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gghootch··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
https://nommer.ai turns recipes into 2-player mode so you can cook together

People seem to love the concept so far and are starting to sign up, now just need to figure out how to get them to actually use it

gghootch··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
Location: Amsterdam

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: product leadership

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garmdotcom/

Email: garmtech@garm.com

gghootch··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
I love it, but I want EU support!
gghootch··on Show HN: Turn any recipe into 2-player mode
If so that'd be great product feedback too :D!

In all serioiusness: in my experience the outcome is sort of the opposite of Overcooked. A genuinely tranquil cooking-together experience!

gghootch··on Show HN: Turn any recipe into 2-player mode
Thank you!! Please post here to share what you think about it when you've had a chance to try it!
gghootch··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Mobile app that turns any recipe into 2-player mode, so you can cook together. Kind of like overcooked IRL.

https://nommer.ai

gghootch··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
I'm working on Nommer - an app that turns recipes created for 1 chef into 2-player mode so you can cook together.

https://nommer.ai/ has a waitlist, planning to ship v1 by end of month.

gghootch··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
https://extraheadroom.com

Menu bar app that reduces your Claude Code token costs by ~50% so you get 2x more usage out of your plan.

People seem to like it so far :-)

gghootch··on Claude Opus 4.7
Thanks for sharing your experiences. We incorporated changes in the latest version to improve this:

1. On install we explain what Headroom installs 2. We added an uninstall feature that removes all of this for you 3. On quit of the app, we immediately remove all items that may intervene with normal Claude Code behavior

gghootch··on Claude Opus 4.7
Thanks for the feedback, will work on making this more transparent so future users do not have this experience.

I did want to call out that headroom is not based on RTK - it includes RTK sure, but headroom cli has a lot more going on under the hood. For more see https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom

gghootch··on Claude Opus 4.7
Way better. You don’t notice it’s there.
gghootch··on Claude Opus 4.7
Caveman is fun, but the real tool you want to reduce token usage is headroom

https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop (mac app)

https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom (cli)

gghootch··on Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors
Yeah, the change has been very noticeable imo.

Did you already try tools that can help to reduce token usage cost so you can get more prompts in within your same plan? Some great ones are

https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop

https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk

https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom

https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill

gghootch··on A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days
What does this have to do with OpenClaw exactly?
gghootch··on The More You Spend on a Wi-Fi Router, the Worse It Gets
I regularly consume articles by whathifi, wirecutter, rtings, etcetera. Do you consider all of those spam?

What do you base purchase decisions on?

gghootch··on The More You Spend on a Wi-Fi Router, the Worse It Gets
The best ones write in depth reviews, describe their thinking process and fairly weigh pros / cons.

Ultimately it’s imo more about avoiding bad products than it is about noticing whether a product is great. Criticaster collects all professional reviews to get to an average critic score, which will more quickly and more accurately get you to a satisfactory product than any other approach.

gghootch··on The More You Spend on a Wi-Fi Router, the Worse It Gets
Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective! I’ll do some more digging into the Orbi systems.

In my experience buying a product that gets mostly positive reviews from professional reviewers gets you a far better product than one with mixed reviews. I’m surprised that’s not your experience and that you don’t much trust those scores. What else do you make your purchase decisions on then? Purely specs?

gghootch··on Show HN: Analyzing ~10k professional product reviews to calculate a single score
Here to answer any questions :-)
gghootch··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
https://www.criticaster.com/

A metacritic like website but for any product.

It analyzes thousands of professional critic reviews to find the best of the best.

I started building this because I adore how metacritic analyzes professional movie/game/tv show reviews and calculates a meta score for each title. In my experience it’s the best way to discover new things to watch or play, and I’ve often wished something like this would exist for when I want to buy a product.

This year, I decided to start building it myself and Criticaster is the result.

For a given product category we collect all professional reviews of a given product, analyze each to assign them a score and then calculate an average critic score.

The goal is to become the most trustworthy source to make product decisions.

Very curious what y’all think!

gghootch··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
garm.com
gghootch··on Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence – Live at TED2025 [video]
More insightful than I expected
gghootch··on Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce
Your comment is probably tongue in cheek, but this level of detail is pretty standard for advanced cooking. Serious Eats, Chef Steps or What’s Eating Dan have published loads of recipes backed up by research and accompanied by great graphs.
gghootch··on Show HN: Glo Dollar – the antipoverty stablecoin
Thanks for the great questions! Find answers below, let me know if you have any further questions :-)

1. Our issuing partner is Brale.xyz, a US regulated stablecoin company by Ben Milne, the founder of Dwolla. Brale works with partners on their end to invest in US Treasuries. More info here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/brale-and-the-glo-foundat...

On audits: we're working with a big 4 auditor on audit readiness. Our goal is to publish audits regularly and be fully transparent in both our operations and treasury holdings. Brale will publish monthly attestations of the assets backing Glo Dollar, and we will have audit rights over those assets on a periodical basis as well.

2. While US Treasuries indeed have a maturity date, treasuries with a maturity date of up to 3 months are considered a "cash equivalent" because their market is so liquid. Because of this, they can easily be exchanged for cash in the event a lot of people want their cash back at once.

3. Glo's per-dollar impact is low at first. As adoption grows, it ramps up. At scale, we expect to lift 1 person out of extreme poverty per $20,000 of Glo Dollar market cap by generating approximately $480 in interest that we can donate to GiveDirectly. We're not there yet, as we need to ramp up market cap beyond $2m first. More info here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/from-bootstrap-to-high-im...

4. Stablecoins provide actual utility to crypto traders (hence why there are $125B of them in circulation). So our thinking is that we can drive adoption by meeting traders where they are. We also think that Glo Dollar’s philanthropic mission will give it an edge for IRL stablecoin adoption. More on that here: https://www.glodollar.org/articles/vision-and-growth-strateg...

Happy to answer any other questions!

gghootch··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
Secfi | FinTech Product Manager + Software Engineers | Amsterdam | 60-100k + equity

Secfi is a VC-backed fintech start-up that helps start-ups and employees better manage equity compensation. We do this by providing shareholders of private companies with liquidity so that they can exercise their options or access capital for personal use. We build technology products that help private company employees make the most of their equity and make more informed decisions. By simplifying their equity compensation, employees can spend more time on things they love doing most. We have offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco.

For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/products/exercise-tax-calculator

An exciting challenge we’re working on next is an exercise planning tool that tells you what you should do with your equity based on your personal. Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and we’re looking to add 10 more people to our Amsterdam product and engineering team. We have a variety of engineering vacancies including DevOps Engineer, frontend and backend Python:

https://jobs.lever.co/secfi?lever-via=uIDfAQPGhi

Questions? Please email lucinda@secfi.com to get in touch.

gghootch··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
Secfi | FinTech Product Manager + Software Engineers | Amsterdam | 60-100k + equity

Secfi is a VC-backed fintech start-up that helps start-ups and employees better manage equity compensation. We do this by providing shareholders of private companies with liquidity so that they can exercise their options or access capital for personal use. We build technology products that help private company employees make the most of their equity and make more informed decisions. By simplifying their equity compensation, employees can spend more time on things they love doing most. We have offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco.

For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/products/exercise-tax-calculator

An exciting challenge we’re working on next is an exercise planning tool that tells you what you should do with your equity based on your personal. Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and we’re looking to add 10 more people to our Amsterdam product and engineering team. We have a variety of engineering vacancies including DevOps Engineer, frontend and backend Python:

https://jobs.lever.co/secfi?lever-via=uIDfAQPGhi

Questions? Please email lucinda@secfi.com to get in touch.

gghootch··on Let employees sell their equity
At Secfi we 100% agree. Employees should: (a) have the knowledge to fairly assess their equity, and (b) have the option to cash out before an exit. We're working hard to fix this information asymmetry, and try to offer a way out of the equity-golden-handcuffs with a win-win structure to as many people as possible. Our financing product is not cheap, but it's a great option for a lot of startup employees that aren't able to sell their stock today. Sadly, that's still the reality at the moment, and as other commenters remarked it's likely to stay that way because individual employees are at such a negotiation disadvantage.

With all that said, there's still heaps to be done to fix this issue and we'd love to get feedback from the community on some of our material:

1. Stock option starter guide: https://www.secfi.com/academy/stock-option-guide

2. Exercise guide: https://www.secfi.com/academy/exercise-guide

3. Exercise tax calculator: https://www.secfi.com/products/exercise-tax-calculator

gghootch··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of who unsubscribed to your emails?
Yeah - Mailchimp is great! But I'm not sure it's possible to enforce just one email marketing system? Feels like there's always forces to add yet another system. Intercom, for example, brings a nice little chat widget & an integrated email system. This will inevitably result in email subscribe/unsubscribe dynamics - or are we doing something wrong?
gghootch··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
An app to re-connect with your favorite people you don't necessarily talk to quite often. It combines Tinder-like swiping with a LinkedIn-like profile that only highlights what you do best and are proud of.

Preview here: https://i.imgur.com/ZNdStSm.png

I imagine this being used by people to reconnect with acquintances that they really admire, who will naturally start new projects / bands / companies / skateboard crews after learning of each other's mutual admiration.

It's super early stages, but would love to hear from you on hello@gethelden.com if you think it's interesting :-)

gghootch··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
Secfi | Software engineer(s) | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | EUR 40-80k + equity

Secfi is the pre-wealth advisor for startup employees. Figuring out what to do with your equity-based compensation is complicated and expensive and is therefore ignored and neglected. Secfi makes handling startup equity compensation simple and affordable. We build technology that helps employees make the right decisions for their equity compensation.

For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/#gif-container

An exciting challenge we’re working on next is an exercise planning tool that tells you what you should do with your equity based on your personal.

Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and we’re looking to add 10 more people to our Amsterdam team in 2019. We have a variety of engineering vacancies including frontend and full stack JavaScript engineers: https://www.secfi.com/careers

Questions? Please email careers@secfi.com to get in touch.

gghootch··on Show HN: Wherat – never skip celebrating your birthday again
Wherat is my evenings & weekends project to simplify throwing a party to such a degree that even the laziest of my friends will overcome their apathy and start celebrating their birthdays. Heck, they may even enjoy it for once.

I started working on this because last year I broke a promise to myself that I always throw a party for my birthday to celebrate life, love, happiness. Even I am apparently too apathetic sometimes. To prevent this from ever happening again, I started building Wherat.

Today, we help you: - Start organizing in time for your friends to join - Ask your guests questions - Calculate the number of drinks & snacks to buy

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