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qhoc··on Show HN: The easiest way to generate AI stickers then get them in the mail
It is optional to get 20% discount by default. So the credit is basically used toward the sticker orders anyways. It's best if someone prefer to do a monthly allowance (for their kids).
qhoc··on Show HN: The easiest way to generate AI stickers then get them in the mail
My teenage son is starting to get very interested in AI coding with Replit, Lovable then Claude. He started to design stickers using Gemini for our preschool daughter. Recently he puts together some mockup and I helped him through the finish line with backend APIs and other integration with Stripe, Supabase, etc..

The idea is simple: anyone can sign up for a free account to generate AI stickers, then order the print and round/square/kiss/die cut sheet for the exact sticker image.

Happy to get any thought or DM me for security issues (would appreciate it).

qhoc··on Launch HN: Haiku (YC W18) – Build and Design Cross-Platform UIs and Animations
Not sure if anyone recalls Famo.us which used to focus on web animation and make it programmable although they don't have the client app like Haiku. However, their claim was that they "cracked" the web animation performance. Well it didn't work for them (basic performance test would tell otherwise - duh!). Why is Haiku able to achieve such awesome performance on the web like this for animation? I also saw Greensock and they did a very good job as well. I am curious on what's the secret sauce here and whether there is any performance comparison (sorry for loaded questions there).
qhoc··on Ask HN: Monetize a small R&D lab?
Depending on how sophisticated your prototypes are (or something I can google and do myself), there are definitely values. But you need to share more info for me to advise. I do look for HW prototyping services sometime but it'd require someone who knows specialized fields (fluid physics). You should start to test by doing a bunch of videos to post of social media and see what kind of responses there are.
qhoc··on Ask HN: Where to ask dumb movie questions now that IMDB Message Board is gone?
So basically nobody has dumb question and it's just me???
qhoc··on Ask HN: What's the next big advance in AI you're looking forward to most?
I want to see an "open models" community where trained models have been validated with high accuracy that anyone can use and share.
qhoc··on What I Learned from One Year of Relentless HARO Pitching
I am curious to see any success story on HARO as well. I tried it on and off for ONE YEAR like the author but I was being very picky. I got just a few responses and none turned into anything material enough to justify for time waste.
qhoc··on Ask HN: What's the Best React UI/Nodejs Framework for Angular/Sails Background
How did you end up using this vs. some of the obvious ones like React Bootstrap or Semantic UI React?
qhoc··on Ask HN: What's the Best React UI/Nodejs Framework for Angular/Sails Background
I am trying to move away from Waterline. Plus my idea is React, not React Native.
qhoc··on Washington man facing prison after foraging for wild psilocybin mushrooms
Washington wildlife and forest protection is dead serious. I mean they invested a ton to enforce the rules and make sure people doing wrong things got punished. I, one time, got a $150 ticket just because I was a bit curious and dug into the sand for some geoduck.
qhoc··on Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
I am very close to making the decision to the same path you took (with family and kid of course). I know each case is different but how long did bootstrapping take for you? I already put saving aside for one year (covering insurance and mortgage plus other minimal living cost). I imagine I need earn at least $85K in a year to survive the second year and so on (based on cost of living in my area). I am also thinking about doing random consulting here and there, to supplement the income of building a product. But I know it's always a trap.
qhoc··on Ask HN: Laid off. Now what?
I got a question about severance and new job. Some companies (like mine) will ask you to report new job and they will cut severance (monthly salary). If so, how do you deal with that? Many of my previous co-workers told me they just lied and the company never checked (all verbal or writing).
qhoc··on Show HN: KISS IDE – A simple web based IDE
Have you tried the on premise IDE https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/setup/getting-started/ ? It's kinda cool but I don't see any pricing. Awesome if it is free!
qhoc··on Ask HN: How do you draft the usage terms and conditions for a side project?
Here is my process:

1. Search my competitors and collect 3-4 ToS pages

2. Read each of them and copy their paragraphs into mine

3. Re-word some to make sure my ToS is unique. If something is too confusing or too much, delete.

4. Stop worry about it until my startup gets some traction.

The whole process should not take more than 2-3 hours. If you pay $$ or take days on ToS while your startup is not even getting traction, you're doing something seriously wrong (in term of time spent).

qhoc··on Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
I use shared hosting too and I got into cPanel like 3 times a year for 2 min each. Sure, it needs to be there but regardless it fills the needs already.
qhoc··on Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?
Few reasons:

1. Firefox crashes would take down the entire browser, not just specific tab

2. I often load a lot of tweets in Twitter.com tab (back 4 hours). This causes Firefox to freeze.

3. If I refresh the slow tab, I watch memory not being clean and still stay there for several minutes. Chrome clears memory very quickly.

4. Why is the space around address bar so large? They are like 15 px top and bottom. What a waste.

5. Postman is only Chrome

6. Chrome Dev Tools is 10x better

I have no complain about CSS rendering issues or anything like that. It's mainly just performance. Also I tend to use Firefox in the firewall because the Proxy feature works quite well to connect to my internal lab.

qhoc··on Rasa NLU: Open-source bot tool for natural language understanding
How well does this scale? Let's say I have 500MB of JSON files from restaurant info and user reviews.
qhoc··on Ask HN: Can anyone recommend some fulfillment alternatives to Amazon?
The pricing seems cheap if I read it right. I only ship few hundred items per month and it's small enough to fit in my basement room (100 sqft). So I guess storage cost is like $50/mo and $3/item shipping out? That's not bad at all if correct.
qhoc··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
Agree. What is the replacement for this now?
qhoc··on Show HN: Deep Learning for Answering Questions about Images
Is this open source? I can't seem to find the github repo.
qhoc··on Docker for Mac Beta Review
Hi, I believe I pinged on Twitter but haven't heard back after 3 weeks. Can you invite me "quanghoc"? Thanks
qhoc··on Ask HN: Describe your first enterprise sale
I like this comment. A lot of initial sales are just pure relationship: you know someone who knows someone or randomly someone saw or met you at Meetup, website, forum... Maintaining the first deal is hard though because it's a tricky road: Do you have to do what they ask or do you think the market is bigger than just this one specific use case? Eventually the first 10 Enterprise customers are the ones who pay the bill.
qhoc··on How to remove breathing sounds from your audio recordings
After going through the site, I still don't know what software is it that he used. Did I miss something?
qhoc··on Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released
No, R and Python are separate kernels (think compiler). You can mix Shell and Python or Shell and R though.
qhoc··on Complete Node.js CheatSheet
This is awesome. Thank you!
qhoc··on Lesson Learned Running a Side Project for One Month
Thanks for sharing this. I had similar idea a year ago and ended up didn't do anything after much research. I came up with similar information as you went through during the execution. People won't pay for this (very few). The experts don't care about money either. It's a chicken and egg situation that's hard to bootstrap to something larger. Well unless you find a very specific niche (e.g. Q&A for AI algorithm...). Frontend is too crowded already.
qhoc··on Show HN: CSS3 art book for babies
This is awesome. Exactly what I need for my baby.. :D
qhoc··on Another Oil Crash Is Coming, and There May Be No Recovery
I came from an SE Asian country and people still don't buy electric scooters as much because it is still more expensive and somewhat slower than gas. But in China, I agree. All are electric now.
qhoc··on LIGO Gravitational Wave Data in iPython Jupyter Notebooks
Just curious on binder specific here. I could never got it to work out-of-the-box. In this example, it gave me "ImportError: No module named 'seaborn'" error. Now I could do something like !sudo pip install seaborn but still... Did you guys have same experience?
qhoc··on Binder: Turn a GitHub repo into a collection of interactive notebooks
What is the difference between this and http://nbviewer.ipython.org or https://try.jupyter.org/. I guess it was built using https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb? If so, that must be so generous for the owner offering free compute.
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