Hacker News: nickforall

New comment by nickforall in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

nickforall — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:16:50 +0000

I run a ticketing SaaS in the Netherlands.

The biggest promotor here, Mojo, a subsidiary of Live Nation, occassionally requires venues to use Ticketmaster (Live Nation-owned) for events featuring the artists they manage.

The artist is why people buy tickets, and they control that part of the market.

In the US they also own a bunch of venues. They can pressure other independent venues into using Ticketmaster, they own 80% of big venues in the US, so the venue needs the artist, not the other way around.

No independent venue wants to use Ticketmaster, but they have to to book the big names.

New comment by nickforall in "Ask HN: Why are people paying so much for Vercel?"

nickforall — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:56:18 +0000

The fact I can just run `vercel` on many frontend projects, and it just works without having to think about iam, policies, service accounts, s3 configuration, cloudfront.

Time is money, and sure, once you reach some scale it will be efficient to move stuff to AWS, but for most projects it is not.

Show HN: Basement – a GraphQL API for on-chain Ethereum data

nickforall — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:55:16 +0000

If we want better web3 experiences, developers need better tools.

RPC nodes are really good at executing transactions, however they are notoriously cumbersome to set up, and reading large chunks of data is not very efficient:

To show a list of transactions and receipts, nodes have to re-execute smart contract code on entire blocks. For every read call. Not great at scale. Which is why everyone is building ETLs to move data from the chain into their own database.

This GraphQL API is our first step in allowing developers to spend more time on building product, rather than ETL infrastructure.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33799124

Points: 6

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New comment by nickforall in "“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says"

nickforall — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:25:03 +0000

I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. It has been illegal in Europe/the Netherlands for years, however it is not enforced at all. Most newspapers don't let you cancel without calling them, having to deal with sales people trying to convince you to keep your subscription.

New comment by nickforall in "TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management"

nickforall — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:01:41 +0000

Yeah, it tries to do that but is not always very good at it. For example with aliases in join and subqueries it struggles sometimes and it doesn't show up.

An Apple I Emulator in shader language

nickforall — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:30:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tlX3W7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21452168

Points: 50

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New comment by nickforall in "Cycling commissioners say painted bike lanes don’t make cyclists feel safer"

nickforall — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:13:41 +0000

As a dutchman i beg to differ.

Emulator basics: a stack and register machine

nickforall — Mon, 27 May 2019 12:42:44 +0000

Article URL: http://notes.eatonphil.com/emulator-basics-a-stack-and-register-machine.html