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prakhar897

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prakhar897··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise
makes me wonder, why aren't the western government as corrupt?

what's the whole mechanism keeping things functioning?

prakhar897··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Do these things actually work? I've seen way too many gurus on twitter claiming to make 10K+ MRR every month. And then they quietly start applying for jobs. or selling courses instead of cashing in.
prakhar897··on Why Technology Makes Us More Productive but Not Richer
The article has grand total of 27 em dashes.
prakhar897··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
From the amazon I know, people only care about a. not getting fired and b. promotions. For devs, the matrix looks like this:

1. Shipping: deliver tickets or be pipped.

2. Having Less comments on their PRs: for some drastically dumb reason, having a PR thoroughly reviewed is a sign of bad quality. L7 and above use this metric to Pip folks.

3. Docs: write docs, get them reviewed to show you're high level.

Without AI, an employee is worse off in all of the above compared to folks who will cheat to get ahead.

I can't see how "requesting" folks for forego their own self-preservation will work. especially when you've spent years pitting people against each other.

prakhar897··on Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k
> Half will come 20 years after their first qualifying Olympic appearance or at age 45, whichever comes later. Another $100,000 will be in the form of a guaranteed benefit for their families after they pass away.

The terms are atrocious. imo dude will move money into a his own charity which will hold onto it since no athlete qualify for the next 20 years. After a few years, he will quietly cancel the grant and use it elsewhere.

prakhar897··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://www.softwaredesign.ing/

I really like the domain name.

prakhar897··on Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform
How long did it take for you to make this? I'm working on a similar branch of idea, started 30 days ago. Any advice for me? :)
prakhar897··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Created a web game: https://www.teqgame.com

I really liked the concept of games like cards against humanity, quiplash, whose line is it anyway etc. However, there was no virtual way to play it with a group of friends. Quiplash required steam setup (which was not possible on my corporate mac). So i built this as an alternate to build upon the formula.

[still in alpha phase so lots and lots of bugs]

prakhar897··on Gemini in Chrome
wondering if we can use it with playwright/puppeteer. would be a godsend for scrapers if they can identify useful data.
prakhar897··on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
wrote something similar a while back: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/ai-is-the-reason-intervi...
prakhar897··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
I interviewed a while back and wrote about it here: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/ai-is-the-reason-intervi...

The kind of core conclusion is that companies need to do in person interviews now. There's no other way to prevent cheating.

prakhar897··on Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021
I did similar kind of research for IndieHackers: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/real-world-stats-for-boo...
prakhar897··on TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
I can't close the jumpscare after getting it. Can you add a cross button?
prakhar897··on Why technical cofounders reject you
+1. Sums it up pretty well.
prakhar897··on [dead]
:( bots flocking to HN @dang
prakhar897··on Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
Great Implementation!! Jackbox games are ever more popular with remote work. There's a huge market for games like these.

I think bundling a few of these and selling B2B to corporates as FunFriday activities would bring huge sales.

prakhar897··on Show HN: I Made a ChatGPT Revenue Estimator
Got this error "fathom is not defined"
prakhar897··on After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)
Great Story! I have a question.

Why didn't you elevate someone from inside to the CEO position? Seems like a great way to maintain ownership (and take care of people) while also rewarding the best employees.

prakhar897··on Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)
Do employees suffer from having too many jumps in their Resume? After some time, companies would be less inclined to hire these people right?
prakhar897··on I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
OP learned the skill of starting up, running and selling a business while taking 30% paycut (and a huge risk tbh). He now has much bigger career paths open to him than "Senior Software Engineer".
prakhar897··on [dead]
how is this related to elections?
prakhar897··on The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
It’s genius.

Schmooze the execs with fancy dinners and trips. Deliver a horrible product so they need you for the foreseeable future.

The story itself says the CTO is unaware of everything. From his perspective, everything worked out fine in the end.

Win for everyone except for the devs who put in 80 hour weeks.

prakhar897··on Launch HN: Nango (YC W23) – Source-available unified API
Quite similar to make.com and similar products right? Any differentiators from them?
prakhar897··on I keep a WTF notebook (2021)
The biggest reason i've seen is because management hasn't prioritized it. It takes a few scars before understanding the importance of these tasks, pushing for them prematurely can be really risky. Letting stuff fail might be a better path for consensus.
prakhar897··on Show HN: I made a tool which fixes broken JSONs
Nope. I’ve written a custom parser to manually handle possible cases.
prakhar897··on The Acid Test Clause (2017)
I read a few other war stories from this site and they are all top notch. Especially this one about selling your business: https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/story-11-how-not-sel...
prakhar897··on Show HN: I made a tool which fixes broken JSONs
I've written a parser to handle all the cases. I can add a custom model/LLM if the parser fails to improve reliability even further if parser fails.

I believe ML Algos are a blackbox and non deterministic. So, they might fail for any given input and can't be trusted as a primary source of truth.

prakhar897··on Show HN: I made a tool which fixes broken JSONs
The problem is created largely because ChatGPT responses are unreliable. and tokens are expensive.
prakhar897··on Show HN: I made a tool which fixes broken JSONs
It doesn’t. That’s just a placeholder message for now :)
prakhar897··on Launch HN: Circleback (YC W24) – Tooling to make meetings more efficient
How does it differ from Otter.ai, or YC funded Cogram?
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