Hacker News: jasdeepsingh

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Launch HN: Belvo (YC W20) – Financial Data API Platform for Latin America"

jasdeepsingh — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 01:25:00 +0000

I'm CTO at a startup here in Brazil. I'd love to chat with you guys about potentially being a beta user of your platform. Let's connect!

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell"

jasdeepsingh — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:11:53 +0000

hey! Our first customer was acquired through a personal contact and second customer came in as a referral from our first customer :)

We plan to better the product now before going in with full blown marketing/sales.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell"

jasdeepsingh — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 04:16:30 +0000

https://servicehq.ca Built this over about 2-3 months with the help from a Beta customer satisfying their requirements slowly, but still ensuring that the platform is generic and modular enough.

It’s now averaging about $1000/month with 2 customers. I’m now planning to slowly rebuild the mobile app (need to improve UX and add offline functionality). Once ready, I can start selling to more customers, Also thinking of adding a few integrations with tools like Google Drive, Office 365 & Slack to improve market visibility.

Our stack is Ruby/Rails/React/React Native.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance"

jasdeepsingh — Tue, 22 May 2018 05:51:56 +0000

Apple Macbook Pro 15: $4600 (Mine) Apple Macbook Pro 13: $2600 (Wife’s) Ipad Pro: $1000 Versace Glasses: $400 Ray Ban: $300 Airpods: $250 Cash: $1300 Backpack: $150 Apple Fast Charger: $50 Fast Charging Brick: $45

The nice thing out of this incident was that I was able to transfer my Apple Care from my Apple Devices to my new replacement devices.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance"

jasdeepsingh — Mon, 21 May 2018 13:35:54 +0000

I think a city like Barcelona, with their theft and crime problem can make use of some sort of surveillance.

Just two weeks ago, 3 hours before ending my vacation in the city, Me and my wife were robbed off roughly worth $10k USD in a car tire puncture scam.

http://tourist-scams.com/tourist-scam-destinations/barcelona...

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents"

jasdeepsingh — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:32:49 +0000

You can’t easily go get food from Sikhs? As in what terms?

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Ask HN: What language/framework do you plan to use in your next project?"

jasdeepsingh — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:18:04 +0000

Crystal - though been waiting patiently for it to reach 1.0 stable.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Sherpa Travel API – Returns VISA requirements, vaccinations, travel advisories"

jasdeepsingh — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:06:01 +0000

looks great! I'd definitely be looking forward to use your service as soon you accept applications from non US and Canadian citizens.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "How to optimize React applications that use Redux"

jasdeepsingh — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:11 +0000

Same thoughts here about MobX. I tried my best to like Redux from my early on React days but could never get myself to like it, Mobx on the other hand has been a way more pleasurable and productive experience. I don't know or understand much about the pros and cons around Immutability and FP paradigm of Redux, but I sure can ship my apps faster and quicker using Mobx - which for a small bootstrapped startup like mine could mean the difference between life and death.

After having used Mobx for more than 10 months now, I still have to find areas that I dislike about Mobx.

How Freshbooks re-invented itself

jasdeepsingh — Wed, 10 May 2017 16:44:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/boburlingham/2017/05/09/starting-over/#511f214e57ce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14309598

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Ask HN: Freelancing? How's Work?"

jasdeepsingh — Tue, 09 May 2017 20:02:38 +0000

Doing Ruby/Rails/JS/Nodejs for past 4 years roughly. Things did dried up a bit over the past ~3 months, But I'm sure if I were to do some sales outreach, I'd be able to find work in a couple days. (Good that I have some of my clients on retainer contracts for supporting and maintaining their projects which keeps the bank balance and cashflow stream healthy)

Not too worried about the downtime though, because I always wanted to take a few months off from consulting to build our own product. So, i've been happily utilizing this time to build: https://servicehq.ca

Once we roll out with 3-4 customers, My plan is to do a time split between consulting gigs and my own product.

PS: I'm based in Toronto, Canada.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Show HN: The 8 hour diet web app"

jasdeepsingh — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 04:18:35 +0000

Is there any research proving that the 8 hour diet actually aids in weight loss? Curious.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Ask HN: Current Crypto Best Practices"

jasdeepsingh — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:53:34 +0000

May be on a tangent and a shameless plug, but I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14042150 this morning.

Underlock is a small Ruby library that helps with Encrypting/Decrypting of files and other data.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Show HN: Underlock – dead simple encryption in Ruby, minimal dependencies and API"

jasdeepsingh — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:09:36 +0000

Author here, looking for feedback and criticism from HN community, thanks!

Show HN: Underlock – dead simple encryption in Ruby, minimal dependencies and API

jasdeepsingh — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:08:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/metaware/underlock

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14042150

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Show HN: Redux Offline – Build Offline-First Apps for Web and React Native"

jasdeepsingh — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 17:21:35 +0000

I've been using Mobx very successfully on many of my projects now (both React & React Native). I'll prefer Mobx any day over Redux, just due to it's sheer simplicity and ease of use. Read: No need to burden your brain with the cognitive load of actions, reducers, dispatching actions, selectors etc.

Mobx v/s Redux does kick off the OOP v/s Functional debate, but as a developer my productivity and effectiveness is measured in terms of my ability to ship software not in terms of my programming style, and it's my personal belief that Mobx does make me more productive as compared to Redux.

For developers new to the whole Flux/Redux/Mobx/State Management world, I highly suggest to give Mobx a try.

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low-Cost Wifi in India"

jasdeepsingh — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 02:56:34 +0000

I had the exact same idea about 2 years ago, but never got a chance to follow through on it because I immigrated to Toronto. Definitely a novel and much needed problem that requires solving, and makes me super happy that it's being executed on! Well done guys!

Do look into Microtik hardware, hopefully these boxes can solve a ton of your problems: https://routerboard.com/ I know back when I was envisioning this, Microtik and RouterOS was on top of my list.

How not to get screwed by your client when you’re contracting

jasdeepsingh — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 22:25:03 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/how-i-learned-ruby-rails/how-not-to-get-screwed-by-your-client-when-youre-contracting-21c95eef0c4a#.3wusdt2h5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631875

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How i could've hacked multiple Facebook accounts

jasdeepsingh — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:04:50 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@gurkiratsingh/how-i-could-have-hacked-multiple-facebook-accounts-d9d335188d9b#.jk2pspj4z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364523

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasdeepsingh in "Using Simulated Annealing to Solve Logic Puzzles"

jasdeepsingh — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:22:24 +0000

What if we change the cost function to something that returns a number which has a direct correlation with the maximum number of attributes that matched? Would solving the problem be any easier or we would still leave the possibility of getting stuck in local optimums just like the one described in the post?