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This looks great - I funnily had a very similar idea a while back that I never got the ball on rolling on - so it's great to see you've built this. I unfortunately can't test this right now as I have an Android

Some ideas I had back then on the business side of things - you could explore getting travel influencers on board to market it and create their own custom itenararies. Then you can also connect to booking websites to earn income and give commission shares to route creators.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:40AM (#43531125)
I'm working on https://www.chessfunforlittleones.com/ - an electronic book to introduce children to chess through LED lights, poems and some cute chracters.

I launched the kickstarter a month ago and am currently finalising the logistics for shipping the books out and putting together the shopify site which should launch at some point in April.

Re:Ask HN: How can I unblock my Meta ad account? on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:00AM (#42929022)
Hi there, thank you very much for your reply I really appreciate it, I will take all your feedback on board and see is I can get some traction helping that way :)

Ask HN: How can I unblock my Meta ad account?

Hi HNI'm developing an electronic board book to teach children the basics of chess and for the last few months have had issues with my meta ad account being blocked. I recently moved to India and setup the account there but I used my UK payment details when trying to pay for a test ad, which is what I suspect triggered the automatic block.As this is a new business I have no contacts within Meta...

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No light sensors - each page has a small magnet embedded within it at a certain place with the pcb having a Hall effect sensor at the corresponding location

Show HN: Chess Fun For Little Ones – An interactive book to introduce chess

https://www.chessfunforlittleones.com/

Hi Hacker NewsI'm Mayghal, one of the engineers/designers/creators of Chess Fun For Little Ones - a new and unique Arduino based interactive book to introduce little ones to the world of chess through some colourful LED lights, characters and poems.There's a video showcasing the book on our website: https://www.chessfunforlittleones.com/We're planning to launch a kickstarter towards the end of...

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Ask HN: What to spend my company's learning allowance on

I get an annual $400 allowance from my company to spend on tech related books/courses/general education. I wanted some recommendations on what I could spend this money on.Some background on me - I am an advanced python backend programmer (not web just general programs) but because don't come from a computer science background, recently completed (and loved) both nand 2 Tetris courses. What I...

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Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:17AM (#32594826)
fly.io i think - never tried it but HN feedback has been pretty positive on it
Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:17AM (#32594814)
Pretty frustrated by this. I run a UAT instance on heroku free which I will now need to start paying for effectively doubling my cloud cost. Think i will migrate to fly.io instead which I guess is what they want to happen

Show HN: Their Name Here – A place card maker to create printables in minutes

https://www.theirnamehere.com/

Hi everyone!My wife (a designer) and I (a developer) have been working on Their Name Here for the last few months after she struggled to find a cheap place card maker that had modern designs for our wedding.The website is still under active development and she's got some more themed designs (tv shows/films/public holidays) planned for the next few months.Would love your feedback and hope you...

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