Hacker News: kaushikt

New comment by kaushikt in "If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?"

kaushikt — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:44:50 +0000

this. I am almost addicted to dropping long voice notes (pronounced rambling) and LLMs do such a great job at creating and managing these notes. I can then convert that format into anything.

although, I agree with the author since many emails and messages onlinkedin i get these days are just long post shits by AI. I am not reading them anymore but it's some other ai summarising ebcause no human talks or writes like basic ai prompting does. so so difficult to read that

We built internet's largest glossary about just incident response

kaushikt — Wed, 28 May 2025 04:15:32 +0000

Article URL: https://spike.sh/blog/how-we-built-internets-largest-public-glossary-for-the-entire-incident-response-community/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112700

Points: 2

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An Ode to OpsGenie

kaushikt — Wed, 28 May 2025 04:14:45 +0000

Article URL: https://spike.sh/blog/an-ode-to-opsgenie/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112697

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by kaushikt in "Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative"

kaushikt — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 01:59:00 +0000

YouTube changed to thumbs up/down from 5-star rating system many years ago like Netflix. They learnt most people either give it 1 star or 5 stars. It’s also hard to understand the meaning of 2,3, and 4 stars in the context of a video.

New comment by kaushikt in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"

kaushikt — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:36:18 +0000

If you are a good at your job and want to deliver fast then you need to adapt to changing circumstances and continue on. Nothing wrong if you can’t but I have learnt that’s how you play along to deliver your best continuously.

New comment by kaushikt in "Do Lake Names Reflect Their Properties?"

kaushikt — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:48:31 +0000

Good read. Most lakes around southern India seem to derive their name from small kingdoms that once occupied the land.

Many of them don’t have meanings and I’m not sure what they mean to further analyse like you did.

New comment by kaushikt in "Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension"

kaushikt — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:26:20 +0000

The extension is install once forget forever.

Reader mode is an additional step. Plus, I haven’t quite figured reader mode on chrome.

New comment by kaushikt in "A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field"

kaushikt — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 06:49:33 +0000

Same with my old man. He is a farmer in southern India. All the farms nearby are super identical with tall beetlenut trees. Im often confused where we are and which direction is the house, he is not. He has set over a 100 water gates across the farms and the instructions he gives is always east face or turn the gate north facing as an example.

New comment by kaushikt in "Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension"

kaushikt — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:05:45 +0000

Yeah, that's another website I would like to center.

New comment by kaushikt in "Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension"

kaushikt — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:03:29 +0000

Thanks, I wanted something that can be installed once and forgotten forever.

Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension

kaushikt — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:54:54 +0000

On my new large screen, it was a little cumbersome to read PG's essays because they are sticking so far off to the left.

I center aligned it so it's a bit more readable.

Took 2 hours with chatgpt to ideate, build, and publish.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920877

Points: 5

# Comments: 6

What's the Root Cause? – a quiz

kaushikt — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://spike.sh/quiz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42854489

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

The curious paradox in how we address each other today

kaushikt — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:34:39 +0000

Article URL: https://psyche.co/ideas/the-curious-paradox-in-how-we-address-each-other-today

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42854309

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kaushikt in "Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics"

kaushikt — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 05:57:00 +0000

10 Tintin comics/books came as donations to my small school in a small town in India. Hardy boys were also donated but Tintin just hit the sweet spot for me.

I sometimes think it's the artsy design which feels so warm. As an 11-year-old, I was mesmerised by them. I didn't understand a ton of things Captain Haddock said with English being the 2nd language.

The adventures were sooo good. I saw the movie when it came out more than a decade ago and it brought back so many memories.

Even today, I love it's aesthetic design a lot. I discovered Asterix and Obelix when I was 17 and they had similar vibes and energy with their designs in them too.

Popular Indian comics at the time (Chacha Choudhary and others) were great too but the design aesthetic were worlds apart.

New comment by kaushikt in "Show HN: I built a self-hosted status page and monitoring tool for my projects"

kaushikt — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:31:00 +0000

I have been using healthchecks.io for over 4 years and I can vouch for it. Super reliable, I think it might do the job :)

The andon cord revolutionised Toyota

kaushikt — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:31:04 +0000

Article URL: https://spike.sh/blog/pull-the-andon-cord/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33033989

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Bootstrapped, developer owned businesses, how do you grow?

kaushikt — Thu, 12 May 2022 14:27:35 +0000

I'm a developer at heart and have been bootstrapping our business for the past year.

Just from seo, we (team of 5 including me) have managed to get initial traction. However, when it comes to scaling from here - I'm kinda lost.

When I speak with other founders, I've seen almost everybody has raised millions of dollars spending on ads, pairing up with influencers, hired extensive sales teams and setup long processes. Other engineering products focused on either developers, operations, etc have tons of funding.

We are bootstraped. And it seems difficult to scale without money these days.

It just costs a lot lot more to market than I initially anticipated. We did a show HN to show this community our simple product but didn't see any interest.

Nothing is free and that's fine but nothing is really affordable either.

Things we tried - sponsoring GitHub contributors, ads (Google ads and developer based ethical ads), seo, social (not so much)

At this time, our strength is building good software but continuing to improve and build more doesn't translate into growth in revenue per se.

Money would help and raising is an option. No other way from here??

For reference - I built https://Spike.sh - a simple incident management platform (think pagerduty)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31354726

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by kaushikt in "Heroku Security Notification"

kaushikt — Thu, 05 May 2022 09:58:54 +0000

I feel saddened to see this as a heroku side-project user since 2011.

We are a small team and were hoping to migrate all our infra to Heroku in the upcoming quarter.

New comment by kaushikt in "Show HN: Spike.sh"

kaushikt — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:46:48 +0000

I am Kaushik, Co-Founder of Spike.sh

We build Spike.sh to be a very simple incident alerting alternative to Pagerduty. I had put shown this community what we had built 2 years ago as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503585)

It didn't get a lot of attention. eh!

I started Spike.sh (https://spike.sh) because I always thought the potential of incident management is a lot lot more. There are numerous things once can do but yet nothing has been done by any of the others, even OpsGenie (which is quite neat in itself)

Spike.sh is my attempt to improve the current systems of how incidents are handled.

Problems we are looking to solve

- alert noise

- a better way to classify incidents (symptom - cause - effect categorization of incidents)

- responder care (responders should be able to go into cooldown after resolving a critical incident)

- transparency for everyone and not just managers

- a more welcoming user experience

Since the last time I showed HN about Spike.sh, a lot has changed. Let the features stay aside, we actually got 100s of customers using Spike.sh. I hadn't ever imagined that could happen when I started. Super happy about it :)

Show HN: Spike.sh

kaushikt — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:33:58 +0000

Article URL: https://spike.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31120033

Points: 6

# Comments: 1