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boraturanon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://copo.st

Instantly create your Tiktok/Instagram-like app for your community or brand

boraturanon The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016)

I once wrote this. https://medium.com/towards-data-science/embeddings-with-word...

boraturanon Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms

yt-dlp wrapper?

boraturanon Shopify for Social – Create your own TikTok/Instagram app

Solo/indie dev here.

Created ‘Shopify for Social Media’.

Create your own Tiktok/Instagram app, white-label, embedable. Your app, your brand, your domain, your icon, your rules…

For creators, communities and businesses.

https://app.copo.st Https://virksocial.com

It is basically white-label Tiktok/Instagram native apps, but written all in web- including camera, native-like mobile feature/gestures/animations…

PWAs enable the same native full screen experience while bypassing appstore tax/rules.

For native apps, I have a React Native shell app that embeds a webview so I can create native Appstore/Googleplay binaries ready for publishing. With the new Expo CNG architecture, I can automatically create native apps binaries from console. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copo-st/id6737266643?platform=...

You can embed apps/feeds/posts/profiles in web pages and native mobile apps(webview). So this creates a distributed social network on open web with various distribution/monetization/aggregation/commerce models.

Exploring to make this user-owned platform/apps.

boraturanon Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App

do you have any insight if your tech stack works well on mobile, demuxer,ffmpeg....

boraturanon Building Pinterest's new wide column database using RocksDB

great article, couple of questions

-storing timestamp for each field (user:name) by default seems costly, timestamp can be stored on main key(e.g. user), curious on the thinking.. -is timestamp 64bit? do we need miliseconds? -what is your sharding architecture, in terms of rage queries -are your global search indexes on this architecture

boraturanon PWAs in App Stores

I am also interested in this, does PN work on iOS webview?

boraturanon Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

building an open, white-label, embeddable Instagram/Tiktok as SAAS solution at alvin5.com. The idea is that communities and individuals can create their own Instagram like social media app/feed (Shopify for Social media), would love to meet with interested parties.

boraturanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)

Web3 Social Media - Alvin5.com | Web | Remote | https://alvin5.com

Developing “Web3 Social Media”

Open and community-owned (on-chain DAO) social media platform initially focusing on short-form video and web3 community. Also available as a white-label, embeddable solution for businesses/startups. Think open Tiktok/Instagram, for people and businesses.

DAO with governance/ownership/incentive token.

I would love to meet with people interested in building this.

- Web/WebApp (Think developing Tiktop/IG as a webapp) LatestWebArchitecture/Browser/React/PWA/SW/Video/Canvas/WebRTC

-Backend - DevOps, Scalability, Distribution, AWS, Node, .NET core…

-Protocol/Tokenomics/Solidity/Web3/DAO/Eth/OpenZepplin/Compound Dao Stack

Web3 whitepaper coming soon.

I am the founding engineer, bora.t@alvin5.com Subject:Guild

boraturanon FFmpeg to WebRTC

I don't understand, why not use webrtc or hls, on iOS Safari?

boraturanon FFmpeg to WebRTC

I am also exploring the webrtc(ingest)-to-llhls. FFMPEG doesn't seem to support llhls now, as it requires web server intelligence. For the webrtc, mediasoup is nice being node based.

boraturanon OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

just create your next OnlyFans with Alvin5.com

boraturanon YouTube Shorts vs TikTok

Google has a "Web Stories" initiative. YouTube shorts might eventually get connected to that, videos appearing on Google Search creating a decentralized stories distribution/search/ad network. (Disclamier: founder@ alvin5.com where I am working on the same concept). I agree that shorts in the youtube app context is awkward, if they get traction, might spin out.

boraturanon Parallax effect in browser using web-camera

I did a similar/complementary project that turns 2d photo to 3d. Interested to see if this could be integrated.

https://alvin5.com/create

@3d_photo_app on IG

boraturanon High-Resolution Neural Face Swapping for Visual Effects

Colab?

boraturanon Word2vec: Fish + Music = Bass

I am really interested in how these analogies would appear in different word embedding methods (Bert..), or different implementations of word2vec.

As to different implementations of word2vec, I am still not satisfied why the original code uses two separate embeddings for target and context words. It could use shared embedding layer.

Also for the layer above the sigmoid layer (Dot product), why is cosine similarity not considered for calculating the vector similarity.

I have searched these issues and not found detailed comments. I have created word2vec embeddings with shared embedding layer and cosine similarity. The vectors seems similar to the original code but deciding on which one is better, needs more work.

boraturanon Material UI v1 for React is out

Google announced their version of Material React (Alpha) at IO. "Material Components for React (MDC React)" Curious to see how it plays out with Material-UI. They should support Material-UI.

boraturanon Facebooks crawls every page recorded by its tracking pixel

Highly likely that they are feeding all the data into a deep network for ad recommendation engine.

boraturanon I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

I am a solo C Corp technical founder (Stripe Atlas). Any advise for similar founders?

boraturanon Ask HN: UK Startups – Are You Thinking of Leaving the UK Because of Brexit?

Moved out to US. Alvin5.com

boraturanon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

What do you think about startup parole? If Trump approves it, should we consider it or go with other options. (US inc owner)

boraturanon Now UI Kit – A Bootstrap 4 UI kit

+1 on this

boraturanon Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?

I have couple of links here. https://medium.com/@boraturant/ai-ml-dl-links-5cf596fd29a1

boraturanon Ask HN: Why are more and more websites asking for phone numbers?

Because they can target you with you Facebook and Google ads.

boraturanon Ask HN: Are there any startups willing to use the ASP.NET Core technology?

We are all built on .net core (alvin5.com)

We have had issues with Visual Studio and Tooling between betas, but now the platform has matured considerably and with the expected release of .net standard 2.0, I would say you can go for it for prod. C#/Editor/Tooling/Access-to-low-level is better than any platform I habe used. The new MS with the open/Azure/AI investments also seems ok. We feel like we are fit for the next 10 years with .net core.

boraturanon Ask HN: Should I learn Bootstrap 3 or 4 at this moment?

I am in Production with 4. No problem.

boraturanon Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

Asp.net core

boraturanon Docker for AWS Public Beta

Docker Swarm is a great idea. But I think that with Swarm, I don't have to deal(and see) with nodes (server instances). I would be able to just run and scale services(containers). Scaling with nodes should be supported and done with AWS and Azure behind the scenes.

boraturanon Docker for AWS Public Beta

Currently, Azure better supports Docker & Swarm.

boraturanon Docker for AWS Public Beta

EC2 is not a Docker solution. EC2 Task&Service definitions are not Docker Task&Service definitions. So this basically ties to with the AWS platform. You can not move your Docker infra between AWS and Azure. Docker for AWS is the way to go, but I believe it could be enhanced greatly. I also think that AWS does not seem to support Docker Swarm very eagerly, because I think AWS still did not figure out to charge Containers, they are still charging Nodes.