paulwarren's comments

On: Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs

[paulwarren]

we built this "work-level" catalog at Margins [1] -- 12mo+ of work -- book data is the messiest data I've worked with in my 10+ years of building things with data

[1] iOS app to track and discover books: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737528718

[wredcoll → paulwarren]

I spent a couple of years working on this as a hobby and, yeah, book metadata is difficult to explain just how irregular it actually is. It might actually be worse than people names.

That being said, the reason I was working on this was because I wanted a simple and effective way to get alerted to new books published by authors I want to track, can this work for that?

[paulwarren → wredcoll]

As a feature within our app, probably Q2/Q3 this year; we want to finish backfilling historical books before turning actual notifications on

As an API for you to query yourself for free, not for a while (but on the long-term roadmap!)

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)

[paulwarren]

Margins (https://margins.app/) | iOS (Bay Area-based), Backend/Data/AI (Remote within US) | Full-time

We're building the killer app for books. We launched on Christmas Eve and hit 100k users; now we're hiring:

1) a Bay Area-based iOS Design Engineer 2) a Bay Area-based iOS Engineer 3) a Backend/Data/AI Engineer

to help win an Apple Design Award and build the best catalog of book data in the world, respectively.

If "craftsmanship" and "books" resonates, send a description of some things you've worked on to paul@margins.app

More info: https://margins.app/jobs

On: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

[paulwarren]

We're building the killer app for books

Starting with a native iOS app to to track and discover books [1]

Focusing on notetaking and cozy social this year as we try to grow from 100k to 1m+ users

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737528718

[vnce → paulwarren]

Neat. Will try :)

[paulwarren → vnce]

:) hmu at paul@margins.app with any questions or feedback!

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)

[paulwarren]

Margins | [Backend, Data, iOS] | REMOTE (SF Bay Area preferred) | Full-time

We're building a home for readers online, starting with an iOS app to track and discover books: https://margins.app/download

We just went from 0 to 100k users in 2 months, raised a seed, and are now hiring 2-3 more engineers. If "craftsmanship" and "books" resonates, we'd love to chat: paul@margins.app

SwiftUI, TypeScript, some Python, GraphQL, Postgres, Supabase, Vercel

On: Show HN: TensorZero – open-source data and learning flywheel for LLMs

[paulwarren]

Where are the benchmarks that show <1ms p99 overhead? That seems intense to me.

[GabrielBianconi → paulwarren]

https://www.tensorzero.com/docs/gateway/benchmarks :)

On: Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o

[paulwarren]

Check out the OpenLibrary Covers API: https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers