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Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write

blockchainednovel.com
27 points·by mck-·bulan lalu·14 comments

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mck-
·29 hari yang lalu·discuss
You know what, I seriously considered selling this on the blockchain, but cut it out of scope on the end :) if you are serious, we can always do a manual transaction
mck-
·30 hari yang lalu·discuss
That’s funny, I launched a startup novel three days ago [1] where I also referenced emacs in one of the scenes

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447484
mck-
·30 hari yang lalu·discuss
For me the flow state has always come from a sensation of creative juices spawning ideas, a vision for an end result, and the deep focus that ensues in working towards that.

Such a cycle previously could take hours or days, resulting in long, deep flow states. But now I go through dozens such cycles a day.

So less of a single flow state, more so many short flow states. As for waiting, that’s when you can explore another idea in parallel. Double the flow states for me :)
mck-
·bulan lalu·discuss
Are you trying to read the sample chapters? What browser are you on? And did you try toggling dark/light mode?
mck-
·bulan lalu·discuss
Thank you! I did also submit this to IngramSparks, which is a platform for bookstores and libraries. From what I've read, the process would be to enable the book for distribution, and libraries would have a way in their systems to review and place orders for new books that are released.
mck-
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
One thing to consider is that pre-AI homegrown software is a house of cards, whereas post-AI vice coded software can be better than what most average engineer can craft.

They’re also getting quite good at fixing 500 errors at the speed of a prompt, which is faster than humans
mck-
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I wrote it :) there’s also an open source version here: https://github.com/mck-/Open-VRP
mck-
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The core route optimization algorithm of Routific is also written in Common Lisp :)
mck-
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Thank you! This was very helpful :)
mck-
·11 tahun yang lalu·discuss
In case anyone might find it helpful to have another example: I wrote a similar post a couple years ago: https://kuomarc.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/12-steps-to-build-a...