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Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by zamadatix »

klimeryk wrote: post #68
zamadatix wrote: post #63

This is 100% the kind of thing I was hoping for when daydreaming "what will the internet be like 20 years from now" growing up. Cool design, hilariously overpowered backend to do something basic (but do it so well), and 0 of the corporate feeling or ad apocalypse. Awesome stuff!

Hahah, so true! One clarification, though: while I'm sure the backend is overpowered (Cloudflare Pages, easily handling the Hug of Death from HN), but in this case it's only serving static resources. All the hard work is done by the hilariously overpowered devices we carry in our pockets or use for everything but serious work ;)

Oh 100%, the hosting is more than fitting. I had meant to refer to the app's non-UI code (machine learning to place meme glasses)! Apologies for the lack of clarity.

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by klimeryk »

underlines wrote: post #55

The company who didn't hire you will soon use your tool because they feel remorse for not hiring you, and now they have to "deal with it"

Well, I'm using their tool in mine (hint is in one of the Easter Eggs... or just look at what's powering the product analytics ;)). So it's an ouroboros of open-source :D

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by _puk »

silisili wrote: post #69

This is actually really neat. I like the configurability. Is there an option to change glasses size that I missed? I think that's the only thing I noticed I couldn't do when playing around with it. * Found it, there is a small indicator in bottom right of glasses that allows dragging out to resize. Thanks all!

Drag to resize

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by tonymarks »

silisili wrote: post #69

This is actually really neat. I like the configurability. Is there an option to change glasses size that I missed? I think that's the only thing I noticed I couldn't do when playing around with it. * Found it, there is a small indicator in bottom right of glasses that allows dragging out to resize. Thanks all!

on a desktop you can click the glasses to resize them

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by com2kid »

airstrike wrote: post #7

> Unfortunately, they were not impressed and ultimately did not offer me the job :( Sorry to hear that. No recruiting process is perfect. They often get it wrong, as they clearly did here!

I interviewed a developer once who was super junior on paper but had a side project of a fully featured desktop anime episode to watch/watched tracker with lots of library feature features.

Hire.

Interviewed another Dev who made arcade sticks as a side project.

Hired.

You can't teach passion. Hire all that passionate people you can. Tech stacks are irrelevant compared to the love of building things.

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by klimeryk »

zamadatix wrote: post #71
klimeryk wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hahah, so true! One clarification, though: while I'm sure the backend is overpowered (Cloudflare Pages, easily handling the Hug of Death from HN), but in this case it's only serving static resources. All the hard work is done by the hilariously overpowered devices we carry in our pockets or use for everything but serious work ;)

Oh 100%, the hosting is more than fitting. I had meant to refer to the app's non-UI code (machine learning to place meme glasses)! Apologies for the lack of clarity.

Ah, gotcha! Hahah, yeah, I'm sure this is exactly the use case folks were thinking of when dreaming of AI applications decades ago...

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by klimeryk »

tonymarks wrote: post #75
silisili wrote: post #69

This is actually really neat. I like the configurability. Is there an option to change glasses size that I missed? I think that's the only thing I noticed I couldn't do when playing around with it. * Found it, there is a small indicator in bottom right of glasses that allows dragging out to resize. Thanks all!

on a desktop you can click the glasses to resize them

On mobile it should work too (at least when I tested on recent iPhones). The drag handle is a bit small, though. Just aim for bottom right corner of the glasses.

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by gxs »

yieldcrv wrote: post #57
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #51

Thanks for sharing this. I love tiny projects like this, especially if they’re over engineered. The job market is rough. I have no doubt you were considered, and they were interested, but everyone is giving their all right now. Someone likely submitted something even cooler, somehow.

> somehow yeah by recycling their project from a previous interview and adding more to it I just don't engage in that kind of assessment anymore, the job market isn’t thaaaat tough to need to compromise or, put another way, jumping through that hoop will not solve your interview progress as its just far too subjective. other hoops are just as fine

Dude I’m often on interview panels and some of the other interviewers are insufferable.

When they give feedback, they love getting on their soapbox and critiquing others as if they were Olympic judges or something.

I’ve had to hold myself back from saying bro we wouldn’t hire you yourself if this criteria actually had to be met.

Some hiring managers require all this elaborate prep work and it’s such bullshit, imo it’s a total cop out to have people do so much work as part of the interview process.

It’s the lazy way of evaluating someone versus thoughtfully putting together a good hiring process and conducting effective interviews.

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

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Post by mnutt »

klimeryk wrote: post #42
TZubiri wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's interesting is that the moment that you introduce a feature that allows for sharing of the images, and you need a backend to host the images. You enter a world of pain where you inevitably will end up hosting illegal material, and it turns from a fun project to a serious project.

Yeah, that's why I'm keeping everything client-side. There's no backend. This is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, everything on the backend is static. Definitely not looking to host any generated images.

On Mobile Safari at least, you can press and hold the image to share. I imagine there's probably an equivalent gesture on Mobile Chrome. I spent considerable time many years ago trying to figure out how to indicate to users that they could do this. ("press and hold to share", with a progress indicator) Results were mixed.

Fortunately, these days if you wanted to make it more obvious you could hook up a regular Share button to navigator.share() API and pass it your image blob.

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