blackbrokkoli

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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   Note that this says "best programmers" not "people best at having business impact by making software". I wonder about this often: If you want to have impact/solve problems/make money, not just optimizing killin
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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   Interesting, thanks for the reply. Seems reasonable :)
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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   Interesting idea! I think this could really benefit from lazy signup, a demo directly on the landing page, or at least way more screenshots. Given that making a checklist in my notebook or established organization-app of choice is almost 0
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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   I'm curious about your target market, as well — is there a substantial amount of people who would be willing to donate in crypto, who wouldn't donate with PayPal/Stripe? I just started getting into ko-fi, and I'm wonde
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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   Hey, cool that you're working on this problem :) Some feedback: I'd love some simple usage examples. I'm a newbie to the space of i18n, and your documentation goes from the installation (simple enough) to a fairly fat boilerp
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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   Late to the party, but I'm currently building an MVP where you learn the vocab to understand a specific youtube video — since it was inspired by literally this video, I figured you may be interested: https://www.videovocab.a
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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   I already lived in Cairo for quite a while, so not quite your target group — but out of interest, how much did you sell? Did the monetization work?
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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   Interesting! Sadly I don't have an apple device for testing, but here is one question anyways: This is a standalone app, right? Have you thought how to break the existing "mindless scrolling" pattern that your users already h
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   by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

   thanks for the feedback, will work on this :)
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    It's on the "maybe" issue list :)
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    interesting idea, will put it on the long-term todo list :)
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Trick is you don't have to pan or zoom — but yeah, successfully communicating this has been the main UX challenge so far...
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    interesting perspective, as well. that's really the core struggle with learning games: not being too boring, not being too repetitive, not introducing stuff too fast, enabling user choice but also making sure learning is achieved... wi
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Good idea, will implement soon, thanks
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Thanks everyone for the feedback. I used a pretty random svg library and was happy that it worked for now, will look into this.
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Interesting idea :) from the perspective of a dev who does occasional webscraping, I think you need more on your landing page that convinces me why I should use your thing over good old Selenium, which feels pretty "easy" to me —
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Don't know about auto-rejecting, but as a recruiter I'd run an AI checker if the text feels suspicious. Wouldn't risk it unless you're on a very tight deadline; why not spend the 15 minutes of writing the filler yourself
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    Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition(map.koljapluemer.com)

    217 points by blackbrokkoli 2y ago|83 comments
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    That's probably true. I reckon I'll add both rather soon.
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    An interesting problem for sure (for example, should idioms be translated literally?)... On youtube, you have the opposite problem: Stuff like "ooh uhm" or garbled names makes it into the subtitles and confuse my translation engin
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Thanks! Not yet, but there is no technical hurdle to add basically any language. What would you be interested in? :)
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    Show HN: Learn a language by practicing the words needed to watch a video(video-vocab-bd548852a9a7.herokuapp.com)

    5 points by blackbrokkoli 2y ago|8 comments
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Yes, solid ideas, I was thinking along similar lines. There are two possible meta approaches for this: a) hard-code the whole progression, which is tedious and not very adaptive to the learner's level b) use algorithmic exercise/q
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Thanks! Any ideas for puzzles you'd enjoy solving? Love the idea, but it can't think of many actual puzzles that make sense in this context...
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I definitely agree, difficulty progression needs work :)
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    Show HN: Practice a second language by solving image-based puzzles(alkutshina.netlify.app)

    7 points by blackbrokkoli 2y ago|7 comments
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    My year as an independent AI researcher(smartmediacutter.com)

    2 points by blackbrokkoli 2y ago|0 comments
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Genuine question: If you write only for yourself, what motivates you to actually finish, and more importantly, polish a post? I write for myself all the time, in private: I have a journal, a paper notebook, thousands of notes in Obsidian. Y
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Thank you for the answer. If you want some inspiration for the toggle: have you ever seen the Firefox uBlock Origin plugin UI? They basically have a giant on/off button, which I think is a rather good solution. Interesting approach for
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    by blackbrokkoli 2y ago

    Very neat, thanks for making this. Tested it with Italian and it's very good :) One minor feedback: I would like a larger, much more prominent toggle to turn the translation on and off — not that the setting is hard to find, but I foun