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Depth-camera powered MIDI drum kit. This has been my labor of love for the last several years. The current iteration runs on randomized decision forests trained to identify pixels as different parts of the hand.
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#672There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…
Need any help with this? You've piqued my interest.
Sure! I don't really know where to start, I got the link.. I wonder how I can increase the odds of getting one of their ads so I can record what happens.
my email is duzunov@fastmail.com
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#673Not the answer you're looking for, maybe... Life. Whether it "succeeds" or not (ignoring the biological succession pun) is in the eye of the beholder, but choosing whether to care or not is a fairly continuous active choice for the individual. At some point in life some of us may reach a state of not caring whether personally or societally important individual life goals are reached. Not caring can offer some nice fr…
This is actually the answer I came here looking for-- with some unexpected flavorful details! Sad to see it so far down in the thread.
Letting go of whether I 'succeed at life' has been a difficult and ongoing process. I also think it's one of the most important and freeing personal psychological developments one can experience.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#674There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…
This happened to me, in France, through the Orange mobile carrier, around 2018. They've reimbursed me without issue. I consider myself savvy, use an adblocker and don't click on obvious frauds. Yet it happened.
That's what hurt my pride, not gonna lie. Plus its angering they are targeting children with this.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#675For a short time I had become disenchanted with the corporate world, and decided I would go the entrepreneur/consultant route and try to start my own niche business. I had experience in both Developer Support and Engineering and thought I could serve that niche well.
This led to me starting to build out a suite of HelpScout integrations. They had some momentum at the beginning, but from a combination at me not being good at marketing and HelpScout’s marketplace not being mature, it was hard to keep it moving. I also ended up happy again in the corporate world, so my own motivation dwindled.
That said, the tools continue to run well today, and I just have them up and do the occasional feature addition or bug fix. I have completely removed my ego from that project, but I was very excited to see this month I got my first recurring subscription payment!
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#676Believe it or not, I sell the following on Fiverr as radiantxp21: "I will special stocks and option picks lose all your money fast and intelligently" I know, it sounds a bit, non-English, but in my defense: it was my first time using Fiverr and I had no clue how to use it. The ad is up for a few months already, and I had many laughs creating it, but yesterday I had my first client! I panicked, I realized that I am as…
Maybe they mean to counter trade you, i.e. short the terrible stocks you recommend and become immensily rich.
Yeah, logically someone who can see a bad trade can see a good trade. Anyone who is able to reliably underperform the market would be a valuable trader.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#677There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…
Wait, how is this technically possible?
I think this is the question. I think they either probably generate links that change once clicked once.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#678https://increment.me
“Get anonymous feedback on anything”
Built it, use it, enjoy it, get value from it and I think everyone could. May turn into 501c3!
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#679There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…
Interesting! I bet you do care if this succeeds though.
Well, I'm not betting anything on it..
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#680I created https://plaintweet.com/ primarily for myself. I posted it on HN sometime back and many people visited it. It is completely free and doesn't use any analytics so I don't know how many people use it (if any). It runs on a $5 VM along with some other small projects, so it doesn't cost me much and hence the outcome doesn't matter.
An alert for you: the donate link leads to a “404 Not Found” page on buymeacoffee.
Ah thanks. It should be fixed now.