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Welcome to the Leftfield Games, we're

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basically going to start now. So pretty

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much I'll explain the rules how it went.

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So everyone was given 31 days to

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complete their project, right? By March

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31st, March 31st now. The requirement

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was you had to create a full-scale

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application from front end all the way

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to back end to qualify and you had to

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host and deploy your app. The top three

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people that we believe have the most

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completed project and it doesn't matter

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if you like what level you are, right?

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We're going to critique it to your

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level. Mhm. experience. So that the top

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three people will get like a mini

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one-day mentorship from the Leftfield

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team and will get a customized road map

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to be able to hopefully use that to

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break through into tech. Uh Phil, do you

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have any words to say, any words of

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wisdom, advice to everyone who

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participated?

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Yeah, I mean like like I said earlier,

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like you know, it's like the it's hard

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work, like it's like a piece of art. I

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always think of it like a piece of art

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that you're putting out, so it's like

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your passion. And

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you put it out there for everybody to

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use and you know, if it's not complete,

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but if it's working, that's totally fine

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cuz it's like you can always update it

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and keep working on it. But I want to

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thank you and like on behalf of like

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Leftfield or whatever, like uh thank you

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for participating and let's get the game

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started. All right, guys. The first one

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is actually uploaded this morning from I

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think your friend Phil Matos. He did

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something really cool. I don't I do want

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to give a lot of love to it. I'm not

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exactly sure how he made this, but maybe

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you'll have a better idea. I'll just

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link this in the chat room here in the

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community post. You guys can all click

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on it, look at it. Take a look. There's

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like any login or anything like that,

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but I found I found that this is really

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cool. Yeah, um this is a this is the

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Seoul like subway train station um app.

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So there's a lot of cool stuff here.

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He's using um

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some kind of map API with some polygons

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drawn to show like um Seoul and then

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Gyeonggi-do and then like all the

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provinces and stuff like that and where

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the train station goes. Uh Matos was

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talking to me a little about about a

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little bit and um

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I guess from where you are at City Hall

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the blue takes 15 minutes to get to.

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Um the orange takes 30 minutes to get to

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and the 60 this takes like an hour to

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get to. It's pretty cool. It's hooked

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into the Seoul API. I think he scraped

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it and I think whenever Matos comes to

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South Korea he always gets a lot of

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he wants to come back all the time.

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And

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taking the subway and the train at in

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Korea is like it's an experience in

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itself. Everything is so connected and

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it's always really fun. But this is

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really cool. If you actually like take a

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look

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let's take a look at the inspector here.

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So

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let's refresh. See how it's working.

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He has some kind of

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API that he's running called

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uh and then he's passing in some kind of

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thing here.

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Uh let's see what the response is.

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Okay, that's pretty cool. Um

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these are all the tiles I guess from the

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map.

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There's keys all here, but okay.

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And

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so he's using this map tiler

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um to get the map shown. I guess it's

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the Korean API cuz it has all the Korean

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stuff. Who knows?

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Looks pretty good and then the GeoJSON

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for the polygons.

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Awesome. It's coming into.

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Which is which are just coordinates to

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draw the polygons. They're pretty cool.

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Um

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I think when he's

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you know, working with these map stuff

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and all this kind of stuff is uh

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pretty interesting. It's cool that he's

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not doing live requests and he actually

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put in his own like database. Mhm. Um

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So like if you actually look here, this

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is probably his GeoJSON

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file that he has statically put that he

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already collected

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in his website and if you you know, you

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can put pop this in any map API and it

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could draw the polygons for

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whatever it is. It's probably pretty

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heavy cuz

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what's going to probably going to happen

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is if I put myself at a different place

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right?

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Let's put

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my uh

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I don't know. Um

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I don't know if you guys ever heard of

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Hongdae.

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It's going to show you a different

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polygon for every single station, right?

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From what you can get to from in 15

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minutes 30 minutes and 60 minutes and

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that's going to have a different uh

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GeoJSON file for every single one. And

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it's a huge file, I think.

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Mhm, yep. But this looks cool. It looks

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like people would use it. And it's

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pretty useful cuz then uh we I think

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I'll send this to Damian cuz then you

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can figure out you know, how long

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something could takes to get to.

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Pretty cool. Um let's move on to the

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next app, shall we? Yeah. So welcome to

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next panel. So it's for Korean manhuas,

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so like Korean animes, right? Your

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personal space to track uh manga, manhua

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and manhua. Build your library, keep up

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with your uh so I guess you just um

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I guess they really like solo leveling

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and they've um you know, there's so many

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of these animes and manhuas like

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you have to keep track of which number

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you're on, what which ones you've read

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and all this kind of stuff. It's pretty

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cool.

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Um let me see. Let me browse series.

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It's pretty cool. So he's hooking up

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into some API

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to get all these

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animes somewhere.

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So next panel API

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and then he has a response and you have

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all these APIs that he scraped

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to get these

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What is this called? Animes? Yep. Yeah.

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It's pretty cool. I like that he made

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his own API and

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I really

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think that's cool. I guess the main main

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thing is called onrender.com.

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But he has a back end that's running on

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onrender.com. That's pretty cool.

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Librarie, do you have any comments about

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this one?

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Let's see the cache. I'll I'll let you

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take it

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a look at it and it was

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it's pretty good and I also noticed it

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was very fast as well, which was

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not something you would see any just

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anywhere. Yeah. It

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calls real quick. It's real good. It's

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it's very check the responsiveness of

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it.

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Mhm.

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Mhm.

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>> [clears throat]

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>> It's pretty good.

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>> Yeah. Um It's very responsive.

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Just uh

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I think it's pretty good, but I I would

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I don't know if there's any caching

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system here.

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But um

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seems to be making this request pretty

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fast and let's see his

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See this uh

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>> Oh man. dragon Okay. All right, there

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you go. There you go. It needs the

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space. So

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maybe I don't know how he's doing the

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searching, but um

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that's maybe some other stuff can be

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implemented here to kind of help that.

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Some kind of rejects or something like

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that. Uh and have some matching score.

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But that's pretty it's pretty good. I

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like it a lot. And um

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I like I like anime a lot like One Piece

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and Dragon Ball and um

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Do you? What is an uh

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>> [laughter]

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>> And I mean if you actually wanted to

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make this better and like my suggestion

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is like looking at Elasticsearch. That's

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going to like

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help this searching part a lot more.

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my opinion

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and I guess there is some kind of use

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debounce kind of thing here

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cuz I see it right now.

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And um

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I like that.

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So it's probably making a request on use

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debounce. So you see this.

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But

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how it should work is you should

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probably use like

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you know, an index search index kind of

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thing like Elasticsearch or I know that

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there's like a open source one called

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MeiliSearch. I always really wanted to

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use it.

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But I really

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I think it's really well built and this

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one seems really good. So you just like

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add all your databases that you all your

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items or documents that you want to

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actually search for inside of a search

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index kind of database and um

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and then it and then there's like some

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kind of things where like it uses

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rejects or something and it gets you the

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hits of like what's similar and then you

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show those

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on your

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on your subject. Thank you guys for

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you know,

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helping out and also um

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you know, if you guys still have apps

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that you haven't uploaded yet, please

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you know, drop it in there. We're going

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to do this you know, quite frequently.

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So don't be afraid to share.

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It's always good. For sure, for sure. I

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just want to see one more thing.

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Um

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>> Oh, the guy is here. Oh, he's here?

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Yeah, RXD. Oh, hey RX uh

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G

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GVN

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RXD uh amazing. Mhm. Uh

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uh we there's a new anime guy that I'd

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like to connect you to. What's his um

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Who's the new mentee from last week?

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Remember? Mini

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or

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I forget.

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>> That

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West? Yeah, yeah, I think so.

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Let me let me just check. Let me let me

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connect you with him. I think he's

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really into anime, too.

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But um Just looked at your app and we

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just talked about like how you can

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improve it and like how you did great.

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What what things you did also. Um just

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watch the video for it. It's pretty

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cool. I like it. I like it a lot.

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Awesome. Awesome. Thank you.

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GNV GVN, how how long have you been

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coding for?

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And after that a year ago, that's that's

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amazing, man. For just a year. Mhm.

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Really good.

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Good app.

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Good work. Keep up the good work, man.

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All right, the next This is pretty

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interesting.

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By this guy 59463.

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So and automated invoice reminders for

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freelancers and small businesses.

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Hello 5946

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3

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Remite, so like remittance for like

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movie move money something. Now in early

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access stop chasing later invoices.

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Keep cash moving. Pretty cool automated

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reminder emails for freelancers and

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consultants.

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That's cool.

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So I like the landing page a lot, right?

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I like that it's like a full product.

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Cuz like whenever you think about a

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product, you know, everybody thinks

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about building the app or whatever, but

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you need to build a landing page.

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You need to build the app. You need to

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build the admin panel, the server. And

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those four things are going to equal um

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a business online.

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Mhm. Those four.

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Not just the app. But uh how Remints

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works, you create an invoice, set the

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schedule.

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So for subscription or payment plan.

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And it sends follow up emails when an

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invoice is marked un uh

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and stops when the invoice is marked

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paid.

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Okay, that is cool. I like it a lot.

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He probably saw a problem in his um in

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their space.

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And try to figure it out. Let me let me

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try the demo real quick. Can I Can I

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drop an invoice in here or something or

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invoices So what if I want to

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I like that they did a demo too. That's

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awesome.

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>> man.

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Schedule

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and 3 days before due date.

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Set two due dates, set three five days

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after. So these are the sequence I have

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I guess.

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And then 25 days after due date. It'd be

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kind of cool if

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you know, if it's you added some late

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fees as well or something like that if

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you could include that in your contract.

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Who knows? But that's cool like reminder

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frequency. So I could do like a 14-day

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reminder. Oh, and it uses AI to like

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make the messages a little bit That's

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cool, too. That's cool.

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Turn that off.

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That's cool, man.

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I like it a lot. I think I think it

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solves a real problem, right? But when I

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actually

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I can mark it as paid, but do I have to

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How do I upload the invoice?

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That's the one thing I'm I'm looking

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for.

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Invoices. No emails are sent, that's

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fine, but how do I create the invoice?

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Let's check the search.

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So this this is It says that we we

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import them from exterior. Ex- Excuse

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me? It says to import them for invoices

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from exterior.

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Okay, okay.

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Or add them manually in minutes. So you

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basically have to create it yourself and

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then this is the the software to remind

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them.

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Okay, okay.

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That's [snorts] a

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Acme Corpis.

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Kind of an huh?

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But uh

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Okay, that's cool. And um

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Wait,

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maybe in the search this invoice search

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that's kind of the same thing that we

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have with the next panel, right? And

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there's no use the balance here either.

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But I guess it is just filtering through

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the already stuff. Like it's not making

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a request, so that's totally fine.

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All right, that's uh I like this. I

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think it solves a real problem.

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Cool. Yeah.

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All right,

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the next one we're going to do

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[clears throat] I think it's actually

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deployed on Google. Wait.

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Okay, instantly instantly know the true

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value of everything. Point your camera

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at any object or AI identifies instantly

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and scans thousands of marketplaces to

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give you the real price.

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That's freaking awesome. That's

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Yeah. So

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um

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especially for like it's I think if you

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make it really well, like um

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it's really good to incorporate into

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like a used marketplace cuz I think in

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Singapore they created this in like 2000

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They tried to create this in 2019 at a

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startup.

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And they did really well and it got

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incorporated into um

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into Tangent Market or Carrot Market.

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It's like a Korean news market app.

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And when you actually

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post like some used market item um you

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can ask for a price suggestion. And

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one other thing is you can create like

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the

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the actual post

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with AI.

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So it helps you make the post and like

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the price as well.

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But I mean that's that's pretty cool.

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um

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Is there any way we You don't have an

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Android, right, Phil? I do not have an

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Android. Wait, wait, I do have one on my

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tablet, but I think it's out of

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batteries.

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Uh hey, um

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But like wait, do you have an Android by

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any chance?

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No, I used to have an Android. Okay.

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Is it only Is it only on the

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um Android Marketplace? It's not like

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APK file

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that you can download as well. No, no,

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it's uh

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Well,

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I think on the iOS it's on the wait

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list, but they just made it on Android.

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That's cool though. I I I like that it's

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taking into account like location.

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Mhm. [clears throat]

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um

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And it's taking into account like um

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I guess like

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all their scan history stuff. So the

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more people use it, the more it's going

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to get better. So instead of just

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relying on open AI

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and real-time conversion, that's cool.

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um

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I think

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one other thing that you could add is

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like the you could make AI descriptions

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as well, which is would be pretty cool,

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too.

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Just make that like just take a photo

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and upload it and then maybe you could

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hook it up to like the second hand

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market, too, like where you could put

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like

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I don't know. Facebook Marketplace,

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zero radius or something like this. I

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don't remember at all. But you like you

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hook up and then like in one picture you

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could upload it to like several

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marketplaces and manage it from there.

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Who knows? But that's cool. I like it.

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Yeah.

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Okay, price it. If anybody has a

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Android, please check it out. I guess of

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you.

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Our gentleman here. And

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I guess like like a tea dude,

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I think it'd be nice if you also make

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like a little demo video for people who

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don't have Android, that'd be sick.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thank you. I like it. I

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like this kind of stuff a lot.

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I I like selling stuff on the used

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marketplace, buying stuff from there,

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too.

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So

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solves a real issue.

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Yeah, this is really handy for resellers

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as well like who want to go to garage

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sales and they want to find prices for

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stuff. That's so true. That is so true.

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Yeah, and they're like oh, how much does

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this cost and boom they find the price

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real quick.

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Gary

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Gary like

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adding like a demonstration kind of like

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how to utilize it would be pretty cool

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as well because when you see like a demo

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like that's what gets people to buy.

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>> [clears throat]

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>> When you When you see someone basically

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utilize it and just put it on either

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mobile and desktop

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I think that'd be really solid. All

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right. All right. Yeah. I think Chris is

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here as well, actually. It looks like a

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you know, like Duolingo for code. I

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thought it's done really well. Like it

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looks like the same style.

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um

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Get started for free and then you get

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like the SQL. I think they're in Kes

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Dez. I don't know what language this is

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in actually.

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But um

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Oh, Chris is here.

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So the description here Okay, so you can

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just go to your SQL. He said the back

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end uses Spring Boot with Postgres SQL

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database. That's awesome.

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>> Loads the lesson content from a YAML

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file at startup.

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That's awesome.

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So like uh which command do you use?

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>> and TypeScript. That's cool.

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>> That would be I like I like this a lot.

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This is our This is really interesting.

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It looks just like Duolingo.

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What does create database if not exist

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command

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>> what's up, man? Chris is on the board.

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Yeah, I'm not quite sure what this

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means. I think it's German.

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Like I don't know how much like this was

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built just by hand cuz it should take a

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long time.

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But it reminds me of Duolingo a lot.

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But um

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I really like this.

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Really interesting. It's fun.

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Okay.

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>> thread It's the Reddit clone. Oh, I

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really like this one and I really like

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how like in-depth it was. It was like

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the Reddit clone and if they I like it I

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liked it cuz

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he added like the you know, the nuances

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of like Reddit like

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the comment like threads and stuff like

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that, the up votes.

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But done really well and um

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Yeah, like this is a very complete

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project, I think.

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Like

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it's really good.

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And not enough people are using it. I

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feel like if we change this to

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put a little bit more I don't know.

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If our community you wanted to use this,

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it would be a really um

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it'd be really interesting for us to use

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and kind of

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put on the map. I don't know if we have

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the power to do that. I think we do have

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the power to do that.

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But that'll be really fun.

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But yeah. I I think this is really well

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built.

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Uh has recently visited. You can see the

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comments and you can see like the

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threads.

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Close threads.

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I think that's really cool.

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Um and then we'll just do one more. Is

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that cool, Phil? Yeah. Okay, give me a

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sec.

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Lost that page real quick. Share.

20:16

I wanted to find the cloud one, the the

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virtual world. Can't find it. I

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think I have it in my uh thing.

20:23

Cloud cloud town.

20:25

Cloud town, yes. Let's see.

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Um

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This one's pretty cool. It looks like a

20:31

gather town a little bit.

20:33

Yep. Um I can you go in here, too, and

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see if I can see you?

20:36

Yeah, let me just check it out real

20:38

quick. It's cloud town. I'll

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I'll make it so

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>> It's saying one player online right now.

20:44

Okay, cool. Come in.

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I know with Discord. Let's see if that

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works.

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That's what I sign in with.

21:02

It's pretty cool. I can see that there's

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two people online. I can see that I'm

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moving very sparkly and I I'm by the

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cloud house.

21:13

Oh, I see you guys. There. Yep. Now,

21:15

let's see if there's some interaction

21:17

that goes on.

21:19

Yeah. Wait, is there any interaction?

21:22

I guess not yet. Okay. Cuz like gather

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town and stuff like that, you know, when

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you come close to each other it opens up

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like uh chance to chat with each other

21:30

and stuff like that. Like a like a

21:31

dialogue? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

21:34

there's no

21:36

It's pretty cool. I like it. I wonder

21:38

how they made it.

21:39

Right.

21:41

This is like a mini town.

21:43

Yeah, but this kind of stuff is like

21:45

really cool like if um

21:47

you know, if you're studying and you're

21:48

just like here it's like showing that

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you're not alone studying or something,

21:52

you know?

21:52

Mhm. So you can just like

21:54

I don't know if you guys ever used

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gather town, but it's like the same kind

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of concept.

21:58

We should make Less Social into this

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stuff.

22:01

That'd be sick. Kind of cool.

22:03

Yeah.

22:04

Yeah, this is pretty cool.

22:06

I like it a lot.

22:07

Awesome. Well, I think we'll pause it

22:10

here

22:11

and we'll just continue this maybe next

22:12

week. Yeah, let's do that.

22:15

Yeah, let's do we'll do another event,

22:16

the same one this week.

22:19

I mean next week and then we'll finalize

22:21

the winners and things like that

22:22

afterwards, but uh yeah.

22:23

>> talk about it later on. I you know, I

22:25

really like syntax owl. I like um price

22:27

it, but I would like to like um

22:30

kind of like actually use it.

22:33

Mhm. Verbatim was really cool.

22:35

Um

22:37

isochronal is really cool. But uh yeah,

22:40

I mean very good job everybody and um

22:43

uh we'll we'll take a more in-depth look

22:45

at all of the uh projects and uh we'll

22:48

come up with our some rankings. Um

22:50

They're all number one. To be honest,

22:52

they're all really good. But um you

22:55

know, we uh there we will choose a

22:57

winner and uh we'll reach out and um

23:00

we'll uh announce it as well. Yeah,

23:02

brilliant. Um please submit your

23:03

projects at Show and Tell. Thank you

23:05

very much and uh have a good one. All

23:07

right, everybody. Just remember, if I

23:09

can do it, you can do it, too. Coding

23:11

saves lives.

Interactive Summary

This video features the Leftfield team reviewing various full-stack projects submitted by participants of a 31-day development challenge. The hosts discuss several applications, including a Seoul subway station analysis tool, an anime/manhua tracking app, an automated invoice reminder system for freelancers, an AI-powered object price scanner, a Duolingo-style SQL learning platform, a Reddit clone, and a virtual collaborative space. The hosts provide constructive technical feedback, praising the creativity and functionality of the projects while offering suggestions for future improvements.

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