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New comment by sourc3 in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

sourc3 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:08:44 +0000

This is amazing and exactly the problem we have been trying to solve with a friend. We also considered the terminal but people give up on maintenance because they forgot to buy that replacement filter, or never got a reminder when they actually had time. Also, it is not uncommon for families to divide these as chores among different family members.

I personally love the TUI but I also know that for most homeowners this is too “advanced”. This is why we built our solution as a simple web app [1]

Great project! Best of luck.

[1] www.wellrun.house

New comment by sourc3 in "Hotwire: HTML over the Wire"

sourc3 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:21:40 +0000

Yep.

New comment by sourc3 in "Hotwire: HTML over the Wire"

sourc3 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:37:45 +0000

This is so exciting to see, especially for older folk like me.

Almost 20 years ago, one of my professors told us before graduation that hot tech is mostly about the idea pendulum swinging back and forth. I immediately chalked it up to 65+ above white wise men snobbery.

However, this is exactly that. We started with static pages, then came Ajax and Asp.net and the open source variants, then we went full SPA, now we are moving back to server side because things are too complicated.

Obviously tech is different, better, more efficient but the overall idea seems to be the same.

New comment by sourc3 in "Turkish Ultranationalist Group on the “Hunt for Armenians” in France"

sourc3 — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 10:07:05 +0000

Fascists are out for ethnic cleansing while the world turns a blind eye. Sounds familiar?

New comment by sourc3 in "Ask HN: Freelancer Rates in the US"

sourc3 — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:00:13 +0000

Industries where money comes in by the bucket have no problem spending it with a shovel for specialized knowledge they don't have.

If you're a contractor, your best bet is to focus on an industry to understand the needs of that industry better. Rather being a Python developer, you can be a contractor who builds usable solutions that happen to use Python.

Industry knowledge, referrals, good prior work and marketing are important. These $150/hr jobs won't fall into your lap unless you put an effort to position your lap that way :)

New comment by sourc3 in "Ask HN: Freelancer Rates in the US"

sourc3 — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 12:52:40 +0000

Expected? Yes. Normal? Yes. Only thing there is out there? No.

For every $30/hr posting on the net, there is another one for $100. I also personally know of folks who are making +$150 with Django. It really depends on who you work for.

Although you will see a lot more of `build Uber for $5K` type of one off jobs, there are some reputable companies who need more capacity on new projects.

If I were you I would cast a wider net and sample the market more.

New comment by sourc3 in "WeWork sells Meetup"

sourc3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 02:05:24 +0000

Meetup was/is fundamentally a marketing platform for event organizers.

The value it brings is the user base. So it had to always find ways to bring people to the platform to keep the value for organizers. However, more casual users resulted in more no shows, legal issues, spammers etc.

As a result considerable amount of effort went into operations.

It was a great idea but as a business scaling it required proportional investment into operations, so it never made any real money.

New comment by sourc3 in "WeWork sells Meetup"

sourc3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 01:52:39 +0000

That brought in most of the revenue. 1:50 ratio of organizers to users with $15/mo revenue doesn’t add up to much.

New comment by sourc3 in "Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?"

sourc3 — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:46:17 +0000

I am in a similar position and would like to know how you got started with rental units. Are you using a property manager like it was mentioned in a previous comment? Do you recommend AirBnB vs. long-term rentals?

New comment by sourc3 in "Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit"

sourc3 — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:46:06 +0000

I was part of the founding team of a startup that did exactly this about 2 years ago. I wish you the best of luck but sales cycles are excruciatingly long and the larger players that are working with razor thin margins may find the 4.5% bit too expensive. Happy to chat and best of luck with the startup!

New comment by sourc3 in "Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea"

sourc3 — Tue, 28 May 2019 21:06:19 +0000

Count me in too! I've been growing more and more frustrated with the tools in the marketplace.

New comment by sourc3 in "Show HN: Faast.js – Serverless Batch Computing Made Simple"

sourc3 — Thu, 02 May 2019 20:33:24 +0000

This is very neat! Last year I had to essentially do this on GCP and relied on a very similar implementation. Everyone was surprised to see JS being used for data processing but it worked wonderfully.

One thing I want to ask is the retries, how do you handle that currently? I ran into multiple cases where functions would fail for transient reasons.

New comment by sourc3 in "Ask HN: What's your working day like?"

sourc3 — Mon, 08 May 2017 19:48:28 +0000

Living in the suburbs and having a similar 1 hour 20 min train ride to work, I ended up setting up a small workout space with a treadmill, weights and a rowing machine. It does the job but no substitute for a fully equipped gym. I applaud your disciplined schedule though. I still find it hard to work out consistently.

New comment by sourc3 in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

sourc3 — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:47:02 +0000

Interested in this due to my wife working in the space. Signup link?

New comment by sourc3 in "Serverless Comparison: Zappa vs. Chalice"

sourc3 — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:46:42 +0000

I also am using your framework and I really like it. The quick video and dead-simple implementation made it a no brainer as a weekend project that can actually be published. Thank you.

New comment by sourc3 in "Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?"

sourc3 — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:47:29 +0000

Please email me at buragc at gmail

New comment by sourc3 in "Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?"

sourc3 — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 02:17:25 +0000

That's awesome, you are doing much more than I did in the past. Kudos. If you want to connect and bounce ideas you can find my contact in my profile.

New comment by sourc3 in "Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?"

sourc3 — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 15:25:15 +0000

Having built and given up on an app that did exactly this, I would like to learn more about your experience. I am in the process of giving away the app, back-end, etc. as a result of a flippa auction. https://flippa.com/6895313-curia

New comment by sourc3 in "Apple buys AI company Turi (formerly Dato)"

sourc3 — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 02:53:06 +0000

I am currently enrolled in the Machine Learning specialization on Coursera where the co-founder of Turi teaches the course and uses Turi for exercises. I wonder if they will kill the Coursera course too.

Apple buys AI company Turi (formerly Dato)

sourc3 — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 02:50:18 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/5/12390412/apple-turi-acquisition-machine-learning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12236803

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