Hacker News: tegansnyder

New comment by tegansnyder in "First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)"

tegansnyder — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:37:28 +0000

The value in the video editor and music licensing can't be overstated. It would be awesome to have a nice cross platform opensource video editor for mobile. There are some commercial services selling SDKs that provide similar video editing capabilities.

Ask HN: Service for audio background music for videos

tegansnyder — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 15:22:29 +0000

I have a site that allows users to upload video. I would like to give them option to select for a list of royalty free background music.

Are their any companies that provide a service like this? I’m currently use Transloadit for handling the video upload/transcoding and converting my videos to HSL for streaming. I know Transloadit has an option for merging separate audio tracks so I could leverage that. I guess what I really need is a nice UI for the user to select background music.

Thoughts?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056677

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Would you ever consider building a CRUD app on top of Snowflake?

tegansnyder — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:29:43 +0000

In the enterprise environment we are seeing the push to leveraging Snowflake more and more use-cases. I'm a traditionalist that views that for OLAP style analytical workloads that Snowflake is fine, but once you get into OLTP workloads with simple singleton operations (single UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE) that Snowflake will be slow for the users. I realize they have recently released (in-preview) some new tech called Hybrid Tables that aims to solve for both workloads. They also have something called the "Search Optimization Service" to aid in mitigating bottlenecks imposed by wildcard searches.

Does anyone have any experience in this area? Are teams starting to think about building CRUD apps that connect directly to Snowflake? To me it seems like there are some tradeoffs vs a traditional RDBMS.

Thanks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010659

Points: 3

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New comment by tegansnyder in "Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon"

tegansnyder — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 01:46:17 +0000

Couple things to look into if you are thinking of running a marketplace:

1. Tax gets complicated in marketplace model. Marketplace facilitator tax laws in US and some European countries require the entity running the marketplace to collect and remit tax.

2. If your channels have multi-warehouses and ship from different US states its important to remember there are 11 origin-based states in the US.

Show HN: CompEngine: Head-to-Head videos competitions for extreme sports

tegansnyder — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:31:12 +0000

Article URL: https://compengine.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31208992

Points: 2

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New comment by tegansnyder in "Actual is going open-source"

tegansnyder — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:26:04 +0000

I'm looking for a solution in this space that lets you plot the waterfall effect. What I'd like this solution to do is the following:

1. Enter all my bills that require full payment each month 2. Enter my bills that can be variably paid (ex. credit cards, medical bills, etc) 3. Enter my monthly income 4. Enter my budgeted personal/home expenses (food, gas/transport, etc)

Then the solution should be able to model a few different paths to maximizing my savings and plot out a waterfall that says if I payoff X over 6 months and pay the minimum on Y then here is what my savings would look like.

I'd like to be able to see what my projected payoff dates for different bills are and what my projected savings look like if I was to follow the model.

New comment by tegansnyder in "Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the kernel at scale"

tegansnyder — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:10:20 +0000

This was an absolute joy to read. Isn't it fun how many years later we remember stuff like this? The thrill of hunting down a complex issue, peeling away layer after layer to find the solution. Thanks for sharing.

Ask HN: Recommendations for Memorial Page Solutions

tegansnyder — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:29:02 +0000

I have a grandparent who is passing away and was asked to look into what solutions are available for creating an online memorial page. Something where people can post remarks about him and the life he lived.

I thought about building something from scratch but I wanted to ask if there are any good opensource of paid solutions that others have used.

Thanks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799686

Points: 3

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New comment by tegansnyder in "COBOL – Still standing the test of time"

tegansnyder — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:17:45 +0000

I went to community technical college in 2005 and the primary course load was COBOL and JAVA. The college was a pipeline to to bring fresh COBOL talent into these big financial institutions. I'm not sure how many colleges are doing this across the USA currently, but I'm sure there are a handful.

New comment by tegansnyder in "Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks"

tegansnyder — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 17:53:54 +0000

This is pretty neat. If you could take it a step further and have integrations to send the response payloads to other services like S3, SES, SQL insert into Redshift, etc then it would be great.

Ask HN: Spreadsheet like tools that sync to Redshift

tegansnyder — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:03:44 +0000

I'm working with a small team that is constantly juggling Excel files. I commonly have to write scripts to read these files and create records in a Redshift database. Are there any tools that would allow the less technical team members the ability to use a spreadsheet like interface to make edits and while synching their changes to Redshift. I'd like to avoid the ODBC connector for Excel.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27924918

Points: 5

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New comment by tegansnyder in "Stripe Tax"

tegansnyder — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:08:19 +0000

Piggybacking off this... Has anyone built a really good tax exemption system. I know Amazon has a pretty decent system for their B2B that allows you to upload a tax exemption certificate for your state (US). Then they have some sort of auto validation process. I assume it calls out to each state's secretary of state system to determine the validity. I would be interested to know if anyone has seen a SASS service like this that other B2B providers can leverage for fully automatic tax exemption validation.

New comment by tegansnyder in "Stripe Tax"

tegansnyder — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:02:51 +0000

Random aside on marketplace tax and using Stripe Connect. It would be especially useful if Stripe had a field that allowed marketplace facilitators to ensure they are collecting the tax. Using connected accounts with destination charges allows platform account to receive the tax by placing it in the application fee field, but if you happen to also collect a commission that means you are combining your tax + commission and storing that value in the application fee field. Since marketplace facilitators are responsible for tax collection in the US having an extra field to put this tax in would be great.

New comment by tegansnyder in "Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative"

tegansnyder — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:09:30 +0000

We haven't tried anything yet. I'm about to get some users setup with ODBC access in Excel to make some manual data edits. Essentially we have some core data and some metadata that is managed manually and I'm looking for a light weight UI that these users can use to manage the metadata tables in Redshift.

New comment by tegansnyder in "Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative"

tegansnyder — Thu, 27 May 2021 18:26:40 +0000

Is anyone aware of something similar that supports Redshift? I have some colleagues that would benefit from a UI on top of a few Redshift tables to manage data (edit/import/delete).

New comment by tegansnyder in "Ask HN: Are there any tools for viewing activity across multiple GitHub repos"

tegansnyder — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:33:46 +0000

Thanks Ken. It's more ops focused. I'm overseeing a project and want a degree of visibility to see the pulse, velocity, and work distribution across multiple repos. Think of it as a way to get a snapshot. I'm looking at some of the tools you suggested and your own tool. Thanks.

New comment by tegansnyder in "Ask HN: Are there any tools for viewing activity across multiple GitHub repos"

tegansnyder — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:31:45 +0000

I'm looking for a product owner view that gives me a pulse across all the repos involved in a larger project. The key would to be able to see velocity, whos working on what, distribution of the work, and what they are working on all in one dashboard.

Ask HN: Are there any tools for viewing activity across multiple GitHub repos

tegansnyder — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:24:01 +0000

I'm interested in seeing the at a glance view across multiple Github repos. Something that can provide me a pulse of what is happening across the many micro-repos that make up a larger project. Are you aware of any good OS solutions to this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124770

Points: 10

# Comments: 7

New comment by tegansnyder in "Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products"

tegansnyder — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:14:53 +0000

Its my understanding a some of the large bricks and mortar retailers also stray away from hosting on AWS for these same reasons.

New comment by tegansnyder in "What happened to Mint?"

tegansnyder — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:18:55 +0000

Does anybody know of automated waterfall budgeting solution? I want to be able to forecast the future if I stick to my pay off plans. I want to be able to enter my bills, what I owe on them, then run scenarios on my financial future if I payed certain things off before others in waterfall fashion. Having an idea of the future helps motivate.