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johnsillings — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:34:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/johnsillings/status/2105726380004491388

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925356

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

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johnsillings — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:00:57 +0000

that's very clever

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:13:11 +0000

Sorry this came so late, but there's now a single-player mode. Just create a room and click "Start a one-player game" when you're the only one in there!

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:04:35 +0000

working on it now!

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:42:43 +0000

let me know how it goes, and if there's anything i can do to make it more fun!

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:53:09 +0000

no single player mode (but I could add one!) – would you be interested in playing 1p beyond just kicking tires?

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:26:31 +0000

cool! that sounds pretty tough, but fun!

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:07:39 +0000

i've never played it, but a guy in a coffee shop (a patron) once gave me his Smule business card(!!) and i checked his songs on there; looks like they have a real cult following

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:05:52 +0000

sick!!

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:05:19 +0000

so happy to hear it!

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:40:10 +0000

that's fair

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:52:54 +0000

looks fun :)

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:52:03 +0000

the game doesn't play or stream any audio (though i think maybe a countdown timer or other fun sound effects would be nice)

players usually either a) play in real life on their phones or b) use something like Google Meet or Discord to sing their lyrics

that being said, the "buzz in" feature is sensitive to latency (but, in my experience, it usually takes players a few seconds to think of a song that fits the target word anyway)

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:31:24 +0000

that sounds awesome! do you recall what it was? i'd love to check it out. (and thanks!)

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game"

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:07:57 +0000

happy you're into it – hope you enjoy!

(and hopefully this goes without saying, but if there's anything i can do to make it a better experience, please let me know :))

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

johnsillings — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:46:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.micdrop.gg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315742

Points: 93

# Comments: 43

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: Ox – an AI agent that catches tech debt before it's committed"

johnsillings — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:45:33 +0000

Cool project. How is this different from Greptile, Cubic, etc?

New comment by johnsillings in "Training our own AI models"

johnsillings — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:54:51 +0000

why?

New comment by johnsillings in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

johnsillings — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:40:14 +0000

it's not fixed for me:

> disregard /ˌdisrəˈɡärd/ Understood. Let me know what you would like to work on instead!

amusingly, it does provide the pronunciation and the dictionary-definition h2-ish formatting... and then no definition

New comment by johnsillings in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

johnsillings — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:08:54 +0000

you're crazy