Laurentvw

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Hi, my name is Laurent Van Winckel. I'm a developer and entrepreneur from Belgium.

I'm currently starting an own startup studio called BootVentures.

I love to network with like-minded people, so feel free to add me on

  Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurentvw
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Comment · 6 years ago

Just wondering if there are any trade-offs to consider if I were to use Google Workspace (G Suite) instead of a provider like ProtonMail.

Using a custom domain with Google's paid service seems like the least drastic change and you get to keep using all their services. Maybe the support won't be as good, but the products and integrations are probably better than any other provider.

And as long as you do regular backups of your Google data, I think this seems like a good solution.

Electrical Disruptions Caused by Squirrels en.wikipedia.org

2 Laurentvw 6 years ago 0 comments

Comment · 6 years ago

For anyone interested, there's a tool http://www.aging.ai which does exactly that, using deep-learning algorithms on, and I quote, "hundreds of thousands anonymized human blood tests".

I've used it myself for fun after doing a blood test. It's a free alternative to InsideTracker's InnerAge product.

Comment · 7 years ago

I love the simplicity of it! Perhaps it would be nice if you could switch between YTD, 1 week, and 1 day performance.

How frequently is it being updated? Maybe you could indicate when the data was last updated.

Comment · 8 years ago

Sounds interesting! Does anyone have examples of AI startups that solve real world problems? Just trying to get a picture of what companies would fit their fund.

Comment · 10 years ago

Hi, I'm Laurent, the creator of Snapdex. Snapdex is a fully editable directory of Snapchat users. It just got featured on Product Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/tech/snapdex), a bit earlier than I expected honestly, as I wanted to show it here first!

Snapchat is full of interesting people who produce unique content exclusively to Snapchat (Justin Kan, Mark Suster to name a few). I wanted to find more people like them, but there's nothing really good out there to help you discover new Snapchat accounts, so I made this!

The site is made with React.js in the frontend and Laravel in the backend. A few months back, when I started working on the site, I didn't have any experience building javascript apps (me being almost exclusively a backend developer), so I'm pretty proud of what I've achieved and learned in those few months.

Would love to have your feedback on the site. And let me know if you have any questions!

Show HN: Snapdex – A discovery tool for Snapchat snapdex.com

6 Laurentvw 10 years ago 1 comments

Comment · 10 years ago

Really fun game! Reminds me of https://geoguessr.com which drops you in a random location (in Street View mode) and your task is to pinpoint the location on a map.

Comment · 11 years ago

Has anyone tried this on their github account? I'd like to see what the commits look like.

Edit: Looks like it's just hundreds of hello world commits. I was expecting unique code for each commit! :)

Comment · 14 years ago

I used to read his blog. Here's something I will always remember. When they sold Reddit to Conde Nast, back in 2007 or so, Aaron Swartz wrote something about it on his blog, saying how he felt about it and how he didn't have to worry about money anymore, etc. And then he decided to give away some money to startups in need. I replied to his blog post and he gave my old startup a $100 donation. It felt really generous. RIP Aaron.

Comment · 14 years ago

Here's the schedule: http://i.imgur.com/iodVL.jpg (Photo taken by Robert Scoble)

Comment · 15 years ago

So he's going to use iTunes, Grooveshark and Pandora. Now that seems, well, cumbersome to me.

Too bad Spotify bothers him -- even though it may lack some songs and features, I don't see why you can't enjoy Spotify for most use cases.

Comment · 17 years ago

And I can't believe it's been exactly 1000 days ago since I signed up on HN. Seems so long ago. Thanks to the great quality submissions and the smart community I've tagged along through the years :) Happy holidays everyone!