The article mentions that "The names do not affect outputs using OpenAI's API systems or in the OpenAI Playground (a special site for developer testing)."
I have been working on Audjust (https://www.audjust.com/) on and off in my spare time. It's a service to manipulate (shorten/lengthen/loop) audio for video editors and music producers.
I had a Show HN a while back that was well-received and kicked things off (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480687). Since launching I have changed the name and added paid accounts which have brought in enough money to cover costs and make some profit!
I agree, the German translation is pretty bad (phrases like "Hier ist, was sie über Quicklang.", "Es ist ein Durcheinander. Sie wissen Bescheid.", and "Du kannst all meine Programmierprojekte auf X" are incomplete or awkward).
It also doesn't sound like this can handle dynamic phrases like "buy {{count}} items"?
When you use machine translation, you must be aware that the fact that text is not in the original language does not necessarily mean that someone else speaking another language can understand it.
When I took a look at using DO last time I decided against using them because you had to pay for the duration your clients are connected to them when using WebSockets. As far as I understood it’s not execution duration but flat out how long your clients are connected. You’ll burn through seconds quickly that way. I decided to go with a polling mechanism instead.
I posted last year and reached #1 for a bit. The initial flood of users left, but my MAU is climbing bit by bit again after investing into SEO.
Profitable? Yes (as in making more than spending on it), but nowhere near enough to work on it full time. Successful? I think so? My first breakthrough project!
New connections? Yes, I got reached out to by some companies and individuals and had and still have conversations about it with folks interested in the tech. Also made me invest more into learning B2B after initially building the product as B2C.
Didn’t help with my career per se but opened a lot of doors in case something doesn’t work out with my current career.
Definitely a huge spike that I haven’t hit again. But the project isn’t dead.
Regarding documentation: my pet peeve is Google’s developer docs which default to showing docs in your account language with no way to change that. It would be fine if the translation was decent, but Google insists on using their awful machine translation and I would much rather just see the docs in English. But there’s no way to set that as the default as far as I could tell.
I've worked on something similar for a project of mine and used AWS Lambda which has been nice because it scales well and didn't cost me money while it wasn't running. The limit is 15 minutes which should be fine for something like this.
As others mentioned, I would go with a client-side approach if it works for you though.
> Being visible on social media. I monitor discussions around the Google Indexing topics and add my replies there. I don't just spam in replies with my tools, in most cases, I genuinely answer and bring value. If my reply gets a reply, I may include my URL in the next reply.
to be honest, I exchange value for attention.
That's what good internet is about.
Im not just promoting stuff for my own sake.
My key goal here is to give as much value as I can first.
If I earn respect this way, then I'm allowed to share my tool.
It is a nofollow link so not sure how much SEO juice you'd get out of it, but if I google Index Rusher right now, I get this HN post as the second link, where the first is the product's website itself.
