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Email: daniel@snackdex.com
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snackdex··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
oh snap you have the prodigy on here. haven't listen to them in a long time
snackdex··on Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
> With all due respect, I'll stack up anything I've ever created against anything of yours at any time.

I love this response. for what its worth there is some thought here on this app.

snackdex··on Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
yes with the whole goal to make the utensils better
snackdex··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
yes. especially when you consider that point 2 requires some amount of investment (writing the api docs, ensuring no ip leaks, etc.)
snackdex··on enclose.horse
something in me loves progressively harder levels
snackdex··on enclose.horse
naw im looking to have fun, not cry
snackdex··on enclose.horse
dead. how in the world does a thought like that come into your mind. i feel like i got 0 in creativity
snackdex··on enclose.horse
if the analytics lead to an actual game on steam im down
snackdex··on AI-generated videos showing young and attractive women promote Poland's EU exit
i think what i'm getting at is fundamentally different...watching tv and scrolling through social media are distinct experiences.

When you scroll, the content is directly in front of you and you're actively controlling the flow (you decide whether to keep scrolling or stop).

With tv, the input is removed from you (you'd have to reach for the remote to change the channel) also channel flipping during ads isn't really a thing anymore.

So while the "dog in the ad" principle might work for tv where people are more passive and less likely to change the channel...i'm not sure it directly translates to phone scrolling, where you have more immediate control and are actively making micro-decisions about whether to keep scrolling or engage.

snackdex··on Pokémon Team Optimization
damn, everyone is having such well thought out conversations, and I just scrolled to see the Pokémon that were selected.

I think I'm one of those people who worries that if i understand the math of it all, it'll lose some of the magic that made me keep my raticate for no other reason than because it was the first pokemon that accepted me without me dealing any damage to it.

snackdex··on AI-generated videos showing young and attractive women promote Poland's EU exit
ngl, i think the fact that this is even possible and can get people is really dope.

I wish there were public studies like, 'We ran an experiment where young, attractive women wearing Polish clothing caused people who would naturally express these ideologies to stop scrolling more often than young, attractive women not wearing Polish clothing, for x demographic"

snackdex··on Collaboration sucks
damn. super cool that posthog is acknowledging the pains of growing even at their scale.
snackdex··on Simple pay-per-use database backup service (Postgres/MySQL/Mongo/More..)
This is one of those issues that only comes to mind when you’ve experienced a major outage. From what I’ve seen, indie developers and small SaaS teams rarely have the engineering resources to manage backup tools, so I doubt they’d be willing to pay for them. Typically, if backups are a priority, it’s because you’re dealing with SOC2 compliance, PII requirements, and strict SLAs.