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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by SeanAnderson »

leetrout wrote: post #60
SeanAnderson wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah! I definitely consider Finch to be in friendly competition with what will become Symbiant. :) The largest difference is how our audiences discover and think about us. Finch users feel they need help and seek out Finch. Finch understands this, calls attention to the needing help, and presents itself as an anxiety-free warm hug. Finch wants users to "come out of their shell" and to engage with the world. Then, Fin…

Are you going to be working in the open? Blog or some such where I could follow along?

I absolutely will be, but I do not have a reliable blog link to give you yet. I'll send you a message when I have one. My plan is to release weekly blog posts, stream development on Twitch, and vaguely attempt to monetize the process not just the result.

There is a Discord invite in my profile. It's quiet, aside from my monologue rambling about lore, functional requirements, etc. The community is all of my current and ex-coworkers who are following the project. You're welcome to join, but it's not a great source of information right now.

Thanks for asking! I found your questions exceptionally motivating. :)

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Post by biztos »

TrickardRixx wrote: post #9
biztos wrote: post #2

Me? I’m trying to poke holes in my latest crazy business idea. And wondering how you can make ice cream of a specific density. And feeling a little embarrassed that I forgot you have to actually write the Ask HN in your Ask HN.

I'm intrigued about ice cream of a specific density. What do you have in mind with that?

It’s not related to any of my crazy business ideas. I ate a Korean ice-cream sandwich today and it was undeniably ice cream but also about four times lighter than, say, a Magnum. Physics being not my thing, I wonder how they do that. More air, I guess, but how?

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thirteenfingers wrote: post #19

Procrastinating on studying for my AWS certification next week. I was unemployed for several months of this year and knowledge of AWS or any of the major cloud providers was the most glaring hole on my resume. Happily, my new employer pays for AWS training for all of its employees, so that hole is being filled... except, as always, it's way more fun reading HN than studying :/

How useful do you find the training? Do you think you’ll be able to use what you’re learning, or is it more about having the certificate?

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Post by biztos »

joenot443 wrote: post #44

Working on the JSON serializer for the video DJ macOS app I'm working on. Trying to position this as a free, open-source, entry-level competitor to Touch Designer or Resolume. There are lots of professional grade live video tools with great features and steep learning curves, I'm aiming to create a dead-simple, WYSIWYG tool for people who want audio-reactive live video effects at their events. The dream is for non-te…

Ooh very cool, I had never heard of these.

A long time ago I thought about becoming a VJ (as we called them, Google suggests this is not the term anymore). I had some ideas about generating video and how to control it, and I was spending enough time at electronica shows that I felt it would work. But it never went anywhere due to procrastinating and stage fright.

Now it’s all way more sophisticated, back then most people were either doing the equivalent of Winamp visualizations or cutting video streams with some simple effects.

I’d love to try out your app! Is there a mailing list or something?

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Post by biztos »

emehex wrote: post #39

I have Xcode open. Building a cashflow management and forecasting app with Swift/SwiftUI. And using ChatGPT to write a large chunks of it!

Is ChatGPT that good at programming tasks for a real app? What kind of instruction do you give it?

I tried some toy examples for Python and was impressed but I haven’t tried to do anything useful yet.

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Post by emehex »

biztos wrote: post #66
emehex wrote: post #39

I have Xcode open. Building a cashflow management and forecasting app with Swift/SwiftUI. And using ChatGPT to write a large chunks of it!

Is ChatGPT that good at programming tasks for a real app? What kind of instruction do you give it? I tried some toy examples for Python and was impressed but I haven’t tried to do anything useful yet.

It's really good. Scary good. Sometimes it gets in the way though (just writing the damn code might be faster than continuously refining prompts)
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