Hacker News: garysahota93

New comment by garysahota93 in "Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes"

garysahota93 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:59:02 +0000

I've been wanting to build this forever now... I LOVE IT!

Would love to connect & share more ideas that I don't have time to build myself + feedback

New comment by garysahota93 in "Show HN: Analyst Agent by Fabi.ai – Build and share specialized AI data agents"

garysahota93 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:16:41 +0000

As someone who's been following this space my entire career, it's so refreshing to see this come to light. Congrats on the launch! I know for a fact this will be an indispensable tool for anyone in the data space. Will be following you guys closely!

New comment by garysahota93 in "Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs"

garysahota93 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:43:03 +0000

Have you looked into Mac Stadium? Maybe they can be of help!

https://www.macstadium.com/

New comment by garysahota93 in "DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing"

garysahota93 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:59:25 +0000

I really like this concept. especially for the use case where I need to share my whole screen, but just want a "sandbox" of sorts to share. Typically have gotten around this with a secondary monitor that I share with, but that doesn't work when I'm on the go with my laptop. Will def be using this

New comment by garysahota93 in "Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data"

garysahota93 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:03:17 +0000

Haha!! This was meant to be a provactive conversation.

It's pronounced "Sand-Fox".

But the genesis of this Sandbox + Fake data (Faux). But given Fox rhymes with Box, we thought we'd be cheeky about it lol

New comment by garysahota93 in "Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data"

garysahota93 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:00:48 +0000

It's a great question!

A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested changes & experimentations from the production environments.

Chances are if you're using Salesforce for work, it's the "production" instance that is meant for prime-time. There is probably some admin/developer/IT person in your company that has access to creating sandboxes to test changes before they push to everyone else.

fwiw typically this is used by larger companies & isn't as useful for small startups.

Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data

garysahota93 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:25:39 +0000

After countless (TRULY COUNTLESS) hours of manually seeding and resetting Salesforce sandboxes for our sales demos and integration testing, we couldn’t take it anymore.

SandFaux started as an internal tool for this tedious process, but after a few customers asked for access, we decided to productize it & make it publicly available for anyone to use!

This was really just the starting point for our internal tool. We want to also add:

* Text Prompting for Scenarios

* Custom Fields

* Custom Configurations

* Dynamic Data

* More Integrations

https://sandfaux.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248417

Points: 18

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New comment by garysahota93 in "ClickHouse acquires PeerDB to expand its Postgres support"

garysahota93 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:26:33 +0000

Congrats team!! PeerDB is awesome!

New comment by garysahota93 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)"

garysahota93 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 18:42:59 +0000

I'm building a data seeding / simulation service that populates systems (like Salesforce) with realistic-looking data.

Thought is that you can build compelling demos with your real app.

No need for "fake web app" demos anymore :)

https://www.tetherdata.io/

New comment by garysahota93 in "Beeper Mini is back"

garysahota93 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:53:08 +0000

Beeper cloud used the device as a relay mechanism. I'm suggesting the same on-Android-device implementation, but rather than randomly generating an apple device to send to Apple's registration servers, they use a device I legitimately own.

No relays (so preserves security) & harder for apple to identify (because to them it'd be as if I'm just using my iPad)

New comment by garysahota93 in "Beeper Mini is back"

garysahota93 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:42:53 +0000

Feedback for the Beeper team if they are reading: there is a non-zero amount of us that own Apple devices (like MacBooks or iPads) and not iPhones. For those it applies to, what if you leveraged the legitimate devices we do own as the spoofed devices used by Beeper Mini to register?

Don't know if that would solve the Phone Number registration part, but thought I'd throw this out there

New comment by garysahota93 in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

garysahota93 — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 05:44:38 +0000

Precisely! Would be a cool workaround & I would be completely happy with this approach (vs losing access all together).

But I wonder if that’d even be possible. I hope someone from the Beeper team sees this!

New comment by garysahota93 in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

garysahota93 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:16:51 +0000

What if they create a version of Beeper Mini that spoofs an apple device you own? For example: I don't want to own an iPhone, but I do have a MacBook. So rather than use a randomly generated device that tricks Apple's servers to allow me to connect, I can just use a device a legitimately own (and just trick apple to think my phone is my laptop).

I know this won't work for everyone (especially folks that don't have an Apple device). But this might be better than losing the app all together ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(PS - I don't know much about how Beeper Mini's reverse engineering worked. Just going off what I believe I understood)

New comment by garysahota93 in "Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres"

garysahota93 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:34:28 +0000

I've been using Hydra for the last ~2 months & genuinely love it. The team is really talented & it's so great to see the progress they've been making. Congrats on the 1.0 GA release! Huge step!

New comment by garysahota93 in "User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)"

garysahota93 — Thu, 18 May 2023 21:18:40 +0000

This made my heart boil with rage..... I LOVE IT

Okta Personal

garysahota93 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:38:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oktapersonal.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35730714

Points: 2

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New comment by garysahota93 in "Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs"

garysahota93 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:07:31 +0000

Would you be open to making this logic open source? I'd LOVE to do this as well. (I use LunchMoney.app for all spend tracking, but don't have my receipts logged)

New comment by garysahota93 in "‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along"

garysahota93 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:06:42 +0000

The amount of guests that are genuinely impressed by the questions being asked make this show so great to watch. I may not care for every guest, but the authenticity of the interview alone is worth the watch!

New comment by garysahota93 in "Hydra – the fastest Postgres for analytics [benchmarks]"

garysahota93 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:23:46 +0000

Just checked out the site: I really like the fact that you guys are addressing some of the core capabilities in the data stack (ie ETL).

The fact that you guys are supporting DBT natively is a HUGE plus for a data professional like myself.

Will definitely be kicking the tires soon & testing against my own workloads.

Trek Health seeds $3M for mental health's coverage chasm

garysahota93 — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:19:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2022/09/07/exclusive-trek-health-raises-3-million-seed-mental-health-insurance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32751807

Points: 1

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