benhowdle

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Become a 100x Engineer(100x.iamdevloper.io)
5 points by benhowdle 21d ago|3 comments
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Show HN: Somna – Pattern recognition for your nervous system(meetsomna.com)
1 points by benhowdle 7mo ago|0 comments
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by benhowdle 2y ago
Hey y’all, I wrote about my 6-year tenure as a CTO across two fintech startups, specifically around securing banking systems. I was particularly proud of the GraphQL/Redis solution I came up with which enabled the part "This means
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by benhowdle 2y ago
https://reqres.in/ - roughly that much in ads revenue. Would love to add a paid plan for more features, but....time.
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Show HN: Bulk social media post creation(contentcaddy.io)
5 points by benhowdle 2y ago|0 comments
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Chaos Engineering: Jurassic Park and Distributed Systems(benhowdle.im)
1 points by benhowdle 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A PS5 stock checker on Vercel with Redis
1 points by benhowdle 6y ago|0 comments
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The 3-Phase Time-Off Schedule for Contractors(benhowdle.im)
3 points by benhowdle 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How would you monetize a reasonably popular free service?
1 points by benhowdle 6y ago|3 comments
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by benhowdle 7y ago
Yup, $5/month DigitalOcean droplet + free CloudFlare tier.
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Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
30 points by benhowdle 7y ago|26 comments
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by benhowdle 8y ago
Oh, never spotted this: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero#running-on-cloud Oops. Couldn't see it on the main docs site ( https://zeroserver.io/ )
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by benhowdle 8y ago
Ace! but in terms of running it, how would Heroku know how to, ie. if there's no `package.json`, there'll be no `npm run start` defined?
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by benhowdle 8y ago
Maybe a silly question, but is there anything one needs to consider before deploying this to, let's say, Heroku?
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by benhowdle 8y ago
> When you built this, did you validate the idea at all with people in your own network (or extended network) wether they wanted something like this? Having worked in 'websites' for 9+ years, I spotted the pain points people ha
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Ask HN: Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?
92 points by benhowdle 8y ago|62 comments
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Show HN: Reflection-less selfies camera app for (sun)glasses wearers(benhowdle.im)
1 points by benhowdle 8y ago|0 comments
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Notes on using Vue and React in production(benhowdle.im)
2 points by benhowdle 8y ago|0 comments
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by benhowdle 9y ago
Hey y'all. I built this last week to scratch a very personal itch. It looks back through all the playlists you've created, finds overlapping tracks, orders them by occurrence and pushes the top 30 into a new "Top Spot" p
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Show HN: Top Spot – your own personal Spotify greatest hits playlist(top-spot.stream)
2 points by benhowdle 9y ago|1 comments
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Building a Twitter Reader with a Serverless API(medium.com)
2 points by benhowdle 9y ago|0 comments
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by benhowdle 9y ago
Author of the post here - that really does sound like a good idea.
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Making Jekyll workflow a bit better(benhowdle.im)
1 points by benhowdle 9y ago|0 comments
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by benhowdle 10y ago
For sure, and the I fully appreciate the irony of me promoting this on Twitter (if everyone used this, no-one would see my tweet). I feel like this can just aid a certain way of using Twitter, ie. by being broadcast-only (maybe posting from
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by benhowdle 10y ago
What is life...
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by benhowdle 10y ago
You'd be wise to think that, but I actually use Heroku's "Scheduler" add-on, so they just fire up a one-off dyno once a day and run my script. This script just checks the database for the user's it needs to check (p
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by benhowdle 10y ago
Very true. I figured it was a low enough fee that if Twitter cut me off/it became irrelevant, it's not the biggest loss for the paying user (obviously sucks, but didn't feel it warranted yearly subscriptions)
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by benhowdle 10y ago
Hey, have now added a couple of screenshots on the homepage!
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Show HN: Your Twitter mentions and DMs in an email on a schedule that suits you(disconnect.today)
44 points by benhowdle 10y ago|20 comments
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3 incredibly boring but highly effective ways to learn JavaScript(medium.com)
1 points by benhowdle 10y ago|0 comments

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