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I like this, very silly :)
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Highly recommend - https://www.brightbox.com/ for European / UK hosting
Agreed, I've never even seen boobs on TikTok...
I've seen this game played on YouTube a LOT and really want to give it a go.. Any chance of a Mac port?
Re:Starship Flight 7 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:15PM (#42732164)
Hey HN,

14 years ago on HN a domain name generator launched called Impossibility (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874465), as a bloke with a fair few side projects I really enjoyed the speed and simplicity

The site shut down a few years ago (and the domain name was bought by a porn site hence @dang having to remove the URL) and I've not found a service that replicates it to my liking.

So, I rebuilt it, I've got a few tweaks still to make but I'm pleased with the current speed and simplicity of it.

Re:What the Hollywood writers have agreed with the studios about AI on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:18AM (#37672669)
That's next, they were only dealing with one union at once.
Hey HN, Dom here, since the launch of https://littlewarden.com on Show HN a few years ago, we've added a lot of new features but we've always wanted to have a free tier (to get some attention).

We decided that going back and making LW work with thousands of free users wouldn't be the best use of our time but we could use the core API of Little Warden and build another website from it thus Free Domain Alerts was born.

I still have 4 more tweets that I can see today so as long as I only refresh this tweet three more times. I'm good.
Re:Stripe Launches PayPal Integration on Friday May 26, 2023 @11:53AM (#36085799)
This is EU only so no US paypal payments.
Re:Twenty years of my blog on Monday June 13, 2022 @06:34PM (#31732609)
Simon (and Nat of course) are one of the most inspirational (smartest and loveliest) couples I've encountered in all the weird tech events..

Their honeymoon, creation of Lanyrd and then eventual sale was a lovely story to follow over the years (and it's certainly part of an inspiration to our latest project)

Here's to 20 more years of blogging!

Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:24AM (#31504961)
Thanks for answering that! I went for some lunch :)
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:23AM (#31504943)
Oh yes, it's a beautiful website.
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:20AM (#31504903)
Thanks that's appreciated, please feel free to email [email protected] if you think of anything we can improve :)
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:55AM (#31503855)
Thanks, let me know what we are missing and I’ll try and get them added (as a two person team we know we have a challenge to try and get everything!)
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:36AM (#31503649)
Thanks for the feedback! You are right that it’s not “exactly” the same use case but it’s certainly an easy way to pitch it!

I really want to highlight smaller and regional productions as well as larger west end ones (that’s why our recommendations system is designed not to focus on budget ;) )

Awards are on the development list but I want to really think about ones which could have an impact to the production rather than quickly throwing some up!

Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:11AM (#31503378)
Hey, I’m on my mobile at the moment but I think we can do that, can you send a message to [email protected] and I’ll see if what we can do will work!
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:29AM (#31503011)
/me very quickly updates SQL ...I have NO IDEA what you are talking about ;)
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:22AM (#31502944)
That's a very fair point, honestly not the first thing we thought of when building the website (as the initial intention was only for my wife and I to have lists but certainly something I'm going to look into and work on.
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:15AM (#31502874)
I agree, and thats one the reasons that each show page has reviews based on the ratings of each show i.e. https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/shows/disney-s-the-lion-king and each how has a discussion board. obviously there is still a fair bit to do but we thought about that from the beginning.
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:08AM (#31502809)
That's a good point we should think about the naming of that page.. as we also have Online only theatres - https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/theatres/online and ones in the sea https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/theatres/sea ;)
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:54AM (#31502711)
Thanks, that's exactly what we were going for!
Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:54AM (#31502708)
Less than 5% of the links we have are affiliate links, a few sites in the industry we noticed will only list venues that give a kickback, but we want to list everything and we've got a few other ideas of monetisation later down the link (the small number of affiliate links we have at the moment are working pretty well).

A ticketing solution is certainly one of the options we have, especially for the smaller productions which are in makeshift theatres (a fair few in working mens clubs!)

Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:46AM (#31502657)
We do have unique ID's for each production (and have already had to deal with avoiding duplication of shows with the same name) but linking to Wikidata is a good shout!

I've not looked into it fully but since we cover a lot of Fringe and Amateur productions they might not be in Wikidata and those will tend to have a higher duplication factor.

Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:44AM (#31502643)
There is no scraping (at the moment) it's all manually input to avoid issues, every theatre website is different (and a lot of them are terrible) but we are getting on a lot of press distribution lists so the next stage it to see if we can automate the parsing of those emails.

Thanks for the comments re: pitch, it was a fun day and looking forward to next year

Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:42AM (#31502636)
Haha I can't lie, she is a MUCH better developer than me and typically I build a proof of concept and she gets annoyed with my code and takes over.

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