> I am a developer, Do I need this API?
No, if you can build your own rendering system with all these features and able to make it run this fast. You don't need this API.
I like how you addressed this in the FAQ, because this is such a classic take by some users of HN. It's fine if you don't want to use it, but a lot of people would love to. Nice product by the way.
Building it is one thing. It's not even uncommon for people to be right about that part.
It's the maintenance, support, training, operations, and documentation that will kill you, if you think you can "just" write some service and then move on to other tasks.
I wont use bruzu till you're one billion MRR. haha jus jokes. I've been following Bruzu since the start. Great product, great dev who is open minded for feedback, etc.
I have done this before, a bare bones example can be done easily in Lambda with GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick for node https://www.npmjs.com/package/gm see "annotate an image" example.
I understand your service does more that this. I map the POST JSON to GM params to allow the caller to do nearly anything GM CLI can do.
If you were looking for news then sUASnews is great for some catching up on drones. For robotics I often find articles on IEEE Spectrum and The Robot Report interesting.
I’ve been rubbing it for over 3 years now and I’m approaching 3k e-mail subscribers. I feature it quite a lot on LinkedIn and Twitter and sometimes I would share some issues on /r/robotics or HN.
So far the best way I’ve found for growing subscribers is trading shoutouts with other newsletters but I didn’t experiment much with paid ads.
Only Chicago right now. We'd like to expand when the economics makes sense (there is a bit of a chicken/egg problem there where we definitely lose some potential sales by not providing the region folks want - but we need sufficient saturation to pay for the new deployment).
My advice if you want to use our service but in a region besides Chicago: use our service and email us the region you'd prefer. In the mean time, the extra 20ms round trip latency probably won't bother you and we'll let you know when we expand in the future (and your voice will help decide where!).
It is more like we provide you a network interface that, instead of being plugged into your modem for Comcast/AT&T/etc, it's plugged into a datacenter.
You get a public static IPv4/IPv6 connection with Reverse DNS - just located somewhere else.
Making your machine publicly routable is the primary use case (e.g., for email, web, whatever you want if you have trouble with NAT/CGNAT or simply don't want your home IP associated with the service), but it also encrypts your traffic between your PC and our datacenter such that your ISP can't snoop - which is not to say we're a good privacy solution - that is not what our product is designed to do.
To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings.
If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment.
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If you are okay with gpl software/backend, you could reuse some code of one of my side project: https://apps.kde.org/kalendar/ (support google api, caldav, etesync and Outlook calendars)
Nice!! How big are those displays, and if you don't mind sharing, how much do those displays cost from your supplier? Last time I checked, e-paper displays were pretty pricey on their own.
I read somewhere that the e-ink expense is because the company which controls the intellectual property chooses to make it a low volume, high cost product. Not that it is inherently expensive, and I am surprised they don't try the opposite strategy, make it cheap and everywhere.
> I read somewhere that the e-ink expense is because the company which controls the intellectual property chooses to make it a low volume, high cost product.
I've only read that here (repeatedly!) on HN and blogs that then cited throwaway HN posts which never respond to my requests for at least some verifiable evidence. Have a look through my comment history.
I was curious... from what I can find online the wholesale price of an e-ink display is not that much cheaper (if any) than buying an equivalently sized Kindle. What is the viability of a business model that involves rooting a Kindle, loading whatever calendar display software you need, and shipping it inside a pretty wooden frame?
I was curious about this too. From the dimensions listed on the website, it looks like the screen is about 6.3×3.7 inches, or about 7.3 inches diagonal.
There seem to be 8-inch e-ink displays for sale on AliExpress for $20-$40, actually much cheaper than I expected. No idea about the quality though.
Oh my gosh, I love this. I even love the name. My fiancé and I were even talking about how we wanted to move the house towards more "invisible technology" (magic mirrors, things like this, maybe the Frame TV if we get a good deal and figure out a good spot for it, etc)
I assumed it used some technology that made it look less like a digital display and more like a analog object. Also, I (stupidly) assumed that it was similar to an e-ink display I that it could display images when it was powered off.
It does more than just static images, it can play videos/gifs as well. I just bought one for our living room a month ago and love it. Its a good QLed TV, not as great as an OLED but that’s not why I bought it. It’s great for it is and you can buy custom made frames too. We have the 65” definitely recommend
It's multiplex. The device in the last picture has plywood but it's an older version.
Multiplex is actually nice since it's cross laminated and thus retains its shape. I experimented with solid wood and it started arching after a few weeks.
Wow, this is great! I was actually just thinking about hacking something like this together on my own, but $200 seems really reasonable for a pre-built product, and it looks much nicer than it would if I built it! :) Any plans to support non-Google calendar accounts?
I wonder if there is a service that (somehow) detects your site has been flagged in various categories by big company firewalls, and alerts you. Wild guess: whatever system feeds into the lists that get blocked in this way probably has a lot of false positives.
I have an extension called FakeSpot that I use to detect fake Amazon reviews. To my surprise, it flagged your site as well with the following note: "Please research the seller because:
* Limited Internet presence
* Website is missing common professional website attributes
* Limited Internet presence and history"
It doesn't expand on any of those points, that's all it says.
I am curious: as a HW project how did you go through the CE / FCC certification process and production 0-series batch? Did you have some investor or paid from your own pocket?
Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.
I’ve done a lot of research on CE/FCC and while it seems possible to do CE yourself (since you can self-certify) you are on the hook if you miss something, like certain required tests (and doing some tests can be very expensive).
I think if you self-certify you have all the responsibility. (I do not know you as person or you as an organization.)
But if this thing just emit in a wrong RF band, it could mean insane fine fine from the local-frequency-band-office. And this is a very likely scenario (not like what happens if it catches fire and kill somebody...).
Anyway, I heard you should aim (at least) to the US market, which needs FCC. (eg. 300+ million people with one language vs. 30+ language in Europe.)
The answer is a big "it depends", but there are ways to get basic FCC certification done for as little as $1K-$2K if you contact enough labs and your engineers are reasonably good at adhering to proper design practices (minimize respins and testing repeats).
CE mark isn't actually required in the US, but you'd need it for Europe and other locations. It's more involved, but all-in testing can be done for <$5K for EU if you're careful.
> Did you have some investor or paid from your own pocket?
> Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.
Crowdfunding is how it's done for HW products. Investors aren't going to be interested in anything small time (less than $10-100mm potential revenue + recurring subscriptions) unless they're friends and family or something like that.
It's a lot of money, but it's not out of reach for someone with a tech job who uses crowdfunding for the major production push.
My understanding as someone who works with embedded RF, is that if you use a SoC that is already FCC certified you don’t need additional certification, as long as you don’t do anything stupid like modifying chip registers that effect signal strength. This is a reason espressif chipsets are very popular in consumer electronics that require RF.
At least for CE it is not so easy, the "whole product" has to meet the requirements. Using an certified chip / module lowers the risk of failing, but you have to pay for the measurements and certification anyway. (Which here, as I heard, can be about 6 months engineering salary.)
(For crowdfunding you need a good campaign and probably some ads / self-promoting which also could be expensive.)
Not much. Original creator just wanted more help on growing it and is busy with a full time job. I on the other hand love the idea of buying SAAS businesses. This is my 2nd one. 1st one I bought has grown to low 7 figures in revenue. Not sure if I can replicate the same success but hopefully that's the idea.
I had a similar idea 2 years ago [1] but haven't been pushing it forward because I thought nobody would need something like this, since it's easy to implement a cronjob in a backend server. Maybe I should revisit this! :)
That said, this seems to be the extent of my marketing desire.
I screen scrape campground registration websites and alert you when someone cancels on a date you want to go camping. Fabulously successful. Now back to my day-job.
This feels like a good balance to me--you're giving people a heads-up that there's an open block that they can book, without doing the "value add" of blocking it off and then scalping the slot. More power to you.
the UI is just so nice, it's functional and simple. it's not trying win design awards to point of bein completely insufferable like some sites i see today.
There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer than I'm comfortable with
Do you mind going into where your main revenue stream comes from and how it breaks down? Is it mostly apple users? Google play? Do you get any revenue from the website itself?
The basic model is people pay for access to more sounds. For the last few years this bas been separate transactions on the ios app, android app and for the web version. Ideally I'd move to a single subscription-based account that worked across all devices for extra sounds.
Revenue breakdown is roughly equal between android, ios and web, somewhat surprisingly. Android converts worse but has higher user numbers. Web converts much worse, but converts at a higher price (justified by the fact that hosting/maintaining the web stuff take a lot more time and money)
> Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction enough to get to $500/month?
Pure dumb luck. I made the site to scratch my own itch many years ago, and then it took off because there were few similar sites at the time (that let you mix together different sounds). Only promotion I did was mention the site on reddit a few times. Users were prepared to tolerate a lot of rough edges at first.
There has been zero advertising. The site gets a regular influx of new users because it's been featured on a number of discover-interesting-website portals (the modern versions of StumbleUpon). This happened with no input from me. I assume it's a good match for these kinds of portals because it's immediately usable without any kind of instruction, signup etc.
I only made the decision to monetize after a long period of the site getting lots and lots of organic traffic with no input from me.
> I'm curious about how much work goes into recording high-quality, looping sounds like this?
When I started the site, I mainly used CC0 licensed sounds others had recorded.
Then I started recording my own sounds. How much work it is is very situational - if you regularly find yourself in an environment which has the sound you want to record, and not many other sounds around, then it's pretty trivial. For example, you want to record rain in the forest, and you regularly walk in a forest where it rains and there aren't many other noise sources (e.g. other people, planes overhead, singing birds, etc). The actual recording itself doesn't take much work, because I shoot for a level of sound quality that will satisfy 80%-90% of people, rather than a real "audiophile" quality level.
On the other hand, if you want to record something that only happens occasionally and with lots of other noise sources nearby, it can be a ton of work. For example, you want to record the sound of thunder, but you only get occasional storms, you live in a city with lots of other background noise, and it usually rains when it storms and you want rain on the recording. In that scenario, you might have to travel far and burn a ton of time trying to get the right conditions for recording.
This is a pleasant surprise. I remember using your app ages ago. I want to say at least 7 years ago when I believe you launched your website first on reddit. My memory is a bit hazy.
I really liked your app. We had a construction project going on for the longest time and I would mix up your rain, storm, sea and the singing bowl sound everything together and blast it on my soundbox!!
My brother started Podcast Notes in 2015. I help out on the tech side. We now have a growing community of Premium Members, 35k Twitter Followers, 25k email subscribers.
Hey fellow accordion busker! I find my busking income has diminished vastly with age, despite my skill rising. Everyone wants to toss a coin at the 10 year old playing decent accordion. Not so much the 30 year old playing good accordion.
Not to say that this is your issue, but I find it helps if I dress up a lot.
I have nice, embroidered pearl snaps, custom cowboy boots, fancy hats, and a couple nice vests.
That is to say, it's pretty easy for folks to confuse me with panhandlers. I have no problem with folks panhandling, but my tips are way better if I look like a performer.
Are you using Venmo for tips? I used to have an itch for digital tip jars, but never figured out the right set of features to really drive adoption...
This was well before Patreon, and PayPal was pretty much the only API game in town. Since then, I've felt like Venmo handles 9/10ths of the live performance problem (unleash the appreciation (money) locked in digital form).
I never have cash on me and when I see a QR code I usually give 2-5x more than I would if I was carrying cash on me because it feels weird to "drop in" $1-4 on Venmo and I guilt myself into more.
Anyway, accordion OP you should get a QR code for tips :)
TBH, I am not super on point about that-- on some level I still rationalize busking as a mode of practice where I don't have to annoy the neighbors in my apartment.
I should probably look into that... it seems like a reasonable idea.
I will say, the one time that someone asked me directly about it, when I told them I didn't have venmo they gave me a $100 bill. Not to say that will ever be repeated.
Do you provide a way to export data in case the site closes down? I don't use any app/site to track what books I read, but I see that it could be interesting.
What is the source for book data? I was recently looking for a TMDB equivalent for books but couldn't find a good one. There is OpenLibrary but they don't have covers and only do dumps once a month.
It's a platform for virtual scientific and research-oriented poster session hosting. Pretty simple but desperately needed when all the conferences were cancelled!
I built an email forwarding service - not for your own domains, a lot of those exist already - instead you can choose an email at any of our 150+ domains and we forward it to your existing account, no migration required. You can even send from this address with many providers.
You should know your way around Linux (if you already know Ubuntu, you can use it on the server as well).
You need some software:
- For receiving and routing mails: I use postfix
- For authenticating: Dovecot
- For serving mails via IMAP: Dovecot is a popular choice
There are some good guides on the net how to set up these on Ubuntu or Debian (which is pretty similar), just google for e.g. "postfix ubuntu".
It's critical that the mail you route arrives at the other end, so you must prevent spammers from abusing your systems. Otherwise you get blacklisted. As a start you need to implement state-of-the-art things like: SPF, DKIM, DMARC. MTA-STS, TLS-RPT are also useful. None of these are hard and there are also good tutorials out there, it's just a bit of work.
I created Video Hub App - browse, search, and organize your videos - "like YouTube for videos on your computer".
It's a commercial project / charityware that is turning 4 years old next month. I sell it for $5 per copy and give $3.50 to a cost-effective charity. If you go to the blog you'll see the history of sales. As of now I donated almost $13,000 to charity thanks to this project. It's averaging around 100 sales per month for over a year now.
one customer segment that can reaaaally benefit from this is people who edit videos, they need to have repository of 1000s of sound effects, memes, and clips from general media. There really needs to be a tool to find gifs, images, videos and audios by typing general word and it even should match synonym tags.
I recently got Pterodactyl setup on my home server and I just wanted to say that it's an incredible project and it works great. I run various game servers on a whim and it's been easy to spin them up. Many thanks for your hard work.
We help SaaS CS and Product teams use product feedback from Intercom, Zendesk, Hubspot, Help Scout, etc to understand and build what customers are asking for.
Upon initial login I'm definitely impressed by the interface, the existing content, and the potential to finally brush up on my Japanese.
I ended up linking to my Google account, but I spent a long while trying to "sign up" with my email only to be given an message about failing to meet the password requirements (no mention of character limit and no special characters allowed). At first I thought I just needed to adjust my password generator to get a valid password (usually 64 chars with alpha-numerics and special characters), but even the simplest passwords failed with the same error message.
> I ended up linking to my Google account, but I spent a long while trying to "sign up" with my email only to be given an message about failing to meet the password requirements (no mention of character limit and no special characters allowed).
This is strange; I don't really have any special password requirements. What's the exact error message you were getting? The only requirements are that it's at least 6 characters long and different than your username, and in each case it should tell you exactly what's wrong.
Yep. Copy the executable (plus another file which is a big blob containing the dictionary, examples, etc.), and then just do `systemctl restart`.
There's nothing extra running on the server; no reverse proxy (the app itself automatically fetches/renews the HTTPS cert), no database, nothing. Just the app, the SSH server and the default system services.
This is quite cool. One suggestion would be to have the pronunciation listed in addition to the kanji and audio (at least when I searched I didn't see it, so the only way to learn to pronounce is to use audio). Do you know of something similar for Chinese by any chance?
> One suggestion would be to have the pronunciation listed in addition to the kanji and audio (at least when I searched I didn't see it, so the only way to learn to pronounce is to use audio).
Sorry, I'm a little confused? The pronunciation is listed for every word; that's the hiragana next/on top of the words. (:
> Do you know of something similar for Chinese by any chance?
Alas, I do not. Maybe I'll make something like that in, like, 20 years if I'll ever be able to make a living off of this. (:
A complete beginner? Nope. Well, at least not yet!
Eventually I do want to make it a one-stop-shop which will teach you everything and take you from a complete beginner to someone who can immerse in native media as soon as possible. We're not there yet, and the site works best if you're at least an advanced beginner. The bare minimum requirement is that you know hiragana and katakana already.
Your best bet would be to start with a textbook of some kind and/or some actual lessons with real teachers to learn the basics. The more of a beginner you are the more the human touch helps; the more advanced you are the more you can depend on apps.
I'm creating a free Japanese course that ships as a flashcard deck for Anki. It completely starts from zero, maybe it helps you: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/911122782
I guess this format is similar to what jpdb offers, maybe you can even import it there. The deck currently covers most grammar and a little more than 800 words on ~1800 flashcards. It's mostly based on anime though, so at least some interest in this is beneficial ;).
My main complaint is that I haven't known about this until now. I frequently search for Japanese resources and specifically did searches to find pre-made decks of Japanese content from Japanese language media, but never encountered your site.
Thank you for the effort to revamp the Heisig kanji keywords - makes me wish I didn't already learn it the RTK way. The way to teach new kanji by introducing the enclosed primitives first is smart - it's a good compromise between "primitive first" and "usage first" approaches.
Yeah, it's still pretty much a very niche resource that many people do not know about. (:
Indeed, Heisig's keywords can be janky. Mine are not perfect, but in general they should be better than Heisig's. Well, at least for most of the really common kanji; I still need to change/improve the keywords for some of the more rare kanji and tweak a few more common ones. (As you can imagine doing that manually for a few thousand characters is a lot of work, so it has been slow going.)
Thumbs up for revising the keywords of remembering the kanji.
I don’t follow his book but I do refer to it when studying and sometimes his keywords really can be far out. If I remember correctly he never clarifies if the kanji for “can” is “can do” or “can of soup”.
We have built a remote job search https://app.careersaas.com/portal that scrapes and indexes more than 2 million jobs. Currently offering sponsored listings - lets a user define a location for their job and whomever is searching near that geocode will see the result, according to their job experience, etc.
We built https://tadum.app, an online meeting agenda that rolls forward incomplete agenda items to the next agenda. This ends up creating a low effort paper trail, saves on meeting prep time, and keeps agendas consistently formatted/organized. It's intended for recurring weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings--we built it based on how we run meetings with our clients and are happy to see other teams jump in and have success with it.
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Sample https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN3
Your FAQ is great hahaha!
It's the maintenance, support, training, operations, and documentation that will kill you, if you think you can "just" write some service and then move on to other tasks.
Q: I am a developer, Do I need this API?
A: No, if you can build your own rendering system with all these features and able to make it run this fast. You don't need this API.
But you need API for the things that happens off browser. Like if you want to create images inside your code.
This is good for social media managers that want to automate a lot of account posts.
I understand your service does more that this. I map the POST JSON to GM params to allow the caller to do nearly anything GM CLI can do.
Obviously still nice to see what people have built who missed the last post!
If you were looking for news then sUASnews is great for some catching up on drones. For robotics I often find articles on IEEE Spectrum and The Robot Report interesting.
So far the best way I’ve found for growing subscribers is trading shoutouts with other newsletters but I didn’t experiment much with paid ads.
My advice if you want to use our service but in a region besides Chicago: use our service and email us the region you'd prefer. In the mean time, the extra 20ms round trip latency probably won't bother you and we'll let you know when we expand in the future (and your voice will help decide where!).
It is more like we provide you a network interface that, instead of being plugged into your modem for Comcast/AT&T/etc, it's plugged into a datacenter.
You get a public static IPv4/IPv6 connection with Reverse DNS - just located somewhere else.
Making your machine publicly routable is the primary use case (e.g., for email, web, whatever you want if you have trouble with NAT/CGNAT or simply don't want your home IP associated with the service), but it also encrypts your traffic between your PC and our datacenter such that your ISP can't snoop - which is not to say we're a good privacy solution - that is not what our product is designed to do.
It syncs with Google Calendar.
To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings.
If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment.
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It's definitely something I am having in the backlog, but I cannot promise if and when it will be implemented.
What's the profit margin like?
E-ink displays are expensive. That price point seems not enough to generate decent income.
I've only read that here (repeatedly!) on HN and blogs that then cited throwaway HN posts which never respond to my requests for at least some verifiable evidence. Have a look through my comment history.
I was curious... from what I can find online the wholesale price of an e-ink display is not that much cheaper (if any) than buying an equivalently sized Kindle. What is the viability of a business model that involves rooting a Kindle, loading whatever calendar display software you need, and shipping it inside a pretty wooden frame?
There seem to be 8-inch e-ink displays for sale on AliExpress for $20-$40, actually much cheaper than I expected. No idea about the quality though.
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"Oh, that's not working today. I guess I need to charge it."
Corded seems a good fit for a static location device.
a) the wood frame seems to be too large (probably there is a technical reason for this), but still. Not much too large though, just maybe 25%?
b) the wood (at least from the pictures) looks cheap (plywood?)
Multiplex is actually nice since it's cross laminated and thus retains its shape. I experimented with solid wood and it started arching after a few weeks.
Any idea what could be causing this? I am at a loss.
It doesn't expand on any of those points, that's all it says.
[0] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/c20f7917192a4f9ea1e1c74f4...
[1] https://urlscan.io/result/231cca00-86ee-4c57-b99e-0a76a4b269...
Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.
I’ve done a lot of research on CE/FCC and while it seems possible to do CE yourself (since you can self-certify) you are on the hook if you miss something, like certain required tests (and doing some tests can be very expensive).
But if this thing just emit in a wrong RF band, it could mean insane fine fine from the local-frequency-band-office. And this is a very likely scenario (not like what happens if it catches fire and kill somebody...).
Anyway, I heard you should aim (at least) to the US market, which needs FCC. (eg. 300+ million people with one language vs. 30+ language in Europe.)
CE mark isn't actually required in the US, but you'd need it for Europe and other locations. It's more involved, but all-in testing can be done for <$5K for EU if you're careful.
> Did you have some investor or paid from your own pocket?
> Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.
Crowdfunding is how it's done for HW products. Investors aren't going to be interested in anything small time (less than $10-100mm potential revenue + recurring subscriptions) unless they're friends and family or something like that.
It's a lot of money, but it's not out of reach for someone with a tech job who uses crowdfunding for the major production push.
(For crowdfunding you need a good campaign and probably some ads / self-promoting which also could be expensive.)
I’m curious about the enclosure, do you cut it out of wood yourself or are you using a supplier for it that cuts it/glues it for you?
E-paper is a perfect use case for a dynamic shelf calendar
https://lengrand.fr/complete-setup-epaper/
There’s a decent market for vaguely similar artworks, https://shop.madgallery.ch/products/clockclock-24
https://shop.madgallery.ch/products/nixie-time-zone-clock-v2
https://qlocktwo.com/us/qlocktwo-large-creators-edition-glin...
https://clockforward.com/etch-clock/
[1] https://cronbeats.com/
About the logo – I'll take it as "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" ;-)
That said, this seems to be the extent of my marketing desire.
I screen scrape campground registration websites and alert you when someone cancels on a date you want to go camping. Fabulously successful. Now back to my day-job.
https://wanderinglabs.com
https://asoftmurmur.com
There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer than I'm comfortable with
Revenue breakdown is roughly equal between android, ios and web, somewhat surprisingly. Android converts worse but has higher user numbers. Web converts much worse, but converts at a higher price (justified by the fact that hosting/maintaining the web stuff take a lot more time and money)
Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction enough to get to $500/month?
Pure dumb luck. I made the site to scratch my own itch many years ago, and then it took off because there were few similar sites at the time (that let you mix together different sounds). Only promotion I did was mention the site on reddit a few times. Users were prepared to tolerate a lot of rough edges at first.
There has been zero advertising. The site gets a regular influx of new users because it's been featured on a number of discover-interesting-website portals (the modern versions of StumbleUpon). This happened with no input from me. I assume it's a good match for these kinds of portals because it's immediately usable without any kind of instruction, signup etc.
I only made the decision to monetize after a long period of the site getting lots and lots of organic traffic with no input from me.
Such as? Besides HN, of course.
When I started the site, I mainly used CC0 licensed sounds others had recorded.
Then I started recording my own sounds. How much work it is is very situational - if you regularly find yourself in an environment which has the sound you want to record, and not many other sounds around, then it's pretty trivial. For example, you want to record rain in the forest, and you regularly walk in a forest where it rains and there aren't many other noise sources (e.g. other people, planes overhead, singing birds, etc). The actual recording itself doesn't take much work, because I shoot for a level of sound quality that will satisfy 80%-90% of people, rather than a real "audiophile" quality level.
On the other hand, if you want to record something that only happens occasionally and with lots of other noise sources nearby, it can be a ton of work. For example, you want to record the sound of thunder, but you only get occasional storms, you live in a city with lots of other background noise, and it usually rains when it storms and you want rain on the recording. In that scenario, you might have to travel far and burn a ton of time trying to get the right conditions for recording.
I really liked your app. We had a construction project going on for the longest time and I would mix up your rain, storm, sea and the singing bowl sound everything together and blast it on my soundbox!!
Thank you.
https://podcastnotes.org
Not to say that this is your issue, but I find it helps if I dress up a lot.
I have nice, embroidered pearl snaps, custom cowboy boots, fancy hats, and a couple nice vests.
That is to say, it's pretty easy for folks to confuse me with panhandlers. I have no problem with folks panhandling, but my tips are way better if I look like a performer.
This was well before Patreon, and PayPal was pretty much the only API game in town. Since then, I've felt like Venmo handles 9/10ths of the live performance problem (unleash the appreciation (money) locked in digital form).
Anyway, accordion OP you should get a QR code for tips :)
I should probably look into that... it seems like a reasonable idea.
I will say, the one time that someone asked me directly about it, when I told them I didn't have venmo they gave me a $100 bill. Not to say that will ever be repeated.
https://oku.club
Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe
Similar story with csv imports, it's half supported but not in the UI yet.
Just read that the meaning of oku [1] is 1) private, intimate, and deep; 2) exalted and sacred; and, 3) profound and recondite
anyway, your brazilian users will find this funny since oku has the same sound of "o cu" that literally means "the butt hole".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku_(theory)#:~:text=3%20Bound....
The defunct social network Orkut is a good example of this. It's Órkut, not Urkut.
Of course, none of this matters :)
"Oku" means read (in imperative form)
It's a platform for virtual scientific and research-oriented poster session hosting. Pretty simple but desperately needed when all the conferences were cancelled!
- macOS apps: https://fadel.io/
- iOS apps: https://apple.co/3fqcWfO
https://www.mailbox.my
You should know your way around Linux (if you already know Ubuntu, you can use it on the server as well).
You need some software: - For receiving and routing mails: I use postfix - For authenticating: Dovecot - For serving mails via IMAP: Dovecot is a popular choice
There are some good guides on the net how to set up these on Ubuntu or Debian (which is pretty similar), just google for e.g. "postfix ubuntu".
It's critical that the mail you route arrives at the other end, so you must prevent spammers from abusing your systems. Otherwise you get blacklisted. As a start you need to implement state-of-the-art things like: SPF, DKIM, DMARC. MTA-STS, TLS-RPT are also useful. None of these are hard and there are also good tutorials out there, it's just a bit of work.
It's a commercial project / charityware that is turning 4 years old next month. I sell it for $5 per copy and give $3.50 to a cost-effective charity. If you go to the blog you'll see the history of sales. As of now I donated almost $13,000 to charity thanks to this project. It's averaging around 100 sales per month for over a year now.
https://videohubapp.com/en/
Also open source MIT: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
https://pterodactyl.io
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This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working publicly for the past year.
Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959
I ended up linking to my Google account, but I spent a long while trying to "sign up" with my email only to be given an message about failing to meet the password requirements (no mention of character limit and no special characters allowed). At first I thought I just needed to adjust my password generator to get a valid password (usually 64 chars with alpha-numerics and special characters), but even the simplest passwords failed with the same error message.
This is strange; I don't really have any special password requirements. What's the exact error message you were getting? The only requirements are that it's at least 6 characters long and different than your username, and in each case it should tell you exactly what's wrong.
There's nothing extra running on the server; no reverse proxy (the app itself automatically fetches/renews the HTTPS cert), no database, nothing. Just the app, the SSH server and the default system services.
Sorry, I'm a little confused? The pronunciation is listed for every word; that's the hiragana next/on top of the words. (:
> Do you know of something similar for Chinese by any chance?
Alas, I do not. Maybe I'll make something like that in, like, 20 years if I'll ever be able to make a living off of this. (:
jpdb looks really cool, but will it work for somebody who is a complete beginner?
I want to learn Japanese, and intend to commit time to doing so sometime in the upcoming 2-3 months. However, right now, I'm literally at zero.
Is there somewhere else I should go to learn things like basic grammar and sentence structure first, or will jpdb help with that sort of thing too?
Eventually I do want to make it a one-stop-shop which will teach you everything and take you from a complete beginner to someone who can immerse in native media as soon as possible. We're not there yet, and the site works best if you're at least an advanced beginner. The bare minimum requirement is that you know hiragana and katakana already.
Your best bet would be to start with a textbook of some kind and/or some actual lessons with real teachers to learn the basics. The more of a beginner you are the more the human touch helps; the more advanced you are the more you can depend on apps.
My main complaint is that I haven't known about this until now. I frequently search for Japanese resources and specifically did searches to find pre-made decks of Japanese content from Japanese language media, but never encountered your site.
Thank you for the effort to revamp the Heisig kanji keywords - makes me wish I didn't already learn it the RTK way. The way to teach new kanji by introducing the enclosed primitives first is smart - it's a good compromise between "primitive first" and "usage first" approaches.
Yeah, it's still pretty much a very niche resource that many people do not know about. (:
Indeed, Heisig's keywords can be janky. Mine are not perfect, but in general they should be better than Heisig's. Well, at least for most of the really common kanji; I still need to change/improve the keywords for some of the more rare kanji and tweak a few more common ones. (As you can imagine doing that manually for a few thousand characters is a lot of work, so it has been slow going.)
I don’t follow his book but I do refer to it when studying and sometimes his keywords really can be far out. If I remember correctly he never clarifies if the kanji for “can” is “can do” or “can of soup”.
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