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pattleon Show HN: Rank a random subject every day

I don't think it destroy diversity, people can still choose what they want. It's just a fun way to see how your choices would compare to the masses.

Also for what it's worth my top 3 were Mango, Gooseberry and Tayberry

pattleon Show HN: Rank a random subject every day

The problem I have with this, is if I reduce the choices to the more popular ones I always get people complaining like "How come dragon fruit isn't on there?!"

But I agree that for questions like this where there are a lot of potential answers, then it can be overwhelming.

pattleon Why my side projects failed

This is actually some really good feedback, thanks for taking the time to write it. In hindsight I definitely should have kept the site up and just put a banner up explaining what happened, I really like idea. I have learnt in life that people are generally okay with mistakes as long as your are honest and transparent about them.

I might allow you to create an account so that you can keep track of your current streak, view more stats about how your answers compare to others etc. I never really saw it as a business just a fun little project so I'm not that fussed about monetizing it, but all valid points.

Thanks again

pattleon Why my side projects failed

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I'm gonna get rid of that whole subscribe to the channel thing in the future videos, you're right it just make people drop off.

I am using a mic, although either it's not very good or the settings aren't optimised but a few people have said to me it sounds bad. I'm going to look into it. I also don't have the most exciting voice which doesn't help

pattleon Surf the web like it's 1999

See also https://simulator.money/play for a Windows XP nostalgia trip

pattleon Show HN: I made TV Sort, a web-based game for ranking TV show episodes

This is neat. See also https://brickelo.com for the same thing but with LEGO minifigures

pattleon 2nd City Zoning

I've built something kind of similar to this for the UK which shows prices of post codes, so you can see what are the cheap / expensive areas in a town or city.

https://postcodeprices.com/cambridgeshire/cambridge

pattleon Show HN: I made a 30-day social anxiety challenge

I have a stammer which I think stems from severe social anxiety as a child. I used to be part of speech therapy program that has a similar ethos. 90% of stammering if just psychological so they say the only way to beat it is to face your fear e.g stammering on purpose but in a controlled way. Easier said that done though and it's easy to regress.

pattleon Clone-a-Lisa

That's actually really impressive

pattleon Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility

I the last 3-4 years LEGO has definitely decided to focus more on the adult market. There's a lot more 18+ big sets now than there used to be in the past.

Kind of make sense because a lot people who played with LEGO in their childhood in the 80's / 90's are now at the age where they are more likely to have disposable income and get back into the hobby.

pattleon Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility

On a somewhat related note. For the last few years I've been working on a website that tracks the value of LEGO sets and minifigures. For example here is a list of most valuable LEGO minifigures.

https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures

pattleon Show HN: See how much your Lego minifigures are worth

Yeah that would be cool. There's definitely a big collecting market around LEGO minifigures (e.g people who keep their collection in nice display cases)

pattleon Boulder Dash

The graphics and style kind of reminds me of Chips Challenge.

pattleon Puter

I built something similar based of Windows XP

https://simulator.money

pattleon 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

I built https://simulator.money using this

pattleon MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

I think having a strong personal attachment to a brand is actually pretty normal. If you spend a large chunk of your time using a companies products and those products make your easier/better it's understandable.

pattleon I regret my website redesign

Stories like this make me think I should get back into freelancing.

I'm pretty such I could have had the whole project finished within a couple of weeks for around $5k

pattleon Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects?

https://simulator.money

A game that teaches you how financial decisions impact your life but it's turned into more of a nostalgia trip for Windows XP users

pattleon We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon

Four day work weeks sound good but since being remote from 2019 I could never go back to working in an office.

Seems like a case of one step forward, two steps back

pattleon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

I run a free to play browser game called Money Simulator

https://simulator.money

The aim is to help you with financial planning. I don't think it will ever make money but it's growing so I'll just see where it goes.

pattleon The Zen of Drinking Alone

I disagree

pattleon The Zen of Drinking Alone

Yeah going to bars is pretty boring, it just doesn't achieve anything, plus it negatively affects your mental and physical health. It's like paying to slowly kill yourself.

Perhaps they called you out because they're concerned about you.

pattleon Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds

For a nostalgia hit play https://simulator.money/

pattleon Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

Currently an unemployed bum but trying to spend my time working on side projects.

I'm mainly working on [Money Simulator](https://simulator.money) and [Textreel](https://textreel.com)

I don't think either has a good chance of making money though so I'm going to start a new project soon.

I also may need a get a job soon otherwise my money will run out

pattleon Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

Yeah it's an interesting model. I'm guessing it works on an honour system as income isn't easily verifiable

pattleon Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

Storing mail, transactions, jobs, savings, pension etc. You can't at the moment but I was to add the ability to save your progress soon.

pattleon Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

Ha, I want to add investments but it would have to be random-ish. No point in using historical data for share prices because that would make it a bad simulation if you already know the result.

pattleon Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

Not really open to working with anyone else on this, I prefer to work alone.

No issues page but I'm going to work through all the bugs highlighted in the comments.

I think my email is in my profile if you want to report anything specific / request a feature.

pattleon Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

I think part of these problems is that my server and database are really struggling with the traffic I'm getting.

Trying to implement performance fixes