arachno1999's comments

On: Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI

[arachno1999]

Had the opposite idea: https://moltjobs.arachno.de (just a fake website. done in 5 minutes).

On: Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?

[arachno1999]

I‘m using Tyme 3 and am totally happy with it.

On: Ask HN: Open-source sentiment analysis toolkit, a valid small business idea?

[arachno1999]

Some thoughts against it: Chatbots are a crowded market already. Chatbots that are delivering value for a company are very product specific -> lot of training needed As the customers seem not to understand the process of building a chatbot, it will be very difficult to find the 10-20% of whatever. Selling cheap is not less tedious than selling high end.

To proof me wrong, just try to sell the idea as a not yet existent or as a fake product. Build a landing page where people can subscribe to get further information, lead a few prospects to this page and count the subscriptions.

[heshiming → arachno1999]

Hands down, the fake landing page idea is genius!

On: The way that this script runs forever should scare you

[arachno1999]

Not that scary. Just evidence that shell does a „read line, execute line“ loop.

On: Ask HN: What interesting data you have found using a web scraper?

[arachno1999]

Only the data i‘ve been looking for :-)

[forgotmysn → arachno1999]

lol ya web scrapers are pretty targeted. unless you're the nsa, it's pretty tough to vacuum up everything.

[deadcoder0904 → forgotmysn]

you can find something interesting. data always tells an interesting story if you look close enough :)

[deadcoder0904 → arachno1999]

duh. anything that surprised you?

On: A Laravel package that allow you to import data from a spreadsheet to your app

[arachno1999]

I‘m just starten with Laravel. But this sounds interesting.

[lao9s → arachno1999]

Thank you for your reply! Good choise, Laravel it's an awesome framework. Are you from other stack or just started to learn web development?

On: Ask HN: Where can I learn about integrating services with my app?

[arachno1999]

Don‘t think too far into the future. Check market fit first. If it‘s successfull decide very carefully between make and buy. I.e. There are several cloud service providers where small virtual machines start under 3$/month and some of them can be fully automated.

On: Ask HN: Free Google Analytics Replacement?

[arachno1999]

Matomo.

On: Ask HN: What are the best cloud VM providers with great APIs?

[arachno1999]

Have a look at scaleway.com. Nice API. Did Dome interesting stuff with it. For bigger projects it may be a good idea to have a dedicated server and play around with „virsh“ (KVM).

On: Ask HN: Scalable Hosting for Side Project

[arachno1999]

I used Scaleway and Hetzner so far. Both are good regarding GDPDR issues and both have well working APIs and can be integrated with Terraform. Hetzner starts at 2.99 €/month With the smallest virtual server.