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Show HN: We made a web app so that our parents can keep reading to
our daughter
Author : benja123
Score : 64 points
Date : 2020-04-10 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (readastorytome.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (readastorytome.com)
| cs44 wrote:
| How has your experience with LiveView been?
| benja123 wrote:
| Pretty great. It let me write this really quickly with minimal
| effort. There were some quirks and some weird hacks I had to
| make when it came to working with JS, but that could also be me
| doing it wrong.
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| My biggest complaint would be around some latency issues when
| the connection is bad, but I knew that would be an issue when I
| chose it. I would definitely choose it again.
| mataug wrote:
| This is so cool, My mom is a school teacher, and the school is
| trying to get her to make videos for her students.
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| She struggles with video editing software to make videos. This
| could help a lot, especially if I could have custom stories.
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| She could do a story session with my and I would just record the
| screen.
| benja123 wrote:
| You can! Right now you can upload a PDF and that becomes your
| story.
| mataug wrote:
| Thank you !!
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| I was thinking about building something like this over the
| weekend. You saved me a lot of effort.
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| I'm willing to self-host / donate some money if that helps
| with server costs.
| benja123 wrote:
| Anytime. You should still build one! It was a lot of fun to
| build.
|
| Thanks for the offer, but right now I don't see a need for
| any donations/self hosting. Maybe that will come, but at
| the moment a relatively small single DO box is handling it
| pretty well.
| [deleted]
| anymane wrote:
| Such a cool idea!
| benja123 wrote:
| Thanks. It's been pretty useful for us and let us keep some
| type of normalcy during these strange times.
| tagolli wrote:
| This looks really cool! I only see 7 books in the bookshelf. Are
| you planning to add more?
| [deleted]
| benja123 wrote:
| Thanks. Yes - I will be adding more over time.
| war1025 wrote:
| I just tried this and couldn't get anything to load (Firefox).
| Maybe I'm just doing something wrong? Didn't see any errors in
| the console
| benja123 wrote:
| Mobile or desktop?
| scott113341 wrote:
| Awesome idea, and nice work! Is this open source, and if so,
| would you mind sharing a link to it? I am beginning work on a
| slightly similar project [1] to help facilitate speech therapy
| (girlfriend is a speech-language pathologist) over video chat and
| would be interested to compare with your approach and tech stack.
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| I saw this [2] Chess + video chat project the other day, and drew
| heavy inspiration from its approach [3].
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| [1]: https://github.com/scott113341/slp-memory
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| [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790728
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| [3]: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/rootshirechess
| benja123 wrote:
| I have not made it open source atm, but it is something I am
| considering.
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| Tech stack: Elixir/Phoenix (liveview mostly) WebRTC code is
| based off:
| https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/webrtc-web/#...
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| I setup a turnserver using https://github.com/coturn/coturn
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| What do you need help with? Maybe I can help you now.
| ldenoue wrote:
| Very nice. Testing on my iPhone 6s landscape, I noticed the prev
| and next buttons were not aligned with the book page.
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| I also created a similar tool a few weeks ago available for free
| as well here https://www.appblit.com/bookcafe
| benja123 wrote:
| That is really cool! Honestly we didn't focus on the "look"
| beyond making sure it was functional.
| sshah1983 wrote:
| Caribu is an app in this space as well. Essentially video calls
| with sync'ed storybooks.
| nicois wrote:
| Add in the WHO book for children to help with dealing with covid
| too:
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| https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/09-04-2020-children-s-s...
| benja123 wrote:
| Done!
| _benj wrote:
| Thanks for sharing! It such a great idea :-) Talking with my wife
| (SLP) she observed how important is interactive reading and I was
| wondering if you had that planned or if open sourcing this was an
| option so I could contribute to something like that.
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| Just as a reference, some therapy platforms allow the users to
| draw on the book, or put stickers and such... and even though
| this is not full-blown therapeutic, being able to draw (a
| transparent HTLM canvas on top of the image? websockets
| communicating x,y?) would add a lot to this, I think.
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| Thanks for sharing!
| benja123 wrote:
| I thought about adding a transparent layer so that my daughter
| and parents can draw on a story. I never thought about it from
| a therapy point of view, but that is just not an area I am
| familiar with - interesting though. I would be super happy if
| this can be used for that.
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| As far as open sourcing it goes - I have not made it open
| source ATM, but it is definitely something I am considering.
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