philiphu

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   by philiphu 10y ago

   Hi Hacker News! A month ago, we showed DJ Trump as a tool to make Trump say anything you type. It was fun, but many people mentioned that the videos sounded choppy. We decided to pivot to focusing on making sure the videos can sound interes
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   by philiphu 10y ago

   I applied a language processing algorithm to a bunch of his speeches, but then we had to manually hunt down words we considered high importance (names, curse words, etc.) The LLC is for liability protection, though we did do a lot of resear
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   by philiphu 10y ago

   Thank you! Yes, the autocomplete is based on what words are available. The back-end is EC2 behind a load balancer with the media on S3
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   by philiphu 10y ago

   Great feedback! Yeah it's not a new page load when the video gets created, so I added a "Compose new Message" button, but it makes sense that people will want the back button to work as well. I'll do something about it,
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   by philiphu 10y ago

   Interesting -- great idea! I'll have to think about the right way to implement that.
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   by philiphu 10y ago

   Sounds pretty realistic :) https://twitter.com/DeepDrumpf/status/796195299337338881 https://www.getdjtrump.com/videos/bc48090c/i_told_ohio_my
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   by philiphu 10y ago

   That is brilliant!
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   by philiphu 10y ago

   Would love feedback on the usability of the autocomplete and whether the output quality is up to expectations! Also, does the splash page make sense? Thanks!
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   Show HN: DJ Trump – Make Trump Say Anything(getdjtrump.com)

   32 points by philiphu 10y ago|18 comments
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    by philiphu 10y ago

    I won, and it said it was a tie. The board looked like: o x x o x o o o x
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    by philiphu 11y ago

    Thank you! We don't search all possible destinations yet (but stay tuned for updates), but you'll be able to put your origin in on our recently searched savings tool ( http://www.cleverlayover.com/#monitor ) and see
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    by philiphu 11y ago

    You're welcome! Hearing feedback like this makes the entire endeavor worthwhile!
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    by philiphu 11y ago

    Thanks! You can check out some of the savings we find on our recently searched savings tool here: http://www.cleverlayover.com/#monitor It will show you a fresh list of savings available, and you can even filter the list by
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    by philiphu 11y ago

    Hi HN, I built this flight search engine three months ago and showed the first functionality here, which was to search for savings. We've since iterated and added a new functionality that allows you to search for an extended layover to
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    Show HN: Search for layovers you can stay at for a day or more witho a paying more(cleverlayover.com)

    14 points by philiphu 11y ago|8 comments
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    by philiphu 12y ago

    Thanks for the question! We run an algorithm to look at all the possible connecting cities and calculate the price of purchasing roundtrips to that connecting city separately (i.e. from origin to layover and from layover to destination). We
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    by philiphu 12y ago

    Any feedback is welcome, especially around communicating the value proposition and making it more useable. Thanks so much, everyone!
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    Show HN: Flight search engine that pieces together two roundtrips to save money(cleverlayover.com)

    6 points by philiphu 12y ago|3 comments