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

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Post by benjaminha14 »

markdeloura wrote: post #63
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…

Great work! I'm a big fan of this idea, and as others have mentioned, it's a little reminiscent of the promise of VRML back in the day. Or even of PlayStation Home or Second Life, but more accessible, since it's right there in your browser. I've seen some comments about the performance, and I just wanted to comment that I just tried the site out on an old Chromebook Acer R11 (Celeron N3150) and while the perf on the…

Thank you!

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

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Post by benjaminha14 »

Fission wrote: post #57
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.

interesting, we'll take a closer look into this

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

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Post by benjaminha14 »

arkitaip wrote: post #31
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…

At least for now, you should consider a persistent overlay that explains that Esc breaks out of view mode and releases control over the mouse. Not being able to use the mouse as you usually do is very unpleasant. I really like these fun alternatives to ordinary web sites even though the UX designer in me is having a heart attack because of the countless usability and accessability issues

Our goal is to get there though. Thats the biggest tech problem we face, accessibility and usability and everyday that is what our team RNDs

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

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Post by anaskar »

jvalencia wrote: post #43
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…

Honestly, this is great. So many applications do this poorly if at all and COVID has not helped the situation. I do wonder about compliance across state/national lines.

thanks! the laws do change across country lines. while we’re focused on the U.S. right now, we’re actively researching applicable laws in other jurisdictions.

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

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Post by anaskar »

pierre wrote: post #30
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…

Nice work! You mention COPPA and GDPR but which country regulation do you cover (and in which language?). How do you ensure that the Parents giving consent are the parent of the child (and that you are not getting spoof?). How do you keep up with the changing regulations, with some country having multiple layers (Union, Federal, State, City, ...). I like the focus on Childs, but you could also extend it to do KYC for…

thank you! We’re starting out of the gate with COPPA and will fast-follow with GDPR so we currently cover the United States (in English).

re: spoofing. this is a tough problem to solve and no existing solution guarantees this. we would be able to see suspicious behavior though like multiple verification attempts, time between submission and verification, etc.

Changing regulations is tough. We work with a privacy lawyer to keep us abreast of changing policy and have researchers maintain a database of applicable state, federal, and international laws as well as recent lawsuits.

Financial KYC is interesting for sure. Right now we’re focused on child privacy and very much believe there’s a lot of work to be done there still.

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

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Post by anaskar »

bartman wrote: post #56
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?

thanks! so far the companies we’ve talked to are delaying full-blown reviews as long as possible because of the stage of company they’re in.

We certainly do work very closely with each company to work through their product and integrate as seamlessly as possible. whereas we don’t offer an official security review as of now, it is something we’re considering for the future. would love to chat, DMing you now!

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

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Post by alexshortt »

Fission wrote: post #58
harrisreynolds wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

yeah this isn't a bad idea. or maybe forcing the user to do the onboarding first?

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

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Post by alexshortt »

a1369209993 wrote: post #60
harrisreynolds wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

browsers are pretty limiting on this functionality as is - pretty long timeouts, and firefox/safari have very big indicators explaining how to disable it

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

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Post by alexshortt »

chaostheory wrote: post #22
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…

Works well with an iPhone 11 Pro. Can’t wait to try it with an Oculus Quest 2

not fully optimized for the quest just a heads up. best sites to try might be www.muse.place/balloonski and https://muse-place-2qc57fsgs-musehq.vercel.app/alto. we're not targeting quest users fully yet, but on my free time i'm slowly adding improvements :)

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

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Post by handrous »

mkl wrote: post #64
yunusabd wrote: post #32

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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 don't agree in this case. I don't want to start editing, I want to know what the heck a "3D website" is. Now I know, and it turns out it's not something I want to spend any time using.

I'm getting strong vibes of the work of indie game developer thecatamites from the site.

Not quite sure what sort of site, on which I was attempting to actually accomplish something, I'd be happy to find something like this on, but there's probably some use I'm not thinking of.

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