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igeligel_devon Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDF

It might be related on how you include fonts, I have seen a lot of weird behaviors unfortunately with that. Especially this response of an issue was important for my team: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/422#issuecomme...

Source: working on automatic PDF reporting in my current company.

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

For caseconverter.pro? Pennies right now because yeah (per month), traffic is low because its not SEO-optimized. I would need to write a lot of content case conversions and optimize the page in multiple ways. Question is the motivation haha ^^

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

Its similar to https://progressionapp.com. The difference with my project is that I try to target the actual employees. Its just a different targeting group but its really difficult to get people to pay for it of course. Will try to revamp onboarding/trials somehow in the following months and thanks for the encouraging words. Feel free to give me any feedback and if you wanna try it for free, feel free to reach out to getworkrecognized@gmail.com

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

To be honest all my projects created till now. They are all super low-cost per month (around 10$ per month) and eventually they will grow.

- https://caseconverter.pro/app - a simple online case converter, could probably grow it with SEO

- https://getworkrecognized.com - app to keep a work diary and create self-reviews, actually paid for itself. Got promoted twice within 2.5 years at current company

- https://linkedium.com - app to schedule LinkedIn posts, mainly for marketing use of the other projects; its also not live yet

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Hey thanks for the feedback, created a ticket regarding the UI improvements on the self-review. Bright mode should come at some point.

> but personally I wouldn't pay for

That's what most people say. But I also do not want to diverge into enterprise/teams offering yet since there are countless solutions and I want the product to work for the employee but not necessarily for the company. But maybe I have to pivot :/

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What are you working on?

This is amazing. I can see this working in long-distance relationships as well. Super nice product! Subscribed to newsletter as well

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What are you working on?

I love the idea of contentwok. Any plans to develop it further? I think it would be amazing for the average medium blogger to generate banners for their text somehow that can be also used as title picture.

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Multiple projects right now:

- https://getworkrecognized.com — A platform to keep a work journal/brag document/work diary and create self-reviews or promotion writeups based on your notes // Currently trying to find motivation to make onboarding nicer incl. free trial instead of paid to get more users and initial feedback; I guess partly because of that tool i got promoted to senior level recently soo wohooo

- https://caseconverter.pro/app — A simple case converter on the web, guesses the type you want to convert into with a neural net (i know i could have used just statistical approaches lol) // Open sourced some components: https://github.com/igeligel/react-in-out-textarea and the text conversion soon™ - will launch on Product Hunt soon

- https://linkedium.com [Neither landing page nor app is ready yet] — A LinkedIn post scheduling app, planning to make it a bigger growth tool with insights on what kind of content performs well. Kind of like some analytics + social media scheduler for personal profiles but also company pages

If you have any questions about the projects, feel free to ask me :)

igeligel_devon What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not

FAANG can be found in Europe. And I believe companies like Spotify, Klarna, Skyscanner, Uber (Amsterdam), takeaway.com are also working like this.

igeligel_devon Airbnb’s Stunning IPO

I think the post COVID-19 phase will actually be good for them in that regard. Companies switch to remote, at least a bit and cities will empty a bit more. This might make some more space for permantent tenants. But could be also completely wrong about that.

igeligel_devon How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer

Outline: https://outline.com/UGtEcz

igeligel_devon Hacktoberfest and Open Sourcing a React.js Component

Hey I am a big fan of Open Source since it taught me a lot and wanted to give back by open sourcing components I am using for my side projects. Now Hacktoberfest got a lot of shitstorm and I wanted to make it at least a bit better, so I came up with the idea of open sourcing a UI component for React that has the same functionality more or less like the UI of Google Translate. You can find the repository here: https://github.com/igeligel/react-in-out-textarea

Feel free to contribute, give feedback, or comment whatever you like. Looking forward to some responses.

igeligel_devon We Can Do Better Than SQL

Same for me. I love it. I always avoided the NoSQL things so far since the use-case is mostly unstructured data in comparison to normal SQL databases. I think what most engineers struggle with is just thinking of rows and columns as data. It is a separate thing to create schemas, work with them, inserting data, manipulating data and reading data. These are all different skills. Creating the proper queries is like learning an own language. Most programming languages come up with their own ORMs like the LINQ style of C# (EntityFramework) or all other ORMs like TypeORM for TypeScript, the Django ORM or Hibernate. So overall, to learn how to handle data you have to understand SQL basically + the abstraction layer. Sounds a lot harder than having data in a simple object.

Personally, I was lucky because I had great courses, even in highschool, regarding SQL including: How are rows working, what is normalization, how does it help with data and so on. So naturally I developed some feeling on how to handle database tables.

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

Started already before to work on https://getworkrecognized.com/ but it is now in a much more mature state - An app to track your work and create perfect Self-Reviews.

igeligel_devon Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion

The aspect of social interaction definitely has an impact on promotions, but what's more important, at least in my company are results. We act on leadership principles similar to what they have at Amazon and employees are getting rated against that.

In my team, at the end of the day, everyone is sharing what they did throughout the day work-wise. You can still list things that are non-engineering related. What I also do is tracking these notes in an application and tag the notes later for a self review. In the end, sharing these notes gives the team some perspective of what the others are doing and because of the random stuff everyone is doing from time to time we had awesome conversations / ideas because of that.

igeligel_devon Discord is the only successful US startup in last 5 years?

B2C is kind of a saturated area to get into I have the feeling. And thats the metric the article focused on. You have the big apps where people build their "startup" around. It's hard to get into this market nowadays, competing with the bigger players.

igeligel_devon Ask HN: Successful cases of boostrapping a b2c startup in recent years?

The story of veed.io is quite interesting. They have a nice series of updates on Indiehackers and their blog:

* https://www.indiehackers.com/product/veed * https://www.veed.io/blog

You can also use the search functionality of Indiehackers to discover certain products. This search might be something you look for: https://www.indiehackers.com/products?minRevenue=5&targetCus...

igeligel_devon How I ditched my 9-5 and went all in on a fintech startup

Nice journey so far, I have some questions:

- How did you get your very first customer? I am always having this problem when I build something for myself first. - What do you miss from your full-time job though? There must be something :)

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

Building stuff in the apartment and plant care :)

On the technical side I am working on https://getworkrecognized.com - a work achievement tracker with email reminders (soon) and a nice interface to create Self-Reviews/Brag sheets that will ultimately help you with your next promotion/performance review cycle.

igeligel_devon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://www.kevinpeters.net/articles/

You should read it if you are interested in programming and product things in general - so frontend, backend, and design the stuff. That's what I write most about.

But I also want to publish more in-depth tutorials like the DigitalOcean guides or career-tips.

igeligel_devon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

How many views per month do you have and what are your income streams? Partnerships or ads?

igeligel_devon Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

Comes down on what you want to get. It is easy to find jobs at startups because there is a shortage of developers here but on the other side it is hard to find entry level jobs overall. But I guess this is true for most of the major cities.

Mentioning here that startups are not really obsessed by technology, at least most of them. There is this a weird mindset going around I think that technology is a 2nd class citizen. But it is depending on the startup I guess.

To get into one of the bigger companies like Zalando, contentful, N26, GetYourGuide, Klarna, Auto1, GoEuro, DeliveryHero, HelloFresh or SumUp takes more work and experience but it's completely doable. I am now at one of the companies above after 1.5 years of company experience.