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I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Re: I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Post by aspenmayer »

pchangr wrote: post #5
dangus wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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From the guidelines: “Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” I think this satisfies my intelectual curiosity.

Also from the guidelines, HN is not primarily for (self) promo. This isn’t a Show HN, though, so it’s not necessary for us to have something we can hold and play with. Look with your eyes and enjoy OP’s thing vicariously.

In the vibe code era, is it gauche to ask for code?

Considering that OP hasn’t made any other posts or comments in any other threads, it’s fair to assume that they are like 90% of users who don’t post or comment, but they did in this thread about their stuff, so it is sort of a legitimate criticism.

Re: I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Post by SonOfLilit »

dangus wrote: post #4
dandano wrote: post #3

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I don’t sorry - I could clean up the repo and make it public. But if you follow the discord py tutorials it’s very simple to implement.

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Man, what.

This is something that Claude will get right in a single prompt. It's the idea that's valuable, as well as the experience report.

Re: I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Post by andrewaylett »

dangus wrote: post #4
dandano wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t sorry - I could clean up the repo and make it public. But if you follow the discord py tutorials it’s very simple to implement.

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Fixing a social problem by technical means? That's rare enough to merit shouting about it, even if it's not generally applicable.

Re: I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Post by dizhn »

dangus wrote: post #4
dandano wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t sorry - I could clean up the repo and make it public. But if you follow the discord py tutorials it’s very simple to implement.

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I don't get it. What in the post did you find so novel that you want a full solution based on that? It's just a notification service which you can whip up in half an hour with any messaging service. It would probably take 10 minutes to do it using telegram. 30 if you need to create a brand new bot.

Re: I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Post by lukan »

SonOfLilit wrote: post #12
dangus wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Man, what. This is something that Claude will get right in a single prompt. It's the idea that's valuable, as well as the experience report.

And .. there is actually code for the bot inside the story.

Serious advice, some people don't work so well with heat and get angry fast (there is a heat wave in europe right now). Drink a lot and splash your head with water helps ..

Re: I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Post by xyst »

dangus wrote: post #2

Do you have a link to the bot?

It’s literally in the post, m8.

Perhaps read it, use one of the many discord wrapper apis, and replicate it. He just hooks into one of the many events discord emits and bot sends a message.

Even one of the LLMs can very easily vibe code this…

Re: I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Post by aCodeCrafter »

This is really interesting as a way to keep people connected on a regular basis. I wonder if something similar could be done for groups who aren't necessarily into gaming: like say a "virtual fireplace" where folks could just pop into a call and talk

Re: I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

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Post by donatj »

Mildly reminds me how being online on AIM or ICQ was an actual invitation to chat. I had so many interesting conversations with people I barely knew.

There's no source of that signal that someone is open to chitchat these days, and it's in my opinion kind of killed what was once great about online communication.

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