Hacker News: jdrmar

New comment by jdrmar in "Claude Fable 5"

jdrmar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:49:44 +0000

Homebrew is lagging a bit behind. If you want to use Fable right away, but still have claude code through homebrew, this is how you can do that manually:

Edit the cask locally:

  brew edit --cask claude-code

Set the version to 2.1.170 And set the sha256 to the correct values, which you can get by running

  curl https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-code-releases/2.1.170/manifest.json

Here's what I've used:

  version "2.1.170"
  sha256 arm:          "e903646d8b7a31882a80ecd27569a27d8ac57b3708745f349709632c84117fdf",
         x86_64:       "914f23a70bbed5d9ae567e3e04b86206ed9971b371bc9baca3f79c8885bfddb4",
         arm64_linux:  "1bb9d032440a75532f7dd4cafbc687f220aaf16c63eba17e192dfbec2f04bd25",
         x86_64_linux: "849e007277a0442ab27570d3e3d6d43787507946590e8dd1947e5a39b7081f9e"

Then run:

  export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1
  brew uninstall --cask claude-code
  rm -rf /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/claude-code
  brew reinstall --cask claude-code

New comment by jdrmar in "The cost of renewing my .com domain is coming in at $52 for one year"

jdrmar — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:46:37 +0000

Cheapest .com renewal is $9.49 (at cosmotown.com). I think for domain registrations/renewals you should just always go for the cheapest one (of course making sure it's not a scam and there is some basic customer service).

I'm maintaining a tool that focuses on domain name renewal rates, have a look if you're interested: https://dot.bs

New comment by jdrmar in "Ask HN: How many domain names do you own?"

jdrmar — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:31:43 +0000

About 40, of which I only use a few. It actually got me started on a project: how can I minimize the cost of keeping all of those domains. After a lot of tinkering I could cut costs with a healthy amount, not sure if it was worth all the time I put into it though, haha ;)

Maybe it will help someone out: https://www.dot.bs/registrar-combinations -> copy-paste a list of your domains, and it will find the cheapest combination of registrars for you

New comment by jdrmar in "How to Become a Registrar (2012)"

jdrmar — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:12:17 +0000

Exactly. I run a registrar price comparison service, and a lot of domain extensions are basically sold ‘at cost’. The catch is that a) a registrar will sell some tlds with a tiny/no margin, but charge a healthy extra for other tlds (like a ‘loss leader) and/or b) get you on the renewals (or c) keep increasing fees once their number of customers is high enough and hope most of them won’t notice for some time, double or triple of regular fees is not uncommon!).

So even though margins are low, as a customer it still makes sense to shop around.

Ps https://dot.bs is the service I run to compare tld registration and renewal prices

New comment by jdrmar in "Ask HN: How do you stay organized for solo dev?"

jdrmar — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:02:41 +0000

I wanted something as close to paper as possible, but with tracking etc. Couldn’t find it and built my own :) Maybe it will be useful for you as well: https://can.do

New comment by jdrmar in "Tell HN: Read this before buying a domain"

jdrmar — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:42:36 +0000

Looks like you're back 'online'? But this is sad to hear. I run a service that compares domain name prices (https://dot.bs if you're curious), and maybe it would be good to include something like a 'reliability' score or something per extension (ie registry).

I see (on https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db) that Radix also operates .fun, .host, .press, .site, .space, .store, .tech, .uno, and .website. So those could get some indication to start with. Does anyone know of any other 'less reliable' registries..?

New comment by jdrmar in "Ask HN: What are your unused domain names? 2024 Edition"

jdrmar — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 07:54:20 +0000

Haha, sounds familiar.

I even created an app to minimize costs for all those unused domain names, that I still don’t want to let go ;)

(https://dot.bs if you’re curious)

New comment by jdrmar in "Ask HN: Domain Name Registrar for Developers?"

jdrmar — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 08:27:55 +0000

I'm coming from a bit similar situation and I decided to build something for this. Basically I see the domain registration itself as a commodity service (ie just go for the cheapest one), and then DNS management etc you can do through a common interface. A way to achieve this is to:

  1. Register the domain at whichever place is the cheapest. 
  2. Set the nameservers to the ones belonging to the DNS management service. 
  3. All domain name management can be done from the DNS panel at the DNS management service.

Not sure if I'm explaining it clearly, but please have a look at our service at https://dot.bs if you're interested. We're comparing a 140 domain registrars on price and provide the service I described above.

New comment by jdrmar in "List one task, do it, cross it out"

jdrmar — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 19:25:11 +0000

Almost my philosophy! Except I do list multiple tasks at the start of the day, but the next day I do a complete reset and start over again (see https://can.do/about if you’re interested)

New comment by jdrmar in "Todo apps are meant for robots"

jdrmar — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:12:01 +0000

Food for thought here. I've developed an app for myself that addresses issues 1, 2, 3, and 6 to some extent (ie prevent long todo lists, finishing tasks is rewarding, nudges towards effective behavior). Now to see if the other issues can be addressed/are in scope for me :)

Have a look at https://can.do if you're interested.

@op would be interested to see your list of 13 'strategies to help me get things done'!

New comment by jdrmar in "We Still Don’t Get Things Done"

jdrmar — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 18:40:40 +0000

This resonates a lot with me. I've tried so many todo apps, but in the end I always returned to a simple piece of paper.

It did bother me that paper is not very flexible, so I'm experimenting with a digital 'paper to-do' version. If you're curious, check it out at https://can.do :)

Feedback of course most welcome.

New comment by jdrmar in "Launch HN: Mighty Health (YC S19) – Health coaching for people over 50"

jdrmar — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 08:33:16 +0000

Really great idea and well executed from what I can see. Just wondering about the business model: how often do your coaches interact with your customers? It seems that at a ~$10/month fee you wouldn't be able to afford too much of their time per customer.. Maybe 5 minutes per month at most (assuming $75/hr and deducting payment fees etc) ? Or am I missing something?

Ask HN: Most important KPIs for first 100 customers

jdrmar — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:33:07 +0000

For several past projects I've struggled a bit to determine what should be the most important things to focus on. Should it be (new) visitors, conversion rate, app/website usage, retention, user satisfaction, all of those..

I'm guessing that on the one hand it would be best to keep tabs on everything, but at the same time that causes you the lose focus. At least I've notived that I'm most productive when I focus on one thing at a time. An alternative would be to regularly switch between the different KPIs (Key Performance Indicators, I'm using the term loosely here).

So, what do you consider the most important KPIs for the first 100 users (and which tools do you use to track them)?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14688983

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by jdrmar in "Four Years of Success and Failure on the App Store"

jdrmar — Thu, 07 May 2015 17:37:26 +0000

Very interesting, and a bit similar to my entrepreneurial journey with websites. Making a single very successful website is quite a challenge, as I found out. What will be your main strategies making your apps successful? Pure product focus? PR? Other forms of marketing?

New comment by jdrmar in "Ask HN: What code editor do you use?"

jdrmar — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:25:04 +0000

Sublime 2 baby, never felt so happy while writing code :D Maybe it's just the default color scheme, or the code overview, or (most of the time) nicely working code completion.. it just 'feels' right!