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constaon AI Voice Generator: Text to Speech Software

Do you mind sharing a link to your creator platform too?

constaon Launch HN: Terra (YC W21) – API to easily connect wearables to apps

I also signed up a couple of hours ago, eagerly awaiting a response :)

constaon Three Years as a One-Man Startup

Congrats man! This is the first time I stumbled upon your extension and I have to admit, it is pretty neat and useful. I too have created one vocabulary trainer extension, but haven't released it as it way too unpolished and I am using a paid dictionary.

However, do you mind sharing some of your stats? Which language pairs are mostly used on Readlang?

constaon A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease

Impressive but I don't see the point of diagnosing Parkinsons in early stages when there is no cure available.

constaon An IoT dashboard

Impressive. What kind of sensor was used to determine the goals for table-football?

constaon Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

how many total downloads do you have if I may ask?

constaon Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]

As there is a high failure rate in startups it is very important to know though whether you are made for that kind of world. True, you'll learn a lot with every failure but not all of us want to spend years and years on miscarriages.

constaon Pinboard Turns Five

The blog post states that Pinboard makes around $200k a year but they charge only a one-time fee of $10. Does that mean they get 20k signups each year? Does Pinboard display ads or is there another business model behind it?

constaon How I started BetaList

I totally agree with keeping the message short. Also I have read from several other sources that telling a story is key. But how are you supposed to tell a story in 4 sentences?

constaon YC Hacks – August 2-3

I would so much love to participate, but the flights from Europe to SFO are too pricy.

What about an YC Hacks hosted in Europe?

constaon Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

First it was hard for me as well to figure out "what it does" or to be more precise "how it does it" but there is this little animation on the landing page which illustrates it pretty well.

@nota.io: you could make that animation bigger or make a video out of it.

constaon $1000 for making HTML5 supercomputing applications open source

Is there a deadline until you can submit ideas and their solutions?

constaon Show HN: A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails

+1 for the simplicity of the workflow. I got it running within a few minutes.

constaon How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

Well you can always argue what is right and what wrong. Very true, it is a violation of the Twitter terms of services but I still appreciate it for sharing with the HN community.

There has also been a post about Darkmarket (https://github.com/darkwallet/darkmarket) on HN. Again, I do not encourage trading illegal goods at all but as a proof of concept it is still impressive.

constaon Ask HN: do i need a trial version? (If yes – how to implement?)

That is truly an uncomfortable situation. Without any deeper knowledge about HamsterDB or your pro version, you might consider offering your service as SaaS and charging for that. Of course this won't work with all your pro features such as compression or encryption (or maybe it could work in some innovative way).

For instance you could charge for painless DB hosting, so users do not have to worry about complicated setups and can immediately use HamsterDB after signing in.

EDIT: But you can still go for the 30 day money back guarantee with the exposure of the pro version's source. If that fails you still can decide to switch to a SaaS model.

constaon Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?

http://www.mymundus.com

I am the cofounder of MyMundus, so my opinion is quite biased. We started MyMundus because conventional note taking apps such as bookmark services did not suffice, especially when you forgot to create a bookmark.

constaon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Wow .. that is something I have been looking for quite some time. In the meantime I decided to make a custom solution, but yours seem to work way smoother.

- Do you cache images? If so, how long are they cached? - Are there any restrictions, beside adding the attribution link, for commercial usage?

constaon Ask HN: Can you do 2 different YC applications in one batch?

Thx, couldn't remember that answer from the FAQs :)

constaon Ask HN: Can you do 2 different YC applications in one batch?

Thanks for this insight. You are right, it might send the wrong message but could also mean we pivot / go for that ideas which generates higher growth [1]. I guess it is a matter of communication.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

constaon Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

same here

constaon CoderPad

Cool stuff, I have been looking for something similar for quite some time.

constaon Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations

Bret Victor had this talk in February 2013. Is his drawing dynamic visualization tool already available somewhere?

constaon Ask HN: virtual credit card number service?

I have been using entropay [1] as a virtual credit card for quite some time. It isn't restricted to one-time-only transactions though.

1 - https://www.entropay.com/

constaon Introduction to Machine Learning

Thanks for sharing. I can also recommend the CS229 Machine Learning course from Stanford, available on Coursera: https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/preview

constaon Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game

After playing the first 5 levels I would definitely pay for this game. Keep up the good work!

constaon Egghead.io - short screencasts about AngularJS

Maybe you can find here one or another point for angular: http://www.nebithi.com/2012/12/27/backbone-and-angular-demys...

constaon Enterprise is sexy now. But B2D is sexier.

what's the link to the TC article? -- EDIT, never mind, got it: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/21/bizodo-launches-signupasase...