TonyHaenn

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   by TonyHaenn 2y ago

   I think the software is the easy part (and that's still hard). The harder part is finding a problem that people will pay you to solve. I'd suggest for each of your ideas, you try to validate that there's a group of people tha
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   by TonyHaenn 2y ago

   Depends on what you're aiming for. For my use case, I'm aiming for the feeling of talking to another human. I built an iOS app for little kids to call Santa. Low latency was important. Now I'm working on a mock interview expe
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   by TonyHaenn 2y ago

   Nice writeup! Super interesting that we both took different paths, but ended up with similar latencies. I built a real-time conversation platform in Elixir. I used the Membrane framework to coordinate amongst the STT, LLM and TTS steps. I a
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   by TonyHaenn 3y ago

   Thank you! React Native still has some sharp corners. The expo tooling is pretty rad, but I could never get the Android version to build. Hopefully LiveView Native has a path around some of those issues. I agree it’d be pretty cool to have
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   Show HN: Talk to Santa – An Interactive ChatGPT-Powered App for Kids(apps.apple.com)

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   by TonyHaenn 3y ago

   I’ve personally always learned better when it’s in service of building something. Pick a language (e.g. python) and build something you’d find useful or interesting.
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   by TonyHaenn 5y ago

   Lola | https://www.lola.com | Remote or Boston, MA | FE Engineers, DevOps Last year the pandemic wiped out a bunch of the travel sector. Lots of travel companies went under or were acquired. Lola moved fast and expanded into the