Hacker News: nickjantz

New comment by nickjantz in "I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens"

nickjantz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:04:38 +0000

Am I missing something other commenters are seeing about this not being an ad? The domain is on Burla, which hosted the compute needed for this. There's a giant airbnb x burla logo at the top. People are saying there's a lawsuit pending, it's against guidelines, what's the point, etc..

It's content marketing plain and simple for Burla towards people that view this site. It was highly likely done by employees at both Burla and AirBNB together as a joint project.

New comment by nickjantz in "Marketing for Founders"

nickjantz — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:57:09 +0000

Like the social listening section under social media marketing in this linked guide?

New comment by nickjantz in "Show HN: I speak 5 languages. Common apps taught me none. So I built lairner"

nickjantz — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:27:38 +0000

I watched the demo. It looks like a clone of duolingo. Can you do a better job of explaining how this is different? What features does it have that duo doesn't. How does the app push you to those features vs just falling into the same pattern as duo?

You say you learned Turkish with lairner. What level of fluency did you achieve? Are you able to take in native content with full comprehension?

Edit: I'm not trying to be argumentative, I see a lot of people come on Show HN with these fantastic projects but are poorly marketed. You seem to have some differentiator but I'm not seeing it in action. I wish you the best success with this, and I can assure you, if it's as good as you say I will be your biggest customer and fan.

New comment by nickjantz in "Raising money fucked me up"

nickjantz — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:43:45 +0000

> "- It was easier to find a link to where you worked at than your repo (https://github.com/skaldlabs/skald?tab=readme-ov-file), you should have linked it visibly"

Genuinely curious, can I ask why this is relevant to point out? This seems like just a general blog post, about raising money for a startup and personal reflections on it. Why would a link to a github repo be an important part of that?

New comment by nickjantz in "Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"

nickjantz — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:17:57 +0000

Thanks for doing this! I recently was looking at enhancing workout.lol and noticed that but was wondering what happened. I have some enhancements and think still an open PR on the original repo I will port over.

New comment by nickjantz in "Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API"

nickjantz — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:36:03 +0000

Is this serious? Why is it not a good look?

Remember 95%+ of potential users of this app have not spent a minute concerned about Googles data harvesting.

New comment by nickjantz in "$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener"

nickjantz — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:06:26 +0000

Im not the person you’re asking but this looks like it sits inline to the actual shaft that turns the blinds. Not the pole that hangs down you turn by hand.

I looked at doing this exact thing and on my blinds there’s plenty of room in the top construction of the blinds to put a servo in there you would never see unless you’re looking for it. The rod itself was even not perfectly round so you could 3d print a shape to go around it very easily. I’m honestly shocked there’s not an aftermarket company already doing this exact thing.

New comment by nickjantz in "How Airbnb measures listing lifetime value"

nickjantz — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:07:09 +0000

Meh, they're just complaining because it's cool to whine about AirBNB online these days, US based AirBNB has had this feature for quite awhile now.

New comment by nickjantz in "A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew"

nickjantz — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:29:38 +0000

There’s video of the creation of the death of a phone box piece in his documentary and it was indeed a team of a few people.

New comment by nickjantz in "Becoming an Amateur Polyglot"

nickjantz — Sun, 12 May 2024 23:19:52 +0000

What do you mean by targeted at polyglots? Almost all apps allow you to chose your base and target language. Laddering like this is very common.