Hey HN, I built a little game to test out a few technologies I wanted to try out. The object of the game is simple: find the most common answers to a prompt.How it works:- player first sees a "warmup" question; this is just a prompt for a future date; I collect answers for the question to feed into an LLM to generate the answers for it- player moves onto actual game, trying to guess the most...
Full disclosure - $500+/month in revenue, but not profit. The majority (95%) goes to the creators I work with.
An example application for matching would be finding housemates based on shared interests, distance from some point on a map, etc.Any low-code/no-code tool suggestions to visualize, jerry-rig the matching would be appreciated.
My target is smaller teams, where collisions (hopefully) happen less frequently. If you're a bigger org, chances are you also have the resources to just buy everyone their own seat/license to the account instead of relying on the employees to share one account.
Instead, codes are fetched by explicitly using the slash command and only users who are granted access to them can see them. So if a new person joins your team and types `/tfa` into the box, they won't see anything because nobody has given them access to any codes.
Does that make sense?
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Recently I've been thinking a lot about the Facebook VPN that paid its users to collect data from them. There was a ton of backlash around this story, but it left me wondering, could something similar achieve success?What if there existed some open-source "keylogger" that tracked and monitored everything you did on your desktop. It could provide a dashboard of every action you took. You could...
1.) Totally opt-in. Unless this cafe holds a monopoly on the coffee market on this college campus, students can choose to participate.
2.) It seems like the students have some control over what data to share. Hopefully it's not a binary all-or-nothing situation, but if there's a chance students can share whatever they want (and receive tiered cafe services in proportion to whatever they share), that seems kinda interesting.
I'm more than happy to grant companies access to me. But I want something in return. In this case, maybe a chai latte?
Does anyone have experience using refundable deposits to filter out serious applicants/users from not-so-serious ones? Does it work? Why or why not?An example of a service that uses refundable deposits is Crew (https://crew.co). After submitting your project specs to them, they ask for a refundable deposit to gauge your level of intent before making introductions.
And what are some current examples?
Most of your time with your side project will be allocated to customer support and marketing. Others on this thread have correctly pointed out that approaching the project in terms of a business is the appropriate mindset to possess. You'll constantly be tweaking and iterating until you hit product-market fit, then you'll have to go out and sell the product.
It took me about a month to build https://www.onhand.co then double that time to reach enough users to sustain the server costs (still not profitable).
Honestly the best advice I have is similar to the advice startups receive, which is first figure out a pain point others are willing to pay to alleviate, then spend time building your side project/business/passive income.
Are you choosing an available day (i.e. one that isn't grayed out)?
I'm in the process of translating portions of a web app of mine into multiple languages. I was wondering what sites/services some of you have used to help with the internationalization process.