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ushercakes

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    Show HN: OpenSpeech – Compare open-source TTS models side-by-side

    Browsing open source TTS models is.. difficult, fragmented, annoying. Wanted an easy place to just use them myself and sample them. Made it happen. Enjoy!

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    Show HN: Search Console MCP – Talk to Google Search Console with Claude

    It's free and OSS! GSC is a goldmine on valuable SEO data, but - the data is manual and kind of annoying to grab. You have to go to a few different pages, and click the "Export" bu…

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    Show HN: Local-first history, search, and analytics for Claude Code and Codex

    I'm an indiehacking type, which means I work on like 5 different things at any given time. Claude and codex are incredible. But, there were a few problems I had with them. AgentGra…

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    Comment #40518233

    How to grow your LinkedIn company profile - Post a fake job, fully remote, 6 figure salary - Get legitimately thousands of job applicants on LinkedIn to apply - When they apply, au…

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    Show HN: A way to show your taste in all things

    I have incredibly low expectations on this. Built it for fun over a weekend because I wanted a link in bio tool that looked more tasteful. This is essentially a link in bio tool, e…

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    Comment #40199067

    https://www.chartjs.org/ It's pretty easy to configure and understand. It's the 80/20 principal of charts, it is 80% of D3 functionality for 20% the effort.

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    Comment #38835918

    You failed because you didn't follow instructions. I can empathize with this - I too went to college, and was very annoyed by stupid instructions. I thought upon graduating, I woul…

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    Comment #38279032

    It's not just you - this is widespread. I run a SaaS to help site owners get their content indexed. We're seeing an influx of users, I think a lot of the issue is simply because of…

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    Comment #37835893

    Marketing is more important than product. MVP doesn't need to be perfect, but the core product should work. Get it in users hands ASAP, get feedback ASAP, or see no traction and mo…

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    Comment #37780946

    Most of my internet dollars in the past have come from ads and affilates on various blogs I run. My first real "somebody paying me for my product" dollar, came in January of this y…

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    Comment #37677472

    I'm the creator of IndexGuru. Let me tell you a story you might get some value from. August 2022 - November 2022. Built the application. November 2022 - January 2023. Tried to plug…

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    Comment #37664381

    - Perceptions matter. A lot of Americans think it's best here. Those that say how bad it is here, tend to not be the types that would be qualified for EU visas (i.e, you're not goi…

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    Comment #37524526

    You can airdrop now if the phone is an iPhone and the laptop is a MacBook of some sort. I also am a sucker for notes, I use the native apple notes, but this probably works for any …

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    Comment #37514022

    This is one of those topics where I knowingly bury my head in the sand - at this point, I'm in too deep, I don't even want to know.

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    Comment #37513991

    I think Upwork is a terrible experience, but also, it's a pretty safe starting point. It's where most potential clients are. You just need to undervalue your services a bit, bid lo…

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    Comment #36022198

    This is my domain - I run a website for freelancers to share their hourly and project level earnings, kinda like a levels.fyi or a glassdoor but for freelancers. In my experience c…

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    Comment #35806229

    Outlive. It will not only help improve your odds of living longer, it will make those later years "better". Better as in, instead of being wheeled around a retirement home, you wil…

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    Comment #34927871

    Thanks! It's definitely a valid point. We do get a lot of made up, totally BS data from people doing exactly what you're suggesting. It's usually obvious though and we filter it ou…

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    Comment #34926468

    How are you feeling morale-wise with the company? I've been seeing a lot of negative sentiment around Airbnb as of late, a total transformation compared to what I've seen in years …

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    Comment #34926402

    I run CRFYI, a site that basically operates like levels.fyi or glassdoor but tailored specifically to freelance/consulting rates. I'd encourage you to check out some of the submiss…

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    Ask HN: Jobs with Meaning?

    I, like many of you, work on a project that doesn't really advance humankind. I work on a software product in a niche, within a niche, within a niche, to help a subset of large cor…

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    Comment #34646236

    Security isn't going anywhere anytime soon. If you think about the timelessness of war - how those creating weapons always seem to profit, it's kind of like that. Basically an inte…

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    Comment #34646111

    Yeah, big time. It's faster, so crawlers give you better scores for page speed, which is important. Secondly, it automatically renders all of your content, vs if you dynamically lo…

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    Comment #34553298

    Bruh! I love this site. You absolutely could put ads here, in a way that isn't annoying. I guarantee you that there are game shops out there that would pay you like $10k minimum to…