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I recently have gotten into dev on Windows (and really like it), was looking for a place to find themes for the new Windows Terminal and couldn't find any, so I made this for a fun weekend project

I hope you find it useful!

A little on me: Self-taught dev. Learnt to code at home building projects, 9 months later I used that portfolio to land a job as a full-stack web dev and I love it!

Follow me on Twitter to see what I'm working on: https://twitter.com/itslukehero


Hey Hacker News!

The Product: I made this tool to help YouTube creators with researching topics and keywords for videos and also helping with the upload process with features such as title keyword suggester, tag generator and preview pages to see how your video will look on YouTube without you having to upload it, plus more!

Me: I am an aspiring IndieDev like a lot here on the platform. I love to build things that help people and it’s my dream to make a living doing so. My mission this year has been simple: Take a month to learn the fundamentals of code, then start building - 6 projects in 6 months, this makes 4 out of 6.

You can follow me here to see how I’m doing and what I’m making: https://twitter.com/itsLukeHero


Hey HN!

The what: I thought of an idea to build a site that can list cities around the world with the risk factor that city may have from things such as flooding, hurricanes, wildfires etc.

The why: Natural disasters happening all around the world right now are increasing each year.

The safety of family and loved ones is always a priority when looking for your next home. It would be great if there was a reference to assess risks before you consider where to live.

If you are interested to help gather the data for such a site, please contribute and share this document. If not or if you think this idea sucks, no worries. If you have feedback, suggestions or criticism, let me have it!

Me: I'm on a mission to learn to code while building things that genuinely help people. See my profile for more info :)

p.s feel free to share this to Reddit if you find a good subreddit for it, I am yet to find one.


Hey HN! Here's some back story..

The project: Ever had a question like “When can I buy that?” or ‘Can I afford that vacation 6 months from now?”. The answer to those questions is ZenQalendar. ZenQalendar is a smart budget calendar which makes future predictions based on your spending habits.

Me: A month ago I successfully launched freshjobs.io on here (https://qht.co/item?id=17793024), here's my next project!

I’m on a mission to learn to code by making 6 projects in 6 months (this is 3 out of 6), with my final project being at the end of the year in December. The dream is to live from these projects by that time and help people across the world by building things that are truly helpful to those people.

All feedback and bug reports are much appreciated. Go easy on me, I am still a total newbie dev!

I vlog my journey here: https://www.youtube.com/lukehero I post regular updates here: https://twitter.com/itsLukeHero I do a write up after each project here: https://medium.com/@lukehero


Well spotted and thank you! I have fixed it :)


Well spotted! Fixed. Thank you :)


I wouldn't feel quite right about charging the job seekers as typically a lot of them are unemployed and thus money can be tight. The incentive for a company here would be cheaper labour so its already a saving for them by having a large pool of potential junior or entry level candidates to advertise to.

Thank you so much for taking the time to give your feedback, I will take it into consideration and see how things work out as time goes on for the site :)

Where you able to find some suitable nursing jobs on the site? If not I will see what I can do to make sure those results are coming onto the site for you and your fellow nurses looking for those jobs.


For most states, no nursing jobs on your site. They're hard to find (none of the aggregators do well) for the reasons I mentioned. Most of us take 6-12 months or more to get our first job and we mostly learn about them through social connections. If you want to know a lot more, send me an email and I can dump everything I know about this on you. Since I was a darn good programmer (and a barely-passable entrepreneur) for over 30 years I'm also glad to share any discussions about how this task might be tackled.


Just sent you an email :)


FreshJobs.io is also listing jobs from Switzerland :)


Thanks for this. Was a good read.


Thank you for the suggestion! I will work on filters for the site. Any particular filters you'd like to see?


Salary, technologies if possible, and job age are all useful.

How do you get job data? Is it a mix between apis and direct website scraping?


>> Is it a mix between apis and direct website scraping?

That's right. I am trying to normalise the data from all the sources so I can generate some useful filters.


Thanks this is fascinating. Do alot of companies (such as indeed) provide APIs for this? I would have thought it goes against their business models.

Also is there any legal concerns for website scaping here?


Indeed do have an API, which I have applied for, but they didn't get back to me yet. Still waiting for a few big job sites to get back to me on using their APIs. Hoping eventually I can get them all!

I've made sure not to crawl any sites that do not allow it, such as LinkedIn for example prohibit it, so I left them alone ;)


Thank you for getting back.

I wanted to build a service to gather and analyse all types of job information and see trends. I would ultimately sell the data, however I don't think it would be possible reading some API T&C's. Just a flaunting idea.


Salary, location, job type/area


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