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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do people actually pay for small web tools?

Ask HN: Do people actually pay for small web tools? 2 by scratchyone | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, there's a lot of web stuff and tools I'd love to make that I think would honestly be worth a small subscription ($5/mo maybe). I'm always a bit wary of approaching these ideas though because I feel like nobody would ever pay for small web stuff? I see a lot of success stories but I don't know how much they can be trusted. Those of you who have built small single-use indie tools, do you find that anybody at all actually subscribes? A lot of the stuff I wanna try involves AI so I'd have to make sure subscription profits offset the cost of providing free demos.

New ask Hacker News story: SwipeJobs App – Tinder for Job Seekers

SwipeJobs App – Tinder for Job Seekers 3 by fidla | 2 comments on Hacker News. Imagine Tinder, but for your dream job! SwipeJobs is a revolutionary app that transforms the job hunt into a fun, intuitive experience. Upload your resume, and our AI doesn’t just match keywords—it learns your personality, work style, and even your tolerance for terrible office coffee. Swipe right on gigs that spark joy, left on soul-crushing cubicle traps. With a “Vibe Meter” to gauge team chemistry and instant matches to top companies, SwipeJobs makes finding the perfect role as easy as finding a date. Let’s disrupt the job market together! Devs, who’s in? #SwipeJobs #JobHunting #AI

New ask Hacker News story: Is current state of querying on observability data broken?

Is current state of querying on observability data broken? 4 by pranay01 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks! I’m a maintainer at SigNoz[0], an open-source observability platform Looking to get some feedback on my observations on querying for o11y and if this resonates with more folks here I feel that current observability tooling significantly lags behind user expectations by failing to support a critical capability: querying across different telemetry signals. This limitation turns what should be powerful correlation capabilities into mere “correlation theater”, a superficial simulation of insights rather than true analytical power. Here’s the current gaps I see 1/ Suppose I want to retrieve logs from the host which have the highest CPU in the last 13 minutes. It’s not possible to query this seamlessly today unless you query the metrics first and paste the results into logs query builder and retrieve your results. Seamless correlation across signal querying is nearly impossible...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Our only salesperson was working for a competitor. Advice?

Ask HN: Our only salesperson was working for a competitor. Advice? 4 by betrayawayed555 | 0 comments on Hacker News. We recently discovered that our sole sales employee - a remote, highly trusted team member - had been secretly working with a competitor for over 16 months, possibly longer, potentially spanning their entire tenure with us. This was all while under a full-time employment agreement with a non-compete clause (covering both during and post-employment). We’re a small Canadian B2B SaaS company (< 20 people), incorporated in one province, with this employee based in another. They attended trade shows representing the competitor (while claiming they were there on our behalf or calling in sick). They serviced inbound leads for the competitor during our workday, likely used our ZoomInfo subscription for their benefit, and were in a position to divert leads without our knowledge. The list goes on. We were genuinely on good terms - we liked them, trusted them, and thought we ...

New ask Hacker News story: What do people use for on-call these days?

What do people use for on-call these days? 2 by skullum | 0 comments on Hacker News. Pagerduty feels like it used to be the dominant player especially for small teams but I found it surprisingly expensive and cumbersome to use for a small team and Ops-genie is EOL, splunk on-call feels weird to use w/o splunk.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Should Hacker News have a "prompts" section to AI code novel apps/games?

Ask HN: Should Hacker News have a "prompts" section to AI code novel apps/games? 2 by amichail | 2 comments on Hacker News. Each post would consist of a self-contained prompt for coding a novel web app/game along with the recommended AI(s) for doing so.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Will We Rethink Calendars?

Ask HN: Will We Rethink Calendars? 3 by kamphey | 1 comments on Hacker News. In the past the whole world used different calendars and ways to represent time. Currently a few religions still have alternative cale dars. In the near future do you think calendars will be vastly different than now?