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nikhilbagadia··on Show HN: Incidents.sh – A modern “days since last incident” timer
We used to have a flour mill with a very similar board. We sometimes were forgetful to update it and never paid much heed to it until an incident occurred. We did reset it that day - brought to our attention how much the 0 days mattered.
nikhilbagadia··on How libraries decide which books to keep (2014)
As someone living far off in India with a really small number of libraries and even smaller number of updated books - this is a fascinating read.

Besides covid, do people frequent libraries even today?

nikhilbagadia··on Show HN: Send Audio Messages in Gmail
Very interesting. We had earlier dabbled with audio platform in emails.

As it turned out, most of the money to be made is in email campaigns and for that we created personalised audio whose permalink can be shared with an image inside the email.

Wistia did this for video

nikhilbagadia··on Show HN: I made an embeddable user feedback tool – free for open source
This reminds me of canny.io

We decided against using it because given an option users might vote on features but unsure if they actually want a particular feature or not.

Worried about false positives distracting us, we decided against it.

However, I know a ton of products who still use it and they are happy with it.

nikhilbagadia··on Show HN: Notepad Style Online Calculator
Looks interesting. I use this Mac app called Numi which does something similar. Worth checking out
nikhilbagadia··on Scammers signed up, scammed us of $870 in 15 minutes
Good read.

Why not use hcaptcha?

nikhilbagadia··on Show HN: A Better redis-cli
Will definitely try this. Redis needs it.
nikhilbagadia··on Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
I think he is quite focused on Pitch at the moment to start from scratch.
nikhilbagadia··on Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
They didn’t at the tome of selling it to Microsoft.
nikhilbagadia··on Phones that secretly listen to us are a myth
Which apps were these?