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Show HN: Solitaire.free

Hacker News - 1 hour 50 min ago

Article URL: https://solitaire.free/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781233

Points: 1

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The Trans-America Trail Guide

Hacker News - 1 hour 57 min ago

Article URL: https://transamtrail.com/plan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781199

Points: 2

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Polyarc Draw

Hacker News - 2 hours 4 min ago
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Show HN: Pixel a Go-Go – GameBoy Camera and retro screenshot upscaling for iOS

Hacker News - 2 hours 6 min ago

Smile, you can now share Game Boy Camera photos (or any retro game screenshot) in 5k resolution to your Instagram account, via SMS/iMessage, or anywhere on the web you share photos.

Pixel a Go-Go! has a variety of ways to import photos from a real Game Boy, FPGA handhelds like the Analogue Pocket, or from emulators.

For the Game Boy Camera specifically, the app is able to emulate the Game Boy Printer so that photos can be "printed" from the actual 1998 game/cartridge, directly to your phone using adaptors like the GameBoy Camera Adapter Duo.

After import, you can and have pixel accurate high resolution images for sharing across the web. For example, I use the app to take photos on my Game Boy Camera and upscale their original 160x144 resolution up to 5120x4608 for a niche GB Camera Instagram account I manage.

You can add filters, and even save as stickers to share over iMessage.

Happy to answer any questions! This has been a fun side project to help make it easy to share my favorite niche photos to thousands on Instagram. Excited to make it available so others can share their photos as well in modern resolutions that look good on the phone or web.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781124

Points: 2

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Harm Bot · Streamlit

Hacker News - 2 hours 11 min ago

Article URL: https://harm-youtube.streamlit.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781079

Points: 2

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Show HN: I'm trying to map all vacation rentals you can book direct

Hacker News - 2 hours 14 min ago

Hi HN,

StayThere.ai started because I was trying to get more repeat guests to book directly instead of through Airbnb. About two years ago I took over managing seven short term rentals, which has since grown to 33. I started texting guests a link to our direct booking website after checkout and added QR code table toppers in each unit so guests could easily book direct the next time they visited or contact us if they needed anything.

One thing that always bothered me was that guests couldn't add pets when booking through our PMS's booking site, so I decided to build my own frontend on top of Guesty. That quickly turned into a deep Guesty integration using OAuth and webhooks, with Guesty remaining the source of truth while my frontend handled reservations, pricing, availability, messaging, guest accounts, automations, and tokenized Stripe payments. Once I had it working, I rebuilt it as a multi host platform where other property managers could connect their PMS and get their own direct booking website.

The software worked, but growing it didn't. The farther I got from hosts I didn't already know, the harder it became to convince someone to create an account, connect their PMS through OAuth, and trust a platform they had never used before. After a while I realized I was solving the wrong problem. Hosts already had direct booking websites. Instead of trying to replace them, why not make them searchable?

At first I was manually finding booking websites through Google and feeding them into a crawler I wrote. Eventually I built another crawler whose only job was finding websites for the indexing crawler. Today StayThere indexes 96,485 vacation rental listings from 3,124 host websites across 92 countries. You can browse properties on a map, preview a listing, choose your dates, and continue into the host's existing booking flow with those dates carried over for live pricing and availability. The map isn't fully availability aware yet, but that's what I'm working on next along with constantly adding more listings.

If you made it this far thanks! Happy to answer any questions!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781064

Points: 2

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