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nautical··on Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
And worst part is had shared with family and friends .. such a let down ..
nautical··on Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
Not cool at all ...
nautical··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
Hey Jasdeep, How did you went about doing marketing for your product? Direct mails ? Adwords ?
nautical··on Show HN: Geoparsing and Sentiment Analysis of text
'I don't love Boston as some areas can be a bit rough' shows as a positive sentiment

positive 0.333333333333333, joy 0.333333333333333, fear 0, anticipation 0, anger 0, trust 0, surprise 0, negative 0, sadness 0, disgust 0

Another potential issue for some people might be well known acronyms .. example for input : 'I don't love UK as some areas can be a bit rough' UK is not appearing in top 10 results also.

nautical··on Show HN: A prototype of a new visual web scraper project
There might be potential issue with the name as there is a library "scrapy" with the same name.
nautical··on Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service
send.rest supports HAR1.2 calls, you can technically call any API
nautical··on Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service
I also think there might be a market for this kind of product .. Great to see more people think on the same line .. Got some paid signups from last week also ..

You might be right about email/push, but it certainly comes handy if minimal config is required.

nautical··on Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service
Hey cgenuity, Great to see the simplicity, I am working on a very similar product, launched couple of days back on HN (https://send.rest). Best of luck.

But have added couple of extra features in send.rest

1) Calling external APIs ( Think : pull data from Facebook while running this task in future and post data on my API or send SMS )

2) Reports and retries ( Try 3 times or send me sms its failing )

3) Recurrence ( Call this task every Monday 9:00 pm )

4) SMS and Emails comes along with them ( Send SMS or Email , pick any service as your backend )

I guess without some extra features it will be difficult to get a market acceptance.

nautical··on Ask HN: How to be reachable only for emergencies
SMS number on Twilio => Your webhook => Telegram API to forward message to you and you can reply via same (he receives SMS)

Another person can simply install Telegram

This way you can communicate to both using Telegram, one can talk to you via SMS and another via Telegram.

(Telegram or any other IM supporting API access)

nautical··on Show HN: UserTesters.io
I am actually working on a similar product, https://testzap.com Not launched on HN as of now .. will do that in couple if days. We already got around 500 testers will start looking for companies now.
nautical··on Show HN: https://send.rest "API to send notifications"
Thank you for the suggestion! You are right, weirdly I didn't notice. Fixed.
nautical··on Show HN: https://send.rest "API to send notifications"
Hello HN, I am usually working on some side projects and I saw that I always ended up making a common "component" which will send emails/sms etc to people on specific date & time using a template which has data from some API (eg send report to all customers every Monday morning). Usual gateways were not helping much in customisations (eg I cant fill the template from my API endpoint).

Hence I came up with https://send.rest, where templates support "a JS templating language" which can be filled up with data from any API. Scheduling comes along with the package along with an option to pick any sender (SMS or email).

Let me know your feedback!

nautical··on Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
Combine this with something like lyrebird and it going to be really easy to scam people on scale.
nautical··on Antonio Garcia Martinez, former Facebook Employee Interview
This is surely sounding like he still is just a hacker and Sheryl/others are responsible.

"He’s a micromanager, and I never even saw him once in the ads area micromanaging anything. He just doesn’t care."

"Zuck has famously never been very interested in either money or revenue of the company. Obviously he understands that it’s a necessary evil, but it’s the sort of thing that he just outsources to Sheryl and whatever lieutenants that are taking care of the ad system."

nautical··on Last satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched
Reason to start working on the system as per the article :

"It is a culmination of 17 years of rigorous work by Indian space scientists. India took a firm decision on IRNSS in 1999 after the US government refused to share GPS data that would provide vital information on Pakistani troops position during Kargil war. As in the previous launches of the IRNSS satellites, PSLV-C41 has also used ‘XL’ version of PSLV equipped with six strap-ons, each carrying 12 tonnes of propellant."

nautical··on Show HN: Password Puppy
Password generation logic is here :

https://passwordpuppy.com/js/password-generator.min.js

nautical··on Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed websites?
https://www.india.gov.in/

https://apps.mgov.gov.in/index.jsp

nautical··on Ask HN: What can I do if someone dupes me into working for free?
True to that, but feel a bit violated.
nautical··on Show HN: a Yelp for iOS developers
Generally "how good the library is?" is decided at our firm by number of stars/forks etc, frequency at which developers are responding to open bugs etc.
nautical··on GitFinder – Use Git on Mac Right from Finder
Nothing regarding the pricing ?
nautical··on PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API
Yes, please go ahead signup, its free for starting couple of days. Ping me on help anytime.
nautical··on PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API
Hi FriedPickles, Great product first of all, liked the simplicity of the product, I am also working on somewhat similar product, https://ingwe.io . I am planning to launch on hn in couple of days, best of luck :)
nautical··on Show HN: RESTCharts – Generate charts quickly and easily through a REST-like API
I tried chartspree, none of the examples are working on the website.
nautical··on Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
OAuth(Robust, Many Libraries), JWT(Easy to understand and implement), API Keys/Tokens(Simple and fast)
nautical··on Show HN: Non unicode hindi fonts to unicode conversion
A lot of fonts have wrong unicode mappings, this library aims to fix that, intention is to support all the Indian fonts.

var uni_dev = require("unidev");

unidev("ueLrs", "hindi", "Krutidev10") // नमस्ते

nautical··on Show HN: Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing problems in Node modules
We had same issue and we used diff and patch.
nautical··on Show HN: Ingwe - SMS/Email scheduling API
Hello HN, I would like to show a product I am currently working on : Ingwe.

On Ingwe you can store templates, insert data into templates while sending email or SMS( by APIs and variables ).

I would love some feedback on the landing page and the product in general.

nautical··on Ask HN: Feedback on “free” payment gateway using a Chrome extension
I would really love to know what others think on this ..

Can work if buyers are incentivized in some way to do this (too much friction).

"Free payment gateway" is enough for a lot of businesses to get started.

nautical··on Show HN: Time-series data of mutual funds open sourced for First time in India
Hi ! Can you tell a little bit more about the data sources and how they were collected ? If someone wants to keep updating the data ?
nautical··on Show HN: iMessage app lets you play punch 4 punch virtually
Interesting concept .. can be used for some exercises also may be ?? who jumps higher .. who skips more etc ..
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