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Fyi your site is not working.
It is up? https://isitup.org/thespacewar.com Is it down for anyone else?
First request gave me a 500. Second one was fine. Smells like some minor configuration error somewhere.
Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
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It is up? https://isitup.org/thespacewar.com Is it down for anyone else?
Yeah, I get: "Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function set_cookie() in /var/www/thespacewar.com/index.php:58 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /var/www/thespacewar.com/index.php on line 58"
Omg, fixed thank you so much. Something I had changed this morning and not tested correctly ...
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#133Hi, I'm Dustin, and I've been working on abstreet.org for about ~2.5 years to fight car dependency in cities. Aiming to explore and advocate for short-term transportation changes like creating low-traffic neighborhoods and fleshing out bike and bus networks, and moonshot ideas like congestion charging zones in city centers, superblocks, and zoning changes. Targeting the general public, rather than planners who've alr…
Wow, that's a fascinating project. Wish you all the best.
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#134These are great threads to have, but I do worry some underestimate the amount of interviewing they should do for a co-founder they've just met from here. As a rule of thumb if you can't imagine yourself being close friends with this person, it's probably not a good idea to have them as a co-founder. It's a much more important, long-term, and intimate relationship than a simple partnership or internship is. I'd sugges…
I have to agree. Starting a venture with a less-than-compatible partner made me realize I would need to do as much emotional labor to stay in the game as I would with a romantic life partner. To be honest, that really put me off from starting a company with anyone I don't already know.
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#135I've been doing some research and daydreaming about building a VR product that is both software and hardware. Think Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for driving, in VR. I want to simulate real world driving experience as closely as possible.
The idea first came to me when I was driving around in Hawaii along the coast a few years ago. The views were breathtaking. I had watched videos of the drive before, but nothing compared to the real thing, not even close. That's when I thought, maybe we can generate the driving experience in VR.
Think about it. You are not moving anywhere relative to the car when you are driving. If we can build a car that can simulate inertia, acceleration, bumps on the road, the rumble of the car etc., we can almost fool our brains it's the real thing.
The software sides of things is "easier" IMO, as far as being technically possible. I want to do what MSFS has accomplished. I want to be able to drive around anywhere in the world.
I am looking for likeminded folks to see if this thing can be built.
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#136I vote for making this AskHN monthly recurrent like the ones for jobs.
Don't worry, I'm planning to do this monthly. Also, created a central repository (document) with all the info. Everyone, please fill out this form with your info https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPV...
That's great, but I believe the benefit of it being part of the official monthly posts is that it does not become a pet project of one person, but a core part of the community. Posting all of our info on a google doc doesn't have quite the same community vibe.
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#137I have a company that has over 10k teachers and am interested in anyone who wants to help drive it forward: https://www.go.literatorapp.com/ It consists of a webapp and iOS/Android apps that help teachers track student literacy. Previously had about 20 or so monthly subscribers but due to covid and time haven't been able to keep it up.
How do you have 10k teachers and 20 students? Or am I missing something (or a typo)?
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#138Been building https://zoomingle.com over the last few months, it's a group video chat service that automatically creates randomized breakout rooms to facilitate 1:1's and other small group chats within a larger group. Came up with it because happy hours during Covid had no side conversations, spontaneous chats, etc. and figured that's the whole point. It's somewhat do-able with Zoom's breakout rooms, but if you have…
Think this is a great idea, quick q: is this an entirely separate platform, or an integration to Zoom? I think everyone has experienced the awkwardness of being in a company "party" this season, say one word and you're put in center stage for 60 people, really discourages participation. I wonder how "natural" you could make the mingle, like if you're in one group and see three people chatting in another bubble (I'm e…
Right now an entirely separate platform, but the original idea was an integration with Zoom. Unfortunately their API doesn't support breakout room management yet (https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-rooms-api/4255/111) so the idea was to build it entirely separately, get some validation/learnings, and then integrate with Zoom when ready.
In terms of mingle-naturalness, right now it's set so the organizer just says how big the mingles should be and how long they should last. So from a user's side, you're in a group with two random people (from the company/larger group) for 5 minutes, then cycle into a new mingle with two other random people, rinse and repeat. Somewhat like speed dating, you don't have any say over who you're mingling with, but it is time constricted.
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This is fantastic. I'm not applying for the co-founder role, but I've added myself to the mailing list. Brilliant idea.
For what it's worth, I'd do it as a SaaS. 100%. Free to generate PDFs. Pay to print. Take a cut from each printing job, but outsource the printing and distribution. I suspect you won't find a single mass market for this. The mass market is well served by generically designed notebooks. Instead, you'll find a number of highly profitable niche markets. (Like the D&D crowd, the design crowd, the hacker crowd, STEM teach…
Great advice!
The printing quality & shipping will be a problem and I was thinking to offer the print on demand just as a 'secondary' option, not a feature.
Probably it would be more profitable to create custom widgets and designs for companies or exporting the layouts as standalone, mini-apps - something like an UI/app editor (what you see is what you get) - that are also printable :)