Hacker News: woutr_be

New comment by woutr_be in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

woutr_be — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:54:54 +0000

Just cancelled my Claude plan, so that I can switch over when it expires in a week. The usage limits somehow just make me less productive with it.

New comment by woutr_be in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

woutr_be — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:14:17 +0000

How does Claude Code compare to OpenCode Zen? I’m on the $20/month Claude plan, and was considering OpenCode Zen as well.

Due to the quota changes, I actually find myself using Claude less and less

New comment by woutr_be in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

woutr_be — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:03:57 +0000

I wrote this little web app over the weekend, the idea was to make you think about your next purchase by introducing a 48 hour countdown. In 48 hours you come back and decide if you really need this product, or if it was just an impulse buy.

All data lives in your browser (IndexDB) - https://buyitlater.vercel.app

New comment by woutr_be in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

woutr_be — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:32:18 +0000

It’s the same here in Hong Kong. I can’t use any of my cards (personal or corporate) for OpenAI or Anthropic.

Have to do everything through Azure, which is a mess to even understand.

New comment by woutr_be in "Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?"

woutr_be — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:36:25 +0000

I would love to experience this, but I'm only at the level were I occasionally open ChatGPT or Claude, asked it a question, and then get frustrated because it can't even give me a straight answer, or makes incorrect assumptions.

I can't even imagine having multiple agents write code that somehow works.

New comment by woutr_be in "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

woutr_be — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:16:22 +0000

Glad I’m not the only one experiencing this. The Stripe dashboard constantly freezes up for me, even registering a click takes 10-20 seconds. Often it will just go white. Incredible annoying.

New comment by woutr_be in "Happy BuyNothing Day"

woutr_be — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:18:42 +0000

I've been thinking about setting up a small website that lets you input what you wanted to buy, and after 24 hours sends you an email asking if you really wanted to buy/needed this.

New comment by woutr_be in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

woutr_be — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:43:00 +0000

I absolutely love Astro, and it's my default for new projects. And I honestly feel like it's the only framework using React/Vue for their intended purposes; which is as an interactive layer on top of your SSR UI.

New comment by woutr_be in "Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning"

woutr_be — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:03:32 +0000

It would, because then at least you know it's an earthquake, and you kind of know what to expect. Not know it was an earthquake, and wondering why your building is shaking and making so much noise, thinking you're about to die in some freak building collapse is pretty terrifying.

New comment by woutr_be in "Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning"

woutr_be — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:05:14 +0000

I've only ever experienced a big earthquake once, which was in Bangkok a couple of months ago. And if I had known it was an earthquake, I probably would've reacted differently. Not knowing what was happening, and genuinely thinking my building was about to collapse on top of me was one of the scariest feelings in my life.

New comment by woutr_be in "Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel"

woutr_be — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:28:44 +0000

That seems to be mostly because of the way they've implemented their docs. It's definitely not something I have with my own sites.

The flicker seems to be because the collapsible nav items are done on the client, and closed by default.

I'm not sure where the title issues are coming from.

New comment by woutr_be in "Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel"

woutr_be — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:08:46 +0000

I moved away from Next.js, and switched to Astro. Originally I just wanted to go back to basics, but didn't want to bother with having to set up all my routes, templating, serving static assets, build tasks. Astro just handles all that, and it's SSR by default.

I also feel that Astro uses React/Vue as it was intended, as an interactive layer on top of HTML. It also made me realize how little I needed JS frameworks to begin with.

Next just started to feel like to much magic, the server actions felt weird, and just lots of things that required the "NextJS way".

New comment by woutr_be in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

woutr_be — Mon, 26 May 2025 04:15:25 +0000

I recently completed https://askannie.it.com, at first it was just a tool that I used myself after constantly copy/pasting YouTube transcripts into ChatGPT. A couple of friends liked it, so ended up building an app around it.

For a next project I'm exploring building something that let's you quickly embed charts. Similar to what Google Charts was, but I still haven't found a good alternative.

New comment by woutr_be in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

woutr_be — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:25:00 +0000

Great work, I've been using Stock Events on iOS for a while now. It's what got me into dividend investing, and it's fantastic to just keep track off all the dividend income.

New comment by woutr_be in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

woutr_be — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:23:32 +0000

Really fun, I love playing GeoGuessr, but really like the idea of using videos.

Some notes on the UI:

* I found the 50/50 split between video / map a bit annoying, especially on a 13" MacBook

* The volume slider takes up a lot of valuable space, and felt like your normal scrubber to scroll through the video

* Once you confirm a location, the whole UI changes again

* Overall (especially on my smaller screen), there was a lot of scrolling involved to get to buttons

New comment by woutr_be in "7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand"

woutr_be — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:07:40 +0000

I’m in Bangkok right now, didn’t even think about it being an earthquake and thought my building was coming down. Sprinted out of the building, watching our rooftop pool collapse and rain down debris and water.

I think that’s the most scared I’ve ever been, thinking that was it for me.

New comment by woutr_be in "Ask HN: Best way to simultaneously run multiple projects locally?"

woutr_be — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:29:21 +0000

I constantly run multiple projects without issues. Usually it’s both front- and back-end. I just assign random ports.

Same goes for databases, I just map it to a different port.

New comment by woutr_be in "Sunsetting Create React App"

woutr_be — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:33:53 +0000

You might be interested in Astro (https://astro.build/), I've build my first project with it, and it's great to somewhat go back to basics, but without needing to set up my own server with templating and tasks for static assets, etc...

New comment by woutr_be in "Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles"

woutr_be — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 07:06:59 +0000

I know it won’t be popular, but I would honestly love to have a social network that’s purely just what my friends/family post. No suggested content, no algorithmic feed, no reacting to posts. Just purely whatever they post and ability to leave a comment.

New comment by woutr_be in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

woutr_be — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:51:15 +0000

I did some work for a client who wanted to build an app for it. After that I ended up building a few apps just for fun, and once they started bringing in some ad money, I just ended up building more.

I think their ecosystem is still small enough that good apps do well, whereas with iOS/Android you really have to build super polished apps and market them to thrive.

KaiOS is just HTML/JavaScript, I ended up using Vue and building my own component library that I could re-use in every app.