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Hey HN,

I built Hashtini in my spare time to solve a problem my son, a YouTube creator, faced: sharing his channel offline with friends and schoolmates. He found it difficult to get people to visit his content when he couldn’t just drop a link in a chat. That got me thinking—what if there was a way to create a simple, memorable word-of-mouth tool for online and offline sharing?

Hashtags are easy to remember, so I built Hashtini as a way to turn hashtags into shareable landing pages, notes, and links. Instead of complicated URLs, creators can now use something like #MyBrand to direct people to their content from anywhere.

I iterated through multiple rounds of user interviews, refining the tool based on feedback from creators, educators, solopreneurs, and small businesses. To help users spread the word, I also set up a referral program that gives you $5 for each paid subscription you refer.

I’m sharing Hashtini here to get your feedback on how I can improve user acquisition and make this more valuable for the community. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Try it out: https://hashtini.com

Hello mobile app devs, I have been trying to find out solutions for dynamically changing certain UI elements in my app without releasing a new app version.

For e.g. I want to test whether an onboarding string A is better than onboarding string B. Or show a different menu items to certain users.

How do you guys control the display logic without releasing a new app version?

Hello, has anyone created a new project using the open source parse-server? Would you recommend using it for new projects? Any other alternative that we can use that has the same feature-sets or better than parse-server?

Thanks

I have an itch to design a game. I have got the basic idea behind the game but I don't want to just start coding without thinking of monetization. Any advice from gaming experts here?

Thanks,

Hello guys, I am trying to come up with a solution to send email newsletter with product recommendation to our users. This is what I have: 1. User-list on mailchimp. 2. All users segmented into different categories. 3. Products with unique url, price, and description stored in my Parse.com database.

What I need: 1. Find out products for each segment of users and send an email campaign to that segment.

What I have done: 1. Run a cron job to find out products and send it to Mandrill to the targeted segments.

This solution is very slow and takes forever to finish as it is trying to send a transactional email to each user.

Ideally I would like to just get the products list and send it to a campaign on Mailchimp for each segment.

If anyone has an experience in such integration, pointers to it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

I am using SDWebImageCache for async image loading but it is still slow and sometimes takes a few seconds if the user scrolls too fast. What different ways have you used to make the image loading faster with fast scrolling?

I have recently submitted our app to the app store after weeks of coding and hacking things to work. At this point I have realized that the quality of code has deteriorated considerably even though it works. The structure of the code is not lost, but in order to make it work, I have put a lot of hacks.

When I look back at the code, I can't believe I have written it and there are 1000 other ways to write it better. But I am hard pressed for time since my team has to ship it fast and validate a few points for our next round.

So I wanted to find out from HN members, how do you keep track of the quality of the code? Do you try to keep it well structured and re-factor your code often? What steps do you take to maintain the quality of the code. I mean, not just writing 'good' code, but what do you do to ensure that it is easily re-factorable?

Since I have been working on a new startup, I was thinking of open sourcing my previous project to HN members.

The advantages:

1 You will get to learn a lot working on a live system.

2. You can introduce as many features as you want.

The only thing I ask is to maintain the code working.

Do you guys think, it's a good idea to open source it? Please email me if any one of you is interested, I can open source the repository on github.

Details about the project: It's called Finderous (http://www.findero.us) and is about location based tiny interest groups. It is an iOS app and the backend is on PHP. I have seen fair amount of activity on it from some loyal members, though its not too great.

But I think it can be made great with open sourcing and adding new features.

Shoot me an email if you are interested.