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jasdeepsinghon Launch HN: Belvo (YC W20) – Financial Data API Platform for Latin America

I'm CTO at a startup here in Brazil. I'd love to chat with you guys about potentially being a beta user of your platform. Let's connect!

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

hey! Our first customer was acquired through a personal contact and second customer came in as a referral from our first customer :)

We plan to better the product now before going in with full blown marketing/sales.

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

https://servicehq.ca Built this over about 2-3 months with the help from a Beta customer satisfying their requirements slowly, but still ensuring that the platform is generic and modular enough.

It’s now averaging about $1000/month with 2 customers. I’m now planning to slowly rebuild the mobile app (need to improve UX and add offline functionality). Once ready, I can start selling to more customers, Also thinking of adding a few integrations with tools like Google Drive, Office 365 & Slack to improve market visibility.

Our stack is Ruby/Rails/React/React Native.

jasdeepsinghon Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance

Apple Macbook Pro 15: $4600 (Mine) Apple Macbook Pro 13: $2600 (Wife’s) Ipad Pro: $1000 Versace Glasses: $400 Ray Ban: $300 Airpods: $250 Cash: $1300 Backpack: $150 Apple Fast Charger: $50 Fast Charging Brick: $45

The nice thing out of this incident was that I was able to transfer my Apple Care from my Apple Devices to my new replacement devices.

jasdeepsinghon Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance

I think a city like Barcelona, with their theft and crime problem can make use of some sort of surveillance.

Just two weeks ago, 3 hours before ending my vacation in the city, Me and my wife were robbed off roughly worth $10k USD in a car tire puncture scam.

http://tourist-scams.com/tourist-scam-destinations/barcelona...

jasdeepsinghon India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents

You can’t easily go get food from Sikhs? As in what terms?

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: What language/framework do you plan to use in your next project?

Crystal - though been waiting patiently for it to reach 1.0 stable.

jasdeepsinghon Sherpa Travel API – Returns VISA requirements, vaccinations, travel advisories

looks great! I'd definitely be looking forward to use your service as soon you accept applications from non US and Canadian citizens.

jasdeepsinghon How to optimize React applications that use Redux

Same thoughts here about MobX. I tried my best to like Redux from my early on React days but could never get myself to like it, Mobx on the other hand has been a way more pleasurable and productive experience. I don't know or understand much about the pros and cons around Immutability and FP paradigm of Redux, but I sure can ship my apps faster and quicker using Mobx - which for a small bootstrapped startup like mine could mean the difference between life and death.

After having used Mobx for more than 10 months now, I still have to find areas that I dislike about Mobx.

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: Freelancing? How's Work?

Doing Ruby/Rails/JS/Nodejs for past 4 years roughly. Things did dried up a bit over the past ~3 months, But I'm sure if I were to do some sales outreach, I'd be able to find work in a couple days. (Good that I have some of my clients on retainer contracts for supporting and maintaining their projects which keeps the bank balance and cashflow stream healthy)

Not too worried about the downtime though, because I always wanted to take a few months off from consulting to build our own product. So, i've been happily utilizing this time to build: https://servicehq.ca

Once we roll out with 3-4 customers, My plan is to do a time split between consulting gigs and my own product.

PS: I'm based in Toronto, Canada.

jasdeepsinghon Show HN: The 8 hour diet web app

Is there any research proving that the 8 hour diet actually aids in weight loss? Curious.

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: Current Crypto Best Practices

May be on a tangent and a shameless plug, but I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14042150 this morning.

Underlock is a small Ruby library that helps with Encrypting/Decrypting of files and other data.

jasdeepsinghon Show HN: Underlock – dead simple encryption in Ruby, minimal dependencies and API

Author here, looking for feedback and criticism from HN community, thanks!

jasdeepsinghon Show HN: Redux Offline – Build Offline-First Apps for Web and React Native

I've been using Mobx very successfully on many of my projects now (both React & React Native). I'll prefer Mobx any day over Redux, just due to it's sheer simplicity and ease of use. Read: No need to burden your brain with the cognitive load of actions, reducers, dispatching actions, selectors etc.

Mobx v/s Redux does kick off the OOP v/s Functional debate, but as a developer my productivity and effectiveness is measured in terms of my ability to ship software not in terms of my programming style, and it's my personal belief that Mobx does make me more productive as compared to Redux.

For developers new to the whole Flux/Redux/Mobx/State Management world, I highly suggest to give Mobx a try.

jasdeepsinghon Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low-Cost Wifi in India

I had the exact same idea about 2 years ago, but never got a chance to follow through on it because I immigrated to Toronto. Definitely a novel and much needed problem that requires solving, and makes me super happy that it's being executed on! Well done guys!

Do look into Microtik hardware, hopefully these boxes can solve a ton of your problems: https://routerboard.com/ I know back when I was envisioning this, Microtik and RouterOS was on top of my list.

jasdeepsinghon Using Simulated Annealing to Solve Logic Puzzles

What if we change the cost function to something that returns a number which has a direct correlation with the maximum number of attributes that matched? Would solving the problem be any easier or we would still leave the possibility of getting stuck in local optimums just like the one described in the post?

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: How do you decide for a backend language?

Thats a very good advice for a lot of valid reasons and I follow the same mantra.

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

About a year and a half ago, Me and my brother posted https://github.com/metaware/angular-invoicing

We got ~70 upvotes and approx 500 stars on Github.

I've consistently seen traffic on our repos Github page since then, and have reasons to believe (Google Analytics metrics) that people use it on a regular basis. We have added a couple new features since our Show HN. It's free and always will be. :)

jasdeepsinghon Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development?

Ruby, Elixir and under certain conditions, Javascript (NodeJS)

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

Very interesting case study! And kudos for being able to pull this off! Curious to learn about some $ numbers

jasdeepsinghon Dropping Webhooks

Misleading title.

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: What are the podcasts you guys listen to?

   - The Raywenderlich.com Podcast
   - Startup School Radio

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: How do you talk to customers?

Would love to see some responses here from the HN community.

jasdeepsinghon Show HN: Penny, an easy way to track your spending

Any chance when this shall be available outside of the US App Store?

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

Ghostery: Privacy Manager | https://www.ghostery.com/en/

1Password: Password Manager | https://agilebits.com/onepassword

Tape: Pixel Perfect Grid Rulers | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tape/jmfleijdbicil...

Page Ruler Chrome: | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-ruler/jlpkojj...

jasdeepsinghon [dead]

didn't gave this a try, but I've always had this similar idea in my head where a hosted service allows a web-app/website publisher to collect responses from users from within the application easily and quickly.

jasdeepsinghon Ask HN: Where to watch the Apple conf. in SF tomorrow?

for me it's at home on my AppleTV. Live streaming FTW!

jasdeepsinghon Show HN: A free invoice generator

Shameless Plug: We built a similar tool using AngularJS http://metaware.github.io/angular-invoicing/ which is free and Open Source and folks here at HN enjoyed it we guess. :)

jasdeepsinghon Show HN: A free invoice generator

that can be done with a print-only stylesheet. display: none for the sidebar

jasdeepsinghon Don't Wake Up the Programmer

this was brilliant, I'm going to send a link to your post to my fiance and have her read this to make her understand how I work.