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Apparently one of the old school decentralized RPC providers (pocket network) has pivoted into being a way to access open data sources in a permissionless way. I think this is what you’re talking about?

https://pocket.network/case-study-building-a-decentralized-d...

I don’t disagree that it would be nice to be able to do this, but barring some black swan-esque event that changes how people see these things, it’ll probably always be somewhat niche compared to more permissioned or centralized systems. That or the decentralized systems will need to be VERY competitively priced to make the value-prop a bit more of a slam dunk for making this more widespread outside of philosophically-aligned hardliners and idealists

Hope you’ll excuse the somewhat off-topic nature of my comment: I’d be curious in hearing your story how you transitioned into software development from construction - would you mind passing along contact information or reaching out to me? I’m in a similar boat and thinking long and hard about my options!

Reading the submission headline, I thought this might generate the podcast using comments.

I've found myself wanting to listen to HN comment threads, as I'm one of those people who derives more value and entertainment from the comments than I do from the actual submissions a lot of the time! I envision a voice-controlled way to navigate through threads too. Basically an accessibility narrator on steroids.

I wonder if anyone else has ever been interested in something like this. Getting good voices to read like this podcast would make it that much more fun, so thanks for getting me really hot and bothered :)

Guess if no one does it soon I'll have to build it myself!

I rarely log into HN, but I just wanted to say thank you so much for building this. I was looking for something just like it a few months ago to plan a trip with some friends that I also wanted to view-only share with a couple others (with a simple link - no account requirements). I was amazed how hard it was to find something like it and how you couldn’t really do that with Google Calendar. Don’t remember exactly what the issue was with other sites I found, but just know I will ABSOLUTELY be using Calenday for all of my collaborative trip planning needs going forward. If you add any other features I can’t wait to see them (and if you leave the site as is, I might be even happier in the long run).

Best of luck!