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oan

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overthinking digital entrepreneur
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oan··on Ask HN: Can you make money from writing short stories with the help of AI?
Would you read AI written short stories?
oan··on Ask HN: What would you build on bitesize.io?
I thought of this as I like that style of games! Honestly no idea where to start though, never attempted to work with anything games related. I think licensing them would be pretty expensive?
oan··on Show HN: Noodlist – Letterboxd for Instant Ramen
Just finished eating instant ramen so I feel entitled to comment. I like the design! Just a tip, hide the 'Most reviewed this week' section when it's empty
oan··on Show HN: Oku – One tab to filter out noise from feeds and content sources
Working on no-signup public boards with presets (finance, tech, entertainment) now.
oan··on Show HN: Oku – One tab to filter out noise from feeds and content sources
Hey! So in the onboarding there's a templates section with pre-populated boards, and I'm also working on public (live) boards people can use with without signup.
oan··on Show HN: Bento – Save and restore multi-monitor app layouts
Not 100% sure if it's just me, but when I scroll down on the landing it always seems to automatically bring me up a bit after I stop scrolling
oan··on Show HN: I made a link-in-bio for developers
It should actually be fixed if you added a profile section as well, on the same account. If it doesn't even after an hard refresh, you can delete your account in the settings (icon next to the 'auto-saving' tag in the top right, and recreate it. I'm really sorry about the hussle
oan··on Show HN: I made a link-in-bio for developers
Thank you! Checking where the problem is, doesn't seem to happen on my end

Edit: I hope I got it. Did you add a profile section from the 'add section' list?

oan··on Show HN: I made a link-in-bio for developers
Just launched bug.to !

You can build customizable pages with your bio, github contributions, tech stack, portfolio, and more. You can also show if you are available for work (freelance, full time, mentorship) or not, which in the future will be used to feature profiles in a 'Find a developer' board for people interested in hiring based on what you set in the profile.

I set it free to use, feedback would be greatly appreciated!

oan··on Show HN: A Career Income Visualizer
Ahah I was thinking to add a sarcastic note to mention how much of that you'd actually get to keep, just to make it a bit more depressing, but I can't even make my own taxes imagine try and estimate the one's from people around the world.

Although now that I think about it, I guess I could just allow people to enter the percentage they expect to pay. That would really be sad to watch

oan··on Show HN: A Career Income Visualizer
Hey everyone!

I built this rather simple tool to try out an AI platform I was seeing around a lot. It basically shows your income from current age to expected retirement age in a grid where each dot represents a week, along with other details you can see by hovering on them like your age by that time, expected weekly income and when you'll reach 1 million in total income. It can be a bit depressing at times.

Again, nothing too serious, just a fun experiment. I honestly did not think it was possible to make a website like this with an AI 'engineer', meaning the whole website, not just this tool.

Mind you, there were times were I wanted to delete it all because it was not able to understand extremely basic concepts or fix quite stupid bugs, and times where I had to go and fix them myself because it wouldn't understand even after trying really hard, but I'm impressed overall.

oan··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Oh got it, I've actually never really considered ads because I feel like they could ruin the experience and the money they'd be making wouldn't really be worth it. MRR has been growing in the 10%-30% range MoM since launch with a pretty high margin so can't complain about that, what I'd like to improve is the conversion rate though, as I feel it could be much better considering the high amount of traffic.
oan··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Hey there, owner of the website here. Glad someone noticed that! It's not something we really like to advertise, but I also know there should be more info about it. For anyone interested, the organization we have donated to since launch is the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, I recommend checking them out!
oan··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Hey there, thank you so much for supporting the platform and also providing valuable feedback. I definitely agree on the group study sessions, as a matter of fact there's a major feature that's been in the works for months heading in that direction. Hopefully it will be ready soon after summer. The coffee idea seems pretty fun as well!

As for the price, I do agree on the jump between free and paid, but I also think that there's nothing actually similar to lofi.co around. The timer for one, even though it looks like a simple pomodoro timer, it's actually a lot more advanced than that and the only platform I know offering something slightly similar has only that as a product and charges double our monthly fee. Again it's hard to think of lowering the price when the competition is charging netflix-level monthly fees or other similar companies still higher fees for a fraction of the features.

May I ask what you mean with 'enough value to be ad supported'? I don't really like to share revenue online, but I can say the platform is profitable and has been growing steadily since launch.

oan··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Very sorry if the login screen looks creepy ahah, definitely got to improve that side. The tutorial will go away as soon as the landing page is live later next month. I do know lofi.cafe as it's from a fellow italian developer, but I think the concept is quite different. Thanks for the feedback!
oan··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Hey, thank you for the feedback. I absolutely get what you're saying, a solution can be 'installing' the website as an app (you should get the prompt in the browser to do so). Plan for the future is to have both a desktop and mobile app though, which would definitely be the best solution
oan··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Hey there, I appreciate the feedback and the tutorial screens will definitely go away as soon as the landing page will be live later next month. Can I ask what you mean by unable to stop or pause?
oan··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Hey there, answering as this is an app of mine and I like to hear people's feedback. You don't actually need to do any sign-up or navigate the tutorials to use the website, there are both an X on the top right and a 'leave tutorial' button to go directly to the play button/mixer
oan··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Hey! This is actually a website of mine, so I appreciate the feedback. About the price, any alternative or similar products' memberships cost around double (if not more) for often less features, so I'd say the pricing is actually quite low. For the costs, I would say S3 for the assets is the biggest one, at least with the current 150-200,000 monthly users. The actual art as well is a cost since it's all original, but that can vary if say we don't add any new set for a month, which has happened only one time. Thanks again for the feedback!
oan··on Show HN: BiteSize – Cards with psychology based tips
Hi everyone, This is a tiny side project i've been working on in the past few days. Let me know what you think!
oan··on Show HN: Lofi.co – music, art and productivity tools
Hi everyone! lofi.co is my first web app, and it combines art, lofi music and productivity tools into an interactive experience. Building It was far more complicated than I thought, mainly because it involved a lot of people: producers, illustrators, labels, designers. I made a lot of mistakes and learned from them, but I’m happy with how it eventually came out. Anyways, hope you like the platform, the main goal is to provide a calming experience and make things like working or studying less stressful than they usually are (not that easy, right?). I already have many upgrades and new features planned so I hope you’ll be able to see it in the next few weeks. I highly appreciate any kind of feedback and advice!