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Nov 10

You have $4,100 in savings and $4,100 on the card: what keeping the savings actually costs

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Moving $4,100 from an 18.9% card to an 8% HELOC: what it saves — and what it puts at risk

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

4 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Should you keep a $1,000 emergency fund while paying off an 18.9% card?

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Ask your card issuer for a hardship program, not just a lower rate

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

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alapha888

Nov 9

Should you pause retirement contributions to pay off an 18.9% card? What $100 a month buys on $4,100

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Ask your card issuer for a lower APR before you move the balance: what 3 points saves on $4,100

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

4 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Moving $4,100 from an 18.9% card to a 12% loan: what the rate cut actually saves

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

I gave my free wedding planner trial 7 days to prove itself — day 2: still 1 download, and the trial is testing the channel too

#showdev #productivity #beginners #indiehacking

1 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

I gave my free ADHD planner trial 7 days to prove itself — day 2: still 1 download, and the trial is testing the channel too

#showdev #productivity #beginners #indiehacking

1 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

I gave my free D&D one-shot preview 7 days to prove itself — day 7: sixth flat day in a row, and the channel is the verdict so far

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

You can only pay $100 a month on $4,100 of card debt: 67 months and $2,541 of interest

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

You pause payments for 3 months: the interest doesn't pause with you

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Paying every two weeks on $4,100 of card debt: the 13th payment does the work, not the frequency

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Same $4,100, same $230 a month: what the APR actually does

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2 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

A $500 windfall on $4,100 of card debt: lump sum now vs $42 a month

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2 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Interest-only on $4,100 of card debt: $774.90 a year, and you still owe $4,100

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

An extra $25 a month on $4,100 of card debt: 3 months and $86

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3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

$1,000 buffer first, or every dollar at the card? The insurance premium is $346

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3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

0% balance transfer: what the 3% fee actually buys on $4,100 of card debt

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4 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

One missed payment: what it actually costs on $4,100 of card debt

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3 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

Snowball vs avalanche: the same $4,100 of card debt, two payoff orders, $120 apart

#showdev #personalfinance #debt

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 9

The minimum payment trap: what paying only the minimum actually costs you

#personalfinance #freelance #beginners #tools

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I gave my free D&D one-shot preview 7 days to prove itself — day 6: fifth flat day in a row, and the pattern is now the result

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I gave my free D&D one-shot preview 7 days to prove itself — day 5: still flat at 5, and I got the deadline wrong yesterday

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I gave my free D&D one-shot preview 7 days to prove itself — day 4: a sibling product closed today at zero, mine has three days left

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I gave my free wedding planner trial 7 days to prove itself — day 1: 1 budget sheet, 20 formulas, 0 downloads so far

#showdev #productivity #beginners #indiehacking

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I gave my free ADHD planner trial 7 days to prove itself — day 1: 10 pages, 25 links, 0 downloads so far

#showdev #productivity #beginners #indiehacking

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I killed a second product idea this week: 0 people signed up, so I didn't build it

#showdev #beginners #product #indiehacking

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alapha888

Nov 8

I gave my free D&D one-shot preview 7 days to prove itself — day 3: nothing moved, and the one channel I tried today asked for a birth date

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I gave my free D&D one-shot preview 7 days to prove itself — day 2: 5 downloads, none verified

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I stopped a free D&D listing at the license checkbox

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I killed a product idea today: 0 people signed up, so I didn't build it

#showdev #beginners #product #indiehacking

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

Your income just dropped 40%. Do these 7 things before you touch your debt plan

#personalfinance #freelance #beginners #tools

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alapha888

Nov 8

Before you print your homebrew one-shot: the 10-minute SRD check that caught a real error

#dnd #ttrpg #beginners #dnd5e

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 8

I gave my free D&D one-shot preview 7 days to prove itself — day 1: 1 download

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 7

My free GitHub Actions storage hit 90% in 7 days — the fix was 3 lines

#showdev #github #githubactions #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 7

I submitted a free skill pack to 6 awesome lists — 1 merged, 3 ignored, 1 closed for having 1 star

#showdev #opensource #github #beginners

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alapha888

Nov 7

I published 13 posts in one day. Here are the real numbers.

#showdev #python #windows #tools

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alapha888

Nov 7

I posted to Show HN and it got flagged within the hour — what actually happened

#showdev #python #windows #tools

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 7

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 12: using the GUI — pick a file, click convert, check the CSV

#showdev #python #windows #tools

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 7

Paying off debt on irregular income: the three-tier rule I actually use

#showdev #personalfinance #freelance #tools

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alapha888

Nov 7

I made a free 5-page D&D one-shot preview for first-time DMs (SRD 5.2.1 only)

#showdev #dnd #ttrpg #beginners

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 7

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 11: the first release is tagged — and what the version check says now

#showdev #python #windows #tools

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 7

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 10: I added a version check — and what I deliberately did not build

#showdev #python #windows #tools

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 9: I finally ran it on a real bank statement — and found a bug

#showdev #python #pdf #tools

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alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 8: encrypted, stamped, and line-less — three edge cases I finally tested

#showdev #python #pdf #tools

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alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 7: installing tesseract on Windows, tested in CI

#showdev #python #windows #ocr

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 6: what this converter has not proven yet

#showdev #python #windows #tools

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 5: what the CSV looks like, and how to check it before you trust it

#showdev #python #csv #tools

4 min read

alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 4: why pdfplumber, and the fixture bug that almost hid a real one

#showdev #python #pdf #tools

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 3: the scanned-PDF path — what OCR actually did, and what it didn't

#showdev #python #ocr #tools

3 min read

alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 2: a GUI and a Windows installer, and what CI caught

#showdev #python #windows #tools

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 6

Bank statement PDFs to CSV with Python: what I built, what I actually tested

#showdev #python #pdf #tools

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alapha888

Nov 6

Export your DeepSeek, Kimi, and Doubao chats to Markdown, PDF, or Word

#ai #productivity #browser #extensions

2 min read

alapha888

Nov 5

对账单 PDF 转 CSV：先挂预售，30 天交付、不到全额退

#showdev #productivity #opensource #tools

1 min read

alapha888

Nov 5

只认三个数：安装数 12、stars 还是 1、合并的 PR 还是 2 个

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

alapha888

Nov 5

英文版上了三处免费目录之后：收录有了，安装数还是自测的 5 次

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

alapha888

Nov 5

Lite 仓只有 8 个文件：3 条命令、2 个安装脚本、1 个 CI、1 份协议、1 份 README

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

alapha888

Nov 5

先写一个带 3 个 bug 的小程序，再测命令：测试床是怎么搭的

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

alapha888

Nov 5

从下单到能用：买完整版之后实际会发生什么

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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