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Hello, HN! My name is Russell, and my co-founder, Josh (imjosh on HN), and I have a simple product that we hope can earn its place in your life as a reader, called [Papertrail](https://papertrail.biblish.com).…

I made a functioning prototype of a Raspberry Pi project that I think has applications in a retail environment. I intend to demo this project for local stores in the coming weeks. As I do, I want to start thinking about…

I recently hired a developer to work on a web application I wrote in my spare time over the last two years. After having a look and pointing out several of the flaws, the developer suggested we rewrite the project using…

I started coding about two years ago because I planned to open a coffeeshop and bookstore and wanted to think about management from first principles by coding a management system. I then started coding a web application…

Leaving aside the ethical dilemma, could science have created and 'distributed' (by that is meant 'allow to spread') a variant of a virus that is far preferable to an original virus, such that the new variant becomes…

I run a small literary publishing operation and I have been writing a little Flask based web app to augment the operations. I am in correspondence with a local university near Chicago that I reached out to about hiring…

My recent experience coding makes me wonder about the possibilities of including a well-researched depiction of the genesis of a certain technology in a work of literary fiction. Is there any programming language,…

I am preparing to hire a developer to take over an amateur coding project from me. I would like to make this my first full-time employee. I have laid out in bullet points the languages, libraries, services, frameworks,…

I am a novelist by trade, but I began a coding project at the outset of the pandemic. My failed stint as a student of physics included courses in programming. I had a good base to work from when I discovered I needed…