I am presently making $144,000 salary as a Director of Product Management, but I really feel it is futile to continue serving the corporate masters. There is this void that I feel in going to work every day -- dealing with commutes, bad stress (not good stress), dumb co-workers, and the office politics. And I realized that while the paycheck sounds to be good on paper, the salary after taxes, living expenses, etc - it is really not that much. I really don't have that much real work per se ( so are the other peers -- no one would want to admit) - a lot of it is really busy work ; preparing Powerpoints, replying to emails, etc. But we all show our face and warm our chair from 9 am to 6 pm because everybody is afraid of being labeled a 'slacker'. Having been through one layoff and one micro-manager, I realize that working in a company is really not that stress-free, secure, or financially viable in the long run.There's no such thing as job security.
I am looking to create a startup / small business (funding can be optional) where we can be the sole owners and make good income over and above what we could earn from working at a day job. Ideally, we will start doing this on the side until it matures. For the past two years, I currently have a side online business where I net about $38,000 per year so I have some experience in starting an online small business, but it is not enough for me to quit my day job yet.
I am not shooting for millions or billions, simply a small business where we could earn $400,000+ so each of us can get $200,000 and then stop working at our day job and then grow the business.
I attended a lot of events and talked to a lot of people and read a lot of books. Some of my favorite business / work philosophy comes from:
. Founders of Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) -- try Google them
. 37 Signals' Getting Real\n. David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
. 37 Signals' Re-work
. Blue Ocean Strategy book
My background:
. BS in Computer Science ( graduated with perfect GPA)
. Worked as programmer (software design engineer) at Microsoft
. MS from Stanford
. worked over 10 years as engineer and later product managers at various high tech companies in the bay area (Yahoo, PayPal, etc).
. strong SEO, online marketing, web app, viral, affiliate marketing, etc.
. smart and organized
What I am looking is:
* programmer / coder that could build beautiful web applications from scratch , say in RoR
* programmer / coder that wants to be owners
* you want to be in charge and are looking to break free from your modern day slavery ( day job )
Ideally:\n* you have enough free time on nights/days to do coding, perhaps aside from your not too-demanding day job
* you have the know-how and skills to build medium-scale to large web application from scratch
If all this sounds interesting to you, let me know please.. my email is: productguy09 (at) gmail dot com
Thank you for your time!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How to find technical cofounder who wants to start a small business?"}},"_tags":["story","author_productguy","story_2975490","ask_hn"],"author":"productguy","children":[2976348,2977979,2996694],"created_at":"2011-09-08T20:13:35Z","created_at_i":1315512815,"num_comments":5,"objectID":"2975490","points":11,"story_id":2975490,"story_text":"I have been reading Hacker News for the past couple years... anyway I am currently working as a product manager in my day job and am interested in starting a startup / small business. And let me underline the \"small business\". Many cofounders are too keen on tackling big billion dollar ideas, but I think there are many low-key ideas that can generate good revenue without even getting VC funding.
I am presently making $144,000 salary as a Director of Product Management, but I really feel it is futile to continue serving the corporate masters. There is this void that I feel in going to work every day -- dealing with commutes, bad stress (not good stress), dumb co-workers, and the office politics. And I realized that while the paycheck sounds to be good on paper, the salary after taxes, living expenses, etc - it is really not that much. I really don't have that much real work per se ( so are the other peers -- no one would want to admit) - a lot of it is really busy work ; preparing Powerpoints, replying to emails, etc. But we all show our face and warm our chair from 9 am to 6 pm because everybody is afraid of being labeled a 'slacker'. Having been through one layoff and one micro-manager, I realize that working in a company is really not that stress-free, secure, or financially viable in the long run.There's no such thing as job security.
I am looking to create a startup / small business (funding can be optional) where we can be the sole owners and make good income over and above what we could earn from working at a day job. Ideally, we will start doing this on the side until it matures. For the past two years, I currently have a side online business where I net about $38,000 per year so I have some experience in starting an online small business, but it is not enough for me to quit my day job yet.
I am not shooting for millions or billions, simply a small business where we could earn $400,000+ so each of us can get $200,000 and then stop working at our day job and then grow the business.
I attended a lot of events and talked to a lot of people and read a lot of books. Some of my favorite business / work philosophy comes from:
. Founders of Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) -- try Google them
. 37 Signals' Getting Real\n. David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
. 37 Signals' Re-work
. Blue Ocean Strategy book
My background:
. BS in Computer Science ( graduated with perfect GPA)
. Worked as programmer (software design engineer) at Microsoft
. MS from Stanford
. worked over 10 years as engineer and later product managers at various high tech companies in the bay area (Yahoo, PayPal, etc).
. strong SEO, online marketing, web app, viral, affiliate marketing, etc.
. smart and organized
What I am looking is:
* programmer / coder that could build beautiful web applications from scratch , say in RoR
* programmer / coder that wants to be owners
* you want to be in charge and are looking to break free from your modern day slavery ( day job )
Ideally:\n* you have enough free time on nights/days to do coding, perhaps aside from your not too-demanding day job
* you have the know-how and skills to build medium-scale to large web application from scratch
If all this sounds interesting to you, let me know please.. my email is: productguy09 (at) gmail dot com
Thank you for your time!","title":"Ask HN: How to find technical cofounder who wants to start a small business?","updated_at":"2025-06-12T21:29:20Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pure-orange"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Hey HN. I made a micro site one recent evening to see upcoming (and recent past) timezone transitions. At my job, we have some timezone specific code where we often see spikes in metrics due to random timezone shifts around the world. Just for fun, I wanted a way to easily see where and what this timezone shift might have been, so built this mini site to do so.
Its fully clientside and works by making use of the Internationalization API, so if you need an API for this you're coming to the wrong place, but feel free to yoink the code.
Its just one fat index.html file. Served off my VPS via caddy file server. No dependencies or build steps. See the code in the github link below.
All the CSS is "vibe coded", I think it looks pretty cool.
As an aside, I love that AI has made it so easy to spit out sites like this. My personal site is filled with subdomains like this one with little random tools which I occasionally use.
https://github.com/rupert648/timezone-fuckery/blob/main/inde..."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: I made a mini site to see timezone shifts"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://tz.pert.dev"}},"_tags":["story","author_pure-orange","story_45075807","show_hn"],"author":"pure-orange","created_at":"2025-08-30T16:15:08Z","created_at_i":1756570508,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"45075807","points":8,"story_id":45075807,"story_text":"Hey HN. I made a micro site one recent evening to see upcoming (and recent past) timezone transitions. At my job, we have some timezone specific code where we often see spikes in metrics due to random timezone shifts around the world. Just for fun, I wanted a way to easily see where and what this timezone shift might have been, so built this mini site to do so.
Its fully clientside and works by making use of the Internationalization API, so if you need an API for this you're coming to the wrong place, but feel free to yoink the code.
Its just one fat index.html file. Served off my VPS via caddy file server. No dependencies or build steps. See the code in the github link below.
All the CSS is "vibe coded", I think it looks pretty cool.
As an aside, I love that AI has made it so easy to spit out sites like this. My personal site is filled with subdomains like this one with little random tools which I occasionally use.
https://github.com/rupert648/timezone-fuckery/blob/main/inde...","title":"Show HN: I made a mini site to see timezone shifts","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:34:49Z","url":"https://tz.pert.dev"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"robiot"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"I have been building popular open-source projects, but got no pay.
I have been working at software companies, experienced toxic work environments, and was massively underpaid.
That was enough.
I remembered the childhood dream of mine, to become an inventor and CEO. Yes, that has been my dream for ages.
I quit the job and had 1 plan in mind, to pursue the childhood dream of mine by building companies from scratch and growing them bigger and bigger.
I get a special feeling that is hard to describe every time I think about the dream. Something that tells me it is possible, only if I don't give up.
I got an idea when I was on the plane home from Paris. It was for a global mega-business which "could earn millions".
But I never realized how big of a project it would need to be.
I was hiding the details from my friends, but told them I had an idea which would make me millions. What happened?
I applied to YC W24 with the project after 79 video record attempts. But I was not accepted. I understand that now, since the project was way too BIG, and I had done nothing more than the start of a static mobile app.
That project was abandoned and I became unmotivated to code.
For almost two full months, I was just playing games. And then I became depressed. Because that wasn't what I wanted.
I started applying to remote jobs, since I was in need of income. But I soon realized I wouldn't get hired as a 16 year old in any conventional way, even if I had 4 years of experience.
1 job offer required you to have experience building Browser Extensions. I didn't have that.
So I thought to myself, let's make one real quick. Then I can say I have experience. This led to brainstorming of ideas. I thought of simply doing a note app, BUT there were already so many.
I finally came up with a twist that could make it OK. Now I wouldn't say this was the ~best idea, but it would at least give me experience with extensions.
I was telling my friends that this project could earn thousands. After a few weeks, I released the project, but got NO SALES (except my friend). I tried doing marketing on Twitter, TikTok, Reddit but it never led to any income.
Then I realized it was pretty shit, became unmotivated and the project kind of died.
I started being more active on twitter and got into the Indie-Hacking community. I saw all these people making tens of thousands a month with these mini-websites.
It looked very tempting, seemed easy and I wanted to try it. This ended up with me creating one micro one-page AI startup to generate Curlyhair images of you. This is also a shit idea which my friend pointed out today: "Who wanna pay $6 to get four pictures of their hair as curly?".
Now I would love to have it free. But as the founder: It costs to have the domain, run the AI and host the website reliably. I don't know how to convert more users, but I guess the idea doesn't have much potential.
Currently I think all ideas I get are bad, which really bothers me. I want to make a successful business, but I need the correct idea + execution. I always have big goals with the project at the start, tell my friends and they get hyped, but then it never takes off.
It doesn't feel good, since this could make them lose trust in me?! I'm scared of the hypothetical scenario 20 years in the future where I haven't gotten anywhere. I don't want that to happen!
Now I know some of you will say "oh you are only 16, don't worry". But when I see other people my age already raising millions and having tens of thousands of followers, I don't feel good since I'm not there yet.
Who am I? GitHub: github.com/robiot, and website robiot.dev
This is mostly a rant I suppose. but idk wtf to do. I just want to quit school rn and build a million dollar startup, but I don't have the idea and marketing knowledge.
I guess I have to find cool successful people somehow, and that way learn the whole business side of startups."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: My dream but fuck how to achieve anything?"}},"_tags":["story","author_robiot","story_39808626","ask_hn"],"author":"robiot","children":[39808683,39808724,39808749,39808805,39817286],"created_at":"2024-03-24T17:23:15Z","created_at_i":1711300995,"num_comments":5,"objectID":"39808626","points":5,"story_id":39808626,"story_text":"I have been building popular open-source projects, but got no pay.
I have been working at software companies, experienced toxic work environments, and was massively underpaid.
That was enough.
I remembered the childhood dream of mine, to become an inventor and CEO. Yes, that has been my dream for ages.
I quit the job and had 1 plan in mind, to pursue the childhood dream of mine by building companies from scratch and growing them bigger and bigger.
I get a special feeling that is hard to describe every time I think about the dream. Something that tells me it is possible, only if I don't give up.
I got an idea when I was on the plane home from Paris. It was for a global mega-business which "could earn millions".
But I never realized how big of a project it would need to be.
I was hiding the details from my friends, but told them I had an idea which would make me millions. What happened?
I applied to YC W24 with the project after 79 video record attempts. But I was not accepted. I understand that now, since the project was way too BIG, and I had done nothing more than the start of a static mobile app.
That project was abandoned and I became unmotivated to code.
For almost two full months, I was just playing games. And then I became depressed. Because that wasn't what I wanted.
I started applying to remote jobs, since I was in need of income. But I soon realized I wouldn't get hired as a 16 year old in any conventional way, even if I had 4 years of experience.
1 job offer required you to have experience building Browser Extensions. I didn't have that.
So I thought to myself, let's make one real quick. Then I can say I have experience. This led to brainstorming of ideas. I thought of simply doing a note app, BUT there were already so many.
I finally came up with a twist that could make it OK. Now I wouldn't say this was the ~best idea, but it would at least give me experience with extensions.
I was telling my friends that this project could earn thousands. After a few weeks, I released the project, but got NO SALES (except my friend). I tried doing marketing on Twitter, TikTok, Reddit but it never led to any income.
Then I realized it was pretty shit, became unmotivated and the project kind of died.
I started being more active on twitter and got into the Indie-Hacking community. I saw all these people making tens of thousands a month with these mini-websites.
It looked very tempting, seemed easy and I wanted to try it. This ended up with me creating one micro one-page AI startup to generate Curlyhair images of you. This is also a shit idea which my friend pointed out today: "Who wanna pay $6 to get four pictures of their hair as curly?".
Now I would love to have it free. But as the founder: It costs to have the domain, run the AI and host the website reliably. I don't know how to convert more users, but I guess the idea doesn't have much potential.
Currently I think all ideas I get are bad, which really bothers me. I want to make a successful business, but I need the correct idea + execution. I always have big goals with the project at the start, tell my friends and they get hyped, but then it never takes off.
It doesn't feel good, since this could make them lose trust in me?! I'm scared of the hypothetical scenario 20 years in the future where I haven't gotten anywhere. I don't want that to happen!
Now I know some of you will say "oh you are only 16, don't worry". But when I see other people my age already raising millions and having tens of thousands of followers, I don't feel good since I'm not there yet.
Who am I? GitHub: github.com/robiot, and website robiot.dev
This is mostly a rant I suppose. but idk wtf to do. I just want to quit school rn and build a million dollar startup, but I don't have the idea and marketing knowledge.
I guess I have to find cool successful people somehow, and that way learn the whole business side of startups.","title":"Ask HN: My dream but fuck how to achieve anything?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T16:37:26Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"PythonDeveloper"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"In fact, Heroku and AWS have a boatload of micro-businesses, one of which you run.
If you're serious about your business, you'll host your own servers at a colo (TWO colos if you're really serious) on different network segments/providers, and use Heroku/AWS as a scaling mechanism and NOT a primary computing platform.
They don't care if you lose customers, as long as you don't cancel YOUR account. They'll get more new customers tomorrow due to the bad press, simply because those customers were out of the loop and just now heard about Heroku or AWS and it looks cool when they get there.
Running your own servers is the responsible thing to do if you want to OWN your business and not just look cool by using the latest brand named cloud service thrown around by everyone.
No, Heroku/AWS zealots will not agree with me, but they've never run their own data center. They have no experience.
Get real people. The cloud is just a REALLY expensive way to sell shared servers.
Why do I say this?
I run my own servers on 3 dedicated 1gbps connections, and while you pay $0.12/GB on AWS/Heroku (actually, Heroku costs more, but they bury it in their worker pricing so it looks free), I pay $0.01 per GB. That's right, 1 cent per GB.
While an 8-core machine costs me $0.42/hour all tolled (machine, power, space), you pay almost $0.66/hour on EC2 with no SLA, meaning you're not ALWAYS getting the same machine specs every minute of every hour. You're getting a MAXIMUM commitment of resources, not a MINIMUM commitment.
Yes, I own my own machines. No, they ARE NOT expensive if you know how to buy them.
Heroku has been down 3+ hours this time, and last year had a 70+ hour outage. On my own servers, I haven't had 3 TOTAL hours of downtime in 5 years.
If you want help with server deployment strategy, contact me directly."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Heroku and AWS users... You don't have a business."},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_PythonDeveloper","story_4115191","ask_hn"],"author":"PythonDeveloper","children":[4115411],"created_at":"2012-06-15T05:30:30Z","created_at_i":1339738230,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"4115191","points":3,"story_id":4115191,"story_text":"In fact, Heroku and AWS have a boatload of micro-businesses, one of which you run.
If you're serious about your business, you'll host your own servers at a colo (TWO colos if you're really serious) on different network segments/providers, and use Heroku/AWS as a scaling mechanism and NOT a primary computing platform.
They don't care if you lose customers, as long as you don't cancel YOUR account. They'll get more new customers tomorrow due to the bad press, simply because those customers were out of the loop and just now heard about Heroku or AWS and it looks cool when they get there.
Running your own servers is the responsible thing to do if you want to OWN your business and not just look cool by using the latest brand named cloud service thrown around by everyone.
No, Heroku/AWS zealots will not agree with me, but they've never run their own data center. They have no experience.
Get real people. The cloud is just a REALLY expensive way to sell shared servers.
Why do I say this?
I run my own servers on 3 dedicated 1gbps connections, and while you pay $0.12/GB on AWS/Heroku (actually, Heroku costs more, but they bury it in their worker pricing so it looks free), I pay $0.01 per GB. That's right, 1 cent per GB.
While an 8-core machine costs me $0.42/hour all tolled (machine, power, space), you pay almost $0.66/hour on EC2 with no SLA, meaning you're not ALWAYS getting the same machine specs every minute of every hour. You're getting a MAXIMUM commitment of resources, not a MINIMUM commitment.
Yes, I own my own machines. No, they ARE NOT expensive if you know how to buy them.
Heroku has been down 3+ hours this time, and last year had a 70+ hour outage. On my own servers, I haven't had 3 TOTAL hours of downtime in 5 years.
If you want help with server deployment strategy, contact me directly.","title":"Heroku and AWS users... You don't have a business.","updated_at":"2024-09-19T18:35:07Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"AliThink"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Hi HN,
I built NightClear because during the day I'm productive. At night, my brain becomes a worst-case-scenario simulator.
Based on CBT's "structured worry time" \u2014 instead of suppressing anxious thoughts, you give them a container:
1. Type what's on your mind (free-form, private)\n2. LLM analyzes: core issue, controllable vs not\n3. Generates one micro-action for tomorrow\n4. Breathing exercise
SwiftUI, SwiftData (local), LLM API. Dark mode only. No account needed. No social/gamification.
Free: 3/week. Pro: $4.99/mo or $29.99/yr (7-day trial).
iOS only. Would love feedback on the AI analysis quality."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: NightClear \u2013 AI anxiety clearing for bedtime"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nightclear/id6759195031"}},"_tags":["story","author_AliThink","story_47180189","show_hn"],"author":"AliThink","created_at":"2026-02-27T13:16:58Z","created_at_i":1772198218,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"47180189","points":1,"story_id":47180189,"story_text":"Hi HN,
I built NightClear because during the day I'm productive. At night, my brain becomes a worst-case-scenario simulator.
Based on CBT's "structured worry time" \u2014 instead of suppressing anxious thoughts, you give them a container:
1. Type what's on your mind (free-form, private)\n2. LLM analyzes: core issue, controllable vs not\n3. Generates one micro-action for tomorrow\n4. Breathing exercise
SwiftUI, SwiftData (local), LLM API. Dark mode only. No account needed. No social/gamification.
Free: 3/week. Pro: $4.99/mo or $29.99/yr (7-day trial).
iOS only. Would love feedback on the AI analysis quality.","title":"Show HN: NightClear \u2013 AI anxiety clearing for bedtime","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:38:29Z","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nightclear/id6759195031"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"irelandcarter"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"https://app.bricleir.com/posts/39?ref=5C8iB5
one micro-vc's take"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"5G Is Like Blockchain"}},"_tags":["story","author_irelandcarter","story_20090617","ask_hn"],"author":"irelandcarter","created_at":"2019-06-04T00:38:03Z","created_at_i":1559608683,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"20090617","points":1,"story_id":20090617,"story_text":"https://app.bricleir.com/posts/39?ref=5C8iB5
one micro-vc's take","title":"5G Is Like Blockchain","updated_at":"2024-09-20T04:21:07Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"draegtun"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Install a Stackato Micro Cloud in One Command"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/03/install-stackato-micro-cloud-one-command"}},"_tags":["story","author_draegtun","story_3757255"],"author":"draegtun","created_at":"2012-03-26T16:00:41Z","created_at_i":1332777641,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"3757255","points":2,"story_id":3757255,"title":"Install a Stackato Micro Cloud in One Command","updated_at":"2023-09-06T21:21:56Z","url":"http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/03/install-stackato-micro-cloud-one-command"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"flippyhead"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"The One Wheel Micro-Cycle"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://rynomotors2.wordpress.com/"}},"_tags":["story","author_flippyhead","story_3197340"],"author":"flippyhead","children":[3197740,3197777,3199109],"created_at":"2011-11-04T19:11:51Z","created_at_i":1320433911,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"3197340","points":4,"story_id":3197340,"title":"The One Wheel Micro-Cycle","updated_at":"2024-09-19T18:08:55Z","url":"http://rynomotors2.wordpress.com/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"peter123"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Super Micro Computer - a One-Man, or at Least One-Family, Powerhouse"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/technology/business-computing/24micro.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_peter123","story_374499"],"author":"peter123","created_at":"2008-11-24T05:53:00Z","created_at_i":1227505980,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"374499","points":3,"story_id":374499,"title":"Super Micro Computer - a One-Man, or at Least One-Family, Powerhouse","updated_at":"2023-09-06T19:28:40Z","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/technology/business-computing/24micro.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"caslamaro"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["one"],"value":"There are a lot of side projects / one-person startups with a lot of future in third world countries that don't prosper only because the owner/creator hasn't enough time to dedicate to it (mainly because his/her main job).
In some of these countries, $1000 monthly would be more than a salary, so investing 1k per month to these projects would allow to its creators to quit its main job to focus on the project.
I think the main problem would be trusting the one who builds the product, who receives 1k per month from the investor in exchange of a percent of the ""company"". Besides that, I think it could be a good idea.
What do you think?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Ask HN: Micro investment for one-person projects in third world countries?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_caslamaro","story_8895933","ask_hn"],"author":"caslamaro","created_at":"2015-01-15T22:47:31Z","created_at_i":1421362051,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"8895933","points":1,"story_id":8895933,"story_text":"There are a lot of side projects / one-person startups with a lot of future in third world countries that don't prosper only because the owner/creator hasn't enough time to dedicate to it (mainly because his/her main job).
In some of these countries, $1000 monthly would be more than a salary, so investing 1k per month to these projects would allow to its creators to quit its main job to focus on the project.
I think the main problem would be trusting the one who builds the product, who receives 1k per month from the investor in exchange of a percent of the ""company"". Besides that, I think it could be a good idea.
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2. There's not enough time and engineering/design resources to actually do all them.
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I wanted a database where I could throw in JSON data, do some simple queries, get data back. You'd think that would be easy right? Install it, 5 minutes, install drivers, 5 minutes, write some code to throw in some JSON - 5 minutes, write some simple queries - 10 minutes. No way - it's not that easy.
Man, databases have a long way to go.
I knew not to use MongoDB because it takes an entire server and I was running on one single AWS micro instance.
I tried Amazon Dynamodb - simply not possible to throw a JSON structure into it. I dropped it.
I went back to Postgres - and spent hours doing configuration of users, tables, schema, and security, not writing code for my application. I deleted Postgres from my system. Why do SQL databases have massive layers of configuration and security on them - seems a relic of the past - why not let the application take care of all that.
I tried to think what other database might allow me to simply throw JSON data in and do SIMPLE queries to get it back. Something without installation pain, configuration pain and usability pain.
In the end I tried RethinkDB. It installed fast, the install documentation was perfect for an Ubuntu system, it seemed to work well, did not take over my machine and allowed my to throw JSON into it with no pain. However it was much more painful to do queries - Rethink is still improving in this area - even basic queries are painful. BUt the guys there are incredibly helpful and friendly and helped me to get some working queries built.
SO..... databases just aren't there yet. Where is the database that simply allows me to throw in JSON and has a simple and intuitive query language that just works. One day someone will get that worked out. If rethinkDB can manage to get powerful and simple JSON queries implemented then maybe it will be The One.
Can anyone suggest a database that allows simple installation, simple data loading and simple and powerful queries? Something that does not require layers and layers of arcane configuration just to get going with?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Databases - a grumble after a weekend project"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_hoodoof","story_5599606","ask_hn"],"author":"hoodoof","children":[5599643,5599874,5599905,5599931,5600650,5600800,5657039],"created_at":"2013-04-24T03:36:55Z","created_at_i":1366774615,"num_comments":21,"objectID":"5599606","points":4,"story_id":5599606,"story_text":"I did a project over the weekend. I wanted a database where I could throw in JSON data, do some simple queries, get data back. You'd think that would be easy right? Install it, 5 minutes, install drivers, 5 minutes, write some code to throw in some JSON - 5 minutes, write some simple queries - 10 minutes. No way - it's not that easy.
Man, databases have a long way to go.
I knew not to use MongoDB because it takes an entire server and I was running on one single AWS micro instance.
I tried Amazon Dynamodb - simply not possible to throw a JSON structure into it. I dropped it.
I went back to Postgres - and spent hours doing configuration of users, tables, schema, and security, not writing code for my application. I deleted Postgres from my system. Why do SQL databases have massive layers of configuration and security on them - seems a relic of the past - why not let the application take care of all that.
I tried to think what other database might allow me to simply throw JSON data in and do SIMPLE queries to get it back. Something without installation pain, configuration pain and usability pain.
In the end I tried RethinkDB. It installed fast, the install documentation was perfect for an Ubuntu system, it seemed to work well, did not take over my machine and allowed my to throw JSON into it with no pain. However it was much more painful to do queries - Rethink is still improving in this area - even basic queries are painful. BUt the guys there are incredibly helpful and friendly and helped me to get some working queries built.
SO..... databases just aren't there yet. Where is the database that simply allows me to throw in JSON and has a simple and intuitive query language that just works. One day someone will get that worked out. If rethinkDB can manage to get powerful and simple JSON queries implemented then maybe it will be The One.
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How do you guys keep track of SQL queries, micro services, what each one does and the whole production pipeline?
Do you guys have any tips or advice for me?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How do you guys keep track of information in a new job?"}},"_tags":["story","author_in9","story_24934335","ask_hn"],"author":"in9","children":[24934470,24939088],"created_at":"2020-10-29T19:10:13Z","created_at_i":1603998613,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"24934335","points":3,"story_id":24934335,"story_text":"I'm a data scientist, and I just started working for a big company (one of the Ycombinators unicorns) and the scale in way bigger than my previous jobs.
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Do you guys have any tips or advice for me?","title":"Ask HN: How do you guys keep track of information in a new job?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T07:15:42Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"da5e"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Okay this might belie the idea that there are no dumb questions, but I can't really define what a startup is. I think to myself that I should start one, perhaps a micro-startup, but I don't have a cohesive idea of what that involves. Do you have any Startups for Dummies explanations?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What is a startup?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_da5e","story_1696037","ask_hn"],"author":"da5e","children":[1696156,1696173],"created_at":"2010-09-15T22:07:04Z","created_at_i":1284588424,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"1696037","points":2,"story_id":1696037,"story_text":"Okay this might belie the idea that there are no dumb questions, but I can't really define what a startup is. I think to myself that I should start one, perhaps a micro-startup, but I don't have a cohesive idea of what that involves. Do you have any Startups for Dummies explanations?","title":"Ask HN: What is a startup?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:16:28Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"itsmefaz"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"I've been reading a lot about micro-startups lately, and one of the primary questions I am failing to understand is that how are entrepreneurs able to acquire customers for their product?
I am skeptical of the capabilities of the micro-saas culture, the only way it seems to work is if there already a customer base for the product and somehow you are able to capture the customer base by either shorting the competition or building tremendous value.
The customer base itself is developed through twitter and other social media channels. I don't think these micro-startups have complexity or challenges that native startups inherently have (product-market fit)
Any good experts or resources that guide me through this turmoil? What I am expecting is a step by step guide that can help me generate let's say $500 MRR?
I understand what I am requesting is difficult, however I am only looking for the way?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["micro"],"value":"Ask HN: Micro-SaaS"}},"_tags":["story","author_itsmefaz","story_28587434","ask_hn"],"author":"itsmefaz","children":[28592247],"created_at":"2021-09-19T20:03:42Z","created_at_i":1632081822,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"28587434","points":2,"story_id":28587434,"story_text":"I've been reading a lot about micro-startups lately, and one of the primary questions I am failing to understand is that how are entrepreneurs able to acquire customers for their product?
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Because I am in the sun room.
I bring a task onto my mental desk. Considerations, insights, possibilities start spilling from it immediately with no effort required.
I seem to have micro thoughts within larger ones. Little jokes I make to myself, flashes of pleasant memories, ideas for tangential projects while the larger loops churn away.
I love to code here, though one must keep an eye for refactoring hubris when sitting in the sun room.
In this room I have the idea to start naming familiar states of consciousness like rooms of a house. The sun room, the doorless room, the infinity cupboard, the hole.
Sadly I've only found coffee for opening this door but daily use quickly builds tolerance in me.
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I seem to have micro thoughts within larger ones. Little jokes I make to myself, flashes of pleasant memories, ideas for tangential projects while the larger loops churn away.
I love to code here, though one must keep an eye for refactoring hubris when sitting in the sun room.
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I want to introduce you to the project I've been working on for some time!
It's called Conduit and it's a new platform to build your next application on. I've been working with similar solutions since 2014, beginning with Parse (even after it was made open-source), moving to firebase and then mostly sticking to custom backends. On 2017 I founded a Software Development agency and quickly realised that if we were to improve quality and increase speeds we need a platform to help us do that.
Parse was kind of outdated for us at that point, and Firebase hasn't (even after so many years) caught up to the flexibility the former provided. You can do MVPs yes, but you end up moving logic to the front-end or use the serverless functions that have many limitations and slow cold-start times. So for me and my dev team, it wasn't a solution for anything further than authentication management and push notifications.
So, back in 2020 I begun working on Conduit, with 3 targets: Provide common functionality out of the box, do not limit devs and lastly it should work in the same philosophy a custom backend would. This meant effectively no runtime overheads (or at the very least only minor ones), a flexible API, micro-service based architecture with each service housing a particular set of features (ex. Authentication, Database, Email etc) and of course it uses gRPC for service-to-service communications so devs can create new modules from whatever language and/or framework they want!
Fast-forward in 2022, we've already used in 5 production projects for clients. Our front-end teams love it, our backend teams have more free time than ever to work in more complex problems, and bugs in production have been reduced drastically. It even withstood a user surge in one project were we had more than 10.000 req/min (we spun up more instances to account for the load).
I'd love to answer any and all questions you have about it! And I hope you like it enough to give us a star in GitHub :D
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It's called Conduit and it's a new platform to build your next application on. I've been working with similar solutions since 2014, beginning with Parse (even after it was made open-source), moving to firebase and then mostly sticking to custom backends. On 2017 I founded a Software Development agency and quickly realised that if we were to improve quality and increase speeds we need a platform to help us do that.
Parse was kind of outdated for us at that point, and Firebase hasn't (even after so many years) caught up to the flexibility the former provided. You can do MVPs yes, but you end up moving logic to the front-end or use the serverless functions that have many limitations and slow cold-start times. So for me and my dev team, it wasn't a solution for anything further than authentication management and push notifications.
So, back in 2020 I begun working on Conduit, with 3 targets: Provide common functionality out of the box, do not limit devs and lastly it should work in the same philosophy a custom backend would. This meant effectively no runtime overheads (or at the very least only minor ones), a flexible API, micro-service based architecture with each service housing a particular set of features (ex. Authentication, Database, Email etc) and of course it uses gRPC for service-to-service communications so devs can create new modules from whatever language and/or framework they want!
Fast-forward in 2022, we've already used in 5 production projects for clients. Our front-end teams love it, our backend teams have more free time than ever to work in more complex problems, and bugs in production have been reduced drastically. It even withstood a user surge in one project were we had more than 10.000 req/min (we spun up more instances to account for the load).
I'd love to answer any and all questions you have about it! And I hope you like it enough to give us a star in GitHub :D
Links:\nwebsite: https://getconduit.dev/ GitHub: https://github.com/ConduitPlatform/Conduit","title":"Show HN: A Self-Hosted back end solution in Node.js","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:43:45Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"kkopanidis"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Hello everyone! This is my first time writing here, and I want to introduce you to the project I've been working on for some time!
It's called Conduit and it's a new platform to build your next application on. I've been working with similar solutions since 2014, beginning with Parse (even after it was made open-source), moving to firebase and then mostly sticking to custom backends. On 2017 I founded a Software Development agency and quickly realised that if we were to improve quality and increase speeds we need a platform to help us do that.
Parse was kind of outdated for us at that point, and Firebase hasn't (even after so many years) caught up to the flexibility the former provided. You can do MVPs yes, but you end up moving logic to the front-end or use the serverless functions that have many limitations and slow cold-start times. So for me and my dev team, it wasn't a solution for anything further than authentication management and push notifications.
So, back in 2020 I begun working on Conduit, with 3 targets: Provide common functionality out of the box, do not limit devs and lastly it should work in the same philosophy a custom backend would. This meant effectively no runtime overheads (or at the very least only minor ones), a flexible API, micro-service based architecture with each service housing a particular set of features (ex. Authentication, Database, Email etc) and of course it uses gRPC for service-to-service communications so devs can create new modules from whatever language and/or framework they want!
Fast-forward in 2022, we've already used in 5 production projects for clients. Our front-end teams love it, our backend teams have more free time than ever to work in more complex problems, and bugs in production have been reduced drastically. It even withstood a user surge in one project were we had more than 10.000 req/min (we spun up more instances to account for the load).
I'd love to answer any and all questions you have about it! And I hope you like it enough to give us a star in GitHub :D
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It's called Conduit and it's a new platform to build your next application on. I've been working with similar solutions since 2014, beginning with Parse (even after it was made open-source), moving to firebase and then mostly sticking to custom backends. On 2017 I founded a Software Development agency and quickly realised that if we were to improve quality and increase speeds we need a platform to help us do that.
Parse was kind of outdated for us at that point, and Firebase hasn't (even after so many years) caught up to the flexibility the former provided. You can do MVPs yes, but you end up moving logic to the front-end or use the serverless functions that have many limitations and slow cold-start times. So for me and my dev team, it wasn't a solution for anything further than authentication management and push notifications.
So, back in 2020 I begun working on Conduit, with 3 targets: Provide common functionality out of the box, do not limit devs and lastly it should work in the same philosophy a custom backend would. This meant effectively no runtime overheads (or at the very least only minor ones), a flexible API, micro-service based architecture with each service housing a particular set of features (ex. Authentication, Database, Email etc) and of course it uses gRPC for service-to-service communications so devs can create new modules from whatever language and/or framework they want!
Fast-forward in 2022, we've already used in 5 production projects for clients. Our front-end teams love it, our backend teams have more free time than ever to work in more complex problems, and bugs in production have been reduced drastically. It even withstood a user surge in one project were we had more than 10.000 req/min (we spun up more instances to account for the load).
I'd love to answer any and all questions you have about it! And I hope you like it enough to give us a star in GitHub :D
Links:\nwebsite: https://getconduit.dev/ GitHub: https://github.com/ConduitPlatform/Conduit","title":"Conduit: A new open-source and Self-Hosted Backend Platform","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:43:45Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jibly"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Been playing around with this idea and would love to have feedback/thoughts from the community.
There is Word for writing text. There is powerpoint for creating a presentation. There is Photoshop for making graphics. What if there was an App for Starting a business?
How would it work?\nYou'd fill in an idea, the app would take you through steps to validate, build, market your business. And if the idea doesn't make you money, you can simply start over again and select 'Launch New Business'.
It's not an app that does the work for you. It just motivates/inspires you + provides daily micro challenges to take you one step further.
Problem of writing a business plan = You write it and thats it. You have to motivate yourself to stick to the plan and go for it.
This app will challenge you everyday to get one step further.
Is this something you would use? Pay for even?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What if there was a software for 'starting a business\u201c"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_jibly","story_8704548","ask_hn"],"author":"jibly","children":[8704570,8704603,8704815],"created_at":"2014-12-05T14:16:39Z","created_at_i":1417788999,"num_comments":10,"objectID":"8704548","points":4,"story_id":8704548,"story_text":"Been playing around with this idea and would love to have feedback/thoughts from the community.
There is Word for writing text. There is powerpoint for creating a presentation. There is Photoshop for making graphics. What if there was an App for Starting a business?
How would it work?\nYou'd fill in an idea, the app would take you through steps to validate, build, market your business. And if the idea doesn't make you money, you can simply start over again and select 'Launch New Business'.
It's not an app that does the work for you. It just motivates/inspires you + provides daily micro challenges to take you one step further.
Problem of writing a business plan = You write it and thats it. You have to motivate yourself to stick to the plan and go for it.
This app will challenge you everyday to get one step further.
Is this something you would use? Pay for even?","title":"Ask HN: What if there was a software for 'starting a business\u201c","updated_at":"2024-09-19T21:22:16Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"aruggirello"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Hello HN,
As a developer, I have a few PHP side projects:
1. PHPippo, which I recently released on GitHub, is a PHP preprocessor and a PHP source micro-optimizer (the only free one I know of). PHPippo will soon gain version targeting, allowing users, say, to develop on latest PHP and deploy on PHP 5.2, with PHPippo altering/stripping away incompatible code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861616
2. a PHP anti-badbot class, which will block traffic from most scrapers, harvesters, etc., ensuring crawlers abide by your robots.txt policies, exploiting a number of culprits to discern legitimate users and crawlers from bad ones, taking action by logging, forbidding requests, or even banning originating IP(s). (IPv6 compatible).
3. a (multi-platform) PHP+MySQL customizable desktop activity monitor which monitors time spent within each application, possibly identifying the single files being edited, URLs visited, and automatically taking snapshots of unidentified windows. By saving data to a database, it enables tracking habits and usage patterns. I envisioned this tool for personal use; however, it could be deployed to monitor employees in a centralized manner, though this might be illegal in many countries.
4. (perhaps too complex) a PHP opaque data storage layer for sessions/user data on top of a database; designed to only make user data available to legitimate owners, which share them (or part) (via public/private key encryption) with authorized personnel only. Think of it as a database layer which, in case of breach, still protects your data, emails, credit card numbers, etc. from harvesting, while still allowing users to register, validate their email addresses, forget their passwords, and do whatever required with their user accounts (via a set of API).
So, which project(s) would you prioritize? What should I do next? I would even be willing to sell them."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How to monetize from my PHP side projects?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_aruggirello","story_8130814","ask_hn"],"author":"aruggirello","children":[8131893,8132952,8133370],"created_at":"2014-08-04T08:31:50Z","created_at_i":1407141110,"num_comments":5,"objectID":"8130814","points":4,"story_id":8130814,"story_text":"Hello HN,
As a developer, I have a few PHP side projects:
1. PHPippo, which I recently released on GitHub, is a PHP preprocessor and a PHP source micro-optimizer (the only free one I know of). PHPippo will soon gain version targeting, allowing users, say, to develop on latest PHP and deploy on PHP 5.2, with PHPippo altering/stripping away incompatible code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861616
2. a PHP anti-badbot class, which will block traffic from most scrapers, harvesters, etc., ensuring crawlers abide by your robots.txt policies, exploiting a number of culprits to discern legitimate users and crawlers from bad ones, taking action by logging, forbidding requests, or even banning originating IP(s). (IPv6 compatible).
3. a (multi-platform) PHP+MySQL customizable desktop activity monitor which monitors time spent within each application, possibly identifying the single files being edited, URLs visited, and automatically taking snapshots of unidentified windows. By saving data to a database, it enables tracking habits and usage patterns. I envisioned this tool for personal use; however, it could be deployed to monitor employees in a centralized manner, though this might be illegal in many countries.
4. (perhaps too complex) a PHP opaque data storage layer for sessions/user data on top of a database; designed to only make user data available to legitimate owners, which share them (or part) (via public/private key encryption) with authorized personnel only. Think of it as a database layer which, in case of breach, still protects your data, emails, credit card numbers, etc. from harvesting, while still allowing users to register, validate their email addresses, forget their passwords, and do whatever required with their user accounts (via a set of API).
So, which project(s) would you prioritize? What should I do next? I would even be willing to sell them.","title":"Ask HN: How to monetize from my PHP side projects?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T21:04:17Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"aruggirello"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["micro","one"],"value":"Hello HN,
As a developer, I have a few PHP side projects:
1. PHPippo, which I recently released on GitHub, is a PHP preprocessor and a PHP source micro-optimizer (the only free one I know of). PHPippo will soon gain version targeting, allowing users, say, to develop on latest PHP and deploy on PHP 5.2, with PHPippo altering/stripping away incompatible code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861616
2. a PHP anti-badbot class, which will block traffic from most scrapers, harvesters, etc., ensuring crawlers abide by your robots.txt policies, exploiting a number of culprits to discern legitimate users and crawlers from bad ones, taking action by logging, forbidding requests, or even banning originating IP(s). (IPv6 compatible).
3. a (multi-platform) PHP+MySQL customizable desktop activity monitor which monitors time spent within each application, possibly identifying the single files being edited, URLs visited, and automatically taking snapshots of unidentified windows. By saving data to a database, it enables tracking habits and usage patterns. I envisioned this tool for personal use; however, it could be deployed to monitor employees in a centralized manner, though this might be illegal in many countries.
4. (perhaps too complex) a PHP opaque data storage layer for sessions/user data on top of a database; designed to only make user data available to legitimate owners, which share them (or part) (via public/private key encryption) with authorized personnel only. Think of it as a database layer which, in case of breach, still protects your data, emails, credit card numbers, etc. from harvesting, while still allowing users to register, validate their email addresses, forget their passwords, and do whatever required with their user accounts (via a set of API).
So, which project(s) would you prioritize? What should I do next? I would even be willing to sell them."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How do you like my PHP side projects?"}},"_tags":["story","author_aruggirello","story_8132623","ask_hn"],"author":"aruggirello","children":[8132968,8134041,8143152],"created_at":"2014-08-04T16:40:56Z","created_at_i":1407170456,"num_comments":8,"objectID":"8132623","points":3,"story_id":8132623,"story_text":"Hello HN,
As a developer, I have a few PHP side projects:
1. PHPippo, which I recently released on GitHub, is a PHP preprocessor and a PHP source micro-optimizer (the only free one I know of). PHPippo will soon gain version targeting, allowing users, say, to develop on latest PHP and deploy on PHP 5.2, with PHPippo altering/stripping away incompatible code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861616
2. a PHP anti-badbot class, which will block traffic from most scrapers, harvesters, etc., ensuring crawlers abide by your robots.txt policies, exploiting a number of culprits to discern legitimate users and crawlers from bad ones, taking action by logging, forbidding requests, or even banning originating IP(s). (IPv6 compatible).
3. a (multi-platform) PHP+MySQL customizable desktop activity monitor which monitors time spent within each application, possibly identifying the single files being edited, URLs visited, and automatically taking snapshots of unidentified windows. By saving data to a database, it enables tracking habits and usage patterns. I envisioned this tool for personal use; however, it could be deployed to monitor employees in a centralized manner, though this might be illegal in many countries.
4. (perhaps too complex) a PHP opaque data storage layer for sessions/user data on top of a database; designed to only make user data available to legitimate owners, which share them (or part) (via public/private key encryption) with authorized personnel only. Think of it as a database layer which, in case of breach, still protects your data, emails, credit card numbers, etc. from harvesting, while still allowing users to register, validate their email addresses, forget their passwords, and do whatever required with their user accounts (via a set of API).
So, which project(s) would you prioritize? What should I do next? I would even be willing to sell them.","title":"Ask HN: How do you like my PHP side projects?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T22:07:07Z"}],"hitsPerPage":50,"nbHits":447,"nbPages":9,"page":0,"params":"query=Micro+One&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":12,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":17},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":2,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":2,"total":2},"total":2},"total":2},"fetch":{"query":6,"scanning":2,"total":9},"total":12},"query":"Micro One","serverTimeMS":15}