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ca98am79

17,893 karma · joined March 22, 2008

I'm near Philadelphia.

Working on friendster.com, impervious.com. Previously park.io (acq 2023), file.io (acq 2024), wizehive.com (acq 2022)

email: mike@introvert.com

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ca98am79··on Bitcoin decentralized usernames are now available
people have argued the same thing about bitcoin all the way from $0.25 to $120,000 USD
ca98am79··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Curious what you’d consider a better model for naming/ownership on the internet.
ca98am79··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Thanks, good feedback
ca98am79··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
or already have enough money
ca98am79··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
"no ads" - it is explicitly stated on the website and app store page
ca98am79··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
yes this is already included
ca98am79··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
I plan to make one in the future. It's just me
ca98am79··on Show HN: Chess.biz – pay to play top rated chess players
I just launched chess.biz: pay to play top rated chess players. Or if you are a top rated player, make money playing chess! 1% of all profit donated to lichess.org
ca98am79··on How will the miracle happen today?
My father died on Friday and for some reason I found myself in tears while reading this.

I wasn't sure why, at first, but I think I was sad because, after my father died, my world felt smaller. It seemed that someone who loved and cared for me my whole life was gone, and the world was filled with strangers.

But reading this helped me to realize that strangers care and love me for no reason - just because I am another human being - and they want to help. And it makes me realize the world is bigger than I initially thought.

ca98am79··on Ask HN: How to make Friendster great?
Ha this is a cool idea!
ca98am79··on Ask HN: How to make Friendster great?
sorry my bad, I didn't mean it that way and don't use it on the website or anything
ca98am79··on Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?
thank you, yes this was my original plan and kind of the default plan
ca98am79··on Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?
I own the trademark for Friendster
ca98am79··on Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?
yes I've been thinking about making it decentralized - am seriously considering using nostr for this
ca98am79··on Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?
Thank you for the feedback. I don't want it to grow just by making it addictive. I'd rather it be a great product. I have faith that if it is a great product and helps people, then people will want to use it. I'd rather people use it because it helps them make friends or keep in touch with friends, or something positive like this.
ca98am79··on Show HN: Temp.pw
thanks. I think security is super important, however I do not think it is necessary to obsess over it for no reason. If I want to share a dev password with someone, I can tell them the login over discord and then send them a link to temp.pw. Easy peasy and absolutely no security risk. This is why I created it.
ca98am79··on Show HN: Temp.pw
yes truly awful, I should be ashamed for making it. Why do I make anything. Thank you for the feedback
ca98am79··on Show HN: Temp.pw
because it is about sharing a one-off password with someone so that you don't have to worry about it getting stored in chat history
ca98am79··on Show HN: Temp.pw
I don't know why the share button became that color. I actually made this years ago because I needed it for my company. But then file.io was acquired (which I was using for the backend), and so I had to recently switch to using aws as the backend. So I vibe-coded a new backend api for aws in the last couple of months. I also acquired the domain temp.pw - previously used temporary.pw (which still works).
ca98am79··on Show HN: Temp.pw
yes I made it super simple on purpose, but pwpush looks cool!
ca98am79··on Show HN: Temp.pw
How would I connect it with any username or login? I just made it because I wanted something like this and make it available to others in case they find it useful. It is free and no ads
ca98am79··on Show HN: Temp.pw
when you want to share a password with someone but don't want the password to remain in chat history
ca98am79··on Show HN: Piano.fm – endless AI piano music
Thanks, I'm working on it, so keep checking back for changes. The music should sound better, but I am refining it as I go with the goal of sounding like natural piano.

I will also work out the kinks with autoplay not working in some browsers (it should work with Chrome)

ca98am79··on Show HN: Piano.fm – endless AI piano music
Thank you for the helpful feedback. I've added download buttons for mp3, midi and abc. I've also made it autoplay and more seamlessly play the next song after one ends. Now I will work on correcting the voices and making it sound more like a professional piano.
ca98am79··on Show HN: Piano.fm – endless AI piano music
Thank you for your interest and feedback. Yes it is rendered to mp3. Notagen creates an ABC file, which I then convert to MIDI and then to mp3. I also convert the ABC file to svg for displaying the sheet music on the web page. I simply have a cron job to create more music every hour. Yes I have noticed that some voices are barely audible, I think because notagen creates a wide range, I can look into this more. This is really just a proof of concept, but if you have ideas on how to make it more interesting or useful, let me know. My email address is in my profile. Thank you

I have thought it may be interesting to display the notes on the sheet music only as the audio is played, so I may try to work on this next.

ca98am79··on Show HN: Piano.fm – endless AI piano music
Yes good point I probably should add info. I made it as a hobby project. It was created with notagen
ca98am79··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
I have chickens also and, like with most other things, you don't have to cut off their heads if you don't want to.
ca98am79··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
Friendster! friendster.com
ca98am79··on Vernor Vinge has died
I emailed him out of the blue and asked him to write more stories about Pham Nuwen. He replied and was really nice and we corresponded over a couple of emails.
ca98am79··on WGS-ancient 004 – Mexico Alien DNA
continued:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/PRJNA869134

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/PRJNA865375

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