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etewiahon Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

My plan is indeed to seed some initial data from areas that I know well.

I'm quite into paddle boarding at the moment and in the UK there are a lot of good places to launch from that are not well known so that would be a good niche to start with.

etewiahon Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

That is good feedback - much appreciated.

There isn't enough content to showcase on the map right now but I'll work on that. Give it another go in a couple of weeks or so.

etewiahon Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

I have just the thing for you. With a chattymap collection, you can tell stories about all those wonderful places and share them with the world:

https://chattymaps.com/collections

etewiahon How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models

The concept of altitude in this context makes a lot of sense

etewiahon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Hey, I really like what you're doing. It's great that you generate easily shareable links. I'm working on homestocompare.com which helps with house hunting in the UK. Would it be okay to link to individual results on your site?

etewiahon Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order

If a game like this gets super popular can it be monetised?

etewiahon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

Looks good. I created propertywebbuilder.com as an open source real estate website builder some years ago. Had wanted to do something similar to mlsync next but never got round to it.

etewiahon Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

Hi there, I'm working on something similar for the UK. Happy to chat if you'd be interested in exchanging ideas.

etewiahon The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income

Please run for president Jeff! Imagine an America led by Jeff Atwood - what a dream.

etewiahon Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

That's interesting, can you explain a bit more. How would you go about transforming the focal length or depth

etewiahon Does Kue bring true low-code to GIS analysis?

Shame this post did not gain much traction. I'd be interested in hearing what others have to say. Are there other similar tools out there? Is this likely to lead to a new path for GIS apps? Might be worth reposting as a ShowHN in a few days time.

etewiahon Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

Hi there, sorry I've only just now seen your comment.

What is the best way to reach you?

You can send me a message on x: https://x.com/prptywebbuilder

Or via the linkedinpage for propertywebbuilder

etewiahon Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative

Crikey, that looks horrible...

Any ideas what that is about? Sorry I don't understand the Forbes reference.

etewiahon Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

I'd love to resurrect my open source real estate website builder:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

I was quite active with updating it a few years ago but haven't had the time to work on it recently.

On another project of mine I have been using aider and co-pilot and realised I could bring property_web_builder back to life with these tools. It would motivate me massively to do this if at least one or two other people were willing to work with me on this.

etewiahon Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

Great to hear - thanks. I will add several more over the coming days.

etewiahon Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

I like what you've done with zeli!!

It is a shame it did not get so much traction when you did your showHn.

One thing that I think would be useful alongside your summaries would be tags for each item. Have you considered that?

etewiahon Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

Thanks - I hope to be able to release it in the next few days.

Finding the right content to use for the podcast is quite important and I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to involve the community. Currently I host the audio files and GitHub and anyone is invited to contribute to that.

I checked out your Spotify and there is some good content there but I imagine it will be hard to rank on there.

Would you be interested in collaborating? I am based in the UK and I have some ideas around location based podcasts as well.

etewiahon Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

Wow this is awesome. I've actually been working on something very similar. In my case though I focus on individual stories. Like the commenter above I feel audio doesn't work so well for general overview.

I haven't done a showHN yet because it's not quite ready but you can see where it's at here:

https://news.gipety.com/hn/10842381/k/218/s/three-years-as-a...

I think it would be quite a nice way to give a second life to classic episodes of past showHNs and askHNs.

etewiahon Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

This post has become so popular I decided to create a podcast discussion of it using notebooklm. You can find the audio at the top of this page:

https://news.gipety.com/hn/41862332/k/175/s/ask-hn-founders-...

The podcast is quite convincing and entertaining but not as useful at bringing out all the key points as I'd hoped it would be. Still useful for getting a quick overview though.

etewiahon NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

Your wish is my command ;)

https://news.gipety.com/

etewiahon Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

You've got me thinking. Would this work for real estate data? A lot of sites make it quite hard to grab their raw data. Also, perhaps it could gain some insights from the photos...

etewiahon Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

I really like the concept of gnod. I started creating notebookLM audios of hacker news posts and realised it would be nice to have a directory of notebookLM audios generally. Will send you an email shortly about this. Would be nice to find someone to collaborate with on this.

etewiahon Show HN: Podcastfy AI – Open-source tool to generate AI audio conversations

Thanks, will do.

etewiahon Show HN: Podcastfy AI – Open-source tool to generate AI audio conversations

Nice. I asked a few days ago about alternatives to NotebookLM with an API and didn't get good answers.

I have started creating some audio podcasts of popular hacker news threads here:

https://github.com/etewiah/gipety-for-hacker-news

Will probably do a "Show HN" about it tomorrow or friday. If I get the chance I will try to do a couple using podcastfy (I agree with the other comment though - the name could be better..)

Great work - thanks for sharing.

etewiahon Cofounder Mode: My tactical guide to finding a cofounder

Just sent you an email now.

etewiahon Open NotebookLM – Generate Podcasts from PDFs Using Open-Source AI

Wow, this could be just what I need for a project I'm working on now....

etewiahon Why Bolt.new Is Not the "Cursor and v0 Killer" It's Claimed to Be

Great post, well written.

I almost thought it was written by a human till I got to "In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted coding tools...."

etewiahon Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream

Ha ha, love this.

It just so happens that I am working on a tool that ends up expanding hacker news urls. The problem I was solving was that of managing lots of replies to a successful post.

I allow you to replace the "ycombinator" in a hacker news item url with "gipety" so this current thread would point to:

https://news.gipety.com/item?id=41780255

You will then get a page that remembers the comments currently displayed. On subsequent refreshes you will see any new comments highlighted in green.

As I worked on it I decided to also add a slug as I got tired of not recognising what the urls I was copy pasting were referring to.

The above will for example end up generating this:

https://news.gipety.com/hn/41780255/k/67/s/show-hn-i-made-a-...

etewiahon How much traffic does a #1 spot on HN typically bring?

A bit of a tangent but the big problem a friend of mine faced when he got on the front page was managing all the replies. It quickly gets difficult to figure out which comments are new and should be replied to.

There is a solution I am working on at the moment.

If you replace ycombinator in a url like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41816756

with gipety to get: https://news.gipety.com/item?id=41816756

you will get a page that remembers the comments currently displayed. On subsequent refreshes you will see any new comments highlighted in green.

It is not yet quite ready but if I get some positive feedback I might do a Show HN about it. (Would be ironic if too many people tried it and my site crashed ;)