JVillella

Was curious if anyone had attempted such endeavour. The use case I see is you input your finances (eg. money spread over different investments, in a business, multiple incomes, etc.) and your goal (purchase home that…

Hi HN, sharing a tool we built to make it easy for people to make their everyday purchases from independent and local merchants: https://shopboreal.com We've only been out for a month, but have helped over 2k business…

Hi HN! I've been dealing with banks, telehealth, and CRA a ton these days over the phone. I guess a lot of others have too since the hold times have been ridiculous. I built a little tool that waits on hold on my behalf…

Couldn't deal with waiting on hold anymore during coronavirus - seems like every customer service has > 30 minute hold times. So I made myself a sort of client-side phone callback system: https://youcallme.io. It…

Hi HN, I'm been thinking about this a lot these days while working on https://meetfromhome.io and well... I'd love to hear other people's opinions outside of my personal echo chamber. w/ COVID forcing events to go…

Hello HN, my name is Julian and I hate "waiting for the next available agent". Last year I started my first business and found myself dealing with the CRA (that's Canada Revenue Agency for the non-Canadians amongst us)…

Seems DeepFakes have been getting growing attention in the media for their use in comedy, while also giving glimpse of potential danger in "fake news". I'm curious if folks have come across any positively impactful uses…

We've open sourced the libraries we've been using internally for laying out a collection of photos sequentially in a full aspect ratio grid on Android and iOS. Hopefully they will be of help to you in your projects! You…

An interesting read: http://blog.codinghorror.com/a-programmers-portfolio/ Has anyone found that their portfolio has been of help to them? I decided to spend the time to build one (http://jvillella.com) in Jekyll.