Show HN: Banger–A Firefox extension to extend DDG's bangs Hello HN! I made this Firefox extension to extend upon DuckDuckGo's idea of bangs (check https://ift.tt/ABs3xJp if you aren't familiar with them) and also allow the use of any search engine with them. I found DuckDuckGo's bangs fascinating, but was disappointed by how little search engines inherit that feature. And on top of it, DuckDuckGo has the "!" bang that jumps to the first search result but other search engines offering bangs like Brave Search, searx, You.com don't seem to have that. I also thought that the "!" bang could be extended with the ability to jump to the first search result of a specific site, so I added the "!!" bangs in my extension that allow you to do just that (e.g. typing "!!mdn flatMap" will bring up the MDN page for flatMap). I also added a bunch of extra features like the ability to add custom bangs, ability to search in a search engine with the "site:" parameter using "!@r" (r for Reddit), or "!ddg@r" (specify any other bang as the search engine to use), and the ability to chain multiple bangs together with ";" to open them up in different tabs; it also allows you to use multiple "site:" parameters combined with the OR ("|") operator with "," (e.g. "!@r,yt"). Feel free to mix and match! Also, for those who use it, it supports sync. There's also an option to import/export any settings including custom bangs. I've also added custom handling to fix a few bangs which are usually broken such as "!archived" and "!imgops" (They require unescaped URL as part of the path. However, DDG and other search engines always escape the URL. Banger only escapes the URL if it's part of an URL parameter). I've been working on it for around 2 months now, and I'm pretty satisfied with the result so far. Let me know if you have any comments/feature suggestions/bug reports/anything else! https://ift.tt/jOo3Hpv January 2, 2023 at 11:48AM
Show HN: Tape It, iOS recording app for musicians Hello HN, Over the last 15 months, two friends and I developed the music recording app we felt we wanted based on our own needs as musicians. It's called Tape It [1] and has just recently hit the Apple App Store [2]. We put a lot of effort into a good UX to help musicians really focus on playing their instrument instead of pretending to be a recording engineer. The app records in stereo on newer iPhones (although that's a premium feature; the free version only records in standard mono audio quality). I would be really grateful for advice from this community on how to best approach marketing. We had a great TechCrunch article covering our launch [3], and we posted it on various music websites. Turns out advertising on Google or Apple Search is a dark art, though. We have some good ideas for developing a good social media presence, but they will take time. Please hit us with feedback, opinions and advice that you think a young ind...
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