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Re: Show HN: NeedleDrop – Guess the movie from a song

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Post by looperhacks »

Congrats! The game is quite hard because there might be multiple correct solutions, but only one gets accepted. But I understand that this is a limitation of the game, maybe adding something like "Correct, but we're looking for something else" would be nice.

Two suggestion for improvements:

- Add a skip button. If I don't have a clue which film it might be, I need to write some nonsense answer to get a clue, a skip button would be nicer. - Play the song immediately when I click the play button. I was wondering why it doesn't start, even though I clicked the Play button!

Sidenote: I spoiled myself because Imagus showed me the movie pictures in the archive ;) Not your fault of course, but I found it funny

Re: Show HN: NeedleDrop – Guess the movie from a song

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Post by matsemann »

wernah wrote: post #34
krumpet wrote: post #28

I've always considered Stack Overflow research to be very valuable. Less for the answer to my question and more for the related topics, edge cases, and other details that frequently are included in thorough answers / comments / discussions. When AI answers your question (and only your question), that's great for that specific instance, but it feels to me like it's lacking in breadth. I wonder if that results in the u…

That's a fair take. I can't overstate Stack Overflow has been in the past, I think I often had that experience that it usually caters to common but specific scenarios, or I'm just impatient and lurk instead of asking a question and waiting for a response. Interesting I could paste Stack overflow discussions into ChatGPT to ask if this insight is related to my issue and it was usually open to relating the new info and…

I think it's great that GPTs make it possible for people to achieve things like this! And kudos to you for stepping out of your comfort zone and learning new stuff.

I think the main apprehension people (/devs) have about this, is how the new generation of full time coders will be. Will they blow our socks away, with their AI-enhancements? Or will they never have learned the core concepts, but just jump from issue to issue like a junior for ever?

Re: Show HN: NeedleDrop – Guess the movie from a song

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Post by ericyd »

seandavidfisher wrote: post #50

Love the idea and execution. The spinning record was fun and gave me something to watch while racking my brain. Have you considered adding an “I have no idea” button? I ended up just typing random movies, but having the UI guide the user in some way when they honestly can’t think of a likely movie would be thoughtful.

Totally agree with this, it would be really nice to be able to request clues without submitting an invalid guess. It could still count towards one of your four guesses but I think from a UX perspective it's nicer to be able to admit ignorance than being forced to guess incorrectly.
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