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Indeed, though I suspect it's more about the team rather than the idea in this case.

Don’t meant to diminish anyone’s hard work in any way, but am I the only one fascinated by that excel sheet and how all those companies are managing to get funding? At least based on that short description of what they do.

How do you run your own ads? Is there a tech stack for it or did you roll your own?

Cool idea! Maybe I misunderstand how it would work, but let’s say you have a long post (or multiple posts) on a topic. Won’t it be difficult to get a good answer that takes all content into account if only a small chunk can be used for the GPT prompt?

"Stylized" is the more recent term used for it.

With smaller indie games you can spend your time doing everything, which might be safest to do on the side at first. In AAA you’ll need to specialize due to the large teams. AI, gameplay, physics, audio, graphics, engine, network, backend, can all be different code teams. The type of work can be very different and I’m willing to bet you might like one but not the other.

Like others have mentioned, just get started on the side and you’ll likely gravitate towards what you enjoy. Try something like Tom Looman’s course[0] that basically teaches you everything you need to build a game in Unreal. You’ll also pick up C++ and Unreal Engine, which will help if you want to find a full time gig in the industry.

[0] https://courses.tomlooman.com/p/unrealengine-cpp

There’s a lot of remote game jobs since the pandemic started. Some companies are attempting to go back to the office or do hybrid, but many are permanently remote now that it’s proven to work fine.

How so?

It took less than five minutes to create an account and get my blog updated with GC tracking. Love the early early web look of the site too. Thanks for the share!

In December I started a blog, inspired by posts and comments here on HN, to record various techy tips and tricks I ended up needing or using. It’s quickly turning into a list focusing on Unreal Engine 5 as the hobby project for the year is a multiplayer third person MOBA type project.

https://tinytech.tips/

Two space tabs, nice.

The Twitter implosion has made me realize how I really used Twitter and what sort of alternative I'd join. Primarily a place where I can get a filtered list of news articles and posts from people I'm interested in what they have to say. Comments on posts are fine but it's more about getting all the content in the same place. HN is pretty close to that, but maybe a bit too niche.

Is this similar to the "I throw half the resumes away to avoid hiring unlucky people" concept?

And it's picking some interesting repos

Was a fun project to play around with Go and set up a Digital Ocean droplet for the first time.

Sadly I'm not, it's just using ethers.js to trigger a transaction to be signed by whatever wallet you have connected. Hence the $5 donation with a $30 fee :(

Good day fellow hackers,

Do you ever wish random web apps were rebuilt on top of blockchains? Do you feel the need to buy random bloggers a coffee while paying with crypto? Or support your favorite creator with $5 and pay $30 transaction fees?

Well, you're in luck, because I've built exactly this. No more need to paste your Ethereum address at the bottom of your blog posts and "instantly" receive the full payment from your fans.

Toss an Eth let's you create your very own page to send your fans to, where they send you their hard earned coins and you get 98% of the transaction, because let's face it, I want a piece of it too.

Hope you like it, and have a great weekend!

Hi HN,

Like many of you, I suspect, I get flooded with messages from recruiters on LinkedIn about new job opportunities, even though I don't have my 'open to new opportunities' flag set. These offers rarely fit my experience or what I would be looking for in a new job. But I do like the idea of being approached with potential opportunities.

So I've built Ninjobu. You can create a profile as a software engineer, fill in your previous experience, domain knowledge, etc. Most importantly, you get to state what job you are looking for next.

The candidate profile is completely anonymous (unless you choose to add identifying details) to remove some worry and hopefully even bias. I understand on other platforms, when you open your profile for new opportunities, the system hides it from your employer. But what happens if recruiters from parent or subsidiary companies see it? Does it still work? Maybe, who knows.

Recruiters get to use an excellent search system (thanks to the fantastic Algolia) to find candidates for the roles they are looking to fill, not only based on a candidate's experience but also based on what job they would like to have.

If you'd like to try it out, I'd love to hear what you think and how I can improve the experience, so please do get in touch. This is an MVP, and it's light on features for now.

From now on, I'll be sending all the recruiters that get in touch with me to this place. If you're looking for a new job, give it a shot, there's virtually a new recruiter sent there every day.

Fellow hackers,

I present to you my latest side project creation: Bookslyte. A simple bookkeeping and receipt tracking solution.

Stack:

Nuxt.js + Tailwind CSS (backend on Cloud Run and static files on Firebase Hosting)

Google Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage for data

Firebase Auth

I used Google Sheets for income and expense tracking and Google Drive for receipts, which I found too cumbersome after some time. I also shied away from more comprehensive accounting solutions out there that have way more features than I needed. Frankly, I find those intimidating. So, like any sensible developer, this drove me to write my own custom solution.

Bookslyte is meant to track income and expenses, renders a little graph to show you which way things are going, and, if you're inclined to sign up for a subscription, can also handle tracking receipts. Finally, my accountant's favorite feature, a reports button, which combines your P&L table and all your receipts into a single PDF.

Next up I'm eyeing Plaid, thinking that adding support for bank and credit card integration may automate even more of this bookkeeping process.

The HN community is full of incredibly talented folks and I'd love to hear what you think or any other feedback you may have.

Hope you like it, and thank you for reading!

I get this, and that's alright. The only reason I have tracking set up is to get an idea of how the site is doing. I should probably just record the events I need myself instead.

I swapped from GA to Plausible myself recently and am loving it. Just the feeling of knowing there's no trackers on your site is worth it tbh.

Thank you! Please do let me know if I can make it more useful in anyway.

Thank you! That's such great ideas, and I literally have "use nlp to create tags" as a todo too!

Haha, yes, I do like cooking, but I could definitely do a bit more of it and less programming.

Hi HN,

My second project in the quest to release something every month this year is Kalester, a vegan recipe blog aggregator. This project also served as an excuse to learn a bit more about Go, which I've meant to start dabbling in for a while now.

I've got a Go app on Cloud Run that runs once a day to pull recipes from a bunch of blogs and stores them in Cloud SQL, and a second Cloud Run container with the site backend.

It's been pretty fun learning these technologies, and I'm excited about what can be done with all of this. Now I need to figure out what next month's project should be.

Hi HN,

In an attempt to learn more about web dev, I've committed to shipping something every month of this year. And since we're in January, early enough for new year resolutions to still be kept, here's my first project.

Smigster[1] lets you type a few words and composites them onto a random royalty-free photo in an attempt to match the contents of the text to the photo. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

It uses compromise[2] to extract topics, nouns, etc. from the text and runs a search on Unspash[3] based on a random term to get a photo. It's a toy more than anything else, but it's been incredibly valuable for me to go through this process.

I hope you enjoy it, and if you have any feedback, comments, or feature requests, I'd love to hear about it.

[1] https://smigster.com

[2] https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise

[3] https://unsplash.com/developers