I missed your Show HN, but I got the game now. Looks fun, and the fact that each citizen is simulated reminds me of Banished, which I enjoyed playing! Was happy to spend some wallet money I got from CSGO cases.
Thank you for making it, and don't give up. Passion and vision > vibe coding sloptimists.
Hi, I'm Branko. I am looking for a part-time or contract position in a small team where I can wear multiple hats: building features (Frontend/Laravel), handling support tickets, writing documentation, and improving SEO.
I have an engineering degree in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks (links on website).
If you need someone who is just as comfortable handling support and documentation as they are writing code, I'd love to chat.
My wrap includes getting married, travelling to Italy, Slovenia and Germany, finally making a few sales of the app I'm working on, and dealing with residence permit. In 2026 I will continue working on my apps and hopefully make more sales, I hope to do some freelancing, fish more with dad and travel a bit.
I'm planning to read more, mostly technical books recommended by the fine folks on the Book Overflow podcast and a few books on writing. As someone who's mostly self-taught, I know I have many gaps in my knowledge, so I'd like to fill some of those. And learning new things just feels great.
I'm also hoping to improve my Romanian. While I can get by (my wife is Romanian and we live there), I make waay too many mistakes, and considering I've been living there for a few years now, I feel I should do better.
This year has been pretty busy with personal things and working on my own apps, so I hope next year I can get back to learning things I find interesting and useful.
Hi! I'm Branko, a web developer with an engineering background in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks, handling everything from initial concept to deployment.
If you're looking for someone who can wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of your product, I'd love to chat!
Hi! I'm Branko, a web developer with an engineering background in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks, handling everything from initial concept to deployment.
If you're looking for someone who can wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of your product, I'd love to chat!
GLM 4.5 is a great budget option for me. After cancelling Claude sub ($20 USD one), I've been trying Gemini 2.5 Pro through Gemini CLI, and it was okay for landing pages and UI. However, I switched to GLM through Claude Code using their cheapest subscription and it's been pretty good so far. It feels more creative than Gemini when it comes to UI, not Claude Sonnet level (can't compare with Opus), but it's 90% there. It also follows instructions better than Gemini, and makes fewer or no syntax errors. Gemini through Gemini CLI would somewhat often completely mess up Astro files, or be a bit lazy. No such problems on AI Studio though.
A few days I got their quarterly promo plan ($9 USD), so I'm excited to try 4.6.
Just register a subscription [1] with z.ai (company behind the GLM models), get an API key [2], and then put something like this in your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc, etc:
alias zcc='ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic" ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="your z.ai api key" claude --model GLM-4.6'
Hi! I'm Branko, a web developer with an engineering background in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, fishing logbook app, and app for easing certain customer support tasks, handling everything from initial concept to deployment.
If you're looking for someone who can wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of your product, I'd love to chat!
I recently started working on a fishing journal/log kind of app. I got that idea last year when returning from fishing with dad, that it would be nice if we could track what we caught each time we went fishing, where we went, and to track some details (water and wea details). There apps that already do that, and one could also use Excel or just paper notebook, so I'm making this mainly for us and his friends to use. It's still early, but I'd like to add groups so you can exchange messages or catches with your friends, add stats allowing you to see for example at what time and where you caught most fish, or using which lure or bait. The app is in Serbian though, but here's a link if you want to check it out: https://buckaros.com
I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs to it too.
I'm also building a customer support app when I'm taking a break from Gorby. The idea is to make it easier to organize and quickly find/copy useful replies, discounts, screenshots etc. It's similar in concept to text expander apps, but those never worked great for me, I either forget the triggers or don't bother storing things I don't use daily. You could probably use Notion for this too, but to me it's too clunky and slow.
Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/) which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and then when done writing and editing convert it back into markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that are available for both. I think Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar.
I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been thinking of making it possible to save and read local files. If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be happy to give you a free license code :)
Thank you for making it, and don't give up. Passion and vision > vibe coding sloptimists.
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