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An app for language learning by reading books in the target language. It takes the book (any epub book) in the target language add inserts translations: —Arthur —dijo con tono cortante, ["Arthur," he said sharply.] y su voz sonó como el chasquido de una ratonera—, [and his voice sounded like the click of a mousetrap.] All of the existing apps that I checked only display translation upon clicking a word (like in Kindl…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100760
(Hypersprawl/Hypershack is a metaverse/playground in 4 spatial dimensions. where you can upload your 4 dimensional objects and move around and in them. more info in the show HN or https://brainpaingames.com)
I've developed a niche app designed to assist individuals in the Dominican Republic and potentially others outside the US who purchase from platforms like Amazon US and eBay US in retrieving sales tax refunds. The way it operates is by accessing data from your Amazon purchase history and your courier or forwarding service. From this, it auto-generates an email to Amazon to reclaim the sales tax. Initially, I aimed to…
You absolutely can. I recommend selling it as subscription service at launch, with a free demo. Less calculations/simpler workflows. If it allows to save $hundreds, people will be happy to pay $tens. A lot of "lifehack" websites accept paid content, you even have a chance of getting free advertising. Why isn't your product global from the start?
Thanks for the suggestion.
> Why isn't your product global from the start?
I'm not sure I understand the question but mostly because I have to add support for shipping forwarders (e.g. write scrapers for them) and right now, the two ones I am personally using only ship to the Dominican Republic.
I also don't know if people actually do this outside the Dominican Republic. It only solves a problem for people who ship from the US through a shipping forwarder. If you ask Amazon (and other e-commerces) to ship internationally, they usually don't charge a sales tax in the first place. I don't really know how common it is for people to ship through forwarders outside the DR to be honest. It's a big thing here because "last-mile delivery" is unreliable and it's easier to go at a shipping forwarder's local office to pick up packages.
That word, “technoetics”, beautifully encapsulates what I find most interesting: the exploration of consciousness through technological means.
My ambition would be to merge “maker culture” with fringe topics related to parapsychology, anomalous cognition (remote viewing), mind-matter interaction, … in a kind of open-minded and curious yet self-aware, artful, playful, and not-so-serious way.
To make it a little more specific but probably still very cryptic to anyone not familiar with this: I am working on software to support various “psi” experiments. For example, I want to make it really easy to do timestamped ARV-based predictions of future outcomes.
I don’t have anything to show publicly right now, but feel free to comment or reach out via mail (see profile) if this piques your interest too.
It's a NES-tanks inspired browser game where you use your phone as a controller. It's built for local multiplayer sessions and includes a simple level editor (levels are encoded in urls so it's easy to share them). In order to play you have to scan qr code with your phone (for test purposes it's possible to control 1 tank with WASD after pressing "local" button). There's still plenty of scaling and compatibility issues that will probably never be solved but it's been quite fun to work on.
It's a web app to learn languages using podcasts, Youtube and chatgtp. I have been using these language learning techniques myself and I know they work better than duolingo or similar apps. I'm biased of course, but that's the reason I'm building this in the first place, I don't think there's any other app as effective out there.
It's not done yet, but it's usable on desktop. Any type of feedback is appreciated.
i want to make my own sqlite driver with go, but i do not know where to start. maybe i can get suggestion from here
https://github.com/lukesalamone/code_nitro Convert your code to an image from the command line. No internet connection needed, although it can also download and convert code from Github too. Made it because currently the best alternative (carbon-now-cli) sends your code over the wire and there's a lot of situations where that's not desirable.
I've got a project called http://digitapes.app/ - very much not-finished yet, but would be interested in hearing some thoughts.
The basic premise is that it's an easier media archiving / montage tool. Rather than saving everything to google/apple photos, this allows you to "share" to digitapes instead (much like you might "share" to your family members via messenger) - then digitapes puts them all together into a montage reel that you can watch / download / share.
You could also give access to your friends, who they can "share" it to your tape, so the group of you can make a montage of the holiday you all took.
I also wanted to break away from subscription pricing: you buy a tape for X dollars, and it should continue to exist* (maybe it becomes read-only after a little bit, and it has a size / length limit). - this obviously requires more people to buy more tapes, to keep the business going.
I made it with idea of keeping "home movies" for my daughter. My wife and I have video tapes from when we were young, but digital media has a "cheap and plenty" vibe, so I wanted to have a special place that i could easily store and montage photos and videos of my daughter while she grows up.
I've just been too busy with raising her to finish it off, unfortunately. :D