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alfonmga commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
alfonmga · 9 months ago
I just finished shipping a weekend project that I really needed:

yt2brave[0], a MacOS app that automatically opens YouTube links in Brave Browser for a better browsing experience on YouTube (no ads). It's compatible for Safari, Google Chrome and Edge. It is magic.

[0] https://www.yt2brave.com

alfonmga commented on Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?    · Posted by u/marc
alfonmga · 2 years ago
I recently built a quick grammar fixer, leveraging the Alfred[0] MacOS app and OpenAI, if that counts for you. It's open source, and the demo video is cool: https://github.com/alfonmga/grammar-fix-alfred-workflow.

[0] https://www.alfredapp.com

alfonmga commented on Ask HN: Anyone lost a lot of money with NFTs/Cryptos? What's your story?    · Posted by u/agent008t
kylebenzle · 2 years ago
1. Until USD inevitably collapses under the weight of its own indebtedness and fraud.

2. Yes, you made a mistake. Use the "Rake Method" many of us have preached for a decade. No guessing needed, profit taking can even be automated. It's all very simple.

3. Yes, a great buying opportunity.

4. Yes, I bought a lot around $150's. Using the rake method you can't go wrong. If it's more cash than I need I buy gold. Easy. Angin, the research is already done, and we have a solution to your issues, the rake method.

alfonmga · 2 years ago
I didn't know about the "Rake Method". It seems a reasonable strategy.

I implemented it in Go code: https://gist.github.com/alfonmga/50864730c3ebce7491542d146ed....

Cheers, mate.

alfonmga commented on Show HN: Buyidentities.com   buyidentities.com... · Posted by u/alfonmga
dev213 · 2 years ago
So, what's the benefit of using this over something like faker?

Isn't the point of most of these identity generation tools to generate huge amounts of test data? This would just make that free process cost something.

alfonmga · 2 years ago
I have to admit that I fell into a rabbit hole, and I noticed that popular tools like fakerjs or gofakeit[0] did not meet my needs.

I needed to generate realistic-looking identities; the person's photo must match the gender, same for the age, the skin color of the person must correspond with the origin of the surname, the first name should be common in the targeted country, and the residential address must be real, among other things.

You would not use this for test data btw, a common use case for this would be for marketing or spamming operations where you need realistic data. My consciense does not accept the later however ;-)

P.S. Nowadays, these fake data generators are too woke to provide genderized first names..

[0] https://github.com/brianvoe/gofakeit

alfonmga commented on Windmill: Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs   github.com/windmill-labs/... · Posted by u/InitEnabler
rubenfiszel · 3 years ago
I'm very tempted and agree that Zulip sounds much better than Discord. The only thing I'm a little bit worried about is that I have noticed that most people hate having multiple chat clients open and that discord seem to be the de factor standards for open source projects. I apologize to be contributing to the network effect and will strongly consider switching to Zulip.
alfonmga · 3 years ago
Discourse[0] is a perfect fit for Windmill, IMO. Maybe I'm biased because I don't like Discord for this kind of project. Let the search engines leverage your project.

[0] https://www.discourse.org

alfonmga commented on Ask HN: Is SaaS really so bad?    · Posted by u/waselighis
rozenmd · 3 years ago
I've been working on a sustainable SaaS (for me, anyway) for a few years now, it's significantly easier to sell someone a one-off product like an ebook than a subscription
alfonmga · 3 years ago
> it's significantly easier to sell someone a one-off product

That's true. I recently had more success in two months of working on one-off products than in 2-3 years of working on SaaS projects.

alfonmga commented on Will wealthier people access better AIs?    · Posted by u/parisivy
alfonmga · 3 years ago
I would pay millions for an uncensored AI if I were super wealthy.
alfonmga commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
alfonmga · 3 years ago

  Location: Madrid, Europe.
  Remote: Yes.
  Willing to relocate: No.
  Technologies: Go (golang), gRPC, Protobuf, TDD, SQL, TypeScript, ▲ Next.js.
  Résumé/CV: https://alfon.xyz/static/resume.pdf
  Email: alfonmga@icloud.com

u/alfonmga

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