Hacker News: shooker435

New comment by shooker435 in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

shooker435 — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:34:58 +0000

god help them

New comment by shooker435 in "Fiverr Denies Report of Data Leak"

shooker435 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:28:47 +0000

Anyone on the front page last night likely agrees that this was a cut and dry data leak...

Is this class action lawsuit territory? How can they just sweep it under the rug like this?

Fiverr Denies Report of Data Leak

shooker435 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2026/fiverr-denies-report-of-data-leak/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783166

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

shooker435 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:20:41 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/under-the-hood-universal-commerce-protocol-ucp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578117

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by shooker435 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

shooker435 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:59:00 +0000

We've been building https://nimstrata.com/ for almost three years now, we put Google's Vertex AI product discovery algorithms on Shopify and Salesforce ecommerce storefronts.

At a high level, Google does not have a product culture, so there is a lot of white space for companies like ours to make adopting Google Cloud APIs much easier for less technical users.

It's also wild how much Agentic AI is creeping into all of our conversations - this space is constantly evolving as we're building.

New comment by shooker435 in "Six billion reasons to cheer for Shopify"

shooker435 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:55:55 +0000

https://downdetector.com/status/shopify/

It's literally down right now on Cyber Monday...

New comment by shooker435 in "Lead magnet creation for blue collar SaaS"

shooker435 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:41:46 +0000

Are you planning on extending to electrical jobs?

New comment by shooker435 in "Nano Banana Pro"

shooker435 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:24:16 +0000

lol that’s our whole company, Nimstrata

New comment by shooker435 in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

shooker435 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:42:35 +0000

The internet is having one heck of a day! we focus on ecommerce technology and I can't help but think our customers will be getting nervous pre-BFCM.

New comment by shooker435 in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

shooker435 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:40:19 +0000

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5q7nmlxz30sk

it's up now (the incident, not the outage)

New comment by shooker435 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

shooker435 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:37:02 +0000

This is really cool! Are you open to providing my team with a demo?

New comment by shooker435 in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

shooker435 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:55:52 +0000

The author touches on it briefly, but I'd argue that the cloud is immensely helpful for building (and tearing down) an MVP or proving an early market for a new company using startup credits or free tiers offered by all vendors. Once a business model has been proven, individual components and the underlying infrastructure can be moved out of the cloud as soon as cost becomes a concern.

This means that teams must make an up-front architectural decision to develop apps in a server-agnostic manner, and developers must stay disciplined to keep components portable from day one, but you can get a lot of mileage out of free credits without burning dollars on any infrastructure. The biggest challenge becomes finding the time to perform these migrations among other competing priorities, such as new feature development, especially if you're growing fast.

Our startup is mostly built on Google Cloud, but I don't think our sales rep is very happy with how little we spend or that we're unwilling to "commit" to spending. The ability to move off of the cloud, or even just to another cloud, provides a lot of leverage in the negotiating seat.

Cloud vendors can also lead to an easier risk/SLA conversation for downstream customers. Depending on your business, enterprise users like to see SLAs and data privacy laws respected around the globe, and cloud providers make it easy to say "not my problem" if things are structured correctly.

New comment by shooker435 in "Claude for Excel"

shooker435 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:42:20 +0000

This isn't built for Excel users who use Github and Claude Skills, it's built for Excel users who would run away from Git commands.

New comment by shooker435 in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

shooker435 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:11:57 +0000

Honestly this rep and/or the rep's management should be held accountable. This is an oversight that comes from end-of-quarter pressure but it doesn't make it excusable.

New comment by shooker435 in "Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers"

shooker435 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:08:44 +0000

How does this compare to https://www.hirefraction.com/about ?

I've noticed they market 'overemployment' as a benefit, is this platform similar?

New comment by shooker435 in "Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator"

shooker435 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:44:23 +0000

Whoa, I wonder if I still have my Cybiko Xtreme somewhere.

New comment by shooker435 in "Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale"

shooker435 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:37:24 +0000

There's probably a middle ground here. Making a profit ASAP is only really possible if you're selling expertise, such as consulting. I really like the emerging term, "seed strapping" which aims to address this conundrum in the startup world: raise just enough to build the first iteration, then act like a bootstrapped business.

New comment by shooker435 in "Checklists are hard, but still a good thing"

shooker435 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:09:38 +0000

Oh man, this was the entire premise of a business I worked on years ago: http://manifest.ly/

New comment by shooker435 in "Introducing the Llama Startup Program"

shooker435 — Wed, 21 May 2025 21:55:25 +0000

Azure and GCP both offer startup credits if you're incorporated, more if you've raised funding or have revenue. Not sure about AWS.

New comment by shooker435 in "Storefront Web Components"

shooker435 — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:56:58 +0000

This seems super powerful. Would you recommend that an app developer who is creating App Blocks for PLPs (Search, Collections, etc.) use these new Web Components instead of building everything themselves?