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Re:Show HN: Duolingo for Finance on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:06AM (#38216699)
An interesting and fun concept. All the best and may you see great success.
Hi, I am a longtime lurker and have seen lots of people launch their ideas and have decided to finally bite the bullet and launch mine.

My hobby is writing and am currently writing an action thriller novel as well as an animation screenplay. As any writer will tell you writing takes practice and some might suggest that it is good practice to write everyday.

And so I thought why not combine the idea of writing prompts (short exercises that provide you with a topic and you create any story with them) and sharing on Social Media.

That's where 'Based On A Story' was born.

A fun way to create stories based on the word-of-the-day using only 280 characters.

I combined the wordnik word-of-day API, with Firebase as a backend to make the extension work and then I used the Twitter social sharing links for the sharing.

I would really appreciated some feedback on the effort I put in.

Thanks, Sharon.

Re:What makes a country good at football? on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:21PM (#17298608)
Australia moved from the much weaker Oceania Football Confederation, apparently in 2006, to a better Asian Football Confederation, better in the sense that the competition was stronger but not by much (if you put aside Iran, Japan and South Korea). Qualifying from this region is not nearly as tough as qualifying from other more competitive regions.

Australia as a country is known to spend real money on sports. They are able to produce top athletes, that's not a problem.

Australia has been able to participate in the Confed Cup and World Cup tournaments which helps boost its ranking because more points are allocated for participating in those tournaments.

Whether Australia poses a real threat to the dominant powers, that's a different story altogether. Moving to a Asia surely paid off dividends for them though.