Hacker News: maderalabs

New comment by maderalabs in "Self-updating screenshots"

maderalabs — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:17:12 +0000

Nice! I actually started to build this exact thing a couple years back, and ended up abstracting it out to something more generic with https://picshift.io/. That said, I still love the screenshot use case - the original name of this project was ScreenSync ;)

I hacked a $100 eCalendar into family hub signage

maderalabs — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:04:54 +0000

Article URL: https://absolutelyright.blog/blog/hacking-a-100-ecalendar-into-a-family-dashboard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577663

Points: 1

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New comment by maderalabs in "How we built the v0 iOS app"

maderalabs — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:34:54 +0000

I'm curious how much y'all used AI in the development process of the app. Definitely a lot of thought put into the architecture as shown in the post here, what was the split of human written vs. AI-written code? Especially curious given v0 is intended for building with AI.

Really great writeup, super thoughtful! Been a v0 user and fan for awhile now, excited to give this a shot!

New comment by maderalabs in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"

maderalabs — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:48:50 +0000

This is awesome, and proves that code, really, is a hack. People don’t want code. It sucks, it’s hard to maintain, it has bugs, it has to be updated all the time. Gross.

What people want isn’t code - they want computers to do stuff for them. It just happens that right now, code is the best way you can do it.

The paradigm WILL change. It’s really just a matter of when. I think the point you make that these are problems of DEGREE, not problems of KIND is very important. It’s plausible, now it’s just optimization, and we know how that goes and have plenty of history to prove we consistently underestimate the degree to which computation can get faster and cheaper.

Really cool experiment!

New comment by maderalabs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

maderalabs — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:37:21 +0000

Picshift.io: upload an image, get a URL, change what shows at that URL whenever you want. Works anywhere an image link works.

You can randomize and schedule images to show up at the link as well. Super useful for marketing, maintaining screenshots on a website or in documentation, etc.

Would love to hear if anyone wants to use it!

How to POST to a Webhook in Five Different Languages

maderalabs — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:36:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdsync.io/blog/2018/05/08/how-to-post-to-a-webhook/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17261616

Points: 1

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New comment by maderalabs in "Show HN: CrowdSync – Automate Repetitive Processes with People"

maderalabs — Tue, 08 May 2018 14:33:48 +0000

We created CrowdSync to help automate tedious, repetitive process with people, things like sending emails, requesting documents, scheduling time, requesting payments, and more!

This came out of my experience as a user researcher, where we'd spend hours onboarding people into studies - having them sign consent forms, be sent study information, scheduling time, sending reminders and payments.

As it turns out, this problem exists in a number of domains, especially any kind of onboarding of employees.

One question we get often is "Can't people just do this with Zapier?"

The answer to that is, not really, for a couple primary reasons:

- Zapier is fantastic for people who are somewhat technically minded, however, falls quite short with lay audiences (think about a membership coordinator working at a non-profit, or an HR assistant). While some of these audiences are adept at using tools like Zapier, a huge portion aren't. They need a single, centralized place.

- Zapier (and related) aren't particularly good at handling people through a process. They're great for shuffling data around, but not great at both showing where people are, as well as providing people-oriented interactions (automated reminders, etc).

In short, CrowdSync is for helping to put a number of people through the same process, where repetitive work can easily be systemized and tracked.

Would love any feedback, thoughts and questions!