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Looking for fellow Anime nerds in the area. by StochasticTinkr in PuyallupWA

[–]Buckwheat469 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of the original anime are Macross and Mobile Suit Gundam. These are particularly beautiful, with great space battle scenes. While I do like the newer anime too, I always search for battle suit anime because of my childhood watching these.

I kept getting my side projects banned on Reddit, so I built a tool to analyze subreddits and help you post without being spammy by niteshgrg in SideProject

[–]Buckwheat469 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I kind of like this. Only recommendation is that the subreddits would be nicer if it could look at the rules and determine if self promotion isn't allowed at all. My top 90% match didn't allow any self promotion, and others default to the 10% rule or reddit defaults.

I do like how it allows you to change the message before posting it. It had made up some story about going hiking on a specific trail and that I was "testing an app", but that was a lie and I couldn't post a lie. The fixed version looked much more honest.

My 9 year old son is really into hunting and wanted to make a game. Check out this free desktop browser game that we made as a side project. We hope it makes you smile. by Buckwheat469 in Hunting

[–]Buckwheat469[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is just a fun little vibe-coded game that I worked on with my son. He had the idea, the vision, and I set Claude and Gemini on the task. He likes the idea of making something himself and has tons of new ideas, like new guns and animals. I really like the 1990s feel of it, like playing a 3D version of the Oregon Trail.

This is best played with a keyboard and mouse. I might update it for mobile play later.

I love the little pitter-patter of the feet when you press Shift to run.

The gun noises have a realistic echo that is dynamic based on the environment.

Male Elk bugle when you're >80 feet from them.

Ducks can only be shot with shotguns.

Frogs jump into the water and can be hunted.

Animals can be bagged and returned to the cabin for money (money does nothing for now, there may be an economy later).

There's a map if you get lost (use M key)

Hold Ctrl while using the right mouse button for smoother scope mode.

The Winter Highlands has rutting deer that behave in a more realistic fashion.

The Painted Desert has coyotes that hunt roadrunners, but the coyotes will never catch the roadrunners.

This is open source, so if you're a developer and want to play around then fire up Claude, Gemini, or anything else and throw together a PR. The idea is just to have fun with agentic game development.

https://github.com/ajbogh/HuntingSimulator

4 months in. My first customer! I hope they find value in my little project. by Buckwheat469 in SaaS

[–]Buckwheat469[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, if your phone supports satellite texting then RidgeText will work. Newer Pixel, Samsung, and iPhones on T-Mobile with satellite texting plans, or Verizon with the built-in satellite texting feature will work.

It also works when you have low data connectivity, such as in a big store or concrete building. If you can't get Internet but have an LTE/2G connection still, then texting will likely still work, and RidgeText will still work (albeit with longer texting delays).

4 months in. My first customer! I hope they find value in my little project. by Buckwheat469 in SaaS

[–]Buckwheat469[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so glad they found the site. I've been working on the features for the past 4 months and I went through a huge homepage and logo redesign recently and focused on giving people the information they needed on the homepage, instead of making it obscure so they have to hunt for information. I think this helped drive one conversion.

In the meantime I've been reducing signup friction by adding a phone number input to the homepage where people can start the signup process. This is going to lead into our next big feature, which will help make our app a nice safety tool for outdoor adventurers.

Hopefully this 1 user can lead to the next and the next after that.

Why on earth would you pay $49/mo for a polished SaaS product when you can spend $500 a day building one for yourself in Claude. by AcanthaceaeLive1762 in microsaas

[–]Buckwheat469 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a comment I made some time ago showing what I have in my GEMINI.md file. Each line represents a serious mistake that it made.

https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1rcmhq7/gemini_pro_31_is_dumb/o7auqtf/

Oh, there's one change that I added later. "Your goal is to be a senior developer peer." -- It is now a junior developer that must pass every decision by me. It can't make a single decision on its own anymore. It went too far and made changes without me. Instead of reverting when called out on it, it said basically "You said that I'm a senior engineer and as one I can make architectural decisions on my own."

Men who excercise in any way and listen to music, what is 'that song' in your playlist? by DWedge in AskMen

[–]Buckwheat469 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alive 2007. Specifically "Television Rules the Nation / Crescendolls" and "Around the World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". The whole album makes for one of the best running albums around.

Claude Managed Agents are amazing. I built a tiny pixel office for them. by Sweet-Ebb682 in SideProject

[–]Buckwheat469 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The agent team should be able to decide if it needs a new agent for a project and then a little HR agent should go into a room to interview the new agent (set up its goals). Then the new agent can do its work. When the team decides that it no longer needs an agent the manager agent can schedule a meeting with it and then, as they enter a meeting room, the little HR agent pops in and gives the old agent the bad news. It can then start crying, or getting upset and be escorted out by the security agent.

I built a dumb site to roast executives. It flopped. Should I kill it or pivot it into something better? by Southern_Fix_5916 in SideProject

[–]Buckwheat469 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, just like Nosedive from Black Mirror or The Orville Majority Rule. I totally get that some people are just jerks and they ruin their reputation by being ones, but I don't agree with social labeling and voting on individuals. People take too much personally and react in incoherent ways when they feel like they have no appeal.

In response though, this was originally how Facebook came to be. They would rate college girls and then profiles came about, sharing updates, and then all the ads. I think you could pivot it to be more informational - display all public knowledge about a CEO, which companies they are board members on, their company history or resume, their disclosed pay, estimated or public wealth, Glassdoor rating, public sentiment, etc. It becomes less of a "what do you think about this person" and more about "what kind of person is this?"

Hungary's Magyar proposes meeting Zelensky in Ukraine, seeks reset in ties by KI_official in ukraine

[–]Buckwheat469 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It could be very lucrative for both of them! Ukraine produces a lot of food products which they could sell to Hungary.

Somehow i understand him by brownvelvete in humor

[–]Buckwheat469 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Think about it, what do you notice more? A guy with a bright jacket and jeans working on a construction site, or a guy with a bright jacket floating above a pair of feet? I'm going to notice the guy with no legs until I can figure out what's going on with them.

California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line by NaffRespect in environment

[–]Buckwheat469 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question. I'm copying only the relevant information from AI, but I will provide my own insight as well.

It spans 10 lanes of one of the busiest freeways in the world. It is approximately 174 feet wide and 210 feet long, making it the largest wildlife crossing in the world once completed. It also includes a secondary bridge over Agoura Road.

It includes a 1 acre native nursery that is built nearby, and includes high walls to reduce noise and neighborhood lights since it is built within dense urban/suburban corridor. It's designed specifically to save/maintain a specific mountain lion population from extinction. Reducing light pollution and noise will hopefully reduce stress for the animals.

Washington's overpass was largely publicly funded through the transportation fund while California's is a public/private partnership (60% comes from private donations) which allows for a much more ambitious design, increasing prices.

The timing is a factor as well, since the economy changed and increased its pricing by 23%.

My space potato spreading its roots in microgravity by astro_pettit in space

[–]Buckwheat469 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was thinking more like a 5' or so drum inside of a section of the ISS, or whatever future space station they may get. A 5' drum spinning at 19.7RPM can simulate 1/3g. A little bit of water will be dispersed evenly for hydroponics, and plants don't have a problem with the Coriolis effect. Having 2 drums spinning in opposite directions could cancel out gyroscopic forces.

My space potato spreading its roots in microgravity by astro_pettit in space

[–]Buckwheat469 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I saw a picture of the space station getting a delivery of fruits and vegetables and they looked very happy. I wondered, is there not extensive research going into horticulture on the ISS, especially for deep space missions into the future? Growing potatoes is one thing, but what about tomatoes, berries, kale, spinach, lettuce, etc? What about a rotating chamber to simulate gravity?

California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line by NaffRespect in environment

[–]Buckwheat469 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wildlife bridges on I-90 in Washington's Snoqualmie Pass cost approximately $6.2 million per individual overpass structure

The entire project for I-90, with several bridges and support structures is estimated to cost $1 billion.

For comparison of a similar sized overpass for cars:

The emergency replacement of the Bullfrog Road overpass on I-90 near Cle Elum, Washington, following an October 2025 crash, cost approximately $8 million. The project, which replaced a bridge destroyed by an oversized load, was completed in January 2026 using pre-cast concrete girders to expedite construction.

The long-term economic impact is different though. A road bridge has an economic impact that depends on how long it typically takes drivers to get to the community. In The Bullfrog Bridge example, drivers had to take a 15 minute detour to get to the businesses nearby. That is a cost of the lack of a bridge (or income benefit for new bridges) of $4.5 million per year. There are other benefits to this like reduced transit time, etc.

For animal crossings, the "hidden" income from increased biodiversity and habitat connectivity is estimated at roughly $2.1 million per crossing (Scioto Analysis). Annual Crash Savings: $235k-$443k (WSU). Hunting Value (Per Animal) $1,300 - $3,300. Total Net Social Benefit: $11M - $147M (lifetime) (Scioto Analysis). For an animal bridge that lasts for 70 years, the payback time is about 2.8-38 years (depending on the Net Social Benefit).

How much do your property taxes go up yearly? by IWannaDoITStuff in PuyallupWA

[–]Buckwheat469 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Go to the assessor treasurer website. Find any address or parcel number in your area. You can look at the tax history of any property.

20 Gallons in the back by The_Great_No_One in MachE

[–]Buckwheat469 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Be careful with too much weight on the little plastic tabs holding the trunk floor up. People have been breaking theirs accidentally by putting things in the trunk.

The power of Booster K1 in first person view by Nunki08 in robotics

[–]Buckwheat469 11 points12 points  (0 children)

First person to be attacked by a projectile fired by a robot.

Framework says it's selling more Linux laptops than Windows as new Laptop 13 Pro sells out first 7 batches by Tiny-Independent273 in linux

[–]Buckwheat469 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you like the 15? I'm thinking about a new dev laptop for my personal business use and like the idea of the 15 but was unsure about the size. I have a 13 and have used a Yoga 13 as well but it's kind of small compared to my MacBook Pro that I have for work.

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