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ca98am79

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I'm near Philadelphia.

Working on friendster.com, impervious.com. Previously park.io (acq 2023), file.io (acq 2024), wizehive.com (acq 2022)

email: mike@introvert.com

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I Built Barstool Sports

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The Lunacy of Artemis

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My father died on Friday and for some reason I found myself in tears while reading this.

I wasn't sure why, at first, but I think I was sad because, after my father died, my world felt smaller. It seemed that someone who loved and cared for me my whole life was gone, and the world was filled with strangers.

But reading this helped me to realize that strangers care and love me for no reason - just because I am another human being - and they want to help. And it makes me realize the world is bigger than I initially thought.

Thank you for the feedback. I don't want it to grow just by making it addictive. I'd rather it be a great product. I have faith that if it is a great product and helps people, then people will want to use it. I'd rather people use it because it helps them make friends or keep in touch with friends, or something positive like this.

Show HN: Temp.pw 1 year ago

thanks. I think security is super important, however I do not think it is necessary to obsess over it for no reason. If I want to share a dev password with someone, I can tell them the login over discord and then send them a link to temp.pw. Easy peasy and absolutely no security risk. This is why I created it.

Show HN: Temp.pw 1 year ago

yes truly awful, I should be ashamed for making it. Why do I make anything. Thank you for the feedback

Show HN: Temp.pw 1 year ago

because it is about sharing a one-off password with someone so that you don't have to worry about it getting stored in chat history

Show HN: Temp.pw 1 year ago

I don't know why the share button became that color. I actually made this years ago because I needed it for my company. But then file.io was acquired (which I was using for the backend), and so I had to recently switch to using aws as the backend. So I vibe-coded a new backend api for aws in the last couple of months. I also acquired the domain temp.pw - previously used temporary.pw (which still works).

Show HN: Temp.pw 1 year ago

How would I connect it with any username or login? I just made it because I wanted something like this and make it available to others in case they find it useful. It is free and no ads

Show HN: Temp.pw 1 year ago

when you want to share a password with someone but don't want the password to remain in chat history

Thanks, I'm working on it, so keep checking back for changes. The music should sound better, but I am refining it as I go with the goal of sounding like natural piano.

I will also work out the kinks with autoplay not working in some browsers (it should work with Chrome)

Thank you for the helpful feedback. I've added download buttons for mp3, midi and abc. I've also made it autoplay and more seamlessly play the next song after one ends. Now I will work on correcting the voices and making it sound more like a professional piano.

Thank you for your interest and feedback. Yes it is rendered to mp3. Notagen creates an ABC file, which I then convert to MIDI and then to mp3. I also convert the ABC file to svg for displaying the sheet music on the web page. I simply have a cron job to create more music every hour. Yes I have noticed that some voices are barely audible, I think because notagen creates a wide range, I can look into this more. This is really just a proof of concept, but if you have ideas on how to make it more interesting or useful, let me know. My email address is in my profile. Thank you

I have thought it may be interesting to display the notes on the sheet music only as the audio is played, so I may try to work on this next.

I emailed him out of the blue and asked him to write more stories about Pham Nuwen. He replied and was really nice and we corresponded over a couple of emails.

Having kids is hard, but yeah it is one of the best things.

My wife would get annoyed when we would pass someone walking and they would see our kids and say "enjoy your time with them while they are young!" Because she hadn't slept and was stressed out. She would think "you enjoy your freedom and your full night of sleep!"

"The days are long but the years are short" is a quote I think about a lot.

I think the key is the same whether you have kids or not: peace of mind in the present moment. If you are happy now you won't regret it later.