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abinaya_rlon Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Huge fan of Firefox. I’m working on an initiative to help people who laid off today at Mozilla

If you lost your job today add your profile here -> https://airtable.com/shrkd3WXxreIdgruV

abinaya_rlon India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

All other democratic countries should join India in banning Chinese apps

Don’t allow Chinese apps until they open their own market to freely allow foreign apps like Google, Facebook, Youtube etc to function

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

I'm working on https://remoteleaf.com during this lockdown to help people land remote jobs.

- Created a dashboard for people who lost their jobs due to COVID -> https://app.remoteleaf.com/covid

- Working on an initiative to help Black tech people to land jobs.

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

Highly recommend

- https://simpleanalytics.com -> Simple, clean, and privacy-friendly analytics

- https://wip.chat -> it's a community of makers who help each other ship products.

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?

You are trying to do a beautiful thing. I don't have a knowledge of this subject, but I really wish you good luck on this project.

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

- Pick an idea that people are already paying for.

- Talk to the users on a community or cold tweet or email them asking about the difficulties.

- Start solving the problems and onboard them as users

- Pitch other users with the same problem

- Charge them upfront, don't give it away for free

abinaya_rlon SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange

Excellent report. I'm wondering the tech used in Google’s Loon balloon internet service and this Starlink is different? Does both are using a similar tech?

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: What do you use Google Sheets for?

I've been using Google sheets to curate the remote jobs from many job sources. It's a really an easy database for me since I have limited database skills.

Also, Airtable for some cases and when it's relevant.

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

https://remoteleaf.com

I'm actively working on Remote Leaf for the past few months, to help people land remote jobs during these tough times.

Remote Leaf collects remote jobs from 40+ remote job boards, social media feeds & 300+ company career pages, LinkedIn and send the ones that apply to you.

abinaya_rlon Tell HN: Call Mom

Usually, I'll call my mom weekly 3-4 times. Even if we live separately we kinda feel like living together by sharing the events.

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: How to stop anxiety from too many choices?

Looks like this HN thread is also going to give you a lot of options. Now you need to be careful to choose which one to go for :)

abinaya_rlon New 13-inch MacBook Pro

> Better Trackpad

I've been using Dell for the last 6 months. This is the deal-breaker for me.

abinaya_rlon Apple’s abandonment of Intel chips is inevitable (2018)

I would love an ARM based MacBook Air but for the Mac book pro's I would like to prefer the Intel one.

abinaya_rlon Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

This is looking great, I'm wondering if you folks can support webflow.com exports?

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?

I would suggest to make something over the weekend and set a 7-day deadline and come up with the basic version of the idea. Charge the user a fee, it can be anything.. just put a paywall.

- Release it on Product Hunt, corresponding Reddits, cold pitch people on Twitter

- Get a few paying customers

- Signup for IndieHackers and celebrate your small milestones.

- Continue the above steps until you get 100 customers

- Play with the different pricing plans

- Explore how to get a word out of your product.

abinaya_rlon Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad

Any idea does other manufacturers does this? Dell or Lenovo?

I'm impressed with Apple's attention to details like this! ️

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)

Hey, a friendly note to job seekers! There are few automated aggregation sites available to curate the jobs posted in the "Who is hiring?" thread but I want to take the aggregation one step further and wanted to provide the good quality jobs by handpicking them. I’m going to search, screen, verify and tag all the jobs posted in the other Who is hiring? thread. So it can save you time, energy, and frustration – and hopefully, help you find a job faster during this tough time!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NVzygGYTmF3g_VPAh4lX...

- Contains all the remote jobs posted in this Who is hiring right now? Thread

- Each remote job is hand-curated

- Use filters based on skill categories and country restrictions.

- Only 100% remote jobs

Any feedback welcome here in comments

For hiring companies: please check this list and let me know if I’m done something wrong.

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: Best Office Chair?

Proud owner of Steelcase Leap V2

I find the Leap more comfortable for sitting long periods of time. The Leap also allows me to sit on one of my legs (I know, not a good idea), while the Aeron makes this impossible. The Leap also has more adjustments for the arms which I move quite often. Regardless of the chair model, take frequent breaks and our back does not made for long sitting!

abinaya_rlon Show HN: Open Startup List

Lately, there have been good number of startups releasing their revenue. But once they have grown some level they stopped sharing revenue (Buffer, Transistor). Maybe because of clones or competitors?

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

Thank you so much for your feedback. Now I've implemented it as you recommended it.

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: Challenges of remote software engineering during Covid-19?

I think one of the most challenges are focusing on work considering all the distractions like family, surroundings.

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

I'm building https://remoteleaf.com so that it helps people land remote jobs during this COVID-19 crisis.

Remote Leaf[1] hand-picks thousands of remote jobs from 40+ remote job boards, 1200+ company career pages, Linkedin, Reddit, Facebook, Hacker News Hiring and only sends the ones that apply to you.

[1] - https://remoteleaf.com

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

I would love to manual curate every remote job going to get posted on this new thread and release it for free just like I did for an earlier thread. https://remoteleaf.com/whoishiring

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

Woah, that's great resource. I just added https://remoteleaf.com and created a PR -> https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/pull/628

abinaya_rlon List of 200 remote jobs hand-picked from “Hacker News: Who is hiring? March”

Author here. There are few automated aggregation sites available to curate the jobs posted in this thread but I want to take the aggregation one step further and wanted to provide the good quality remote jobs by handpicking them. So I’ve manually screened, verified and tagged all the remote jobs posted in this thread. So it can save you time, energy, and frustration – and hopefully, help you find a job faster.

- Only 100% remote jobs

- Filters based on skill category and location restrictions.

abinaya_rlon Show HN: I handpicked each and every remote job posted on “HN: Who is hiring?”

- Only 100% remote jobs

- Filters based on skill category and location restrictions.

abinaya_rlon 85+ Places to Post Your Startup

That's a great list, thanks for sharing!

abinaya_rlon Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

I just submitted mine -> https://remoteleaf.com

abinaya_rlon Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?

Remote Leaf[1] founder here, I would like to offer you three months of free membership, that might help you land a remote job since you have coding skills. We hand-pick thousands of remote jobs from tons of job boards and only sends the ones that apply to you. Just ping me on Twitter and send me an email to avail this :)

[1] - https://remoteleaf.com

abinaya_rlon Firefox 73

With the way that they are releasing new versions frequently, It is going to be a future. Good job Mozilla!