Hacker News: mcharawi

New comment by mcharawi in "Private Equity's new class system for lenders"

mcharawi — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:22:58 +0000

anyone have an archive link for this?

New comment by mcharawi in "The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done"

mcharawi — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:22:03 +0000

I used https://www.flow.club/ which i found very helpful, they do small groups rather than one on one, and you can sign up ahead of time or join spontaneously

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore's Law

mcharawi — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:09:41 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43269368

Points: 131

# Comments: 13

New comment by mcharawi in "You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)"

mcharawi — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:00:23 +0000

This article didn't really say all too much, essentialy you can't differentiate your product with prompts alone, and you need deeper integrations with workflows, ok thats pretty clear - what else?

New comment by mcharawi in "WWatch XB-1's historic first supersonic test flight"

mcharawi — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:55:57 +0000

Changed the title only because i want to highlight the live stream of the flight today!

WWatch XB-1's historic first supersonic test flight

mcharawi — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://boomsupersonic.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852311

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

MyFitnessPal Does Push Notifications

mcharawi — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:30:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.laudspeaker.com/post/how-myfitnesspal-does-push-notifications-with-examples

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456685

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Electric planemaker Beta Technologies raises over $300M in new funding

mcharawi — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 01:58:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/electric-planemaker-beta-technologies-raises-over-300-mln-new-funding-2024-10-31/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42013371

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Emerging UI/UX patterns in Gen AI powered products

mcharawi — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:32:31 +0000

Article URL: https://abebasu.substack.com/p/new-ui-and-ux-patterns-in-gen-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42009163

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Swiggy IPO gets bids of $15B from big investors like Fidelity, sources say

mcharawi — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:56:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/swiggy-ipo-gets-bids-15-bln-big-investors-like-norges-fidelity-sources-say-2024-10-31/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42007566

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Port workers are at war with automation. Can they win?

mcharawi — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:08:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freethink.com/artificial-intelligence/port-automation-ila-strike

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974189

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mcharawi in "More farms are turning to automation amid labor shortages"

mcharawi — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:48:54 +0000

I'm also skeptical of people talking on behalf of others in situations like this. I'd like to hear what the migrant workers think

Marketing Automation for Fintechs

mcharawi — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:18:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.laudspeaker.com/post/marketing-automation-for-fintechs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972827

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Self-Hosting Marketing Automation Software: A Guide

mcharawi — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:26:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.laudspeaker.com/post/self-hosting-marketing-automation-software-a-guide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937046

Points: 22

# Comments: 4

New comment by mcharawi in "Show HN: Open-source low-code email editor"

mcharawi — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:09:40 +0000

No congratulations is necessary the Laudspeaker project (https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker) is doing perfectly fine.

$75/mo is not particularly expensive, Braze's starter plan is close to $35k/year

New comment by mcharawi in "Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation"

mcharawi — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:50:24 +0000

Hey, happy to clear up the confusion! The software is similar to a CRM in that we message users/customers, though we don’t track things like the stage of a sales deal.

Our software and competitors like Braze are typically used in situations where you can’t have a personal connection, but still need to message users, often when they complete specific actions in your application, or if you want to send one-off promotions for example. E-commerce brands or a banking app might use us for example.

We do support replacement variables like you mentioned and are adding integrations actively.

New comment by mcharawi in "Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation"

mcharawi — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:28:51 +0000

If you're interested in an enterprise plan, we help you set up and scale self-hosting as part of the support contract for as long as you need. We have one-click infra-as-code to get you set up on multiple cloud providers with minimal devops intervention.

If you want to self host for free, the easiest way would be to run our docker compose on a compute instance-we're in the process of updating our docs for self hosting and I can email you with more info if you'd like.

New comment by mcharawi in "Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation"

mcharawi — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:58:44 +0000

We have support for twilio natively since that's one of the popular options, but we also support webhooks as a channel, so if your Asterisk server has an HTTP endpoint that can trigger messages it would be compatible.

New comment by mcharawi in "Finite state machines and drag and drop editors"

mcharawi — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:41:52 +0000

It was fun writing this article, not only because it reminded me of problem sets from college, but also to see the potential of no-code tools to be just as powerful as a conventional programming language. Proving another tool, like Zapier for example, can simulate a finite automata, can be left an exercise for the reader.

New comment by mcharawi in "Inspiration from finite state machines for no code tools"

mcharawi — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:14:18 +0000

I suspect some are much closer to simulating Turing machines than others. In theory, no automata can simulate a Turing machine unless it has access to unbounded (infinite) memory, which can't actually happen in the real world. If there's branching, for loops, and some proxy for memory like reusable registers, it can certainly approach a Turing machine. So maybe Zapier is? I don't recall many tools having a proxy for reusable memory though.