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Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•55s ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•2m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
1•Anon84•6m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•8m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•9m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•16m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•17m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•22m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
4•mooreds•23m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•25m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•30m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•32m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•32m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•32m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•34m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•34m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•41m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•42m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•43m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•44m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•45m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•46m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•48m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•48m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•49m ago•1 comments
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Show HN: I built an app that auto-shares your referral codes for passive rewards

https://www.refer-app.com/
2•DevDad_io•9mo ago
Hi HN,

I built REFER, a tool that helps people automatically share their referral codes where others are searching for them. It’s not a marketplace or a link tree—users just enter the codes they already have (for apps like Webull, Rakuten, Robinhood, etc.), and REFER distributes them for discoverability. The goal is to make it easier for people to earn from referral programs without constantly promoting links themselves.

Why I built it: I noticed a lot of folks—including creators and casual users—have valuable referral codes sitting unused. Most people either don’t know where to post them, or they end up buried in social media bios or YouTube descriptions. I wanted to make something that quietly works in the background to surface these codes without requiring extra effort or marketing.

I designed and built REFER solo. It uses Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, MongoDB, Stripe (for optional paid tiers), and Auth0 for authentication. All code is deployed on Vercel.

What's different: All codes are continuously re-shared over time, not just the newest or most active—everyone gets a fair chance at visibility.

It’s focused purely on automation and visibility—set it once and forget it.

There’s a free tier, and you can try it here: https://www.refer-app.com/. You do need to sign up to add codes, but I’d be happy to set up a demo or provide a walkthrough if there’s interest.

Happy to answer questions, share more technical details, or hear feedback (especially the critical kind).

Thanks!

Comments

bix6•9mo ago
This is awesome!

I would not pay monthly to share my referral codes as I have no guarantee of payback, especially if you get flooded with codes. What about only charging when someone’s code gets used?

DevDad_io•9mo ago
Thanks so much!

I totally get that concern. I went with a subscription model mainly for two reasons:

- To prevent bots or spammers from flooding the system with junk codes.

- To encourage users to only add active, redeemable codes—if a code hits its redemption limit, I assume users will stop paying or remove it, which helps keep the pool clean.

I’m also working on adding "Profile Pages", where users can list all their referral codes for free and share a direct link with others. The subscription only limits how many of those codes go into the randomized pool (currently 5). So even if someone isn’t paying, they can still use REFER to organize and share all their codes in one place.

Charging per redemption is tricky because I don’t have insight into when or if a code is used—most platforms don’t expose that data. But if, say, your Ally code gets you a $50 bonus once, the $1/month fee pays for itself pretty quickly.

I also don’t want to run ads, so this helps cover basic costs. Totally open to better ideas, though—really appreciate your feedback.

bix6•9mo ago
All valid and makes sense! I like your thought with the profile page.

Could also be fun to build it into a browser extension? Someone’s on a signup page and it pops up a referral code in case they’ve forgotten?