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Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by cdata » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 6:27 PM UTC

benjaminha14 wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ ( https://muse.place/ ). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites. Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first on…

This is neat. I love that you are fostering a publishing mindset, and not just showcasing a glitzy 3D magazine for folks to gawk at.

There is a steep hill to climb before a 3D web really lands in a way that fosters an ecosystem of content creators. I suspect that it will take a different breed of web browser to truly realize an XR web, one with built-in, high-level APIs for composing 3D content. Ultimately, you need many of the built-in features of the 2D web, and approximating those things via a canvas is tantamount to rebuilding a fair chunk of the browser.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by alexshortt » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 6:33 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #17

benjaminha14 wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ ( https://muse.place/ ). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites. Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first on…

Very cool indeed. react-three-fiber is a game-changer for how easy it makes building 3D websites. It's awesome to see a startup using it.

yeah it's especially useful for maintaining a large scale codebase! gotta love it

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by alexshortt » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 6:40 PM UTC

cdata wrote: post #51

benjaminha14 wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ ( https://muse.place/ ). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites. Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first on…

This is neat. I love that you are fostering a publishing mindset, and not just showcasing a glitzy 3D magazine for folks to gawk at. There is a steep hill to climb before a 3D web really lands in a way that fosters an ecosystem of content creators. I suspect that it will take a different breed of web browser to truly realize an XR web, one with built-in, high-level APIs for composing 3D content. Ultimately, you need…

Yeah a new browser is inevitable. Main bottleneck is currently getting the full power of the CPU, especially when there is no GPU present, as browsers have pretty high overhead that bottlenecks the application.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by mpeg » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 7:06 PM UTC

yunusabd wrote: post #32

benjaminha14 wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ ( https://muse.place/ ). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites. Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first on…

This caught my interest because I've been dabbling with 3D graphics for the web lately. Some feedback: If your product is a no-code editor, why not make that the focus of your website? Squarespace for example doesn't take you to a generic website and asks you to sign up from there, they take you to their editor to start building your own site immediately. You could add examples somewhere else on the site. Generally a…

I agree with this, when I look at the site I want to know how the editor works and what the pricing model is.

You can include a link to a demo and the showcase sites elsewhere.

It also feels what you're trying to sell is full 3D website templates, when in reality it would probably be more viable as an embed or a section of a bigger site.

An example of a successful site that is built on similar tech is decentraland

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by GuillermoLM » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 7:19 PM UTC

santmaldonado wrote: post #6

Hey HN! I’m Santiago Maldonado, CEO and Founder of Lernit ( https://www.lernit.mx/ ). Our platform makes it easy for companies in Latin America (Latam) to train their workforce, even when they are remote. According to studies, 74% of CEOs worldwide are concerned that a lack of essential skills in their employees is threatening the future of their organization. With the increase of remote work comes the challenge of k…

Great!!! It is a fact Lernit comes to change the way employees develop their own skills and achieve their goals at the company. Really proud to be part of this family!

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by bartman » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 7:33 PM UTC

anaskar wrote: post #5

Hey HN! We’re Daniel and Arjun, founders of StandardCode ( http://www.standardcode.io/ ). We make it easy for companies to comply with child data privacy laws such as COPPA and GDPR by providing APIs for collecting parental consent and ID verification of minors. COPPA regulation makes it difficult for companies to cater to children under 13 without building in safeguards to collect and manage parental consent and to…

Great to see innovation in this space. How does your service compare to offerings like those from PRIVO? Something we get a lot of value out of is their review of whether our practices are compliant (and if not, how to achieve it - all done in the design phase of new features etc) on top of offering a widget for verifiable parental consent. Is this something you also offer?

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by Fission » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 7:39 PM UTC

benjaminha14 wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ ( https://muse.place/ ). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites. Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first on…

It seems like there are some major accessibility issues that are a result of embedding text/inputs/etc. within threejs itself. Have you considered using an HTML element and dynamically positioning it with CSS transforms (i.e. update style per useFrame call)? It's a little more work, but it should solve a large class of accessibility issues, and is performant to boot.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by Fission » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

harrisreynolds wrote: post #12

benjaminha14 wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ ( https://muse.place/ ). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites. Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first on…

I hate to complain but visiting this site made me feel completely trapped. I literally could not do anything and could not escape to even close the browser (mouse is 100% hijacked). I had to CMD-Q the whole browser just to get out of the site. Surely there is some UX technique you guys can come up with to free the mouse and improve this. Question for you... what is the best 3D website on the Internet? How do they sol…

A tip for the Muse team: based on my experience with first-person 3D, a substantial portion of users don't understand pointerlock, and the built-in notification that browsers give usually are insufficient. It might be a good idea to put a persistent indicator that ESC can be used to get out of pointerlock.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by biztos » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 8:01 PM UTC

Hexcles wrote: post #26

ChrisMischler wrote: post #7

Hi HN, we're Christian (ChrisMischler) and Raphael (raphco) of Deskimo ( https://www.deskimo.com/ ). We provide on-demand access to professional workspaces, where users rent desks by the minute. We've started with Singapore and Hong Kong as our initial markets, with the intention to expand into other markets soon. Raphael and I have been working remotely for most of the past 10 years. During the pandemic, all of our…

As someone living in Canada, the name stood out to me as insensitive. https://www.uaf.edu/anlc/resources/inuit_or_eskimo.php

I don’t live in the great frozen North and I had the same reaction, FWIW.

The name is super witty and probably nobody in SG/HK cares, but I don’t think the people generally called Eskimos like being called that.

Then again, Volkswagen doesn’t get flak for selling Tuaregs as far as I can tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by a1369209993 » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 8:25 PM UTC

harrisreynolds wrote: post #12

benjaminha14 wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ ( https://muse.place/ ). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites. Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first on…

I hate to complain but visiting this site made me feel completely trapped. I literally could not do anything and could not escape to even close the browser (mouse is 100% hijacked). I had to CMD-Q the whole browser just to get out of the site. Surely there is some UX technique you guys can come up with to free the mouse and improve this. Question for you... what is the best 3D website on the Internet? How do they sol…

> I literally could not do anything and could not escape to even close the browser (mouse is 100% hijacked). I had to CMD-Q the whole browser just to get out of the site.

To be scrupulously fair, the fact that a site can do this, even on purpose, is both a browser bug and a operating system bug (denial-of-service security vulnerability in both).