Hacker News: punarinta

New comment by punarinta in "Fastpotify"

punarinta — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:51:29 +0000

Yes, Teams is supported, but since their API is really poor compared to Slack, the support is pretty limited.

New comment by punarinta in "Fastpotify"

punarinta — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:58:08 +0000

Software has finally started to get faster, and I love it. Pls don't consider this a spam, but if anyone is interested in a fast native Slack client, I'm building one, since Slack themselves don't want to: https://msga.app

New comment by punarinta in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

punarinta — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:47:31 +0000

There is a native Slack client actually. Fast and with good feature coverage, it’s called msga.app

New comment by punarinta in "Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?"

punarinta — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:21:52 +0000

Well, I did a small research and I couldn't find any cases of the US government discriminating foreign business owners by passport. There are several cases in the EU, but the US looks clear so far. Hence my interest in that location.

New comment by punarinta in "Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?"

punarinta — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:05:58 +0000

I was an e-resident for 10 years, had a company and paid all taxes, but this year they refused to prolong it due to my nationality. So, I don't recommend Estonia at all, they can easily screw you over at any time. :(

Since I'm looking for a replacement atm, what's the best US state to register a simple and cheap LLC for a foreigner?

New comment by punarinta in "I created a language learning method that helps you learn French in 4 months"

punarinta — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:46:52 +0000

I'm interested, mostly in the method though, as I also like languages.

New comment by punarinta in "Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff"

punarinta — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 22:54:23 +0000

I’m flying an ultralight in Europe and my IAS is in km/h. And to be frank, probably all UL and PPL aircraft I’ve seen nearby use km/h, not knots. Not sure why it is so, but it’s definitely easier for my brain. :)

New comment by punarinta in "OpenCV in the browser using WebAssembly and web workers"

punarinta — Sat, 09 May 2020 07:39:51 +0000

Some time ago I've built an OpenCV-based real time masks plugin for my videoconference tool but unfortunately had to limit it to a single thread WASM version because of browser support. That resulted in 320x240 videos when mask was on. However as an experiment I also ran a 8-threaded version locally and its performance on a laptop from 2015 was more than enough for an almost 30fps stream with a standard video size.

If anyone is interested you may check it out on https://xroom.app or even contribute with ideas and commits: https://github.com/punarinta/xroom-plugins/tree/master/nisdo.... For the masks I'd still recommend a desktop browser though.

If you're curious but don't want to bother clicking too much here's how it all looks like: https://imgur.com/93YR87e

New comment by punarinta in "I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries"

punarinta — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 08:49:15 +0000

Hehe, I had to do the same a week ago. The only difference is Slack’ing instead of mailing and also cart prepopulation because those delivery slots are taken out almost instantly in my city. This is in the EU btw, not specifying the country or chain to, well, to be able to survive longer.

New comment by punarinta in "Ask HN: Are there good self-hosted video conference tools?"

punarinta — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:36:57 +0000

Regarding Whereby, I used them actively until they became paid for groups bigger than four and introduced sign-up. Then I decided to build my own free solution porting many features in a form of plugins, to keep the main tool light and fast. You can check it out if interested: https://xroom.app

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 23:41:56 +0000

Just out of curiosity, did you try it from a desktop browser or from a mobile one?

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:55:10 +0000

Exactly! socket.io was there mostly to speed up prototyping. I plan to replace it with vanilla code soon, to make the frontend app even more lightweight.

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 15:24:14 +0000

Right now it doesn't cost much to host. But soon I plan to create a proper plugin store (currently there are only a few plugins available to general public as you may see) and encourage people to develop and upload their own plugins, so I will have to scale up for all that. Regarding the backend, it's a node.js application.

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:05:25 +0000

But speaking about "different audience", what audience would you suggest? Gamers, like in case of Twitch?

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:03:18 +0000

Actualy there is such a mode already (without payments though). Through the server API it's possible to create a room as a webinar that behaves exactly like that.

Probably what I should do is to allow people to create webinars not just via API but also from the interface.

Thanks for the hint!

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 13:37:56 +0000

Do you mean something like using it in one-broadcasts-many-watch mode?

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:23:48 +0000

Oh, that's really nice to hear! Any improvement suggestions? Or maybe new plugins you'd like to see?

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:22:55 +0000

Sorry, what information do you mean?

New comment by punarinta in "Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids"

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 11:57:46 +0000

Thank you! :) If you have any suggestions on improvement I'll be super happy to discuss that and hopefully implement.

Show HN: Xroom.app – Conference Rooms on Steroids

punarinta — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 08:13:56 +0000

Article URL: https://xroom.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21933724

Points: 21

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