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Ask HN: Anyone creating their own entertainment?

This week I kept hearing animated sounds from my wife's phone while she played a new puzzle game. She very quickly got upset with the app after it started demanding she watch more ads to continue playing.

Last night, Claude recreated the app - a single HTML page with a daily challenge, all-time stats, as many generated puzzles as she wants without ads. Oh and it's cat themed this time (of course).

At dinner we started talking about whether people will start creating their own personal entertainment, beyond just simple puzzle games, like TV episodes, maybe entire TV series, maybe movies...

We were (somewhat in hesitation) imagining a world where you are on the commuter train home and an agent is working on a new episode to watch that night. Maybe starring Prad Bit.

Anyone actually creating their own personal entertainment at the moment?

EDIT: Economically this was quite stupid... Token cost was ~$25. With a subscription this barely ate up a single 5 hour window of usage, but, on an API cost basis this was sort of ridiculous to replace a free mobile game...

7 points TomEleff 1 month ago 4 comments

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