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

woutr_be — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:23:50 +0000

I've added it to my list of projects to look into, so should be added fairly soon!

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

woutr_be — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:34:22 +0000

Thank you, hadn’t heard or SimStudio before, have added it to my list of projects to add.

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

woutr_be — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:22:11 +0000

Sorry about that, wasn't aware that this was an issue for people in Vietnam. If you want, you can direct email me at contact[at]openaltfinder[dot]com, or you can reply here with the project you wanted to submit.

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

woutr_be — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:51:24 +0000

Two side projects I’m actively working on:

https://openaltfinder.com - To help people discover selfhost-able open source projects.

Been maintaining this for almost a year, and it’s been fun. Keeps me up to date with new OSS.

https://getpinnd.com - A small social network for map makers to created shared lists of places.

Was just a spur of the moment, and ended up building it in little than a week.

New comment by woutr_be in "I think I have LLM burnout"

woutr_be — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:21:15 +0000

At least to me, before LLMs, those people could somewhat be trained. You could give them feedback, and they would improve and learn the code.

Now your feedback is just another prompt for them, the code might be slightly better, but the person learned nothing from it.

New comment by woutr_be in "I think I have LLM burnout"

woutr_be — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:44:59 +0000

I’m currently doing a project with someone who only uses LLMs, and it’s exhausting and mentally draining.

Whenever I give feedback on something, the answer is just “let me tell Claude”. The person has no understanding of how everything works, and most of the code reflects that.

The other day he hardcoded in a demo mode, simply because he didn’t even know how to set up a local environment and set environment variables. I’m confused as to why Claude didn’t even knew this, but it might just be the prompting.

I limit LLM usage myself, and if I do use it, I try to use it on extremely specific tasks. It’s the only way it works for me.

I honestly don’t understand how all these companies are getting away with generating AI code. Even in a small project I quickly fall behind on my understanding of the project.

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.