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sameg14on Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

Ever wish finding help was as easy as texting a friend?

"I need a plumber in Austin who can come this week" "Looking to sell my MacBook Pro" "I'm offering piano lessons for beginners"

That's literally all you have to say.

Our AI understands what you need and connects you with people who can help. No endless scrolling. No complicated filters. No frustration.

Just speak your find.

https://speakyourfind.com/

sameg14on Just say what you need. AI finds who can help

Tired of endless scrolling through listings? Speak Your Find flips the script. Just say what you need - or what you offer - and our AI connects you with the right people, instantly.

No forms. No filters. No frustration.

Whether you're looking for a plumber in Austin, selling your mountain bike, or offering freelance design services - just speak naturally and let AI do the matchmaking.

sameg14on Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?

I'd be a woodworker making cabinets and tables

sameg14on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

https://preppear.com/

Magically remove ads from any recipe website and automatically create meal plans for the week

sameg14on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

https://preppear.com Magically remove ads from any recipe website, save to your collection and automatically generate meal plans

sameg14on Magically remove ads from any recipe website

Save recipes to your collection and automatically generate meal plans. No Ads, ever!

sameg14on Extract recipes from any site and create meal plans

All done, no sign-in requirement on the create recipe page. Thanks!

https://preppear.com/recipes/new

sameg14on Extract recipes from any site and create meal plans

Thanks for that insightful feedback, I honestly did not even consider that. I'll go ahead and remove the sign in requirement for the create recipe page since it does really work well.

sameg14on Extract recipes from any site and create meal plans

Cooking is hard and even harder when you have to deal with ads and slow pages. Presenting prep-pear, a no fuss site that attempts to solve just that! All you do is pop in any recipe link to strip out the essential details minus all the other fluff. You can then use those recipes to auto generate a meal plan for the week! Hack your kitchen!

sameg14on PHP Docker image just hit 1B pulls on Docker Hub

Golang and Typescript mainly, haven't looked back since.

sameg14on PHP Docker image just hit 1B pulls on Docker Hub

And nodejs is 9M a week, python is 8M a week, tensorflow 50M etc. Pull count doesn't mean anything if you can't group it in some meaningful way. I'm a 15+ year PHP veteran and I can safely say I will never use that language again. There are too many other far better choices out there especially when running in a containerized environment. No apache, nginx, FPM, php.ini custom health check scripts, loosing requests when the container starts or stops etc.

sameg14on Write libraries instead of services, where possible

Yeah but then who is responsible for maintaining the library? If you have a bunch of internal teams that depend on your library and there is an issue or a feature request, you're back to the same position of being the one that does the work to implement. Better to have a service IMO, you can get telemetry out of it and scale it out or replace internals without having to worry about who will get affected.

sameg14on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

I had this exact thing happen to me when I tried to reset a Mac and wipe it clean. Would not start up and went into this doom loop when booting with the apple logo and a black screen. No amount of key combinations worked. I had to drop into DFU, which is a huge pain to get into to begin with and then use another Mac to recover.

sameg14on GitHub was down

Seems like it's been a common occurrence ever since Microsoft took it over

sameg14on She paid husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money

The American healthcare system is so broken, this exact thing has happened to everyone I know including myself

sameg14on Have lots of AWS accounts

We use Okta and put ppl in groups so I'm not sure if that would work.

sameg14on Have lots of AWS accounts

Yeah all accounts are in the same OU. We do have human IAM users but those are "legacy". Nowadays Okta has been the preferred method of accessing AWS console and CLI. We do use terraform but that is also fragmented since each team has the freedom to innovate in their own way. People use CDK, SAM, CloudFormation, Terraform etc. This fracturing of IaC techniques has been a natural consequence of having too many silos aka. accounts and has made it hard to enforce consistency. I think having 2 or 3 accounts is probably ok for a small to medium size org. We are 96 humans so far.

sameg14on Have lots of AWS accounts

Multiple AWS accounts makes life a living nightmare. We have 38 AWS accounts and it is incredibly difficult to maintain each one of them. IAM and even worse cross account IAM is horrible to author and maintain! Keeping track of resource limits and billing sucks. When using SSO, which we do, you cannot have more than one account open in the same browser at the same time. Use GCP instead, segregate your infra by project, use cloud identity/IAM and keep the head of hair you had in your 20s! You've been warned...

sameg14on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

I love this keyboard! Looks really well designed and awesome to use. I signed up for the list and cant wait! Good job!