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Re:Show HN: LinkedIn Profile Roaster crossed 70k profiles on Thursday December 26, 2024 @12:44PM (#42516546)
haha! damn that was too much fun! love it
cool stuff! often have i get drowned in an endless swarm of tabs wit 8K reports at, this comes in very handy! Could you also list/port it to firefox addons, pls?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:07AM (#41345109)
how do you solve the initial chicken and egg problem, ie if no initial users then lesser engagement -> user churn?
The messaging around potential use case seen on the landing page is so concise and clear, further, product itself felt interesting and very interactive to me. Wish you good luck with your journey!
Re:Erudity | GMAT Prep – Gamified and Socialized on Monday August 05, 2024 @01:49PM (#41163585)
Hi all,

I'm looking to get feedback on a tool i've created.

During my GMAT prep i had few observations for gmat prep ecosystem:

GMAT test preparation is an unorganized, ennui, and expensive process for most.

    Unorganized journey:  1.2 What to practice, 1.3 how much is enough - am i there yet? 1.4 what type of mistakes am i repeating - am i improving? where do i stand today vs T-x days before? 1.5 what other gaps do i not know about myself - i'm oblivious

    Lack of social interactions while prepping which usually leads to absence of excitement and competition leading to higher likelihood of faltering in future

    Cost: >INR 20k + test prep > INR50-100k, its an expensive affair with no low likelihood of success
Ideal scenario should be where platform enables:

    Autonomous organisation:

        Records answer logs in platform (time taken, recall rate after T+ days, question-memory stability)

        Prioritizes questions basis concept gaps and recall rate using spaced repetition model

    Gamification and socialization:

        Enables positive reinforcement and social/personal accountabilitythrough leaderboards and social streaks

        Conducts tournaments/ quizes amongst study buddies or a random global candidate by matching participants's current skill level (per topic) ; solo practice mode also provided
With these pointers in mind, soft launching here, actively seeking your feedback.

Feel free to DM or comment below, will be actively responding to any feedback or queries.

Ciao

Re:Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022? on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:59PM (#32415170)
Not a full fledged scraper but IDS[1] has great heuristics to figure relevant content/information behind HTML code therefore lesser/no iterations needed in case frontend code changes.

Would be cool to reverse engineer it and probably plug it into some JS rendering testing solution (say Puppeteer, etc.)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-data-scrap...