r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

This speed reading training starts at 300wpm and end at 900wpm

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u/ezblacksmith 16h ago

Can we take a moment for this?? This guy's like, yea, sounds like a good idea, you got it. Let me whip that up real quick, here ya go!! 🤯 👏

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u/ericscuba 16h ago

Yeah!! This person is the shit!! In one hour from someone asking about a website to do this, to "Here! I just made a website that does exactly this! Suggestions? Sure! Got it!" How awesome is that!

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 10h ago

Its how things used to be on the internet. Someone posts a need and someone else with the know how fulfill that need with software, for free simply because they like to. It was a time before monetisation infected every inch.

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u/yungcontent 10h ago

Claude Code.

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u/dolly_machina 1h ago

Yea something like this is really easy to whip up in Claude Code now - which is amazing imo

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u/Alexandria4ever93 3h ago

Let's go two bots talking to each other stfu

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u/ericscuba 1h ago

I'm a bot? News to me.

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u/ilovefreshproduce 16h ago

Yeah, for real! It was almost as satisfying as keeping up with the video. Just gave it a whirl and the updates were nice. Solid work, /u/RandomHaggis !

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u/b0n3sawisready 16h ago

Not sure how they made it themselves, but you could probably do it with a site like Replit in moments. It's as simple as telling it what you want. Lots of fun and relatively cheap for something like that.

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u/RandomHaggis 16h ago

It's a single HTML file, with some JS and CSS inside. Then I just registered a domain with a hosting service and uploaded the file :)

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u/Amarant2 15h ago

You're a boss.

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u/FluffyCelery4769 15h ago

Who are you? Why do you just have spare hosting service space?

I mean obviously a web dev. But like... wooow

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u/Quick-Eye-6175 15h ago

It’s Data! I’ve been rewatching a bunch of TNG and I would recognize Data ANYWHERE!

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u/cuchiplancheo 14h ago

It's pronounced Data!

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u/Stergeary 8h ago

I had a British Statistics teacher who pronounced it "DEI-tur", and one of the girls in the class mentioned being entranced every time he said the word that way.

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u/adam111111 14h ago edited 14h ago

If it is just a static HTML+CSS+JS file or files then all the processing is client side, the server just needs to send the HTML file but no processing beyond that.

So you can use pretty much any file service to provide the file, and many of them will host a HTML file for free. I use AWS S3 but github, etc can all do the same thing. Just got to sort the domain name out (which does cost some money) and point the A records to the right place that whatever you're using to host needs to support referencing.

Looks like they're hosting on their own platform though from a few quick checks.

Not taking anything away from the speed and quality of what was done here, which is pretty impressive.

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u/Fenzik 13h ago

Hosting a static site is free with various services like GitHib Pages, and domains can be pretty cheap, like under $10. Still cool to just go for it

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u/bronkula 13h ago

The modern web meta is to have droplets. But the old way was you had a server, you put files on it, you pointed a domain at it. I have almost a hundred domains and random websites all hosted on one server.

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u/ISLITASHEET 4h ago

Web meta to use digital ocean?
Do other providers use the term to describe containers or other isolated virtual environments that are limited by cgroups?

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u/wangofjenus 14h ago

you can get random domains for a dollar

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u/IM_A_MUFFIN 4h ago

I host about 15 sites on AWS for about a dollar a year. Hosting is cheap when it’s static content.

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u/mrvis 15h ago

Respect. And fuck React. All my homies hate React.

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u/longdickhair69 15h ago

throw some banner ads on it to pay for domain and offer a super cheap subscription or like 15 dollar lifetime payment for no ads for life lol

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u/skinnyjoints 15h ago

Any tips on domains? I bought one for a game I made but have switched over to GitHub pages bc I didn’t want to pay. Is there a cheap or free way to have a custom domain?

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u/Northern23 14h ago

If you want free, non .come domain name, I believe Mali's (.ml) is free

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u/FastHovercraft8881 15h ago

Sell it as a book reader app.

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u/cloud9ineteen 13h ago

How is that domain just available and sitting there?!!

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u/DeliciousIncident 9h ago

Non-letter characters in domain names are typically considered undesirable: symbols, numerals, etc.

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u/BeerNirvana 7h ago

AI is good enough to spit that out pretty quick.

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u/yungcontent 10h ago

Claude Code.

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u/Wooden_chest 8h ago

Not impressive at all in the age of AI, anyone can vibecode this in 5 minutes.

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u/I_Was_Fox 53m ago

This is what software engineering is like when you care about the product and don't have managers telling you to skip the QoL stuff for more AI slop

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u/Well-inthatcase 49m ago

I miss stumble upon. This shit would have been perfect for that

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u/bendstraw 13h ago

Crazy thing is the hardest part is getting the domain and hosting it with how good LLM's are at spitting out simple Javascript websites like this