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goyalpulkiton Ask HN: Browser add-on: Have you or your friends made any money from them?

We built one that gives movie/tv show suggestions with every new tab. There's a link to buy that movie on Amazon which uses our affiliate code. Here is the extension: http://goo.gl/eiYqco

It was published last month and two purchases were made through our Affiliate code, so I would say about $5/month

goyalpulkiton Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

http://imgur.com/4t3tVuE

Multiplayer version of 2048 game with an interesting twist. Available on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/2048-addictive-number-puzzle...

The game is played on a single board shared between 2 players who take turns to play. The score of a player is computed by the number on the tiles that the player merges when playing his turn. The game ends when there are no moves remaining or someone reaches the 2048 tile. At this point, the player with the highest score wins the game.

goyalpulkiton Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

Shyahi (http://shyahi.com) - Your Social Homepage. Its like about.me with extended information about social profiles beautifully summarized on your profile.

Its free, easy to set up and pulls in your stats directly from Dribbble, Github, Stackoverflow, Twitter and your blog feed which means that your Shyahi profile is always up to date. This is something that's really cool about Shyahi, you set it up once and then its automatically updated based on your social activity. It provides the most precise and relevant information to your audience at one central online location. And its bootstrapped and made by two people.

goyalpulkiton Free tools we used to build our startup

MongoHQ also has a free tier. Good for getting the MVP out

goyalpulkiton Free tools we used to build our startup

The only services with my payment information are Heroku and Amazon. On Heroku, the first dyno is completely free and it doesn't increase the number of dynos automatically. But when you have heavy traffic, you can easily scale the number of dynos.

Amazon does charge automatically and doesn't have a limit on the maximum amount I want to spend, so there is a risk there. But then, its not too expensive even if I get a lot of traffic.

goyalpulkiton Free tools we used to build our startup

zoho.com looks nice. But it only gives 20 accounts on the free tier. Windows live domains, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a limit on the number of accounts.

goyalpulkiton Free tools we used to build our startup

You can get a VM cheaply, but then you have to manage everything yourself. I don't have a lot of experience in this field and would be completely lost if something suddenly goes down or I need to scale. With Heroku and MongoHQ, you don't have to worry about these things anymore and its really easy to set up. And for someone like me who would need several hours in setting up everything on my own server, even the paid plans don't sound too expensive.

goyalpulkiton I want to write about your startup

Just sent you a mail about Shyahi, a startup focused towards making it easier to showcase your developer contributions and social activity.

goyalpulkiton Show HN: Create a link to your email

Clickable: http://www.email2link.com/

goyalpulkiton Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

Mobile Development with Objective-C (for iOS) and Java (for Android). Objective-C has already been mentioned, so I vote for Java. I know I am inviting rants writing Java here, but using Java for Android app development is a lot of fun.

goyalpulkiton Ask HN: Share your projects and the stories behind them (Pt. 2)

Thanks for your suggestion. We will try to make it more visible in the first screen fold.

goyalpulkiton Ask HN: Share your projects and the stories behind them (Pt. 2)

Thanks for the tip. I also added a check now to show only the users with a custom profile image in recent members list and it indeed looks much better now. Thanks again.

goyalpulkiton Ask HN: Share your projects and the stories behind them (Pt. 2)

We are working on Shyahi - Your Social Resume (http://shyahi.com).

It all started as a discussion with my co-founder Sapan. We wanted a way to highlight our activity on StackOverflow, Github, Twitter and our blog posts while looking for jobs but couldn't find a good way to list them on our resumes or on our LinkedIn profiles. Even if we list them there, there is no way I could update it every time I do something on these sites. That's when we decided to build Shyahi.

Shyahi is a new way to build a profile to showcase your developer contributions and social activity. Its free, easy to set up and pulls in stats directly from Dribbble, Github, Stackoverflow, Twitter and your blog feed which means that the Shyahi profile is always up to date.

goyalpulkiton Show HN: Shyahi - Showcase your developer contributions and social activity.

Thanks. Will add some new services soon. Let us know if you have some suggestions.

goyalpulkiton Ask HN: Why is my Show HN post not on ask page?

Thanks! Didn't know that.

goyalpulkiton Show HN: Shyahi - Showcase your developer contributions and social activity.

Thanks. Before diving into more services, we wanted to first get some thoughts and comments on Shyahi and the overall idea. The reason that we didn't include more stats for Github was that it required OAuth and we wanted to keep it simple for the first version. We will be adding some more services soon.

goyalpulkiton Show HN: Shyahi - Showcase your developer contributions and social activity.

Thanks. Would love to hear your thoughts on Shyahi.

goyalpulkiton Show HN: Shyahi - Showcase your developer contributions and social activity.

Thanks for checking out Shyahi.

The name is Hindi translation for Ink. Sorry for the bug, we just rolled out some updates and it should be fixed now. Let me know if you still face some issues.

goyalpulkiton Introducing Cornucopia, the food printer

Reminds me of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" [1]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/

goyalpulkiton The IIT Entrance Exam

> The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are a system of technical universities in India comparable in prestige and rigor to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or the California Institute of Technology.

Far from it. IITs are not even in the top 20 in Asia[1].

[1] http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/asian-uni...

goyalpulkiton Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry

I think that the only reason the algorithmic interviews are still so common is because of the difficulty in analyzing the real skills of the candidate. I have worked with guys really good at algorithms, but it is no way related to how good they are at building complex projects.

goyalpulkiton The first iOS 7 app is live on the App Store

> Consider this: How hard would it be to ship iOS 7 UI with a native app now?

Why would you want to ship iOS7 UI now specially on the devices that don't have iOS7 yet? It just wouldn't look good. Btw, I don't think that would be impossible to do, but it would be stupid.

goyalpulkiton Free private Github repos for students and edu people

I had a .ch address. Got verified in 10 minutes.

goyalpulkiton Manchester City Council

> Those icons are confusing. Click expand to see the whole list together. What a mess! Ideally they should be using glyphs with much bolder lines, or if they're really set on using the current ones, place each on a solid white circle. Right now they blend in with the text and seem to add to the overall visual noise.

I always prefer iconic interfaces as compared to the ones with just text. Try to think of one thing that you would like to find and go to gov.uk and then to manchester.gov.uk. See which one is easier to find

Icons vs Labels vs Both: http://edwardsanchez.me/blog/13589712

goyalpulkiton Manchester City Council

I am really amazed how most of the comments assume that beautiful sites cannot provide the same amount of information as their uglier counterparts.

goyalpulkiton My best life hack

An interesting experiment. I wonder if pointing out the weakness (constructive criticism) might be helpful as well.

goyalpulkiton Ask HN: What's the average age of your development team?

23, CH

goyalpulkiton Bad code is the first step towards good code

True. I always feel happy that I am writing good code until I leave it untouched for a month and get back to it to realize what a mess I made. The best way I have found to tackle this is to put comments everywhere, even at places that seem to be too obvious.