ChrisLovejoy

Hey everyone! Ali and Chris here. We’ve been living away from our families and supporting them remotely for over 16 years.

We are really excited to be launching Jhappi.Day (http://Jhappi.Day) - a subscription service for NRIs, overseas Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis to take care of their family back home.

We started Jhappi.Day because:

- It’s hard to support your parents while you’re far away: If they get sick, it’s hard to arrange the right appointments - and even harder to know the full outcome. If we were there, we’d help with running errands, but we can’t do that from abroad.

- It's hard to make sure that your family is not getting ripped off: Are they getting the best services for their money? Are they using the best discounts and deals available online?

- It's hard to transparently track if all relatives are contributing fairly to family finances: It becomes hard to have a single source of truth and nudge relatives or siblings when financial responsibility is not being equally shared.

The solution is a long distance family management service that gives you:

- Complete health tracking: A monthly visit from a Medical Doctor with detailed reports shared directly with you.

- 24/7 reliable errand support & tracking with best deals: Round-the-clock on-call support to help your family with any errands, including weekly grocery shopping and much more.

- Coordination of financial contributions: A simple dashboard to track all contributions and get a clear breakdown of all family expenses.

We are offering:

- Everybody who signs up today gets 1 month completely free.

- The first 250 people to book a call will be entered into a prize draw for a free return flight to a South Asian city of their choice.

We also launched today on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jhappi-day-long-distance-s...

Would love to hear any thoughts and feedback on the product.

I suspect there must be some confounder here - like the positioning used for the CXRs correlating with race, based on the methodology used in a particular region / hospital.

Seems the most likely explanation for it still working even when pixellated as 8x8?

Looks like a bit of a hit piece to me...

I loved maps.me, especially when travelling to new countries - best of luck with this

Yeah, so someone else suggested this too - I'm going to look into the API and see what information I can get from it

Yeah, it's not that easy to at the moment. I was planning to build a front-end site, where you could just type your search terms and parameters and it would show you the videos, but to honest I ran out of steam after I couldn't get the code to run on Lambda.

I'm thinking maybe an extension where when you sign up, it asks: "what do you NOT want to see", and then for all topics you pick it will block videos on those.

Kind of like when you sign up for Twitter or Medium, it asks you for topics of interest - here it would do the inverse

amen! I wish you could crank up exploration cf. exploitation in your settings or something

really interesting suggestion, I like it

what do you think would be good markers of a bad video? other than the obvious (clickbait terms, repetitive/generic titles), I'm not sure what could work. any suggestions?

I like the blog!

Yeah, that's pretty much my exact gripe - that the algorithm just keeps wanting to show you more of the same. It's like a friend who gets obsessed about one thing after you said you liked it once :')

I'm not sure how best to solve this though

ah okay, thanks. Yeah I think I may have over-complicated things by trying to use lambda. Will look into doing this on DO

thanks John :)

interesting - sounds like you've had good results so far?

Ah, interesting. Yeah I get the impression the algorithm really tries to feed you more of what you've watched, whereas sometimes the more 'generally' good videos are what you would prefer.

I think you're right re: monetisation and incentives tbh, I can't envisage it changing any time soon

Didn't realise Medium was like this - I've just uploaded the article to my personal blog: https://chrislovejoy.me/youtube-algorithm/

Am going to see if I can update the link above aswell.

Ah, good suggestion! Let me look at what I can get from their API