[HN Gopher] I made a public living room and the internet keeps p...
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I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder
stuff in it
Author : streetmeat
Score : 114 points
Date : 2025-09-27 17:59 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theroom.lol)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theroom.lol)
| streetmeat wrote:
| I built this silly web game using the nano banana api, if you
| like dumb stuff come join burning through my google cloud
| credits.
| YeahThisIsMe wrote:
| I'm just gonna assume that by the time I see this comment, it's
| already too late.
| streetmeat wrote:
| yeah it went quick :( I am praying for the compute fairy to
| contact me
| cactusplant7374 wrote:
| Do you have a gallery of the additions? Or the last version?
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| It feels like being 12 on the pre-bubble internet. I must look
| like my 20yo cat playing with catnip toys.
| streetmeat wrote:
| this is the greatest compliment I can receive, my last project
| is in the same vein crapboard.com
| whalesalad wrote:
| RIP your OpenAI bill
| polycaster wrote:
| It's Gemini for what it's worth
| streetmeat wrote:
| google cloud trial credits are gonna run out in a few hours.
| maybe google will be moved to give me a little more credit to
| power internet nostalgia :D
| pogue wrote:
| RIP
| treetalker wrote:
| ... iiiit's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Million dollar homepage vibes, good stuff!
| largbae wrote:
| Reminds me to go check on floor796.com (yup still expanding!)
| jacquesm wrote:
| That's amazing.
| sebastiennight wrote:
| Beautifully amazing. Though I never got a chance to send a
| prompt, as all the rooms appear full to me. It's a bit
| frustrating to have no indication whether you're going to be in a
| queue, or if it's just random chance.
| streetmeat wrote:
| Thanks! Sorry about that I didn't expect so much usage, and
| with my 300 dollars of cloud credit I dont want to add more
| rooms cuz this is already only going to last the afternoon.
|
| The queue is FIFO and resets when the round does, if you get in
| it, it adds a place above the text box letting you know your
| current order in the queue.
| bstsb wrote:
| all my prompts are rejected by Gemini under reason IMAGE_SAFETY
| :(
| snerbles wrote:
| No fun allowed!
| jayknight wrote:
| What a time to be alive.
| Retr0id wrote:
| It'd be nice to have more concurrent rooms, there's no way to
| riff off what's already in the room when the queue fills up in
| the first few seconds.
| streetmeat wrote:
| yeah I feel u but its already only going to last a few hours
| unless someone can appeal the powerful logank to give me more
| cloud credit :(
| ZeWaka wrote:
| ...and the credits are used up
| streetmeat wrote:
| it was fun while it lasted
| snerbles wrote:
| I felt like I was back in 2005 all over again. Thanks OP,
| this was magical.
| streetmeat wrote:
| thanks for joining in. I wish I could find someone to
| sponsor the inference
| streetmeat wrote:
| anyone wanna run ads or sponsor inference credits and keep the
| fun going?
| lostlogin wrote:
| I was late to the party and it's just debris now.
|
| Could anyone who saw it explain what it was?
| streetmeat wrote:
| updating it with a gallery soon. its an empty room that
| everyone sees, u can collab on edits 1 prompt at a time. at 20
| edits the room resets and it plays a timeline of the edits.
| fuzzfactor wrote:
| The empty room looks like one that I painted once.
|
| Well, twice really it was two coats ;)
| mikae1 wrote:
| Error: Gemini error 429: { "error": { "code": 429, "message":
| "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and
| billing details. For more information on this error, head to:
| https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits.\n* Quota
| exceeded for metric:
| generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_reques
| streetmeat wrote:
| @OFFICIALLOGANK PLEASE KEEP THE NOSTALGIA FLOWING
| pogue wrote:
| I saw this too. Probably sharing this on HN overwhelmed all his
| Gemini credits. RIP :(
| firefax wrote:
| He got Slashdotted XD
| daveevad wrote:
| Got here too late so seems like it went viral.
|
| So, it was a really good idea?
| streetmeat wrote:
| it was a really good bad idea
| daveevad wrote:
| my undergrad econ degree suggests there was more demand than
| supply
| streetmeat wrote:
| and my dumb ass only creates memetic unsustainable projects
| that dont have any business model
| jacquesm wrote:
| That makes them better.
| mey wrote:
| Time to accept tips and be proud of your experiments. If
| anything your art is impracting more people than most.
|
| Just be mindful about accidentally ruining the joy you
| feel in it but turning it into a job.
| thimkerbell wrote:
| Impracting is a fine word
| fuzzfactor wrote:
| def. impractical but has impact upon
| streetmeat wrote:
| theres a btc address in the about page if anyone wants to
| donate some btc for compute or email if someone at a
| cloud provider wants to donate some inference :)
| fragmede wrote:
| Venmo? PayPal? cashapp?
| streetmeat wrote:
| @Michael-bock on venmo I can find more ways to beg if
| needed.
| streetmeat wrote:
| if u missed its here's a taste/shameless begging for more cloud
| credit
|
| https://x.com/crapboard/status/1972032724136563164
| EasyMark wrote:
| hug of death?
| streetmeat wrote:
| yeah I ran through my cloud credits but a generous soul here
| just sent a venmo donation. once my rate limits are raised
| it'll be back.
| z3t4 wrote:
| [delayed]
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