Hacker News: rampatra

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32"

rampatra — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:46:58 +0000

I am mostly into software my whole life. I want to dabble with hardware and electronics in the future and this post taught me many things that’ll be very useful when I do.

Tnx for writing every bit of the building process in an easy to understand way and also open sourcing it.

I liked the look of your box too. Keep up!

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: DashPane v2, a macOS app switcher and launcher"

rampatra — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:41:07 +0000

Another thing I noticed. The website looks vide coded. Nothing wrong with it but my suggestion would be to give the LLM a good reference design and polish it a bit.

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: DashPane v2, a macOS app switcher and launcher"

rampatra — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:37:32 +0000

Looks good. Just fyi, if you're running a launch offer or some other offer, you can list your app for free on www.apps.deals

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: Native desktop app for Google Tasks"

rampatra — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:31:41 +0000

Do I need to have Google Workspace in order to use Google Tasks?

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: Libredesk – self-hosted, single binary Intercom/Zendesk alternative"

rampatra — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:28:34 +0000

Looks very clean to me. I wish I could deploy it to Cloudflare Workers or Vercel. Any plans for this?

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: CyberWriter – a .md editor built on Apple's (barely-used) on-device AI"

rampatra — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:25:58 +0000

Love that your landing page is the product itself. However, I think the app icon and the screenshots on the App Store can be improved that will lead to better downloads.

Show HN: Apple style onboarding experience for your Mac app (open-source)

rampatra — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:13:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rampatra/TourKit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833824

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rampatra in "How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick"

rampatra — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:04:04 +0000

Wow this is interesting, however, the reward seems way too less to me.

New comment by rampatra in "Discovering the indieweb with calm tech"

rampatra — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:07:00 +0000

Learned so many things from this post -- calm tech, StreetPass, and BlogQuest. Thank you!

New comment by rampatra in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

rampatra — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:29:29 +0000

This is such a wonderful thought. A great way to recognize the efforts put up by people in the community that often goes unnoticed and unappreciated.

Show HN: A tiny tool for designers to test out Mac app icons

rampatra — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:15:03 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/iconsim-test-your-app-icons/id6446170609?mt=12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35106770

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rampatra in "Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?"

rampatra — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:18:45 +0000

I made a mac app called Presentify (https://presentify.compzets.com) just at the right time when covid started and when most were working remotely.

I had this idea well before covid because when I was explaining something to others over a call (via screen share) I wished I had something to draw on the screen and highlight a few things to articulate my thoughts better. However, I never invested time to develop an app for this until Covid. This remote work saved me travel time which I decided to utilise to make the app.

So, in short, I got the idea from the problem I faced personally. Luckily, I received overwhelming response from Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22938604) and Reddit community and this has encouraged me to invest more time to the app and make it better.

New comment by rampatra in "The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS"

rampatra — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:30:09 +0000

You can give Presentify (screen annotation) app on Mac a try and see how it works for you.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/presentify/id1507246666

Disclosure: I made this app.

New comment by rampatra in "Samsung Encryption Flaw"

rampatra — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:02:39 +0000

Samsung Encryption Flaw

rampatra — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:28:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/03/samsung-encryption-flaw.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30684441

Points: 20

# Comments: 2

Show HN: My latest PC Build in 2022

rampatra — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:04:19 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.rampatra.com/my-latest-pc-build-in-2022

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30261004

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Beginners guide to mine Crypto with your computer

rampatra — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:53:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.rampatra.com/beginners-guide-to-mine-crypto-with-your-computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26466103

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: My interview experience at Spotify for SE2

rampatra — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:05:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.rampatra.com/spotify-interview-backend-engineer-ii

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26356392

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Major Advancement Towards Artificial Photosynthesis

rampatra — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 22:25:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/clean-energy-photosynthesis-artificial-carbon-neutral-cambridge-a9685886.html

Hacker News: rampatra

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32"

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: DashPane v2, a macOS app switcher and launcher"

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: DashPane v2, a macOS app switcher and launcher"

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: Native desktop app for Google Tasks"

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: Libredesk – self-hosted, single binary Intercom/Zendesk alternative"

New comment by rampatra in "Show HN: CyberWriter – a .md editor built on Apple's (barely-used) on-device AI"

Show HN: Apple style onboarding experience for your Mac app (open-source)

New comment by rampatra in "How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick"

New comment by rampatra in "Discovering the indieweb with calm tech"

New comment by rampatra in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

Show HN: A tiny tool for designers to test out Mac app icons

New comment by rampatra in "Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?"

New comment by rampatra in "The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS"

New comment by rampatra in "Samsung Encryption Flaw"

Samsung Encryption Flaw

Show HN: My latest PC Build in 2022

Beginners guide to mine Crypto with your computer

Show HN: My interview experience at Spotify for SE2

Major Advancement Towards Artificial Photosynthesis

New comment by rampatra in "Ask HN: How do I try out GPT-3?"