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Show HN: An AI-generated daily quiz app I built on my bike

https://www.dailyquiz.ai

Not a startup attempt, just a weekend project for my family. My parents do a daily quiz every day, but the site they’d ended up using looked like it was built in 1999 and not touched since. I thought it’d be a fun excuse to rebuild something simple and leverage AI for automation.The app uses 5 agents to generate a 10 question general knowledge quiz, daily, with loose association to a random...

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This is actually a side-project of a side-project, so I wanted to have a go at building the algo myself for a bit of fun/learning. I’m using Ruby under the hood...
Re:Show HN: ProductHunt (v0.1) but purely for crypto projects on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:58AM (#20633009)
Lately, I have been coming across a lot of really cool crypto projects that seem to get very little coverage in the ProductHunt community. They have a crypto topic but I think we are getting to a point where there is so much going on in the crypto space it might justify a daily list of it's own.
No analysis yet. Just getting the ball rolling with feeds from selected blogs and youtube channels.

I'm hoping that, over time, the community will weed out the good articles from the bad.

I created Gains Supply because I'm interested in bodybuilding and I'd genuinely like to start a community that features and discusses helpful articles and products in that niche. I Hope posting it here doesn't come across too spammy, just looking for early users.
There should be a red 'Close' button in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. I'll add the option to use ESC as well.
The purpose of this bookmarklet is to provide a streamlined method of getting the selector without having to go into the source or use chrome tools.

There is also the problem of using ids. For example in Flutter I may want to auto tweet out the top post in a list of posts on a blog. If the posts have individual ids, and the CSS selector includes them, every time Flutter tries to scrape new content it will get the same post. I want the unique selector for the page element. i.e. the first post in the list.

I use Selector Gadget too and I was recommending users of Flutter use it to get selectors. However, I'm trying to make the process of getting a unique selector for any element so simple it won't put anyone off. This bookmarklet avoids the need to deselect things and once an element is selected it's just a case of CMD/CTRL + C.
You're right. However, the purpose of this bookmarklet is to provide a streamlined method of getting the selector without having to go into the source. Using 'inspect element' is easy for me and you but for some people its enough to put them off trying to get the selector.
That's an interesting statement. Why do you think programming is easier than 'real' engineering?
That's cool. Unfortunately, I do have overheads, not kids, but enough to prevent me jumping straight out of work into a startup business.
Good for you! :)

Do you have any advice?

Thanks for your answer.

Out of interest, were you working in a manufacturing position when you wrote the software for your business or did you spot the opportunity from the outside?

Ask HN: Have you converted to software engineering from another profession?

I'm a 26 year old living in Aberdeen, Scotland. I graduated with a mechanical engineering degree (masters) in 2012 and having been working in the oil industry as a subsea installation analyst since then.While my work can be interesting, I've had a fascination with writing software since midway through my degree. I started out building websites for family friends. This progressed to writing...

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Re:Show HN: Recurring tweets for Dynamic Content on Friday July 10, 2015 @04:24AM (#9862836)
Hi all,

Flutter makes it possible to tweet out, on a recurring schedule, any dynamic content on the web. On a previous project, I wanted to automatically tweet out the oil price on a recurring schedule. Yes, I could have built a one-off solution for this but I thought it might be cool to make it a generic reusable tool. I think it has some potential as a type of growth hacking / social media automation tool but would like to see what everyone else thinks.

Show HN: Recurring tweets for Dynamic Content

https://flutter.social

Hi all,Flutter makes it possible to tweet out, on a recurring schedule, any dynamic content on the web. On a previous project, I wanted to automatically tweet out the oil price on a recurring schedule. Yes, I could have built a one-off solution for this but I thought it might be cool to make it a generic reusable tool. I think it has some potential as a type of growth hacking / social media...

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