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brandoniscoolon Show HN: Nevertwenty a novel approach to chord synthesis

Where have all the cowboys gone?

brandoniscoolon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

someone please tell me my new conversation engine is good. https://olivers.army

brandoniscoolon Wake Up, America!

good post. i'm building something to solve this at https://olivers.army ; radical human interaction

brandoniscoolon Network Q: A Distinctly Human Layer in an AI World

so i built it https://olivers.army

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I built this "conversation network" to help ua navigate these difficult political times. At scale, I'm sure this will work; might be hard getting there. I've been thinking about this window's gui concept for a while. Cursor helped me build this faster than antificpiated. Super gnarly, great fun.

Prompt Mode -> Create a prompt and it gets 'activated' to the entire network. Basically, as long as you're both online, someone in the respond mode has a chance to see it. Only when you're both online though, real-time conversations only.

Respond Mode -> Just as it suggests, you'll get random windows popping up of online prompters. Switch between both modes seemlessly.

This political landscape is a nightmare. Open the communication doors and libterate the people! -b

brandoniscoolon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)

https://olivers.army

Oliver's Army | iOS Founding Engineer | Remote | Full-time

We're building a next-generation social platform that connects people through real-time conversations. Our mission: "Prompt humans, not bots."

As our iOS Founding Engineer, you'll create our first native mobile experience for our real-time social Q&A platform with an innovative windowed interface. Our stack includes React, Next.js, Socket.IO, and MongoDB.

Join us to build something meaningful that facilitates genuine human connection in a world dominated by AI.

Apply: brandon@olivers.army

brandoniscoolon Oliver's Army - A next-gen social network to kill the dead internet theory.

Hi,

We built this over the course the last 4 months. We hated misinformation, we hated bots, we hated loneliness, we hated corporate infiltration, we hated the destruction of our kids' mental health. Read our Declaration of Principles here: https://www.olivers.army/declaration

Requester Mode -> Create and activate Requests to be sent and seen by anyone in "Responder Mode"

Responder Mode -> Respond to active Requests that get sent your way. You can filter requests by maturity, creativity and some safety stuff. More clever filters in future.

Observation Deck -> Watch the most interesting conversations happen. We're still building this.

We wanted an operating system type feel. We went with window management as we thought this was the most intuitive.

We're running with this tagline for now: "A next-generation social platform that connects people through real time conversations." but we think it's corny and want a new one; suggestions welcome.

Have a great Wednesday HN! It's a privilege to be here. -Brandon

brandoniscoolon Show HN: Oliver's Army – A social network to kill the dead internet theory

I'll start.

brandoniscoolon Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)

I haven't but this thread is inspiring me to. Should I? If this post gets enough attention I will. If anyone wants to do this together send me an email brandon@olivers.army

brandoniscoolon Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)

hey I built this exact concept months ago. beat detection. video generation. automated video creation checkout the videos I uploaded at https://youtube.com/@nevertwenty

brandoniscoolon Ghostty 1.0

this guy is a billionaire guys...

brandoniscoolon Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die

GREAT example of a Minimum Viable Product. Can't wait to see how this evolves. The devs definitely know what they're doing.

brandoniscoolon Ask HN: AI that produces sheet music for practice?

www.nevertwenty.live is will give you the chords to any song want.

brandoniscoolon Show HN: Nevertwenty – Play along with any song using real-time chords

Great feedback. Thanks for your time.

brandoniscoolon Show HN: Nevertwenty – Play along with any song using real-time chords

Hey, thanks!

brandoniscoolon Show HN: Nevertwenty – Play along with any song using real-time chords

The analysis doesn't happen in real-time so it's pulling the chord data from a database. That being said, I think the coverage is pretty good. Love hearing about what's missing or could be added. Feel free to update me on any improvements you think can be made with the song selection.

brandoniscoolon Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard

woah. i created something similar recently. but my app lets play along by providing an easy way to interpret the chords of any song you can think of. i built a really neat interactive music player that breaks the song down by bpm, pitch, key, and (of course) a preview of the upcoming chords and when to play them.

https://www.nevertwenty.live

lets collab?

brandoniscoolon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)

Location: Portland, Oregon

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Sure!

Technologies: Javascript, Python, AWS

Resume/CV: https://www.youtube.com/@nevertwenty ; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VEkoF5uNIKg8GjAmykLOcu9_...

branthorn007@gmail.com

brandoniscoolon Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

Woah. Cool dude!! Working on something similar. dm'd

brandoniscoolon Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

https://superwet.live chord and lyric generating neural network

I'm working on Superwet Fantastic.it's very tongue and cheek for now. But i'm making progress. Spent 3 months amassing a 30gb chord/tab data collection. Most of my time being cleaning the human uploaded mess. It's showing good potential now and I have a todo list hours long that hopefull will result in the model being powerful enough for commercial applications.