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Working on providing bathroom privacy for everyone: https://loodio.com
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testmasterflex··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
As a student living in a small studio I hated that everyone could hear your bathroom business.

10 years later I’m now trying to solve this problem for small homes and businesses.

Loodio is a bathroom privacy device:

https://loodio.com

testmasterflex··on Young adults who "lie flat" also see romantic relationships as unnecessary
The price for this lifestyle is paid after midlife. What are you going to do in your older days without a family?
testmasterflex··on Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years
Yes together with manipulating images to include the face of John Oliver
testmasterflex··on Vehicle theft at a 'critical point' in Canada, with car stolen every six minutes
Tx?
testmasterflex··on Ask HN: GPT4 Broke Me
Like you say, it's just going to make your job easier and faster. Programmers are likely the last jobs to be replaced by robots.

Stop reading tech for a few weeks and you will get another perspective and you won't feel so neurotic.

testmasterflex··on Adobe Photoshop’s new AI tool lets you manipulate photos with text
Example from Reddit: https://v.redd.it/ns3nf2d2jm1b1
testmasterflex··on Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter
I’m super annoyed when websites still ask me for card details and can’t implement proper browser auto fill.

Is there a way I can get rid of all my physical cards and have them securely on my iPhone without saving the details in cleartext in a note?

testmasterflex··on AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services
That’s the unfairness about power laws and the reason why YC wants to hear if you have any unfair advantage in your application.
testmasterflex··on Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience
What’s your startup Dang? :)
testmasterflex··on Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience
Can you give any example of such “advanced technology”?
testmasterflex··on Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio
Sorry man. :( I wish you well
testmasterflex··on Ask HN: Is Google Slowly Dying?
Many pay for gsuite and YouTube premium
testmasterflex··on Show HN: ChatLLaMA – A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA
https://i.imgur.com/zcd5EI9.png
testmasterflex··on Sleep habits may have long-term benefits
As a founder I’ve slept irregularly for 15 years. My solution that kinda works is if I’m tired after a night’s sleep, I sleep a few more hours later in the day.

My cofounder in one venture you never know when he is awake or asleep as he refuses to set an alarm.

testmasterflex··on Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning
Can you recommend one?
testmasterflex··on Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning
Link? :)
testmasterflex··on My Failure Resume
It's pretty evident that Mr Steinberg is extremely conscientious
testmasterflex··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
Bought one of these on Swedish Craigslist: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Star-Micronics-TSP654IIU-24-GRY-S...

Which was the same they used at my university in the cafeteria. Managed to plagiarise the same receipt we got when ordering food (which you needed to show the kitchen to get a plate of food) and was thus able to eat for free for the rest of my enrollment.

Not even my professors could teach me to do GUIs in Java but this thing sure was ‘Swinging’

testmasterflex··on Battery-free Game Boy (2020)
Yes, that’s the one I used afaik. The gold is one of the materials you can choose to plate your copper on the board at manufacturing. “Enig”. Increases conductivity but also looks sexy :D I think every board was $8 on MOQ.
testmasterflex··on Battery-free Game Boy (2020)
Can’t find the tutorial I used but here is one https://reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/efz9xf/my_nfc_powe...
testmasterflex··on Battery-free Game Boy (2020)
A big ass inductor sucking up all phone batteries from the whole neighbourhood. On it.
testmasterflex··on Battery-free Game Boy (2020)
Love this kind of stuff.

I made this slim PCB a few years ago with a super tiny NFC chip on it that can harvest energy from NFC:

https://youtu.be/_BSfO9LAIqg

Made it into a business card as you can see.

testmasterflex··on The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most
My dad on family dinner last week :D
testmasterflex··on Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
Love the design. Not sure why but page requests are slow on my phone, I’d fix that.
testmasterflex··on My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
What do you do?
testmasterflex··on My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
What’s your startup?
testmasterflex··on My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
If you are going to bootstrap a hardware company then this is the reality. And most companies never even get this far.
testmasterflex··on My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
Sounds like the smartest next step!
testmasterflex··on My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
Great post as always Michael!

Did you move away from Raspberry now or what does the EE guys do?

I don’t have personal experience of outsourcing assembly yet but make sure quality control is flawless before letting that go. I would and will personally fly down to China to set that up. Will be following to see how that process goes.

All the best.

testmasterflex··on Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?
Any special YouTube channel you got inspiration to do that particular project?
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