rakjosh

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by rakjosh 5y ago
"Created 34 minutes ago Waiting in a queue… You will get an email upon portrait generation." Not sure if this is legit or just a way to collect data. I find it odd that it has been 34 minutes and my image is still in queue.
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Ask HN: Has there been significant traffic surge to Reddit because of GameStop?
1 points by rakjosh 6y ago|0 comments
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Searchable PPP Loans – City, State, Lender, Loan Amount, Business Name $150K(ppp-loan.info)
2 points by rakjosh 6y ago|0 comments
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by rakjosh 6y ago
I was working on a similar website :) https://ppp-loan.info/
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by rakjosh 6y ago
https://ppp-loan.info/ Shows all the businesses that were approved for more than $150K Loan (SBA PPP Loan). Filter by company name, city, state, loan amount
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Show HN: Website to see all Businesses that received SBA PPP Loan with amount(ppp-loan.info)
3 points by rakjosh 6y ago|2 comments
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by rakjosh 6y ago
Created a small website to find businesses in my city that received SBA PPP (Payment Protection Program) Loan. For now the you can find businesses that received loan above $150K filtered by Name, city, state, amount. I'll be adding som
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Ask HN: I came across customer data exposed, for a company I interviewed?
2 points by rakjosh 7y ago|1 comments
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by rakjosh 8y ago
I don't think I'll be able to do dictionary checks because people from different country use this, in their own languages. I get around 5-6K people every day from all around the globe. It would be ideal, but very hard to implement
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by rakjosh 8y ago
IP is not something I can rely on, because looks like they have enough unique IP addresses to use. And like you said, motivated and a lot of time on their hand. I feel like adding that 60 seconds delay only make the UX bad for genuine users
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Ask HN: How to prevent abuse of free service costing money to website?
13 points by rakjosh 8y ago|14 comments
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by rakjosh 8y ago
This is my website if anyone was wondering: https://freephonenum.com/ My competitor was scrapping all my phone numbers and SMS received from my site and displaying it on their site. It took me several months to figure that
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by rakjosh 8y ago
The content is served using API that is open for everyone to use. And that is making it difficult for me to protect it. I've tried changing the structure of API response several times, but they counter it within few hours. Tried addi
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by rakjosh 8y ago
That is what I did initially. My API was sending garbage data Saying this website is shutting down, please visit [mysite] for more info :D. But later on, they figured, I was sending garbage data and people were visiting my site because of
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by rakjosh 8y ago
That was definitely a very good resource. I've gone through that and tried to implement as many things as I could.
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Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher
224 points by rakjosh 8y ago|123 comments
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Ask HN: Disposable Phone Number sites and legality
3 points by rakjosh 8y ago|1 comments