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Building https://clay.earth, writing at https://zmh.org
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zachh··on The paper computer
I've been following someone on X building a "Screenless Phone" that can scan to get inputs and print on receipt paper to provide output - very interested in how these types of experiments evolve!

https://x.com/daviddorg/status/2037050583274954882

https://x.com/daviddorg/status/2033937383012635065

https://yearunplugged.com/newsletter

zachh··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
I made a Slack reader/inbox that allows customizable categories / inboxes, message categorization with rules and/or Claude (optional), and fast keyboard navigation:

https://zmh.org/dispatch/

Also put together a directory of 31k+ personal websites, tagged with design keywords so they're searchable. As someone who loves personal sites, I think it's one of the more comprehensive list of indie / personal sites on the web:

https://zmh.org/personal-site-gallery/

zachh··on Thoughts on Daylight Computer
Very helpful, thank you!
zachh··on Thoughts on Daylight Computer
Can you explain more about what that means / share a link to further reading? Tried searching but couldn't find much online about the light polarization specifically, and am interested in the nanotexture for reducing eye strain.
zachh··on Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client
I still think about the best-designed email app I've ever used, Sparrow [1]. This is the closest I've seen in design and spirit!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_%28email_client%29

zachh··on Ask HN: To LinkedIn am I just collateral damage of a barely functioning system
Upvoting for visibility, hopefully someone at LinkedIn sees this. In the meantime, I'd recommend:

* Go through LinkedIn Business support (https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/contact-us) instead of the consumer support chat

* Try the EU data rectification form (https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DRF)

* It sounds like other sites are showing captchas too, which might be a broader issue. I would try a different browser, clean your cookies etc., and potentially go to a coffee shop or VPN into a clean IP (not a commodity VPN provider). X and LinkedIn (or whoever LinkedIn uses for identity verification, and potentially Cloudflare) may have flagged your IP.

zachh··on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
Agreed! Super helpful, thanks.
zachh··on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
Do you know if the IA is working on such projects / is there a way to get involved? Or is it mostly third parties doing so?
zachh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
Clay | Backend Engineer, Fullstack Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, iOS Engineer, Data Engineer, Product Design, Growth | Full-time | Remote (US or EU timezones) | https://clay.earth Clay is a beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your professional life. Connect your email, calendar, Twitter, and Linkedin, and Clay will bring in the people you know, remind you how you know them, and help you be more thoughtful with them over time.

We just announced our $8 million seed round led by Forerunner Ventures (investors in brands like Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime) and General Catalyst (investors in products like Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap). They're joined by amazing operators and executives from companies and organizations like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, Obama White House, Hollywood, and more. Learn more at https://clay.earth/announcement

Our stack: Python, Django, React.js, Redux, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kubernetes, Swift UI, SwiftUI

We process hundreds of millions of data points a day and are building technically-innovative product features like iMessage integration, local-first indexed search and data processing, and much more.

If you're passionate about building magical product experiences in productivity and SaaS and want to join a small, technical team to help people be more thoughtful, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more and apply at https://apply.workable.com/clayearth

zachh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)
Clay | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, iOS Engineer, Data Engineer, Product Design, Growth | Full-time | Remote (US or EU timezones) | https://clay.earth

Clay is a beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your professional life. Connect your email, calendar, Twitter, and Linkedin, and Clay will bring in the people you know, remind you how you know them, and help you be more thoughtful with them over time.

We just announced our $8 million seed round led by Forerunner Ventures (investors in brands like Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime) and General Catalyst (investors in products like Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap). They're joined by amazing operators and executives from companies and organizations like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, Obama White House, Hollywood, and more. Learn more at https://clay.earth/announcement

Our stack: Python, Django, React.js, Redux, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kubernetes, Swift UI, SwiftUI

We process hundreds of millions of data points a day and are building technically-innovative product features like iMessage integration, local-first indexed search and data processing, and much more.

If you're passionate about building magical product experiences in productivity and SaaS and want to join a small, technical team to help people be more thoughtful, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more and apply at https://apply.workable.com/clayearth

zachh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)
Clay | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, iOS Engineer, Data Engineer, Product Design, Growth | Full-time | Remote | https://clay.earth

Clay is a beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your professional life. Connect your email, calendar, Twitter, and Linkedin, and Clay will bring in the people you know, remind you how you know them, and help you be more thoughtful with them over time.

We just announced our $8 million seed round led by Forerunner Ventures (investors in brands like Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime) and General Catalyst (investors in products like Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap). They're joined by amazing operators and executives from companies and organizations like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, Obama White House, Hollywood, and more. Learn more at https://clay.earth/announcement

Our stack: Python, Django, React.js, Redux, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kubernetes, Swift UI, SwiftUI

We process hundreds of millions of data points a day and are building technically-innovative product features like iMessage integration, local-first indexed search and data processing, and much more.

If you're passionate about building magical product experiences in productivity and SaaS and want to join a small, technical team to help people be more thoughtful, we'd love to hear from you. Email us at careers@clay.earth or learn more at https://clay.earth/careers

zachh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
Clay | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, iOS Engineer, Data Engineer, Product Design, Growth | Full-time | Remote | https://clay.earth

Clay is a beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your professional life. Connect your email, calendar, Twitter, and Linkedin, and Clay will bring in the people you know, remind you how you know them, and help you be more thoughtful with them over time.

We just announced our $8 million seed round led by Forerunner Ventures (investors in brands like Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime) and General Catalyst (investors in products like Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap). They're joined by amazing operators and executives from companies and organizations like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, Obama White House, Hollywood, and more. Learn more at https://clay.earth/announcement

Our stack: Python, Django, React.js, Redux, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kubernetes, Swift UI, SwiftUI

We process hundreds of millions of data points a day and are building technically-innovative product features like iMessage integration, local-first indexed search and data processing, and much more.

If you're passionate about building magical product experiences in productivity and SaaS and want to join a small, technical team to help people be more thoughtful, we'd love to hear from you. Email us at careers@clay.earth or learn more at https://clay.earth/careers

zachh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
Clay | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, iOS Engineer, Data Engineer, Product Design, Growth | Full-time | Remote | https://clay.earth

Clay is a beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your professional life. Connect your email, calendar, Twitter, and Linkedin, and Clay will bring in the people you know, remind you how you know them, and help you be more thoughtful with them over time.

We just announced our $8 million seed round led by Forerunner Ventures (investors in brands like Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime) and General Catalyst (investors in products like Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap). They're joined by amazing operators and executives from companies and organizations like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, Obama White House, Hollywood, and more. Learn more at https://clay.earth/announcement

Our stack: Python, Django, React.js, Redux, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kubernetes, Swift UI, SwiftUI

We process hundreds of millions of data points a day and are building technically-innovative product features like iMessage integration, local-first indexed search and data processing, and much more.

If you're passionate about building magical product experiences in productivity and SaaS and want to join a small, technical team to help people be more thoughtful, we'd love to hear from you. Email us at careers@clay.earth or learn more at https://clay.earth/careers

zachh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)
Clay | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, iOS Engineer, Data Engineer, Product Design, Growth | Full-time | Remote | https://clay.earth

Clay is a beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your professional life. Connect your email, calendar, Twitter, and Linkedin, and Clay will bring in the people you know, remind you how you know them, and help you be more thoughtful with them over time.

We just announced our $8 million seed round led by Forerunner Ventures (investors in brands like Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime) and General Catalyst (investors in products like Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap). They're joined by amazing operators and executives from companies and organizations like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, Obama White House, Hollywood, and more. Learn more at https://clay.earth/announcement

Our stack: Python, Django, React.js, Redux, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Swift UI

We process hundreds of millions of data points a day and are building technically-innovative product features like iMessage integration, local-first indexed search and data processing, and much more.

If you're passionate about building magical product experiences and want to join a small, technical team to help people be more thoughtful, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out directly via https://clay.earth/careers

zachh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
Clay | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, iOS Engineer, Data Engineer, Product Design, Growth | Full-time | Remote | https://clay.earth

Clay is a beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your professional life. Connect your email, calendar, Twitter, and Linkedin, and Clay will bring in the people you know, remind you how you know them, and help you be more thoughtful with them over time.

We just announced our $8 million seed round led by Forerunner Ventures (investors in brands like Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime) and General Catalyst (investors in products like Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap). They're joined by amazing operators and executives from companies and organizations like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, Obama White House, Hollywood, and more. Learn more at https://clay.earth/announcement

Our stack: Python, Django, React.js, Redux, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Swift UI

We process hundreds of millions of data points a day and are building technically-innovative product features like iMessage integration, local-first indexed search and data processing, and much more.

If you're passionate about building magical product experiences and want to join a small, technical team to help people be more thoughtful, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out directly via https://clay.earth/careers

zachh··on Show HN: A Django code review bot for GitHub pull requests
This looks really great! Is there a privacy policy?
zachh··on Ask HN: Should I find a job or try to build a profitable project?
If you post your email / contact info on your profile, I can reach out with some ideas. I work in NYC and happy to connect you with people depending on your interest areas / skillset.
zachh··on Ask HN: What are the best banking offers for startups today?
Brex (YC W17) is probably the most frequently recommended one recently: https://brex.com

Otherwise the cards / accounts from most major banks (Bank of America, Chase, etc.) do fine as well.

zachh··on We ditched Google Analytics
What do you use as a front-end?
zachh··on We ditched Google Analytics
Is there any analytics solution that allows for on-prem data storage? Only one I know of is Adobe Analytics (formerly Omniture).
zachh··on Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery
This is exactly the problem we're trying to solve with http://bowery.io. There's so much amazing OSS that's hard to set up, making it hard to focus on the actual development/coding/research you want to do.
zachh··on Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
Really funny—I was considering using that as one of the other scenarios in the post. Citymapper actually does it as well, but is more reliable on named streets (e.g. "Mercer and Broome"). What Google Maps does well is realizing that 13th and 2nd can't mean 13th avenue (since that doesn't exist) so it will show directions to 13th street and 2nd avenue.
zachh··on Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
Sorry about that—I've changed the two largest GIFs to videos, and will make a few of the other ones videos as well.
zachh··on The open-source "svblte like" blogging platform
Can you use a custom domain with the hosted version?
zachh··on Students helping students launch startups
There's a huge interest in technology, entrepreneurship, and startups in Boston. The Boston ecosystem is incredibly unique, and I'm looking forward to addressing the need for student seed funding here. We're here to help students, so feel free to reach out to us on the site if you would like to chat!
zachh··on Students Learn as Well from Software as from Live Teachers
As interesting as the finding is, it's not exactly surprising that college students learn as well from software as professors. What I want to know is whether K-12 students (especially the lower end of that) learn just as well. My intuition is no, that early childhood education will always require some amount of human educational support, but I'd love to see research confirming or denying as much.
zachh··on Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail
Boomerang for Gmail is already amazing, and this seems like an even more incredible addition to streamline email + calendar scheduling.

Awesome job guys! Keep up the good work.

zachh··on I Want to Work for Khan
Ah, thanks for the heads up. I hadn't tested it extensively, but I'll fix that up.
zachh··on I Want to Work for Khan
Thanks so much Ben!
zachh··on I Want to Work for Khan
Hi everyone! I put together this page as a fun project to showcase a bit of my background and reasons I want to intern at Khan Academy this summer. Thanks HN!
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