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Article URL: https://www.theinsightpad.com/blog/why-traditional-market-research-is-killing-your-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781402

Points: 4

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https://www.theinsightpad.com/blog/why-traditional-market-research-is-killing-your-startup

Hi HN!

Super proud to showcase Foqos! I wanted to create a way to physically block apps on my phone, always had a bunch of NFC tags, combined the 2 together over the holiday break and Foqos was born. You can create profiles, write them to NFC tags and track your weekly focus.

Its completely open source and will always be free! There is an affiliate link in the app for nfc tags and donations are completely optional

Link here: ht

Article URL: https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2025-01-20-guided/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781922

Points: 33

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https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2025-01-20-guided/

Article URL: http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42782914

Points: 42

# Comments: 7

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html

Article URL: https://www.shyamsundergupta.com/cab.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42782929

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

https://www.shyamsundergupta.com/cab.htm

I've always been fascinated by thermal printers – there's something magical about seeing text and images materialize on paper in seconds. But I found that working with them programmatically was always a pain. You either had to deal with ancient printer protocols or use clunky vendor-specific SDKs. So I built Printercow (https://printercow.com) – it turns any thermal printer into an HTTP endpoint with just one command.

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Article URL: https://sansyrox.github.io/amurex_ce/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42779378

Points: 32

# Comments: 16

https://sansyrox.github.io/amurex_ce/

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/21/its-a-nightmare-couriers-mystified-by-the-algorithms-that-control-their-jobs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42779544

Points: 72

# Comments: 54

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan

Article URL: https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.13544

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780022

Points: 140

# Comments: 120

https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.13544

I want to move our local communities off Facebook and onto our own platform. Is there a off-the-shelf solution or any collaborators I can join to move something along?

EDIT: I live in a more rural community (moved from a big city). We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook. I would like to move to a different platforms. Plus points for self-hosted, federated.

Comments URL: ht