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acnops··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
I thought so too, untill I looked for 1-point Show HN posts with a repo with a long commit history. Some of these are really cool (see my article), but others were not compelling at all, at least to me.
acnops··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
Sharing prompts, not sure it works if your project required hundreds of prompts? It’s all in history though (.jsonl) so I’m sure the AI can condense it somehow.
acnops··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
Charts were vibe-coded in a not-yet-shareable way. It's pure SVG. I asked it to take inspiration from https://www.star-history.com/.

These days I guess we don't want a library? I can create an MIT-licensed repo with some charts you can point your AI agent to, if it helps?

The font is Gaegu.

acnops··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
AI is eating up everything. So I don't think there will be two groups.
acnops··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
Makes me think about Taleb's lindy effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

It's like books. Old but still relevant books are the best books to read.

This tech industry is changing so fast though. Maybe a year is too much?

acnops··on MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad
What would be best for (double-)clicking? Tongue? Or by biting?
acnops··on An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
This article is focused on the US, and recommends: - To fix the exporting of plastics to countries that don’t properly process it. - While this hasn’t been fixed, change your personal behavior to not recycle plastics so it goes to a landfill instead. Correct?

If you live elsewhere, you should do this analysis yourself. I live in the UK, which apparently exports plastics to Turkey, Netherlands, and a bunch of other countries. So I guess it’s fine to recycle here?

acnops··on Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
AFAIK, this could be pretty disastrous for French businesses that funnel conversion data to Google Analytics, which is then used to optimize their Google Search ads.

Switching to another solution for analytics might be ok, but losing the ability to automatically optimize ads based on conversion data is a big pain.

acnops··on “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
Does it? I'm having the same issue
acnops··on This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]
We had some bugs that caused this! If you could send your project name/ID via discord PM (see https://wzrd.ai/contact/), I can fix that for you!
acnops··on This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]
Regular email+pw coming very soon!
acnops··on This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]
What do you mean? Normally you should see the price at the start of checkout.

We are improving some stuff though: - Better communication of what's include when you upgrade your project -> DONE - Explain pricing on other pages as well, like home page -> TODO

acnops··on This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]
Shameless plug: You can create one of these yourself using https://wzrd.ai , with any audio you want.
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
You can look at the GPU costs for GCP here https://cloud.google.com/compute/gpus-pricing. You also have the instance cost, and other costs like storage, transmission, etc.

It's a pretty costly operation since the marginal cost is very high compared to other SaaS products. We'll probably iterate on the pricing model.

What do you think a good model would be?

acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
In the news https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz-takes-down-18-githu...
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Demo coming in the next weeks on my partners youtube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCNIkB2IeJ-6AmZv7bQ1oBYg

Email/passwd auth coming in the coming week.

acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
A little warning that renders can take a long time these days. We've been trying to increase our quota on GCP for GPU instances, but they've refused our requests. We tried contacting the GCP team, but no reply yet.

If you know someone from the GCP team (sales/support), please let us know! We would like to increase our GPU instance quota.

acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Amazing! I do think these two methods will become complementary, since the output can be very different. Both cannot do what the other can.
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Thanks! In previous feedback we saw that uploading your own images to create a new visual theme is the most requested feature. So we're definitely thinking about that.
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Ok, we will add user+pw. I've done some research in the meantime:

- FB is not that easy, since you can't set the email address as a required field. We use that to send the final render. We could let it be filled in in the app though.

- Twitter will probably be added

- Apple can be investigated

acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
I don't know if that plays well with YouTube's terms of use.
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
We're using audio analysis, and applying that to control the output of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) trained on a particular set of images, which define the visual theme.

My co-founder has a YouTube channel where he will be going into technical detail how this all works. He will be posting a video in the coming weeks. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNIkB2IeJ-6AmZv7bQ1oBYg

acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
It’s GPU backend, and the rendering actually takes longer than the audio length
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
That’s not good indeed. We actually only store email and link to profile pic, so I’ll look if we can limit it as much as possible.
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Demo coming very soon!
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Google being the only login option is getting some criticism. What would you like as authentication options?

- FB - Twitter - Apple - Would email+pw be necessary? I’m maybe biased, I generally prefer using and implementing third party authentication.

acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Hi, thank you for your feedback!

Google -> fair point, we’ll add some more options

Signing in is needed though. We could maybe find a way without it but it would be a bog hassle. At minimum we would need an email adress for when the render is done.

For now, we have a very basic pricing scheme. We add a subtle watermark to the video. If you pay to remove it, all the renders (also new ones) for that project will be without watermark. For now, we don’t put any limitting, except on audio length and file size. Do you think this is a fair model? Or would something else be better?

Legal -> it’s your video. But we’re not responsible for storage.

acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
We’ll add some more options. Thank you for the feedback!
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Good point, we’ll add more login options.
acnops··on Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
Hi! Today, we're launching WZRD, an online platform to create immersive videos using AI.

1. Upload your audio track

2. Pick a visual theme

3. Render your video

Enjoy!

Any feedback is welcome!

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