Location: San Diego, CA
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: ruby on rails
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amotinga
Email: [email protected]
with rails and most of it written by claude - was a pretty fun project. done in a week - and brought 4 orders already, unlike old site that didnt really work.
I dont think I would've made it if it wasn't for AI.
same idea - there isn't really a zillow like website in moldova - mostly classifieds sites. so I figured why not - gonna scrape the internet and put them on the map. we'll see what comes of it.
This comment thread is literally "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)". And you're going to castigate someone for answering in good faith? Yikes.
taking sabbatical from work (after getting laid off)
went to visit family in moldova.
my nieces tell me there is no app to learn romanian online - this cant be true.
I do a bit of research and turns out this is mostly true, mostly these websites built for english speaking people, meaning you learn romanian - but starting from english.
at the same time I need to dig in into all the rails 8 goodies.
also, I've been hearing about this cloudflare thing, and not knowing what's that about.
also, heroku is shit now, so Im curious to try some new server, hetzner u say? - wonder what's that like.
kamal is a thing now, ok.
but coding is ... time and energy intensive, what is this vibecoding ppl talking about?
anyhow May 20th I sit down to "vibecode" an app - see what happens.
one thing led to another and here we are
found some romanian words ranked by frequency.
found free open db of romanian words on dexonline.
found google TTS to transform text to sound.
found that cloudflare has storage sooooo much cheaper than aws s3 (only one I used for decade)
found that cloudflare has some neat useful features.
found that server at hetzner is pretty cheap and with ai easy to setup.
found that fable/opus are great at generating content (with some hand holding)
found that AI now is stupid good at building / designing websites.
it was impossible for me to build something like this without second monitor and tweaking css for days/weeks. now?
I just tell it make it pretty. god damn. inspiring and disheartening at the same time.
Location: Murrieta, CA | or Moldova |
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: ruby on rails and all that entails.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amotinga/
Email: [email protected]
check out maslow pyramid of needs. you're on level 3.
for me it goes something like:
1. body - food, water, shelter, sleep. check
2. safety - freedom, stability. check
3. love and belonging: friends & family. check
4. self realization: prestige, respect, achievements.. ???? that's your next step.
5. the dream: full complete realization of ones potential.
read up on this thing, check it out.
also maybe useful questions to ask:
1. how is my last month going to look like - how do I wanna die. invision it.
2. maybe think. what would you do if you only had week, month, year to live?
maybe go do it? is it realy impossibly to do while paying mortgage? chances are it isnt.
also, maybe list things you like about yourself and things you dont like. wanna work on those you dont like?
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