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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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post #323

A video course on Natural Language Processing. Very likely it's going to be free.

Any of it ready to share?

Not yet. I just completed the script, slides, and code demo for part 1 today. It's three parts. If you're interested, drop me an email. It's my handle + gmail. When I start uploading, I'll give you early access.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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How many users do you have? Were you able to grow an active community? (Forum or other). The website feels lonely without seeing what other users are doing I feel.

according to google analytics my 28 day active users is 134. I haven't really tried to grow an active community yet to be honest. I feel like I need to fill out some more destinations(I'm missing a lot of south america and africa) before I pursue that. Beyond that, there isn't really a strong need for anything social given what the core product does. On the other hand, you're right, the site feels very empty because…

To me it sounds like a nomadlist-type model could work. What draws people in to nomadlist is the info (cities, budget, etc..). What hooks them is the community (forum, Slack chat, # of nomads in the city).

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There is a wine grape varietal called St. Laurent which is cousin of well known Pinot Noir varietal and it originated from Burgundy, but curently you will find it mostly only in Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic. It is interesting grape, but there are many problems with it: it is very vigorous so it take quite a lot of work to tend and the bunches are big so they tend to squeeze, crack and rot. Thanks to cultivati…

I love this. Are you using any techniques facilitated by tech?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.

I solve that problem by turning on the hairdryer. My wife thought I'm weird but she's starting to realize the benefits

Do you want your wife to think you are washing your hair instead of taking a dump?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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post #249

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how the hell would 30k users not be enough to pay for servers? if everyone just pays $0.50 a month you got $15k. Congrats!

Because I launched it as a free app... I didn't have any confidence in it and at that moment, there was no way for me to accept payments internationally. I recently revamped the app, added features like real-time collaboration, chrome-app integration etc., and put that under a subscription. But have no time to market or spread the word around. Moreover, I'm not sure how to get free users to convert over to paid so, t…

It definitely is, I was just wondering. Anyway well done

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Such as? I honestly want to know, because I've never experienced any sounds from others that were particularly annoying.

Someone trying to force out the contents of their bowels out? The sound of said contents making contact with the water in the bowl? Etc.

Is it more of a problem for you to hear others taking a dump or others hearing you?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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post #393
post #361

There is a wine grape varietal called St. Laurent which is cousin of well known Pinot Noir varietal and it originated from Burgundy, but curently you will find it mostly only in Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic. It is interesting grape, but there are many problems with it: it is very vigorous so it take quite a lot of work to tend and the bunches are big so they tend to squeeze, crack and rot. Thanks to cultivati…

I love this. Are you using any techniques facilitated by tech?

Of course! I do hang NFC tags around preselected vines and I did wrote small iOS app that after scanning the tag I am able to attach photos, labels or other metadata that are interesting from breeder perspecitve. I am also able to track lineages and compare the stability of attributes I am interested in.

Most other breeders use pen and paper and they are fine, but hey I am programmer and I am going to write software.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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post #63

https://pancakes.cloud/ - a simple and fast website for storing and managing recipes. I built it for myself, but a few friends have already asked to use it because they are fed up with how bloated and ad-heavy most recipe websites are these days.

The forking of recipes (I see what you did there) is a superb idea. I'd like to sign up!

If you would like to try, the beta access key is currently set to 0qWgGgohJ88MO6sb

Both for you and anyone else considering signing up: Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress and I give no guarantees of any kind. If you'd like to get in touch regarding anything, my email is in my bio.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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[clicky](https://github.com/daniel5151/clicky) is an emulator for Clickwheel iPods I worked on in the many boring months between University graduation and starting full time work.

Unlike retro consoles/handhelds, there doesn't seem to be much nostalgia in the public consciousness for OG iPods - which is fair, given that most people just see them as antiquated MP3 players. That said, some of the later models did have some pretty neat little games which have yet to be preserved, and can only be played by owning the original hardware.

It was a lot of fun hacking away at the project, and I'd made a surprising amount of progress given that I'd opted to roll my own full-system emulator (in Rust!) as opposed to using something like QEMU.

Who knows, maybe when I have more free time I'll revisit the project and keep pushing it closer to completion. Not sure when though - emulation is a real time hog when you're also juggling a full time job!

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