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Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by aviditas »

muzani wrote: post #57
aviditas wrote: post #41

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I really like this idea! I feel like you could have the character mapping and input be geared towards writers for a story documentation tool as a UI and framework for the generated content would be in what a writer would need. Then offer as much or as little generator access as the user wants. For that generated content, I do a lot of character creation in a completely different context than writing/D&D, and I would…

Oh you popped on the Discord yesterday. Sorry about that, Discord is a poor replacement for the old anon chat rooms, lol. Thanks for the feedback. I might just pivot straight into that. I was dragging my feet on it because I didn't get much people interested in that, but only because my only communication medium is the survey.

No worries at all. Speaking of Discord, there are a ton of writing and D&D communities that would be great resources for feedback. You have an advantage in that area as you aren't charging for your current product and so hopping in to solicit feedback won't get you the same kind of backlash as long as it's okay in the groups' rules. Feel free to message me; I wish you the best of luck!

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by is_true »

minhmeoke wrote: post #59
is_true wrote: post #47

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Thanks. Something I missed is that the JSON is gonna be updated every 1 minute. I've never tried netlify or vercel, I've been told that the 1 min updates are a problem in platforms like that. I'm an nginx kind of guy but I'm helping an org that has no budget whatsoever and I'm exploring options.

Yes, netlify typically does deployment by pushing to a git repo or uploading a zip, the update latency could take several seconds to a few minutes. Another option is to use something like Firebase: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting The free tier gives you 2M cloud functions per month, then $0.40 for each additional million cloud function invocations: https://firebase.google.com/pricing Update latency is a few…

Thank you so much

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by jka »

jka wrote: post #24
PhillyG wrote: post #22

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I wouldn't say your UI is bad - it's certainly a reasonable MVP at this point. You could probably stick ads on it or a newsletter sign up on it for people interested in it. If I wasn't looking for UI improvements to point out, first glance would be it's pretty good, and what I'd expect - I certainly wouldn't immediately bounce - though the input boxes do need to support splitting ingredients by typing a comma - typin…

Thank you for the response! > support splitting ingredients by typing a comma That sounds sensible, yep; filed as https://github.com/openculinary/frontend/issues/210 > "Are there any ingredients that are not available?" ... I knew what you meant, the search will exclude recipes with those items, but it felt weird to read That makes sense too. If I remember correctly, that prompt was most-recently rephrased during a p…

Hey - if you re-read recent threads and see this reply, great; and no worries if not - thanks for your feedback, in either case.

All I'll say for now is that arguably the shopping list should become an important nexus within the app. Like an accounting entry-book with both order history and also yet-to-be-filled orders, it could be used to approximate the kitchen inventory at points-in-time. That should become powerful when changes in inventory are used to feed back into current and future meal planning.

Separately: advice noted about testing with friends and family. My partner and I use the app at home once or twice a week, and following recent improvements it's probably time to reach out for more feedback from others.

I find maintaining a balance between asking for (re)evaluation of the app and a hope for regular everyday conversations a little tricky; but to be honest I've always found the latter challenging, probably.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by pm2222 »

minhmeoke wrote: post #44
pm2222 wrote: post #12

There are columns of data, and as a simple example they are {{1,a},{1,b},{1,c},{2,a},{2,b},{2,c},{3,a}} of two columns and seven lines. I'd like to process the data through a function which would yield {{{1,2},{a,b,c}},{{3},{a}}} which is slightly better than {{{1,2,3},{a}},{{1,2},{b,c}}} because former has 7 leaf elements vs latter 8 leaf elements while both has if you will two lines. How to write that function?

This is similar to a Karnaugh Map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vkMgTmieZI Basically, you can map the data values into a boolean truth table representation: a b c 1 x x x 2 x x x 3 x And use the Karnaugh Map to visually simplify: a b c 1 ┌───┐ 2 └───┘ 3 □ into: {1,2}{a,b,c} {3}{a} If you'd like to do this algorithmically, there are Karnaugh solver libraries which use algorithms such as the https://en.wikipedia.or…

Very nice. Can this be applied to more than 4 dimensions?

This problem is an abstract of a network firewall rule optimization. The a,b,c... are for source IP/net, destination IP/net, protocol/port, permit/deny and probably more like zone names.

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