Hacker News: zweicoder

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

zweicoder — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:33:15 +0000

I was looking into this as well since Claude models are costing too much with the Extra Usage changes.

Is OpenAI codex not also charging by usage instead of subscription when using pi?

New comment by zweicoder in "Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week"

zweicoder — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:06:05 +0000

Thanks for the inspiring post!

I have a slightly unrelated question on your product itself. I'm curious how the model of SaaS Pegasus, where the source code is the core product, works?

Is it possible for someone to just duplicate the same source code for multiple sites, for example, or share the code to their friends?

New comment by zweicoder in "YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet"

zweicoder — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 02:23:54 +0000

FYI I just tried signing in via my HN account, but there's an issue where it tries to collect my name and email, but fails because there's no input box for them

Ask HN: How to learn / get help for UI Design?

zweicoder — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:11:48 +0000

I'm a decent software engineer but when it comes to UI design I'm pretty bad at it and the projects that I build all end up looking quite unprofessional.

How do you all learn to design better? Are there services that can help design the UI for my projects?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20554228

Points: 1

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Show HN: Songbird – Smart Playlists for Spotify

zweicoder — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:42:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zweicoder/songbird/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20450500

Points: 2

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New comment by zweicoder in "Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?"

zweicoder — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 12:49:11 +0000

Thanks for the offer! I'll definitely reach out if I'm planning on shutting down

I believe Spotify has some API terms that say that explicit permission must be granted for monetization. I initially also went for the 'ask-for-forgiveness' route but Stripe didn't allow my account to get started at all as it was considered high risk.

For now I'm going to fix some issues and try to do more reaching out / marketing, and then I'll try reaching out to Stripe again - hopefully this doesn't look that shady / high risk anymore.

New comment by zweicoder in "Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?"

zweicoder — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:26:58 +0000

I maintain a very similar service to your autoplaylist at http://getsongbird.io

However I was not really able to monetize in any form (needs permission from Spotify, and Stripe shut down the account before it got to even do anything). Did you encounter similar issues and if so how did you circumvent them?

I'm at a loss now and on the verge of shutting it down, but I have a few hundred users that periodically email me to ask for fixes / new features, and it pains my heart to just give it up like that, but it's just not making any sense economically for me now.

New comment by zweicoder in "The tragic end of Telltale Games"

zweicoder — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 05:58:17 +0000

There are actually quite a few games that I enjoy because your actions actually mattered in the game, and I highly recommend you try it if you enjoy a good story.

Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human are excellent examples in that your choices actually matter. For example, it's possible to lose a character much earlier on and drastically change how the whole story plays out, or choose an action which entirely changes a few 'stages' you proceed to. There are also a lot of different versions of the ending, either by showing totally different ending scenes, or tweaking some scenes with different characters, or additional cutscenes that change the whole meaning of the ending.Gameplay was also very satisfying for both games, from the things you can do in each stage or the Quick Time Events (QTE) which also change how the story plays out.

In comparison to Telltale's games which are supposed to be about how your choices matter, the only thing that gets affected are some throwaway dialogue and maybe a few short scenes. QTEs are also laughably simple and nearly impossible to fail, and if you do fail you just restart in the last scene anyway.

New comment by zweicoder in "Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?"

zweicoder — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:04:58 +0000

Hey, I'm curious as to how this works - how do you guys earn money?

Ask HN: How do you record down learnings, useful information and other notes?

zweicoder — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:34:51 +0000

I find myself with a plethora of information across a broad range of topics that's only stored in my brain for now. I often forget and have to re-google & relearn the key points.

I need a good system to write down learnings / thoughts that I have, and was wondering what the folks at HN were doing for this!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214753

Points: 1

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New comment by zweicoder in "Show HN: Automatically organize your Spotify songs with smart playlists"

zweicoder — Sun, 06 May 2018 14:08:19 +0000

Hi HN! I frequently organize my playlists as my song collection changes. For example, I have a playlist for my recent songs, a playlist for my current favorites, a playlist for just Japanese songs etc.

I was getting lazy to do it so I hacked around over a few weekends and made this mainly to scratch my itch :)

Songbird lets you add smart playlists that automatically update itself according to your song collection / listening behavior.

Work is very much still in progress, feedback welcome!

Show HN: Automatically organize your Spotify songs with smart playlists

zweicoder — Sun, 06 May 2018 14:03:35 +0000

Article URL: http://zweicoder.gitlab.io/songbird

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006439

Points: 1

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New comment by zweicoder in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

zweicoder — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 16:29:40 +0000

This is interesting. How did you actually find people to respond to the surveys?

New comment by zweicoder in "Vim Anywhere"

zweicoder — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:01:14 +0000

One of the most useful Vim motions for me has been repeating j / k for n times, e.g using 12j to jump down 12 lines.

Combined with relative line numbers (to show how many lines to jump up / down) this has been a really big win for me to navigate around text.

New comment by zweicoder in "Never Completed Game"

zweicoder — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 09:37:57 +0000

Somehow this converts to 'cogito, ergo, sum'. Still trying to find out why too!

New comment by zweicoder in "Better than free: A crypto business model for apps"

zweicoder — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 01:16:13 +0000

There's one called steem.it that sounds similar to what you're saying - users use steem to upvote posts

New comment by zweicoder in "Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?"

zweicoder — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 17:07:47 +0000

I'm thinking of self-hosting a password manager like KeeWeb but I'm afraid of my own self-hosted solution not being as reliable (downtimes / loss of data). Do you have any precautions against catastrophic failures?

New comment by zweicoder in "Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?"

zweicoder — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:59:01 +0000

Wow that is a long and awesome list! If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost you to setup / maintain it? Also what is the main reason driving you to self host so much stuff?

Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

zweicoder — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 14:31:16 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105601

Points: 304

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New comment by zweicoder in "Beyond the boring blockchain bubble"

zweicoder — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 11:39:49 +0000

In your opinion, what makes ANS stand out from ETH?