Hacker News: rikkipitt

New comment by rikkipitt in "15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

rikkipitt — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:29:13 +0000

Oh, it's archived now... that's convenient!

New comment by rikkipitt in "The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

rikkipitt — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:05:10 +0000

My wife and her siblings had a book as kids. They don't know the title. 8 years ago I posted on Reddit in the hope someone could help... We're still none the wiser!

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/9865u4/wha...

Show HN: Apple Wallet Pass.json Validator

rikkipitt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:22:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.getleal.com/tools/pass-json-validator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49547765

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: PKPass Inspector

rikkipitt — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:28:13 +0000

I've been working with Apple and Google Wallet passes recently and found inspecting .pkpass files a bit of a pain. I kept ending up unzipping them and digging through the contents by hand, so I built a small tool to make that easier.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962597

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

rikkipitt — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:35:50 +0000

It also means circle in Czech and sounds like crew. When I happened upon the word, I was very proud of myself! I'm usually not great at naming projects.

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

rikkipitt — Tue, 13 May 2025 11:04:20 +0000

I'm 40% through getting my first 100 users for https://www.kruh.ltd. So far, I've only added a "banner" announcement on two of my products and mentioned it at the bottom of newsletters to their subscribers. It's taken a couple of months to get this far. I will probably launch in two phases of cohorts. I.e. in blocks of 50.

New comment by rikkipitt in "MailCrab"

rikkipitt — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:49:13 +0000

Looking forward to trying this out. I do a lot of email testing locally for paced.email and vend.email. MailHog is 90% of the way there, but seems like it's fallen by the wayside...

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)"

rikkipitt — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:26:47 +0000

  Location:            UK
  Remote:              Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:        Ruby on Rails, JS (Vue/React), etc
  Résumé/CV:           https://www.linkedin.com/in/rikkipitt/
  Email:               rikki at jemcode dot co dot uk

Looking for senior roles, contract or otherwise.

The end of the tricky 'Korean age'

rikkipitt — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:19:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63903771

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907571

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?"

rikkipitt — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:36:08 +0000

It has been said of me too, on a few occasions! Resting concentration face.

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?"

rikkipitt — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:25:43 +0000

I'm offering 25% off all plans for https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email with BF2022. Not really had much success with BF/CM in the past, but alas, I'll try again this year now the products are in more solid positions.

New comment by rikkipitt in "Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in"

rikkipitt — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:15:57 +0000

The way I remember Earth's approximate mass is the fact it's 10 times Avogadro's number in kg.

My physics teacher always had a great way of drilling in these tidbits.

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?"

rikkipitt — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:55:38 +0000

Oh. So there was a DNS issue yesterday? A custom of mine was complaining that my apps weee down and blamed CloudFlare. They didn’t inform me of this issue, I had to find out via HN/customers.

130 apps to get off Heroku is going to a massive pain to get through but it’s looking more and more likely…

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?"

rikkipitt — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 14:20:43 +0000

I built https://www.quikk.co.uk which gives users a better audit trail and backup of their Xero accounting data. I’ve never really marketed it, but MRR-wise it’s doing ok. Promising volumes so far. I keep meaning to put effort into getting it into the hands of those who would benefit most from it but always get sidetracked with my other projects.

Throwing this out there, why not… if anyone would like to help me, let me know!

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: How are you hosting email for your startup employees?"

rikkipitt — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:54:21 +0000

I built Paced Email which has team support. You can spin up any number of email addresses quite quickly. It has the added benefit of making email a little more async which helps keep your employees a little less distracted.

New comment by rikkipitt in "Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?"

rikkipitt — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:22:03 +0000

I’m in a similar boat with two email-based SaaS products. People often ask, “what if?”.

I’ve considered writing up a worst case scenario plan or migration document to help with initial concerns that these apps will just go away.

Are there any funds out there that offer their name as a form of backing to give customers increased confidence? I think a big name would help, not just the money itself.

Thoughts?

New comment by rikkipitt in "Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone"

rikkipitt — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 21:56:05 +0000

https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email are two services that I developed that provide "disposable" email addresses.

Paced Email is a productivity tool with the ability to add team members, rules, etc and paces your mail into regular digests.

Vend Email is similar to Firefox Relay but has the added benefit of email forwarder transferability to other users.

New comment by rikkipitt in "Email startup Superhuman lays off 22% of staff"

rikkipitt — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 11:48:43 +0000

If it’s email productivity you’re after, take a look at the email service I built that batches your mail into digests:

https://www.paced.email

New comment by rikkipitt in "I Miss Heroku's DevEx"

rikkipitt — Fri, 13 May 2022 09:32:42 +0000

Thanks you, nameless912. I've been leaning towards Render, so cheers for the info. Will take a look into Dukku, but feel it's probably going back a step for my purposes as it'll involve managing a server (or set of servers).

New comment by rikkipitt in "I Miss Heroku's DevEx"

rikkipitt — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:16:43 +0000

I've got over 130 apps on Heroku for my various SaaS products and client websites etc. I feel like I'm going to experience a world of pain very soon to migrate away to another provider... I just took a look at fly.io and they seem too dev-opy for my tastes these days.

I opted for Heroku after going down the whole Linode route years back and have never looked back. I enjoy the simplicity of deployment and not having to worry too much about servers etc.

I recently got to play with Render and DigitalOcean's App Platform and they were okay... just not sure if they'll be suitable for Rails (Postgres/Redis etc). I want something straightforward like Heroku, but without the issues of late. Oh and the costs...