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.
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