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alexjv89

24 karma · joined March 14, 2012

Likes to build stuff. Latest project - cashflowy.io blog - echoalex.com

email - alexjv89 at gmail

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alexjv89··on Show HN: Build an Internal Alternative to Airplane.dev
At some point off time, if you use it for something, would love to know how you used it.
alexjv89··on Debit or Credit – A Founder's Perspective
Yes..
alexjv89··on Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Infra to AWS and GCP
k8s is a meme for wasted engineering resource - yup agree.. not so much with argonaut. Was on EBS for the longest period of time.
alexjv89··on Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Infra to AWS and GCP
We were on beanstalk before.
alexjv89··on Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Infra to AWS and GCP
We at cashflowy.io has been using argonaut for a while now. As a single person dev team, I did not have the time luxury to deal with kubernetees and also handle customer support/business development etc. Wanted the flexibility of kubernetees but did not want the full kubernetees overhead being a small startup. Argonaut has worked out really well for us.
alexjv89··on Top essays by Paul Graham
"Cities and Ambition" is not mentioned as much as the other ones(about ~1000 times). It does have an MTS score of 9.9 though.
alexjv89··on Top essays by Paul Graham
haha, thanks :)
alexjv89··on Top essays by Paul Graham
Yeah, within startup realm, his insights are killer. Outside not so much.
alexjv89··on Semantic UI
We use semantic-ui at Highlyreco (https://www.highlyreco.com). Semantic is a CSS framework that we absolutely love. Cant recommend it enough. Semantic made it possible for 2 developers(non of us are front end focus engineers) to build out a fairly complex ui at Highlyreco. Semantic gives us the ability to iterate really fast on UI.

We probably would not exist without semantic. For earlier projects I used to use bootstrap. My opinion is that Bootstrap is good for designing landing pages and semantic is good for building user interface pages.

alexjv89··on Semantic UI
I dont agree with this. Just because semantic(or any other tool) does not work for you does not mean it should not exists. Semantic is a massive time saver as a small team trying to build a functional product, where the team cant afford to have a pure front end focused developer. As a 2 person team, I can get a lot of functional product out with Semantic. I would recommend semantic any day.

It might not work for you, but like I said, it does not mean it should not exist. Thats me trying to defend a framework that I absolutely worship.

alexjv89··on Google Spreadsheets and Python
thanks.. this is useful.. tried it out and perfectly matches my needs.
alexjv89··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
disclosure - one of the makers here..
alexjv89··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
sorry.. thanks for the tip.. Will definitely do that next time..
alexjv89··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
this might be relevant here - https://www.highlyreco.com/
alexjv89··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Have you seen this? - https://www.highlyreco.com/
alexjv89··on AngelList acquires Product Hunt
Thats weird, we build something. Someone posted it, and we were made makers pretty quickly.. I guess every time a system fails, it does turn a couple of people away. I would had similar feeling if we were not made makers immediately.
alexjv89··on AngelList acquires Product Hunt
The same happened here. One of the mods found our product and put it on PH. We just had a signup button, but there was no activity that a signed in user could do. People still signed up. Who posts your product on PH matters, I think. If we had posted it ourself it would have looked pretty sad.
alexjv89··on AngelList acquires Product Hunt
stop following a lot of people and twitter will be substantially better.
alexjv89··on Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
This is super awesome... Lesser devops requirement particularly in early stages trying to validate an idea.
alexjv89··on Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?
Thanks for the comment. Two things - 1) Finding Indiehackers.com interesting .. digging deep into it. 2) ""I haven't really done much marketing yet," - and it's often because they're in a market they don't understand well. - makes sense..
alexjv89··on Ask HN: What should I ask Elon Musk for HTBTF?
what books does he recommend to entrepreneurs and more importantly why..
alexjv89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
the site does not work.
alexjv89··on Neural Networks Demystified
Awesome video ! Crisp and to the point
alexjv89··on Show HN: Mindless Execution – Work like a JavaScript engine and get things done
The app can be tried out here - http://alexjv89.github.io/mindless/ before downloading. It is recommended to download and run on localhost so that internet issues dont slow you down !
alexjv89··on Show HN: Mindless Execution – Work like a JavaScript engine and get things done
Created a github page - http://alexjv89.github.io/mindless/ . You can try out the app there before downloading.
alexjv89··on Show HN: Mindless Execution – Work like a JavaScript engine and get things done
Awesome thanks !
alexjv89··on Show HN: Mindless Execution – Work like a JavaScript engine and get things done
No idea why I did not think of that.. sure why not.. Will put it up and share the link
alexjv89··on Show HN: Mindless Execution – Work like a JavaScript engine and get things done
Thanks. This is achievement level unlocked for me :) A comment on one of my HN submission !

Regarding the persistence problem. That is weird. The app uses local storage in the browser to persist the tasks and make it available in the next session. If you close the tab/app and open it again, you should still have all the tasks. This might be a bug. Can you share more details such as the browser you use etc?

Review completed tasks - thinking about this one. Might include this in the road map. So far what I noticed is that the maybe the tasks that are completed are not that very important to see again. Maybe simple statistics on tasks completed per day per thread would be awesome.

alexjv89··on Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
Really loved the project. Would love to get one of these if you ever make this available to purchase.
alexjv89··on To elaborate on why open-source hardware is hard
Yeah, would love to chat with you more on OSHW. Mail? alex@makeystreet.com
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