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sebnun commented on The Whole App is a Blob   drobinin.com/posts/the-wh... · Posted by u/valzevul
raincole · 3 days ago
(Off-topic) I'm convinced that the ideal language learning app should look like this:

1. A HUGH repository of raw materials, both in text and in audio. They are all written/recorded by native speakers, not non-native language teachers.

1.5. (Optional) The materials come with supplemental vocabulary lists and grammar guides.

2. You take a test.

3. It recommends materials for you to read/listen to, according your proficiency level shown in the test.

3.5. (Opt-in) it can read your YouTube history and social media to recommend materials that you might like.

4. Every month or every N hours of reading/listening, you take a new test to recalibrate your proficiency level.

That's it. However due to copyright issues, I don't expect to see such an app in near future. What a bummer.

(Not-so-off-topic) Personally I consider all the apps that don't resemble the above workflow "dictionary-like" (useful but as a reference tool, not a learning tool) or "Duolingo-like" (a healthier alternative to doomscrolling, but nothing more). The article sounds Duolingo-like.

sebnun · 3 days ago
I built something similar [1]

It's basically a podcast player where you can browse a database of podcasts filtered by spoken language, and listen with transcriptions and translations.

For each language I made a podcast to learn the most frequent words.

You can also get audible feedback on your pronunciation.

I am in the process of building a YouTube database of channels by spoken language to play youtube videos on the app.

> Every month or every N hours of reading/listening, you take a new test to recalibrate your proficiency level.

I slightly disagree with this part, I think the moment you add some sort of "test" or drills it can become tedious or dreadful to learn in the long term.

[1] https://www.langturbo.com

sebnun commented on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server   disco.cloud/blog/how-idea... · Posted by u/jryio
evantbyrne · 2 months ago
It is worth learning to use Docker Swarm. Deployments are as simple as pushing a new container to your registry and running one command. I built a free CLI tool rove.dev that simplifies provisioning and does service diffing.

Either that or use a PaaS that deploys to VMs. Can't make recommendations here but you could start by looking at Semaphore, Dokku, Dokploy.

sebnun · 2 months ago
I'm looking for simple k8s alternatives like docker swarm and kamal. Rove looks really interesting.
sebnun commented on How to get started with writing tech video essays    · Posted by u/sonderotis
sebnun · 6 months ago
I started a software Youtube channel 2 days ago [1], so I went down the rabbit hole of finding the best tools, best way to record, etc.

I first thought of using a presentation tool like keynote, but it can be limiting if you want to make more complex content, like showing browser tabs, drawing diagrams, etc.

If your content is more technical, I think is best to just record your screen and show the command line or editor. Most people use OBS to record the screen and show your face at the same time. You can explain things with a diagram tool like excalidraw. Theprimeagen and "Theo - t3․gg" work that way, they first make a live stream, then edit that stream into a Youtube video.

> where can I find royalty free music and clips

If your content is more "infotainment" like Fireship, he explains his way of making videos here [2] and this video also goes into his process more [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WM0lJU6GY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6-Q2dgodLs

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRoSBWYMefY

sebnun commented on Fast, Simple and Open Firebase Alternative: TrailBase   github.com/trailbaseio/tr... · Posted by u/trailbase-alt
sebnun · 7 months ago
Nice. I assume this was inspired by Pocketbase (Golang): https://pocketbase.io/
sebnun commented on Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript    · Posted by u/bekacru
sebnun · 7 months ago
Surprised none mentioned OpenAuth yet, how does this compares?

https://openauth.js.org/

sebnun commented on Solo-built SaaS for automating Meta/Google ads    · Posted by u/efeberkec
sebnun · 8 months ago
Hi, congrats on your launch.

Note that to show your work you should change your title to "Show HN: xxxx" and follow these rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

sebnun commented on EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future   geldata.com/blog/edgedb-i... · Posted by u/mmastrac
sebnun · 10 months ago
The main reason I'm using Supabase is due to their support of the pgroonga extension out of the box.

Does Gel support multilingual full text search?

sebnun commented on Show HN: LLPlayer – a media player with OpenAI Whisper   llplayer.com... · Posted by u/umlx
sebnun · 10 months ago
Looks really nice congrats, I built something similar but for podcasts [0]

I see you are using yt-dlp for YouTube, my app originally also played YouTube videos scraped with yt-dlp, but I found that it is very hard to get YouTube audio "at scale" even when rotating IP, using proxies, etc. You will eventually get blocked, so I dropped the whole thing and focused on podcasts.

But with your app the user runs it locally so that shouldn't be a problem. Good luck.

[0] https://www.langturbo.com

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