Tuesday, 31 August 2021

New top story on Hacker News: What are some products and services in the US that are not in Nigeria?

New top story on Hacker News: What are some products and services in the US that are not in Nigeria?

on 8/31/2021 01:28:00 am 0 Comment
What are some products and services in the US that are not in Nigeria?
3 by pmandedev | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Recently, I have been trying to build something of value, maybe offer a service or a product and it seems am out of ideas. So, what are some products and services used in every day living in the US/developed countries that are not yet available in other countries(Nigeria)?

Monday, 30 August 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Seems like everyone is getting rich

New top story on Hacker News: Seems like everyone is getting rich

on 8/30/2021 02:28:00 am 0 Comment
Seems like everyone is getting rich
9 by paulpauper | 8 comments on Hacker News.
It seems like everyone is getting rich these days: index funds , crypto, stock trading, collectibles, Wall street bets, tech jobs, fang jobs, home prices, prestigious jobs, etc. How do you prevent becoming discouraged or distracted when there seems like so many opportunities calling and so many people doing better

Sunday, 29 August 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids

on 8/29/2021 12:28:00 am 0 Comment
Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids
9 by KLFaraaz | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, we're Ahmad, Sashakt, and Harshit of Kalam Labs ( https://ift.tt/3j5hXgm ). Kalam Labs lets 6 to 14 year old kids learn their favourite science topics by watching live game streams and playing science games. It's like Twitch for science, except you also get to play :) Here's a sample video of our live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMmUg0N0HE High curiosity in kids is directly linked to better academic performance and better outcomes when they grow up. However, school leads to a drop in curiosity as they discourage asking questions and encourage “focussing on the blackboard.” Parents don’t have a solution, as internet resources are unstructured and unreliable and encyclopedias are static and boring for the kids. We were batchmates at our undergraduate degrees and worked together at India's largest educational body, NCERT. There we interacted with hundreds of kids, and they were really curious about science. Their heads were filled with questions like: Why is the sky blue? What is inside a black hole? etc. But the conventional teaching mediums were just too boring for them. So we started searching what do they want? Turns out almost every kid was on Roblox and Minecraft. There were entire communities there hanging out, hosting live streams chatting with each other. Digging deeper, we saw that Roblox and Minecraft are being extensively used as educational media. Microsoft has launched Minecraft for Education and Roblox has launched Roblox Education, and this was prompting teachers to migrate from Zoom to these multiplayer games. So we got it: we will use live game streaming to help kids learn science. We launched our MVP and saw phenomenal results. Generating $1k USD revenue in just a couple of days, we saw a market potential of scaling it and hence decided to start a startup around it. At Kalam Labs we host daily live game streams on kids' favourite science topics like space, black holes, and dinosaurs. During the live stream, an instructor takes the kids around a virtual world where they learn new topics by playing game-based exercises. The cool parts are: unlike a typical live game-stream on Twitch/YT where only the video of instructor playing a game is shared, at Kalam Labs kids can play the game with the instructor. This helps the instructor to give short fun activities for kids to solve for explaining any topic. In addition, our Live Chat has a tag-feature, which is really loved by kids. Instead of typing the entire chat, kids can just tap on the different recommendations and convey their thoughts. This leads to very high-engagement with sometimes kids liking the tapping feature more than the game itself. We are seeing cool metrics pop out due to this: Our average watch time of a live stream is 40 minutes - 5x higher than Youtube. Further, just launched in Mid-June our product has amassed thousands of paying customers growing 50% week-over-week. Please share your thoughts and feedback!

Saturday, 28 August 2021

Friday, 27 August 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

on 8/27/2021 03:28:00 am 0 Comment
Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP
62 by mrhichem | 29 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN crowd. I worked on this project on weekends and evenings. I'm excited I made it into a presentable MVP, and it is so satisfying. I would like to get some honest feedback from this great community. I made https://ift.tt/3sPW7AF, to scratch a personal itch. I myself trade options as a hobby, and I didn't find a screener that satisfies my need to be able to explore raw options data freely and without preset constraints. So I made this app that allows playing with options market data and extract interesting opportunities. The techs used: - Laravel + Jquery + Mysql - Tradier API for market data - DigitalOcean for hosting - OVH for domain name It costs me 5$/month to run the website. I'll be glade to continue if it proves to be a viable product in the long run and maybe I will take it to the next level and try monetize it. Note: the app is not suitable for phone screens yet, although this is a planned feature.