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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by charles_f on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @02:17PM (#38858464)
I love it!

I hate that most of these apps are subscription based for no good reason. This is so clean and nice...

One thing that would be awesome would be an option to preload and cache the noises. I regularly use white noise machines in offline situations (planes, remote camp ground), offline mode would make it the ultimate machine!

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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by matteason on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @02:22PM (#38858526)
Great suggestion. I'm testing a PWA version at the moment (https://test.ambiph.one) and PWAs do allow offline caching of resources but I'm not sure if I'll bump up against any cache size limits. I seem to remember reading that Safari is particularly stingy unfortunately.
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by charles_f on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:36PM (#38861276)
Awesome! Maybe a toggle to select those you want to preload?
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by matteason on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:41PM (#38861307)
Yeah, once I've implemented saved mixes prioritising those sounds would be good too
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by iyifr on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:00AM (#38949608)
This would be so sick!
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by jen729w on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:24PM (#38861603)
> I hate that most of these apps are subscription based for no good reason.

The developer earning a living?

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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by corytheboyd on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:58PM (#38861841)
If there are continued costs associated with running the service, sure, I’ll pay a subscription if it’s good enough. A subscription for static content is a complete and total grift. Such content should be a one-time payment, which I will happily pay if it’s good enough
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by jen729w on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:20AM (#38863348)
> A subscription for static content is a complete and total grift.

You're here so I'll charitably assume you've managed a web server ever.

There is no such thing as 'static'.

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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by atoav on Thursday January 04, 2024 @04:57AM (#38865167)
Yes there is. And I am the admin of multiple webservers. What you are right about is that the content being static does not mean the work load is zero
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by charles_f on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:44AM (#38865481)
If you're building a mobile app with a few noises, then it's static. You might get updates to the OS API once in a while, but there's no ongoing work. I'm fine giving you a fixed fee, as we've always done until everybody became crazy about subscriptions.
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by matteason on Thursday January 04, 2024 @04:21AM (#38864900)
I have considered adding a subscription tier called Ambiphone Minus which gets you absolutely nothing extra and may even take features away
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by charles_f on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:00AM (#38867032)
I think I would do a donation if I use it
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by corytheboyd on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:36AM (#38867474)
I love it haha
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by AlexeyBelov on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:04AM (#38876837)
I have side projects as well but I'm pretty sure most developers have a day job. I don't earn anything from my side projects and don't want to. I'm afraid money would "change the equation" and might damage the user experience and awaken the low-key greed in me.
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Re:Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white n... by michaelmdresser on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:43PM (#38863097)
I believe this is adjacent, but I quite like https://asoftmurmur.com/. I’m not sure if it’s able to run offline.
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