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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
This comment is probably the closest one to my own thoughts and beliefs as well. Thanks for writing it so eloquently.
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
Exactly. Even if just for Chuck and I, this was something both of us needed. It brought a lot of positivity to each of our lives for a lot of different reasons.
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
We appreciate you listening anyway! I enjoy the music, but it's definitely not for everybody!
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
Appreciate it!
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
Yes, that's exactly what we did here. We fed the originals to AI, but we did give it wiggle room to make a cover version and not follow the original exactly. I think I will play around with running a few tracks through and telling it t
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
Thanks for listening anyway. Personally, I like the stuff and love jamming out to it in my car, but hey, I may have a bit of nostalgia-bias.
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
Yeah, I built the website, but with a day job and 4 kids and about 64 other things going on, I did heavily lean into AI for the copy. :-)
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
Completely agree. We tried feeding his voice in and using that as a voice model and it actually sounded even further away from his actual voice so we nixed it. We uploaded our original tracks as a reference, so there were some notes that le
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
I get it. Recorded music is a lot of fun to play and listen to. This still was a fun project for us to work on together after 25-years and with both of us living on opposite ends of the country. Hopefully our next release will be an in-pers
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
Totally agree. I guess that's what comes with the AI/robot stuff. Hopefully we'll be able to create an in-person album again, but with a little higher production quality than our dorm room versions.
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
I'd love that. We hope to. We live on opposite sides of the country now. The AI stuff was a great, nostalgic kick-off for us. We don't plan on using AI like this as our only way of making music, but it was a great project to work
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
lmfao
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
Link in bio
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by jacobgraf 2mo ago
That's great. AI is a tricky beast. It can be used for good or evil. I had a lot of convictions while working on this project and my soul is resting easy with how we navigated things!
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Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI(fadingmaize.com)
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Here is a code for 50% off of your first year of Pro. Expires on 10/31/19. Enjoy! F5zLMQTX
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Zapmarks is definitely more focused on the keyboard than the mouse. If you have a keyword in your head, we want you to be able to type it and go. Tiles would cause you to have to look around to find what you want. W
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
That's another difference. With Zapmarks, there is no "most of the time". If you type a keyword you have set up, and hit enter, you will get exactly to where you wanted to be 100% of the time. Once you've got the keyword
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Yep, but Zapmarks is browser-agnostic which is a main feature.
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We'll definitely look to improve on that. It's a hard concept to convey in text. Most people don't get it until they are shown, that's why we did the video, but we'll look at other ways to h
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Yes, most of the time this might work, but it also might not. With Zapmarks you know exactly what you're getting because if the keyword doesn't match, it doesn't work. One example would be my Google Drive example, I have mult
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Kind of, but we're more focused on keywords and accessing sites very quickly where Pinboard is more an archive of links. Thanks for checking us out!
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
You can't sync a host file to an iPhone. That's just one example, but at the core, that's the difference. You could access Zapmarks on your Kindle browser or your refrigerators smart display if you really wanted to.
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
I use lots of bash aliases as well! Yep, query strings are on our list! Thanks for checking things out!
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
We already have a native Chrome extension to do just this, and are working on other native solutions. We also offer a number of other ways to integrate it into other platforms using simply a URL. When logged in, we have a "Tools"
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
It was set at 500 as a starting point, if we find Pro users are frequently getting close to that limit, I'm sure we'll tweak things as needed!
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Yes, Firefox has bookmark keywords. I remember using these way back when, but then I moved to Chrome and I was lost. Zapmarks is cross-platform and works with any browser, that's our main advantage.
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Variables aren't supported in the links yet, but this is definitely on our radar! We focused on keyword functionality for launch, but the search would definitely be handy as well! Yes, you can manually change your default search engine
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Thank you!
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by jacobgraf 7y ago
Thanks for checking out Zapmarks! I created this product for myself first and foremost but I am hoping other people find it as useful as I do. I am a developer by day and jump from device to device and browser to browser. I hated having all

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