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Thanks! not sure if it meets the guidelines given that it is a paid product. cheers

I'm looking for a co-founder for a few key reasons. First, raising capital as a solo founder has proven to be challenging. Second, I need a partner who shares the vision and has the capability to help drive the company in the right direction. Regarding equity, it’s definitely flexible and will depend on various factors, but I’m open to discussion.

I built FIXParser https://fixparser.dev initially because I wanted to learn HFT. This was over 10 years ago, but I still maintain and build it to this day. Turns out several companies find it useful too! It doesn’t make much money, but I’m more stubborn than smart so I’m quitting my day job and will work full-time on FIXParser next year.

Hey, thanks a lot! I updated the post. I have kept a low profile hence no social / traces online except the website for now. Next year i'll dive into this full-time and will definitively work on social media and growing the platform. The business has a different legal name, but will change it in due course. Have a great friday and thanks for reaching out, I really appreciate it!

FIXParser helps trading firms automate and streamline FIX message workflows, saving time and reducing errors.

Parse FIX messages directly in the browser and node.js...

don’t bother. I made that mistake (spent a decade there). It just made me realise that values are so much more important than money. It made me angrier and angrier over the years living in a society like China. I just had to leave. Never support an authoritarian regime.

I would never, EVER, buy any BYD or any car manufactured in China. Support local brands who manufacture locally.

I’m helping companies start trading, fintech, crypto, etc. It’s a FIX engine implemented in pure TypeScript. https://fixparser.dev

I’m looking for a co-founder, running https://fixparser.dev which is a profitable company with clients worldwide. Been applying to YC twice but failed - will continue the search for funding. Reach out at victor@logotype.se cheers

very happy to see this!

Uptime for the last 3 years has been >99%. 1. Keep spares (esp. fans and drives). Hot swap if needed. 2. Dual ISP (1Gbit/s primary, auto switch to Starlink if primary link fails). 3. Keep a separate server for testing. Actually I lied, I test things in prod, sue me.

The monthly AWS bill is roughly 5 USD and consists of Route53 only!

My old trusty Dell PowerEdge R720 in the utility room at home. It works fine, and powers everything from web hosting to locally running LLM's. It would have costed a fortune running the equivalent compute capacity in any of the big 3.

You are seriously naive, or dishonest. In China, you can’t own land - you lease it. In China, corporations must have a CCP representative. All roads in China leads to the CCP.

Yeah. It’s hard to argue with convenience. And yes Amazon is not much more than a western front for the same shitty products you can get directly from China. The way the system is gamed with fake reviews and SEO it makes honest businesses hard to compete. In some cases it’s even hard to find stuff on Amazon if you already know what you’re looking for!

Oh, I’ve heard many No’s. So many No’s that I will never, ever try to work with VC’s ever again. Fuck them. There’s a very high probability that you won’t need them either. In my case, I just kept going. If you have a good product then you will succeed. With VCs or not!

Sometimes it's just strange, and it doesn't seem like a coincidence. It's far too often that I see, read or experience something and then it pops up on HN a few moments later.

In this case, I went to Duxford a day before this was posted on HN. I visited the #962 SR-71 in person. At the day this was posted, I also discussed about the SR-71 with a neighbour and how it was stationed at RAF Mildenhall here in the UK.

With that said, SR-71 is such an awesome machine, it contains so many breakthroughs and innovations. It was so advanced that even the tooling, methods, paint and even fuel had to be invented specifically for this aircraft.

That’s exactly what I started: https://gitlab.com/logotype/fixparser

It’s a quite boring project, but it is niche - and there is no alternative, at least not in the JS/TS ecosystem. Many startups/crypto/financial institutions (including YC startups) uses and are paying customers of my product.

I’ve tried finding an investor (including YC) to grow the project but no-one is interested. It doesn’t matter, I’ll keep going anyway. But if someone is interested reach me at info@fixparser.io

Working with Flash was like working with future technologies, back in the day. You could build amazing things with it, things that was not possible using standard browser API’s. In fact, Flash led the way and was the prototype for what browsers can to today.

If you cared about what you built, with clever hacks and bitwise performance tricks then the Flash runtime could run your code efficiently. I remember developing an app which used Box2D, camera based gesture control with sound effects and background music all running simultaneously, reaching 60 FPS. In other projects we used software based 3D (à la Papervision 3D), Adobe dropped the ball and Molehill/GPU accelerated 2D/3D arrived too late. Perhaps it’s not common knowledge but we could develop true cross-platform apps, compiling for different targets (SWF, IPA for iOS and .app/.exe).

AS3 was a good language, and definitely reminds me of TS. Here’s a piece of code from 15 years ago: https://github.com/PureMVC/puremvc-as3-standard-framework/bl...

That letter from Steve Jobs destroyed it all, many talented developers left the Flash world at that time. It was a bit depressing to see all the (unjustified) mainstream hate for the Flash platform that started to appear at that time, which felt bad as there were many of us that put a lot of time, care and effort in creating amazing stuff with it. Thanks Flash!

Here’s what it made it click for me: .addEventListener(‘onclick’, () => {})

Spent 9 years building a JavaScript library, earned about 4490 USD in total from it. Then spent 23900 USD in manufacturing a single product (quantity of 1, ran out of budget) for which I have no known client for. Built an iPhone app and made maybe 300 USD for that. Yeah business is hard.

Happened to my account too, and also getting stuck at the recovery page with a loading progress spinner only.

Anyone else moving away from the cloud? From AWS to the utility room server :)

In the beginning of my career I worked on a volatile multidimensional house of cards project. It was a classic ASP enterprise content management system, patched together by external contractors for 10 years or so, with seemingly no structure at all. The code base was truly “magical” in the sense that it was a miracle that it sort of worked. Contained a number of “don’t change this” and gotchas.

Projects like this doesn’t build character, it just sucks.

Librem 5 USA, without the case.

That would be https://localhost since I can create stuff

Had the QuickCam back in the day and it was so cool and futuristic to have a camera connected to the computer. It was fun making stop-motion videos with clay.

Spamming HN with a link you’ve previously posted isn’t good for the community. I left a comment on your previous post but it seems the post was flagged.

These are generic pools, sold everywhere. Instead of importing crap from China and indirectly support the CCP - make something in France instead. Put some effort ffs.

I’m currently running a Cisco ASA 5540 as the perimeter device (with NAT and DHCPD) at home. Replaced the stock fans because it was seriously noisy. Getting about 920Mbp/s. Also running a site-to-site VPN to AWS. It’s been working great for many years with absolutely no issues whatsoever. The only problem is that it’s starting to show some ageing with no firmware updates since 2018, so I’m replacing this with a recent Palo Alto Networks NGFW with 1+ Gbp/s firewall capability. The FW is then connected with OM3 fiber to a SFP port on a 48-port gigabit Cisco switch (2960G), with trunking ports to other managed Cisco switches in the house. The server is connected to the switch using 4 ports in LACP mode for better bandwidth and redundancy. If you can live with the noise I highly recommend old enterprise gear as it can be found for cheap.