Hacker News: renierbotha

New comment by renierbotha in "Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities"

renierbotha — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:26:46 +0000

This is great and NOT another pomodoro and I gladly paid £2 for this piece of software which I COULD throw at Fable and probably get something similar but honestly can't be arsed and just want the app.

New comment by renierbotha in "Starbase, LA"

renierbotha — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:24:39 +0000

All I saw was nipples

New comment by renierbotha in "Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative"

renierbotha — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:55:56 +0000

How do you handle refunds & chargebacks? And do you have a maximum amount that can be charged?

For context - I'm building a marketplace for artists and struggling to find a global payouts rail. The ones that exist have really high turnover requirements or reject new marketplaces that deal with higher value physical items due to chargeback risk.

New comment by renierbotha in "Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative"

renierbotha — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:53:15 +0000

Out of interest, how is it going with PromptBase? Love the idea, does it have legs -- ie are you making money?

New comment by renierbotha in "Show HN: An open database of 1,355 global problems with a zero-auth API"

renierbotha — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:07:46 +0000

Small point but most of the entries Ive seen has been logged on the 23rd of July 2026. Today is the 20th of July 2026.

New comment by renierbotha in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"

renierbotha — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:52:21 +0000

Thank you, I needed to read this.

New comment by renierbotha in "Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll"

renierbotha — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:51:44 +0000

I clicked on that link, saw clashing colours and a general lack of UX design principles and immediately closed it.

New comment by renierbotha in "Show HN: Eyesite - experimental website combining computer vision and web design"

renierbotha — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:46:07 +0000

This is very cool!! Have you considered making a WebGL game that uses eye tracking for things like aiming? Could be very cool and one of the very few accessible games

New comment by renierbotha in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

renierbotha — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:14:44 +0000

Dude this is SICK! Well done, it must have taken a lot of determination to get here.

New comment by renierbotha in "I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go"

renierbotha — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:18:19 +0000

Haven't crawled through the repo (yet) but quick question - where does the data that is being searched over come from? Are you loading a library or searching some large library acquired from somewhere else?

New comment by renierbotha in "Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market?"

renierbotha — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:40:17 +0000

In my experience, teams getting laid off are generally (not always) experimental, high risk / high reward, horizon 2 type bets. Ie not the main function of the company or one of the major bets the company needs to succeed for their current strategy.

So one way to avoid being hired into a team like this is to ask a many questions centered around the impact of the team.

For example, - “what are some of the main accomplishments this team has had in the past?” - “what is the mission & vision of the team, and how is it aligned to the business operational plan?” - “what will happen to the company if this team fails on its biggest bets?”

This is naturally aimed towards bigger companies.

New comment by renierbotha in "Ask HN: Recommended reading for IC transitioning to Manager track"

renierbotha — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:26:27 +0000

Thanks, will put that one on the list :D

New comment by renierbotha in "Ask HN: Recommended reading for IC transitioning to Manager track"

renierbotha — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:26:03 +0000

Thanks, putting The Culture Map on the list ^_^

New comment by renierbotha in "Ask HN: Recommended reading for IC transitioning to Manager track"

renierbotha — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:25:40 +0000

Thanks for the input!!

New comment by renierbotha in "Ask HN: Recommended reading for IC transitioning to Manager track"

renierbotha — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:25:23 +0000

Thanks, really appreciate this input! Finding a mentor is easier said than done but agree that it's an important step.

Ask HN: Recommended reading for IC transitioning to Manager track

renierbotha — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:33:48 +0000

Some context:

I'm a Software Engineer turned Data Engineer working in big tech (not MAANG) who has recently committed to (as in agreed with my manager) transition to being a manager next year.

The motivation for the change (which I think is important to share) is twofold: 1. The team needs it. We're growing ito ICs and we need to grow our managers to scale sustainably. 2. My core strengths are better aligned to a strategic role than an IC one. I tend to step back and ask "why", get clear on needs, think a couple steps ahead and look for reasons to say no, which often lands me into deep conversations with my manager which inevitably distracts me from getting really stuck into the technical details.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050956

Points: 15

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New comment by renierbotha in "Ask HN: Which jobs will survive and which will disappear in 50 years?"

renierbotha — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:52:23 +0000

Well, the _entire stock image industry_ has surely been disrupted. If you relied on stock imagery last year as your primary source of income, you may be out of work come next year.

https://www.shutterstock.com/press/20435

New comment by renierbotha in "Show HN: Recycle your old Spotify playlists into new ones"

renierbotha — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:14:31 +0000

Good job! I've had a number of spotify API side projects that never got this far. +1 for access to source ^_^

New comment by renierbotha in "Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?"

renierbotha — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:33:09 +0000

A data dictionary of 200+ business metrics used in a large water utility company, listing clear explanations, pseudo SQL and source data lineage.

Before this there were 5 different ways to calculate specific things like “minimum night flow”.

Plus we then built the data product which calculates all that stuff and serves it to the business in a self-serve query interface.

But by far the most impactful was bringing together different teams to align on how actually to calculate core business terms.

New comment by renierbotha in "[dead]"

renierbotha — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:47:35 +0000

I'm having loads of issues with Notion this morning bu downdetector and the official Notion status page says there are no issues.

Even the Notion website fails to load some times...