Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by m3kw9 » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 12:22 AM UTC

If you ask AI to recommend or gen a video to make you cry, it may just show you a video of someone cutting onions.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

#32

Post by anigbrowl » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 12:25 AM UTC

This is bad. If you want some emotional art therapy, go actually watch something, whether it's something you already appreciate or something new that you are willing to try. Content poaching wrapped up as pseudoscientific wellness product is just exploitative.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by laincide » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 12:32 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #32

This is bad. If you want some emotional art therapy, go actually watch something, whether it's something you already appreciate or something new that you are willing to try. Content poaching wrapped up as pseudoscientific wellness product is just exploitative.

Jesus Christ you must be not fun at parties

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by JohnTheSealion » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 12:39 AM UTC

The amount of javascript I had to allow made me cry. Unfortunately browsing with No-Script seems to block much of the functionality. But otherwise a cool project!

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by domaaju » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 12:55 AM UTC

Thanks for sharing, I have my wedding in two days and have been a nervous wreck, the cry was a good release.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by layer8 » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 1:00 AM UTC

Is that what they mean by cryotherapy? ;)

Anyway, this seems to be a covert ad for https://www.feelapp.io/.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by 0xEF » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 1:01 AM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #23

rc5150 wrote: post #22

I want this in literally every other emotion, except for anger, because there's already a site for that called reddit.com

Twitter and facebook are far more effective for that.

I think we can just kinda blanket-statement this and say all social media induces anger, yeah?

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by jagged-chisel » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 1:03 AM UTC

How can I grab a link for a video to share that specific video?

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by OuterVale » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 1:05 AM UTC

This site brings me to tears every time I visit. Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad. Usually melancholy.

https://thesoundof.love

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by Gigachad » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 1:06 AM UTC

0xEF wrote: post #37

Gigachad wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter and facebook are far more effective for that.

I think we can just kinda blanket-statement this and say all social media induces anger, yeah?

All of them can but I don't think they are equal. Back before I deleted twitter about a year ago, no matter what I did, how many accounts I blocked, I'd get a feed of AI generated ragebait. Meanwhile TikTok and Youtube seem to respect my preferences more. There is ragebait on those platforms but it isn't shown to me. Facebook just seems to be entirely Boomers and Gen Xers angry at the news.

Reddit has historically respected your subscriptions but it does look like they are drifting away and making the home page just whatever they want to show you.