Hacker News: wallawe

New comment by wallawe in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

wallawe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:04:35 +0000

i misread it - apologies - happy to delete. there's not currently a button for it so i will reach out to the hn team.

New comment by wallawe in "The React Foundation"

wallawe — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:21:45 +0000

This is just silly, Don. HN has gotten so mired in negativity that someone who's a genuine fan of a product, and dares to go against the narrative is now a "shill." Also: see definition of shill. I'm just a happy user that runs a startup, and my life is easier because of their existence.

New comment by wallawe in "The React Foundation"

wallawe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:10:50 +0000

do you consider Vercel a monopoly?

New comment by wallawe in "The React Foundation"

wallawe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:09:52 +0000

I've been using Next.js since 2017 (before dynamic routes were even a thing!).

The app router kinda sucks so we're staying with /pages. No complaints thus far with a team of 6 engineers.

New comment by wallawe in "The React Foundation"

wallawe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:05:27 +0000

I've been using Vercel for > 5 years. Suppose it's possible but that's true for any platform.

New comment by wallawe in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"

wallawe — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:02:13 +0000

We've raised $4.6M to date to help home service businesses (think HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, roofing) with their digital marketing, building everything with an AI-first mindset.

We are a small team still (16 total in the company).

I'm the founder/CEO and have 13 years experience as an SWE so we very much take an engineering-first approach. If you're interested and your Github profile goes back to at least 2019, email me directly - will[@]rebolthq.com

Rippling is suing Deel for an embedded spy

wallawe — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:56:50 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/parkerconrad/status/1901615624339726786

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391681

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wallawe in "Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)"

wallawe — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:34:59 +0000

> retaining wealth means choosing not to see and positively act on the state of the world

This is just silly. Just because you retain wealth doesn't mean you aren't positively acting to improve the current state of the world.

New comment by wallawe in "Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics"

wallawe — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:51:56 +0000

Can vouch for this as well. The API has breaking changes all the time and there's no notice whatsoever. We'll transition away soon.

New comment by wallawe in "Elon Musk's Demolition Crew"

wallawe — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 03:36:18 +0000

More than half that voted is all that matters

New comment by wallawe in "Elon Musk's Demolition Crew"

wallawe — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 03:22:56 +0000

More than half of us voted for this. And we love what is going on; that action is being taken. Don't presume everyone thinks the same way you do.

New comment by wallawe in "Launch HN: Fresco (YC F24) – AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents"

wallawe — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:09:11 +0000

Solid idea, and best of luck.

If I could make one recommendation: hire a UX/UI designer ASAP. The less technical the audience, the more intuitive and easy to navigate the UI needs to be.

Our company focuses on home service businesses and they get roadblocked super easily. I think you'll be glad you did it earlier rather than later. Otherwise, the ux debt will pile up and it will be quite a project a year down the line.

Show HN: I built a QR code generator for Google Business reviews

wallawe — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:26:12 +0000

Article URL: https://builtright.co/google-reviews-qr-code-creator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42151290

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ross Ulbricht getting out of prison

wallawe — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:12:04 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/RealRossU/status/1856435917789245806

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130037

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wallawe in "Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components"

wallawe — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:34:35 +0000

The Mux marketing strategy is brilliant.

Take over or create new open source projects so that every developer comes across your company in the search for a video package.

Another example I noticed recently is https://github.com/cookpete/react-player

New comment by wallawe in "How do you allow non-technical folks to edit prompts?"

wallawe — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:38:42 +0000

If anyone finds this in the future, we found three solutions we're evaluating:

https://www.promptlayer.com/

https://freeplay.ai/

https://www.helicone.ai/

New comment by wallawe in "How do you allow non-technical folks to edit prompts?"

wallawe — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:37:41 +0000

Many of the best SEO understand technical aspects but don't actually code. The vast majority. Source: built and sold company on the back of SEO and worked with many great SEOs.

How do you allow non-technical folks to edit prompts?

wallawe — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:48:41 +0000

I feel like many companies probably have this problem: you have a bunch of prompts in your codebase and you want to allow non-technical folks to edit or iterate upon them to make them better.

In our case, we help our customers with local SEO so we hired someone to help us refine them. He's great at prompting and SEO but does not code.

So we need a playground like environment, except that takes in different records from our database as params and that uses structured JSON outputs.

Is there a company tackling this? Would happily use them if so! If not, startup idea!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708364

Points: 1

# Comments: 6

New comment by wallawe in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

wallawe — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:20:24 +0000

Many such similar stories, except where the crutch is alcohol. Back to the original question, would you propose banning alcohol as well?

New comment by wallawe in "Vercel Is Down"

wallawe — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:28:51 +0000

And we're down again. This is awful.