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> just doing the same activity you were interested in in the first place

Some women don't like to be hit on social settings. For example, in tech conference, some women complained that men flirted with them.

So I'm thinking a way to separate women who are open to dating and not with SwanLove. Say, you are a yoga instructor. You create a group with SwanLove. Women who are open to dating can set the status to be available in this group. This way, men don't bother women who want to only focus on Yoga in your yoga class. Of course, to some extent, this can kill spontaneity.

> Privacy issue / Cambridge Analytica

I'm thinking of adding some encryption technology like zero-proof knowledge so even I as the owner of the website couldn't see the data. So I put some decentralized aspect onto it.

But fair enough. If this idea is proved to be so stupid, I guess I'll write a boring DeFi app. :)

I'm building SwanLove (https://swan.love) to address this issue.

> Using social media for dating

In SwanLove, you can verify your Linkedin profile. Basically you put some random string generated in SwanLove in a public post and tell SwanLove about it. SwanLove will open the webpage and check the username and the random string to verify the ownership of the Linkedin profile.

This way, we can separate people who want to date in Linkedin into a dedicated group. So we don't bother/flirt with other people in Linkedin.

Same idea can be applied to other social medias, like GitHub, Twitter, Strava. Basically SwanLove adds dating to any social media.

> And your attractiveness level is based on this whole gestalt

So I plan to add accomplishments in the dating profile on SwanLove. You can send your payslip to me so I can verify it. Then you can flex your income. You can link your Ethereum account to your dating profile so you can flex your wealth (your Eth balance, your CryptoPunk, your virtual pets in Axie Infinity). You can link your Twitter to your dating profile so you can flex your number of followers. You can link your Chess.com account to flex your intelligence in playing chess. I imagine, there will be a gym which can release a certificate of fitness. Then you can flex your physical fitness. You can link your Kaggle, Toastmaster, etc, to your dating profile. You get the idea.

This way, a man who is not tall and photogenic has a better chance to show his values to women.

I have applied to YC but I don't think I can make it this time. The product is still rough. Perhaps in next batch, I'll have a better chance. :)

You should post a part-time job on Twitter, like this guy: https://twitter.com/LouisSlices/status/1380455925346107397?s...

You can also email the job opportunity to me. I collect all part-time jobs on ParttimeCareers (https://parttime.careers).

I created a part-time jobs board, ParttimeCareers (https://parttime.careers). I collect remote and part-time jobs (mostly engineering jobs, but sometimes marketing jobs).

Yeah, I can see where you are coming from. Some people want to look for part-time jobs because they want to spend more time with their passions, kids, parents, or friends.

I created a part-time jobs board: https://parttime.careers/

I hope it will be useful for people in this thread.

Techcrunch called it the dual PhD problem. One example is if you understand the traditional finance, you'll have an easier time when building a DeFi application on top of Ethereum.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/19/the-dual-phd-problem-of-to...

This. In my country, almost all of software engineers are advised to become CTO not CEO if they want to become founders.

Replit moved to dotcom. https://blog.repl.it/dotcom

I think, as a start, any domain is fine but when you have gone big, you should acquire dotcom.

Perhaps we should use NLP to change the writing style but maintain the core idea. :)

> I can make some of the payment in cash if I want to cut out the artist.

It depends on the smart contract. I can write a smart contract such that if you did that, the ownership of the art would be still the previous owner. The previous owner cannot change the ownership of the art to you without paying fee to the original artist.

You can flex your wealth with it. :)

Or you can make it as collateral to borrow some (cryptocurrency) assets.

Binance did ICO, though. https://whitepaper.io/document/10/binance-whitepaper

I think in the past someone mentioned about under-collaterized loan. It's based on your reputation. The idea is you use your Ethereum account to do activities. Based on these activities, people could give you a loan. Such activities can be something like answering questions (imagine Stackoverflow but the authentication runs on Ethereum).

You know what? That makes me think. So I applied for YC with a non-blockchain startup. In the application form, they asked whether I had another idea. So I answered a development tool for smart contracts / blockchain applications. A Jetbrain IDE but for smart contracts.

I already develop Mamba (https://mamba.black). It's like Truffle but for Python instead of JavaScript.

We'll see how it goes.

Congratulations! I'm happy for you.

So we have Ontop for LATAM.

We have Manara (https://manara.tech) for MENA (Middle East and North Africa). It's backed by YC as well.

We have Andela (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/connecting-african-softwar...) for Africa.

Honorable mentions: Pesto (https://pesto.tech/), Turing (https://turing.com/), Youteam (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/youteam/).

Now I wonder whether I should make one but for South-East Asia (I live there)? :)

I have some. How do I contact you? I need your phone number. Don't post it here. Send it to my email.

You are not alone. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/10/07/americans...

That's correct. I got USD 3,500 credit in GCP for my startup.

So with SpaCy 3.0, HuggingFace, do we still have a reason to use NLTK? Or they complement each other? Right now, I lost track of the progress in NLP.

I think what the poster means is more than just unpacking the dataset. So the project should update itself every 12 hours, and has the capability of searching the information (using local database).

> On top of that security, it'd also be interesting to monitor what someone (based on their IP and browser fingerprint) was looking up on SO, you could probably figure out what they were working on that way.

When the security incident happened last year on SO, SO team monitored what information the attacker searched in SO. So I guess some people want some privacy in searching information in SO.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/25/a-deeper-dive-into-our...

OF is blocked in my country.

Reading all comments grilling MBAs in HN is one of my guilty pleasures. I think I need to collect them all and put them in one place.

You have Andela: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/connecting-african-softwar...

So in the past I read something similar. It's similar business but for Africa: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/connecting-african-softwar...

Then something similar showed up again. But this time the business is for Europe, Asia and Latin America: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/youteam/

Then I joked with my friend: "Maybe you should build something similar but for South-East Asia." (We live in SEA.)

Then the similar business showed up again today but for Middle East and North America. So I guess it's about time when something similar shows up but for SEA (or other parts of the world). :)

He was also the CEO of Mozilla (for 11 days).

In Indonesia, the cost is more than Rp 1.7 million (120 USD) more than 10 years ago. Also you need a very good reason to change your name (religion, etc). You can not change your name on your whim.

Hi there. That is in my todo list. Also, I will support Edge.

I develop PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com), a browser extension that can predict the salary range of job opportunities. It's free but one person told me that he didn't mind to pay me if I added support for job opportunities in his country (UK). The extension has 700+ users now. I don't know whether this number can be considered as significant user base or not.

Later, I'll add the capability to predict the salary range of people from their Linkedin profiles. I would make this a premium feature. Let's see how it goes.

I'm building PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com), a browser extension to predict the salary range of job opportunities. I'm also building SwanLove (https://swan.love), a dating website based on Linkedin and movies preferences (and later books preferences).

Later there will be a cross-functionality between them. For example, you can create a private group to share salaries. In the group you can like (romantically) people. Finally, there will be a feature to predict the salary from Linkedin profile.

In SwanLove, in the future, you can link your accomplishments from other websites based on API. If you were a runner, you could show that you have joined marathons in SwanLove by connecting through API to a running website. So you could show off your physical fitness. Other than running, you could show your chess elo rating to show off your intelligence.