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siddienahar··on Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
To add another point, will it be feasible to have the meaning of the name in the details. Or a redirection to external link where meaning of the name can be searched?
siddienahar··on Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
Congrats to you and your family :)

If you're taking requests, a filter by country would serve great. While I loved the concept and the way it's executed, I wish it becomes contextual for me.

Also, back button interaction closes the app. If you can fix that too.

All in all, loved the app. :D

siddienahar··on Show HN: Digital Pottery in the Browser
Can you allow the user to download their own creation?
siddienahar··on Show HN: Automatically lower the volume of ads to protect ears
I am a long time user and this works like charm.
siddienahar··on Show HN: Mibo – Video chat that feels like real life
I genuinely loved the experience of the product. If the video is as great, I'm sure it will grow to next level.

Extra points for the game-like interaction. It was fun!

siddienahar··on Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays
I just tried it but didn't like the experience. My reading speed is variable, I read slow when I want to internalize the idea v/s I skim through when I am probably reading a novel. At so many points I wanted to pause and re-read the para or think about what he said but listening to the audio didn't really allow for that. PG essays are usually of such kind.

I suspect I won't even enjoy audiobooks too for the same reason. I won't be able to accelerate or slow down at my will.

But I congratulate you for building it and I'm sure it'd be useful for others.

siddienahar··on Show HN: Sidenote – a web app to take timestamped notes on YouTube videos
Congratulations on building and launching SideNote. You should also checkout https://www.tuberslab.com/ which is a browser extension that does exactly what SideNote do.

The added benefit of using TubersLab is I don't have to take the YouTube video to new web app, I just get the ability right there.

siddienahar··on Show HN: A browser plugin that helps you discover great books at low prices
You may want to check these out too for book recommendations: - https://abooklikefoo.com/ - https://mostrecommendedbooks.com - https://readthistwice.com - https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/ - https://www.whichbook.net/
siddienahar··on Show HN: I built a TikTok like video app but only for travel content
Hey, great concept. Both Travel & TikTok are amazing concepts and you merged them so hopefully you'll get a great outcome. Best wished for that!

I tried the app on android but it seems to be loading very slow. My mobile network speed is 20Mbps so not the issue with bandwidth.

Another thing, I would appreciate if I could view content of/around a specific location. That would actually help me plan my trip.. Hope you find it relevant. Good work :)

siddienahar··on Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
I've been practising touch-typing for about 2 months now and have increased my speed from 15WPM to 35WPM, maintaining accuracy above 90%.

I learnt from https://www.ratatype.com/ but the modules are now done. This will become my practice board now. Parallelly I'll be reading/writing a few classics.

siddienahar··on Show HN: MindPad – complete life organizer – notes, habits, to-do's, reminders
Interesting Project! There seems to be a bit of learning curve required to get handy with the tool. A better/simpler onboarding where I learn about the key concepts should be great. I will not master the product on Day-1 but I'll get some headstart. Related to the first point, I couldn't access the user guide from the main dashboard. I actually found them in the comments here and I think you should link it somewhere on the dashboard. Anyone interested will be able to go through it and learn more about the ways of doing things.

The product looks promising to me and I'll use it a bit more and would share any feedback I have.

Best wishes!

siddienahar··on Show HN: I wrote this to make note taking on YouTube effective
A quick feedback. It'd be great if you could help with the keyboard shortcuts right in notes section (the ones which you showed in the demo video). Will help a lot!
siddienahar··on Show HN: I wrote this to make note taking on YouTube effective
Ok, so I registered via website and then tried logging to the extension and it worked. When I tried registering through the extension, I was getting above mentioned error.
siddienahar··on Show HN: I wrote this to make note taking on YouTube effective
Hey, interesting product and good work with the launch too. But I'm not able to register and getting "SignIn Failed".

Also, you may also want to check https://lanes.io/ -- It gives similar capability.

siddienahar··on Show HN: RedditVids – Reddit Videos Aggregator
My friend created something very similar - https://github.com/arbazsiddiqui/rSlashVideos (Ignore UI :p)
siddienahar··on Show HN: Augmented Hacker News Reader
I appreciate original version of HN more. As compared to other content platforms, I come to HN to actually read and just not to scroll. From that pov, I like text better than other elements visible to me. More than that, the current design took too much space, showing 1 post per scroll.

One suggestion for your website is to accommodate heading on left half of the screen (desktop view) coz usually most of the people have a mental model of trying to find heading first and reading from L2R.

siddienahar··on Show HN: A book recommendation engine backed by 7 million book ratings
Feature Request: Save the results, at least locally..
siddienahar··on Show HN: Boreddit.com – View Top Reddit Posts from Past Years by Subreddit
This is interesting. My friend built this - https://arbazsiddiqui.github.io/rSlashVideos/ which curates videos from a subreddit and sort by top, new, etc.

It's fascinating to see so many cool projects built over reddit.

siddienahar··on Show HN: PokerHelper – deep learning backed poker assistant
This definitely looks interesting. I'm gonna try this out next time I'm playing poker with my friends.

A quick feedback, can you explicitly show shortcuts while selecting cards. It will reduce a lot of cognitive load on the brain. Also give quick keyboard shortcuts to be able to input/update the variables and evaluate.

Nonetheless, I wish you the best :)

siddienahar··on Show HN: Extension that blurs YouTube thumbnail. Effectively removing clickbait
We built this chrome extension on the belief that “focus is superpower”. We truly feel that this superpower is within all the individuals and we just have to help them with the right tools to make them realize the same.

With YouTube™ Clickbait Blocker, you can -

- Blur Clickbait Thumbnails that distracts you by drawing attention

- Block Ads that break your flow

- Your Privacy is ensured. We do not capture your YouTube™ browsing data. We only capture user demography details.

Our extension is customizable for your needs. You can choose specific pages on which you want to blur thumbnails. You can also choose to enable/disable the "Skip Ads" option. Just click on the extension icon on the browser bar and apply your settings.

Next in plan is to also release a version for Firefox as well. What else can we do to make it more useful?

siddienahar··on HN API Feature Request: Provide 'Items' Upvoted by 'Users'
I want the list of all upvoted items of my account. Upvote for me is like a way of bookmarking that item and I would like to save it for later.
siddienahar··on Ask HN: Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?
https://lambdaschool.com/ - Lambda School is a 9 month, immersive program that gives you the tools and training you need to launch your new career—from the comfort of your own home.