Hacker News: endriju

New comment by endriju in "Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y"

endriju — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:08:22 +0000

Software used to solve problems for users. Now AI is solving most problems for users, but not all (although ever increasing). I think software needs to evolve to solve the category of problems that AI is not (yet) good at. For example very hard (extreme long horizon) problems in digital space which are still expensive to solve. Some domains overlapping with real-world and restricted/regulated industries are also not yet disrupted by AI to the level regular SaaS is. To get ahead one needs to start in those domains now, as it will get much harder once AI will start eating them.

New comment by endriju in "Chuck Norris has died"

endriju — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:39:13 +0000

Wishing him speedy recovery! Legend

New comment by endriju in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

endriju — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:17:32 +0000

Unpark - Domain Activation Engine. I built this to solve my own problem of having 30+ parked domains. Instantly generates and deploys a simple AI website to any parked domain. For domain hoarders who aren't web developers.

[0] https://unpark.ai

New comment by endriju in "Learning a foreign language–before you're born"

endriju — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:45:20 +0000

I think about this quite often, as 2 of my kids were born in Ireland, but grew up elsewhere (Slavic country). I speak English with them, but so do some of my friends/neighbors with their kids. The other kids would seldom speak English though, while my kids seem to default to English somehow. Btw. they left Ireland when they were 2y and 9months old (now 9 and 7), never attended daycare there, were only exposed to English at grocery stores, doctors etc. My point is, the early exposure to the language seem to make huge difference. I'm sure it's a combination of other things too but I'd say it is definitely a strong factor. [edits: grammar]

New comment by endriju in "Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account"

endriju — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:48:35 +0000

I think the problem with these general-purpose PaaS on top of Cloud is exactly that they're general-purpose. You will run into limitations and issues as soon as you start doing things only 5-10% of their customers need, like for example running privileged docker containers in kubernetes or wanting to manage parts of your infra with terraform. I'd much rather see tools helping me deploy one particular niche use case in Cloud really well. BTW I'm trying to follow this mantra while building https://staticbot.dev

New comment by endriju in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

endriju — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:09:00 +0000

I'm building StaticBot.dev. I was surprised how tedious the manual setup for hosting static websites on AWS infra still was after 2 decades in the industry, and as I wanted to put a few websites out there to test waters for some ideas I had recently, decided to tackle it myself. So basically scratching very own specific itch: deploying and managing a fleet of static project websites in AWS infrastructure with IaC and nice UI. I wouldn't myself use something with (hidden) vendor lock-in, so opted for "hybrid" approach where user can deploy conveniently using the tool but has up-to-date terraform code avaiable in s3 so can take over project deployment anytime. Not much of a business mind so I might open source the whole thing later on (though the value of code kind of plumetted lately as AI can generate it so well).

Impressions from Vibing a Poker Clock

endriju — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:39:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cjbackman.com/on/vibing-a-poker-clock/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809902

Points: 4

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Jean Michel Jarre and Brian May Starmus Concert Livestream [video]

endriju — Sun, 12 May 2024 19:40:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzjG95rB96Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40336953

Points: 41

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New comment by endriju in "Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail"

endriju — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:12:07 +0000

Is it roughly correct to think the speed of the camera in the ESA video would be 683,280,000 times the speed of light? Considering the zoom in took ~1 minute, and that's the number of minutes in 1300 years (the distance to Horsehead Nebula).

New comment by endriju in "Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?"

endriju — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:47:53 +0000

For me it's Scott Smith's blog post series describing his current journey after being diagnosed with ALS (Stephen Hawking's disease) as a young father of two little girls. There are unique perspectives on gratitude and how to stand strong in the face of one of the cruelest afflictions life might throw at you.

https://www.flexonals.com/blog/chapter-3-silver-linings

Ask HN: Do you identify your website’s visitors?

endriju — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:27:29 +0000

If yes, what do you do with the identified companies/persons?

From technical point, are you using a 3rd party service, a custom solution, or Google API?

Also, if you have any opinion on privacy/ethics of doing this, curious to hear what you think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25894948

Points: 1

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New comment by endriju in "Ask HN: How much money do you have?"

endriju — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:18:21 +0000

Just curious - do you invest in startups?

New comment by endriju in "Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name"

endriju — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:20:39 +0000

'"Third option is to launch a clone of the product with a different name, use it for capturing the ad traffic and then direct it towards the original product. This seems workable, but also a bit too experimental for comfort."'

You might also have the option to twist the above - similar to what I did with my product http://exmerg.com. I created a copy of it at http://gridoc.com and directed the traffic from the old product to the new one. Users gradually started going directly to the new one (gridoc) and the original web is now almost forgotten.

New comment by endriju in "Ask HN: Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?"

endriju — Mon, 20 May 2019 14:44:54 +0000

If you think that you are lucky to have good friends and helpful colleagues, maybe turn it around and think to yourself - they are lucky to have me!

Personally, I consider people who are humble or even low self-esteem as more interesting. Maybe it even correlates with intelligence? Idk, but the fact that you might feel like you lack confidence can actually make you look more interesting to people.

I know many people (including me) who try to minimize contact with with over-confident people when possible.

New comment by endriju in "Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?"

endriju — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 07:32:30 +0000

Running a 1-man SaaS as a side-project has been one of the best things career wise. It helped me gain a different perspective on software (design, devops, sales, support etc.) in general. Being able to bring some of that experience into my day-time jobs was really rewarding.

The Saas i'm running is Gridoc (https://gridoc.com) - it pays for the car and a few bills. I'm pretty sure it could be doing better but it has been on auto-pilot for a couple years now (started a family).

Announcing Sencha Ext Community Edition

endriju — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:18:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sencha.com/blog/announcing-sencha-ext-community-edition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393488

Points: 1

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100 Days of ML Code

endriju — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:58:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Avik-Jain/100-Days-Of-ML-Code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17670541

Points: 4

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New comment by endriju in "Soundex"

endriju — Sat, 26 May 2018 09:57:15 +0000

A pretty easy way to discover how Soundex works can be playing with http://gridoc.com/fuzzy-matching/ - a tool for fuzzy record matching that supports Soundex and Levenshtein Distance.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the tool.

New comment by endriju in "Problems with CSVs (2016)"

endriju — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:03:55 +0000

52. All tools working with CSV follow RFC 4180[1]

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180

Ask HN: Successful switch away from SaaS?

endriju — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:43:28 +0000

What other delivery models have you tried? How were you satisfied with the outcomes? Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16682399

Points: 1

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