eigilsagafos in "AWS Aurora Serverless V2"

eigilsagafos — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:13:52 +0000

Fully Postgres compatible in my experience. As long as you don’t require extensions that AWS doesn’t support. But I believe AWS has the widest array of extensions for Postgres of any cloud provider.

New comment by eigilsagafos in "AWS Aurora Serverless V2"

eigilsagafos — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:33:52 +0000

Very excited to see this in general availability and with Postgres support

AWS Aurora Serverless V2

eigilsagafos — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:28:26 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/amazon-aurora-serverless-v2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112502

Points: 42

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New comment by eigilsagafos in "Ask HN: How do you manage your companies knowledge base?"

eigilsagafos — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:18:27 +0000

We are building a tool that can help you tackle some of this pain through process visualization. Built to be easy to use and create alignment across teams on how different aspects of your business works. Check us out! https://shiftx.com

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?"

eigilsagafos — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:27:07 +0000

Me and my two co-founders are asking ourselves this all the time, and in retrospect every strategic change could have happened sooner if we had learnt faster and kept “doing things that don’t scale” as PG famously wrote years ago. The funny thing is that we think we are doing great in that regard only to realize again and again that we have to iterate faster and stop the urge to prematurely optimize for scale.

Our latest learning that we retrospectively should have seen earlier is to get rid of our fear of becoming consultants. We come from a consultancy background and have seen to many startups around us wanting to build products, but taking on consultancy assignments leaving them no time to build their product. We have been so determined not to fall into that trap, realizing now that we have missed out on some great opportunities when selling to enterprises.

New comment by eigilsagafos in "A Short Story for Engineers"

eigilsagafos — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:51:07 +0000

Agree with you there. I have seen so many times that people leave meetings without understanding what was concluded and what to do next. I try to be the person that ask questions if I don't understand what is agreed upon or if I "feel" that others don't understand. In the startup I'm in right now we try to build a culture where asking questions and taking a moment to think and talk if someone "feels" something is off is appreciated.

New comment by eigilsagafos in "Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?"

eigilsagafos — Tue, 26 May 2020 10:25:15 +0000

Early stage B2B startup ShiftX here. We are successfully doing this with FaunaDB. In Fauna databases are as lightweight as tables and are nested in a hierarchy. This enables us to do management in the “root” database and keep all customer data separated in child databases. So when a user signs in to our app he gets a session that is tied to the specific tenant database. This model would also allow us to do completely separate database deployments for customers with special requirements.