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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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lovezone.io A platform for creating and hosting dating sites, for free. Lovezone is based on the observation that in the physical realm, mating often happens in smaller circles: within a group of friends or within hobby groups. Lovezone makes possible for such small circles to have their own dating site. The sweet spot for the users of this service is probably existing communities such as Facebook groups with perhaps…

This is an interesting take. A couple of observations:

- Small groups of people who know each other IRL are very sensitive to breakups. When a couple breaks up, it frequently splits their friend group into 2 camps that "follow" one of the partners (strange behavior in my view but certainly observable and prevalent, especially in the US). Dealing with this complexity is going to be a challenging task.

- Small groups of people rarely have many already connected people that would consider dating each other but for some reason don't. And expanding the group dating pool might be awkward as users will start inviting people from completely different circles with a potentially lower and lower overlap in interests, attitudes, etc.

- Dating websites are very often used for short term dating or hookups, which, I guess, is not going to be the focus of your app. Taking that into account, reaching a meaningful number of profiles in a circle might become an unsolvable blocker (i.e. having 4 friend profiles is not a much better experience than just introducing friends via socials/IRL)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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The recent AI craze got me excited to program personal projects again, so I made a Chrome extension to save my ChatGPT prompts into and run them against any page's selected text. The idea was that it's more convenient create a command once, then on any website highlight text and right-click it rather than copy/paste stuff into ChatGPT. So far I know all 10 people who installed it personally, and I have a ton more ideas for polish (for instance, it won't work at all on Google Docs right now since there's no text selection in their canvas-based editor) but it's been super entertaining to play around with OpenAI and some of the newer extension APIs nonetheless.

I'm also sort of releasing backwards in that I decided to charge up front to limit the number of users and slowly gather feedback while mitigating my risk, but once I work out all the kinks there will definitely be a free tier that everyone starts out on.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/smudgeai/mhagofdace...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://www.summarycat.com/ I made a YouTube summarizer, Summary Cat. ————————- Technical Details Goal: Generate brief and coherent summaries from YouTube video transcripts Motivation of building this project: to save myself time watching videos that are too long. Stack • Frontend: HTML/CSS, plus a tiny bit of Javascript for handling the button • Backend: Python/Flask • Flask served as the backend web framework, hand…

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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://millionballs.app It's a web app to help you improve your real-life pool (billiards) game. You can practice shots and learn to visualize the angles. Eventually, I want to go way beyond basic shotmaking and teach patterns, but it's already useful in it's current state at least to beginners and intermediate players. I've posted about it before but I've made a lot more progress since then, including making it mob…

Super cool project! I love billiards! Is there a way to implement adjusting your angle while in the "aiming" state? I noticed that the only way to adjust your aim was to stand and move the angle then you could try aiming again. Or is this the intention for visualization? Really like it over all :)

It is the point of the sim it seems, pushing you to get used to aiming while standing.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://routineshub.com

As a long time lifestyle design/self-dev enthusiast, i've been trying a lot of routines, workouts, etc... along the years and i keep forgetting good stuff.

So i built this tool to keep track of my routines, create (complex) routine schedules, and share/discover other people's routines

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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The recent AI craze got me excited to program personal projects again, so I made a Chrome extension to save my ChatGPT prompts into and run them against any page's selected text. The idea was that it's more convenient create a command once, then on any website highlight text and right-click it rather than copy/paste stuff into ChatGPT. So far I know all 10 people who installed it personally, and I have a ton more ide…

I really like the UI:

1. using the new Chrome Sidebar API is a great choice!

2. selecting actions to show in the context menu is also a convenient customization idea

Are you considering porting it to FF? Other than the Sidebar API it should be a very straightforward process.

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