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Thanks for that. I think your right. I had a version where there was some profile links form the very start. Will switch back to that approach.

Man, the job market for software engineers is rough right now. I'm back on the hunt for a new gig. Second time in just a couple of years. It’s a grind. The ghosting, the rejections… it never gets easier.

But earlier this week, I got a little lucky and found some inspiration. I saw a job posting that mentioned they were open to video applications. That got me thinking: why not use on of my own project to make interactive video applications? Figured it’d be a cool way to stand out, connect with the company, and show off what I can do in a more creative way.

So, I gave it a shot and sent out a few of these interactive video applications. And so far, the response rate has been shockingly high. Fingers crossed it keeps going like this.

If anyone else out there is struggling with the job search and wants help setting something like this up, just hit me up. Hang in there, everyone—we’ll get through this.

Really cool. Hoping to try this on my project. It relies a lot on chopping down vids programatically. Hoping this will help with workflow. Nice work. Great video demo too.

Think I finally got my open source project to the bare minimum where another developer could understand, run and make use of it.

https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream

If anyone want to give it a go that would be cool.

Open source interactive video API.

Main use-case right now is shoppable live streams. Getting about 20,000 shoppers a month currently.

Demo: https://www.sneakinpeace.com/ Repo: https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream

Hey HN!!

Many of us enjoyed the "If YouTube had actual channels" Show HN post last week. As developers of a similar project, we wanted to share our approach to building a simulated live experience. We’ve spent around 18 months working on this and have managed to add some advanced features, including content-based interactivity. We are super excited to be releasing both the live stream and the code behind it.

Our idea was to combine the communal watching experience of television with the modern trappings of the interactive web. If you go to the stream, you will be watching along with everyone else. You can click around, get more information on what’s in the shot, and even purchase what you see without leaving the page.

On the tech side, we learned a ton along the way. Today, we are sharing the code so others can hopefully learn something too. To be totally honest, the code embarrasses me. It's way too early to share this and far from a completed open-source project. It’s an extreme example of “doing things that don’t scale” so please do not expect to just fire this up and run it in production. However, it does demonstrate solutions to a number of hard problems we faced—for example, handling graceful updates to streams that are currently live and supporting reliable timed metadata.

We would love any feedback and will be hanging around here to answer any questions that may come up.

Github: https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream Live demo: https://www.sneakinpeace.com Main tech: TypeScript | FFmpeg | HLS

Fun talk but kind of weird he totally ignores the fact that LLMs have written all code since around 2029.

For some reason this submission was stopped showing up anywhere on Hacker News a couple of hours after I published it. Perhaps because the link was broken for a little while this triggered some automatic moderation.

Nice tool. There's been some real steps forward enabling non coders to put together workflows.

Personally I would love to see a Dalle 2 for automation. Would be great to just be able to write.

1. Go to toastmaster website

2. Find next meeting

3. Check if I have selected a role

4. Send SMS

And it magically works. Ahhh maybe one day.

Hey author here.

Thanks for reposting a working link. The link should be back up and working now.

I was messing around with my new blogging tool (Notion + Super) and must have broken something.

Note to self don't start randomly changes website settings after posting to HN.

Thanks so much.

Yep a few different sources including HN if the article has enough points. Also a bunch of industry niche blogs.

There’s also a little machine learning in there that aims to identify high quality relevant stories. I use this mainly with the Google news stories as they can sometime be a bit irrelevant.

Made with diff-cam-engine (https://github.com/lonekorean/diff-cam-engine) and the Slack Node.js SDK (https://slack.dev/node-slack-sdk/)

Sorry forgot to mention one other requirement... This script will be running in cloud so cant rely on a simple local file for implementation.

Wow looks really cool. I was actually hoping for zero configuration on my part but this looks really exciting. Going have a play

Happy to answer any questions on implementation here

"Admin bot" that sounds interesting. Any experience with 3rd party solutions or written something yourself?

Using a big DB of comments from Youtube and some ML.