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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by toomanyrichies »

blackhaj7 wrote: post #458
toomanyrichies wrote: post #346

I'm writing "The Impostor's Guide To The Shell". My theory is that reading popular open-source codebases, and Googling stuff you don't understand until you grok it, is a great way to overcome impostor's syndrome. The goal is to take a reader from thinking "Maybe a 10x engineer could understand that library, but I never could..." to "Oh, that's all it does?". The guide covers things like: - shebangs - exit codes - par…

This book looks great - I love the style and I am trying to improve my shell skills. Is there anywhere I can pre-order it?

Oh wow, thanks for the compliment! You're the first person to ask haha.

The first step in this process is making sure I'm even writing something that's useful to my target audience. So for now, I'm laser-focused on getting reader feedback via that HelpThisBook.com site.

That said, I'm continuing to add more free content to that site on a weekly basis. I recommend watching that space for more updates.

Thanks for reaching out!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by victorabarros »

I'm developing this twitter bot to post the uranium stock market prices each hour. After this done, the next step is developing integration with some IA to produce content as well.

https://twitter.com/uraniumstockbot https://github.com/victorabarros/ura-bot

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by ajani »

soultrees wrote: post #450
ajani wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see. So would the dialogue be part of the textual description? What would be a typical unit? A keyframe? A bucket of frames? Because the elements are temporal and visual, I think some form of “object in time” relation must be encoded in the description?

You’ve given me something to think about and I think you’re right, there is an element of time missing. In fact there is a few parallel time elements missing from this too For example, when we are shooting there is a rough formula for how long of a day we need to get those scenes. Usually it’s 1 hour per 1 page scene plus an extra 30 mins added on for each character in the scene. But that doesn’t translate to the fin…

It's not clear what the idea is here. Which is why all the questions. I suspect, as you said, that a much more complex data structure would be required to encode all the various aspects of production into its constituent elements and the relations between the elements.

I would guess, that the first step would be to establish how the process of production (screenplay, scenes, camera angles, locations etc.) relates to the final product: scene frames. Each scene must have many shared elements as well. That would have to be encoded too.

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Post by klakierr »

carlosjobim wrote: post #455
klakierr wrote: post #138

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…

€20 is not expensive to translate a book. Google translate is of such low quality that it is not suitable for any real world use like yours. Can you let the user herself pay the translation cost when loading her favorite book into your software?

Yeah I intend to offer different translation options and be transparent with pricing

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Post by zem »

_gabe_ wrote: post #154

https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation If you’ve ever tried to make a mathematical animation (think 3Blue1Brown), it’s a real pain. I was using manim for awhile to make animations for my YT channel, but the whole iteration process felt very slow and repetitive. So I thought I would recreate manim over the weekend, except with a GUI and real-time feedback. It’s been a year and a half and I’m hoping this weekend…

that looks really good!

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Post by extragood »

mirroredfables wrote: post #328
extragood wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the idea, but I keep on getting hung up (after 10+ minutes) on ``` [worker] Searching for music... ``` If it helps, my prompt was: > I would like a story set 2000 years in the future, where humanity has achieved interstellar travel. Humans prioritize exploration of extra-solar planets and the search for intelligent life

Oops, it seems that I had hit a youtube API rate limit last night. Should be okay now.

I enjoyed my story!

It was based on the prompt I shared previously.

The protagonist was Aeyela who was rendered as an anime/manga school girl. Her voice was portrayed as deep and masculine, which was pretty entertaining.

I did encounter a couple issues:

* the 2nd song was age-restricted, and I was unable to skip it, so the music stopped. I looked at another tab and returned, and another song loaded

* potentially related to the above: the voice narration stopped and I couldn't figure out how to get it to resume, even after toggling a few of the related settings

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Post by jcubic »

harrykeightley wrote: post #187

A little niche, but https://run-in.app is an online encounter manager for DnD 5e that I've been (slowly) building this year. I initially built it because I was dming a one-shot for some friends and got overwhelmed tracking the health and position of 6 enemies + the party on pen and paper. I wasn't happy with the solutions I found to this online, and thought it'd be fun to try and build one myself. The main features f…

I just loaded a page from Europe, it took few seconds to load the images. I thought the page was broken, there were no loader of any kind.

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Post by jfil »

adamdecaf wrote: post #379

I'm building Recall Kitchen which is an aggregator to notify consumers of products they use which have been recalled. Right now I'm focusing on the effort to help users tailor notifications so they're specific and actionable. It doesn't help to be told your brand of taco shells was recalled three states over and I'm working to fine-tune the signal. https://recallkitchen.com/

Ooh, I had a similar idea (but will not be building it out) - let me know what kind of feedback you'd be interested in getting. FYI the Canadian government has a nice central page with recalls. Sometimes a recall comes with cash-back (after you've already gotten all the use out of the product), so that's a possible benefit to highlight on your site. Here's an example that got us ~$150 back https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/expanded-r...

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Post by jfil »

roomsnewsletter wrote: post #16

I've been working on a new newsletter for the last month and a half called Rooms where I feature creative individuals homes as well as a brief interview regarding their thoughts on design: https://rooms.substack.com/ Would love any general feedback or ideas!

Great photos. Interior design magazines/articles are a little about voyeurism - try to bring in some details about people's family situation/life drama/get them to talk about an item that has personal meaning for them/talk about how much $$$ certain things cost.
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