Hacker News: nshntarora

New comment by nshntarora in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

nshntarora — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:38:58 +0000

This is a great app! Simple and does the job.

The F1TV app is not available in my country on play store on my Google TV. The first time, I logged into the device using the android debugger to install the APK - I didn't want to use an ad-full app. Then I tried LocalSend, and it is now my default to send the APK from my mac to my android tv. Love the simple experience. Minor quirks in the UI, but gets the job done.

New comment by nshntarora in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

nshntarora — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:45:05 +0000

This is good - I previously used Buffalo https://gobuffalo.io/ at my startup, but eventually decided to move off it. Go doesn't seem like the kind of language that could support a framework like rails (it's safety takes away from the flexibility).

Would love to see how this turns out though! Great work

Show HN: Orbit GraphQL – An open source cache server for your GraphQL API

nshntarora — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:32:19 +0000

I've been working on an open source implementation of a Stellate (https://stellate.co) like GraphQL cache service, and it's finally hit v0.1

TL,DR;

It is a cached proxy for your GraphQL API with automatic purging.

Deploy it in front of GraphQL API, and it will start caching all requests passing through it. Your cache gets automatically invalidated if anything changes in your application (when you send a mutation) Queries are only sent to origin if there is a cache MISS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728922

Points: 4

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New comment by nshntarora in "Automate writing changelog using ChatGPT"

nshntarora — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 05:52:07 +0000

Hey! Yes, I'm one of the co-founders of Olvy. Should've mentioned in the earlier comment.

New comment by nshntarora in "Automate writing changelog using ChatGPT"

nshntarora — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:13:21 +0000

Hi! You can do that too. but Olvy already stores your user feedback and user requests to make the workflow easier. You also get a hosted changelog, a feedback management system and a lot more with it.

Show HN: Olvy Feedback – Convert user feedback into user love

nshntarora — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 05:28:52 +0000

Article URL: https://beta.olvy.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30695628

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nshntarora in "Show HN: Create an automated test in minutes for any app"

nshntarora — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:43:01 +0000

Hey! This looks great! Do you folks have automated API testing?

We're in the process of moving from a REST API to a GraphQL one, and I really want to do things right this time with an automated test suite.

New comment by nshntarora in "Skillsoft Buys Codecademy for $525M"

nshntarora — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:05:44 +0000

Since my university's curriculum was stuck in the 90s, I used Codecademy to teach myself JS, and Ruby. Thank you Zach, and everyone who has been part of the team!

New comment by nshntarora in "GitHub Broken Download URLs"

nshntarora — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 14:55:09 +0000

Gitlab is uniquely positioned to do this

Activity Pub integration issue on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21582

Show HN: Changelogs.gallery – Discover the best changelogs on the internet

nshntarora — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:41:25 +0000

Article URL: https://changelogs.gallery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28604033

Points: 16

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Maintain a Changelog

nshntarora — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:57:38 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.olvy.co/why-changelogs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603480

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nshntarora in "Ask HN: How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?"

nshntarora — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:15:59 +0000

What worked for us:

We did something like this with our early users. Called the thing "The Builders Program"

For the medium, have one default you use but don't limit things to it. If one of your early users wants to use twitter to contact you and give you feedback, use that. We created a Discord server, had a group Twitter DM, used Email.

One thing you should do early on with these users is show them you are listening. Pick something they say and ship it as soon as you can. If they see you're listening, they'll be more active in sharing feedback.

In exchange for being part of the builders program we gave them lifetime free access to the product later on.

Thoughts on Software Rewrites

nshntarora — Mon, 03 May 2021 22:30:35 +0000

Article URL: http://nishantarora.org/2021/04/12/on-software-rewrites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27031685

Points: 2

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Show HN: Olvy – Beautiful release notes that add joy to shipping software

nshntarora — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://olvy.co

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26283535

Points: 21

# Comments: 5

New comment by nshntarora in "Libreselery: Solving the Donation Distribution Problem in Free Software"

nshntarora — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:39:25 +0000

This is a nice idea, and amazing execution on this. Really excited to see how this picks up.

But here are my concerns with the Git contributions to reward performance.

A company I interned at installed a Git history analysis tool, and used stats from that in 1:1s and performance reviews.

About a month after I joined, I had one such 1:1 with my manager. He was like, "Congratulations! You made 53% of all contributions to frontend last month. You're our star performer."

I wasn't. I was responsible for upgrading our frontend from React 15 to React 16. Most of the changes that happened were thanks to the Codemod, and a lot of find / replace magic.

Ask HN: Do you use feature flags? What's the best tool for the job?

nshntarora — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:24:06 +0000

I'm currently evaluating tools to add feature flags to my application at work. Looking for open-source or SaaS tools you folks have used or are currently using.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24361586

Points: 9

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New comment by nshntarora in "Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?"

nshntarora — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 17:09:57 +0000

Option + Click

And

Command + Option + Shift + Click

Works on most default OS things you can click on. Reveals a whole new set of amazing functionality.

Example: Doing so on the bluetooth icon on your menu bar, gives you the debug option for you to reset / restart bluetooth module.

Show HN: blogs.engineering – RSS feed discovery and reader for engineering blogs

nshntarora — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:49:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.engineering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123964

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Athro – Crowdsourced Learning Maps for the Open Web

nshntarora — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 09:30:45 +0000

Article URL: https://athro.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21040464

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nshntarora in "Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures"

nshntarora — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:16:07 +0000

Awesome! @photomatt would also love to know the company's plans with HappyTools (https://happy.tools/), what's coming next?