> I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end.

It's just getting started.

We're going to vibe code the entire enshittified internet to be ours once again.

The dream of the 90's and 00's is alive again. The indie web is going to become unstoppable.

We can build anything of size and scale with the limited spare energy we have now. Every product will be reborn without big tech tendrils.

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nalekberov a day ago | parent [-]

> We're going to vibe code the entire enshittified internet to be ours once again.

It’s such a wishful thinking, but no it doesn’t and won’t work this way. Code != useful product. Plus today’s web is all about fabricated content, AI bots, cloudflare challenge walls and all other annoying stuff. The very idea of being able to create something in seconds is already killing internet.

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mixedCase a day ago | parent | next [-]

Garbage being created at unprecedented rates does not diminish the fact that LLMs are acting as a positive multiplier for useful tools; this very item being one.

No one in all these years had gone through the effort of replicating the Spotify client with a snappy fast interface for a reason. Everything had been an integration into already existing software, or simpler interfaces, because the effort was not worth it. The equation has changed.

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flerp a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

who said anything about internet

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echelon a day ago | parent | prev [-]

You can look at the glass half full all you want, my glass is overflowing.

This is the best year in all of my 20 years in tech. I'm creating so much stuff and it's all I've ever wanted.

This is the dream of the 2000's, and big tech can't stop us anymore.

I think I'm going to write my own music player soon that behaves exactly like I want it to. Maybe this weekend. Or maybe right after my home automation project. But I can probably squeeze them both in.

It's like Christmas every day now.

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nalekberov a day ago | parent [-]

Buddy, it’s the same big tech gave you this opportunity. You are creating so much stuff, but most of them are useless garbage that no one cares about.

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echelon a day ago | parent [-]

> You are creating so much stuff, but most of them are useless garbage that no one cares about.

Are you so sure of that?

One of my projects is at $5M ARR in just six months. I passed $400k in sales this month. It's an open source project.

I'm teaching my wife to code and we're going to make a video game together. Surely you can see the value in that bonding experience? She never would have been interested prior to Claude Code.

I've been writing my own SRS software for drilling typing in Japanese. It's pretty fantastic. Nothing like that existed before I made it. So many needs that went unmet are just being filled.

That's just top of mind. I've been doing a ton.

Nobody likes to tag music the way I like to (multiple scalar quantified dimensions with clustering), so there's literally no music player on the planet in the shape that I want. If I'd wanted to build that before, I'd have to spend opportunity cost over several weekends to start building, plus the ongoing burden of maintenance. That's likely a few months burnt plus fixing things when API integrations break down. Now it's a few hours plus a bug fix here and there.

This is 3D printing for software.

I don't get the negativity. This is all so magical.

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Shorel 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I am very interested in your projects. Particularly the music player.

Tagging for Latin America music is basically a cluster fuck of misleading misunderstandings, there's not a single salsa, merengue, son, charanga, or bachata song that has been correctly tagged in any streaming platform o scrobbler. It's like the people using the platforms are deaf to the rhythms. WTF is Latin Jazz doing in a salsa song? Exactly.

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righthand a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Links to your $5M ARR FOSS? And is that Annualized Run Rate or Annual Recurring Revenue? I'm guessing the former.

> One of my projects is at $5M ARR in just six months. I passed $400k in sales this month. It's an open source project.

If it's the former ARR, then how are you at $5M if it took you six months to get to $400k? $5M/12 = $416,666.6666666667

Which correct me if I'm misunderstanding (I do frequently) but that means your best average sales month was ~$400k, not 6 months to reach $400k.

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stavros a day ago | parent [-]

Presumably https://getartcraft.com/, after some light stalking.

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		More details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500019
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		"Controllable AI for artists". "AI for artists", Carl!
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		FYI on this site, I had to enable WebGL to get it to run in Firefox. Not sure why it requires WebGL specifically I didn't see anything on the pages that seemed to need something like that. They could be losing customers that can't load their site.

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nalekberov a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, happy for ya.