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Show HN: Early Reader – Free open source reading app I built for my 4-year-old

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5 points·by melvinmelih·vor 3 Monaten·2 comments

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melvinmelih
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
That's the only trade-off, the app bundle is about 340MB for the first download but once you have it on your phone it will always work offline and load all assets instantly.
melvinmelih
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
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melvinmelih
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
“Sir, you have the vote of every thinking person.” “That’s not enough — I need a majority.” — Adlai Stevenson
melvinmelih
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Why not build a receipt scanner then?
melvinmelih
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I’m in Colombia right now and they actually have a great food labeling system. It just warns you if a product contains too much sugar, salt, additives etc, without trying to score. Whereas the European labels give you a false sense that everything is nutritious.
melvinmelih
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
> because they are trained on multilingual data

But they were not trained on government-sanctioned homegrown EU data.
melvinmelih
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
> After all, it's not like they could possibly identify every single living person and tie them to their likeness.

Wasn’t he literally scanning eye balls a couple years ago?
melvinmelih
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
I recently had to build a production-ready workflow in N8N - it ended up being a spaghetti flow of custom code nodes and custom http requests (because none of the provided connectors did exactly what we needed) that I was left wondering if this wouldn't be easier to code up in Cursor.