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Try reaching out to our own network. You really only need a few paying customers to get the ball rolling. Word of mouth is probably going to be your best friend.
There's a time and place for everything.
I find that this style of programming is super useful in the technical design phase. During development I prefer to have a plan in place.
That's an epic win! 15 years of the startup grind/rollercoaster is impressive, well done!
Yeehah thanks! It's good fun! At this rate, next year's theme will no doubt be video calls to Santa.
Posted by
sakerbos on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @09:15PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://magicmessagesanta.com/
Hey everyone, Shaun here!I originally built Magic Message Santa for my kids. They wrote Santa a letter with their Christmas wishes (like we've all done in the past) and I thought, “What if we could send Santa a voice note instead? How cool would that be!”I knew AI was great at transcribing voice notes, but I wasn’t sure if voice generation was there yet. After some initial testing, we were...
Hey guys, I'm Shaun :wave:
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No (we've just moved here from South Africa :))
Technologies: React, React-Native, Typescript, Node.js, Firebase
Résumé/CV: https://sakerbos.notion.site/Shaun-Saker-s-Resume-0cff4c4bd3d046ffbb92705f947fed0d?pvs=4
Email: [email protected]
I'm a self-starter and ex-Geologist. I've spent the last 8+ years building startups, mostly on the frontend but quite happy doing full-stack. Looking for something fresh and interesting! Give me a shout if you see a good fit.
PS: Links to my latest projects in my resume if you're interested :)
Posted by
sakerbos on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @06:27AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://whatthepixsay.com/
*Spread over multiple weeks (I have a wife, kids as well as a day job lol).Hey guys!I’ve been working on a little side project, What The Pix Say (WTPS), a Wordle-inspired word puzzle game where you solve phrases by guessing the meaning of AI-generated images.Would love to get your feedback before I release this into the wild!Cheers,
ShaunPS: If you’re curious about how I built it, I recorded...
Posted by
sakerbos on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:01PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://whatthepixsay.com/
Howdy HN folks!I’ve been working on What The Pix Say (WTPS), a Wordle-inspired word puzzle game where you solve phrases by guessing the meaning of images.Here’s how it works:- Each phrase is represented by a set of images.
- You drag the images into place to form a phrase or sentence.
- The game accepts partial matches, so you don’t always need to be exact. For example, an image of a theater...
Ooh I felt the same after moving to Australia from South Africa. We found that the veggies tasted blander in general and I have no idea why. Keen to plant some heirloom tomatoes in the spring.
There was a massive one back in South Africa that must have been a thousand years old. Naturally someone put a pub in it. Must have been tree-cky.
Yeah I've always found the browser bar hiding when you scroll to the bottom of a page a bit weird. But yeah you're right, it looks like a Chrome-only thing my bad.
Yeah fair enough. I actually found the massive navigation history annoying too, I'd just forgotten about it until now. I think I have a solution to replace the navigation history with local state so we should still be able to navigate between board versions, will see. Appreciate the feedback :)
Ooh fair enough. I'll add an option to disable that, thanks!
Yes this is a problem and a great idea thanks! Adding to my TODO list :)
I'd be very interested in exploring this idea! Do you know of any board games that it could work for? This also just gave me an idea to justify my board game budget to my wife as a R&D business expense so thank you ;)
Thanks! Yeah totally, it should be fairly easy to do. Could select the game variant after selecting a new game. I'll see what I can do :)
Thanks for this, I'll fix it asap :)
Thank you! Yes this had actually become a problem for us but it weirdly ended up adding an interesting new dynamic to the game. So much so that we'd actively try and hide our resources from each other and had to try to keep track of each other's resources in our heads (the irony in adding a digital calculator only to increase cognitive load is very real). But yeah, I can imagine not everyone would want to play like this and a compact summary could solve that issue. I shall see what I can do :)
Ah right, my bad, that's super annoying. I'll remove that functionality for now.
Are you on Android by any chance? if so, I think that would be Android's weird browser bar hiding behaviour when you get to the bottom of the page, or just something weird I overlooked. Could probs add some padding to avoid that which I shall do, thanks!
Thanks! Looks like they've recreated the entire game, it even has decent docs. Will defs give it a go!
Apparently just a side project that was used by only two people in the world :)
Yip! Should just be for the current tab though so that we can forward/back through our score history. If that's not the case, please let me know :)
Posted by
sakerbos on Sunday May 19, 2024 @08:00AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://terraforming-mars-player-board.netlify.app/
My cousin and I love the Terraforming Mars board game. But we'd often get overly excited and knock our pieces off of our boards, losing track of our progress. So I digitised it. It comes with a few cool features like resource conversions (e.g. converting plants to greenery), production phase, offline, mobile-friendly and keeps track of the history using the browser history itself. Sharing this...
Posted by
sakerbos on Sunday May 19, 2024 @08:00AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://kissesemoji.com/
A few months ago, my daughter Lala wanted to "play emoji". She had previously sent one too many emoji messages to randos on my phone so I made her this game, named by her of course. It's really just a giant emoji picker but in a way it's taught her how to move the cursor, click, scroll and clear her selection so I thought I'd share it. From a dev perspective, I did learn something cool in the...
I was literally just thinking this haha, what a classic!
Even DJ seems to have ads in the form of "this viral track has been blowing up all over". The giveaway is the 30 sec description and the fact that it's usually not even my vibe.