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Yeah, it’s simple but really cool! I love tools that make text look fun and unique.


Clearly this is a fairly niche application, but all the same I’m surprised no one has built a font identifier in the past few years based on modern machine learning techniques.


The need to match a particular font comes up fairly often in web development. There are a number of such apps/websites to help with this, the most well known of which is probably WhatTheFont [https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont/].

However, 90% of the time I don't care what font is used; what I really want is the closest free equivalent, preferably hosted on Google Fonts. I'd be interested to see if somebody could come up with an app that does this.


Building great design tools is hard, but I love that you're tackling this step by step. Starting with layouts is smart.


$100 to teach us all how to build an LLM, this is what open education should look like.


Clearly this is a fairly niche application, but all the same I’m surprised no one has built a font identifier in the past few years based on modern machine learning techniques.


I really hoped GPT-5 would level up, but right now it feels like a step back, not forward.


Looks like testing ad blockers is trickier than we thought—sometimes the test sites even get blocked themselves!


when the ad block tester gets blocked you know youre on to something.. seed round incoming


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