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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:35AM (#46276728)
https://copo.st
Instantly create your Tiktok/Instagram-like app for your community or brand
Show HN: TikTok mobile app written as a web app (with Camera))
Hey, developer here, I have spent the last 2 years building the native Tiktok/Instagram mobile app infra - using web frameworks. No reactnative, no react native web,, just plain react. it is a single code-base that works on web, and as a native mobile app inside a webview. The biggest challenge was the camera, I had to wait for webcodecs support in ios safari, and also I had to develop a react...
Re:Word embeddings – Part 3: The secret ingredients of Word2Vec
on Monday February 17, 2025 @09:11AM (#43079181)
I once wrote this. https://medium.com/towards-data-science/embeddings-with-word...
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms
on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:40PM (#42716613)
yt-dlp wrapper?
Re:Shopify for Social – Create your own TikTok/Instagram app
on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:48PM (#42714391)
Solo/indie dev here.
Created ‘Shopify for Social Media’.
Create your own Tiktok/Instagram app, white-label, embedable. Your app, your brand, your domain, your icon, your rules…
For creators, communities and businesses.
https://app.copo.st Https://virksocial.com
It is basically white-label Tiktok/Instagram native apps, but written all in web- including camera, native-like mobile feature/gestures/animations…
PWAs enable the same native full screen experience while bypassing appstore tax/rules.
For native apps, I have a React Native shell app that embeds a webview so I can create native Appstore/Googleplay binaries ready for publishing. With the new Expo CNG architecture, I can automatically create native apps binaries from console. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copo-st/id6737266643?platform=...
You can embed apps/feeds/posts/profiles in web pages and native mobile apps(webview). So this creates a distributed social network on open web with various distribution/monetization/aggregation/commerce models.
Exploring to make this user-owned platform/apps.
Shopify for Social – Create your own TikTok/Instagram app
Re:Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App
on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:08AM (#40342380)
do you have any insight if your tech stack works well on mobile, demuxer,ffmpeg....
Re:Building Pinterest's new wide column database using RocksDB
on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:56AM (#38909614)
great article, couple of questions
-storing timestamp for each field (user:name) by default seems costly, timestamp can be stored on main key(e.g. user), curious on the thinking.. -is timestamp 64bit? do we need miliseconds? -what is your sharding architecture, in terms of rage queries -are your global search indexes on this architecture
Re:PWAs in App Stores
on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:20AM (#35465314)
I am also interested in this, does PN work on iOS webview?
Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @08:49AM (#32249792)
building an open, white-label, embeddable Instagram/Tiktok as SAAS solution at alvin5.com. The idea is that communities and individuals can create their own Instagram like social media app/feed (Shopify for Social media), would love to meet with interested parties.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)
on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:19PM (#29786176)
Web3 Social Media - Alvin5.com | Web | Remote | https://alvin5.com
Developing “Web3 Social Media”
Open and community-owned (on-chain DAO) social media platform initially focusing on short-form video and web3 community. Also available as a white-label, embeddable solution for businesses/startups. Think open Tiktok/Instagram, for people and businesses.
DAO with governance/ownership/incentive token.
I would love to meet with people interested in building this.
- Web/WebApp (Think developing Tiktop/IG as a webapp) LatestWebArchitecture/Browser/React/PWA/SW/Video/Canvas/WebRTC
-Backend - DevOps, Scalability, Distribution, AWS, Node, .NET core…
-Protocol/Tokenomics/Solidity/Web3/DAO/Eth/OpenZepplin/Compound Dao Stack
Web3 whitepaper coming soon.
I am the founding engineer, [email protected] Subject:Guild
Re:FFmpeg to WebRTC
on Thursday September 23, 2021 @03:09AM (#28626075)
I don't understand, why not use webrtc or hls, on iOS Safari?
Re:FFmpeg to WebRTC
on Thursday September 23, 2021 @03:05AM (#28626052)
I am also exploring the webrtc(ingest)-to-llhls. FFMPEG doesn't seem to support llhls now, as it requires web server intelligence. For the webrtc, mediasoup is nice being node based.
Re:OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:08PM (#28239394)
just create your next OnlyFans with Alvin5.com
Re:YouTube Shorts vs TikTok
on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:06AM (#27650177)
Google has a "Web Stories" initiative. YouTube shorts might eventually get connected to that, videos appearing on Google Search creating a decentralized stories distribution/search/ad network. (Disclamier: founder@ alvin5.com where I am working on the same concept). I agree that shorts in the youtube app context is awkward, if they get traction, might spin out.
Show HN: White-Label TikTok
Ask HN: How Do You Ultra Low Latency Live Video Stream? (Mobile-to-ManyMobiles))
I am looking for WebRTC (at least on injection side) based ULL-Video streaming architecture/service. Something like https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/using-rts-for-better-real-time-interaction_596383
Re:Parallax effect in browser using web-camera
on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:56AM (#23700804)
I did a similar/complementary project that turns 2d photo to 3d. Interested to see if this could be integrated.
@3d_photo_app on IG
Re:High-Resolution Neural Face Swapping for Visual Effects
on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:31AM (#23690390)
Colab?
Re:Word2vec: Fish + Music = Bass
on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:22AM (#20380594)
I am really interested in how these analogies would appear in different word embedding methods (Bert..), or different implementations of word2vec.
As to different implementations of word2vec, I am still not satisfied why the original code uses two separate embeddings for target and context words. It could use shared embedding layer.
Also for the layer above the sigmoid layer (Dot product), why is cosine similarity not considered for calculating the vector similarity.
I have searched these issues and not found detailed comments. I have created word2vec embeddings with shared embedding layer and cosine similarity. The vectors seems similar to the original code but deciding on which one is better, needs more work.
Re:Material UI v1 for React is out
on Friday May 18, 2018 @03:15PM (#17104157)
Google announced their version of Material React (Alpha) at IO. "Material Components for React (MDC React)"
Curious to see how it plays out with Material-UI. They should support Material-UI.
Re:Facebooks crawls every page recorded by its tracking pixel
on Friday February 09, 2018 @07:25AM (#16339670)
Highly likely that they are feeding all the data into a deep network for ad recommendation engine.
Styling React with CSS
Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st...
on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:45PM (#15962787)
I am a solo C Corp technical founder (Stripe Atlas). Any advise for similar founders?
Re:Ask HN: UK Startups – Are You Thinking of Leaving the UK Because of...
on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:46AM (#15466139)
Moved out to US. Alvin5.com
Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st...
on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:13PM (#14703642)
What do you think about startup parole? If Trump approves it, should we consider it or go with other options. (US inc owner)
Re:Now UI Kit – A Bootstrap 4 UI kit
on Friday June 09, 2017 @03:03PM (#14523594)
+1 on this
Re:Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
on Friday May 12, 2017 @10:20AM (#14324135)
I have couple of links here.
https://medium.com/@boraturant/ai-ml-dl-links-5cf596fd29a1