Hacker News: mhrnik

New comment by mhrnik in "OpenCode 2.0"

mhrnik — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:16:59 +0000

Stopped using Open Code because it's too buggy and can't even rename the project. Sharing this because I wanted to use it.

New comment by mhrnik in "Ask HN: Would you pay for an AI API that guarantees zero prompt retention?"

mhrnik — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:16:59 +0000

thanks, checking

New comment by mhrnik in "Ask HN: Would you pay for an AI API that guarantees zero prompt retention?"

mhrnik — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:58:07 +0000

thanks. tinfoil [dot] sh looks promising. trying it.

New comment by mhrnik in "Ask HN: Would you pay for an AI API that guarantees zero prompt retention?"

mhrnik — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:27:09 +0000

Tried and not reliable.

last day only I visited to try qwen3.8-max, and there is only one provider alibaba and personally I don't prefer them.

Ask HN: Would you pay for an AI API that guarantees zero prompt retention?

mhrnik — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:03:02 +0000

i am just tired of looking for a reliable open-source model AI API with ZDR and don't even save my prompts. I'm thinking of a service for people like me who want to use it.

idea is a simple OpenAI-compatible API:

Access to open-weight models

zero retention of prompts and completions

no training on data

only retain metadata required for billing and operations: request ID, model, input/output token counts, latency, timestamp, etc.

no request/response in logs

Just here to check interest. I am not 100% sure if I can get compute to do it or not (may be i can just try with my 5090 first with a small model), but I just want to check and talk with people rather than just thinking in my head.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459973

Points: 4

# Comments: 7

New comment by mhrnik in "Built $5M. Got 1%. Got let go"

mhrnik — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:55:19 +0000

Here, the CTO was forced by investor.

New comment by mhrnik in "Built $5M. Got 1%. Got let go"

mhrnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:13:41 +0000

used AI to fix my English, sir!

New comment by mhrnik in "Built $5M. Got 1%. Got let go"

mhrnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:12:56 +0000

I am not active on LinkedIn, as I mentioned that I am active on X, and i just copy pasted from there.

Peace.

New comment by mhrnik in "Built $5M. Got 1%. Got let go"

mhrnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:46:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing your story.

Right now, it's totally dependent on how the founder takes the call. I am trying my bit, but as I'm way away from marketing right now, I have no clue.

New comment by mhrnik in "Built $5M. Got 1%. Got let go"

mhrnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:24:34 +0000

I just took the project as a consulting project so I didn't expect much. And a founder was only looking for DEV!

Built $5M. Got 1%. Got let go

mhrnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:11:34 +0000

Around 2018–19, a founder from California reached out to me with just an idea.

No product. No traction. Just a vision.

I shared one of my past projects, which was enough to get the work started.

Soon after, I started working with him to bring that idea to life with my teammate/friend.

We built the app from scratch. That MVP eventually scaled to process over $5M+ (something I’m still proud of).

The company raised funding. On paper, my 1% stake started to mean something. Things felt like they were working.

Then things changed.

A new CTO came in, a great guy who taught me CLI & Linux (grateful for that). But I moved from working directly with the founder to working under a new structure.

Less ownership. Less direct communication. More layers.

At the same time, the company started missing its marketing targets. Growth slowed. Burn continued.

In January 2026, I was asked to stop working. By March, even my teammate who was still supporting the mobile app with the CTO, was also asked to stop.

Eventually, the company ran out of money.

We’re still helping a bit on the marketing side now as we want this to work.

That experience taught me a few things:

- Building is only half the game, distribution decides survival

- Proximity to decision-makers matters more than you think

Still grateful I went through it.

----------- Mainly, I only post here about my product or ask something. This time I just share my x post here to share one of the learnings.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673386

Points: 5

# Comments: 13

New comment by mhrnik in "Ask HN: How can to let user store their own data"

mhrnik — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:14:11 +0000

I did, but working on a financial app and early people were sceptical about it.

Ask HN: How can to let user store their own data

mhrnik — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:27:41 +0000

Example: I have a personal finance app and I want user to store their data on their database server. No local because it needs multiple device support.

What are the options for me?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898798

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by mhrnik in "Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money"

mhrnik — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:38:07 +0000

Thanks, if possible then try web app and do share your feedback.

I posted here mainly to get feedback so i can improve it.

New comment by mhrnik in "Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money"

mhrnik — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:36:38 +0000

Thanks for your comment. I will add more details about features in coming days, in fact will creat individual pages for each features.

About synching of data, it is possible of provide auto synch in background. Will explore in coming days.

New comment by mhrnik in "Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money"

mhrnik — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:02:49 +0000

Thanks for your time and feedback. - Based on all this feedback, I am going to rework the website content and will focus on writing what it's actually doing. - You are right, security and trust are ongoing things, and I will keep working on them.

Can you give the web app a try and share some feedback on it?

New comment by mhrnik in "Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money"

mhrnik — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:28:47 +0000

Got your point. I will also request you to try web app and share some feedback that you would like to see.

New comment by mhrnik in "Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money"

mhrnik — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:25:51 +0000

Noted, i am outside right now but I will update the site and write clear message like you suggest.

New comment by mhrnik in "Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money"

mhrnik — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:12:23 +0000

Haha

Right now my focus is just to talk to people and improve it.

New comment by mhrnik in "Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money"

mhrnik — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:10:45 +0000

Not yet. lit is still in early stage!

But you can mail me, we can plan something.