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Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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https://trycereal.com - Membership platform for creators that want their own site.

We made Cereal to help content creators find more independence in running their own content business, by centralizing their content on their own site and offering subscription/monetization.

It's been great, creators are able to monetize their customers without being on a 3rd party platform with ridiculous fees, or base their entire income on ads.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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My single-instruction (subleq) programming game: https://github.com/jaredkrinke/sic1 I really thought enough people liked esolangs and zachlikes, but it failed to get a single upvote, so never even made it to the “Show” page (well, not until like a week later, at which point it was buried anyway) :(

I don't know about everyone else, but to me programming with just the "subtract and branch if less than or equal to zero" instruction sounds way, way more frustrating than something like the TIS-100. I don't play programming games to be frustrated, I play them to feel smart, and the line between is dangerously thin.

Yeah, definitely not for everyone! I found the most fun parts to be: 1) figuring out how to support indirection/pointers, and 2) optimizing solutions for memory usage (there are a lot of clever tricks, once you start looking closely).

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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This is really nice. I am always appending forums names and reddit to my searches.

For DIY stuff recently I found just putting 'forum' in the search works well

A bit tangential, but I found a bunch of links in my crawl database a while back that had titles like

> best electric razor 2022 reddit

Pretty creative. Never seen a search engine actually return results like that, but like it's worth a try I guess?

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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https://icebergcharts.com/ - I'd like many people here create icebergs about technical and scientific topics

The "Cursed Computer Iceberg" (https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/) is what inspired this site, and I think there are many more to be made.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people. Landing page is at https://communiqai.com and it's also on the Play Store at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga . CommuniqAI is an intelligent tool for scheduling and automating SMS text messages, calls and email. It’ll help you stay in touch with those who mean the most to you—and it’ll be there for you through life’s many…

Cool! Personally, I have set reminders to reach out to friends and family on my phone. I can therefore relate. The landing page communicates the honest intent behind this very well!

If I were to use your product, I wouldn’t want to cycle through canned messages. Do you plan on making this truly AI-powered? That would be a game changer. Let your app draft both kind messages and responses, and allow the user to review and edit before sending. Then make it learn from those edits, and boom, you’ve built a personal social assistant.

For now something more practical: as a typical user, I am not interested in my timezone. No need to show that specifically in such a large font.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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post #110

I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people. Landing page is at https://communiqai.com and it's also on the Play Store at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga . CommuniqAI is an intelligent tool for scheduling and automating SMS text messages, calls and email. It’ll help you stay in touch with those who mean the most to you—and it’ll be there for you through life’s many…

Cool! Personally, I have set reminders to reach out to friends and family on my phone. I can therefore relate. The landing page communicates the honest intent behind this very well! If I were to use your product, I wouldn’t want to cycle through canned messages. Do you plan on making this truly AI-powered? That would be a game changer. Let your app draft both kind messages and responses, and allow the user to review…

I appreciate the feedback! I'm mostly using heuristics now to make determinations as my experiments found machine learning/AI to be too artificial and not very intelligent. Perhaps I just need more data to work with!

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy The same gameboy emulator rewritten in C++, Go, Nim, PHP, Cython, Python, Rust, and Zig (and WIP typescript); mostly to teach myself the languages and to compare and contrast their idioms. Also, when taken with a very large grain of salt, usable as a language benchmark (As with all benchmarks, there are lots of caveats - but as far as I’m aware this is unique in being “the same cod…

Interesting! Zig release perf is respectable, but slower than Python for debug clearly leaves some room for improvement.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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https://notabase.io - a note-taking app for networked thinking. It supports page stacking, linked references, block references, a graph view, and all that good stuff. Think of it as similar to Roam Research / Obsidian. It's also open source so you can self-host it. Here's the code: https://github.com/churichard/notabase I'm hoping to add support for shareable links soon. Open to other ideas or feedback!

Going to check this out for sure, Obsidian is frustrating to me with some of its quirks.
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