Mining App Store charts and 1-star reviews for app ideas: a worked example (with the weak ideas left in)A common piece of indie-dev advice goes: "look at what's charting, read the 1-star reviews, build what people are begging for." It's good advice, and it's also tedious. You scroll a chart, open apps o10h ago · 7 min readflyingkiwi.hashnode.dev
Pulling open jobs from Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby into one feed (and reading hiring signals from it)If you sell to companies, recruit for them or invest in them, their job boards are one of the most honest public signals you can get. A company that just opened 30 sales roles in London is telling you10h ago · 6 min readflyingkiwi.hashnode.dev
Turning PDFs, Word files, slides and shared folders into Markdown for RAG (what works and what doesn't)Most RAG tutorials start with a clean .txt file. Real projects start with a shared folder of PDFs, a few Word documents, a slide deck someone exported in 2019 and a spreadsheet with three tabs. Before110h ago · 9 min readflyingkiwi.hashnode.dev