Hacker News: prakhar897

New comment by prakhar897 in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

prakhar897 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:11:57 +0000

Do these things actually work? I've seen way too many gurus on twitter claiming to make 10K+ MRR every month. And then they quietly start applying for jobs. or selling courses instead of cashing in.

Have some empathy for your LLMs

prakhar897 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:22:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/have-some-empathy-for-your-llms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541834

Points: 1

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New comment by prakhar897 in "Why Technology Makes Us More Productive but Not Richer"

prakhar897 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:11:40 +0000

The article has grand total of 27 em dashes.

New comment by prakhar897 in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

prakhar897 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:17:46 +0000

From the amazon I know, people only care about a. not getting fired and b. promotions. For devs, the matrix looks like this:

1. Shipping: deliver tickets or be pipped.

2. Having Less comments on their PRs: for some drastically dumb reason, having a PR thoroughly reviewed is a sign of bad quality. L7 and above use this metric to Pip folks.

3. Docs: write docs, get them reviewed to show you're high level.

Without AI, an employee is worse off in all of the above compared to folks who will cheat to get ahead.

I can't see how "requesting" folks for forego their own self-preservation will work. especially when you've spent years pitting people against each other.

There Can Be Only Two

prakhar897 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:03:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.epsilontheory.com/there-can-be-only-two/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833330

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by prakhar897 in "Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k"

prakhar897 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:41:42 +0000

> Half will come 20 years after their first qualifying Olympic appearance or at age 45, whichever comes later. Another $100,000 will be in the form of a guaranteed benefit for their families after they pass away.

The terms are atrocious. imo dude will move money into a his own charity which will hold onto it since no athlete qualify for the next 20 years. After a few years, he will quietly cancel the grant and use it elsewhere.

Doing the thing is doing the thing

prakhar897 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:17:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776155

Points: 585

# Comments: 186

Show HN: I made a webgame to make fun fridays entertaining

prakhar897 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:59:10 +0000

Generally fun fridays just mean playing pictionary. There was a lack of more interesting games, so I made "TEQ - That escalated quickly".

The premise is you're given a question and you have to write a funny answer. After everyone writes their answer, all players vote on the funniest answer.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753736

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by prakhar897 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

prakhar897 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:16:16 +0000

https://www.softwaredesign.ing/

I really like the domain name.

Show HN: TEQ - A Quiplash Alternative in the Browser

prakhar897 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:57:44 +0000

I wanted to play Quiplash, but I realized I had to buy it on Steam, someone had to host it on a PC, connect a TV, and everyone had to watch the same screen. It felt way too heavy for a simple party game. So I built TEQ, basically a browser version of Quiplash. No Steam, no TV, no downloads; everyone just joins on their own device. I also added public lobbies so you can play even without friends online.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979047

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by prakhar897 in "Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform"

prakhar897 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:48:28 +0000

How long did it take for you to make this? I'm working on a similar branch of idea, started 30 days ago. Any advice for me? :)

New comment by prakhar897 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

prakhar897 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:34:00 +0000

Created a web game: https://www.teqgame.com

I really liked the concept of games like cards against humanity, quiplash, whose line is it anyway etc. However, there was no virtual way to play it with a group of friends. Quiplash required steam setup (which was not possible on my corporate mac). So i built this as an alternate to build upon the formula.

[still in alpha phase so lots and lots of bugs]

New comment by prakhar897 in "Gemini in Chrome"

prakhar897 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:17:02 +0000

wondering if we can use it with playwright/puppeteer. would be a godsend for scrapers if they can identify useful data.

Show HN: My CRT Aesthetic Portfolio Website

prakhar897 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:08:41 +0000

I got laid off a month ago. Reworked my portfolio website to waive off the monotony of clicking the apply button. Any feedback is welcome!!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221255

Points: 1

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Shenanigans on LinkedIn

prakhar897 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:25:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/shenanigans-on-linkedin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509776

Points: 1

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Making a game from scratch using only a guitar [video]

prakhar897 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:37:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wesICmc48UE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820144

Points: 27

# Comments: 8

New comment by prakhar897 in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

prakhar897 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:25:43 +0000

wrote something similar a while back: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/ai-is-the-reason-intervi...

New comment by prakhar897 in "Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?"

prakhar897 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:28:57 +0000

I interviewed a while back and wrote about it here: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/ai-is-the-reason-intervi...

The kind of core conclusion is that companies need to do in person interviews now. There's no other way to prevent cheating.

New comment by prakhar897 in "Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021"

prakhar897 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:43:28 +0000

I did similar kind of research for IndieHackers: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/real-world-stats-for-boo...

New comment by prakhar897 in "TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid"

prakhar897 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:21:24 +0000

I can't close the jumpscare after getting it. Can you add a cross button?