Show HN: Learn anything by creating something everyday
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Show HN: Learn anything by creating something everyday
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#2Interesting.
Request access page needs UX work.
It leaves the prompt text in the field when you click on it. No indication of issue / feedback at all when you click submit.
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#3Interesting. Request access page needs UX work. It leaves the prompt text in the field when you click on it. No indication of issue / feedback at all when you click submit.
Ty. Added feedback on submission.
I'll improve the rest of the UX now as well.
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#4Dope idea using Slack as the central UI!
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#5We took "Show HN" off the title because requiring an invite makes it more like a sign-up page than something people are able to try out.
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#6Some background on how and why I started this.
I was going through a very difficult time in my life. My father in law passed away suddenly two days before my son and first child were born. Things were very emotional and stressful. I couldn't find any clarity. I didn't have any time for myself to figure it all out.
One day, while sitting alone in my friends startup office I heard the song Naked Life by Oko Ebombo. I am not sure why it was this song or if it could have been another song. Maybe I was depressed enough. But this song made me want to make music. I messaged some friends with a link to the track and asked, "how do you make this?" Most of them responded with things like, take singing lessons, get guitar lessons and so on. None of this was an option for me. I had to be back in my apartment to help my wife in an hour.
So I downloaded GarageBand for iOS, made a track and uploaded it to SoundCloud. Once that happened, I started to feel better. Prior to that moment I had never made any music in my life. The next day I did the same thing and I just didn't stop.
I wrote about this process on Twitter in a thread titled, "What I learned making some kind of music for 365 consecutive days:"
https://twitter.com/internetVin/status/1019033516028280832
I am following the same process now to teach myself how to code. I never want to stop doing this.
Re: Show HN: Learn anything by creating something everyday
#7We took "Show HN" off the title because requiring an invite makes it more like a sign-up page than something people are able to try out. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I will give everyone who signs up a chance to try it out to hold up on the promise. I'll do this within 5 days of them signing up. Everything about this is just trying to be useful to people
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#8We took "Show HN" off the title because requiring an invite makes it more like a sign-up page than something people are able to try out. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Also here are links to profiles if that helps retain the "Show HN" status so people here can play with elements of this. I've worked really hard to get to a point where I have a working tool that people can use. It required teaching myself how to code to realize it. On Jan 01 2019, I had never written a line of code. I'm a huge fan of Hacker News and would appreciate the Show HN categorization.
https://hfo.futureland.tv/internetvin
https://hfo.futureland.tv/saph
https://hfo.futureland.tv/ruaa
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#9Some background on how and why I started this. I was going through a very difficult time in my life. My father in law passed away suddenly two days before my son and first child were born. Things were very emotional and stressful. I couldn't find any clarity. I didn't have any time for myself to figure it all out. One day, while sitting alone in my friends startup office I heard the song Naked Life by Oko Ebombo. I a…
I too did this except 1 month at a time.
I use to produce music or 'jams' once a day for a month or so. I also did 3D quite a bit and produced 1 spaceship concept a day as part of "#shiptember"
It's a really fun way to learn to do something and inevitably become REALLY fast at it and produce incredible work that you'd never thought possible to start with. You know the software/hardware so good that by the end of it, it's effortless.
The king of this is of course `beeple`.
The point is: create, every day. It's under many forms and disciplines but usually it's under the umbrella of "progress before perfection" and "#everyday".
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#10We took "Show HN" off the title because requiring an invite makes it more like a sign-up page than something people are able to try out. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Also here are links to profiles if that helps retain the "Show HN" status so people here can play with elements of this. I've worked really hard to get to a point where I have a working tool that people can use. It required teaching myself how to code to realize it. On Jan 01 2019, I had never written a line of code. I'm a huge fan of Hacker News and would appreciate the Show HN categorization. https://hfo.futureland…
Ok, we'll make an exception for you.
Please don't ask friends to upvote your HN posts, though. It's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), HN users tend to see through it, and we ban accounts and sites that do it. Also, it's mostly pointless, because most such votes are rejected by the software.