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New comment by matnosner in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

matnosner — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:01:38 +0000

neely (https://neely.app) - club & team management for amateur sports clubs in the DACH region, starting with youth handball. I coach youth handball myself. The incumbent here is SpielerPlus - practically every handball team in Germany uses it, and I've yet to meet a coach who's happy with it. That gap is the whole opportunity.

Most inventions are just better versions of things that already exist - I'm building the Google Workspace for clubs.

New comment by matnosner in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

matnosner — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:27:55 +0000

We are creating a place to deal with the messy business of product reviews. The idea is to create a overview to spot the most valuable reviews around. Doesn't matter if it comes from a professional tester or reviewed by a user.

Here is the first iteration. https://revulu.de

Sorry, website is in german.

New comment by matnosner in "[dead]"

matnosner — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:42:51 +0000

We have been hard at work adding remote caching capabilities to the Bob build tool, which is now accessible as an Open Beta, allowing you to build repositories fast and efficiently across machines and CI pipelines.

New comment by matnosner in "When to use Bazel?"

matnosner — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:32:51 +0000

The concept of explicitly declared inputs and outputs is awesome. Though it's closed build and the necessity to define the builds down to the compiler level makes Bazel complex and breaks some developer workflows.

For this reason we are building a Bazel competitor with a less restrictive build environment which can also be applied to projects with lower than 1M line of code.

https://bob.build

New comment by matnosner in "Bob 0.6.0: Blazing fast DAG execution"

matnosner — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:19:47 +0000

Lot's of optimizations going into this release. Now being able to execute tasks in parallel.

Bob 0.6.0: Blazing fast DAG execution

matnosner — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:19:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/benchkram/bob/releases/tag/0.6.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32822118

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by matnosner in "Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers"

matnosner — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:58:57 +0000

If you like the concept you might also be interested in bob[1]. Same idea for build isolation crafted into a build system/task runner. (I'm the author).

[1] https://github.com/benchkram/bob

New comment by matnosner in "Bob: A build system for microservices powered by Nix"

matnosner — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:02:19 +0000

Bazel felt complex (aborted a migration after 2 months), building in Docker was slow and needed maintanance, nix syntax was not familiar enough. We wanted something different. Took us one year. Here it is!

Bob: A build system for microservices powered by Nix

matnosner — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:39:00 +0000

Article URL: https://bob.build/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605590

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Dagger vs. Bob

matnosner — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 11:51:56 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/benchkram/dagger-vs-bob-2e917cd185d3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32563451

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by matnosner in "Bob v0.5.0 – Sandboxed build environments"

matnosner — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 07:02:00 +0000

Wasn't aware of that, though multiple other name clashes exists. Thx for pointing it out.

Bob v0.5.0 – Sandboxed build environments

matnosner — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 19:33:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/benchkram/bob/releases/tag/0.5.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360884

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by matnosner in "Non-Obvious Docker Uses"

matnosner — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 06:55:02 +0000

We had the some learning and decided to go down the path "Use docker for running, not building". That's why we decided to build https://bob.build on top of the nix package-manager. This allows reproducible builds on your system without touching docker.

Search Engine for Vaccination Appointments in Germany

matnosner — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:35:21 +0000

Article URL: https://impfterminradar.de/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26927664

Points: 1

# Comments: 0