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Show HN: A collection manager and marketplace for physical retro games
I’m building sumthings.com, a product-first marketplace and collection manager for all games, with a special focus on retro. You can track your collection, mark wanted items to get notified when sales pop up, and browse today’s listings. Things are still early and changing fast, so I’d love your feedback on what’s useful, what’s missing, and what would make this most valuable for collectors.
Ask HN: How do you get consistency into your daily routines?
Selling everything to everyone == selling nothing to no one
I've built a lot of projects over the years—some simple, some complex—and I know they provide real value given their stickiness when people actually activate. But despite that, I often struggle to sell them in the first place, especially through inbound channels like landing pages or even my top-ranked Custom GPT for Forms, Workflows & Checklists. When I get someone on a call, it usually...
- Backwards compatible C64/Amiga (I'm aware they don't own the Amiga Trademark itself), not PC/Emulation based (FPGA, SOC, Classic/Original Chips) - New capabilities, e.g. faster clockrates, co-processors/accelerators, support for more colors - keep ~240p as internal resolution, with analog i/o outputs + 4k internal upscaler for hdmi output - Introduce new tile-based mode, but keep bitmap/fb based ones - EPROM based cartridges (e.g. no filesystem/sd-like media) but still upgradable using cartridge-bound signed/encrypted updates files (via USB or via system cartridge slot (like Mod Retro/Chromatic does) - Wifi (mostly for multiplayer, maybe a builtin marketplace, not browsing the web!) - Exclusive game titles + license best modern 2d games - Effectively built a 2D powerhouse (think Neo Geo 2.0), in favour over 3d (people can still do that in software if cpu/2d capabilities are strong enough (see PICO-8 examples that do vr racing, cad editor and what not)
To achieve this, prioritize hiring engineers that have the expertise to build this new world over hiring managers or pc-based/x68/modern computing engineers. I'd recommend getting a strong, full-time technical lead like Gideon Zweijtzer, Furrtek, or one of the capable FPGA core developers from Mist/Mister.
Basically don't become another toy/mini console rebirth, but rather becoming the new cool kid on the block.
Clerk is down, and so are all apps using it
Ask HN: What is something AI won't be able to do, if anything?
I can't think of anything personally, so I'm curious what others might think.
Ask HN: How do you cope with CloudFormation
I mean seriously, the turnaround time even for small stacks is terrible, sometimes it gets stuck for 1h+... Is it just me?
macOS now identifies Docker as Malware
Schedule 38th Chaos Communication Congress
We’ve been building these audible summary cards to help you catch up faster and without needing to open ten different apps. You know, after being asleep, in a meeting, or both :)
Would love any feedback to see if this is worth pursuing further!
Cheers, Sascha Founder @ Questmate
Show HN: I've developed a new game for the Neo Geo, ask me anything [video]
Who else gets confused by GitHub PR saying "Open" after merging?
I've created a todo app which allows you to do things
Ask HN: Vision Pro owners, are you still using it?
If so, what are you using it for?