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This looks really cool. A while ago I was thinking of putting together something similar but for very different reasons but this would enable bringing them to life much more easily.

Have you published as yet, how to create a new game on this?


This is really useful! Makes it easy to feed unstructured (thoughts) into a spreadsheet for processing later on. Thanks for doing this. Are you planning on making this open-source?


Love their mistakes page- https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes

Most startups could learn to maintain a page like this.


This is a great thread! I'm wondering if creating an ideas-people matchmaking site for it makes sense- it could be a collection of ideas along with their stage of development (idea only, prototype ready, production ready, etc) and a similar collection of skills/people who are willing to/interested in projects. All opensource/free of course.

I'll be up for putting this together if someone wants in on this. I'm a generalist with mastery/expertise in [python, go, nosql dbs, aiml, bigdata] have product and business experience as well.


There are also web implementations like https://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ or https://turtleacademy.com/ which kids love to play with (and I'll admit is fun for us adults too!) The fern example in particular is surprisingly beautiful.


You can also host an event for online volunteering- eg. mapping projects. Examples- https://www.missingmaps.org/ and https://www.hotosm.org/

Most of these would show a leaderboard of whoever has made most contributions (within your event/subgroup) and you can turn it into a game.


These prompts can vary significantly based on the field you are working on. You should consider a way to customize these prompts that are more relevant to your field.

Overall- very cool concept. Realized this while using it- I have a forcing function of taking only the useful parts of my thoughts forward. That is handy for someone like me that has brain-spills all the time :)


I was surprised people found the prompts so useful, so I'm focusing more on that next. I think I'll create a dedicated site with a wide variety of prompts next. Should be fun!


Almost all such articles miss the most crucial self assessment piece- if you are married/in a relationship make sure you and your partner have a good understanding of the potential stress that you are about to take on. It can make all the difference in making shitty days tolerable or even more terrible.


Sometimes the best question is the simplest one. I agree the original has a lot of scope of improvements but I prefer the debate and the range of answers which wouldn't have been the case if the original question was more specific.


The TrumpScript is awesome :)

Lots of us are pointing out what's missing, but I think there is at least two that doesn't necessarily belong in a category of programming language- plain text and json. The latter one just says {"hello":"world"} if you are curious.

There may be more but I haven't looked through all of them.


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