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It started as a side project in 2001, but now it’s my main business.

Here's my own profile if anyone's interested: https://volt.fm/soheilpro

soheilproon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

soheilproon Ask HN: Share your personal website

soheilproon 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

Shameless plug: I'm building volt.fm for Spotify (3M users) which like last.fm lets you find people with similar taste.

You can even save their top songs as an auto-updating playlist. It's a great way to find new music that is not controlled by algorithms.

Here's my profile if anyone wants to have a look: https://volt.fm/soheilpro

soheilproon Multiple Digital Ocean services down

Droplets are fine.

> This incident affects: API, App Platform (Global), Load Balancers (Global), and Spaces (Global).

soheilproon Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds

Reduced calorie intake is just an added benefit.

The main point of intermittent fasting is keeping your insulin levels low for the longest time possible, increasing insulin sensitivity, and forcing the body to use stored fat for energy.

soheilproon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

https://volt.fm - Advanced Spotify Stats & Music Discovery

soheilproon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

https://volt.fm - Spotify Stats & Music Discovery

soheilproon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

https://volt.fm

Can't really call it a side project, though, as I'm working on it full-time.

soheilproon MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program

Is there anything similar for macOS?

soheilproon Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph

Having separate debit and credit amounts (instead of a single positive/negative number) serves another purpose as well: To track the total amount added or deducted from each account.

soheilproon Apple Hit with €1.8B EU Fine over Abusive App Store Rules

https://archive.ph/fo4Pt

soheilproon Spotify's layoffs put an end to Every Noise at Once

For those interested, I maintain a "Best Of" playlist for each of the 6.3K Spotify genres at https://volt.fm

soheilproon Analyzing Spotify Stream History

I'll do a proper Show HN very soon, but for anyone who's interested in viewing their detailed Spotify stats, you can use https://volt.fm

soheilproon Hidden 3D

There's an app Stereogram Lab: https://hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=software

soheilproon Google Authenticator cloud sync: Google can see the secrets, even while stored

After my phone was stolen last month, I switched to https://2fas.com and couldn't be any happier.

It's free, open source and has tons of great features.

soheilproon AI startup Pinecone valued at $700M

https://archive.ph/z4jBD

soheilproon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

https://pikaso.me and https://volt.fm

soheilproon Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social networks

https://kill-the-newsletter.com turns email newsletters into RSS feeds.

soheilproon Steroids are rampant among fitness influencers, trainers and bodybuilders

soheilproon Keyboard shortcuts for GNU Readline

And add search support, if you're using zsh: https://github.com/soheilpro/zsh-vi-search

soheilproon Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

This is amazing. Thank you!

soheilproon Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

You can also use https://volt.fm for this. And it currently has 337,502 playlists indexed.

Disclaimer: I've built this.

soheilproon Shortest Date, and Ketchup

orang (person) + hutan (jungle)

soheilproon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

NodeJS / TypeScript / Express / React / Tailwind / PostgreSQL / RabbitMQ / Docker

soheilproon Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

1. Search for your favorite artists/songs/genres on https://volt.fm

2. Click on any of the top listeners

3. If you like their taste, save their top songs as a playlist (and select the option to always keep it up to date)

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of volt.fm

soheilproon Who’s your favorite public thinker?

Derek Sivers (https://sive.rs)

soheilproon It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak

I lost my 780 day streak, complained on Twitter and they repaired it: https://twitter.com/soheilpro/status/1356677917011365889

soheilproon Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist?

https://csvkit.readthedocs.io