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devrimco

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Indie Maker, Writer, Sociology PhD. Shares: Tech, Politics, Music & Movies. Blog: https://devrimvardar.com

Projects:

- https://corepage.ai (AI for normies) - https://pdmerch.com (Literary shirts) - https://expo.live (Index yourself) - https://rockers.im (Rock and Metal Index) - https://ontap.im (Instand miniapps) - https://listpickers.com (Something) - https://playtoob.com (Watch YouTube professionally)

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Hey I made a AI Native personal workspace for the desktop worker

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corepage.ai 3mo ago

CorePage: I built an AI start page to replace my tabs (notes, news, tools, chat)

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devrimvardar.com 4mo ago

AI Isn't the Excuse. It's the Enabler

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pdmerch.com 5mo ago

We're turning vintage classical novel covers into T-shirts (side project)

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Hey I'm looking for YouTubers to create a suggestion bundle for a project

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Feels like this tiny box is the only safe place on internet to share what I do

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playtoob.com 2y ago

Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it

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twitter.com 3y ago

What's Web3, Chat with ChatGPT, Decentralized networks are useless and you agree

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devrim.im 3y ago

Someone created the first AI-written, human-made, crochet handmade accessory

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devrim.im 3y ago

My wife created the first AI-written, human-made, crochet for Christmas

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malt.fm 3y ago

MaltFM: We made a cool mood based curated radio, because curation still rocks

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malt.fm 3y ago

MaltFM: Curated Mood Based Stylish Playlist Radio Powered by Deezer API

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devrim.co 4y ago

There is a special place in hell for the YouTube product people: Youtube Kids

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remode.app 6y ago

Remode: An emoji sys-info for decent users and a decent monitor for sysadmins

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etsyranky.com 6y ago

Can people find your products on Etsy search? No. Here'a tool to check.

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Hey HN,

I built CorePage as a solo project to solve a simple problem: I was constantly switching between tabs - reading news (there are too many), taking notes (they are everywhere), using small tools (i hate ads), asking AI things (read through paragraphs of cringe AI replies), and trying to turn that into something useful.

So, I tried putting all of that into a single start page.

CorePage is an AI-powered homepage where you can:

- Read global news as short, structured briefings (automatically updated and prioritized by AI)

- Take notes and instantly have it cleaned, rewritten, or turned into LinkedIn posts. (more to come)

- Chat with multiple premium AI models in a fast, no-fluff Q&A style (or you can also change the AI behavior)

- Use dozens of small tools (text tools, converters, utilities); click and run (did I mention I hate ads, especially on small tool websites)

- Search anything (Google, YouTube, Maps, Bing..) from the same input (first I built an extension for this, Google banned me with red alert, as they do not allow you to change the search box.)

- Check weather (it also has an AI summary :)), world clocks, calendar, and use a Pomodoro timer.

- See a quick markets overview and get instant AI commentary

It’s meant to feel lightweight - not a platform, just a homepage you actually keep open and use throughout the day.

I'm currently also working on: * A simple way to generate shareable report/summary pages (I've had many friends working 9 to 5 need this, I also needed it. /username/you-can-share-your-report asap) * A lightweight AI workflow system (oooh, i'm very excited for this)

Would love to hear: > What do you usually keep open all day? > Would you replace your start page with something like this? > What do you think it should also have?

Happy to answer anything

I've seen too much delusion around the subject, so I wanted to jot down my take on it. There is a denial on why Jack (Ex-Twitter now Block) fired half of their staff.

My wife and I are experimenting with a small side project: T-shirts inspired by vintage covers of classical novels we love. The idea started as "would we actually wear this?" and turned into a tiny collection.

We even made 1 sale, the customer loved it, that made us very happy and motivated :)

We're still early and very much in exploration mode, so I'd love feedback. Anything I should do add/remove to the website also counts. :)

If you have favorite classic novels, cover designs, or sites/resources about vintage book art that you think we should look at, I'm all ears.

Thanks in advance

Also if we are not going to publish whatever we created on the internet what the hell is it for? What are we supposed to do?

Why the hell the only troubled thing someone sharing what they created for profit and for others to use?

But it is well-accepted that they can share shaking their ass on social media for promoting their OnlyFans account?

Yes! Definitely agree. I don't curate videos. I just let people watch the channels they want to watch. Add a channel, it plays that channel. Add multiple, it shuffles them. There are no autosuggestions.

There are great creators on Youtube. But algos do not let people reach them. Youtube is a beautiful archive and a great search engine. But, you don't watch a search engine :)))

no. this is not against youtube policies. i checked it couple of times. as it simply embeds videos, without forcing anything. and is not the same experience as youtube. it is a companion. and also i'm using the api very conservatively, pre-calculated every request. but time will show. you can't guess big tech.

i meant with mobile applications the bureaucracy, the development necessary and the update cycle and even the size of the icons matter to be approved. and they may accept and they may not. so not only youtube, play store and ios store policies interfere. i can't say i like it. there's already a fight against them from other big-techs against the app stores, even the EU is against their monopoly. well, i'll shut up now :)

Oh my goodness! I'm very happy that it worked out for you too! Thank you so much for the kind words! Yes I started working on the channel id part, gotta make that easier for sure. My wife has been complaining at me for that too :) I'm thinking both, name->id, and also, even video-url->channel-id.

youtube made that very weird in their API, every query has costs, and finding by username is more expensive, there are old usernames, which are not channel custom-urls right now. very mixed-up.

well, anyway long story short, I'll do it! Thank you for your message. Cheers.

Hi again. As this post is about to be buried deep within HN... I want to say thank you all for caring... Sorry, I messed up a little today. Didn't expect this much attention, and apparently, I wasn't ready :) I learned what "hug of death" is. Loved it.

But I fixed what I messed up during the day. And now everything is working properly. So anyone had any trouble today registering or adding channels can do now. For any issue please ping me from any of the contact channels there. Some of you did. So thank you all. Cheers.

i only wanted to limit currently on whatever is going to create server burden and fill api quotas. i already started hitting free quotas on youtube api and a couple of more, and already feel like i may need to upgrade server.

and also wanted to create a fun enough free account, with 256 videos in rotation. but a strong paid account with 1024 videos in rotation, which is almost around the movie/series rotation of a netflix account.

also youtube is there for everything the creators share, i just wanted to create a "filterable customizable sortable latest videos watching" companion to them not replace them, i guess that is also not allowed by the api usage.