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hboon

3,332 karma · joined October 30, 2008

Hwee-Boon Yar.

Avaiable for fractional roles and gigs. Currently bootstrapping:

LinkBunny for coding agents to build/exchange nofollow backlinks autonomously - https://getlinkbunny.com

FIND ME:

* Blog: https://hboon.com/

* Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hboon.com

* X/Twitter: @hboon

* Mastodon: @hboon@mastodon.social

* Email: hboon@motionobj.com

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hboon··on Show HN: LinkBunny, a service where coding agents exchange backlinks autonomousy
Maybe. I’d like to think it’s facilitating what manual, human to human exchanges would work though, with the benefit that it’s not 1-1 and you can automate it.

Currently just manual approval for adding sites to avoid spam sites and matching on niche/category and DR range.

Sign up and give it a whirl. I’ve been working on a few different things and I think this is genuinely valuable.

hboon··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
https://getlinkbunny.com (in profile too, for other info)
hboon··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I'm building LinkBunny, a service where coding agents exchange backlinks. You can let your agents build backlinks for you autonomously. I'm manual approving registration now to avoid spam. $20/mth sub and no fees for backlinks.

If you are using coding agents and craving for backlinks, I'll personally help iron out bugs/issues. Email me.

hboon··on Domain-Driven Agents
It's easy in greenfield projects because they are smaller and less things to break.

They work well on existing projects if the codebase already has a good architecture and has good consistent (and prevalent) patterns.

hboon··on Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
I really enjoy working on my inhouse orchestration tool because it brings me back to the days of working in Smalltalk image where I can tweak my development IDE as I go along.
hboon··on Show HN: Fix every weak social card/OG preview on your site
The OG preview tool shows the preview on various social network sites and missing/erroneous OG tag values. Also gives a preview of what could if you used the API to generate OG images automatically.

All feedback welcome. Thanks.

hboon··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I've been bootstrapping my indie SaaS and revitalised old macOS apps.

Along the way, I built AgentControl, so I can work better with coding agents, in ways that suits my style and preferences.

The past week, I've started AgentBrowser because I didn't want agent-controlled browsers to steal the focus. I use Safari for day to day browser stuff and Chrome just for dev. This combines them.

hboon··on Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
I build one, an inhouse one for myself. I think it's a worth doing and see if it works for you. Especially for someone who works independently most of the time. I get it to follow and support my working style, workflow and idiosyncrasies. I started out because I wanted something that queues my work serially for each project so I can work on main and I can type what I want to do in it instead of writing to an ever-growing TODO list.

I then make it show icons and indicators for blockers, ready sessions that need attention, TODO lists that include notifications and actions (because it's so easy to miss things while working on/with many sessions). Shows costs (loop coordinator and non-LC costs, by day, etc) so I can optimize costs.

It's fun, a learning experience and it's more productive. With excellent SOTA and coding agents now, we should be building tools to improve our work even more than before. Try it.

hboon··on Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI
From a struggling bootstrapper, could you please elaborate:

> it's so great to see that they've finally found their thing

hboon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
FYI, mitty.film shows an TLS cert error in the browser
hboon··on Show HN: WhosBuilt terminal lookup for who built a website
Yes. I've relaxed the limits a bit. Should work now. Let me know if you have any feedback (more detailed lookup results are in the webpage/site)
hboon··on Show HN: WhosBuilt terminal lookup for who built a website
eg.

  curl https://whosbuilt.com/lookup/stripe.com.markdown
hboon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
Interesting! I have never played Colonist before, but a big fan and player of Gloomhaven/Frosthaven, Pandemic, The Crew, etc. Have applied!
hboon··on Show HN: Searchable directory of HN Job postings
It's early in the month, but HN monthly job posting count for Jul is ~30% down compared to lowest on same day in Apr-Jun.
hboon··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
I didn't read everything, but I had a DM offering a gig a few weeks ago, and asked me to check out a React site/app. I cloned it and it looked dubious; replied I pass.
hboon··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
An inhouse orchestration tool to run coding agents. It's so useful. I used to use tmux to run my coding agents and have little scripts to help me manage the workflow so this tool lets me encode my workflows and preferences. eg. I prefer to run sessions for the same project serially, working on main, rather than in parallel like how Conductor does with the help of worktrees.
hboon··on Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens
That was true. But actually, I think that's changed a few weeks ago since they introduced a API credit amount equivalent to your (eg. $100, $200) that will be used for such cases. So they don't ban you, they just bill you that allocated credit and then actual API cost.
hboon··on Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens
Codex definitely does and Claude Max definitely doesn’t.
hboon··on Show HN: Get HN Jobs
Fixed. Thanks :)
hboon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
I applied recently but seems the automated system filtered me out automatically based on location (Singapore. I'd be happy to working overlapping timezones)
hboon··on Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
If it's not working, does pasting the absolute path work? Both works on macOS.
hboon··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
I was pleasantly surprised when I read the headline a few days ago. But it's only accessible through Stripe right? I'm simultanenously very concerned about the centralized control that Stripe gains (it's not going to be just access to Cloudflare) and also amazed at how Stripe is shaping to be. It was just a payment processor.
hboon··on What did you love about VB6?
Still Smalltalk, but Dolphin Smalltalk which runs on Windows.

It was the best Windows app development too. You can write native Windows programs and it worked even better than Visual Studio for COM and ActiveX stuff.

hboon··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
Location: Singapore (UTC+8)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript (web frontend Vue + backend Fastify+Postgres) + Swift (iOS and some macOS) + heavy coding agent use (Claude Code, Codex and Droid)

Résumé/CV: https://hboon.com/about/

Email: hboon@motionobj.com

30 years experience in software development, ranging from enterprise software, startups to indie software. Open for fractional roles too.

hboon··on I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
I use Cloudflare Tunnel so most of the products I build are exposed and listed there. I just add comments for those that aren't exposed (eg. browser extension dev port) to that file too. A single doc means coding agents know to look there and keep it updated too.
hboon··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Thanks for the great work.
hboon··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
I switched to Droid+Opus (with Claude Max) many months ago and it was my favorite combo.

Had to stop because they don't like us proxying requests anymore.

hboon··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Doesn't using pi be against their terms of use about having to go through Claude Code cli for all Max plan usage? (I had use Droid with Max previously, it was a great combo).
hboon··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
Location: Singapore (UTC+8)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript (web frontend Vue + backend Fastify+Postgres) + Swift (iOS and some macOS) + heavy coding agent use (Claude Code and Droid)

Résumé/CV: https://hboon.com/about/

Email: hboon@motionobj.com

30 years experience in software development.

hboon··on Neovim 0.12.0
> like , being able to pop a document open in your editor from the desktop?

There's a hackish way to do it by watching for Neovim command line commands that start with "/Users/" (change it if you are on other OS).

Your coding agent can probably hack something up based on:

`//Hackish supports drag and drop files into Neovim by examining when command line starts with "/Users/".`

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