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I think there was a tool called justunfollow. I never used it myself so I'm not sure how well it worked.
Thanks for the feedback.

> .. is there's pretty much no such thing as dumbing down too much.

Yes, you're right. I think it's easy to forget what's basic to someone, is often very challenging to someone else.

I have been working on a web app that makes tutorials for elderly people who struggle with technology. Something as simple as "turn off the wifi and turn on data" can be a struggle for a lot of people.

My plan is to make tools for making tutorials customized exactly to the users phone / desktop screen. So if an icon is on bottom right, the tutorial should mirror the same.

I have sporadically worked on it for the few months. The only issue is whether I am dumbing down the app way too much.

Re:Updating My Website from My iPad on Friday May 19, 2023 @06:47AM (#36000017)
So am I.

> 403 ERROR. The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

I run https://mapfight.xyz

It is a simple web app that displays map sizes without Mercator projection distortion. It hits 500$/month (google ads) on occasion.

Re:Ask HN: Is Wordle still part of your daily routine? on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:37AM (#31702231)
Yes, it is. But I have been debating if I should stop.
India, 8usd/month, 3Mbps down, 0.4Mbps up. (Numbers from Google internet speed test)

Yeah, it is pretty bad.

Thanks for the review.

> I hope you consider expanding to other accents.

To be honest, I would not know where to start. Indian accents are both ubiquitous and somewhat hard to understand.

If you have a list of accents you have trouble with, please let me know.

Thanks for the review.
Thanks for the review.

I will check the Mozilla voice model site and their contribution options.

Thanks for the review.

> We need more of this and less of "Learn how to speak in an American accent in 2 months!"

I agree. I think familiarity with the Indian accent will soon be seen as a major skill set. A skill set that people should maybe work on.

Re:Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on? on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:50PM (#26480315)
Thanks. I have been manually adding the alerts. Users also have the option of submitting their own alerts.
Re:Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on? on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:16PM (#26478825)
I have been working on SceneRadar.

This tool displays you timestamped alerts (nudity, sex, violence or gore). So if you plan to watch a film with your child, your parents or other conservative relatives - you know when the danger scenes are going to hit you.

Since I watched lots of films during the lockdown, I thought this would be a good use of time.

https://sceneradar.com/

Re:Ask HN: What’s the gender distribution of HN? on Sunday December 27, 2020 @10:28AM (#25551641)
We can check the gender ratio [1] of the subreddit /r/hackernews (assuming the two have the same audience distribution). Unfortunately, the subreddit does not appear on the gender ratio page.

[1] http://bburky.com/subredditgenderratios/

If you check related subreddits,

/r/startups - 86:14

/r/sideproject - 91:9

/r/programming - 93:7

/r/webdev - 89:11

/r/cscareerquestions - 83:17

/r/netsec - 96:4

/r/technology - 85:15

Based on these numbers 10:1 seems like a good guess.

Re:India’s booming dark data economy on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:37PM (#25534233)
> However, for almost a decade, it was mainly used by urban and semi urban, educated women as a revenge tactic.

Citation needed for this claim.

There a 100,000 498A cases a year - 13% of cases ended in conviction [1]. It is hard to say how many of the remaining 87% were "false".

[1] https://factly.in/the-conviction-rate-of-sec-498a-cases-fall...

Re:Send Payments in India with WhatsApp on Sunday November 08, 2020 @07:11AM (#25025244)
In India, there are many marginal businesses which are not registered as a business. I expect a lot of P2P payments to be Peer to unregistered business.

Ask HN: How do I release a domain name stuck with a bankrupt domain registrar?

Net4India is an old Indian domain registrar - with around 80,000 domain names registered.Sometime during the covid lockdown Net4India went bankrupt. A bankruptcy tribunal took over the case and some legal proceedings are going on.Users are complaining on twitter that despite paying for domain renewal, the domains are expiring.Net4 also has always had a dodgy reputation about releasing domains.I...

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:42PM (#22732110)
I think you are referring to zooomr.com (with 3 os).
Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:31AM (#20863694)
You click on the "Try it out" button to create a demo dashboard, add tasks and then click on register to sign up.

Sorry about the convoluted route.

Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:43PM (#20863565)
Glad you find it useful
Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Monday September 02, 2019 @05:09PM (#20861786)
Thanks for the link. Will check it out.
Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:58PM (#20861726)
I have added laps now.
Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:46PM (#20861649)
I debated having an orange (semi-done) state. But I felt that the ux was getting a bit too complex. So I left it out.

Unfortunately at the moment it is binary (done or not-done).

Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:42PM (#20861630)
Thanks for your review.

> I work out dramatically more with a little bit of social accountability.

I have experienced the same myself, and suspect that it is true for most people.

Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:38PM (#20861617)
> duolingo owl has so much power over me.

I use duolingo as well - and one of the saddest days was when I lost a 100+ day streak. It's funny how a meaningless number can have so much power.

Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:37PM (#20861612)
Thanks for your review.

> gamification of the Global Challenge.

I have personally experienced how powerful gamification ux can be. Especially if used for a positive outcome.

Re:Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:12PM (#20861481)
Sorry for the bug.

I think you logged-in before "trying out". I have fixed the bug now.

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