App idea: sumbit an OPML of YT channels. Scrape each for its blog or website. Find its subsequent rss. Return new OPML.
Derivative app: filter each rss feed, removing any post that is not video or multimedia (or just turning it into a media feed.)
For each: can be either client-side for 1 or cloud-enabled for many. Derivative app runs permanently.
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For the main app, enable it to work on any number of websites where people are followed. Good for decoupling and de-silo'ing, and for bringing back rss.
Why not call it Slopify? Humans are the new vinyl.
https://flippa.com/12100071 - I was wondering why SmashHaus was for sale. (no affiliation) Peak value. It's only downhill from here for outsourced music.
It'd be good to know when something typed has "gone live" or is every keystroke submitted in realtime? Google Wave had that. Can lead to embarrassment and clutter/distraction. Maybe have a time buffer?
Maybe have background color changes to indicate status?
Also, I like the idea of removing the need to press enter..maybe a time delay on "auto-submit." Also, after editing, allow another background color change as someone may change something many hours later.
Can you remove the need for mouse clicks when editing?
Just mouseover and then type. Then after a pause (or mouse out,) auto-submit.
Also, I was thinking about a forum for tinkering.. maybe have a way to attach a url to any comment as an extra field?
So the key idea here is to have a browser extension that loads comments for any URL you visit. This has been tried before. But it'd help to know what is being discussed. The web is a giant place.
Did you ever use FriendFeed? Perhaps instead of subscribing to people you subscribe to URLs? Anytime you see a URL that interests you, you select "interesting" - same with people. Have the right side of the screen be a feed-of-feeds.
Also, as with the original Plastic.com, a way to submit as anonymous if required. Also, where is the content stored? Privacy/security/transparency/encryption are the big issues. Maybe have logins with a random string that is used for encryption?
Don't ask for email addresses. Have a "kill-switch" string as well. You could also have a dead-man's-switch built in as well to avoid killing an account. Paste bins usually have a period attached to them.
Can you get micropayments involved? Ask-me-anythings can lead to revenue for people who get asked. People need to pay to view an answer, or pay to view all a user's comments. Or, all old comments require payment - that'd entice people to write things that stand the test of time. Who knows? Split revenue.
Create a leader board of the largest money earners. Attract insiders of all types - people who would otherwise be on the prediction markets. Is that possible? Those sites will end up becoming more risky over time for insiders, I suspect. So make it a place to sell secrets. (muahaha - actually don't) Leader boards can be gamed too, another problem.
Charge for image storage and/or display after a set number of images has been reached.
Are you able to invent a long term CAPTCHA? Maybe have it integrate with the browser extension previously mentioned. How can you guarantee humans?
Any chance of a future where hardware can be customized at the design stage, like 3D printing but taken to an even higher level, even for 1-off builds? So prompt-driven manufacturing? For example, a watch with a USB-C port?
One day that watch could be your only PC. And then some type of eyeglass for a screen. Can also do "terrain overlays" Terminator style. I suppose battery power is the bottleneck so maybe long-distance wireless power delivery is the key (as what Tesla originally created.) So no battery at all.
Unfortunately most of my attempts to power both embedded PC and robot motors from the same power bank result in unexpected reboots (even on what is effectively an RC car). And yes, I'm a CS Msc, not an electrical engineer, but ...
Yeah, I've got a new mini PC that reboots at random. It kind of "drops out." Works better with Ubuntu than Manjaro. Failed device. I was thinking of setting up a forum of some sort to discuss various devices that people may be tinkering with. The domain is tinkeriDOTng - just need to do something with it - could end up looking like Discogs with all the variations on gadgets and devices out there - sort of like music. And then there's the whole "builds" dimension.
How much otherwise highly useful stuff are people sitting on that they can't get going (or going well) for one reason or another? Also, recycling I expect will end up important at some point, and knowing who has what (and where) could expedite this process.
I think the lesson for other media companies is to get all their content into a single online "property" or are their anti-trust issues involved?
There's a very low bar for anyone in the world to watch YouTube with a handheld device and an internet connection. What am I missing?
I suppose it's their ad program and fast-acting content ID system that juice it - that'd be the hard part to get right.
X has a lot of video content too - why not present it better in a video-focused version? Get rid of the "X" branding though - it's not a rating. Maybe "Y"?
Micropayments should be tied into all compensation now. x402 as well for monetization.
Perhaps if Soundcloud did video it'd be a challenger and there's one area Soundcloud lacks but should be able to capitalize on - music videos as uploaded by artists themselves.
Article: "It only showed the spam to Googlebot, making it invisible to site owners." - so it was really only about SEO for themselves or their customers.
With regards to "Your Ad Here" type services using crypto: are Adshares, Coinzilla, Bitmedia or A-Ads any good? Perhaps micropayments are what makes this space interesting right now.
I suppose it's the "unsavory" aspect of the things being peddled that can make it hard/expensive to get visible inbound links.
Article: "It resolved its C2 domain through an Ethereum smart contract, querying public blockchain RPC endpoints. Traditional domain takedowns would not work because the attacker could update the smart contract to point to a new domain at any time."
I wonder if that scheme be used for anything positive, like avoiding censorship? That's pretty important if you are sharing information about new inventions around, say, free energy as an antidote to cost-of-living and the "scourge of AI."
There was a similar Show HN from 3 weeks ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387443 (open source too) - and there is a live window from all the machines in the swarm. https://dialtoneapp.com/explore - but only 2 so far. Maybe LittleSnitch can generate more data than this? Could end up an immune system for bad actors.
Anything new to get much better performance from low-spec machines that is idiot-proof is a game-changer.
Is there a place where people can document and share the things they are tinkering with in the shed?
I had this idea where people's inventions/devices could be sent around in a "pay-it-forward circle" for learning and inspiration. People already do that with crystals.
Also, can being aware that x number of people are working on the same thing yield to development in the state-of-the-art if they start working together?
I suppose there's always that tension between DIY'ers bouncing ideas off each other vs prototypes built in fitted-out research labs to think about.
Is this idea anything more that just the addition of another sub-reddit or using existing teamwork software?
If you had something to share, how would you choose it amongst the 10's or 100's of things you have already built? Maybe you'd need commercialization help? Are there liabilities and risks in sharing DIY devices?
I've been thinking about https://openhardware.directory/ and https://ohwr.org/ - maybe if you list your projects, agents can do the work of bringing people together and finding new ways to develop them. It's about value-adding on top of decentralized and disjointed projects. An easy way to construct plans or follow them? How to minimize duplicated work across the world?
Maybe a "Universal Commerce Protocol" (http://ucp.dev) but for scientists?
Hackaday.com comes to mind. That's a blog with those tinkering things. Hackaday.io is a big base where people store their schematics and worklog, present their inventions and tinkering as they happen.
It's also owned by Siemens via Supplyframe. That means its content is controlled to a certain degree. Sort of like the way Vice is controlled by its owners. In that way it could function as controlled opposition. Be careful what you submit too.
I wonder if it'd be possible to create a Hackaday-type site with HN content. hackernewsbooks.com >> hackernewshacks.com
Good links. "Guests visiting the site are around 250, instead of the 48976 (mostly bots) we had two days ago. Let's see how it goes over the course of today."
How funny would it be if one of the AI firms started offering free web hosting, just to get good UGC back? They could even block bots from competitors, right?
I suppose building it from scratch means you could release the source and then charge for customizations or for push demands. Would you even consider doing that?
Derivative app: filter each rss feed, removing any post that is not video or multimedia (or just turning it into a media feed.)
For each: can be either client-side for 1 or cloud-enabled for many. Derivative app runs permanently.
-- For the main app, enable it to work on any number of websites where people are followed. Good for decoupling and de-silo'ing, and for bringing back rss.
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