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Show HN: Transform Your Ideas into Viral Shorts

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 8:17pm

Article URL: https://instavidai.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767528

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Show HN: Trailmarks – Huge, browser-based, Carmen Sandiego-style travel game

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 7:55pm

I'd love to have people test-play my Carmen Sandiego/Backpacker style travel game. It's a retro genre... but if you like geography and quizzes, you'll like this! It's a working alpha with most of the content I intend to add, but I need to have people give it a try now before I decide which directions to fully develop!

I'm torn between putting effort into missions, more advanced in-game trading economy or creating more of a narrative. But I'm also curious if you get the navigation, if the core gameplay makes sense and if you want to continue playing, basically.

Hope you find it worth playing. It's a pure browser game with no login, you're playing for free immediately in this alpha! Please feel welcome to DM feedback or reply or anything!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767409

Points: 2

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Show HN: JSONXMLKit – Format JSON/XML and Decode Base64 in the Browser

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 7:51pm

I built this because I was constantly switching tabs to format JSON or XML, or decode Base64 — and many of the tools I found were either bloated, sent my data to a server, or just didn’t support things like XPath or JSONPath.

JSONXMLKit runs 100% in-browser, and includes:

JSON and XML formatters

Path search with JSONPath and XPath

File-based Base64 encoder/decoder (images, PDFs, etc.)

No login, no uploads. Just a set of quick, client-side tools I needed and decided to share. Feedback welcome!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767379

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Should I open source or not?

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 7:44pm

I am currently working on two projects: a PDF alternative for the blind and Google Maps/navigation for the blind in my city. I started from scratch with no AI or third-party reliance. I have written everything by hand (with considerable difficulty since I am blind), so what I am asking is: is it worth it to open source?

Embarrassing coding style aside, I am concerned about parasitic big corporations taking the code and putting it behind a paywall, which is not what I want for obvious reasons. Putting my projects under GPL will obviously hold them back a bit, with the cost that brilliant programmers who would have helped would be the casualty. Another issue I have is that I want zero AI-bros in my code. Not only would I be inviting disorganized, poorly constructed code, I also don't want these kids copy/pasting to add code they have no right to. What should I do?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767345

Points: 3

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