15:[[44462310,{"by":"cranberryturkey","descendants":6,"id":44462310,"kids":[44462585,44489493,44490747],"score":1,"text":"I was tired of repetitive client work—proposal writing, emailing, lead-gen, chasing payments—so I built an AI-driven system that automates all of it.

My system handles:

    - Lead sourcing and qualification\n    - Proposal generation (customized, human-quality RFP responses)\n    - Invoicing and follow-ups\n    - Even basic client communications via email/chat automation\n

\nNow I'm spending almost no time on routine business tasks.

But here's the twist: I’m getting restless. This thing freed up so much of my time that I'm not even sure what to do next.

I'd love some feedback—has anyone else automated themselves out of their job? What did you do afterward?","time":1751616565,"title":"Show HN: I built an AI that automates my entire freelancing business–now what?","type":"story"}],[36023914,{"by":"czhu12","descendants":1,"id":36023914,"kids":[36029021],"score":2,"text":"Hi HN!

I built this for my own company, but I figured there might be a chance it will be useful for others too.

We explored Flatfile and they quoted us pretty insane prices: ~12k + 4k for every "shape" of import. Since we were looking for a solution to import 4 different types of data (users, locations, etc), it would've come out to about 28k / year.

But their product is fantastic, and so I figured I'd try to shamelessly copy their UX. It's not quite there yet in terms of aesthetics, but we will continue to invest in it since it's currently being used already in production with great user feedback.

Here is the link to the project: https://czhu12.github.io/react-importer/","time":1684696785,"title":"Show HN: Lightweight, open source FlatFile clone","type":"story"}],[34233766,{"by":"4ipp","descendants":2,"id":34233766,"kids":[34237962],"score":2,"time":1672763958,"title":"Show HN: Podil.js, a lightweight and secure database schema migration tool","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/podiljs/podil"}],[31049967,{"by":"dvrp","descendants":10,"id":31049967,"kids":[31082452,31054582,31053535,31052034,31050996],"score":15,"time":1650089311,"title":"Show HN: an app to create images with AI","type":"story","url":"https://geni.vercel.app/"}],[28832413,{"by":"zubairlk","descendants":2,"id":28832413,"kids":[28832997],"score":2,"text":"I've tried balsamiq/figma for low fidelity wireframing but the mouse UX feels slow (even with shortcuts)

Text powered tools like websequencediagrams.com/# and https://dbdiagram.io/d are really much quicker after the initial learning curve.

Thought there should be a text based tool to quickly flesh out some low fidelity wireframes

Little gif showing the concept: https://media.giphy.com/media/C4MVllEw4h6zm6Tnuv/giphy.gif

Thought I'd post and ask on HN to see if there is any appetite for such a little tool or is it just me avoiding a few mouse clicks?

Any/every feedback welcome.

Would you use a text based wireframing tool? What use case and what features would be essential?

For those curious on the tech, the approach is a mix of ANTLR and generating html from a simpler grammar.

Thanks","time":1633982705,"title":"Ask HN: Any interest in a text based wireframing tool?","type":"story"}],[26357578,{"by":"xbryanx","descendants":1,"id":26357578,"kids":[26358068],"score":2,"time":1614956748,"title":"Jira Work Management","type":"story","url":"https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/work-management"}],[26149087,{"by":"lifeplusplus","descendants":20,"id":26149087,"kids":[26151979,26149904,26149392,26176614,26149593,26149456,26176107,26149215,26157325],"score":8,"text":"As codebase gets large it becomes painful to grasp and work on. Now with remote culture the chances of pulling coworker to side and asking quick questions seem to be out of the window.

I was thinking gee i'd have loved if the senior dev in my company just made a video explaining throughly how everything is setup, what does this do and why?

I've not fully thought out this, but I was thinking what if there was a systematic way a company could be brought in to document and then create tutorials one the code which then can be used by new hires or even devs who are new to the area.

Questions the videos could address...

- how is this setup? where does the data come from and where does it go..

- what does this variable do?

- why are we doing this?

sadly wont be able to answer...

i want to do xyz, where should i look?

but still I feel there is clear value in video tour of codebase, like a video tour of house and how all is connected.","time":1613431828,"title":"Ask HN: How viable is this idea?","type":"story"}],[25222865,{"by":"stevofolife","descendants":1,"id":25222865,"kids":[25224269],"score":2,"text":"Is it still a thing today in software development/engineering practices or do people just skip over this step. Or is there a better alternative?","time":1606418775,"title":"Ask HN: Do people still create/use UML diagrams?","type":"story"}],[25154473,{"by":"rmed","descendants":28,"id":25154473,"kids":[25155018,25155085,25155550,25154692,25157388,25154747,25156145,25169969,25154742,25155998,25158020,25160763,25161217,25161308,25154646,25156957,25156506,25156584,25155956],"score":39,"text":"very curious how different types of software engineers spend their time.

i'm working at my first big company. even within the company it seems that our engineers have vastly different types of jobs. some spend a lot of time writing application code. many others doing devops and configuration/deployment (and just justifying the work they're doing or waiting for answers).","time":1605820671,"title":"Ask HN: How much of your time at work as a software engineer is spent coding?","type":"story"}],[25153724,{"by":"corobo","descendants":3,"id":25153724,"kids":[25154038,25154277,25154448],"score":3,"text":"No not your side project or your business' blog!

I'm looking to build up a few more interesting folks in my RSS reader so looking for opinion-based content rather than tech tutorials or whatever we're all seeding our blogs' SEO with these days.

What ye got and why's it interesting? :)","time":1605816213,"title":"Ask HN: What's your personal blog link?","type":"story"}]]

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