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Show HN: Path to Philosophy – Find how any Wikipedia page leads to Philosophy

https://pathtophilosophy.com/

I built a fun game called Path to Philosophy. Starting from any Wikipedia article, it follows the first link in each page’s main text until it eventually reaches the Philosophy article (as most Wikipedia pages tend to do).You can pick any starting page and see the full path unfold. If you find long paths, you can submit them to the leaderboard.It’s a fun way to explore how diverse ideas often...

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Show HN: Track product alternative requests on Reddit to find product ideas

https://alternativewatch.com

I often browse through subreddits like r/iosapps, r/macapps to find product opportunities & market gaps.I noticed a pattern: users frequently ask for alternatives to existing tools when they're frustrated with current solutions.These posts are a great source of inspiration for product ideas as users are actively searching for alternatives to products that they already use & they...

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One of my friends is building a collection of such exercises aimed at experienced & intermediate programmers, where you build Redis / Docker / Git / React from scratch with guidance.

https://codecrafters.io/challenges

Re:How to convert existing web extensions for Safari on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:34PM (#25652787)
I maintain a small extension focused around Competitive Programming niche. I often get requests from users asking if there's a safari version available. As much as I would love to add support, I'm not paying 99$/year as I don't make any money from the product.

My extension for those interested: https://github.com/nishanthvijayan/CoderCalendar-Extensions/

Re:Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:27PM (#24055178)
In the pricing section I see there's a limit on videos. Is this a monthly limit or total limit. For example, free tier says 5 videos, is that 5 per month?
I use this to monitor my binance portfolio value https://github.com/nishanthvijayan/BinanceBalanceMac
Re:Why We're Bootstrapping Readwise (2018) on Saturday March 30, 2019 @02:08PM (#19530820)
How are guys exporting highlights from kindle? A couple of months ago, I was looking to implement a kindle to Evernote exporter. I couldn't find any official API with the capability, so I ended up writing a scrapper that did the work. See: https://github.com/nishanthvijayan/kindle-highlights-to-goog...
http://github.com/nishanthvijayan/CoderCalendar/

Android app and Chrome and Firefox addons that lists live and upcoming programming competitions on sites like Codeforces, Topcoder, Hackerrank, Hackerearth, Codechef etc

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.corphots.c... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coders-calendar /bageaffklfkikjigoclfgengklfnidll https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/coder-calenda...

Has 7k+ users all together :)