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AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
This looks awesome!! Nice work!!
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Yes!! We are working on this currently thinking of a top trumps style system with different stats!
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Good shout! thank you
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
1) agreed by the look of everyone’s comments we need to rephrase some things in the onboarding, apple review made us change it to be explicit as possible. 2) yes this is a great idea!! ‘You’re the first in the world to discover this’!! Thank you for that!!
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Just as an example, we are currently at lady bird lake in Austin, tx and saw a turtle on the bank. It turned out to be a red eared slider turtle. The app informed us that they can breathe through their bottoms! Who knew!
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Yeah the first thing that comes up is a full page splash screen saying ‘DANGEROUS SPECIES Be careful’

So hopefully people will get the memo immediately!

AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Fully agree here.
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Respectfully disagree here, the more people you could get outside appreciating and learning about nature, the better it can be preserved for future generations. Whether it’s gamified or not.
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
As people are requesting we will make a paid version pronto with no ads.

As per apple guidelines you can request us not to track and the app of course respects that.

The location data is used only for helping us narrow down the collection species!

AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Nice thank you so much!
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
We thought about this and specifically decided not to award xp based on an animals danger rating.

Even though we warn users in the onboarding to take care in the wild, TikTok and similar platforms have shown people acting foolishly is not something you can fully control

AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Definitely soon, we just wanted to build a version that everyone can use regardless of income.

Unfortunately inference costs means we needed something (ads) to keep the servers online.

Out of curiosity what would you say is a fair price for this?

AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
iNaturalist is great for identification and information, but it lacked the fun and soul we were looking for.

It doesn’t feel like you’re playing when you use it, it feels like you’re in biology class (no hate to them).

Wildex gives you cute fun facts and lets you build up points for rare species finds. It feels like a completely different experience.

AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Bossed – Practice and improve your interview skills
Thanks so much!!
AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Bossed – Practice and improve your interview skills
Thanks so much!! Really really appreciate it.

If you get a chance to try out the interview itself, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

AnujNayyar··on Launch HN: Shaped (YC W22) – AI-Powered Recommendations and Search
Congratulations on the launch. We've weighed up algolia, in house, type-sense etc and so I'd would have been very keen to know more, but asking for us to integrate before knowing the pricing is a tough sell.

Would highly recommend having at least an estimated pricing calculator so we can determine if its worth our time to install.

AnujNayyar··on Mistral AI launches Mixtral-Next
No indication that this a MoE (Mistral not Mixtral).

Very exciting nevertheless, here’s hoping the bless the OS community once again!

AnujNayyar··on Show HN: Bricabrac – Text to Functional Web Apps
Thank you!! I find it great for making advanced boilerplate code
AnujNayyar··on Regenerative Dentistry Breakthrough: Biological Therapy for Damaged Teeth
Dentist here. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but regenerative dentistry is still some time away.

The linked article describes that they have discovered new pathways in the development cycle of teeth. (Akin to learning how something complex like your fingers develop from a fetal cell mass.)

This is a great start for sure and vital research.

But still some way before we are able to turn these developments into something actionable in a clinical setting.

AnujNayyar··on Regenerative Dentistry Breakthrough: Biological Therapy for Damaged Teeth
Dentist here, in terms of replacing root canals. The technique described in the paper would not replace the nerves and blood vessels in the root canal system.

It just shows a new method for sealing off the root canal system - via a blood clot.

Unfortunately you would still need to have the root canal treatment - just the sealing may be slightly quicker with this method.

The quality obturation (apical seal) doesn’t really effect the clinical outcome o of root canal so unlikely will mean better outcomes either.