I was visiting the UK the other day, went to the supermarket and saw discounts for loyalty card owners. Didn't want to waste any money and a quick Google Image search gave me a barcode I could scan. Then I thought, why don't get charities / clubs / nice people to benefit from this so I built a little static site and now I need people to send me images of cards for others to scan.
Don't think there is any way of getting the stats on where people live automatically. At most they would probably be able to get most commonly used locations, as a IP belongs to a location, but that doesn't mean that the user lives there (or even that the user is physically around there [VPNs], but probably usually right).
Correct. You'd get a lot of people who suddenly seem to live in Columbus, Ohio or other random non-tech spots within USA due to AWS VPN and other such things.
https://panelbear.com/ isn’t open source but privacy friendly. I found it on HN (the founder is on here), can’t speak more highly of it. If you are tracking more than one site and want to get a good overview I recommend it.
Panelbear is truly great. I moved crontab.guru to panelbear in October and I’ve been extremely happy. The site does millions of page views a month but the analytics are still fast and responsive.
Thanks for the heads up, ‘Inicio’ is what I was looking for, will update.
Some of the words are slang but interestingly the word ‘porsiacaso’ does exist in Argentina and made it into the RAE https://dle.rae.es/porsiacaso but with the following more narrow definition:
m. Arg. y Ven. Alforja o saco pequeño en que se llevan provisiones de viaje.
I built this to scratch my own itch (I know, there are so many Sales Tools / CRMs out there but all the ones I checked out had way too many features/distractions for my liking). There are a handful of users using it which is a good start. Thanks for taking a look.
This looks like a good solution for a developer. Most people who create slide shows won't be tech-savvy enough to use it, so an interface (dare I say wizard) to get anyone started with a few slides i.e. images and text with sound default values would lower the barrier to adopt this.
I understand that a value is to have the slide show available as a link for someone to view at their leisure.
For the use case of a live presentation one could look into some audience interaction. Here's a side project I contributed to [0] which I used myself to poll the audience and and present the results in real-time. As a presenter you had the problem that you needed to switch between Powerpoint and the web browser, which confused the presenter. If it "just works" then there could be some value in doing something similar.
A problem with live presentation that any such solution faces is that speaking publicly and giving presentations is a nerve-wracking experience for most mortals. So:
a) Powerpoint / Keynote are viewed as safer bets (no connection issues, older projectors will have smaller resolutions and scaling content can be trickier)
b) The presentation will have too much text (a safety net for the presenter to make sure they don't get lost but a poorer experience for the audience) - maybe some constraints would nudge the presenter to create a better presentation (analogy: PechaKucha)
What should Hacker News stop / start / continue doing?
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You can't post links that were posted previously even though they have different content e.g. https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive so it would be good to have a flag stating that it's a live stream with new content
Aside from the feedback button talked about here, I wish the craze of implementing these annoying on-page full-screen popups asking you to subscribe to a newsletter would stop.
As a Brit living in Spain I hasten to add that although the financial business case to learn castellano doesn't stack up, it enriched my life immensely.
