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Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle
Hi HN, I'm Daniel Nguyen. In June, I quit my job to start indie hacking full-time.<p>The idea of KTool first came to my mind when I was reading "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"[0]<p>I've been wearing glasses since I was 5. My right eye is basically blind. Doctors said there is no chance to cure it.<p>I was genuinely scared. Like holy shit, if my left eye stops working, my life is done. Since then I've been very conscious about time spent on computer screens.<p>That's when I started using Kindle-related products: to offload as many reading materials as possible to the Kindle. I was a happy customer of Push to Kindle. Great product!<p>Then I ran into multiple limitations which led me to build KTool: a tool to send anything online to Kindle. Blog posts, Twitter threads, Hacker News discussions, RSS, newsletters... you name it.<p>But I'm not here to pitch my vision for KTool.<p>I built a specific tool to help you send HN discussions to your Kindle. And in the spirit of Show HN, it doesn't require an account. If you don't own a Kindle, there is the option to download the EPUB.<p>Let me know what you think. Any feedback will be much appreciated.<p>If you're a Kindle owner and you read a lot of online content, give KTool a try.<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980</a>
Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle
Hi HN, I'm Daniel Nguyen. In June, I quit my job to start indie hacking full-time.<p>The idea of KTool first came to my mind when I was reading "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"[0]<p>I've been wearing glasses since I was 5. My right eye is basically blind. Doctors said there is no chance to cure it.<p>I was genuinely scared. Like holy shit, if my left eye stops working, my life is done. Since then I've been very conscious about time spent on computer screens.<p>That's when I started using Kindle-related products: to offload as many reading materials as possible to the Kindle. I was a happy customer of Push to Kindle. Great product!<p>Then I ran into multiple limitations which led me to build KTool: a tool to send anything online to Kindle. Blog posts, Twitter threads, Hacker News discussions, RSS, newsletters... you name it.<p>But I'm not here to pitch my vision for KTool.<p>I built a specific tool to help you send HN discussions to your Kindle. And in the spirit of Show HN, it doesn't require an account. If you don't own a Kindle, there is the option to download the EPUB.<p>Let me know what you think. Any feedback will be much appreciated.<p>If you're a Kindle owner and you read a lot of online content, give KTool a try.<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980</a>
Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite
Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite
Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite
Show HN: Density userstyle to remove spacing from popular websites
Show HN: Density userstyle to remove spacing from popular websites
Show HN: E-graphs and equality saturation in Haskell
Show HN: E-graphs and equality saturation in Haskell
Show HN: E-graphs and equality saturation in Haskell
Show HN: Accept payments in crypto on your website (5 lines of code)
Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic
Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic
A Programming Language Database
Show HN: A piano chord reference tool
Show HN: A piano chord reference tool
Show HN: A piano chord reference tool
Show HN: FRPC – A Faster, More Flexible RPC Framework
Today we're announcing frpc-go, an RPC framework that's designed from the ground up to be lightweight, extensible, and extremely performant.<p>In an apples-to-apples comparison fRPC outperforms gRPC by more than 4x, doing more than 2 million RPCs/second on a single node.<p>Check out our docs site at <a href="https://frpc.io" rel="nofollow">https://frpc.io</a>!
Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle
Hi HN,<p>I'm Daniel Nguyen. In June, I quit my job to start indie hacking full-time.<p>The idea of KTool first came to my mind when I was reading "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"[0]<p>I've been wearing glasses since I was 5. My right eye is basically blind. Doctors said there is no chance to cure it.<p>I was genuinely scared. Like holy shit, if my left eye stops working, my life is done. Since then I've been very conscious about time spent on computer screens.<p>That's when I started using Kindle-related products: to offload as many reading materials as possible to the Kindle. I was a happy customer of Push to Kindle. Great product!!<p>Then I ran into multiple limitations which led me to build KTool: a tool to send anything online to Kindle. Blog posts, Twitter threads, Hacker News discussions, RSS, newsletters... you name it.<p>If you're a Kindle owner and you read a lot of online content, give KTool a try.<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980</a>
Show HN: I released an indie racing game (single dev)
It took me 20 months to develop it in my spare time. I used Unity game engine, I did not have any game dev experience before.
It was more complex that I thought at the begining, I spent lots of time on promotion, marketing, founding company, learning about the legal aspects of different parts, for example music.
Some parts were easier than I expected. Unity makes it very easy to build for all three operating systems (Win, MacOs, Linux), I am not sure why more game devs are not using this possibility.
I also like working on Steam as distribution system. It is not exactly easy for a newcomer, but once you know your way around it has many nice features and it is easy to upload your builds.
Let's see how well this game does, I am excited to either improving it or jumping to a new gamedev project :)