Show HN: Built a soundboard for my haunted garage with AI assistance

1 points by JoeOfTexas 8 hours ago

It's 3 weeks from Halloween and I decided to host a haunted garage at my house for our neighborhood. I drafted a layout of the garage, got donated decorations, spent $500 on amazon to transform the garage and found a great horror ambience on youtube.

Oh crap, its 1.5 weeks away now, and I need sound effects. All the apps have prefilled spooky sound effects. None of the apps let me auto-play sound effects, because I'm short on actors.

I do web dev, simple, I just make one. Tadah, in about an hour I got a prototype. In 4 hours I finished it. I had some boilerplate already done to get it up on a URL.

Next actual sound fx...

1. Download a few from free soundfx sites.

2. Crap, I need specific ones, found ElevenLabs, and generated my own, and downloaded a few already generated by others.

3. Upload to R2

4. Hardcode into the throwaway webapp

5. The show is ON.

Got a good 2.5 hours of about 200+ people, and sometimes the sound fx lined up perfect with actors scaring our guests. FUN!

Now, I'm showing it off on HN, before I throw it away. Goodbye.