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jeandesuis··on Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
Sheesh, I didn't expect my post to go viral. Little explanation:

I downloaded and run Cursor for the first time when this "error" happened. Turned out I was supposed to use agent instead of inline Cmd+K command because inline has some limitations while agent not so much.

Nevertheless, I was surprised that AI could actually say something like that so just in case I screenshotted it - some might think it's fake, but it's actually real and makes me think if in future AI will start giving attitudes to their users. Oh, welp. For sure I didn't expect it to blow up like this since it was all new to me so I thought it maybe was an easter egg or just a silly error. Turned out it wasn't seen before so there we are!

Cheers

jeandesuis··on Show HN: Devjoyment – Vue.js/JavaScript productized development service
Hi everyone,

I'm Jan and today I launched Vue.js Agency as a productized service.

What problem does it solve:

There are plenty of companies that utilize Vue.js framework today. Most of them require just some work every month. A bit of work here and there to keep their website up to date, but nothing that would justify full-time hire. And also - those long recruitment processes that take up company resources...

Typical Vue.js/Javascript developer is between $60.000 and $120.000 (and more) in the US which is roughly around $5.000 and $10.000 per month.

It just doesn't make sense to hire someone.

Typical agency? Slow and as expensive. You'd probably have to remind them about your task weeks later just to wait another couple of weeks to get it done.

No bueno.

What if there is a better way? Let me show you the solution:

Vue.js/Javascript On-Demand Development for a Flat Fee

Devjoyment solves all of those problems and more:

- you get a proven top-level Vue.js developer for a fraction of the cost (and skip the long recruitment process)

- it takes 2 minutes to hire and get to work the same day

- as easy to pause or cancel

- no binding contracts

- fast turnaround

Haven't seen anyone else doing it so I'm also wondering about the market feedback.

Thanks for reading and see you on the next update!

Looking forward to the questions and possible improvement suggestions (I bet it's gonna be design-related the most!)

jeandesuis··on Show HN: I made a tool that makes URL to a CSV/JSON with your Google Sheets data
Hi there! I'm Jan, maker of Sheet2data app - a little tool to make life a bit easier.

What problem does it solves? Well, I have another app going on (DocTemple) and some customers were asking for a way to get data from their Google Sheets directly to the app so they don't have to download it from Google Drive and then reupload to DocTemple.

So I thought "Hm, maybe there is a tool for that. Oh, no one really did that?" - and that's how it got done in a day. I hope someone will find it useful in their work. It's all free!

Have a fantastic day!

jeandesuis··on Show HN: DocTemple – Turn .csv data into .docx documents
Hello HN, I’m Jan, creator of DocTemple.

The idea came from doing much more advanced version for one of my customers where he needed a tool to fill repetitive templates with data from the database. Employee enters database id and based on the data it filled it accordingly (with loops and conditional statements within document).

After working on it I was like „Wait a minute, there has to be more companies that are underserved in that specific area of filling templates manually.” So I created a completely new app based on the same idea - to let people fill thousands of templates in minutes instead of hours. And to let them do it in simple fashion. I truly hope I achieved that.

After long 6 months of developing my own product (there where months that I had only 2 days to work on it because day job and life + never implemented payments before) and making sure everything works as I wanted I can finally say it’s ready to show it to the world.

For sure the biggest challenge here will be to find the companies that actually need it.

I hope you will like this little tool! If anything you can reach me out here and on the chat on the site as well.

Thanks and looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!

jeandesuis··on Show HN: DocTemple – My first SaaS startup after 6 months of solo development
I didn't expect it to be such a big thing. I will definitely implement these today. Need to think now how to put it nicely together on the site.

"Where is company located?" - well, formally in Poland, but server-wise it's all Google so what should I say here? Or it doesn't matter when it's all offline?

And just for the record, I really appreciate your valuable inputs!

jeandesuis··on Show HN: DocTemple – My first SaaS startup after 6 months of solo development
Thanks!

Yes, I was struggling with decision to make video more visible (under the headline) and I realized that on mobile then it would show in that order: - headline - video - actual product

From what you are saying it might be actually better to do it like this. Will test that for sure. Also, the background music thing - it's little embarassing, but I originally put video without music and after I while I was like "Hmmm, it's seems a bit dull without music" so I added one from YouTube music library. Seems like that wasn't my best idea so far :D Should I take that music down?

Using Word so many years I must say I never really used serial letters, but yes - turns out to be the same idea behind it. Very good point about conveying value more clear - need to incorporate these as well.

Regarding GDPR compliance - actually files never even leave one's machine. It all happens in the browser (one reason is that doing it on the server was as fast so no point sending it over) so because of that I THINK (must check though) it's already GDPR compliant (because beside emails that are kept on Google Firebase I keep no data).

jeandesuis··on Show HN: DocTemple – My first SaaS startup after 6 months of solo development
Hello HN,

I’m Jan, creator of DocTemple.

The idea came from doing much more advanced version for one of my customers where he needed a tool to fill repetitive templates with data from the database. Employee enters database id and based on the data it filled it accordingly (with loops and conditional statements within document).

After working on it I was like „Wait a minute, there has to be more companies that are underserved in that specific area of filling templates manually.” So I created a completely new app based on the same idea - to let people fill thousands of templates in minutes instead of hours. And to let them do it in simple fashion. I truly hope I achieved that.

After long 6 months of developing my own product (there where months that I had only 2 days to work on it because day job and life + never implemented payments before) and making sure everything works as I wanted I can finally say it’s ready to show it to the world.

For sure the biggest challenge here will be to find the companies that actually need it.

I hope you will like this little tool! If anything you can reach me out here and on the chat on the site as well.

Thanks and looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!