jfornear
Joined 18 years ago
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Comment · 8 months ago
Hi HN, I built this as a weekend side project to try automating personal finance tasks like expense tracking, reports, and taxes with AI.
It’s open source if anyone wants to run it locally or experiment with it: https://github.com/jfornear/nullbook https://nullbook.ai
Comment · 2 years ago
Location: Dallas, TX
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Python, Django, React, React Native, AWS (S3, CloudFront, Lambda), Cloudflare, Heroku, Postgres
Résumé/CV: https://read.cv/jfornear
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 3 years ago
Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockmann (https://amzn.to/3Mzt5AB) is my favorite design book, but I just use an 8x8 grid since it became the standard on iOS.
Comment · 3 years ago
Cool idea! I would use something like this to discover AI-related Python starter apps and guides to integrate AI into my projects.
I built a free Django and React starter repo for https://learndjangoreact.com, and can share some feedback from that perspective:
1) I’m hesitant to post it because I don’t want to create a new account or connect my GitHub to promote a free repo.
2) I think Google is good enough for anyone looking for a Django and React starter app, especially since I already have a site for it. GitHub search is pretty good too.
3) I built my starter app mostly for myself to build new ideas faster, and I already moved on to a new idea (https://mailgrid.app) — so any effort spent on this feels like energy taken from that, etc.
4) I think new developers should pick whatever stack that inspires them, and I don’t expect my starter app to appeal to a wide audience.
Hope that helps!
Comment · 3 years ago
I've been running https://chat.dog for 7 years — don't spend any time on it but it's a fun side project. Building https://mailgrid.app now.
Comment · 4 years ago
I love Django. I was inspired this summer to start an open source project for gaps in their docs like setting up a local development environment, using React for the frontend, deploying to Heroku/AWS, adding Google Analytics, etc.
Comment · 4 years ago
I started https://learndjangoreact.com/tutorial to be concise and easy to navigate with good examples.
Comment · 4 years ago
I made https://jfornear.com with Jekyll and GitHub Pages. I haven’t updated it since 2019... I’ve been focused on building https://pinjour.com lately.
Comment · 4 years ago
Readability has improved with the latest typography updates. App looks nice. I mostly read emails but find some newsletters get annoying with too many low-quality updates. I wonder if you could test throttling email notifications for newsletters with low open rates, etc.
Comment · 4 years ago
Excited to launch this. If you're into birding, fly fishing, hiking, travel photography, etc., try it out and let me know what you think so far!
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