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dolphenstein

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Hi, my name is Andrew and I’m a micropreneur!

Things I've built: meatinapark.com.au ezyzip.com pokerstoker.com facetache.com

And a bunch of half-baked, half-ready abandoned online relics!

(andrew (at) webbyappy.com )

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

The Way the Senate Melted Down over Crypto Is Revealing

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www.pokerstoker.com 10y ago

Show HN: Simple poker tracker for casual players

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www.find-t.co 12y ago

Show HN: Find the originating tweet

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www.theage.com.au 12y ago

How the world came to hate Silicon Valley

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www.meatinapark.com.au 12y ago

Find a BBQ for Australia Day

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www.fastcodesign.com 12y ago

It Is Now Possible To 3-D Print Your Unborn Fetus

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copyhackers.com 12y ago

Have You Fallen For This Scuzzy Design Trend In Pop-ups?

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www.forbes.com 12y ago

Could We See A Finnish Smartphone From Nokia In 2016?

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www.news.com.au 12y ago

Sheryl Sandberg earns $100M, but won't pay interns

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news.cnet.com 12y ago

Nexus 7 finds Apple napping

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www.wired.co.uk 13y ago

Why this hacker stood up against 'verbal abuse' in Linux land

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www.andrewdyster.com 13y ago

How To (Humorously) Complete Selection Criteria Form After CV Is Shortlisted

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gizmodo.com 13y ago

The First Jolla Smartphone: Quirky, $500, and Android-Friendly

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www.pokerstoker.com 13y ago

Show HN: Stop sucking at poker. Track your opponents and win!

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: A Bolivian TV station stole my web app. What should I do?

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www.freakonomics.com 13y ago

Women Are Not Men

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www.thefullsignal.com 13y ago

Apple CEO paid less than Nokia CEO

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www.theage.com.au 13y ago

Iran's 'laughable' fighter jet caught out in Photoshop blunder

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www.openingthemes.tv 13y ago

Show HN: Watch your favourite TV show opening themes

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Ad Exchange adBrite To Shut Down On Feb. 1

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www.gizmodo.com.au 13y ago

JOBS Movie Review: A Satisfying Experience

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www.wired.com 13y ago

Microsoft CEO: Apple iPhone Will Fail (2007)

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twitter.com 13y ago

Republican mass migration to Australia/Canada/England

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www.thisamericanlife.org 13y ago

Red State Blue State

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www.theage.com.au 13y ago

Has Apple peaked?

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www.news.com.au 13y ago

300 million reasons Instagram hates Facebook

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www.wired.com 14y ago

Looking for a Coding Job? Better a Ninja Than a Brogrammer

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www.gizmodo.com.au 14y ago

How Yahoo Killed Flickr And Lost The Internet

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www.facetache.com 14y ago

Show HN: Facebook + Moustaches = Facetache

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kkuukka.wordpress.com 14y ago

To LA Times: Do You Have to Suck the Sweat out of my Balls now that I am Dead?

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After adding UPI as a payment option to my little microSaaS, I'm finally starting to see sales in India. Was like trying to extract hen's teeth to get an Indian to sign up before that.

I bet if you pay the equivalent 60s/70s dollars to fly today you'll get much better service than back then! Modern first class cabins are a class above what was available back then.

Cursor 1.0 1 year ago

The Pro account is only $20/month and works with Claude Code.

Yeah, it's all client side. Which is why I was able to just leave and forget about it for so long. Was hosted on an S3 bucket. There's tons of libraries out there that does client side compression/decompression. Just search through github! :-)

Can relate. I built a little web utility back in 2009. Did practically nothing with it (occasional updates every 2/3 years) and it slowly accumulated inbound links and google ranking. Then finally in 2019 I decided to put a bit more effort into it. Now I make my living from it! :-)

Vue 3 Beta 6 years ago

I like that I can embed a bit of vue code into an existing web page. Bit like old school javascript. AngularJS 1.x was like that too and the inspiration for Vue. React/Angular require a whole build process with NPM/webpack etc etc to create a SPA.

After you've watched The Room, read "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made". It is a fascinating tale! (And is being turned into a movie of it's own starring James Franco)

NetBeans IDE 8.0 12 years ago

Netbeans 8 is great for HTML5/JS work as well. Been using the beta version for AngularJS development the past 2 months.

I had the same feeling when reading this post. It's one thing to spin a positive when acquired for the product and not the people.

When you're about to shutdown a service, this kind of self-congratulation is more like a middle finger to the users. A humbly apologetic post would've been a better goodwill gesture. High five each other in private.

This post comes off kind of douchey. Sympathies evaporated once you started mentioning slavery. Factory workers in South East Asia might have a slightly different opinion on what constitutes slavery.

You could've had some fun with the challenge. E.g. Write a piece of code that draws a massive middle finger on the screen. That would've been a cooler response!

Here's how I responded to a small company that was trying to make me jump through (unnecessary) hoops: http://www.andrewdyster.com/how-to-fill-out-selection-criter...

(These guys were a small 3-4 man operation, not a mega corp. My way of telling them to stop acting like dicks.)

I've built a basic poker tracker with AngularJS/FileReader API called PokerStoker.com. Was just about expecting to see the same! :-) At the moment its sitting on HD waiting for me to polish it off. If theres any casual poker players out there that are looking for a simple tracker, msg me. I'll send you the beta link.

That statement in the article is quite disingenuous. 30 seconds is a comfortable win but not something to get excited about. The front runners routinely lap the poorer teams, so it's hardly "fractions of a second".

Aah, ok. Seems stupid to sue as the site promotes the songs (via iTunes, etc...) but the music industry aren't exactly known for rational decision making.

Has the site been put down? Why didn't you keep it as a fun little side project? I don't understand why the goal has to always be a $17 million exit. I've built things like facetache.com and openingthemes.tv cause I thought they were fun, not for some massive financial windfall.

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Tried the start button on the game. Didnt work.