Hacker News: soulchild37

New comment by soulchild37 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

soulchild37 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:26:41 +0000

it takes 10 prompts, 5 fuse jumps, and hiring one electrician to change a lightbulb

New comment by soulchild37 in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

soulchild37 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:34:57 +0000

> Travelers going between cities/countries carry items for people who need to send stuff.

What the hell, why would anyone perform such high risk activity

New comment by soulchild37 in "Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?"

soulchild37 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:43:00 +0000

You can copy a product, but you can't make people pay for it as easily

New comment by soulchild37 in "Digital Ocean blocked my account"

soulchild37 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:17:23 +0000

Are you using a newly issued card to pay for the servers? (or a prepaid card). Reddit has several threads like this, and a common issue is using a newly issued card to pay, which DigitalOcean might classify it as a fraudulent card.

New comment by soulchild37 in "Ask HN: Does the World need more software?"

soulchild37 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:42:30 +0000

Customers want a hole in the wall, not drill , drill is just one of the tool that can make the hole happen (a manual hammer works too but too time consuming and less accuracy)

Software is just one of the ways for users to achieve their desired outcome (eg: keeping track of business expenses / flow etc) , excel can do it, but some other software might make it easier than excel, with better UI etc.

If you want to succeed in making software, study the users workflow rigorously. "Users don't love software, users tolerate software to achieve the outcome they want"

New comment by soulchild37 in "Show HN: The Lottery of Life"

soulchild37 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:20:59 +0000

The random seed seems fixed, I tried 100 clicks and get Nematode

New comment by soulchild37 in "Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?"

soulchild37 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:07:27 +0000

Prediction, the company posting this listing will go under in 2 years

New comment by soulchild37 in "I keep building projects nobody wants. So this time I'm doing it backwards"

soulchild37 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:58:40 +0000

You are progressing backwards, and I can tell you from 10 miles away this is not something people want and need and not useful.

"I'd use this" is easy to click, giving email is easy. The hard part is giving credit card details and commit to "yes I would buy this"

New comment by soulchild37 in "The only moat left is money?"

soulchild37 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:04:13 +0000

This article sounds like "I can't make a profitable SaaS, hence others can't too, and those who can, are using absurd amount of money or prior reputation to do so"

I advice to grow up and do some proper research on what problem to solve, and how to build trust with audience before pushing your products.

I dont have much money or prior reputation when starting out, I blogged weekly, then slowly launched technical ebooks, one time utility app, and finally SaaS , took me about 6 years of showing up every day to have a job-replacing income.

Your other post mentioned you gave up and declared failure after 3 weeks of launching your SaaS, I think the timeframe expectation you had might be unrealistic.

New comment by soulchild37 in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

soulchild37 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:57:47 +0000

Bingo, the OP is selling AI, and wrote multiple blog posts to promote his tool, this is just fear induced sales pitch.

New comment by soulchild37 in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

soulchild37 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:28:34 +0000

And one day your day job will be someone else weekend project

New comment by soulchild37 in "iOS: Apps persist data after full deletion"

soulchild37 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:57:24 +0000

Apple local keychain data seems to be persisted even after the app uninstallation : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255712703?sortBy=rank

New comment by soulchild37 in "Show HN: Iframetest.com"

soulchild37 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:22:50 +0000

Good tool, but I am sure there will be a lot of bounty beggar who will use this tool to automate scanning for vulnerable small blogs / website for iFrame / clickjacking , and then send email to the website owner saying they have discovered "high impact security issue" and begging for bounty.

New comment by soulchild37 in "Era of Bloated Software Is Over"

soulchild37 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:53:55 +0000

Lmao, wake me up when Notion become actually usable

New comment by soulchild37 in "Don't animate height"

soulchild37 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:20:02 +0000

The lesson should be don't use Electron, animating height in AppKit has no problem

New comment by soulchild37 in "Ask HN: How to make money with SaaS without network or VC funding?"

soulchild37 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 18:51:36 +0000

Whats your SaaS?

New comment by soulchild37 in "Tell HN: GitHub gists are great for private/public bookmarks"

soulchild37 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:58:05 +0000

I hope Github can add tagging / folders for gists some day, it is a pain to search for gist when there's a lot of it

New comment by soulchild37 in "The best programmers I know"

soulchild37 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:22:58 +0000

I am really interested to read articles about "people best at having business impact by making software" , so far I only discovered resources like kalzumeus (patio11), indiehackers, microconf, business of software forum (very old).

New comment by soulchild37 in "What if we made advertising pay the user?"

soulchild37 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:22:03 +0000

Why would any big platform do so? What incentive it is for them?

New comment by soulchild37 in "Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?"

soulchild37 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:58:21 +0000

I think a better title would be "What would you do if money is not a concern for you"