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debruinf | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

yeah, I heard this from others as well but not something I particularly aim for at the moment (I could easily release a second version of a video with the original sound though). Although sound/music is one of the bigger questions/challenges I need to 'solve': it's quite difficult to strike a balance between setting the mood for a video and too intrusive. Pure original sound is difficult for other reasons, mic quality, background noise etc.

debruinf | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

Thanks for the kind words.

In principle I'm absolutely in favour of releasing it to the public. To be sure: do you mean the _content_ I create in the video or the _videos_ themselves (I wouldn't mind both, but just to clarify).

One of the things I want to add later are downloadable resources: PDFs with the drawings or cutting templates, so people can get a head start with e.g. colouring instead of having to do the drawing first.

debruinf | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

Super frustrated by the state of videos for kids on youtube, especially in the arts and crafts department, i decided to launch a channel and start creating my own content. Basically, all videos start half decent but for some reason end in a big noisy mess, weird sounds, spoiling food, questionable product placements, zero creativity and always incentivize more watching and trapping viewers in the infinite ‘next video’ loop.

Instead, one of the goals for my videos will be to take a step back and inspire to create, zero commercial interest, not too much distractions and something parents can trust.

Still in the process of figuring out all the parameters, camera, editing, setup etc but its a lot of fun learning new skills. I have a million ideas for the content already so enough work to be done. If there is little to no ‘success’ in terms of viewers, i really don’t care since i enjoy all aspects of it and im building a nice catalog of creative videos to watch with my kid later. I have no public videos yet (coming very soon) but here are two samples of what to expect:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3e0tawk45E

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBZStuxOUlc

debruinf | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: 99avatars.com – Avatars for Humans and Computers

Hi,

Creator here. This small side projects was to learn more about SVG's and api design (documentation, rate limiting, etc).

Still lots to do but I wanted to show the world as soon as possible and gather some initial feedback.

Hope you like it!

-- edit

the Guess Who game is just a gimmick, it is mainly about the API

debruinf | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Fooder – helping you keep track of lessons learned

Thanks for trying and for your honest feedback! I find it quite hard to translate something I find incredibly useful to something that might be useful for others, and then make it intuitive to use. I'll have to work harder improving that.

I added a clip to the homepage to show how I designed it to work, I hope that helps a little.

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