Hacker News: robowo

New comment by robowo in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

robowo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:43:04 +0000

Super interesting. May I ask - are people using this? What are their use cases? What do they govern?

New comment by robowo in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

robowo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:39:10 +0000

I always find it sad that they just seem to copy the crap Microsoft does. When I see the ribbon I am already out.

New comment by robowo in "A DuckDB-based metabase alternative"

robowo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:02:40 +0000

I use it daily and it never crashed. How long ago was this? I am a big fan of DuckDB. Plow through hundrets of GB of logs on a 5 year old linux laptop - no problem.

New comment by robowo in "SQL Studio"

robowo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:32:52 +0000

This looks cool and it hits a niche. There are suprisingly few good IDEs for DB work. I use DuckDB a lot for analytics tasks mostly in DataGrip but its not great. The alternatives like DBeaver are ok but not that great as well.

New comment by robowo in "Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions"

robowo — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:37:16 +0000

Thanks for the link but thats not really the same. They are just giving you indications and then you have to sign up. I would like to see more concrete numbers per bank. Maybe there are not many factors that influence the rate?

New comment by robowo in "Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions"

robowo — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:25:35 +0000

This is awesome! I wish there was sth similar for Europe! In Germany you have to go to a morgage broker and trust that his self-interest is aligned with yours :D

New comment by robowo in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

robowo — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:23:30 +0000

Give https://codeberg.org/ a go

New comment by robowo in "Google Antigravity"

robowo — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:47:35 +0000

Oh no. Not another VSCode fork…

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

robowo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:00:33 +0000

I have been working on https://easymiet.eu/ It is specific to the German rental market. Basically if you want to rent an appartment in Germany most landlords require you to fill out a non-standardized self-disclosure form. That can be annoying to the landlord because especially in larger cities you might have a couple of hundret applicants and it is also annoying to the possible renter since they have to fill out the same information for every apartment they apply for. This is where easymiet comes in. As a landlord you can generate a viewing, shared it through QR or a link. Interested renters can apply using their profile. It also has a application approve and dismissal workflow automatically sending emails to the applicant. My plan was to monitize it selling applicants the ability to add more info to their profile like a picture or relevant documents. However so far I haven't been able to generate much interest. The tech stack is Next JS with BetterAuth, Drizzle and Postgres. It is hosted on a Hetzner VPS using Kamal ( wrote a blogpost about that if you are interested: https://markow.dev/blog/complex-next-js-app-kamal )

New comment by robowo in "Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience"

robowo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 08:01:06 +0000

I have had god experiences with tiny11: https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder