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klaaz0ron ChatGPT has almost stopped citing Reddit

This is most likely a good thing for both platforms

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

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Promptwatch helps companies track and improve their visibility in AI search /ChatGPT, Google AI mode and any other AI app. (GEO).

We handle 1,500/events/second, run millions of prompts a day, analyze them for brand mentions, sentiment, competitive intelligence, and help companies create and optimize content. We have the largest GEO insights platform with billions of prompts, responses, clicks, and mentions.

Work: Own app layer, real-time APIs & queues; ship end-to-end features.

Stack: TypeScript, React 19/Next.js, Node, tRPC, Postgres, GCP, Nice to haves: ClickHouse, Elasticsearch.

You: 8–9 YOE, strong TS/React/Node.

Comp: €90k–€110k + equity.

Apply: https://promptwatch.com/careers/senior-full-stack-developer-... (mention “HN: Full-Stack Developer”).

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)

Promptwatch | Amsterdam, Netherlands | HYBRID/REMOTE (CET +/- 2h) | Full-time | https://promptwatch.com

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We’re helping companies rank and be visible in AI search /ChatGPT, Google AI mode etc. (GEO) and hiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer.

Work: Own app layer, real-time APIs & queues; ship end-to-end.

Stack: TypeScript, React 19/Next.js, Node/Fastify, tRPC, Postgres, GCP Nice to haves: ClickHouse, Elasticsearch.

You: 8–9 YOE, strong TS/React/Node.

Comp: €65k–€110k + equity.

Apply: https://promptwatch.com/careers/full-stack-developer (mention “HN: Full-Stack Developer”).

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)

Promptwatch | Amsterdam, Netherlands | HYBRID/REMOTE (CET +/- 2h) | Full-time | https://promptwatch.com

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We’re helping companies rank and be visible in AI search /ChatGPT, Google AI mode et.c (GEO) and hiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer.

Work: Own app layer, real-time APIs & queues; ship end-to-end.

Stack: TypeScript, React 19/Next.js, Node/Fastify, tRPC, Postgres, GCP Nice to haves: ClickHouse, Elasticsearch.

You: 7–8 YOE, strong TS/React/Node.

Comp: €65k–€110k + equity.

Apply: https://promptwatch.com/careers/full-stack-developer (mention “HN: Full-Stack Developer”).

klaaz0ron Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

AI SEO/GEO (or whatever it will be called eventually) monitoring for companies.

We monitor how companies/brands rank in LLMs/AI Search, we don't use the API but the user interfaces (since these are totally different). We run thousands of prompts to analyse responses and combine that with website traffic to get an understanding of what is being said and how well you rank.

I didn't anticipate Google moving to AI mode so fast, to be totally honest, which makes it really interesting because we likely see rank tracking and keyword tracking disappear in the near future.

website: https://promptwatch.com

As a fun side project, I run https://homestra.com a kind of Zillow for Europe but for second/vacation homes

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

meetcara.ai | Founding Fullstack Engineer | Amsterdam, NL | Full-time | HYBDRID

We are building an AI sales agen. We're seeking a founding fullstack engineer to join our team post-MVP.

Tech: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, tRPC, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis Requirements:

3+ years fullstack experience Strong TypeScript, React, Node.js skills Experience with event processing, LLMs, and data pipelines

We offer competitive salary + equity, flexible work environment, and the opportunity to shape an AI startup from the ground up.

Details/Apply: https://webtastic.ai/careers/founding-fullstack-engineer

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

Both are with a co-founder, I would not be able to run it alone at this stage, most of my time is spent on development

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

I'm building a Zillow for Europe (https://homestra.com) which is focused primarily on expats and remote workers. Growth is steady and revenue slowly going up (sales cycles on this are brutal).

My other side project (https://webtastic.ai) has become my main work now since it has grown quickly since the last time I posted on HN

klaaz0ron Build a startup or side project faster with these SaaS templates

https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app

You still would need to add Stripe but there are so many examples publicly available that it should be straight forward

klaaz0ron Wappalyzer no longer open source?

Looking at the git history they did get decent amount of contributions

they are of course completely free todo this but it does feel a little like profit from OSS and take it private once you have enough

klaaz0ron Wappalyzer no longer open source?

I think they changed the license a little while back to GPL v3?

klaaz0ron Wappalyzer no longer open source?

Here is one I found with the last commit: https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer

klaaz0ron Wappalyzer no longer open source?

From a business perspective I understand closing it but building OSS and taking it private does feel a little weird?

klaaz0ron Wappalyzer no longer open source?

For any one interested here is a fork of the last commit (not my GH): https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer

It feels a bit odd to benefit from open source and than make it private, of course the author is allowed to do that but it does make me cautious about other OSS projects that are getting funding now

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

Yeah domain knowledge/network is definitely needed, I am working with a friend who has that, it's a must in this field because it's almost set in the stone age.

Google maps was crazy expensive I went with Mapbox[1] for now which seems to have enough features and is less expensive.

[1] https://mapbox.com/

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

We do everything manually, looks like most companies just buy data from each other and often it's not really complete. I had experience running large indexing services so that came in handy. Main costs come from storing large amounts of data, multiple databases etc.

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

Good question, it's for expats/digital nomads/overseas buyers. Europe is very segmented and every country has it's own real estate classified sites, these are great for internal market but lack a lot of the features to help a foreign buyer. If you are a German looking for something within Germany changes are you will not use the site for a long time (lets hope in 10 years it's a different story!)

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

Looks like the search model doesn't take the map into account when filtering, thanks for letting me know, will fix this ASAP

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

Thanks! I am teaming up with friends that are in marketing/sales, I learned the hard way that the whole romanticising of solo indiehackers is fun but you end up running in circles and never really have the time to do things perfectly. Now I have fun projects that are growing and working with amazing people

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

Ohh that is interesting, how did you end up on that page, it should be https://homestra.com/list/houses-for-sale/?amount-of-bedroom... might have an old link somewhere :(

Ill add the elevator filter, thanks for your input!

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

There is a big update coming that is fixing/adding a lot of the features you mangent, build year etc. is added but I need to review harder on that.

Thanks for your feedback, really appreciated!

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

We work with a lot of agencies/landlords mostly larger once now but making it more self serve in the upcoming months

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

Already have it: https://homestra.com/map/

It's hidden on mobile because I didn't have the time yet to optimise it!

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

Already have it running!

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

I use proxyman a lot, you did an amazing job, it's a super slick and well working app

klaaz0ron Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

I run two side projects atm but they are both becoming more and more the main job.

I am building a Zillow for Europe [1]. The real estate market in Europe is a big mess and for the past 10 years not much has happend so far in proptech because it was easy to rent/sell properties. Now things are changing and I see a lot more supply coming on the platform. So far rented out 40 apartments doing around 3k in profit a month. We focus primarily on overseas/expats right now

Another project I started with a good friend from Google is Webtastic AI [2] it's a lead gen platform that indexes large amounts of data and I am using simple ML models to clean it up and make sense out of it. It does around 1.9k a month now but we just launched 2 weeks ago so that looks promising. Thanks to google cloud we got 100k credits which makes it a bit more feasible because the startup costs are extremely high.

[1] https://homestra.com/ [2] https://webtastic.ai/

klaaz0ron We need a middle class for startups

Of course, they are on the back foot. If you have a successful indie business, make good money why would you accept VC investment? If you do it's on your terms and that often means worse deals for VC's. I can't blame VC's because their business modal is really different, they need to make a 100x not a value investment.

klaaz0ron Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can’t defy the laws of capitalism after all

Exactly same here, I just started using taxi's for longer trips they don't cost more and I have a price upfront. Most people I know use uber in the city for short trips (but I am from Europe)

klaaz0ron Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

Exactly this! with https://reason.fm I am going to try and see if I can migrate our services to R2, right now it's pretty doable with S3 or GCloud storage at scale but we can definitely get our costs down with R2!

klaaz0ron Europe's Software Problem

Raising capital is getting easier but still nothing compared to the US. If we want change we need more capital to make competing software. If my competitor from SV has 10M in the bank and I can only raise 500k in Europe how do I compete? The end users doesn't care that much.