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jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

i love this take

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

do you have children? :)

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

Thanks for your vapid and misguided feedback, Doug Durham. I hope you find joy somewhere.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

Hi, I'm the "someone". It's me trying to have fun and do something special for my kids, hoping to find more shared connection with them.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

no middleware/app needed. PlexAmp can deep-link to an album with an autoplay parameter, as long as the device with the NFC reader can access it.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

recreating MTV or a mid-90s alt-rock radio station for our kids would be a really fun little project.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

cool!

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

cool bro

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

alright fair feedback.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

sweet! thank you

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

that’s the right question! i’m surprised no one has asked it yet. part 2 will be all about setting up the raspberry pi with an nfc hat and a ‘read-only’ display as the tap target.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

thank you

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

ok but building a thing is the fun part

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

"game boy for audiobooks" is so cool. Thanks for sharing. (dad) rock on.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

ha, definitely fair! everything is relative.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

Thank you! If his friends shared music with him, I'd be a happy dad. I just don't see any of them hooked like I was. It's more "single of the week" with them.

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

Yeah, we have a Yoto, and it's great. But their custom cards are pretty expensive. And, let's face it, I wanted a weekend project :)

jordanfon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

super cool! thanks for sharing that.

jordanfon Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

I wrote gait, an LLM-powered CLI that sits on top of git and translates natural language commands into git commands. It's open-source: https://github.com/jordanful/gait

I also wrote PromptPrompt, which is a free and extremely light-weight prompt management system that hosts + serves prompts on CDNs for rapid retrieval (plus version history): https://promptprompt.io

jordanfon Show HN: Echo - AI-generated, personalized podcasts

I built Echo to help me (and my kids) keep learning while we're on the go (driving to tennis, mowing the lawn, walking back from school). It's free while it's in beta, and I built it as a PWA so it's installable on your home screen. Hope you have fun playing with it.

jordanfon Robbie Robertson has died

Thanks for the recommendation. Just listened to it this morning. Really beautiful album.

jordanfon Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

12,500 / week for general work (design, prototyping, sometimes building). Startups won't pay this, but large firms will.

jordanfon Show HN: Zenphone – a dead simple virtual phone number and voicemail inbox

Yes it can. That's the core use-case we're supporting. So let me work on more wordsmithing :)

jordanfon Ask HN: Investor signed SAFE but stalls on wiring the money

Hiring a lawyer for this is the most correct and least expensive solution.

jordanfon Show HN: Launcher – an open-source app launcher built on Sveltekit

Thanks.

Our team loves finding leverage through new tools, apps, and services.

But our 'supply chain' of daily apps continues to grow. How do we share and pin our go-to apps with the team — especially new hires? What's the best, and most memorable way, to introduce a new app or service to your team?

We built Launcher to help wrangle our own growing ecosystem of apps, and open-sourced it in case others want to contribute or host it for their own teams internally.

jordanfon Ask HN: What are you working on?

I'm building an app that helps employees get more feedback at work with a strong emphasis on data privacy. It's kind of like the anti-performance review app.

https://kaizen.app

jordanfon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)

Kaizen | Remote | Full-time | Software engineer (Kotlin, Svelte) | https://kaizen.app

You'd be employee #1, joining an experienced founding team in the human capital and quantified self space. We're building Strava for your career, helping professionals get more feedback at work.

Founded in early 2020, we're a remote-first team of founders that have done it before. Our flagship product makes feedback yours through strong data privacy controls, immediate through fast feedback loops, and in rhythm with work, through integrations with Slack and Google Calendar. We use technologies like Kotlin and Svelte and we care about being resourceful, optimistic, and candid.

Continuous, frequent improvement is our core approach not only for our customers, but for ourselves, our codebase, and our company.

We're hiring our first software engineer. We're looking for someone who can flex across the stack (T-shaped!), is self-motivated, and wants to have fun building a company with us.

If this sounds interesting, please say hi at jordan@kaizen.app (I'm the CEO and co-founder).

jordanfon Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?

The Great CEO Within (great for non-CEO leaders too). Free here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...!

jordanfon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

Rocketmiles | Chicago, IL | On-Site

Rocketmiles helps frequent travelers take more vacations. Our team is headquartered in Chicago's West Loop with a satellite office in Manhattan, NYC.

We're hiring across the board. Specifically, we're looking for:

* Groovy / Kotlin / Java / Backend developers (Chicago)

* Frontend developers (Chicago)

* Senior Product Designer

* Senior Product Owner

I lead our product team, so please reach out to me directly (jordan@rocketmiles.com) if you are interested, or head to rocketmiles.com/jobs for more information.