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Hi HN - we’ve been working on a new UX for building realtime voice agents with minimal code. We’ve built a ton of voice agents in the past few years. We noticed that voice agent dev follows a pretty typical pattern: ⁃…

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I sold a MakerBot printer on ebay for $1,000. The printer was used, but was in almost new condition and worked flawlessly. I indicated it's condition as used. When the buyer received it, he instantly started sending me…

Hey everyone, I'm trying to validate an idea and would love your feedback. I'm big into email but not big into clutter; and the more windows I have open on my desktop the more cluttered my mind is. To this point, I've…

https://blendful.com Hi everyone. I'm a technical founder who's built a MVP of a crowdfunding product intended to fund spectroanalysis testing on popular foods for contaminants, pesticides, herbicides, etc. Right now…

https://i.imgur.com/tD2Sm4C.png How am I supposed to know which files have failed? Do I really have to sift through 500 files to find the 4 that failed? No details on actual file names given. Even worse, this happens…

This is a repost; I posted it yesterday but got no clicks or comments. Going to try posting it one last time. Hey HN, I have been working to create Blendful [0]. I'm a designer/programmer and I realized how frustrating…

Hey HN, I have been working to create Blendful [0]. I'm a designer/programmer and I realized how frustrating it is for people who are not designers to create high quality illustrations that fit well with their project.…

Hi HN, Looking to source the wisdom of the crowd here. Me and a friend have been working on a new SaaS marketplace in our spare time; haven't really marketed or experienced any growth yet, and me and said friend are…

I'm at my wits end with big tech platforms. I run a popular photography product company (which was a Kickstarter project in 2014) [0] which gets a lot of love for its ability to help photographers take interesting…

Hi HN crowd, Looking for the wisdom of the crowd here. I have a business Instagram account I've been working on for many years with many followers which has come under fire over the past few weeks from an angry…

It's probably the fifth time this week that I've gotten the message in gmail: "Unusual Usage - Account Temporarily Locked Down" "To keep our systems healthy, Google has temporarily disabled your account. This primarily…

Hi everyone, I've applied for dozens of jobs in the Who Is Hiring Jan 2018 thread, like I do every month. As always, I am ignored 95% of the time, with the other 5% of jobs responding "nice stuff, we'll keep in touch".…

I built a flight booking app/website that lets you book flights immediately and pay for them over time. http://bliss.flights I got frustrated after being unable to afford an important trip ($1000+) while ass-broke in…

Hi guys, I'm a mostly front end dev who's built some mildly popular applications where Mongo has worked fine as a data store. By mildly popular we're talking maybe 1 query/s. Today, I just launched a product…