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1 points·by santah·6 giorni fa·0 comments

Show HN: I built a super simple email reminder inspired by the RemindMe! bot

3 points·by santah·4 mesi fa·2 comments

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santah
·5 mesi fa·discuss
https://next-episode.net

It's a (now more than 20 years old) TV tracking website and community.

I've been using Claude 4.5 Opus (now 4.6) more and more these days modernizing and redesigning sections that haven't been touched for a decade or two. I don't trust LLMs much, but by breaking the work into small, self-contained tasks and testing constantly - I'm making surprisingly fast progress.
santah
·8 mesi fa·discuss
20 years and counting, working on https://next-episode.net (it's a TV/Movies tracking website and community).

I've dedicated this week to some maintenance tasks that are long overdue (mainly modernization of the code and the database), kinda delaying the inevitable (which is to work on harder tasks in my todo - like adding features to the mobile apps).
santah
·8 mesi fa·discuss
I can totally relate.

In addition to "no one to bounce ideas off" - no one to really share the pain and responsibility with when there are problems. It's all on you.

Thankfully, my users are very generous with their feedback, so when I do in fact do a "nice job" - I'm told so :)

For how long have you been building solo?

After 20 years, for me, I can tell you this - what helps me the most is exercising regularly (ideally on all weekdays) AND having kids.

Because of the kids, I rarely have the time to feel lonely and the regular physical exercises keep me in a (fairly) good mental state.

It felt the worst in my first years of solo dev, when all I did was work and hardly spent any time to socialize and take care of myself.

I'm sure it'll get better for you too as your project evolves and your life along with it.
santah
·10 mesi fa·discuss
This reminds me a of a very faithful (in browser) recreation of Windows XP I stumbled upon recently, may've even been on HN:

https://win32.run/

Good times.