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Show HN: I built a site that turns your Steam gaming hours into a RL skill tree

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Question is, what do you do now? back to dota or another project?

Lol, currently off dota, I actually have 2 projects in mind,

1. is just for fun, "Tower of violence", basically a tower of stacking cats, represeting how many violent/aggresive tweet a persona has ever tweeted. scaling to real world objects. maybe adding a "chill scale or certificate" for people with 0 violent tweets.

2. I call it SensAi, I want to build an open source sensei, equipped with a persona(of a fictional character for example), persistent memory and research capabilities, let's say you wanna learn to produce house music, It would evaluate your current level, your goal, research and build a roadmap, with quality reading/listening/watch materials, will give you assignment, evaluate your progress, and give feedback until you reach your goal.

For a long time I was thinking about building side projects to make extra cash, but it always made the building process a chore and daunting, so now, I'm building free stuff that I enjoy and hoping other would too.

Re: Show HN: I built a site that turns your Steam gaming hours into a RL skill tree

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> It finally hit me how much time I wasted on that game. I don't agree that leisure is inherently wasting time, which I think is a pretty common belief across North America in general and within Tech specifically. I don't know if that's what you're asserting, but it does seem to be the thesis of the backing site ("if you spent all this time that you spent on a leisure activity elsewhere, you could have XYZ 'better' s…

Fair points honestly, and ones thats been going through my mind constantly, and like Alan Watts says, we are human-beings not human-doings, and I dig that. I think that for me, creating this site was about making myself uncomfortable to the point of, if I game, it's about relaxation and lesiure, and not something I do because I have no way other way to spend the weekend, going out and making friends gives me anxiety…

Your middle point is great and very relatable; I've had the same frustration/argument with myself before: Am I playing this game because I actually want to, or because it's "easier" than anything else I could be doing?

Props to you for pushing yourself to confront the uncomfortable!

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