[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Release early, release often. Don't worry, be crappy. Fail fast.
Iterate. Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time
projects. Also, if you need any help with a project, a startup, or
an idea, just post it here.
Author : notoriousarun
Score : 311 points
Date : 2021-01-09 13:22 UTC (9 hours ago)
| pul wrote:
| A DNS web client that doesn't suck: https://www.nslookup.io
|
| The main functionality is now pretty much complete, but is in
| dire need of a visual redesign. It also lacks parsing of many
| record types and email configuration in TXT records. Additional
| landing pages for specific DNS record types are also still to
| come.
| simplyinfinity wrote:
| This is awesome, i frequently use similar tools, but this is
| far cleaner than the rest! Instantly went to my bookmarks!
| [deleted]
| justhw wrote:
| http://thumbnail.ai
|
| My first project of 2021. Just paste a blogpost link and it will
| build a thumbnail for you.
| nabeards wrote:
| This is cool! Ran it on one of my pages, the preview shows some
| JavaScript at the bottom, not sure where you're pulling that
| text from.
| frindo wrote:
| linkdrop.co -- Pays for the occasional (happy hour) beer, but I
| have a huge backlog of user feedback and TODOs that I never have
| time for which is why I consider it half baked.
| hashtagjohnt wrote:
| https://opskeeper.com
|
| This is a job scheduler / project management software for
| construction companies. It's almost there... Still have a good
| amount of polish to put on it. And I need to expand the landing
| page...
| etherio wrote:
| https://archivy.github.io - Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge
| repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that
| contributes to your own personal, searchable and extensible wiki.
|
| Maybe a bit more than half-baked but still there's still much to
| work on.
| seanwilson wrote:
| Here's a fairly polished single player time-based word game I've
| been working on (works on mobile and desktop):
|
| https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid
|
| Looking at adding a global high score table (nobody is using the
| quick feature I added to share your score on Twitter), it might
| need more hints on what the orange tiles do for your scoring (I'm
| hoping players naturally work this out), I might tweak the rules
| more to encourage more strategy, the sound effects aren't great,
| music might help, it should be an offline PWA, and I'll maybe try
| to monetise it for mobile.
|
| Feedback welcome! :) Was it obvious how to play? Too easy or
| hard? Does the scoring system encourage you to play words
| strategically?
| danvoell wrote:
| Quick Fun! Not a smart guy. All 3 letter words.
| franciscop wrote:
| https://documentation.page/
|
| A documentation website generator for open source. No need to
| pollute your Github repo with html+css+etc etc files, just write
| markdown and point your domain there and it'll render it. Example
| output for a paid project (my own):
|
| https://statux.dev/
|
| The main fear from multiple people is that the project might "go
| evil" at some point and add ads or similar to project's
| documentation. I definitely don't plan on that (that's why I'll
| charge for premium features!) but totally understand the fears.
| The project is already "successful" for myself, so how can I
| dispel these fears from other devs?
| tomgs wrote:
| Just contemplating doc solutions for the open source repo I
| maintain (5K+ stars). Would be happy to use
| https://documentation.page/. Ping me at my email / twitter
| (details in my profile).
| chony wrote:
| I built an app to visualize and analyze basketball shots and
| shooting pose with machine learning.
|
| https://github.com/chonyy/AI-basketball-analysis
|
| The result is pretty nice. However, the only problem is the slow
| inference speed. I'm now refactoring the project structure and
| changing the model to a much faster YOLO model.
| peterlk wrote:
| https://musicianship.studio
|
| I built it a while ago, and don't have the heart to shut it down.
| It's basically meant to be musical flash cards. If it got some
| more traction, I could probably afford to spend time actually
| polishing it off.
| tofflos wrote:
| Interesting. I've been wanting to brush up on my piano for a
| while and will give this a shot. :)
| testmasterflex wrote:
| Bathroom privacy device: https://Loodio.com
|
| Still prototyping and will launch Kickstarter soon.
|
| Demo Video: https://youtu.be/Z3DgxwjSTfg
| Folcon wrote:
| Been spending the last 2 years or so working on putting together
| a data processing and exploration tool.
|
| Primarily allowing for the importing of csv files, though handle
| excel files to a degree (need to improve that). The data
| exploration side basically allows the user to put together a
| stack of transformations which then get applied to the data which
| the user can then view the result of. The data processing side
| allows you to select a single transformation and it applies it
| directly to the data and then let's you download it.
|
| The current version runs entirely client side in a js browser
| context.
|
| Not sure if anyone finds any of that interesting :)...
|
| I'm a little limited by the fact that UI isn't quite my forte.
|
| I'm on my phone at the moment so I'll add some more details when
| I get on my desktop.
|
| EDIT: -----------------------------------------
|
| So a bit more detail, it's a bit of a long story to be honest, I
| was working on it with a friend of mine, him non-technical,
| myself technical, we were looking at it as a bootstrapped
| company, got a reasonable amount of consulting work from it, but
| not really figured out a space where there was enough repeat
| interest where I could really build out a nice specific solution
| and pursue product-market fit.
|
| The goal was to provide non-technical people (who could at least
| use Excel), access to no-code machine learning solutions and data
| transformations. We realised that there was a lot of things that
| people like my non-tech friend wanted to be able to do, but just
| couldn't use any of the existing tooling to do.
|
| Over the last year we basically stopped working on it, but at the
| same time, I put a fair bit of dev work into it and I'm sort of
| trying to work out whether there's something there, or if it's a
| "sunk cost". I'm sort of fine if it is? I just really want to
| know.
|
| The tooling's not perfect, a bit too much building to solve the
| problem our clients had at the time which didn't make for a great
| cohesive product, but the thought process was get enough repeat
| stuff in that we can start focusing on a particular direction.
|
| Now I'm sort of toying with putting some time in to cleaning up
| the code and trying to see if I can make something of it, but I'm
| not sure if I'm kidding myself to be honest.
|
| I've also been wondering if I should go the whole hog and just
| make it an offline tool with some online functionality. Porting
| it would be relatively trivial at this point, it's written in
| Clojurescript so I could easily do an Electron thing or a native
| Clojure version that's downloadable while still maintaining it in
| it's current form without that much of a problem.
|
| This question has been a bit of a fortuitous circumstance really
| because I was thinking of doing a proper writeup of the tool as a
| blog post and then seeing whether anyone had any decent
| suggestions, but I'd been putting it off a bit because I'm still
| not quite sure what I could say =)... So in the end this has been
| sort of a forcing function, so that's at least something =)...
|
| So without further ado, the tools:
|
| - [Data Processor](https://tools.guanxi.ai/)
|
| - [Data Explorer](https://guanxi-upload.s3.eu-
| central-1.amazonaws.com/data-exp...)
|
| Data Explorer is CSV only, it was built really early on first and
| I've not really gone back and unified them.
|
| I can do an overview as well of the tools as well if anyone's
| interested?
| i2shar wrote:
| Heard of Trifacta? Something similar?
| Folcon wrote:
| Similar, not as polished obviously. Also not in the cloud,
| the loaded data stays within the browser, all the
| transformations happen in browser. Primarily because I'd
| prefer more people to have that option. Not sure if anyone
| cares though...
| rossdavidh wrote:
| There are times when one might want to do this, but with a
| client's data that you don't have permission to send
| anywhere in the cloud, so an in-browser option could
| definitely be useful.
| Folcon wrote:
| Well if you know some people who want this, enquiring
| minds want to know ;)...
| jimmy2020 wrote:
| Hello Everyone.
|
| I've been working on a project called DFlex:
| https://github.com/jalal246/dflex that contains multiple packages
| all written in Pure JavaScript to manipulate DOM elements in a
| completely new way depends on creating a DOM registry.
|
| The ultimate result is moving every element from destination to
| target with CSS animation. This means all possible operations
| should be done in 60fps.
|
| It is also extendable. In most existing solutions the more
| elements you are trying to manipulate the more lagging you get.
| Here, no matter how many elements you are dealing with it's
| always going to interpret each movement to CSS transform without
| asking the browser to get the node for each request. It is not
| restricted to any frameworks I have examples for React and Vue
| with some explanations inside each package. And maybe add more
| later. It includes: * DOM Generator DOM relations
| generator algorithm. * DOM Store Traverse through the DOM
| tree using element id. * Drag & Drop Lightweight Solution
| for a Drag & Drop App based on enhanced store algorithm. *
| Draggable High-performance draggable elements. * Unit test
| & end to end test * Packages are decoupled and work
| separately. Each package has it own universe including test and
| playground
|
| There's a lot to add and improve with new packages. I am looking
| for contributors who like to get involved in open source. So, if
| you are interested, open an issue, or pull request. I need your
| support. Thank you!
| inferense wrote:
| https://acreom.com/ is a powerful text editor for life
| organisation. Currently, there are many tools specialised in 1
| area (todo, cal, notes etc) with terrible user interfaces. We
| want to create an intelligent all-in-one tool with lightweight
| design that will tackle the problem of how do we "design" our
| life holistically.
|
| The landing page is in progress, so we're currently aggregating
| sign-ups here: https://forms.gle/HMTw4xa5ppABzCFRA We'd be
| delighted to share once its fully baked :)
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| This looks like it's got a lot of great potential.
|
| I use Trello right now and one thing it's sorely missing is
| dependencies.
|
| Like this to do depends on this other to do.
|
| there's mods and all but it's pretty clumsy and I wish it was
| baked in.
|
| Just something to think about.
| chad_strategic wrote:
| The idea came out from the domain name and the project never took
| off. It has made a little money... back in the wild days of
| twitter.
|
| https://www.bestoftheinternets.com/
| Bubblgames wrote:
| Merge by bubbl (in app stores):
|
| https://bubbl.games/merge.html
|
| My first game that I made with unity in 2019 and got away from it
| but there are still many features to write and lots to fix with
| the website as I just hacked everything together.
|
| Looking for any feedback people are willing to give.
|
| Free to play on the web.
| ttymck wrote:
| https://badpython.com
|
| Share snippets of python -- let the public decide if it's bad or
| not.
| scottrogowski wrote:
| Two to share:
|
| https://fastmap.io: A drop in replacement for map that makes your
| Python instantly scalable in the cloud
|
| https://ffer.io: A comprehensive stock valuation ratio powered by
| machine learning (and just happens to use fastmap)
| durkie wrote:
| fastmap looks really cool and like it has the potential to be
| "it just works" magical
| pizza wrote:
| That fastmap.io looks pretty neat
| hankchinaski wrote:
| ffer.io is pretty neat
| kassner wrote:
| https://ytemail.com/
|
| I like e-mails, and I was pretty sad when YouTube removed the
| e-mail notifications for channel uploads, so I decided to build
| my own. It's pretty unpolished, but it has the MVP (sends
| e-mails, opt-in per channel and very basic billing management).
|
| This is my first ever project that takes any payments and I have
| only one paying customer so far, but I don't really expect to
| make any money out of it. Feedback will be highly welcomed at
| contact@domainname.
| pettycashstash2 wrote:
| http://myoilguage.com
|
| Hardware is version .1 and as well as web app. I am learning new
| web stack tech to Enable commercializing this and improve the
| hardware.
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| Also, I just saw someone else here is doing something similar
| for a water tank.
|
| And your pipe cap housing reminded me that I had a similar
| project in mind but float switches would not be rugged enough.
| I'm going to revisit it using ultrasonics!!!
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| Well done, I love hardware projects. We don't see enough of
| them here.
| dalanmiller wrote:
| https://tenugui.market
| VoxelBoy wrote:
| MobileUO: https://github.com/voxelboy/mobileuo/
|
| I ported Ultima Online to Android and iOS devices. It's a really
| old MMO at this point but still has a niche following. New
| community shards are still popping up and some of them (such as
| UO Outlands) have high populations.
|
| I opened up a Patreon for the project in hopes that the community
| and the shard owners would support me enough to keep working on
| it but I never got past 100 euros per month in pledges. The app
| does have a stable userbase of around 1000 users though.
|
| Even though it wasn't a financial success by any measure, I'm
| really proud to have brought my childhood favourite game to new
| platforms.
| cpufry wrote:
| wow neat. ipy pvp on touch screen would be hell omg. very cool!
| yarsanich wrote:
| Actuflow - app that reminds you to be intentional with your phone
| usage. https://acture.app Shows you pop up window after phone
| unlock with intention form on Android, after app opening(using
| shortcuts) on iOS. Main features were implemented. Redesign and a
| lot of additional features are arriving.
| https://twitter.com/actuflow Offline, free, no-ads, considering
| to open source.
| ctrager wrote:
| A birdfeeder, a security camera, and this python script:
| https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/red_yellow_...
|
| I want to record visits to my birdfeeder but not all the visits.
| 99% of the visitors are sparrows, which, no offense to any
| sparrows reading this, are dull colored. I want to capture the
| cardinals, bright red birds. The python script monitors the video
| stream and starts recording when the image gets suddenly redder.
| But it's configurable to also react to blue (bluejays) and yellow
| (goldfinches).
|
| This is barely baked, just a script.
|
| A video:
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vUjYrTwJkPVUlWIYQ6_qA9t1tqi...
| [deleted]
| enraged_camel wrote:
| Someone actually linked me a Kickstarter of this very concept
| the other day:
|
| https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mybirdbuddy/bird-buddy-...
| bdefore wrote:
| Sparrow here. You will be hearing from my avian attorney.
|
| In earnest, nice work! I recently bought what looks like the
| same feeder and have pondered making something similar. What
| camera are you using for it?
|
| Note that you are sharing your user/pass and server address on
| the local server, although with a 10.x.x.x target I expect
| that's behind your router.
| mssundaram wrote:
| That's really neat! What is the hardware set up - how does it
| interface with the camera?
| mathgeek wrote:
| I've been working now and then on a turn-based text RPG that is
| played in Discord (but really it's API-driven so other clients
| are certainly possible). Passion project of mine from my
| childhood love of MUD's and JRPG's, up through early MMO's like
| Everquest. Needs a lot of work and better docs but the first area
| is playable.
|
| https://www.ethrits.com
| secfirstmd wrote:
| Umbrella - a free open source app to help people learn about
| digital and physical security. From how to use Signal for safe
| communication to how to deal with a kidnapping. Multiple
| languages and widely used by journalists, activists, aid workers,
| traveling business people and those any one living in high risk
| countries.
|
| More info: https://www.secfirst.org
|
| iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715310
|
| Android:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
|
| Web (Beta): https://umbrella.secfirst.org
| frequentnapper wrote:
| how is this half-baked, not ready for prime-time?
| secfirstmd wrote:
| Well we've built the tech but need a lot more work pushing it
| out. Also to make it easier for people to build their own
| custom versions. It mentioned in the piece about looking for
| help and we always are! :)
| Lxr wrote:
| I'm working on https://www.dragondictionary.com, a Chinese-
| English dictionary aimed at Chinese learners. I am building it
| because there's no good desktop alternative to Pleco at the
| moment.
| DataCrayon wrote:
| I early-released access to an API for generating interactive
| chord diagrams. Can be used via Python package, Rust crate, or
| HTTP API.
|
| https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/
|
| It's been/being used by people from many different sectors which
| is great to see. It's making enough to pay for 2 coffees a month,
| or at least to cover the server it's hosted on. If I didn't enjoy
| working on it, I'd factor in my time!
|
| It started as a quick way to generate a d3-chord diagram and has
| slowly grown since then.
| marcusstenbeck wrote:
| Two coffees! The dream. :D
| DataCrayon wrote:
| Don't know whether to laugh or cry! At least I can say we're
| talking two venti coffees from Starbucks...
| [deleted]
| lancer wrote:
| https://exportoutlookmacmail.com/
|
| I started this Mac App project in early 2017 that uses
| AppleScript to export/archive mail messages from Microsoft
| Outlook for Mac. I was looking for beta users right as my family
| abruptly moved to a new city. I haven't made time to touch it
| since. It essentially went from close-to-baked to mothballed.
| I'll share it here with the caveat that it does not actually work
| at the moment due to an AppleScript-related error. If there's
| enough interest in the idea, I'll find time to look into that!
| adamrmcd wrote:
| I just signed up for your beta. I receive about 500 emails a
| day in Outlook for Mac, and every few months I have to rebuild
| my entire inbox due to search/filter anomalies. Need a way to
| purge past months/years while maintaining accessibility.
|
| Unless I'm missing something, the only way to do this is to
| move messages to a local mailbox, but it's still locked to
| Outlook.
| gabereiser wrote:
| I've been working on a docker swarm front-end/management
| container: https://www.github.com/gabereiser/hive
|
| I still dabble on my 3d engine:
| https://www.github.com/reactor3d/reactor
|
| Nothing really special and nothing I would call "the next big
| thing" so...
| evphn wrote:
| https://breathing.tips
|
| I began doing some breathing exercises and after a while started
| building this collection of 3D animated breathing techniques.
| raphaelj wrote:
| During the spring, I released an open source Bluetooth tracing
| app for Covid-19: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer
|
| The app is fully working, and supports most of the privacy
| protection that one could find in the most advanced apps.
|
| It's also my first app built using Xamarin.
| NonceStudios wrote:
| A local multiplayer arcade game (great timing with the pandemic,
| I know). I think the current number and quality of local
| multiplayer PC games could be better. There are certainly some
| great games out there, but I believe there's a lot of room to
| explore new concepts as well. I also wanted to figure out just
| how much work it is to ship even a simple polished game. It's a
| pretty simple concept but I think has some potential (I've had
| fun testing it with friends at least). The version up works, but
| a new version with some fixes and features is in the works. If
| you are interested, can grab a friend or seven, and have some
| gamepads, give it a shot! https://noncestudios.itch.io/ballgame
| I'm also looking for playtesting input, so if you have any
| comments I would love feedback! (On Itch.io or at this username
| on Reddit)
| AtroxDev wrote:
| project: postcard.zone (https://postcard.zone), its a simple way
| to send a postcard to any address of your liking with fully
| customizable front and back of the postcard itself.
|
| A long time on my todo list to make more out of it. It works as-
| is but I'm not happy with the current editor and some other
| things. Still, it gets some use on occasion which is nice :)
| epaga wrote:
| https://smoothtrack.app - an app that uses your phone's AR for 3D
| head tracking for PC games. Kind of a "VR" feel for sim games,
| without VR.
|
| Has layout issues on some smaller screens, I'm still working on a
| USB connection feature, and lots of other stuff I need to improve
| on. But releasing early was the right decision, it's already
| doing pretty well!
| bdefore wrote:
| Nice to see your post, I've been using this on a Pixel 3a with
| MS Flight Simulator and it works well! I wish there was less
| latency, but it is manageable and definitely adds to the
| experience. Thanks!
|
| Curious what you think of my own submission here, a tool to
| make flight sim control maps from a browser:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25702356
| nodematic wrote:
| Cool concept. How is the experience moving the head, but
| keeping the eyes on the fixed location screen?
| epaga wrote:
| It works great, actually. The movement of the head is
| exaggerated in the game so you only need to nudge your head
| slightly to move the camera - you just keep your eyes on the
| same spot while you do so.
|
| Your brain gets used to it very quickly and it feels
| surprisingly intuitive.
| w_t_payne wrote:
| https://github.com/wtpayne/xact - Model Based Systems/Software
| Engineering tool with support for machine learning and synthetic
| data.
| woozymans wrote:
| I've been building a curated collection of local restaurants for
| people to order delivery or takeaway from during the pandemic
| lockdown - https://woozymans.com
|
| Ranking for restaurants is based on an algorithm of engagement
| and current popularity.
| bradgessler wrote:
| https://www.thingybase.com/
|
| It's a home inventory app!
|
| I've been working on this and using it for almost two years now
| in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and
| raising 2 kids.
|
| I've embraced the "half-baked" aspect of shipping a project like
| this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations.
| It's just been so much fun building and using it.
|
| If you use it, don't worry about me abandoning it. It's improved
| my life so much that I'm going to be constantly improving it and
| keeping it around. Working in an iOS turbo app for it next, and
| I'd like to build lending and expirations into it too. It's going
| to be awesome.
|
| Share your feedback with me if you use it!
| pmx wrote:
| I actually really love the illustrations!
| bradgessler wrote:
| Thanks! Me too, and I say that because they're my 4 year old
| daughter's style of stick figures: egg bodies with arms and
| legs sticking out.
| vmirz wrote:
| A stock and options trading tracker for Robinhood with a social
| component.
|
| ios: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tradebase-for-
| robinhood/id1021...
|
| android:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epilix.tra...
|
| I started this project many years ago, but I still consider it
| "half baked" because it not nearly what I think it should be.
| Turns out, building reliable and accurate finance tools is not
| easy.
|
| The idea originally came from when my friends and I would
| exchange details on holding, returns, winners, losers, etc. If
| you're an active investor and have friends who are too, chances
| are you've asked the same questions.
| enos_feedler wrote:
| Neat idea I will check it out. It seems like a lot of potential
| in the trading + social space.
| winrid wrote:
| I'm doing the book Data Science From Scratch, but doing the
| exercises in C++ instead of Python, just to get familiar with the
| language.
|
| https://github.com/winrid/data-science-from-scratch-cpp
| karakanb wrote:
| I am building SaaS Starter Kit: https://saasstarterkit.app
|
| It is a simple starter kit that includes: *
| Subscriptions & Payments via Stripe * Invoices *
| Multiple payment methods * TailwindCSS & FontAwesome
| integration * Dashboard layout * Settings page
| * Test coverage * Docker & Docker Compose setup *
| Kubernetes & Helm * GitLab CI/CD
|
| Thanks to these, one can go from unzipping the source to
| automated live deployments in less than 15 mins, including fully
| functioning payments. I aim to improve it further with more
| functionality out of the box, as well as additional API
| endpoints.
|
| I am currently exploring early access options, therefore I have
| applied up to 75% discount. I would love to get some feedback,
| so, feel free to hit me up with questions or suggestions!
| bluedevil2k wrote:
| This looks really cool and what you've got so far looks pretty
| useful to people. I think the next step is offering options on
| the programming language and frameworks. For example, React
| front end with node back end.
| karakanb wrote:
| Thanks! I have been thinking starting with a Vue-powered
| frontend along with the same backend including the API, so
| that people can have both of the options, simple server-side
| templating or an API with an SPA.
|
| Thanks for the suggestion again!
| epilys wrote:
| My terminal mail client. Work has been slow but steady
|
| https://meli.delivery
|
| https://github.com/meli/meli
| nikivi wrote:
| https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything
|
| Currently can add and remove links (pinboard clone). But the big
| goal is more ambitious (https://docs.learn-anything.xyz/roadmap)
|
| Hard to do without funding.
| tomcam wrote:
| Still afraid to post mine but the vast majority of these look
| fantastic!
| bitwize wrote:
| https://github.com/bitwize/nullawesome
|
| NullAwesome, an unfinished Android game I've been working on, off
| and on, in my spare time, since a while ago. Basically a "run,
| jump, and hack" puzzle platformer where you have to use the
| environment to evade or overcome enemies and expose the evil
| corporation in a 90s-esque cyberpunk setting.
| npilk wrote:
| https://subscrippedoff.com/
|
| I'm fed up with the widespread adoption of subscription models by
| consumer companies - I think they tend to pray on people who
| don't track their usage or forget they signed up.
|
| This was one idea for helping people understand exactly how much
| they're really spending on subscriptions. Unfortunately I think
| it's a little long-winded, but part of that is just because so
| many services now use a subscription model.
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| What about watching a persons bank account via Openbanking etc
| then you can easily (!) determine which ones are subscriptions
| ?
| npilk wrote:
| Hadn't thought of that! Interesting idea.
| AstroNoise58 wrote:
| A very simple web application (aimed at being self-hosted) to
| collect videos for watching them (repeatedly) later:
| https://github.com/tomszilagyi/copycat
|
| It invokes youtube-dl under the hood, but the user can add videos
| (to be downloaded) via the browser. It is quite usable as is, but
| pretty slim on features. Maybe someone here wants to take it
| further.
| yufw wrote:
| https://sharepad.io/
|
| I developed this as my own remote coding interview tool to let me
| do collaborative editing and also run code. I learn the
| technologies as I am building it, so it also helps me try out new
| things. First released it to public at this new year, still got a
| lot of features to implement, it's a fun project to work on
| weekends.
| thescribbblr wrote:
| Thanks for building this sweet tool.
| jcuenod wrote:
| I've been building https://parabible.com for a few years now
| (code is at https://github.com/parabible/). It's a tool for doing
| biblical research using the original languages. It provides the
| usual morphological tagging and parallel versions (with
| Greek/Hebrew, including the LXX but I'm not interested in just
| pumping it with rubbish data that a lot of bible sites like doing
| --I'm doing a PhD, I know what data is valuable).
|
| The real value proposition is the way that searching works. I
| have the BHS (the standard Hebrew edition) tagged with parsing
| and syntax and, critically, searches respect syntax. That means
| you don't have to search for words within n words of each other
| or within the same verse; you can search for words in the same
| clause. Finding Hebrew idioms is a lot easier like this.
|
| My research is in the Old Testament so this is only true of
| Hebrew right now but I'm doing a lot of work rewriting the
| backend which will make it easier to import new translations and
| search any of the tagged data.
|
| I am quite proud of the UI. It's React with MS's Fluent UI
| components, though, and I feel like it's a bit sluggish (but my
| server is also slow).
|
| But hey, I use it as my primary interface for working with the
| Hebrew so it serves my purposes. I also made some tutorial videos
| to onboard intrepid users (there's a button in the toolbar to
| take you there), which I feel like makes it a "real" project, now
| :)
| sjbrown wrote:
| Togetherness Table https://www.1kfa.com/table
|
| Open source SVG/HTML/CSS/JavaScript (no frameworks) project for
| playing Tabletop RPGs (D&D et al) online.
|
| It started out as just a dice-roller, but since it's so easy to
| nest whatever SVG thingamagic you like into it, it's been
| expanded to do card decks, tokens, and a thing I'm calling
| "Dynamic Trays".
|
| Dynamic Trays do the gruntwork of RPG calculations. Sums,
| tabulations, even "exploding dice".
|
| There's still a lot to do, every time I add a feature I think of
| two possible new ones. I've got to say, SVG is *really* nice. I
| think many developers would have the first instinct to do this in
| an HTML Canvas tag, but SVG does so much heavy lifting for you.
| ragnot wrote:
| https://github.com/ragnot/roost-hsm
|
| I wanted a C++ hierarchical state machine library didn't require
| massive compile times like boost msm.
| wiradikusuma wrote:
| Android app to keep track of things --
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.every From the
| name (Every.ID), it aims to be the one app to keep track of
| everything you collect: domain names, postage stamps, games, etc.
|
| I personally use it to keep track of my domain names, people I
| want to keep tabs of (sort of like mini CRM), software
| subscriptions, and lifetime deals purchased from AppSumo.
|
| It's far from finished. Feel free to suggest features in
| https://app.productstash.io/everyid -- the completed ones are in
| https://app.productstash.io/everyid#completed
| tlarkworthy wrote:
| A niche cloud that only runs public auditable source code, built
| on top of ObservableHQ so the user has the power to read and fork
| the serverside implementation if they wish
|
| https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/serverside-cells
|
| The idea is if we shine a light on server side implementation,
| and give more power to the end user to see what is happening, we
| can build trust. Personally _I want an AI to hoover up my data_
| and act based on anticipate my needs. However, in the current
| climate its just too risky letting my data leave my control.
|
| So the problem is not privacy per se, but trust that my data is
| used in my best interests. This is my attempt at fixing the
| internet services trust issue: _Make sure the production code
| that runs on the data is verifiable at all times_.
|
| It's very half baked at the moment as the serverside runtime is
| not open sources, nor is there a billing system. I am acutely
| aware of the hypocrisy and will fix it in due time :p
| ramoz wrote:
| Like smart contracts? I also see relevance with compliance-
| heavy stacks, maybe integrating something like
| https://github.com/usnistgov/OSCAL
| tlarkworthy wrote:
| No just javascript. Crypto and protocols are one way of
| solving this issue, but I wanted something any developer
| could adopt. So there are no "proof" of security, but you can
| always inspect the source code, so services no longer behave
| like a market-for-lemons. It adds a buying signal. Which
| although not watertight, does change the market dynamics I
| think for the better.
|
| Thanks for the links, it could well be relevant.
| scyclow wrote:
| https://ronamerch.co
|
| I started this face mask ecommerce website a couple months ago,
| but I'm not sure my revenue prospects are very good with the
| vaccine rolling out. And last time I posted this to hn it did
| _not_ get good reviews at all.
| rvin wrote:
| Hey all! Built out a passion project app to help podcasters find
| new listeners.
|
| Each podcaster is given a channel with a public facing website
| for their podcast. To give prospective listeners a taste of an
| episode, post an audio clip with a key moment (has to be less
| than 5 minutes long). We take these clips and serve them in a
| feed of posts for listeners.
|
| Example Website: https://jointidbit.com/c/startupadvice
|
| App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tidbit-snackable-
| audio/id14656...
|
| Thanks everyone!
| jimnotgym wrote:
| I have started a blog about gardening! It is something I was
| writing for myself.
|
| https://watchingplantsgrow.com/
|
| I never get to code at work any more so I decided to write a
| static site generator in Python using Jinja2 templates and
| markdown. Front end is Bootstrap. Hosted on Netlify. It really
| fits in this thread since I have probably spent a day on it and
| have not even rendered all of the blogs I have written, or added
| images yet.
| tenaciousDaniel wrote:
| https://matry-mvp.netlify.app/
|
| A platform-agnostic programming language for UI designers. None
| of the links work; this is quite literally a half baked page lol.
|
| I'm still in the process of designing the language itself, been
| at it for about a year now and expect to spend about another year
| nailing down the basic syntax before revealing publicly.
| bradbeattie wrote:
| I got hooked on building tools to assist in collective decision
| making. A decade back I built pyvotecore and
| https://modernballots.com to help folks run elections with
| fancier systems (e.g. SchulzeSTV). Years later, I built
| https://boardgamemenu.com to help reduce choice paralysis with
| boardgame selection (consensus). A few after that was
| https://sortmatch.ca to assist in Glicko tournaments.
|
| Most recently, I built https://deckofnames.com to help new
| parents decide on a name they'd both like. I built it for myself,
| but figured others might find it useful. So it's a bit rough
| around the edges, but does the job pretty well, I think.
|
| Part of the fun of implementing it was hunting down name
| statistics from various regional governments to compile a list of
| "which names are popular in which regions in which years". I
| really wish that kind of thing were standardized around the
| world, but that's life.
| saeranv wrote:
| Pincam: A simple pinhole camera library in
| Python/Numpy/GeoPandas. Pincam allows you to easily manipulate,
| analyze and plot 3D images with GeoPandas.
|
| https://github.com/saeranv/pincam
|
| It's dead useful (for the kind of work I do) - but I'm stuck on
| whether it's worthwhile to finish it up with a proper raycaster
| to more accurately resolve depth order of the geometries.
| Currently I've managed to implement ~70% of pincam's features
| with Pytorch3D's camera and mesh library, and while it doesn't
| provide clean graphics like Pincam, it gets the job donE.
| wilsonfiifi wrote:
| I bought a paid of Wahl Senior hair clippers from the US and I
| figured all I'd need was a step down transformer (240v to 110v)
| for it to work and boy was I mistaken! Apparently you need to
| also take into account the frequency of the current.
|
| To cut the long story short, all my early search for a solution
| was leading me to overpriced "kits" on ebay and the likes. All
| you have to do is type "frequency 60hz clippers" to understand
| what I'm talking about. The solution, which is cheap and simple
| is to buy a $18 power adapter with a $20 inverter from Amazon.
|
| I figured I'd make that information available online for anyone
| facing that same problem. So I just put together a site [0] with
| some amazon affiliate links. I haven't done any SEO or marketing
| yet. Me being a backend dev, this is a nice little learning
| project. [0] https://www.freedomclippers.com
| ficklepickle wrote:
| Add a blog, pay a writer because SEO gobbledygook will rot your
| brain (I believe they use ahrefs to get keywords), add JSON-LD
| structured data. Cultivate back links, maybe post in forums
| where people are already discussing this.
|
| There is not much good technical SEO info out there for
| developers to find. It is frustrating for someone used to being
| able to find documentation/best practices easily.
|
| This is stuff that I have picked up working with SEO people.
| Not guaranteed to be 100% accurate but hopefully it helps.
| wilsonfiifi wrote:
| Thanks. I've set my mind on learning as much as I can
| beforehand so I don't get bamboozled when I start delegating.
| But I agree that SEO appears to be a black art, to me at
| least!
| osetinsky wrote:
| Upward Accounts https://apps.apple.com/us/app/upward-
| accounts/id1494340479
|
| We help U.S. freelancers save on taxes by:
|
| * auto-deducting business expenses
|
| * making it easy to invest in self-employment retirement accounts
|
| * letting them know what they owe in taxes and when
|
| Having worked on side gigs in the past, freelance taxes have been
| a huge pain for me and others I know.
|
| First bank account is free for 30 days, $5/month or $50/yr after
| that for multiple bank accounts (we integrate with Plaid).
|
| Would love to hear what people think and how we can continue
| improving.
| nabeards wrote:
| Do you support the seasonal / annualized quarterly estimated
| payments tax form? I used that for many years for fluctuating
| freelance income, but I've not seen an app that supports it.
| bdefore wrote:
| I'd be interested to try this but use Android.
| _pastel wrote:
| https://github.com/benpastel/trees
|
| I've always wanted my own gradient boosting machine
| implementation to compete with Xgboost and LightGBM. There's a
| huge space of tricks around regularization, randomization, tree
| structure, etc., that few people are exploring because neural
| nets are exploding.
|
| So far I've roughly caught up in speed and accuracy with a few
| original tricks (and 1/20 of the features), but no real
| breakthroughs.
| chony wrote:
| I built this project to automatically overlay baseball pitch
| motion and trajectory.
|
| https://github.com/chonyy/ML-auto-baseball-pitching-overlay
|
| It's ready for a quick demo. However, there are stiil some little
| improvements have to make. And I'll build an web app on top of it
| for people to use it online.
| mattivc wrote:
| https://github.com/matiasvc/Toucan
|
| I work in robotics and have for a long time been frustrated with
| how hard it is to visualize data in C++. I created Toucan to try
| to solve that. The project is still in a very early stage but has
| already started to become a useful tool.
|
| The API still needs work but it's getting there. Toucan can be
| called from anywhere in your code, and runs in its own thread to
| always remain interactive and responsive.
| rubymamis wrote:
| A personal assistant for the desktop computer called Deus. Cross-
| platforn and open source here:
| https://github.com/nuttyartist/deus,
| https://awesomenessnotes.wixsite.com/website-5 (didn't update it
| for a long time)
|
| Code is in C++ using Qt. Uses Porcupine for wake-up-word
| detection and Google API's for speech-to-text and text-to-speech.
|
| It can play music, move your windows, you can shout google
| searches at it, tell it open Gmail, take screenshots, etc.
|
| After launching it I found people didn't find it useful,
| including myself, after some time. Still, I open sourced it in
| case somebody will find it interesting. I loved developing the
| NLP engine part using tree structure to load the database and
| travel on it to find the most suitable command based on the user
| input.
|
| Moved on to the next idea (:
| tomaspollak wrote:
| Two projects:
|
| - Archetype[0] - Offline code editor for Chrome OS (Pending:
| Theming, customization, etc)
|
| - Muki[1] - Web based chiptune & MIDI player (Pending:
| Rebranding, bigger catalog, personal playlists, recommendations)
|
| - [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archetype-an-
| offli... - [1] https://muki.io
| ms123 wrote:
| I've been working on a "virtual pub" - an internet message board
| where people can talk about what's on their mind with strangers.
| It's fully open source (code in golang). Works on web and Gemini:
| https://midnight.pub
| sidwyn wrote:
| https://apps.shopify.com/easy-theme-editor
|
| Visual editor for Shopify apps. Click, modify, save! Would love
| any feedback.
| mg wrote:
| A lean HTML editor with instant preview:
|
| https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/
|
| See the issues tab for the two issues still need tackling until
| it can be used as a nice local HTML/CSS/JS editor.
|
| It is awesome, that with the file access api, it is not possible
| to write full featured editors that run in the browser.
|
| I mainly made it for myself but then decided to open source it.
|
| Personally, I am fine with editing raw text, but of course it
| would be possible to add modules, so one could enable syntax
| highlighting etc.
| sudoit wrote:
| I've been working on https://liveapp.cc It allows for iOS apps to
| be deployed outside of the App Store by streaming apps through an
| App Clip. Apple has approved my app, but I'm expecting they'd ban
| it if I allowed users to host their apps for something more than
| beta testing
| ithkuil wrote:
| https://knot8.io
|
| Alternative approach to yaml templating for k8s manifests.
|
| It includes a structural 3-way merge algorithm that allows you to
| temporarily "fork" the manifests by just exiting some fields in-
| place, knowing that synchronizing upstream is way more
| predictable than what you could achieve with a general purpose
| textual merge like git.
| fuzzylearner2 wrote:
| An app for recreational and commercial drone flyers. Built the
| Android and iOS app but missing some features for users to create
| their own collections. Proud of it though -
| https://dronetrails.app/
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| etimberg wrote:
| https://github.com/etimberg/pycircuitbreaker/
|
| A python implementation of the circuit breaker pattern. Not a new
| concept, but I did innovate in how the breaker decides to open.
|
| I realized that with a normal breaker, if you set the threshold
| to 5, but 4/5 requests failed (say due to a backend service being
| partially down) the breaker would never open. To solve this, you
| can set the breaker to use the net error count so that the
| breaker would behave as such:
|
| Req Num | Req Status | Breaker Status
|
| 1 | Fail | Closed
|
| 2 | Fail | Closed
|
| 3 | Fail | Closed
|
| 4 | Fail | Closed
|
| 5 | Pass | Closed
|
| 6 | Fail | Closed
|
| 7 | Fail | Open
| thomasrognon wrote:
| https://www.cloudternal.com
|
| It's like AirTable/Lists/etc but for big organizations.
|
| So the focus is on a more useful permission system, handling lots
| of data, dead simple data entry for tech-phobic employees, and
| getting the information you need quickly (as opposed to spending
| time fiddling around with how data is displayed, this isn't an
| "app builder").
|
| The intent is to replace the hundreds of untracked, out of sync,
| insecure Excel files being used as a database in most large orgs.
|
| Cool tech note - people learn to use a graph database with
| Cloudternal, even if they never know what a graph is.
| terriblepodcast wrote:
| Someday I will summarize HN daily in an audio format to save
| others some time...
|
| https://terrible.productions/#podcast
| ISNIT wrote:
| SES Templates: https://sestemplates.com/ I built it over a
| weekend to scratch an itch. It's useful, it works, but needs some
| sales/marketing effort.
| pzagor2 wrote:
| https://urlrec.com/
|
| Export web animations as mp4 videos from any public URL. API or
| trough UI. Actually it can be any website, not just animation.
| jeswin wrote:
| https://retransmit.io - HTTP and WebSocket API Gateway
|
| Ready to use, but it'll be more useful once I have dashboards etc
| (which I'm building).
|
| I'm recovering from a minor surgery, so won't be able to reply
| today - sorry about that.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| a_alakkad wrote:
| Journal Prompts, get constant prompts delivered to your inbox, to
| help you make the journaling habit stick!
|
| https://sendfox.com/journal-prompts
|
| I'm still in validation step, wanted to know if people are
| interested in such service before I jump in to development.
|
| Honestly I just wanted to dive into development and dealing with
| code, but if I want a proper product I need to validate it first
| and I need to deal with people and make them top priority rather
| than my personal interest in coding :)
| meagher wrote:
| Help folks pay their phone and Internet bills
| https://evenaccess.org
|
| Needs polishing and an application form for folks seeking help.
| cj wrote:
| I like it!
|
| I would donate if the homepage communicated how exactly the
| funds are used.
|
| Is the idea that you'll directly match donators and people in
| need?
|
| If so, there's the obvious chicken and egg problem, one idea to
| overcome that could be starting out with all donations going to
| an existing charity that shares a similar mission (and being
| transparent about that on the landing page), and then
| eventually start redirecting funds directly to folks seeking
| help (also while being very transparent as the use changes)
| meagher wrote:
| Good point about adding more info!
|
| Idea is folks apply for help and I call up the phone/Internet
| company to verify and pay their bills with the funds donated
| from others.
|
| All donations and payments would be viewable anonymously, and
| eventually tax deductible (need to go through that process).
| ramoz wrote:
| also, tax exempt?
| meagher wrote:
| At some point, that's the goal.
| andriesvh wrote:
| https://proofing.io
|
| Youtube and Vimeo tagging.
|
| Certainly not ready yet but the basics work. Includes a feedback
| form to gather more input.
| ducaale wrote:
| I am working on ht[0], a drop-in replacement for HTTPie[1]
| written in Rust.
|
| Since I am not planning on writing an extensive documentation for
| ht, I wanted to port 99% of HTTPie's features so its docs applies
| to ht as well. So far I have been able to port around 60-70% of
| HTTPie's features.
|
| [0] https://github.com/ducaale/ht
|
| [1] https://httpie.org/
| methyl wrote:
| Like LiveView, but for state not the whole DOM:
| https://github.com/surferseo/live_data/tree/master/examples/...
| raudaschl wrote:
| Amazon Hunt.
|
| A solution for tracking the number of sales of different products
| on amazon and how much merchants are making.
|
| Never got the nerve to actually sell it and not sure if I will do
| anything with it. http://www.amzhunt.com/
| daenz wrote:
| A "survival wiki." I built it for myself. It's mediawiki on a
| raspberry pi zero, AC/DC powered, with an e-ink display. It
| connects automatically to a known wifi network and displays the
| connection details. When the wifi network goes down however, it
| automatically switches to access-point mode, allowing you to
| connect directly to it through your phone or other wifi client
| device.
|
| There's still some quirks to work out, but it works well. I store
| personal knowledge on it and I don't have to worry about
| rebooting my primary computer (and taking down the wiki), or a
| power outage preventing me from accessing my information.
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CTYjKq0DLYVV7LBktW-bQrxZv2F...
| entropie wrote:
| Very interesting. Any code?
| daenz wrote:
| Thanks, nothing public yet but I am getting inspired to share
| what I have. It is really nothing more than some systemd
| units, /etc configurations, and a dockerfile. I will try to
| put something together though.
| kodachi wrote:
| Please do, real-life examples of systemd units are useful
| for learning.
| LegendaryR3D wrote:
| https://sharehub.live
|
| Indian social media platform I have been working on over the past
| several weeks. Still a long way to go, and a lot might change in
| the near future based on user feedback. Give it a try!!
| jnskender wrote:
| https://www.debt-dash.io
|
| Plug in some basic information about your debt accounts. Choose
| your payoff order and how much extra you can pay towards debt
| each month. I provide a month by month guide on how your payments
| will snowball until your debt-free.
|
| I'm the only user currently and I have a lot of work to do on
| branding/homepage before I share it with others but it fits the
| bill of unfinished but slightly useful.
| matt_f wrote:
| This is a really good thing.
|
| I know a lot of the people who are overwhelmed by debt don't
| have the spare mental or emotional space to deal with something
| else equally overwhelming, which is visualizing their path out
| of it.
|
| Should be higher on the list.
| bluedevil2k wrote:
| You should recommend the payoff order based on their interest
| rates. Also, for completeness as a financial tool, they should
| be able to plug in savings like retirement savings. A student
| loan of 8% sounds bad and some people think they should pay it
| off above all else, but really a 401k where the employer
| matches 50% of the first 6% you contribute should be the
| primary focus for the person, since the 50% return is sooo much
| higher than the 8% interest rate.
| mikkergp wrote:
| I've thought about writing something like this. Right now I use
| a spreadsheet. The "killer feature" I've been looking for is
| the ability to compare things. Like, if I paid an extra $100 a
| month, how much faster would I pay off the loan and how much
| money would I save in interest. Also maybe different repayment
| strategies. Like one where your payments get gradually lower
| every month and one where they get gradually higher every
| month.
| mgkimsal wrote:
| a bit OT, but I have a mortgage, and noticed that my mortgage
| processor did an upgrade last month, and have included a
| "what if I paid $x/month more?" live calculator, as well as a
| 'one time payment' calculator. of course, you _can_ find many
| of these around the internet, but it was useful to see it
| baked in to my account dashboard with my exact numbers
| /dates/etc.
| jnskender wrote:
| I've got these features in the backlog! I'd love for you to
| play around and provide some feedback on current state!
| Everything is client side and reactive to your plan changes
| so it's easy to quickly see how your changes effect your
| plan.
| mikkergp wrote:
| You should ask for term length and then calculate the
| minimum monthly payment, because I don't have to look up
| the minimum monthly payment. I notice that "mortgage"
| account type is missing. I always think that credit cards
| are tough for things like this because it's such a moving
| target, you'll probably have to integrate with the banks.
| Also I guess this is mostly around the snowball method (as
| you said it was) but my interest is more in, what are the
| most efficient ways to pay off one or two large debts.
| jnskender wrote:
| Great feedback. Truly appreciate your time and
| suggestions.
| WesleyJohnson wrote:
| I've wanted to build this into a web application for a while,
| but the idea always ballooned into wanting to do a YNAB or Mint
| competitor with debt calculator as just one feature. And while
| possible, building something like that as a solo founds seems
| daunting!
|
| Anyway - check out this google sheet by Vertex42 which has some
| different paydown options, instead of just Snowball. Maybe
| something you can incorporate, if you haven't already.
|
| http://www.vertex42.com/Calculators/debt-reduction-calculato...
| 66d8kk wrote:
| This is great. Thanks for sharing.
|
| I've often wonder how the gamification of debt / saving could
| work.
|
| Have you considered that at all?
| axelthegerman wrote:
| https://buzzmein.ca
|
| It's a simple project to allow call forwarding from apartment
| buzzers to multiple phone numbers - ideal for roommates, couples
| or families.
|
| Had something very basic working 2 years ago and should have
| released it like that. It's still not quite where I want it at,
| but now I can iterate instead of holding everything back
| rcoc wrote:
| I am working on a tool called Playbook (https://useplaybook.app).
| Playbook is an application that allows anyone who presents
| product demos to tell a more complete, integrated story.
|
| One of the primary features of many SaaS products is how they
| integrate smoothly with other platforms customers are already
| using, like Salesforce or Slack. However, in a demo environment,
| it can be difficult to show that workflow in a way that doesn't
| require flipping between persona accounts and taking precious
| time to generate the activity. Playbook hooks into a demoer's
| demo accounts and facilitates creating "plays", automated
| workflows between any number of SaaS apps that show off your
| product's integrations. It also supports working with multiple
| personas to create lifelike collaboration instantly.
|
| There are still many kinks to work out but this is the first step
| in building Demo Engineering-as-a-service.
| nodematic wrote:
| That's a great idea
| mzafkismugi wrote:
| I have a working bot for importing Messenger conversations into
| Discord. Does anyone see any potential here?
| benoror wrote:
| BaseQL: https://www.baseql.com/
|
| A single GraphQL access point to all your cloud Data.
|
| The idea is to use existing relational data stored in the cloud
| to rapidly create a GraphQL API that is production ready.
|
| We support Airtable for now, and we're developing GSheets.
|
| Technical docs & examples: https://docs.baseql.com/usage/querying
| mattlondon wrote:
| http://byexample.xyz
|
| Ran out of time to make more content, but I still add something
| every now and then when I learn something new. I think the plan
| was lots of useful copy-pasteable snippets (inspired by the
| gobyexample site) and then some ads.
|
| For the curious, it is a Jekyll site (ported from Hugo) served
| from GitHub. Source on github. Workflow is _super nice_ - edit
| markdown and run locally (if you want to preview - you don 't
| need to if you dont want) and just push to GitHub and the changes
| are live within a minute or two - GitHub pages is an awesome
| service for this sort of thing.
| sandermvanvliet wrote:
| Voltmeter: an application to quickly provide an overview of
| service health using simple service status endpoints.
|
| https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/Voltmeter
|
| Pretty much works for what we want at $workplace, I built it so
| that we can see if our platform services are up and running and
| healthy.
|
| It uses scraping of a service status endpoint to collect service
| health and the health of the dependencies of that service.
|
| Using that the app renders a graph with all services and
| dependencies which helps us quickly find services that are broken
| in prod.
|
| Recently added inputs from our metrics back-end so that we can
| have auto-discovery of new services and to support services that
| don't have a HTTP endpoint we can scrape
| aparks517 wrote:
| Static SMS microblog, https://phasedust.com
|
| Been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of
| weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, fast and
| snappy, doesn't demand or abuse attention.
|
| Some things I'm still thinking about: image scaling and
| optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).
| oneearedrabbit wrote:
| That's how Twitter started back in 2006. Also, you reminded me
| Posterous [0], which ironically has been acquired by the very
| same Twitter.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous
| aparks517 wrote:
| Thanks for that link! I remember hearing of Posterous, but I
| don't think I ever tried it out so that was an interesting
| read.
| nabeards wrote:
| This is really great. Would love to be able to host it as a
| section on my own site. Re: images, what have you tried so far?
| I've been using guetzli to get them nice and small.
| aparks517 wrote:
| Thank you for the kind words! I guess it might depend on how
| your site is put together, but I bet you could whip up
| something like this for it pretty easy. I had meant for this
| to be a weekend project, but I had it mostly done before
| supper on Saturday, so... ;)
|
| I figured I might use ImageMagick to scale the images and
| maybe jpegoptim afterwards. Thanks for the tip on guetzli,
| I'll check it out!
| JohnDotAwesome wrote:
| I built an app around the HTML invoice template I had been using
| for years. https://www.cannonvoice.com/
|
| I used this project as a training ground for a ton of different
| ideas and technologies. From server rendered react to typescript
| and design systems to how the hell kubernetes works. I went from
| dokku, to lando, to trying to figure out Consul and Hashicorp
| stuff to managed K8s on digital ocean. I decided to try to only
| write SQL and create my own typesafe patterns with TypeScript. It
| didn't work out all that great but it wasn't all that bad either.
|
| This is half baked because I had so many more plans for a product
| no one asked for. Definitely one of the best learning experiences
| I had. I started with a monorepo of modules and realized that was
| a stupid idea for an app. I developed some strong opinions along
| the way. Oh I reimplemented email auth for the nth time but this
| time I used postgres's built-in crypto functions. Man I like this
| implementation
| lawrjone wrote:
| Postgres change-capture device that supports high-throughput and
| low-latency capture to a variety of sinks (at first release, just
| Google BigQuery):
|
| https://github.com/lawrencejones/pgsink
|
| I know there's debezium and Netflix's dblog, but this project
| aims to be much simpler.
|
| Forget about kafka and any other dependency: just point it at
| Postgres, and your data will be pushed into BigQuery. And for
| people with highly-performance-sensitive databases, the read
| workload has been designed with Postgres efficiency in mind.
|
| I'm hoping pgsink could be a gateway drug to get small companies
| up and running with a data warehouse. If your datastore of choice
| is Postgres, it's a huge help to replicate everything into an
| analytics datastore. A similar tool has helped my company extract
| expensive work out of our primary database, which is super useful
| for scaling (nevermind the business-intelligence and data-
| engineering uses!).
|
| The project is 90% there, about 10hrs and some testing away from
| being useable. Once there, I'll be hitting up some start-up
| friends and seeing if they want to give it a whirl.
| g1ntas wrote:
| Boilerplate generator tool. It's a single binary (compared to
| most JS based solutions e.g. Yeoman), and also it supports
| scripting within template files, which allows to handle some edge
| cases (in my experience most common problem with such tools).
|
| https://github.com/g1ntas/accio
|
| I didn't want to separate scripts from templates, because of
| context switching, so I implemented custom markup language, to
| make code and template live together in single file. I am
| actually quite proud of the end result.
|
| However, there're still quite some features missing, and I am
| taking a break now to focus on other projects.
| p3p3 wrote:
| I'm writing this app that is supposed to be a deep learning based
| calories counter, but so far I've only managed to recognize foods
| and attempt to classify them by categories. Here's the link on
| google play store:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guayaba.fo...
| kumarsw wrote:
| DupVer https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver is a deduplicating
| version control system for large binary files. It's designed to
| keep state in a repository on the local machine separate from the
| working directory so it plays nice with cloud synchronization
| software.
|
| I started it after constant headaches involving Git LFS and the
| corporate proxy. It's based around the Restic chunker library,
| with inspiration from both the Duplicacy backup software and
| Boar, another binary version control system for large binary
| files.
| wyozi wrote:
| Service for turning data sent as post requests into graphs with
| tools for some basic analysis: https://thisgraph.com/
|
| Here's an example graph containing docker image build times:
| https://thisgraph.com/buckets/242dc353-562d-4520-b82d-5f3525...
| ramoz wrote:
| Stable Matching:
|
| Demo (not mobile friendly): https://backnotprop.github.io/stable-
| matching/
|
| Code: https://github.com/backnotprop/stable-matching
|
| Built a production model some years back, this was an attempt at
| making it explainable and how things need to adjust in the wild.
|
| https://medium.com/@rambossa/stable-matching-algorithm-and-h...
| jamiegreen wrote:
| https://academyoffolk.com/
|
| Site to learn traditional music. The cost of creating high
| quality original content is really high :/
| XtalJ wrote:
| I'm working on an open source 3D printed vacuum cleaner robot:
|
| https://github.com/CodileAB https://www.instagram.com/wolley.xyz/
|
| I've been working with it on and off for two years now and
| hopefully it can soon actually vacuum my floors :-)
| superzamp wrote:
| This is so cool!
| dgellow wrote:
| A stupid game where you have to guess what parts of Trump's
| tweets are in FULL CAPS: https://www.trumpscreaming.site
|
| Now that Trump is banned from everywhere, I guess I won't have
| fresh content anymore -\\_(tsu)_/-
| krcz wrote:
| Zygote [1], started as bunch of ideas about programming
| languages, now it is in exploration/design phase, might end up
| becoming a new programming language.
|
| Main goals: idiomatic translation (transpilation into readable
| code, with both imperative and functional targets possible, e.g.
| translating map-filter-reduce chain into a loop), restricted
| homoiconic syntax (with typed macros), advanced language concepts
| (dependent types, contracts, verification, effect systems)
| implemented as macros.
|
| Target uses: GPU/heterogenous programming, neural networks model
| definitions, cryptography; everywhere where control is needed
| over how abstractions are translated into the low level code.
|
| [1] https://github.com/krcz/zygote
| Jugurtha wrote:
| We're working on https://iko.ai, our internal machine learning
| platform. Not really prime time SOC 2 Type II enterprise ready
| kung fu yet, but it has:
|
| - No-setup Jupyter environments with the most popular libraries
| pre-installed
|
| - Real-time collaboration on notebooks
|
| - Multiple versions of your notebooks
|
| - Long-running notebook scheduling with GPU support against
| Docker images, and output that survives closed tabs and network
| disruptions displayed into a page so you can watch from multiple
| devices.
|
| - Automatic experiment tracking: automatically detects your
| models, parameters, and metrics and saves them without you
| remembering to do so or polluting your notebook with tracking
| code
|
| - Easily deploy your model and get a "REST endpoint" so data
| scientists don't tap on anyone's shoulder to deploy their model,
| and developers don't need to worry about ML dependencies to use
| the models
|
| - Build Docker images for your model and push it to a registry to
| user it wherever you want
|
| - Monitor your models' performance on a live dashboard
|
| - Publish notebooks as AppBooks: automatically parametrize a
| notebook to enable clients to interact with it without exporting
| PDFs or having to build an application or mutate the notebook.
| This is very useful when you want to expose some parameters that
| are very domain specific to a domain expert.
|
| I think we'll always see it as half-baked.
| mzafkismugi wrote:
| No webpage yet but I wrote a bot that imports Messenger
| conversations into Discord. Would anyone be interested in that?
| simpfai wrote:
| I built football11challenge.com after spending a ridiculous
| amount of time solving this challenge on twitter:
| https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1250066001821130759
|
| I wanted to extend on the initial premise by allowing users to
| define and share arbitrary constraints for a soccer starting 11
| and automate verification of a squad given the set of
| constraints.
|
| It needs a little bit of polish but overall I really learned a
| lot working on it. Typescript + React is wonderful combination.
| It was my first time working with Django and it was a pleasant
| experience.
|
| Do play around with it and any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
|
| Here's an example of a "challenge":
| https://football11challenge.com/challenge/601246266
| pletsch wrote:
| This is really cool. Are you planning to add different sports?
| Would love to see Hockey.
| kierangill wrote:
| App for chores and roommates.
|
| https://imgur.com/a/lQsrDZj
|
| I'm only showing a few pics because I took the backend down.
| Simple premise is that you can weight chores with points. When
| someone completes a chore (clean the dishes, mop the floor), they
| get rewarded those points.
|
| The point is to provide transparency into who's doing what around
| the house.
| joshmn wrote:
| I made an open-source Rails engine to offload marketing
| campaigns: https://caffeinate.email. I haven't tweeted about it
| yet so I guess I would call it half-baked since nobody else has
| really touched it and I don't know all that I missed.
|
| We use it at work. We were using a combination of Outreach.io,
| Salesforce, Iterable, and our own awful in-house solution when I
| realized how bad it was needed. Then I needed it for one of my
| side projects, so I hacked something together and it works. But
| who knows how well.
| primitivesuave wrote:
| I'm working on a free reminder/analytics service for keeping your
| resolutions this year: https://resolution.fail
|
| The idea is to get a periodic email questionnaire that lets you
| easily record metrics about a resolution and see progress over
| time. I'm still in the process of adding charts and an analytics
| view to the service, so you can visually see your progress in
| each email.
|
| I built the entire thing during my December holiday. Any thoughts
| or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
| jonas_kgomo wrote:
| affordance is a platform for scaling side projects with an expert
| ecosystem. https://affordance.app
| soneca wrote:
| https://www.quidsentio.com
|
| The idea was a mix of personal journal and private social
| network. But social network features are hard. Notifications,
| discovery, create a habit.
|
| I am the one only user (I use it as a habit tracker). Couldn't
| convince even my wife to use it.
| knoebber wrote:
| https://dotfilehub.com
|
| Like github + git, but only works on single files. Looking for
| feedback on user friendylness and usefulness.
| pacefitness wrote:
| https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pace-workout-planner/id1478030...
|
| I am a big fan of cross-functional fitness, and I learned a lot
| through a PT, but I struggled to find an exercise logging
| application that embraced complex exercise groupings beyond
| supersets, and could track my progress too.
|
| So I've been building an iOS app in my spare time.
|
| It's a little rough around the edges, and the progress pages are
| undergoing much needed TLC, but you can put together pretty
| decent workouts with it.
| c0nrad wrote:
| I built a little tool to turn the dial on my thermostat. It's
| called the Thermoshat.
|
| https://blog.c0nrad.io/posts/thermoshat/
| geocrasher wrote:
| Okay, the name gave me a giggle. Then I clicked the link. Then
| the picture of the device gave me a giggle. Then the _tagline_
| gave me a good laugh.
|
| Well played sir. Well played!
| miccah wrote:
| I have two:
|
| An android app to remotely control mpv:
| https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app
|
| An interactive CLI for sending parameterized HTTP requests:
| https://github.com/mcastorina/repost
| mysterymath wrote:
| I'm porting LLVM/Clang to the 6502. Notoriously difficult
| project, attempted dozens of times by as many folks.
|
| https://github.com/mysterymath/clang6502
|
| My take generates pretty darn good assembly for the cases it
| handles, but it's absurdly incomplete. Still, a huge amount of
| risk factors have already been addressed, and there's only a few
| big known unknowns left.
|
| Example input: void print_int(char x) {
| if (x < 10) { x += '0'; asm volatile
| ("JSR\t$FFD2" : "+a"(x)); return; }
| print_int(x / 10); print_int(x % 10); }
|
| Example output: .code .global print__int
| ; -- Begin function print_int print__int:
| ; @print_int ; %bb.0: ;
| %entry CMP #10 BMI LBB0__2 ; %bb.1:
| ; %if.end.preheader LDX #10 PHA
| ; 1-byte Folded Spill JSR ____udivqi3 JSR
| print__int PLA ;
| 1-byte Folded Reload LDX #10 JSR ____umodqi3
| LBB0__2: ; %if.then CLC
| ADC #48 ;APP JSR $FFD2 ;NO_APP
| RTS ; -- End function
| .global ____udivqi3 .global ____umodqi3
| montenegrohugo wrote:
| https://www.namehunt.dev/
|
| I've always struggled with finding domain names for new projects
| (all the good ones are taken!) that I decided to do something
| about it.
|
| The suggestion engine isn't really fully working yet, but the
| idea is to input a desired word/name/set of keywords and see a
| list of available domain names.
|
| Kind of following the "build what you yourself would use"
| philosophy.
|
| P.S.: Love the idea of having a periodical post like this on HN
| biztos wrote:
| I tried it out and the suggestions were not bad but there are
| two huge problems.
|
| It shows everything as available even if it's very obviously
| not, and it uses underscores in the names.
|
| The first problem might lie with the registrar API assuming
| you're using one.
| mikkergp wrote:
| Keep working on it. I don't need it right now, but I could
| definitely see something like this be interesting, the only
| solution I can think of right now is just searching for
| different things in a traditional registrar and that's been a
| frustrating process. Good luck! Biggest challenge is well. One
| coming up with good recommendations, but two getting it into my
| head when I need it. I don't know if traditional advertising
| will help with that you almost just need to be come a household
| name.
| montenegrohugo wrote:
| Thanks for the encouragement! Glad you think it could be
| useful.
|
| Agreed, getting a userbase/people who know about my product
| is probably the biggest challenge (frankly, I think it almost
| always is), but I'll give it my best shot. If it fails then,
| well, at least it will still be useful for myself :)
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| I think the other really useful thing is eventually adding
| a 'paid' version that's more robust - I know lots of
| corporates struggle with specific product names because
| they not only need the domain but need to make sure that no
| competitor or someone in the industry has a similarly named
| product, so if your solution could also make sure that when
| it recommended a domain/product name it isn't in use in
| your industry or with a competitive project already
| [deleted]
| RubenvanE wrote:
| https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com
|
| News in the digital age updates constantly. No matter what, there
| is always some "breaking news". This causes news sites to become
| more of a slot machine than a substantive source of information.
|
| A Brief History of Yesterday tries to be an antidote. It uses
| Wikipedia to show a summary of what happened yesterday. It's no
| news anymore, the content is already gradually becoming history.
|
| I started working on it last weekend. It is still in a pre-alpha
| state, but please let me know what you think of it!
| mikkergp wrote:
| Kind of an interesting aggregation but Wikipedia is a lot of
| information to try and consume for a "brief history" I do like
| the tree view, but I don't like having to open up the different
| sections, I think I should be able to get what I'm looking for
| on the landing page. Also, and this is subjective but something
| about the UX makes it feel like an overwhelming amount of
| information, especially the health and environment section. I
| would want it to feel like something I could absorb in a few
| minutes.
|
| How are you generating the trees?
| RubenvanE wrote:
| Yes, the 'Health and environment' section is quite
| overwhelming, mostly due to COVID-19. That's why I close each
| section initially, this way you open only the sections that
| interest you.
|
| I modify the tree from Wikipedia slightly to get a less
| cluttered overview.[1]
|
| [1] https://github.com/RubenVanEldik/a-brief-history-of-
| yesterda...
| deathcap wrote:
| Voxelmetaverse, a voxel game platform based on voxel.js
|
| Live demo: http://voxel.github.io/voxelmetaverse/
|
| Source code: https://github.com/voxel/voxelmetaverse
|
| I had big ideas for it but didn't get too far, after several
| years of working on it. Just published a retrospective today:
| https://medium.com/@deathcap1/6-years-after-6-months-of-voxe... -
| it could be developed much, much further.
| Hydraulix989 wrote:
| The StackGL port was much higher-performance for me than the
| Three.JS one.
| gnyman wrote:
| https://noscript.it/
|
| A little hack I made to view websites with JavaScript disabled,
| mainly useful on iOS where there is no real noscript extension.
|
| Useful to share links with JavaScript disabled. And as added
| bonus it bypasses a few paywalls or article-per-month
| limitations.
|
| Still has bugs and issues with detecting when a site blocks
| rendering in iframes.
| mobilio wrote:
| Free QR Code Generator for macOS:
| http://www.mobiliodevelopment.com/products/osx/qrencoder/
|
| Was released with 30% of features, but seems that people love it
| as-is. So updates went and getting more and more features.
| tarasmatsyk wrote:
| what was the main reason that made you built it? Did you want
| to have a QR code generator that works locally on a mac?
| mobilio wrote:
| Main reason is playing with macOS frameworks. And second -
| i've seen that all other apps using online backends. So they
| can't be used if computer is offline.
| kristerv wrote:
| https://bashboard.io
|
| Spent 3 months making this metrics dashboard, where you can send
| any JSON or data and it'll pick out charts from it. Best part is
| - no 3rd party service is left out and the learning curve is
| super shallow (just make a request with any data).
|
| The backend is very stable, but UX at the moment is poor, since I
| didn't manage to reach my target audience and am still thinking
| how to continue.
| Aztar wrote:
| Looks like a nice idea. Maybe try targeting a niche or a
| specific industry?
|
| I agree the UX needs a revamp.
| WoodenChair wrote:
| I don't know if you're aware but in the late '90s and early
| '00s "bash board" was a term that referred to an online forum
| where kids would make fun of one another. My middle school had
| multiple bash boards... doesn't mean you can't use the term
| today for something different, but just something to be aware
| of.
| ungawatkt wrote:
| I made a API introspection documentation tool for Python Flask.
| Mostly a learning experience and possibly redundant to other
| projects, but it's just about good enough to use for my own
| purposes. I might ShowHN at some point.
|
| https://github.com/cliftbar/automd
| jMyles wrote:
| Cirque: A tool to create web frontends to introspect, administer,
| and deploy mesh networks (Python / Django).
|
| https://github.com/jMyles/cirque
| firloop wrote:
| Working on a private journaling app for iOS that opens ~instantly
| and feels like a private blog or Twitter page. Content is saved
| to your iCloud Drive and is totally private.
|
| It's still a bit buggy and the UI needs a bit of polish, but I've
| been using it for the past year and it's been helpful for thought
| and introspection.
|
| there's a beta here: https://posting.app
|
| privacy policy here: https://posting.app/privacy
| notoriousarun wrote:
| I'll start with mine: https://pipecontent.com - Right now trying
| to solve the content consumption problem.
|
| The intention is to build a second brain for knowledge workers.
| That will help knowledge workers save their best ideas, organize
| their learning, and expand their creative output.
|
| Hacker? Interested? Let's connect on
| https://twitter.com/notoriousarun
| matt_f wrote:
| This is cool.
| Samantha97 wrote:
| http://bbwroller.com/frens
|
| Web viewer for exploring variations of pepe and other cartoon
| frogs. Attempts at removing duplicates was done with perceptural
| hashing as dimensionality reduction and clustering using dbscan.
|
| Dataset of 100,000 frog images is available by torrent on the
| homepage.
| skytreader wrote:
| Erdem (https://github.com/skytreader/erdem) is a small "media-
| center" webapp that I've been building. I'm also using this as an
| opportunity to learn React.
|
| Over the years I've amassed a collection of video files with
| filenames similar but not exactly like, "Lionel Messi vs Miroslav
| Klose".
|
| The actual data set is dirtier, can't be regexed, etc. A key
| property of my data set is that a name features in the filename
| of different files.
|
| I made this to easily answer the question "Hey, I want to watch a
| video about Messi. I wonder what I have?"
|
| So, being the computer scientist I am, I thought it'd be
| interesting to index the filenames. Hence, the indexer whose code
| I experiment with a lot; dirtier than usual, very "academic"
| style.
|
| Then I realized all I need is a search function (which I have
| implemented already!). Life works. Maybe I'll keep with the
| indexer idea but just for something to play with.
|
| P.S., I have words to say about React but this isn't the thread
| for it I guess. Been a frustrating experience so far. But well,
| that's why I used it in such a rough hack in the first place.
| arnaudl_ wrote:
| My nagios as a service that I've been using on a few personal
| projects: https://github.com/arnaudl/nagios-docker
|
| It automatically adds hosts and services reporting to it through
| NSCA.
| tuangeek wrote:
| Projects:
|
| https://rapidapi.com/apigeek/api/transcribe - An API to
| transcribe any audio/video file using deep-learning. Still
| working on documentation.
|
| https://contect.io - An idea validation service using market
| research data, keywords, A/B landing pages with a fake checkout
| to help indie hackers validate their idea. Working on applying
| for Strip checkout.
| mysterydip wrote:
| I wouldn't even call it half baked yet, more like a tenth, but
| I'm working on a total conversion (with a few engine changes) to
| the DOS Rise of the Triad. You can see one example here:
| https://twitter.com/mysterydip/status/1345112757050486785?s=... I
| am changing all textures, adding some new ones, repurposing
| enemies and weapons, all new maps and features.
|
| I think the engine really had some clever potential that didn't
| get fully realized in the end product, and I want to bring that
| out. Plus working on a DOS project has been very enjoyable for
| the simplicity and limitations.
| tbran wrote:
| Very cool! Not much of a gamer, but I replay ROTT every few
| years. Would totally play with your mech-enabled version!
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Interesting! Why for ROTT and not use an engine like Doom if
| you're replacing all assets anyway?
| mysterydip wrote:
| I actually prefer the block layout of levels instead of the
| line segment geometry, just makes more sense in my head. Also
| I like the underdog, I want to show people the engine was
| more advanced than "wolfenstein with higher walls". So many
| things have been done with DOOM, I think it's interesting to
| explore the other engines of the time.
| bunya017 wrote:
| https://github.com/bunya017/yaro-post
|
| I tried postman on my old machine (Hp 6715b) and it was slow. It
| took so much RAM and processing power that I couldn't run any
| other app simultaneously with postman, else it's BSOD :D. So I
| set out to build a stripped down postman with Quasar; a Vue Js UI
| framework, and Electron. It might be half baked, but it's usable.
|
| The name is coined from Ingausa; a creole of Hausa and English
| language. "Yaro" means boy in Hausa language.
| samiralajmovic wrote:
| Building an editor to create, view and edit vim color themes in
| your browser. Half-baked app architecture with a self-built redux
| and event emitter and code structure, gets the job done though.
|
| https://pintovim.dev/
|
| https://github.com/alajmo/pinto
|
| Also building mani, a tool that helps you manage multiple
| repositories. It's helpful when you are working with
| microservices or multi-project system and libraries and want a
| central place for pulling all repositories and running commands
| over the different projects. You specify projects and commands in
| a yaml config and then run the commands over all or a subset of
| the projects.
|
| https://github.com/alajmo/mani
| riyakhanna1983 wrote:
| Been working on a new hypervisor that can directly run isolated
| containers (not VMs) to enable secure micro-services without
| virtualization overhead. Email me if interested in testing or
| contributing.
| snshn wrote:
| Mostly baked: https://github.com/Y2Z/invisible-ink
|
| Currently wrapping up solid blocks (instead of empty glyphs) and
| merging with another "donor" font.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| I don't have a link, because this is a Discord-based project, but
| it's a scheduler for D&D games.
|
| A DM issues a command in a channel, which generates a link for
| them to use; the link takes them to my website, where they choose
| their available dates and times. Once they're done, a message is
| sent back to the Discord channel with the possible play dates,
| and potential players vote by reacting to the message with the
| emojis which represent the available dates.
|
| The DM can "lock" the votes and choose the date by reacting with
| another emoji on a "summary" message.
|
| It works, but the match-the-emoji-with-the-date interface is
| annoying, since you have to keep track of which emoji means what.
| I'm going to eventually rewrite it to send multiple messages, one
| per date, but I got stuck when trying to add React to the project
| (for no good fucking reason.)
| edoceo wrote:
| I'm still working on http://funnelpump.com - a communication tool
| for early customer development / sales leads. Helps you grind
| that list and get those deals, forcing functions to drop
| unproductive leads
| jll29 wrote:
| Nice idea. I like the focus on simplicity, and you could sell
| this as Docker container to folks who don't want to be on
| anyone else's cloud (e.g. salesforce.com).
| edoceo wrote:
| Watch this space! I've got a less publicly visible install
| that is going through "beta". Roadmap is foggy.
| Nihilartikel wrote:
| I've had an in-browser animated meme editor in the freezer for a
| few years now:
|
| https://www.ultime.me/
|
| The idea came when I wanted to make a simple animated meme, but
| found it exceedingly frustrating to caption a simple animated gif
| with nice text options (like outlines). Over time, it's grown to
| have full keyframe animation for all text and image/video clip
| attributes, so it is actually pretty capable short of using a
| desktop video editing/fx package.
|
| That said, the UX is bad and I should feel bad :) . I made the
| deliberate choice up front to focus on the underlying data model
| and internal APIs rather than polishing the UI - as such, it is
| very much an engineer interface. It would be more usable with
| some demo videos or call-to-action helpers for new users, but
| really the UX just needs reworked. Especially around
| animation/keyframing.
|
| On the bright side, the clean data model and content addressable
| assets leave the path clear to add things like collaborative
| multi-user meme editing, git like meme-forking(and diffing?), and
| so forth.
|
| Started it about 3 years ago when I had a period of mostly free
| time to play. It's been idle for a long time due to starting a
| family and getting consulting momentum, but I'm intending to make
| the time this year to polish the UX to the point of general
| usability and experiment with promotion/monetization. Failing
| that, I'll probably just open source it and write a couple of
| blog posts about the internals.
|
| It is more or less a static web app, with no server side function
| short of some optional stats collection. It's written in
| Clojurescript/Clojure and uses https://github.com/tonsky/rum as a
| React wrapper and https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/ to import
| most animation formats and export gifs/webm fully in browser (I
| don't want to pay real server costs to encode animation).
| tbran wrote:
| I just created http://unaffixed.com for finding and posting
| Gumroad-like jobs [1].
|
| It's just a markdown file converted to html and served from a
| Fastmail folder.
|
| My process was:
|
| Read this thread [2] yesterday afternoon. Thought this sounded
| like a "looser" work environment. Searched "synonym loose". 3rd
| result was "unaffixed". Bought unaffixed.com and pointed it at
| Fastmail. MD to html with pandoc. Added water.css stylesheet last
| night. Thought up some ideas on making it better.
|
| [1]: https://sahillavingia.com/work [2]:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686678
| petr25102018 wrote:
| Great idea, bookmarked for the future.
| [deleted]
| lrossi wrote:
| Your SSL certificate is misconfigured.
| biztos wrote:
| I like this idea but I must point out that every single open
| position for "comma.ai" is "ON SITE."
|
| So, um, affixed.
|
| For this to be useful you'll need some screening. Good luck
| with it!
|
| (And assuming comma.ai posted this themselves, what a bizarre
| thing to do: start your recruiting process with an obvious lie?
| What does that say about your corporate culture?)
| tbran wrote:
| oooo, that's 100% my fault, not theirs!!! Removed it.
|
| Already being crappy and failing fast....
| ay wrote:
| Two very half baked projects:
|
| 1) https://github.com/ayourtch/tbpatch
|
| read the unified diff and apply to files that may have whitespace
| changes compared to original. The aim is to experiment with
| structured source control. The first immediate use is to be able
| to more easily cherry-pick code changes between branches in a big
| project.
|
| 2) https://github.com/ayourtch/flex-sftp-server
|
| an experiment in making an SFTP server that is not tied to
| openssh, to implement more flexibility like more granular access
| control, different storage backend etc.
| chadwittman wrote:
| I'd call it 2/3rds baked; but doing nba + tech questions w/
| friends via 30 second takes. Would love a couple of thoughts /
| feedback on playing around with it. A lot of features, but still
| refining core experience dramatically:
| https://trypersona.com/feed (check out on mobile)
| peller wrote:
| https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained
|
| I wanted something better than Django. So I built this. IMO it's
| already there from a technical perspective but the documentation
| needs some more work. Would greatly appreciate any feedback!
| mikkergp wrote:
| I used padrino for a while, because it advertised itself as
| half-way between sinatra and rails. I liked it, but I don't
| think the framework ever had enough support to be able to rely
| on it, and since it's not well known I wouldn't pick it again
| in an environment where someone else had to code on it.
|
| http://padrinorb.com/
| peller wrote:
| Yea, I definitely need to put more effort into promotion and
| getting more active users.
|
| I'm not familiar with padrino, but at least for Flask
| Unchained, it's literally Flask under the hood - so my
| project is less a new framework but more of an improved way
| to use a highly popular existing framework. I'm hopeful this
| distinction can help with adoption.
| mikkergp wrote:
| Yeah Padrino is similar, it's sinatra under the hood.
| dbecks wrote:
| HiFutureSelf (http://hifutureself.com) - Send Reminders to your
| future self
| karlerss wrote:
| https://get.recruitlab.co.uk/p/job-builder
|
| It's a WYSIWYG job ad builder tool I built over a few days.
|
| It was supposed to be a lead generator for our ATS product, but
| the functionality does not seem to be useful enough yet.
| abhiyerra wrote:
| https://YieldPayroll.com is a way to do payroll for hours tracked
| with Harvest Time Tracker. I built it to calculate what I owe
| subcontractors easily since I use Harvest for everything else. I
| built it last week so it is rough.
| egberts1 wrote:
| For parsing Bind9 named configuration file, I have built using
| PyParsing for this. It is 99% completed. MIT license.
|
| Three minor issues left. Two cleanup issues remaining.
|
| https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues
| jrgnsd wrote:
| http://hackerpla.net/requestd/
|
| RequestD - An Elasticsearch backed dashboard and interface to
| track and monitor websites and APIs. Great tool if you need to
| monitor error rates and other SLA related metrics for a web
| service.
| Layvier wrote:
| http://sci-map.org/
|
| The idea's to build a collaborative graph-based learning map to
| learn seamlessly and optimally whatever's your learning goal.
| It's open source, non profit and I'm looking for contributors !
| The tech stack is Neo4j/Node.js/TypeScript/GraphQl on the
| backend, React/Typescript/Chakra UI/Apollo client on the
| frontend. I would also need help on the design. My Twitter:
| @olivier_ramier, email: olivier@sci-map.org. Hit me up if you're
| interested !
| philipcdavis wrote:
| Resources for designers to learn declarative UI frameworks.
|
| 1. https://react.design
|
| 2. https://swiftui.design/guide
| jermd wrote:
| Tuna programming language: https://github.com/Conder-
| Systems/tuna-lang
|
| The intended use case is rapid development of microservices. I'm
| excited about it because you can describe reliable and secure
| apps concisely:
|
| https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang/tree/main/demos/...
|
| Tuna presents a single system image abstraction so developers
| don't need to concern themselves with scalability.
|
| It's all open source and I welcome contributors/feedback!
| throwawayHN9876 wrote:
| after realising how frustrating is to work with third party
| recruiters and companies that do no share clear salary ranges,
|
| i built https://golang.cafe for myself. golang cafe is a golang
| job board with no recruiters and clear salary ranges.
|
| i also don't like sites that use excessive javascripts, ads, and
| other crap and bloatware. golang cafe will try to remain
| analytics free and bloat free.
|
| i have managed to get a salary explorer
| https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developer-Salary-Remote
|
| a list of companies actively hiring and using go in production
| https://golang.cafe/Companies-Using-Golang
|
| also experimental a bunch of go devs open to work
| https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developers
|
| [edit] ps. it is also open source https://github.com/golang-
| cafe/golang.cafe
| andreygrehov wrote:
| https://www.bithub.com/ - Instant Cryptocurrency Exchange
| XCSme wrote:
| I have one but I think it's almost baked:
| https://www.usertrack.net - Self-Hosted Analytics
|
| What I still want to do before calling it truly "ready":
|
| * Add a trial version
|
| * Implement a secondary session recording system
|
| * Improve documentation/onboarding/tutorials
|
| * Add some integrations (data import/export, alerts, weekly
| digest)
|
| Also, the landing page design is really poor, I should work on
| that too.
| raphaelj wrote:
| Just released my MVP for my 'Airbnb for Musicians':
| https://noisycamp.com
|
| I don't have that many studios yet, but my goal is to make it
| super easy for musicians to find and book practice and recording
| spaces.
|
| I built the website using Scala, Vuejs, PostgreSQL, running on
| top or Heroku and BunnyCDN. The code is Open source:
| https://github.com/RaphaelJ/noisycamp.com !
| herval wrote:
| this is a great idea, and execution is looking good! I'd not
| call it half baked at all :-)
| whatgoodisaroad wrote:
| A little language for dimensional analysis programming:
| https://github.com/whatgoodisaroad/doggerel
|
| Rather than static types, primitive values have static dimensions
| and (in lieu of objects) complex values are built up into
| unordered vectors. The core idea being that if the language makes
| it easy to spin up descriptive purpose-built dimensions, vectors
| are the only data structure we need!
|
| It started out as a straightforward attempt to program with units
| and conversions, but slowly generalized to this vector concept.
| The next steps are about building a static dimension language
| (like a type language) to slice-and-dice vectors with
| projections.
| dreaming_sun wrote:
| I made a simple number puzzle game with React -
| https://alexanderstewart.github.io/circles-web/
|
| I released it under the MIT licence. Here's the code -
| https://github.com/AlexanderStewart/circles-web
|
| Feel free to build off it and release your own version!
| delf wrote:
| This has not been updated in a year or so as I am working on a
| Svelte-based replacement:
|
| https://www.nightlife.fm
|
| It shows which DJ's are playing at which nightclubs.
|
| Since Covid started it has been quite empty, hence API/Svelte
| replacement.
| victor_e wrote:
| My half baked project isn't even hosted yet. I just work on it
| locally: https://imgur.com/a/FAVOOka
|
| It's a site to curate the best links for given topics.
| nichochar wrote:
| Help developing the habit of creative writing by gamifying
| writing a short story, in 5 mins, following a prompt:
| http://avostories.com/
| dbattaglia wrote:
| I've been working for some time on a capture the flag web game
| called Rock Paper Scissor Battle!, which is basically a
| simplified version of Stratego, but the pieces are rock, paper
| and scissor instead of numbers). Its open source on my Github:
| https://github.com/daniel-bytes/rps-scala, the backend is Scala
| and Redis and the frontend React + Typescript. I have a live
| version of it up at http://rock-paper-scissor-battle.com/,
| although I have a feeling any real level of traffic will topple
| over my $5/mo Heroku dyno. Also don't mind the goofy font landing
| page. :)
|
| I'm overall happy with the backend code, except for the "AI",
| which can use some real work and research. Right now just some
| basic semi-random rules that make it pretty easy to beat.
| nodematic wrote:
| This is cool. I particularly like the styling.
| dbattaglia wrote:
| Thanks, appreciate it!
| franky47 wrote:
| https://chiffre.io
|
| It's an end-to-end encrypted analytics SaaS. It allows me to
| provide a web analytics service to my customers where only they
| can see their usage data.
|
| More like 3/4 baked, currently running in private beta, hoping to
| ship Q1 2021. Feedback is welcome !
| [deleted]
| mvolfik wrote:
| https://eyp-calls.tk https://github.com/mvolfik/eyp-calls if
| anyone wants to look. Simple scraping + results presentation,
| utilizing Cloudflare workers + python Scrapy, actually pretty
| interesting imo. (It probably won't be useful to you, this is a
| tool just for members of a specific organization.
| rathboma wrote:
| https://beekeeperstudio.io - cross platform database manager.
| Fully open source.
|
| It's been doing well but still has a long way to go to have all
| the features we want.
|
| Open source is great for side projects that aren't fully
| finished!
| susam wrote:
| http://mathb.in/
|
| It has been in its half-baked state since 2012 when I wrote it in
| a single night so that I could share solutions to mathematics
| puzzles my friends and I used to challenge each other with.
|
| Somehow the use of this tool spread from my friends to their
| friends and colleagues, then schools and universities, and then
| to IRC channels that involve mathematical discussions.
| jll29 wrote:
| I would encourage you to keep working on this - IMHO it has
| potential in that scientific collaboration (also in
| mathematics) is increasingly done by globally distributed
| teams.
|
| You may need: - user/ID management - linking to Overleaf/GitHub
| for collaborative authoring of jointly produced output (e.g.
| papers to publish a proof) - integration (e.g. via HTML
| snippets) in user's personal blogs.
|
| There's semi-competition from e.g. Mathematica notebooks and
| the likes, but these are perhaps more targeting single authors,
| not conversations/teams.
| joflicu wrote:
| Nice! It would be nice to see some of the puzzles that were
| shared using this tool.
| susam wrote:
| Here you go:
|
| * http://mathb.in/13
|
| * http://mathb.in/16
|
| * http://mathb.in/20
|
| * http://mathb.in/39
|
| I wrote this tool all throughout a Saturday night 9 years ago
| and shared it with my friends on the next morning. The first
| URL (post 13) shows the first puzzle that was shared with the
| tool. The fourth URL (post 39) was the first post by someone
| I did not know. That's when I realized that people beyond my
| immediate friends' circle have begun using it now.
| NiloCK wrote:
| https://eduquilt.com
|
| I don't even know off-hand if the current deploy is even semi-
| usable, but I'm jumping on the thread because ... you asked!
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tvHMvF8Mo
|
| This is a platform-in-progress for mass-collaborative
| interactive-tutoring-system authoring. Wikipedia for khan
| academy, duolingo, or anki, with arbitrarily interactive content.
| The above video shows some rich flash cards in action (ear
| training & keyboard harmony).
|
| Flash cards + SRS + dynamic difficulty sorting and pathfinding
| (ie, optimal content surfacing given demonstrated skills), and
| automated surfacing of achievement bottlenecks in courses so that
| the community knows where to author intermediating content or
| prescribe different approaches with existing content. Inside the
| classroom: peer-to-peer JIT instruction, and distributed
| competencies.
|
| Most tentatively, but maybe most crucially, I think there is
| potential in this project for anti-fragile adversarial
| communities to build mutual understandings around contentious
| issues, where the propagation of your own views is proportional
| to your acknowledgement of contrary opinions.
| [deleted]
| jlizzle30 wrote:
| Suitro: Asana style project management tool for recruiters.
|
| https://suitro.com/
| kureikain wrote:
| My app: http://hanami.run/
|
| It's an email forwarding service. You point your domain to us,
| and we will forward email to your domain to your personal email.
| We also support webhook so you can do creative thing with email
| workflow.
|
| Still need lot of work on backend to improve spam filtering and
| add privacy/tos pages, fix typo/grammaer. fix small UI/UX
| weirdness here and there.
| 68020 wrote:
| A Personal Configuration Manager. An OS 'WP killer' that pushes
| web designs (apps/blogs/etc) via ssh to target servers. Allows
| for an independent way of managing your web assets and designing
| beautiful web sites for your self or others.
| https://ezstacksystems.com/ and yes i need help.
| ramoz wrote:
| Fast Style Transfer for iOS, converting models to coreml...
| models are still quite inefficient.
|
| https://github.com/backnotprop/fast-style-transfer-coreml
|
| https://medium.com/hackernoon/diy-prisma-fast-style-transfer...
| oneearedrabbit wrote:
| About a month ago, I began developing Diggy [0]. It started as a
| simple Python notebook to explore small datasets, visualize
| results so can share them with my friends. Its initial purpose
| was to create a Python playground that I can run entirely in my
| browser without relying on server-side code. Zero setup, just
| type some Python code in the browser and instantly see results.
|
| I don't feel joy when I work with Jupyter-like environments. They
| are powerful, but feel complex especially for exploratory
| programming and for those of us who enjoy playing with ideas.
| That being said, Diggy is not for large-scale applications where
| you need Docker containers, cloud providers, integration with
| enterprise platforms, big data. It's for those who like learning,
| coding, sharing and making it for fun.
|
| Diggy is a tactile and visual notebook:
|
| * It's reactive. You don't have to remember which blocks to run
| if you change a variable. A notebook will be automatically
| updated. There's no hidden state, a notebook is always up-to-
| date.
|
| * You don't need to install anything on your computer. You don't
| need to create an account to run Python code. It's as simple as
| clicking a link.
|
| * Web-native, runs completely in the browser pushing boundaries
| of edge computing.
|
| It was hugely inspired by Observable & Repl project. Overall,
| it's a small attempt to move towards tools that bring joy to
| programming.
|
| Under the hood it runs Pyodide [1], and I'm planning to add extra
| languages at some point.
|
| [0] https://diggyhq.com
|
| [1] https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide
| CogitoCogito wrote:
| This is _extremely_ half-baked. In fact, it's never meant for
| anyone's use but mine I just have it on github to use as an easy
| backup.
|
| https://github.com/ApproximateIdentity/vocab
|
| Basically what I have is a open office spreadsheet that I add
| Czech words to and specify things like noun/adj/etc., gender,
| english/czech spelling, and more and then I have a tiny bit of
| code to generate flashcards for the Anki program to import.
|
| https://apps.ankiweb.net/
|
| Basically the point is just to make it a bit easier to use the
| flashcard program and nothing else.
| glaze wrote:
| Aether3D Game Engine (Linux/Windows/mac/iOS, Vulkan/D3D12/Metal)
|
| https://github.com/bioglaze/aether3d
|
| Some people like making games, I like making game engines. I
| don't have a specific goal/target in mind while making it. I've
| written several game engines since the nineties, and this is my
| most recent version.
|
| I have abandoned many of my older engines at some point to
| develop a new one, but with this engine I'll try to keep
| developing it a lot further before making a new engine.
| Findeton wrote:
| I am trying to create a light-field video platform, however I'm
| still at the point of training some CNNs... You can see this at
| least:
| https://twitter.com/realFelixRobles/status/13436442924479324...
| cookiengineer wrote:
| This is definitely stealth [1] for me.
|
| Peer-to-peer networking works (without TLS for peer-to-peer yet),
| cache and tabs/history works, UI interaction works (since a
| couple weeks ago).
|
| Beacons and Echoes don't work, Parsers still don't work for CSS
| and HTML, filtering doesn't work again; and worked before... lots
| of things that need fixing.
|
| [1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
| chickenmonkey wrote:
| https://github.com/meethari/todo_react
|
| I'm in the process of learning the MERN stack for full stack
| development. What I have here is a todo list app where you can
| perform CRUD actions on the todo list (add todos, delete them,
| update the done state).
|
| The front end is in React and the back end is an Express API that
| talks to a Mongo instance.
|
| Next actions include - Making this a full fledged product by
| throwing in login functionality, authentication, ability to
| create multiple lists - Honing my HTML/CSS skills to build
| components for the above purposes - Deploying this to Heroku
| shafin_ wrote:
| I am trying to write a programming language in Bengali language.
| But i only managed to write a crappy tree-walker interpreter.
|
| https://github.com/Shafin098/pakhi-bhasha
| realbarack wrote:
| A toy for speaking with a synthetic personality and generating
| synthetic audio: https://uberduck.ai/
|
| It's more like 10% baked, but it sort of works. It's much better
| with GPT-3 but hasn't yet been submitted to OpenAI for approval,
| so that part is private. My priorities are improving the
| synthetic voices, adding additional dialog scenarios, and adding
| multiplayer mode either natively on the site or through bots that
| can be added to Discord voice channels.
| gr1zzlybe4r wrote:
| https://chaynring.herokuapp.com/
|
| Made this app after having tons of people ask me during lockdowns
| about a "good bike" to buy. Idea is that Chaynring is the
| community driven backend to sites like CL, FB Marketplace, Ebay,
| etc. that gives localized prices of bike sales.
|
| Still trying to figure out the incentives to make users post, but
| I feel like there's some potential here.
| Akcium wrote:
| https://pingr.io - uptime (soon performance) monitoring service
|
| I'm looking for help regarding: - New features which you miss in
| such services - Pricing model
| (https://www.producthunt.com/discussions/how-to-choose-correc...)
|
| It's already working, though might be buggy a little.
|
| Thinking of switching to B2B, instead of B2C
| miyuru wrote:
| Just had a look and your site looks great.
|
| some feedback.
|
| 1. I saw in the change log that you support IPv6, make it more
| prominent in the front page as well. (maybe add IPv6 support to
| pingr.io as well)
|
| 2. Your pricing is what I was looking for, per request and per
| location. but the fixed charge thing is what holding me back.
| maybe a prepaid option would be better. eg: a person adds $10
| credit to the account and uses it at pay as you go pricing.
| garritfra wrote:
| https://omegacrm.net/
|
| A simple all-in-one CRM for freelancers. Does not require
| JavaScript. Ironically built with Node.js and React.
|
| It currently only allows the user to manage their clients.
| Planning on integrating per-client projects and billing, as well
| as time management.
| beenieman2021 wrote:
| https://pillr.io Pillr - automated property management
| sopromo wrote:
| Public Transportation app: https://mappi.invisen.com/
|
| Website is Spanish only for now but the app has multiple
| languages. Still adding new cities whenever I can but I've been
| too busy lately.
|
| Started as a project to learn more about routing and public
| transportation in Madrid and GTFS data. It was fun and I learned
| a lot.
| motyar wrote:
| Check https://bruzu.com a bit more than half!
| oxinabox wrote:
| Arborist.jl https://github.com/oxinabox/Arborist.jl/
|
| It implements one of the more advanced tricks in JuliaLang. Which
| is the concept behind Cassette.jl
| (https://github.com/jrevels/Cassette.jl) and IRTools.jl
| (https://github.com/MikeInnes/IRTools.jl). which is this notion
| of a recursive source code tranformation. This is the thing where
| you tranform code (kind of like a macro but not lexically
| scoped), including tranforming all function calls to also
| tranform their code. It's super powerful
|
| For example Zygote.jl (https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl)
| implements reverse mode automatic differentiation, by defining a
| function that is a generated transformation of the function being
| differentiated. MagneticReadHead.jl
| (https://github.com/oxinabox/MagneticReadHead.jl/) implements a
| debugger by defining a function that has been transformed to
| include debugger interupts. This stuff also has a bunch of use
| for probabalistic programming languages etc.
|
| The thing is Cassette and IRTools implement this at the lowered
| code level. It runs on the SSA-form IR. This IR was never really
| designed for the user to write it. Though IRTools does a noble
| attempt to make it nice.
|
| Arborist instead runs at the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) level.
| Just like macros. This is designed to be written and manipulated
| by users. Users do that all the time by writing macros.
|
| I haven't touched it in a while (apparently 2 years). Largely
| because AFAICT it's not useful outside of pedagogical purposes.
|
| AST is not actually that nice for any program tranforms i want to
| do, since there are so many ways to write the same thing. E.g.
| different kinds of loops and branches, where as in SSA form IR
| they all look the same. Probably could be made to work, but i
| just don't really have a usecase that I can't do easier on IR.
| (probably people who haven't been deep into IR on the other hand
| would think of some)
|
| There are a bunch of edge cases where it crashes still, for
| things that are not allowed to appear in generated code. It
| wouldn't be too hard to make it work though, not really.
| Particularly since we now have tools like
| https://github.com/SciML/RuntimeGeneratedFunctions.jl
| https://github.com/JuliaStaging/GeneralizedGenerated.jl
| tstegart wrote:
| https://startupgroundwork.com/
|
| It helps people start a business by helping them find the right
| software and acts as a starting point for research. It's half-
| baked because writing content is very difficult and energy
| consuming. But hiring writers just gets you crap. Its difficulty
| to make money if words don't flow.
| lewisjoe wrote:
| http://closetab.email
|
| A solution for my OCD of keeping those 58 tabs in my browser open
| for two months now.
| izerik wrote:
| A remote control app (Android/iOS, written in Flutter) for
| Philips smart TV-s. I don't like the official one, it's buggy.
|
| Right now it only has basic controls and a trackpad, but I plan
| on adding channel/favorites/app lists and other stuff.
|
| Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TAwsRf1
|
| I cut a lot of features, as I want it out released, so I'm
| focusing on the basics, which is the auth with tv logic and basic
| controls.
|
| I plan on doing a beta release to iron out issues with the
| authentication logic. If you're interested, drop a mail to
| phimoteapp@gmail.com .
| rpnzl wrote:
| Well written post mortems can be full of interesting and useful
| information. I wanted to aggregate them and make them searchable
| by tech, company, etc. Not near half-baked yet (don't have well
| defined tags or anything), just chipping away when I can.
|
| https://postmortemr.com/
| 16th_hop wrote:
| Created a shell utility in Go, called go-live. The idea is that
| you start it in a directory, and then those files are immediately
| hosted on the network.
|
| The core idea is to be as lightweight and performant as possible,
| and to do one thing only and well - Unix style.
|
| https://github.com/antsankov/go-live
|
| Looking for contributors and feedback on it.
| rbradford wrote:
| Sounds a bit like woof: https://github.com/simon-budig/woof
|
| Two great things about woof:
|
| 1. You can use it as a verb, 2. Woof can woof itself.
|
| Cue shouts in the office, "Hey, can somebody woof me woof?"
| Followed by a reply of an IP address and lots of puzzled
| onlookers.
| lucas03 wrote:
| https://www.digrin.com/
|
| It's a stock portfolio manager focused on dividends.
|
| I have been thinking about financial independence and financial
| literacy for years. How so many of us were never taught about the
| impact of credit card loans and inflation on our financial
| situation. So as I've read more about how a brand new car is the
| worst thing you can do with your money, I dug deeper into how
| money can make money. As I started investing right after
| university, I thought the web would be a better way to track
| dividends automatically, instead of manual google spreadsheets.
| So this is my project I work on weekends mostly, trying to
| visualize dividend stocks and what passive income I can expect.
| It's always half baked project because there are so many
| exchanges and stocks that all have their own problems and it's
| hard to automate from free data sources. I really like building
| the project I use myself! Hopefully, it will last!
| shepik wrote:
| https://potapp.co/#/doc/new/readme
|
| Notes&todo app. You write everything like it's a document, and
| then view/change todo items on a kanbad-like board.
|
| I would love to hear some feedback.
| koeng wrote:
| I am building standardized and modular mass-distributed DNA
| toolkits.
|
| Two blog posts for context:
| https://blog.libredna.org/post/cheapdna/
| https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/
|
| Website offering version 1: https://www.sporenetlabs.com/
|
| I pretty much figured out (after quite a few years) how to
| distribute DNA for 100x-200x cheaper. Right now, I'm building DNA
| toolkits for engineering every different organism (it's
| expensive, but I'm doing it in collaboration with other
| companies). All open source, too.
|
| Imagine if you could get a toolkit to engineer literally any life
| form for less than $100. It'd be super cool!
|
| The "money maker" here is that my DNA foundry can build DNA
| together from my toolkits quicker and cheaper than anyone else,
| which is attractive for new companies who want to engineer stuff
| using my toolkits.
|
| It's a work in progress, but I'm actively working on it, and I'm
| ramen profitable from my B2B part. Good times ahead!
| verdverm wrote:
| Very cool
|
| What do you think about the apocalypse story that a person uses
| something like this to make a virus worse than covid? (or the
| AI fears but with bio)
| koeng wrote:
| I am a bigger fan of the hero stories where everyone is able
| to fight an epidemic themselves, instead of being subject to
| the whims of pharma / ineffective government policy.
|
| The moderna vaccine basically took a weekend to design, but
| many months to test, since they were going to give millions
| of doses out. What if one day, every small town had the
| ability to manufacture independently designed vaccines for
| local usage (once we have a better grasp of the background
| biology). It is quite likely that, while some of the vaccines
| may be toxic, they'll certainly be less toxic than the
| disease itself, and the distribution means that variation
| controls against new variants of the virus.
| jl6 wrote:
| https://github.com/jl6/hdrfs
|
| "HDRFS is a lossless filesystem application which stores a
| complete history of every byte ever written to it. It is backed
| by a strictly append-only log, but works as a fully read/write
| POSIX-compatible filesystem. Think of it as a cross between a
| filesystem and tar, with infinite versioning and tuned to
| maximise ease of backups.
|
| It is intended to be used by individuals to archive personal
| files."
|
| Very half-baked. It works, but it turns out there are quite a few
| applications with highly pessimal write() patterns that bloat the
| metadata database, making it less general-purpose than I had
| hoped.
| nfoz wrote:
| I love the idea of this, how you write to volume files of a
| fixed configurable size, that become immutable once it's moved
| onto the next one, so you can pick up those prior volumes and
| move them to offline storage whenever you want. That just seems
| really nice and easy to understand.
| npsio wrote:
| https://www.nps.io/
|
| Create free online NPS surveys. Send them to your customers. When
| they answer one, you will get an email with their score,
| comments, and some statistics
| yetihehe wrote:
| Electromagnetic linear servo actuator. Not finished due to
| limited time, maybe I'll finish it this year.
|
| https://hackaday.io/project/19547-electromagnetic-linear-ser...
| amir734jj wrote:
| IceCast stream ripper with FTP support. Basically turn any online
| radio into your own spotify alternative. All open source.
|
| https://stream-subscription-ui.herokuapp.com/
| LukasReschke wrote:
| I've been working on an open-source Identity Access Management
| solution in the past few months: https://gatekeeper.page/en/
|
| Gatekeeper aims to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to
| have their own on-premise IAM solution that supports all relevant
| protocols and standards and is secure by default (by offering
| automated updates and using memory-safe languages etc.).
|
| Features include, for example, LDAP, OpenID Connect, SCIM, and
| Gatekeeper as an identity-aware reverse proxy. (with fully
| managed ACME certificate management)
|
| The tech stack is ASP.NET Core + Postgres on the backend. The
| frontend is written in C# and uses Blazor to run using Web
| Assembly. If someone is interested in taking a look, we are
| working on a hopefully helpful Developer Documentation
| (https://docs.gatekeeper.page/developer/)
|
| The code on GitHub: https://github.com/GetGatekeeper/Server
| joaomacp wrote:
| Reinforcement learning goalkeeper:
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t-W0U-WC6IikniINjeRjE8Zuskx...
|
| The agent hasn't learned anything yet. I just finished setting up
| the environment, adding the ball and goal.
| alexp wrote:
| https://bitcoinparty.co/
|
| simple bitcoin price comparison tool with various brokers, p2p
| and classic exchanges.
| tekdude wrote:
| I posted this in the Side Projects discussion about a week ago,
| but I'll post again here.
|
| Pulselyre: A touch-screen synthesizer app for live music
| production - https://www.pulselyre.com
|
| The concept is to create 'instruments' in the editor (2nd
| screenshot) by building a pipeline/graph of basic modules that
| create and transform audio based on user X/Y touch coordinates.
| Then, lay several instruments out on screen and use your fingers
| to loop sequences of notes live on stage. The demo video (
| https://youtu.be/Qk85IrgXRj0 ) shows how that part works (I'm not
| a musician).
|
| I showed it on some music production forums and to friends who
| dabble... but I had made a terrible mistake from the beginning.
| Since my audio engine was custom, I didn't have compatibility
| with existing VST plugins. No producer would use a synth app that
| didn't support their favorite plugins, and no plugin developers
| would switch to a new system that had no users (my engine was
| also extensible). I looked into adding support, but VST's
| architecture is too different from my mine... One suggestion was
| to remove the audio engine entirely and just make the app a MIDI
| front-end/sequencer for other synths. This is something I might
| do in the future, though the limitations of the MIDI protocol
| would mean removing a lot of functionality. I'll probably open-
| source the project some day, but I need to clean up some things
| in the code first.
|
| I created a custom UI manager for the app and decided to split
| that off into a separate open-source Windows UI framework. I
| still work on it and have used it for other small utility apps:
| https://tinyurl.com/upbeatui
| Tade0 wrote:
| https://github.com/Tade0/emergency-poncho
|
| This is a HTTP mock server for reproducing issues on the front-
| end using a recorded HTTP archive(*.har file).
|
| The gimmick is that for a given endpoint it stores all the
| responses and serves them in a round-robin sequence.
|
| This way you can simulate situations where e.g. a request has
| been retried after the JWT expired, or something special happens
| when an item is added to a list, and the list is refreshed
| afterwards - basically every case in which you need backend
| state.
|
| It works... sometimes. Each new project I'm in uncovers new
| issues.
|
| That being said with the test team giving me both videos and
| *.har files of the bug reproduction I was able to solve a few
| long standing bugs in one legacy system.
| gmandx wrote:
| I had the same idea a while ago
|
| https://github.com/mandx/harplay
|
| Pretty much the same goals as `emergency-poncho`, plus the
| excuse to learn making web servers in Rust.
| zipf wrote:
| AnyFab: free, browser-based CAD and prototyping.
|
| https://anyfab-5d0d2.web.app
|
| The idea is that you can design parts and order prototypes all in
| one place. It's only working for 3D printing so far.
|
| This version is using jsketcher as the drawing engine until we
| have finished the custom one. The webapp is hosted on Firebase
| and the ordering backend/price estimation uses Rust and Rocket.
|
| Sign up here if you want to see the beta when it's ready:
| http://beta.anyfab.io
| cloogshicer wrote:
| https://nocrunchgames.com/
|
| Game studios that don't crunch, and are hiring.
| mikkergp wrote:
| https://modquiz.com - A spaced repetition tool that combines a
| notion-like input interface to make creating flash cards more
| organic, using markdown text, tables and lists. Also has a
| flexible schema so that questions can be generated in different
| formats like multiple choice, true false, matching, etc. buggy
| and not all the dynamic question features work but the foundation
| is there.
|
| https://eniac.lrner.io - An incremental game used to teach the
| history of the building of the first computer, ENIAC. Buggy and
| the mid-end game needs to be implemented. I planned on launching
| this to HN and PH in a few months.
| robobro wrote:
| Federated / decentralized, tag based anonymous messageboard :
| http://0chan.vip
|
| Could have just used nntp but nntpchan already did that.
| iillexial wrote:
| https://github.com/ivaaaan/smug
|
| A session manager for tmux. Not that fancy like tmuxinator or
| tmuxp, but pretty decent.
| beenieman2021 wrote:
| https://pillr.io - Pillr. automated property management for the
| landlord.
| Winterflow3r wrote:
| This has some traction (a couple of thousand users per month) but
| needs a bit more work. A colour search engine and browser for
| lipsticks https://lipcolourmatch.com
| mcaswell wrote:
| I made https://others.com as an attempt to make a space for
| meaningful connection and conversation on the internet. Turns out
| the hard part is getting enough people in there!
| tbran wrote:
| I'm working on a website that I might try to turn into a
| community. Thought this comment on HN was useful:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444650
|
| I'm starting with a niche, then try to go wider.
| mcaswell wrote:
| Incredibly helpful, thank you!
| 66d8kk wrote:
| I'm building a privacy-first fitness / health tracker.
|
| I managed to lose a lot of weight during lockdown with the help
| of fitbit but using a Google service to handover my most personal
| of data doesn't sit right with me (it served a purpose).
|
| So I've started to build what I need from a tracker.
|
| Where I'm heading generally: - Platform / API access (so you OWN
| your data) - Client-side encryption - No tracking / knowledge -
| Weight, Calories, Diet, Run - Import GPS from Garmin etc..
| graph/store/play
|
| _cringe_ but what do I have to lose
|
| (best viewed on mobiles for now - haven't considered a desktop
| yet)
|
| https://endotherm.app
| djedr wrote:
| https://www.tree-annotation.org/
|
| minimal universal syntax
|
| alternatives to JSON, XML, and S-expressions slowly baking on top
| remram wrote:
| You might want to put an example of the syntax on the landing
| page.
|
| I have been to the "comparison" page and I'm still not sure
| what it looks like, because of the heavy highlighting (are the
| big dots part of the syntax? Are the tiny square brackets?) and
| there doesn't seem to be another example on the site.
| djedr wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback, good idea. Will do!
|
| I continue to redesign the website for the best presentation.
| This is the second iteration. All feedback is very welcome.
|
| The bullet points and differently sized brackets are purely
| syntax highlighting. Bullet points highlight list items.
| Highlighting stripped, all brackets are regular square
| brackets. "Minimal" is not an exaggeration. It has only 3
| tokens.
|
| There are some predefined examples on the interactive
| highlighter and parser pages at https://www.tree-
| annotation.org/highlight.html and https://www.tree-
| annotation.org/parser.html. Perhaps I'll put that on the
| front page as well, after further polishing.
| oneto018 wrote:
| I have started to write a simple 2d game engine for react Js
| based on box2d and pixi Js long back. I didn't progress beyond
| creating a proof of concept demo
|
| https://github.com/nagarajanSnapwiz/react-2d-game
| spirodonfl wrote:
| I've got a couple.
|
| https://spv.spirofloropoulos.com Send positive vibes into the
| world!
|
| https://spirofloropoulos.com/machikoro/ Web based hotseat version
| of machi Koro. Multi-player might work. I don't even remember,
| haha. You can do local hotseat though.
|
| Both use no frameworks. Yes one is a subdomain and another a
| subfolder. I haven't got around to fixing it.
| [deleted]
| lanewinfield wrote:
| I made a pullchain that immediately ends your video call to avoid
| awkwardness.
|
| https://twitter.com/lanewinfield/status/1339257875034566656
|
| It was hacked together in an afternoon and def not ready for
| prime time, but it got quite a bit more interaction than
| originally thought. Also, perhaps its greatest form (like many
| things I've made) might be as half-baked.
|
| Now the question is: do I make more? My instinct says no because
| of how hard hardware is, especially as a joke...
|
| Either way, at very least, the interaction definitely defends the
| "don't worry, be crappy" hypothesis.
| andrewflnr wrote:
| If you make more, it would be even more hilarious if they were
| pull-up handles on your chair like for an ejection seat.
| linklonk wrote:
| A link aggregator where the votes of different users have
| different weights for you - based on how useful their previous
| votes have been.
|
| It is in a very early stage and is invitation only for now:
| https://linklonk.com/register with invitation code 'hn'.
|
| The idea was well described in this comment back in 2011:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003639
| knicholes wrote:
| I've been trying to sell the idea of AI-assisted breast
| augmentation visualization. I call it breastimate. So far no
| plastic surgeons will meet with me to validate the idea. It's
| image to image translation using SPADE from before augmentation
| to after augmentation.
|
| NSFW (female breasts shown)
|
| https://spark.adobe.com/page/zZlziYu47YiwR/
| nunja wrote:
| The failed model screenshot have some Total Recall vibes!
| dr_kiszonka wrote:
| 1. Are you sharing this website with them?
|
| 2. How well do your AI after photos compare to the real ones?
|
| Cool project!
| koblas wrote:
| Working on Tax/Person ID validation.
|
| First building out this JS library -
| https://github.com/koblas/stdnum-js
|
| which I plan on embedding in this React static site.
|
| https://tininfo.com/country/AD/individual/NRT/
|
| - Currently mired in building out all of the country validation
| in JS (the thing I know how to do) - Should really be working on
| building out more website templates and proving the
| functionality.
|
| Why? Because I have to validate VAT numbers CPF or other random
| ID numbers on a regular basis and right now building unit tests
| just to test an 8 digit number...
| ARehmat wrote:
| Currently building a search engine that allows you to search
| within a select list of websites. The idea is to allow users to
| search for content in sites that may not have the best search on
| indexing features. I started this as there are few websites that
| I use that have ancient indexing. How am I meant to know which
| year/month the article that I'm trying to find was published in??
|
| https://github.com/AbdullahRehmat/SoundSearch
|
| It's very much work in progress and pretty much designed for my
| use case only...
| smaddox wrote:
| https://sneakysnake.io/
|
| Browser-based endless arcade multiplayer snake game with mobile
| support.
|
| For some reason, it always seems to run smoother on mobile than
| on desktop. Browsers make it basically impossible to get a smooth
| frame rate :-/
|
| It's been on the back burner for a while. I need to finish adding
| a way to choose your name.
| Sukram21 wrote:
| I've been working on this Google Slides productivity add-on as a
| side project: https://powerpack.21solutions.de/
|
| The idea is to spend less time tweaking your Google Slides -
| PowerPack makes positioning & alignment easier, finding licensed
| images & icons, and checking the consistency of the presentation.
| Inspired by similar add-ons for PowerPoint, like think-cell and
| empower slides.
|
| Quite hard to find the time besides a demanding full-time job,
| but it's slowly getting better and better... :)
| dannygarcia wrote:
| After spending a month of nights and weekends building this I'm
| not sure whether to scrap it or continue working on it - possibly
| monetizing advanced features:
|
| https://allocator.app/
| mod wrote:
| Very cool look to it!
| chrsstrm wrote:
| I built a service called Rotary Rider [0], which allowed you to
| order an Uber using just your voice. No need for a smartphone or
| the Uber app, you could call in using any touch-tone enabled
| voice line (that you had registered) and speak your current
| address and the address of your destination and we would present
| ride options and prices. Choose an option to book and then we
| would call you back when the driver was minutes away.
|
| The idea was primarily about accessibility - removing the
| requirements of needing a smartphone and app opens rideshare up
| to everyone. It was also a great backup option for those times
| when you need a ride but your phone doesn't have a good data
| connection.
|
| The system was finished and I was literally double-checking
| everything and preparing for a test ride (I even bought a Nokia
| feature phone to prove I wasn't using the Uber app) when Uber cut
| off access to their API (for everyone, not just me). I had always
| planned to integrate Lyft as well, but getting shut down on Uber
| really took the wind out my sails and the project died. I
| obviously still have all the code and if someone here works for
| Lyft and wants to see what ordering a ride without an app looks
| like, I could probably be persuaded to pick it back up.
|
| [0] -
| https://web.archive.org/web/20200804021958/https://rotaryrid...
| tziki wrote:
| https://connectednotes.net (github:
| https://github.com/tsiki/connectednotes)
|
| It's essentially Zettelkasten based note taking + flashcards +
| FOSS. More tchnically it's a PWA to make notes accessible
| anywhere, and the storage layer is currently Google Drive
| (although I want to make the storage layer easily swappable to
| eg. local hard drive).
|
| It's a bit beyond half-baked but I'm currently trying to crush
| most annoying bugs for the alpha release and there's plenty of
| those, so it's not exactly baked either.
| dubcanada wrote:
| Currently working on a few things but almost done
| https://checks.dev a github integrated (gitlab planned but not
| done) checklist for PR's, so you submit a PR and it adds a bunch
| of todos that need to be checked off before it can be merged.
|
| Should be done in a week or two.
| c2nes wrote:
| https://qrono.net, https://github.com/c2nes/qrono
|
| A work in progress, Qrono is a persistent, time-ordered queue
| server providing at-least-once delivery. The time-ordering can be
| used to schedule values to be delivered in the future, implement
| exponential backoff within a consumer, etc.
|
| In addition to HTTP and gRPC interfaces, Qrono supports a RESP
| (https://redis.io/topics/protocol) interface allowing Redis tools
| (e.g. redis-cli) and clients to be used.
| slk500 wrote:
| I'm making a community annotated music video database tagged by
| subject matter. In ex. music videos with chess
| https://culturevein.com/tags/chess , video games
| https://culturevein.com/tags/video-game etc. There are over 600
| tags https://culturevein.com/tags . It's open source.
| wwilim wrote:
| I made a serverless website that gathers and displays tweets with
| variants of the phrase "latest research" (in Polish). My goal was
| mostly to see how the phrase is used to add credibility to
| complete bull. I also tried to deploy an English version, but the
| volume of tweets was so large I gave up for now. I will probably
| continue working on it at some point, mainly because I want to
| try out Lambda Layers.
|
| http://www.najnowsze-badania.com
| kidproquo wrote:
| RiffPod[1]. Hardware and app to enable wireless recording of
| guitar. 4 years of iterating through hardware versions to finally
| converge on a design that works[2].
|
| [1] https://riffpod.io [2]
| https://twitter.com/proquokid/status/1347713280953999361?s=1...
| dorianmariefr wrote:
| https://socializus.app
|
| Activities organised in Paris for now
| d_watt wrote:
| A purely in browser SQL editor and runner for education purposes,
| and to be able to quickly upload csvs for querying with SQL:
| https://editor-omega.vercel.app
|
| Very rough currently, but press the "Chinook" button to get a
| demo sqlite database loaded in for usage. Or, upload a .csv and
| reload the page (bugs!). All data is stored in indexdb, nothing
| leaves the browser. cmd + enter to run the sql.
|
| Tech note: Uses WASM sqlite + Monaco (vscode) engine. This may
| eventually become a electon app instead to allow other DB drivers
| + better sql auto completion.
| russellthehippo wrote:
| brain-plasma: a fast Python dictionary interface to the Plasma
| shared memory object store (pyarrow project)
|
| https://github.com/russellromney/brain-plasma
|
| I had a speed problem repeatedly loading large dataframes into
| memory for a Dash project - threads can't share object updates
| and Redis gets slow with large objects. So I built brain-plasma.
| It lets you keep objects in memory, but separate from service
| memory - no need to read data into memory over and over. Fast
| access and arbitrary namespaces. It's not perfect but it works
| well.
| internalfx wrote:
| https://github.com/internalfx/pageflo
|
| A Flexible headless CMS. Create data structures and deliver them
| to any front-end through an API.
|
| It's actually not totally half-baked and is perfectly usable, but
| could use some more polish.
| tbran wrote:
| Nice! I've been looking for something like this. I'll watch
| your video.
| mvind wrote:
| I'm struggling with https://memordo.com which is a minimalist
| flashcard platform where you can create public and private decks.
|
| I use the tool religiously because I prefer my tool over the
| others tools available. I think the strategy forward for me is to
| create some public decks that others people would like to study..
| Do you guys have any cool ideas for decks?
| jll29 wrote:
| Something for geeks, perhaps? How about practice materials for
| a Linux certification?
| mikkergp wrote:
| This is a pretty dense space (I also posted a flashcard app in
| this list :-) What would you say is your killer feature/unique
| value?
| mushbino wrote:
| Language learning decks are super popular. I've been learning
| Russian for a couple of years and finding good vocabulary decks
| has been a challenge. I know there are some spreadsheets out
| there with the 5,000 or so most commonly used words that might
| help you automate the process.
| jbister wrote:
| I think it's a little bit beyond "half" baked, but I built a
| thing I call Logsuck last year:
| https://github.com/jackbister/logsuck
|
| The idea is to have a free Splunk alternative which you can set
| up with just one binary. I use Splunk at work and love it, but it
| just doesn't seem like a product for solo developers (I can't
| even find a pricing page on splunk.com), and the primary free
| alternative, the ELK stack, seems a bit complicated to set up.
|
| I am sure that I'll never be competitive with Splunk or Elastic
| in terms of features or scalability but I'm trying to build
| something that is at least useful for my own projects.
|
| I built it in Go and use SQLite with the FTS
| (https://sqlite.org/fts3.html) extension to store the log events
| in a way where they can be searched quickly.
| remram wrote:
| I've been looking into making something like that myself. My
| beef with current platforms is that they are good for
| extracting metrics and routing logs to their correct team (by
| service/deployment/...) but not so much for analysis.
|
| When there's a problem in my system, I want to bring up
| multiple views, manually annotate, highlight the new debug log
| statements I just added, mark events as good/bad from
| complicated rules, etc.
|
| None of the current systems (except maybe Grafana+Loki) really
| do this, they focus on ahead-of-time ingestion rules and tags.
| I would love a desktop or web tool that can do that, working
| from a log file that I can easily extract from my log platform.
| jbister wrote:
| I think I know what you mean! It does feel like there's
| something missing in Splunk when it comes to analyzing
| issues.
|
| When there's a problem at work it's usually easy to see that
| something is wrong on a dashboard, but when I want to drill
| down into it I usually end up with ten tabs of different
| searches and Grafana dashboards that I'm trying to correlate
| between manually.
|
| I haven't fully formed any ideas about how to tackle this
| since there are still fairly basic features missing in
| Logsuck that I need to work on first but it's definitely
| something I'll be thinking more about in the future!
| albertgoeswoof wrote:
| This looks great! ELK is overkill for simple apps, sometimes
| all you want is to feed the logs from a few services into one
| dashboard.
|
| Datadog is really great for this but can be expensive
| jbister wrote:
| Glad you like it! Completely agree about the overkill-ness of
| ELK.
|
| I haven't had a chance to try Datadog yet but it looks great,
| the one complaint I've had with Splunk (or at least the way
| we use it at work) is that it's still "Just logs" and
| sometimes you need more than that to investigate issues while
| Datadog seems to cover more areas of monitoring in one
| package.
| egeozcan wrote:
| Wow, I just commented this:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25702294
|
| Maybe I can add yours a JSON view and call it done :)
| jbister wrote:
| Interesting! I have it in the backlog that I want to support
| structured logging via JSON at some point. It's pretty far
| down the list right now though since I personally haven't
| used structured logging very much.
|
| I added an issue about it:
| https://github.com/JackBister/logsuck/issues/7 - if you want
| to chip in with any comments or even help out with
| implementing it it'd be much welcomed!
| ramoz wrote:
| This is cool, do you have any usage detail and/or production
| nuances?
| jbister wrote:
| Currently it's not used in production anywhere, I mostly use
| it to view my own log files when I'm working on some hobby
| project locally, so I'm sure there are a few issues that
| would show up if it was used more heavily.
|
| I do have a list of known issues on a private Trello board, I
| should probably move those to GitHub so that they are at
| least visible to people, I'll take care of that right away.
|
| There is some info in the readme on how to get started, if
| you want to try it out and need any help beyond that let me
| know!
| dastx wrote:
| Is the aim to have this production ready as an alternative to
| ELK/Splunk? Or is it more of a tool for local development?
| jbister wrote:
| Yes, the goal is that it should be usable in production as
| well. The limitation it will probably have compared to
| ELK/Splunk is that since there's only a single recipient node
| and it uses SQLite for storage, the upper limit to how
| quickly it can ingest logs will probably be lower compared to
| ELK/Splunk. So Logsuck may not ever be suitable for large
| deployments that are logging huge amounts for sustained
| periods of time.
|
| I haven't really tested what the limits are yet so
| unfortunately I can't put a concrete number on it, but my
| vision is that Logsuck should at the very least work for a
| small-medium sized company with "normal" logging needs.
|
| The current state is that it's got quite a few bugs and is
| lacking many features you would expect from an ELK/Splunk
| alternative but the basic concept is working. If what you
| need is a GUI for grepping across logs spread out on multiple
| servers it can be used for that today, but it's not doing
| much beyond that yet.
| alanbernstein wrote:
| http://alanbernstein.net/galleries/2020-pecos/#lg=1&slide=1
|
| Photo slide show correlated with gps track, for hiking trips.
| It's been a goal for years, I finally got it half-baked by just
| smashing together lightgallery and leaflet. Somehow it works ok
| on mobile.
| a5seo wrote:
| I like this a lot. Similar to the Relive app but something
| that's easy to share/embed on the web. Nice!
| dt3ft wrote:
| I built https://20-things.com Not ready for prime time yet, but I
| use it every day :)
| mikkergp wrote:
| Is it an algorithmic reddit that only shows you 20 things? How
| are they generated?
| dt3ft wrote:
| The things are submitted by users. Things to show is being
| selected using an algorithm similar to the one of HN (where
| age of submission, number of votes etc) play a role.
|
| Nothing fancy about this project, but I seem to use it as a
| bookmarking service where I tend to share things I find
| interesting. I use it also as a blogging platform where I
| sometimes post random thoughts as well as articles on how I
| solved a problem in IT which is otherwise undocumented.
| mikkergp wrote:
| Ahh so the 20 refers to the number of categories?
| dt3ft wrote:
| Yes, the number of categories and the number of items
| shown. There is no paging or endless scrolling, so users
| have more time for other things IRL :)
| brendan0powers wrote:
| I've been fiddling around with building UI's that use hand
| tracking in VR. Given the lack of physical feedback and the low
| fidelity of today's tracking methods, it turns out to be quite
| challenging. It feels really good when it works though.
|
| VR Keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiva93bf_0
|
| VR Whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-hECpf-BY
| dejv wrote:
| https://legatoforte.com
|
| App for practicing some basic piano stuff, things like note sight
| reading and piano scales. Worsk best when you connect MIDI
| keyboard. (More exercises comming soon)
| JimWestergren wrote:
| https://thespacewar.com/
|
| The Space War is a a card game I have been working on as a side
| project since summer 2018. Similar but in my opinion better than
| Hearthstone and Magic.
|
| Can be played online for free in the browser here
| https://play.thespacewar.com/
|
| Need help with Node development, sound effects and playtesters.
| barko wrote:
| Up For X: https://upforxapp.com/
|
| I wanted to learn React Native and decided to build something
| simple and whimsical that I could see myself using.
|
| The app lets you set a status about what activity you want to do
| and see what your friends have set; ideally simplifying the first
| step in making plans with friends.
|
| It's still missing push notifications and some other key
| features, but I've gotten the basic functionality of adding
| friends and seeing and setting statuses up and running.
| ipsum2 wrote:
| Reminds me of Google's "who's down for" app:
| https://www.greenbot.com/article/2999629/whos-down-is-google...
| golergka wrote:
| https://github.com/golergka/hn-comment-bot
|
| Telegram bot to notify me about new comments. Hosted on a free
| Heroku dyno and will definitely fail under load, but works for
| me.
| bionade24 wrote:
| https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd
|
| A CI/CD with webinterface for Archlinux packages which optional
| AUR push support if builds succeed. It's based on Django and
| works with Docker/Podman. I originally made it for my own AUR
| packages (> 300), I needed accessible build logs if I want to
| collab, which the common builders didn't provide. I made the
| project public and it's crazy for me as an open source beginner
| to see how many people like this. The basic features are
| complete, but things like multiarch are getting added soon.
| shoelessone wrote:
| "mitsuchin" - an "IoT"ish Christmas present built on a bunch of
| AWS services with cement, MongooseOS, ThreeJS, React and
| basically the kitchen sink. I've been working on and off (but
| mainly off) for the past few years. Even the blog post is half
| baked (also quite long) :(
|
| https://kevinmitchell.io/blog/mitchine-%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3...
| jtwaleson wrote:
| My game to teach my kids programming: https://game.stackybird.com
| croisillon wrote:
| would you like some help with translation (into french)? let me
| know
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Wow, thanks! Mostly looking for feedback/first impressions
| now. Texts will still change a lot for the next couple of
| weeks.
| crazypython wrote:
| A massively multiplayer game with a fresh start every time,
| that's easy to learn and easy to start having fun, doesn't guilt
| you into playing (healthy long-term relationship with the
| player), and has lots of replay value: http://vnav.io
|
| Currently there are multiple major bugs with damage.
| primitivesuave wrote:
| This is an awesome game!
| kper wrote:
| Wow, this is really fun
| jacobedawson wrote:
| Kwiz - Quizzes / Quiz creator for developers. Next.js + Node +
| MongoDB based, proper little code editor & syntax highlighting
| included: https://kwiz.dev
| egeozcan wrote:
| I've made a half-baked newline separated JSON tailer for my small
| use case: https://github.com/egeozcan/json-tail
|
| it's super bare-bones, and the golang side of things could have
| been much better, but it kind of works.
| WoodenChair wrote:
| I've been working on an IBC PC 5150 emulator.
|
| It's written in pretty poor C++:
| https://github.com/davecom/DK86PC
|
| It's at the point where it gets through booting the BIOS and gets
| to the IBM Casette BASIC (I haven't made much progress on the
| floppy disk controller to boot DOS). But then all keys get
| recognized as apostrophes:
| https://twitter.com/davekopec/status/1345925743902130176
|
| If someone wants to help me finish it, I'd be happy for the help.
| Right now most of the 8086 (8088 technically but no difference at
| this point) is done, memory works, CGA has text mode support, and
| a basic implementation of most of the essential support chips is
| done (PIC, PIT, etc.). It's an Xcode project but the only
| dependencies are SDL and SDL_TTF so it can easily be ported to
| other platforms.
|
| I've run some automated CPU tests and the CPU is reasonably good,
| but like I said still missing some instructions (DIV for
| example). I wrote it all by hand, only looking at other emulators
| when I got really stuck for a particular specific item.
| mlang23 wrote:
| I am trying to produce software to translate between visual and
| braille music notation. Have working prototypes for both
| directions.
|
| https://github.com/mlang/freedots https://github.com/mlang/bmc
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjfKDJm_xmI
| hamdouni wrote:
| https://barim.surge.sh - yet another HN reader. Mostly done to
| learn SvelteJS.
|
| I use it every day and twick it as needed but still half baked as
| it lacks a lot of features to be a complete reader (no login, no
| contribution, ...)
| zelon88 wrote:
| https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud3
|
| I've been picking away at making my own commercial grade cloud
| platform from scratch for over 6 years now. This is the third
| version which I hope to make a lot of progress on this winter.
| js4ever wrote:
| Here is my half baked real-time server monitoring system:
| https://github.com/elestio/ws-monitoring
|
| It's a web UI + websocket backend, very small, 10kb vanilla
| frontend and 300 LOC for the backend.
|
| My goal is not to compete with netdata or other big tools but
| serve my own needs using really few resources
| anonypla wrote:
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity
|
| https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa
|
| (Please don't be too harsh as it's still a draft but any opinion,
| criticism or help would be welcome)
| strzibny wrote:
| Looks great, starred.
| bitxbitxbitcoin wrote:
| Thanks for doing this!
| recursivedoubts wrote:
| awesome:
| https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa/blob/main/CODE_OF_...
| remram wrote:
| AFAIK this doesn't (can't) override GitHub's site-wide
| guidelines: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-
| team@latest/github/site-...
| [deleted]
| osetinsky wrote:
| Awestruck Audio - realtime synthesized, interactive music for
| video games.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEC6-pBFj2Q&feature=youtu.be
|
| Very half baked, even took that demo site featured in the video
| down. Intended to run hundreds of "channels" of music, each of
| which could support thousands of independent sessions (think
| cloud gaming but for audio/music).
|
| Uses Pion WebRTC, Gstreamer, JACK, SuperCollider and a simple
| Golang API for converting http requests to OSC toggles to
| manipulate audio running on a cloud server in realtime over the
| internet.
|
| Questions - is this crazy? Would game makers ever be interested
| in adopting a third party SDK for their music needs? What if that
| music had to be streamed over the wire (not baked into their
| console/mobile client builds)? Is the prospect of game player
| input influencing the sounds/music they're listening to
| compelling, or not really?
| nodematic wrote:
| Cool. Interesting concept. While I'm not in the video game
| space, it seems to me like there could be value for a
| particular niche.
| clintonb wrote:
| https://getfriendlyreminder.com/
| agilob wrote:
| Nice try Amazon
| wic8 wrote:
| https://snapshop.netlify.app
|
| A search engine of all products selling on Shopify. In the same
| state as it was few months ago. There's obvious way forward but i
| need to get a job first.
|
| Also related https://stroget.now.sh
| moneywoes wrote:
| Are you scrapping thousands of product pages and indexing the
| results? Would love more info
| albertgoeswoof wrote:
| How does this work?
| zoba wrote:
| I have posted before but if folks want help getting their
| projects across the finish line, I can (personally) help! I help
| as an accountability coach.
|
| https://coding-pal.com/
| egberts1 wrote:
| For parsing ISC Bind9 DNS (named.conf) configuration file in
| Python3, I have built using PyParsing for this. It is 99% code
| completed. MIT license. Designed for Bind9 version 9.0 to 9.17.2.
|
| Three issues left.
|
| Solid unit-testing coverage, moderate-system testing.
|
| Probably the largest PyParsing to date.
|
| https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues
| rkp8000 wrote:
| https://github.com/rkp8000/hypothesize
|
| In grad school I made a browser-based app to integrate note-
| taking and reference management as seamlessly as possible, having
| been disappointed with existing software. Basically, it's kind of
| wiki-like, except links open in place by default so you don't
| lose your place jumping between pages.
|
| I got it working well enough to use for the entirety of my PhD
| but don't really use it anymore just because it's still fairly
| clunky in certain ways.
|
| I have zero time to continue working on it, but I do still kind
| of like the idea and would be thrilled if someone else picked it
| up!
| lukadante3 wrote:
| It's a pipeline engine for Kubernetes[1]. The idea is to build a
| tool that can be flexible enough for CI/CD, but also used for
| other things such as for example data processing.
|
| The pipelines are just designed as serial and parallel execution
| of pods with no fancy features (i.e. loops or conditions) and the
| idea is to let other tools generate more complex pipelines using
| code.
|
| Responsibility of triggering the pipelines is decoupled to
| standalone controllers such as github-screener[2] which enables
| triggering of pipelines used for CI/CD.
|
| The project currently builds itself, but the docs are a bit
| outdated and there's quite a lot progress to be made.
|
| [1] https://github.com/kuberik/engine
|
| [2] https://github.com/kuberik/github-screener
|
| [3] https://kuberik.io
| tofflos wrote:
| Looks promising. How does it compare to Tekton?
| lukadante3 wrote:
| My goal is try to make it simpler than other tools such as
| tekton by having less of its own DSL. For example, steps are
| mostly pure Job spec, instead of defining its own subset of
| features.
|
| I think it's also more easily extensible than others if you
| want to trigger your pipeline in a different way. Sensors
| such as github-screener have a really simple event producing
| architecture.
|
| One thing specific to github-screener is that it's focused on
| pull mechanism instead of relying on public webhooks like
| most of the other tools do. So you can easily host your
| private CI/CD without exposing a public endpoint.
|
| (Edit) The reason I focused on having less of its own DSL
| because I ultimately saw how limiting it can be to have one.
| and it often end up as essentially a full featured language
| which is not reusable outside of the tool.
| iliekcomputers wrote:
| My project is funnel: https://funnel.fyi
|
| I'm trying to build something that helps people organise their
| job search better with better stats and insights. Right now, we
| have a kanban board for all your job applications and a sankey
| diagram for state changes.
| wolfgang000 wrote:
| I'm a cloud book reader/organizer, basically a clone of google
| play books but instead of uploading the books to the page the
| books are fetch from your own google drive account.
|
| I haven't chosen a name or domain
|
| Not ready yet but very close to completion, maybe in next weeks I
| will be releasing it.
|
| Stack: Elixir/Vue.js
|
| https://gitlab.com/wolfgang000/cloud-books
| advanced__pizza wrote:
| I'm building a service for developers who want to help out small
| businesses or non-profits [0]. I'm still at the ideation stage,
| gauging interest, but would love to hear everyones thoughts!
|
| The backend is a simple Python/Flask/Postgres app [1] but holding
| off on building it out until there is more demand. Spun off a GCP
| Flask starter template from this repo useful for folks wanting to
| deploy python apps to GCP/App Engine [2]. Thanks for looking.
|
| [0] https://www.hackforgood.dev/signup [1]
| https://github.com/ckahle33/hackforgood [2]
| https://github.com/ckahle33/gcp-flask-template
| fasouto wrote:
| https://wheelcarnival.com/ has been on my TODO list for almost a
| year.
|
| I created it to learn Vue, initially I used Gridsome but then I
| decide to use Nuxt. I also moved it from Netlify to Firebase to
| add storing+auth, so people can create custom wheels.
|
| It's getting a decent amount of visits so it will be wise to
| finish it, but it's not fun anymore and my day job takes a lot of
| energy.
| hawski wrote:
| Half-baked as in eating it can cause gastric problems, not as in
| 50% done?
|
| https://github.com/hadrianw/werf a graphical mouse driven text
| editor inspired by Plan 9's acme. It can open quite big files,
| you can WIMP around a bit, but README is just wishful thinking,
| it can't even save files. Written in C with cairo and fontconfig.
| Currently for a few years I'm in process of rewriting text
| buffer, I have something nice, but did not test it enough and did
| not integrate it. Now I'm thinking of a rewrite in Zig to learn
| it and also make it easier to test. But that's my wishful
| thinking again.
|
| https://github.com/hadrianw/tomatoaster a ChromeOS like Linux
| distribution based on Void Linux build system, AB partition
| scheme, building squashfs image without root privileges.
| Currently I did a nice and almost proper script to handle it and
| do not need to patch as match to build an image, that runs, but
| is not entirely useful. Need to clean-up the script and commit.
| Mostly bash, bunch of patches and config files and a bit of C.
|
| https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra a search engine, that will
| not index pages with ads (all results would be uBlock-Origin
| clean), that is not yet even a proper pipeline to check whether a
| page does contain ads or not, no crawler yet at all. I want to go
| through Common Crawl archives first. I did something in Go first
| (https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra-legacy), but now I'm
| rewriting it in Rust, because of awesome lol_html crate, that
| will make filtering fast and easy. Currently writing code to
| filter URLs with Rabin-Karp and a bit of loops. It created an
| e-mail thread years ago with people wanting to help, but I've
| been too slow.
|
| I don't want much help to code things, I would appreciate however
| a bit of pointers on a couple of things regarding Rust and
| watchdogs (to recognize a partition as unbootable and reset the
| system to the previous partition).
| glacials wrote:
| Dual-licensing platform for open source software:
| https://license.land
| headgasket wrote:
| https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable
|
| Bringing postgres triggers and notifies to mysql.
|
| I'm half-backing a linked mautic and davical service based on
| this, to automate analytics, marketing and messaging to your
| self-hosted contacts. end goal is de-googlify mail contacts and
| analytics.
| smashah wrote:
| Project Eagle
|
| https://egl.chat
|
| Find my friends alternative but on WhatsApp.
|
| Why is it half baked? It's so stupid, I built everything but got
| stuck on the hero image screenshot. Smh. I'll get it back up and
| running tonight and work on a screenshot (would appreciate help
| on the screenshot).
| k__ wrote:
| Started a new project this year after taking part in the future
| founder course of startup school.
|
| I want to build a SaaS product for asynchronous communication for
| remote companies.
|
| "Twitter for companies" or "Slack for microblogging".
|
| Don't know where the journey will take me, but as a remote worker
| for 6 years that doesn't like these omnipresent chats, I wanted
| to build an alternative.
|
| Nothing to show for right now, since I just got started.
|
| https://dev.to/fllstck/building-a-saas-product-eba
| franze wrote:
| https://share.securrr.app/ Secure Mobile Document Sharing
|
| Needs: GDPR, Data-Lawyer-Stuff
| aimor wrote:
| https://news.deepfart.space/
|
| Sick of uncurated clickbait and Google News, I wanted a site
| where people could rewrite their own better headlines. Users
| would vote on multiple ones for each story. Now it's just a list
| of links (including clickbait). Feel free to add one.
| mping wrote:
| Observideo [1]. Initially a web app that links to dropbox to
| facilitate my wife's student's research on behaviour by tagging
| video segments. Now it's a half baked electron app. Initially
| made for her research projects, most students either use excel or
| some expensive software.
|
| [1] https://github.com/mping/observideo
| seriousmofo wrote:
| Hey All. This summer I created a "virtual yoga class aggregator".
| Automated web scraping every night, MySQL db, a dotnet api, and a
| svelte UI.
|
| https://allthe.yoga/
|
| I think it needs some design work, and probably needs to list
| prices. Next stage would be to start tackling a way to avoid
| users having to register at every studio, business partnerships,
| etc.
| rhn_mk1 wrote:
| http://rhn.github.io/jazda/
|
| Jazda is a simple hackable bicycle computer. You can build it out
| of components available in your local electronics store (except
| the display).
|
| I started it some 10 years ago as an experiment in AVR
| programming, before Arduino existed, and it keeps a honorable
| place in the back of my head ever since.
| empressplay wrote:
| https://turtlespaces.org
|
| turtleSpaces is a 3D version of the Logo programming language. It
| runs on macOS, Windows and Linux but _really_ needs to run in a
| web browser, which we are working on! It also doesn't have good
| collision detection (yet) and it needs serious optimisation. But
| you can make some cool stuff with it!
| YPCrumble wrote:
| https://omnifollow.com - A site to follow things.
| mikkergp wrote:
| I'm not interested enough to pursue it, but I've wondered about
| a live twitter-like newsfeed that centralizes all your news
| sources. I like the "emotional feel" of having everything
| centralized and feeling connected live to all your feeds, I
| just don't know if it's tangibly more useful than refreshing a
| page on something like omnifollow. Good luck!
| benzguo wrote:
| I'm working on a simple site builder, like Linktree but with
| styling and features more to my own taste. Not sure where it's
| going long-term though: https://tray.club
| xtracto wrote:
| A multiplayer 9/12/15 tile domino game
| http://dominoparty.tk/hackernews Also a multiplayer Scrabble(tm)
| like http://palabrixparty.tk/hackernews2
|
| I made this around March early in the pandemic to play with my
| family who live far away. It is absolutely unfinished and open
| sourced https://gitlab.com/obaqueiro2/dominoparty
| drzel wrote:
| https://www.tappydays.com Keep track of birthdays and
| anniversaries
| mikkergp wrote:
| Hrmm the landing page doesn't have a lot of screenshots. What
| would tappydays give me that google calendar wouldn't? Do you
| have integrations to pull days from facebook/etc?
| axelf4 wrote:
| JavaScript Pokemon game: https://pokemon.axelf.nu
| (https://github.com/axelf4/pokemon)
|
| Subtle WebGL texture artifacts and browser-game microstutters
| drive me crazy. Any help with that would be much appreciated!
| djleni wrote:
| https://genre.rocks
|
| Silly genre generator
| LeegleechN wrote:
| Working on guitar learning software, similar to Rocksmith or
| Yousician.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_2JruqYPQ
| tomaszs wrote:
| Fantasy card game to learn PHP, Javascript, C#, Python and Java.
| Decks are already for sale but I still have A LOT to do on the
| website to describe them nicer and better:
| https://summonthejson.com/
| dbosch wrote:
| Less than half baked, Kong (temp name) is the Goodread for
| movies.
|
| During lockdown, I decided to watch more movies, including
| classics. I noticed my friends were doing the same and I wanted
| to know what they were watching, and which film they were
| interested in...
|
| Very early. Lots of buggy features. Sorry.
|
| http://www.getkong.xyz
| WoodenChair wrote:
| I signed up. Does nothing like this already exist?
| didizaja wrote:
| Code Reading Club: https://codereading.club
|
| The idea of this project is to make a small, cozy kind of "book
| club for code" that enables club members to study and discuss the
| architecture/structure of open source code. I wanted it to be
| both a way to study others' work as a means of developing more
| intuition about how to structure software, as well as a creative
| exploration and discussion of code as art.
|
| I know the UI is quite poor right now, and the information about
| the time of the first session needs to be updated. I've pivoted
| to working on another project (a CLI reader for HN that lets you
| navigate with a UI like that generated by pager utilities such as
| "more") while I flesh out the idea for this one more, as I'm not
| sure if I can reconcile the two aims for the club I cited above.
| I have to think more carefully about what I want it to be, and
| who I want to reach/how I want to reach them.
|
| I really like the idea of doing this, but I just don't have the
| mental/emotional bandwidth for it at the moment, which is why I'm
| working on other, more solitary projects instead. I think it's
| important to have discipline and "grind" through things at times,
| but when I'm doing something in my free time for my own enjoyment
| and already feel a bit burned out from my other existing
| roles/responsibilities, I prefer not to add to it by actively
| building something that might create even more expectations from
| others. Instead, I try to get back to my first passion, which is
| just the joy of building programs bit by bit and understanding
| every piece of what I do in a gradual, methodical fashion.
|
| A related idea I've had is making a YouTube channel where I do a
| similar thing to Code Reading Club, but just break down different
| applications on my own, bit by bit. I'd include architecture
| diagrams, doodles, and source code snippets. I imagine it being
| something like MaiZure's Decoded: GNU coreutils project[0].
|
| [0]: https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/
| KraftKacke wrote:
| I like the idea a lot.
|
| I've been thinking about something similar: An
| explanation/notes "wiki" for exemplary open source repository
| snapshots. With the goal to document everything you can see in
| a repo so beginners can understand and catch up with structure,
| conventions and understand algorithms and common problems IRL.
| Imperfections and errors are part of the game and need to be
| explained as well, and because of that infrequent snapshots are
| sufficient.
|
| Something to overcome tutorial hell and lower the threshold for
| participation in FOSS projects.
| didizaja wrote:
| Wow, that sounds extremely useful! I haven't contributed to
| any FOSS projects in a meaningful way (yet), but I imagine
| that lots of potential contributors spend an inordinate
| amount of time trying to familiarize themselves with
| structure, conventions, and how everything fits together.
| Having all of that information in one, well-documented place
| could definitely help with getting up to speed/creating a
| mental model for the project faster.
|
| On a semi-related front, I'm also interested in lowering the
| threshold for participation in FOSS projects, but I
| approached things from the lens of helping potential
| contributors better grok/intuit the social/organizational
| structure of a project. To that end, I made small badges that
| projects can add to their READMEs to indicate, to a rough
| approximation, what "type" of project they are[0]. The
| project types are described in a really interesting book
| called _Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open
| Source Software_ [1] by Nadia Eghbal.
|
| [0]: https://project-types.github.io/ [1]:
| https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578675862/
| Freeboots wrote:
| I like this idea. As a still learning developer I have
| occasionally stumbled across code reviews on youtube, and
| they've been enlightening. I rarely find them on purpose (If
| anyone knows or runs a channel that does this i would sub).
|
| Reading source code with some guidance from more experienced
| developers sounds similarly useful.
| didizaja wrote:
| Yeah, I think it could be quite useful as well!
|
| I will make sure I post a Show HN once the project is in a
| more polished state.
| thebeardisred wrote:
| I was tired of the limited/awkward search structure of trying to
| find parts for surface mount device (SMD) assembly for printed
| circuit boards (PCBs), a process generally referred to as PCBA.
|
| Thus, I slapped together Google Apps Script utility which runs
| via a ~cron job~ time based trigger and keeps the _same URL_
| updated with the daily updates to the JLCPCB inventory (a subset
| of LCSC). Check it out here via the "easy to remember" link:
| https://brianredbeard.com/jlcpcb-parts
|
| *edit: that also reminds me, leave a comment if there are
| specific filter views which you think would be useful. I've been
| adding a few here and there so that everyone can benefit.
| DenseComet wrote:
| 100% going to use this. Was trying to pick out SMD parts from
| the JLCPCB inventory just a couple weeks ago, and it was
| definitely a giant pain. This looks great!
| sandrot wrote:
| - My first Godot game, which isn't downloadable yet but lots of
| fun to work on. https://sandrot.itch.io/starboard
|
| - Sound Bath iOS app for ambient relaxing sounds.
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1534808677
|
| - Bread Book iOS app for saving recipes that use baker
| percentages. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bread-
| book/id1519534917
|
| - capybara-chrome is a Capybara driver for headless Chrome using
| the remote debugging protocol. Works pretty well but could use
| some TLC. https://github.com/sandro/capybara-chrome
|
| - Rewriting my website using a 2 file architecture: 1) Go (web)
| executable and 2) SQLite db. All html pages and assets are stored
| in the database. https://turriate.com/articles/my-own-static-
| site-generator
| mjac wrote:
| I built Running Level https://runninglevel.com/ recently along
| the same lines as my other site Strength Level
| https://strengthlevel.com/ but have only done a soft launch. Gyms
| are closed here in the UK so a lot of us are out running instead.
|
| Running Level has running standards for your age/gender over many
| distances like 10k/marathon/mile. The calculator on the homepage
| helps you rate your running performance against other people your
| age/gender, predicts race performance and recommends some
| training times.
|
| I was hoping to do a Show HN or Product Hunt but marketing has
| never been my strong suit. Hope someone likes it!
| jschulenklopper wrote:
| Very nice; I like the simplicity of Running Level (with less
| options than Strength Level). Where do you get the reference
| level data from (for running)?
| mjac wrote:
| Thank you for the encouragement! Did you find any areas to
| improve?
|
| The seed standards reference data is mainly from publicly
| available race data in CSV form and common running formulas
| used in the industry (e.g. Effective VO2 Max / VDOT). There
| are plenty of online calculators and literature (mostly based
| on Jack Daniels' Formula). However this is just a baseline
| and it'll be based on its own data set in the future (e.g.
| survey input).
|
| Some links: Brian Mac - https://www.brianmac.co.uk/vo2max.htm
| Age grade tables - https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-
| Grade-Tables Jack Daniels' Running Formula -
| https://runsmartproject.com/calculator/ (and related book)
| philmcp wrote:
| 4 days per week remote software development jobs:
|
| https://www.28hrworkweek.com/
| mourner wrote:
| I have a ton of unfinished open source projects, but here's a
| recent small one I believe can take off:
|
| https://github.com/mourner/tinyjam -- a bare-bones, zero-
| configuration static site generator that deliberately has no
| features, an experiment in radical simplicity.
|
| Essentially a tiny, elegant glue between EJS templates and
| Markdown with freeform structure (enabling incremental adoption)
| and convenient defaults, written in under 120 lines of
| JavaScript.
|
| I also made a modern EJS implementation specifically for this:
| https://github.com/mourner/yeahjs And planning to implement a
| strict, minimal subset of YAML to switch over to:
| https://github.com/mourner/yeahml
|
| Will be happy to hear any feedback :)
| ihaveajob wrote:
| Working on https://agendaboss.com, an aggregator of task and
| calendar systems (Trello, Asana, Priority Matrix...).
| kper wrote:
| My own webassembly engine.
|
| https://github.com/kper/funky
| wes-k wrote:
| Creating a data driven 2d vector drawing app. Essentially, a no
| code d3.
|
| Still early, here's a few animations I made while playing with
| the tool: https://imgur.com/a/3ww4ql1
|
| Inspiration:
| http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...
| showsover wrote:
| I started something to track my progress to FI. So far you can
| track your portfolio and net worth in stocks.
|
| I still have to add a lot of stuff, like bank accounts,
| mortgages, etc but with the lockdown here I've kinda lost
| motivation for a bit.
|
| https://my.roadto.fi/
| tsycho wrote:
| I have been building something similar very slowly in my spare
| time. Do you want to collaborate? Contact info in my profile.
| darcys22 wrote:
| GoDBLedger https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger
|
| Its the core of my open source accounting system. Its slightly
| further along than half baked because it is pretty much feature
| complete for what i want core to do, but that just means you can
| do double entry bookkeeping on the command line. Currently
| building a web interface to interact with it which hopefully will
| attract non technical users
| carapace wrote:
| Oh man! So I have a fractal half-baked project made up of smaller
| half-baked projects that all fit together to make a plan to _save
| the world!_
|
| Help people understand computers from the gates up using simple
| computer system based on LoF notation and Oberon RISC and
| ATMega328P microcontrollers (of Arduino fame; because I have a
| handful laying around) New computer architecture based on
| latching sort-nets. (This isn't written up online anywhere.)
| Programing system inspired by M. Hamilton's Higher Order Software
| et. al., implemented with Joy lang.
|
| Self-replicating swarm robots to collect and reprocess oceanic
| waste into more swarm robots and eventually large floating/flying
| structures.
|
| Combine Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language with
| Permaculture ecology-mimetic design patterns to design and build
| large "art" installations: essentially vast gardens that people
| can live in. (on land, at sea, and in the air. And maybe one day
| on other worlds, eh?)
|
| Join my mailing list.
| https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas I need an
| audience and feedback, I need to know people give a fig and want
| this.
|
| I tend to loaf around because to me it seems like folks obviously
| don't want the world saved, we're having a good time playing with
| our phones and shouting a lot. Who am I to disturb that?
|
| http://phoenixbureau.github.io/PigeonComputer/
|
| https://github.com/PhoenixBureau/PigeonComputer
|
| https://pythonoberon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
|
| https://joypy.osdn.io/
|
| https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun
|
| http://phoenixbureau.github.io/ReGPGP/
|
| Misc crazy notes with broken links, yay! https://cloudflare-
| ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXTnUTHEtJ8ZBAdEVP8VkNhzEv...
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Browser Routr helps me keep most of my browsing in my daily
| driver yet still test and use the company intranet on another
| browser. Unlike similar tools it's relatively transparent, not
| requiring right clicking or copy past ing.
|
| https://paulrrogers.com/product/browser-routr/
| [deleted]
| networkimprov wrote:
| Building a legitimate email replacement, "mnm":
|
| https://mnmnotmail.org
|
| https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
|
| Not production-ready, but well past half-baked. I began
| publicizing it this month.
|
| Legitimate, i.e. n-identity, decentralized, store-and-forward,
| simple protocol, open source. Contributors welcome!
|
| _#banSMTP_
| [deleted]
| sibit wrote:
| A VTT I'm building/using with some friends for our weekly D&D 5E
| sessions. https://freetabletop.app/
| gwph wrote:
| https://lofichess.com
|
| I wanted a trimmed down interface for following live chess
| streams. To keep the website updated I run an AWS Lambda every
| two minutes that does the following:
|
| 1. Pulls active streams from the Twitch API.
|
| 2. Uses the Go templates library to repackage the response as
| static HTML.
|
| 3. Uploads the static HTML to S3, where it is served behind
| CloudFront.
| woutr_be wrote:
| Interesting approach to generate a static website. Is this
| completely free? Or do you end up paying for the Lambda task?
| gwph wrote:
| Average latency for the Lambda over the last week is 4.84s
| and it runs with 128mb of memory. Running every two minutes,
| that comes to ~25,000 invocations and ~15,000 GB-seconds of
| compute time per month. The AWS Lambda free usage tier
| includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of
| compute time per month so the Lambda is definitely free.
|
| The website is tiny (homepage < 20kb excluding the thumbnails
| which are hosted by Twitch), so I'm also inside the free tier
| on S3 and CloudFront. I paid $12 upfront for the domain
| registration.
| krapp wrote:
| I probably shouldn't show this because it's still kind of hot
| garbage but here is the Hacker News client I'm working on in the
| C# version of Godot[0]. Maybe the embarrassment of exposure will
| spur me on to actually finish it...
|
| [0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/godothnreader/src/master/
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Why Godot? (I've only ever used it for game prototypes.)
| krapp wrote:
| A few threads popped up on HN a while ago about using Godot
| for application development and I just wanted to see how
| feasible it was. I like the basic idea, game frameworks are
| basically application frameworks already in theory.
| [deleted]
| chaosharmonic wrote:
| Here's a workout tracker for rhythm games that I threw together
| as a personal project -- https://step-step-recollection.bhmt.dev/
|
| It's really only a demo, since I primarily built it to have a
| MERN-stack site for my portfolio and to track my own cardio
| during the plague, rather than ever really intending it to be as
| a service. It actually also turned out to be less useful on the
| tracking, because I found myself falling down rabbit holes about
| building a usable tool for tracking cardio -- as opposed to
| consistently doing the cardio I wanted to track, or bothering to
| keep the API stable enough to track it when I did. (Up until
| then, most of my experiences with Express and MongoDB in
| particular had been in existing codebases, so for the first few
| iterations I was more concerned with getting everything
| configured and deployed.)
|
| Other sticking points, since in this case "usable" was defined as
| being able to visibly log data from real gameplay sessions,
| included setting up basic JWT auth (enough for myself and a demo
| account), and the trial-and-error calamity that was sanitizing
| ~1300 game files from my song library in order to scrape metadata
| from them and import it into my db. Additionally it's been
| through several attempts to refresh the visual design, just since
| that's not really a personal strong suit.
|
| Aside from this leading to the same problem as XKCD's automation
| strip[0], it also became a whole side adventure into another
| project I had been putting off -- streamlining this and _all of
| my other deployments_ -- because when I tried to share an early
| iteration, the host I was testing for this (Vercel) had been
| flagged by LinkedIn 's spam filters. Getting around this involved
| finally deploying the whole thing to a custom domain and setting
| up the appropriate routing, which meant moving several projects
| off GitHub Pages. Vercel, it turned out, _also_ had a hard
| limitation on custom domains, with theirs being that the only
| apparent way to use one was to register it through them. I
| eventually ended up moving all of them to Netlify, setting up
| dedicated subdomains for each (so that I also didn 't have to
| worry about managing things like the multiple view layers used
| across different projects) and deploy branches (for storing any
| config files, etc. that are specific to a host) while I was at
| it.
|
| By the time I actually solved all of these, I was also caught up
| in a mouse hunt in the space where I work/sleep/DDR instead.
|
| I do intend to pick it back up at some point, once I'm fully
| convinced I won't need to keep deep-cleaning my pad. In all,
| though, it's arguably been more productive for the various side
| effects than it was for its actual purpose. One particularly fun
| one, at least, was the excuse it gave me to toy with Deno - which
| I used to handle converting and sanitizing my game files,
| scraping their data, and seeding my database with them. The
| built-in fetch client is particularly useful here, but truthfully
| I was also just happy not having to touch Babel again for this.
|
| If anyone's interested in toying with it, here's the Github link
| for the API code.[1] Add -react to the end for the UI or -scripts
| for the various Deno tools.
|
| [0] https://xkcd.com/1319/
|
| [1] https://github.com/chaosharmonic/step-step-recollection
| mStreamTeam wrote:
| https://mstream.io
|
| A self hosted music streaming server that's simple enough for my
| mom to use
| jhoutromundo wrote:
| I building an alternative to Heroku for NodeJS projects with a
| small stack. It is focused on deliver apps faster. It also have a
| temporary container for testing purposes that requires no login.
|
| https://albumin.io
| jansan wrote:
| Heroku is far too expensive for database usage. That should be
| your selling point.
| ekzy wrote:
| 2 years ago I created a guitar chords website to solve a problem
| I have with finding songs to play on my guitar/ukulele. You can
| login with your Spotify account and get some suggestions based on
| your listening history, and also import Spotify playlists.
|
| I wanted to create a website that is lightweight, more accessible
| and less invasive for the user. Existing chords/tabs websites can
| be a real pain to use. The design and the UX of my app is a bit
| clunky, but it's fast and works and without JS. I have not really
| touched it since but I kept it online because some people use it
| (including me). I'm getting around 5-10k unique visitors per
| months, I think mostly from google searches.
|
| I also worked on a feature that generates printable songbooks
| that people can order but I am concerned about copyright and
| legal issues, any comment on that would be welcome. I've
| implemented it already but activated just for me, and I ordered a
| few books already... (all the pdf generation, payment and
| shipping workflow works).
|
| I'd love to get some design help or some fresh ideas for the
| project.
|
| https://www.lyrink.com
| snakeboy wrote:
| Hey this looks awesome ! I've been getting into guitar this
| year during confinement (apologies to my equally-confined
| neighbors), but Ultimate-guitar is so bloated it barely loads
| on my shitty wifi. This is exactly what I need.
|
| Thanks :)
| dewey wrote:
| Lastcast.fm (https://lastcast.fm/) is a half baked project that's
| supposed to be the Last.fm for podcasts helping you with
| discovery. You can automatically ,,scrobble" (track) your
| podcasts and get statistics about your listening habits. You can
| also track things manually and put them into lists / follow
| friends and see what they are listening to and discover new
| shows.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| My be wise to rename to avoid trademark disputes. Otherwise a
| great idea!
|
| I use gpodder.net for now but would prefer something more
| reliable and easier to use.
| ficklepickle wrote:
| I'm building an unauthorized web interface for a car share
| service I use. They discontinued theirs in favour of their
| terrible mobile apps. I just finished the API client in
| TypeScript, now I'm on to the UI.
|
| I RE'd the API calls using an android emulator and mitmproxy. It
| has been a ton of fun. If ur in Vancouver and use evo, you may be
| interested. If you work for vulog, look away!
|
| https://github.com/jeremy21212121/evo-client-nuxt
| PStamatiou wrote:
| Over the last 9 months I've been learning Swift/SwiftUI and have
| been building a simple, well-designed (at least that's my goal)
| app for tracking your stock holdings. Ideal for casual investors
| that may use multiple brokers or already track their investments
| in a spreadsheet and want a better way to keep tabs on their
| holdings that's not some some clunky broker app/site.
|
| I've been maintaining a thread of my progress on it on Twitter
| (Scroll up) https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1346273355306037250
|
| Have a few more things to build but here's my landing page for
| now: https://stocketa.com
|
| Given the cost of market data APIs (and other services I use)
| this will likely be a monthly subscription product.
| throwaway743 wrote:
| Biden Unleashed https://twitch.tv/biden_unleashed
|
| Voice/lexicon cloned, 3D, mocapped Joe Biden w/ interactive
| Twitch chat.
|
| Built it after joking with a friend about Joe Biden's "gaffes",
| how his platform doesn't generate much enthusiasm, and that an
| alternate more risque Joe Biden could bring excitement to the
| people.
|
| It's goofy, has some bugs, is in bad taste, but the account ended
| up qualifying for the Twitch Affiliate program which was neat.
| Also, I just think it's a funny project and my goal was to create
| it for those who share a similar sense of humor and could get a
| laugh out of it. I've been downvoted to hell and people have
| messaged with everything but the kitchen sink, from being called
| a transphobe, sexist, trumptard, bernie bro, the whole gamut.
| Thing is I'm none of these (maybe a bernie supporter... not bro.
| Support the policies, then the individual) and just wanted to
| make something absurd, funny, and fun for friends and others who
| share the same sense of humor.
|
| The setup is a bit complicated, but it's what my budget allows
| for. One linux machine w/ a GTX 1060 monitors for incoming chats,
| when one is received it generates a text and TTS reply, then adds
| the username and text/audio files to the queue. The second
| machine handles the streaming, playing of pre-generated audio
| files, and monitors the queue for usernames to display in the
| stream and chat responses to play/display.
|
| I've got a long list of other ideas for technical and content
| improvements, but they're taking the backburner for the time
| being while I work on learning/building more with React and
| search for work.
| nodematic wrote:
| I'm building a simulator for analyzing and designing software
| delivery/ops/devops systems. The idea is to have prebuilt models
| for tools like GitHub and Jenkins, as well as models for human
| processes like approvals. The user can then easily build no-code
| simulations of end-to-end software release processes, and get
| quantitative insights from running those simulations. The app
| will eventually use discrete event simulation and advanced
| analysis (graphical), but currently its just some basic
| placeholder "function modeling".
| https://softwaredeliverysimulator.com/
| t0mislav wrote:
| https://random.country/
|
| It's few yeras old now, but still half baked. I will rewrite it,
| make better UX.
| kirchhoff wrote:
| Cool site - I run a similar one. Would be interested in
| discussing something with you - my email is in my profile.
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| Reachoutt.com
|
| It's an app that texts you reminders to reach out to
| friends/family/contacts you create on a regular basis. You set up
| the frequency of the reminders. There are a few API's that send
| along idea that to talk to them about as well.
|
| It doesnt really work in production right now because it uses
| ruby cronish jobs that don't work correctly on heroku servers.
| Just need more time to spend on it.
| tomgs wrote:
| I use https://www.monicahq.com/ mostly for this. Interesting,
| tracking.
| richardARPANET wrote:
| https://github.com/veemshq/veems
|
| An open-source platform for online video.
|
| (Looking for ReactJS and/or Python help!
| https://veems.tv/discord)
| remram wrote:
| If you don't mind me asking, what is the value-add compared to
| PeerTube? (seems to be the popular option right now)
| kubanczyk wrote:
| CC-BY-NC license for a software? Care to say why not AGPL?
| jaredandrews wrote:
| At the beginning of the Pandemic I wanted to get more familiar
| with React Native, so I made the motorcycle maintenance tracker
| app that I always wanted. I finished it in April and have been
| using it myself since then. I finally released it over the
| summer: https://pirsig.app
|
| It's definitely half-baked because its missing a lot of features.
| But it works perfectly for my use case which is all I really
| wanted.
| koonsolo wrote:
| RPG Playground (https://rpgplayground.com), the easiest way to
| make and share RPG games. No coding required.
|
| Been developing this for many years already, but this year I hope
| to go to some state where I could rival RPG Maker and all the
| likes.
| sjbrown wrote:
| That looks amazing! What's the tech stack? Code available?
| koonsolo wrote:
| I started out in ActionScript3, but years ago converted to
| Haxe with the Kha library.
|
| Backend used to be node.js with MongoDB, but now it's all
| WordPress.
| zzo38computer wrote:
| I have my own software projects, mainly written in C, which I
| have made significant progress writing it, but seem to be missing
| some important parts. Fossil repositories are available and
| discussion is available on NNTP.
|
| - Free Hero Mesh - a puzzle game engine, for grid based games
| such as Sokoban, Hero Hearts, etc. - The behaviour of the game
| seems to work perfectly as far as I can tell, but the level
| editor doesn't work, audio doesn't work, destruction animations
| don't work, there are no examples provided, etc.
|
| - TeXnicard - a program for making card sets for card games using
| special cards, such as Magic: the Gathering, and making up your
| own card games. - Many features work, but the package manager and
| version control system are incomplete, and the typesetting engine
| could also be improved, and there are no rendering templates
| provided. Also, the Separations Output Format used for rendering
| probably isn't implemented anywhere else as far as I can tell.
|
| - sqlnetnews - a simple NNTP server software with SQLite. -
| Peering with other NNTP servers is not currently implemented, nor
| is authentication, nor the email/web interface.
|
| If you are interested, please mention it; maybe you are able to
| help with them, because I would want help with some things, I
| think.
| pjnz wrote:
| Hacn: https://github.com/pj/hacn. It's kind of like a React
| "monad" in F#/Fable using computation expressions. Control flow
| is a bit different, basically operations/effects can trigger re-
| execution of subsequent steps. Right now its alpha quality and
| any feedback is welcome.
| onurgenes wrote:
| https://threadmaker.co
|
| I am an experienced mobile developer but trying to learn web
| development these days. I have started this project a month ago
| and trying to build something useful.
|
| You can create new threads by just typing or copy/pasting. Main
| goal is show retention rate of thread from analytics.
|
| Beware, it is really in early stage.
| ben509 wrote:
| https://tenet-lang.org/
|
| Tt's a generic data language with functions that compiles to
| other languages. I'm reworking how I do the tree transforms at
| the moment (since that's what most of the compiler does at
| they're a PITA) and hopefully will push out a thing that does
| something before long.
| kstenerud wrote:
| Concise Encoding: https://concise-encoding.org
|
| The friendly data format for human and machine. Think JSON, but
| with 1:1 compatible twin binary and text formats and rich type
| support.
|
| * Edit text, transmit binary. Humans love text. Machines love
| binary. With Concise Encoding, conversion is 1:1 and seamless.
|
| * Rich type support. Boolean, integer, float, string, bytes,
| time, URI, UUID, list, map, markup, metadata, comments, etc.
|
| * Plug and play. No schema needed. No special syntax files. No
| code generation. Just import and go.
|
| The specifications are pretty much ready for version 1.0 release
| now, but I'm holding off until I have the reference
| implementation done (about 90% complete at
| https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding). After that
| I'll start on the schema specification. Once that's done, I have
| a low-level communication protocol that will use this format
| under the hood.
|
| I could use help in the following areas:
|
| * Looking over the specifications and pointing out anything that
| looks weird or off or might cause problems.
|
| * Help with the schema specification.
|
| * Implementations in other languages.
| kumarsw wrote:
| Somewhat OT, but one of my pet crazy ideas is a Forth-like data
| file format based on a stack. I've never thought about it
| enough to say if it's completely stupid or not.
| iujjkfjdkkdkf wrote:
| Could you elaborate a bit? Would the file be a set of
| instructions that generates the data (this is how postscript
| works), or something else?
| kumarsw wrote:
| I was thinking some some subset of a stack-based language,
| enough to define different data types, eg. arr_name 1 2 3 4
| 5 array; float_name 5.75 float
|
| Sort of like how Clojure or KiCad uses S-expressions to
| store data. The idea was that like Forth, the parser for
| such a data structure would be minimal and suitable for
| even a crappy programmer to implement. I'd thought this
| would be useful for minimal systems like microcontrollers
| or locked-down corporate systems with no chance of
| installing third-party libraries.
| IIAOPSW wrote:
| playinverse.com
|
| One day I will finish making all the levels. Currently at 45/50 +
| testing and refinement.
| timdaub wrote:
| I built a mini game engine in JS that allows someone to build a
| 2D game, but once it was done I started to become bored.
|
| Demo (desktop only): https://timdaub.github.io/videogame/ Code:
| https://github.com/TimDaub/videogame
| ramoz wrote:
| Pretty cool, how far are you from an interface equivalent to
| Among Us?
| timdaub wrote:
| Uhhh, nice idea!
|
| Not that far, I'd say. But I'm really not a graphic designer,
| so I'd somehow have to overcome that...
| edoceo wrote:
| Boxes with different colors and single char labels can
| work. Just have to be skinnable later.
|
| Or stay simple color, see Surviv.io
| RazorX wrote:
| Production ready skeleton projects for bootstrapping new
| projects. I've used this approach professionally for over 7
| years, but never marketed much past my current team.
|
| Included: JS and Python package /microservice / serverless
| projects; Serverless Benthos; LaTeX paper; zsh and neovim config.
|
| https://github.com/makenew/
|
| Reasons why this approach is successful
|
| 1. Most project generators don't provide a simple way to keep
| boilerplate updated. These projects leverage git merge and git
| diff which is designed for the task. So keeping all the generated
| projects updated as tools evolve is actually possible.
|
| 2. Fork friendly: you can fork and customize these repos to
| create your own personalized skeleton project, and still merge
| updates from the original.
|
| 3. These projects give you a working CI deployment.
|
| 4. The projects themselves are REAL working examples which are
| deployed / published.
|
| 5. Isolated boilerplate so any issues with tooling can be
| verified, tested, and upgraded independently.
| tomcdonnell wrote:
| Flatpack Apps is a lo-code tool for database application
| development. No demo version on the website yet, but that will
| come soon.
|
| https://flatpackapps.com
| leetrout wrote:
| You probably already know this but https://flatpak.org/ is used
| for app distribution so you may struggle with organic
| discoverability
| ultra_nick wrote:
| https://datingchances.com/
|
| A virtual dating coach and learning community for practicing your
| social skills.
|
| I focused too much on non-core features and ran out of
| motivation.
| simonhamp wrote:
| I hit 35 a couple of weeks ago, so technically my life can
| probably be considered a half-baked project.
|
| Does that count?
| Yhippa wrote:
| A "responsive" version of HN:
| https://github.com/yhippa/responsive-hn
|
| The site works pretty well right now but I wanted to use this as
| a way to get better with front-end development and playing with
| stuff like Firebase.
|
| To see it in all it's half-baked glory go here:
| http://yhippa.github.io/responsive-hn/. I think once I got a bare
| minimum of stuff to load I stopped working on it.
| verdverm wrote:
| Low-code for Developers https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof
| antihero wrote:
| Ten years ago I tried to bring encrypted comms to the masses and
| make an alternative to twitter and Facebook events using
| serveride and eventually browser based crypto.
|
| https://github.com/radiosilence/wire
|
| It was ripped apart (quite rightly in some cases) so I gave up.
|
| I guess now that we can have have unaudited binaries running on
| our phones and devices to provide this to the masses we are much
| safer.
| melkael wrote:
| https://elkael.com
|
| My personal website. Had lots of fun building it two years ago. I
| should migrate it to vanilla js and polish the newer informations
| (research activities) when I have time.
| firstbatu wrote:
| http://battleship.rocks
|
| Its still under dev mode and wont support a production load, but
| feel free to play :)
| eivarv wrote:
| https://cleave.app
|
| Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a
| "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows
| (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on.
|
| Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited
| resources.
|
| Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working,
| reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing
| all states or consuming all resources.
|
| I will release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license
| verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...
| LockAndLol wrote:
| Is this the MacOS equivalent of KDE's activities?
| https://blog.hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-...
| eivarv wrote:
| I remember trying to compare these before (but not what I
| ended up thinking), so maybe it's better if I just explain
| what it does:
|
| When you change your "context", all of your open apps and
| their windows (on all spaces, on all screens) are closed. The
| apps and their windows from the context you are switching to
| open - their positions and working state recalled from when
| you were last in this context.
|
| You can only be in one context at a time; Think of it as a
| workspace or project manager in an IDE, but on the OS-level.
| SOLAR_FIELDS wrote:
| Neat idea - I use MacOS virtual desktops to segment my in
| progress work like this. I might have my IDE with whatever I'm
| working on in browser on one desktop while I have all my
| communication stuff (email, chat etc.) on another desktop and
| then my random browsing on a third. But as you say running
| multiple tabs of Firefox and Slack and the IDE when you're
| really only using about a third of them at any given time is a
| pretty big waste of resources.
| zomgep wrote:
| I just launched an app to facilitate Chinese reading using
| pinyin. The concept is that you can simulate reading Chinese
| textbook passages, except with any text you choose, so it is more
| contextually relevant and interesting to learn.
|
| https://duguo-app.com
|
| Right now, it only offers pinyin as a phonetic guide -- I'm
| looking to add zhuyin next. Also, the front-end is pretty basic.
| Open to any suggestions and feedback on the project!
| trungdq88 wrote:
| Release early and often is absolutely the way.
|
| I decided to launch my macOS app even if it was only about "40%
| complete" as of my expectation. It turned out people still love
| it, and the launch gave me a huge confidence boost!
|
| My app (offline toolbox for dev with a bunch of small utilities):
|
| https://devutils.app
| zakokor wrote:
| I built a web to basically temporarily save information that I
| found on the Internet and avoid keeping the links open on my cell
| phone to remember them, and I thought that it could be valuable
| for others to find that information curated in the form of link
| lists ... surely there was already something it would help me but
| I decided to build it to release it as open source and that could
| be improved by the community. Repo:
| https://github.com/zakokor/pegao My public bookmark:
| https://pegao.co/@zakokor
| yc-kraln wrote:
| Here's my not-quite-complete Telegram bot to help you track your
| eating/exercise habits. Log in with Telegram, the rest happens in
| the app.
|
| https://gesundheit.ai/dashboard/
| zuhayeer wrote:
| https://rapbits.com/ios
|
| Send rap audio bites as memes to friends. Demo:
| http://rapbits.com/video/ad.mp4
| Gazoo101 wrote:
| A bit late to the party, but I'm building PlanMixPlay. An
| audio/video DJ/VJ software that sits somewhere between a
| performance and a production environment. Thanks for reading!
|
| [0] http://www.planmixplay.com [1]
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0
| earnubs wrote:
| Fantasy UI thingy, or playing with dial UX ...
| https://carisenda.com/sandbox/fui/
| mikkergp wrote:
| Is it just a toy at this point? pretty, what data is backing
| it.
| earnubs wrote:
| It's just a toy. Dial's are difficult to make work in real
| UIs but they feature a lot in FUIs. FUIs also assume a lot of
| knowledge/expertise on the part of the user ... to move the
| dial with a mouse here you need to hold shift, you can also
| increment with up and down (or shift up/down).
|
| These dials try to be smarter by calculating the torque value
| of a mouse/touch movement, so you really have to move around
| the dial like a real one.
| eden_hazard wrote:
| https://github.com/ahussain1/medicine-app I started this in April
| and never finished it. I wanted to start a WebMD for people in
| Bangladesh as people there don't speak English. It's a country of
| 180m and there's more people throughout the world. I think it has
| potential but I need help with app development :L
| m463 wrote:
| Good time to haul out the old quote...
|
| "Stop Starting and Start Finishing"
|
| (but honestly I'm happier the other way)
| cstegel wrote:
| Are you learning guitar or ukulele and can never remember how to
| play a chord? Are you experienced with these instruments but
| looking to discover new chord shapes that you've never seen
| before?
|
| I wrote https://cortab.fun exactly for these purposes.
|
| It works with any custom tuning of a fretted string instrument.
| It also tells you what chord you're playing if you select your
| finger placement.
|
| I built it entirely in Rust WASM using the Yew web framework as a
| way to see what it was like to do front-end web dev in Rust. I've
| enjoyed the experience much more than I ever have using js.
|
| It's a little past half-baked at this point but it's fairly
| minimal and I wouldn't consider it done yet.
| pjnz wrote:
| Hacn: https://github.com/pj/hacn. It's kind of like a React
| "monad" written in F#/Fable using computation expressions. Sort
| of like async, but control flow is a bit different, basically
| "Promises" can trigger re-execution of subsequent steps in the
| function. Right now its alpha quality and any feedback is
| welcome.
| ArchieMaclean wrote:
| https://github.com/macarc/PipeScore music notation for bagpipes.
|
| I started this a year and a half ago and I keep throwing it away
| and restarting, but I'm hopeful for this iteration.
|
| I haven't got around to making a README yet unfortunately.
| ryanianian wrote:
| Neat. Knowing nothing about bagpipes but a bit about music
| notation from playing piano I'm curious what's different.
| ArchieMaclean wrote:
| Thanks :) There's a very heavy focus on gracenotes in piping
| - that's probably the main difference. There are a lot of
| different embellishments (probably more than 200) used very
| frequently with 3 to 10 individual gracenotes in them. Most
| general music notation apps are not so good with dealing with
| this - MuseScore, for example, has a massive list of all
| possible embellishments which you have to scroll through to
| try and find the one you want. PipeScore tries to take
| advantage of the patterns in gracenotes to reduce the number
| of options by categorising them (e.g. the 'doubling' class
| has 27 different embellishments in it, but they are all
| dependent on the notes immediately before and after the
| embellishment, so instead of manually choosing the correct
| doubling you just choose 'doubling' and it automatically
| gives the right one)
|
| There are other dedicated bagpipe apps but none of them are
| as frictionless as I'd like.
| jstanley wrote:
| I'm trying to learn FPGA by making a really tiny CPU:
| https://github.com/jes/jescpu
|
| > An 8-bit CPU, and 8-bit address space. This means there are
| only 256 bytes of memory available.
|
| > There are no register operands, no immediate mode operands, and
| no indirect addressing. All operands are direct addresses. In
| particular this means that to use pointers you need self-
| modifying code (i.e. rewrite the address of the instruction to
| match the address that your pointer points to).
|
| It works right now, but only if I run the CPU at 1/8th of the
| clock speed of the memory (see slowclock.v). I understand that it
| takes an extra cycle for reads from memory to get the signals
| back to the CPU, but don't yet understand why it takes 8 cycles.
|
| Eventually I would like to expand it to support 16 bit addresses,
| put it in a fancy box with some actual IO devices, and possibly
| even implement it with logic gates instead of an FPGA.
| fwsgonzo wrote:
| I really wish I had the time to do this. I'll make sure to
| remember this for later!
| appleflaxen wrote:
| can you explain the pseudocode for opcode 6? I don't understan
| why mem[b] isn't present.
| jstanley wrote:
| Oops! That's because it said "mem[a] |= mem[b]", but a "|"
| ends the table cell in Markdown. Fixed now, thanks.
| embit wrote:
| I made https://hope.embit.ca to pay tribute to all our frontline
| workers. Half-baked as done in an afternoon and then not spent
| any time on it.
| frozenlettuce wrote:
| A HTML5 strategy RPG (a mix of ogre battle and advance wars)
| https://lfarroco.github.io/mana_public/
| maxwelljoslyn wrote:
| I've just started running an interview series with the goal of
| creating new edges in my social graph.
|
| I have about a dozen participants so far, and am open to damn
| near anyone.
|
| First one published here:
| https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com/thedrongo/interviews/karthik-b...
|
| Sign up for an interview here:
| https://newsletter.maxwelljoslyn.com/subscribe (this will also
| put you on the mailing list for others' interviews)
| bdefore wrote:
| HotasDB (https://www.hotasdb.com)
|
| Last April, being holed up in the lockdown made me rediscover the
| fascinating world of flight simulators, and was encouraged enough
| that I bought a throttle and joystick and quickly ran into a
| massive barrier to entry: understanding and setting up the
| controls to fly the damn things.
|
| Two popular offerings in this space (IL-2 and DCS) have
| inadequate defaults and tedious and complicated control mappers.
| It's very hard currently to know if you'll enjoy flying if your
| initial experience is being forced to assign a spreadsheet of
| controls when you don't know what value any input has. It's
| exacerbated if you do this in VR because you can't see what
| you're holding and the games often don't indicate to you if your
| actions have any effect. There are public config files, but they
| are often incompatible because they are out of date or mapped to
| equipment you don't have.
|
| I set out to make a browser-based tool that:
|
| - Presented a more welcoming visualization for making assignments
|
| - Cross-controller sensible defaults for these two games
|
| - Let you import, export and share with others
|
| I feel happy that I've reached these goals but I have yet to get
| much attention for it. Admittedly it does not quite yet reduce
| much of the burden on new players.
|
| Ultimately the development time-cost of supporting the fractal of
| combinations of joysticks and config formats was higher than I
| expected (and I expected it to be very high). I reached out to
| the game developers and accessory manufacturers for funding and
| had some interest but nothing came through. My day job and a
| relocation bled the hours away that I'd have available to keep
| moving on it, so it's very slow going now but I hope to keep
| plugging along.
|
| Short-term upcoming milestones:
|
| - MS Flight Simulator support (where the heck do they store their
| configs?)
|
| - Printable PDF's of where controls are on your joystick
|
| - Custom controllers and Joystick Gremlin support
|
| Long term milestones:
|
| - Building a community of user submitted profiles
|
| - An Electron app to...
|
| - Copy your profiles into wherever a game expects them to be
|
| - Provide pop-up notifications as you take actions that describe
| what's occurring (particularly in VR I would think this would be
| valuable)
|
| The project is React-based with a lambda-based 'backend' and runs
| on a free Netlify tier. I'd be open to bringing in help if
| someone's passionate about it.
| arendtio wrote:
| new-hacker-tab.com
|
| Motivation: I wanted to have a new-tab page for my browser that
| show things that are actually useful for me like a few links, a
| weather forecast, best-HN and a notepad to dump some information.
|
| So I built a website, which lets you edit its own code
| https://new-hacker-tab.com
|
| How-To: In the _bottom-right side is a button_ which opens an
| editor, to edit the page. The result is stored in the
| localStorage of the browser. I use that page every day and have
| different versions for work and spare time. If you messed up,
| just delete the localStorage of that domain.
|
| Half-Baked: I would like to add sharing features, so when I have
| built a very nice widget/page, others can use it too, but so far
| the import/export functionality is all there is.
| errozero wrote:
| A web based DAW type app for music production with instrument
| modules, piano roll etc.
|
| https://errozero-metronic-studio-718699.netlify.app/
|
| Click on the button with the piano icon at the top to test out
| the piano roll. You can play notes with the typing keyboard.
|
| I got much further than this previously but decided to throw a
| lot of the code away and start again. I spent a load of time
| building a custom UI library before starting with things like
| draggable windows, linked scroll containers, dropdown menus etc.
| jamesrwhite wrote:
| Over the past year I've been working on Check Sheet in my spare
| time which is an add-on for Google Sheets. It lets you define
| rules or "checks" for your spreadsheet and will then send you a
| notification when they match via Email, Slack or Teams. Google
| used to have a similar thing built in directly but decided to
| remove it, there still seems to be demand for such a thing so
| I've been working on something that adds that functionality back.
|
| The add-on runs primarily in Google's Apps Script environment
| which is essentially like Lambda/Cloud Functions although it's
| been around for way longer. In terms of the tech stack the
| frontend is a fairly simple Vue app and the backend is written in
| TypeScript. Apps Script is quite restrictive in terms of some of
| the quotas and limitations they apply so over time I've moved
| some of the logic and data out into Firestore and Cloud
| Functions.
|
| You can install it for free on the marketplace:
| https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/check_sheet_not...
| Triv888 wrote:
| All mobile keyboard apps should have a paste button... That's all
| I have to say
| quaintdev wrote:
| A hand coded Android homescreen. It has
|
| - App shortcuts on sidebar
|
| - App drawer
|
| - QOTD, TODO
|
| - Any flutter widget that you can think off!
|
| Why?
|
| Having multiple apps just to customize my home screen was not
| working for me. So I decided to hand code my home screen.
| Implementing Flutter widgets is so fast and easy that I have
| replaced apps like TODO, Quotes, Grocery list with Flutter
| widgets on home screen. I am planning to add more functions to it
| like
|
| - Drinking water reminders
|
| - Solar panel output monitor
|
| - Blog visitor counter
|
| The downside of using Flutter for this is existing widgets and
| App Icons on home screen are not supported.
|
| Here is the repo: https://github.com/quaintdev/anchor
| notoriousarun wrote:
| A few days back,
|
| Submitted a co-founder thread.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644817
|
| If anyone is looking for a co-founder...
|
| Please fill out this form with your info
| https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPV...
| era86 wrote:
| The MyFitnessPal desktop application sucks big time. In my
| attempt to create a better alternative, I found that their value
| doesn't come in the form of good UX or performance, but their
| food database. And it's huge.
|
| I didn't want to pay for PostgreSQL on Heroku, so I just dropped
| the database, but the application is still deployed.
|
| So, here's my useless calorie tracker NomTracker:
| https://nomtracker.herokuapp.com/
| jacobrussell wrote:
| Paint by Pixel: creates a custom paint-by-numbers grid based on
| an image you upload and colors you already have.
|
| The "download template" button doesn't work right now, but it
| just replaces the colors from the "preview" image with numbers
| and a white background that you print and color in. Similar to a
| paint by numbers craft.
|
| Right now I'm working on the backend before making the frontend
| minimally-less-ugly.
|
| It resizes the image, then uses k-means quantization (scikit-
| learn) to map the pixel colors to the color set you choose. Right
| now the options are a few crayola marker packs. Would love to add
| something where you can upload your own colors, or provide my own
| markers.
|
| The idea is that you can create a simple custom paint by numbers
| craft and get started right away using stuff you already have. I
| have a few other ideas, but trying to make a product cheaper than
| some existing custom paint by numbers kits.
|
| Would love thoughts or feedback on the idea.
|
| https://d3gmwd8ku7h7jh.cloudfront.net/
| brewingcode wrote:
| I couldn't get it work on mobile.. I selected and image and hit
| preview and nothing happened.
| jacobrussell wrote:
| Hmm.. do you know the size of the image? Also, there's no
| loading wheel so it might take a second depending on the size
| of the image. Just tried on mobile with a 1.8mb image and the
| preview popped up.
| timdaub wrote:
| I'm building an index fund using Ethereum that rates data sets.
| But I've not had time actually building the smart contract logic:
|
| https://rugpullindex.com/
| variblex wrote:
| I have an encryption utility that can work across IMs but I need
| another android developer to finish the project
| jivank wrote:
| I am working on a self-hosted web application designed for NAS
| and devices like Raspberry Pi to serve files/media with a
| Netflix-style view.
|
| Currently implemented in Nim.
|
| https://gitlab.com/jivank/sambalshare/-/tree/prologue-switch
| jsncbt wrote:
| Hipcharts.com is an app I've wanted to build for a longtime that
| allows you to create and share your favourite albums of the year.
| acj wrote:
| A command line tool for visualizing high-resolution ping latency
| to hosts on your network: https://github.com/acj/ping-heatmap
|
| It began as a crude answer to "why is this so slow" and slowly
| turned into a fun data viz project. Needs a better name :)
| strzibny wrote:
| https://deploymentfromscratch.com/
|
| Book on web application deployment, VERY close to pre-release.
|
| Previews:
|
| https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview_november_...
|
| https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview2_november...
|
| Hit me up on Twitter (https://twitter.com/strzibnyj) if you are
| interested in beta reading it and help me out to polish it.
|
| Thanks!
| pionerkotik wrote:
| I am currently building a (open-source) hiking and mountaineering
| equipment management web app.
|
| An early prototype is at https://www.zaino.io . It's a bit rough
| around the edges (does not work on mobiles, not a lot of
| features, some UX issues probably) but core functionality should
| work.
|
| Code, docs, issues are at https://github.com/igor-krupenja/zaino
| binwiederhier wrote:
| I've been working on pcopy
| (https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy) a lot lately.
|
| It's a tool to copy/paste across machines. It can be used from
| the web UI, via a CLI or without a client by using curl.
|
| It's written in Go, and a lot of fun. I'd love some feedback
| and/or code review.
|
| It's used like this:
|
| - Copy: echo hi | pcp
|
| - Paste (on any machine): ppaste > hi.txt
|
| Live demo: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#demo
|
| Videos: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#videos
| vuciv1 wrote:
| Https://swapiverse.com/
|
| It's just our pre-launch page for now. We are planning to match
| users and allow them to swap books with each other.
|
| As of right now, I'm not sure how to avoid scammers... that's my
| biggest issue.
| kaliara wrote:
| Maybe have them take a photo of the specific page of the book?
| Like the one with the copyright and publishing info? At least
| then it's some indication that they have the book.
|
| You could scale up a bit using mTurk and the OCR to verify.
| mikkergp wrote:
| I like the idea, but I think the trust problem + shipping costs
| + challenge of finding overlapping swaps could be challenging.
| But this may be interesting for rare or expensive books With
| the "overlapping was" problem you may have to create a
| currency/credit system in which case you're almost a used book
| store.
| vuciv1 wrote:
| Sorry, link seems to be broken.
|
| https://www.swapiverse.com
| henearkr wrote:
| Maybe use a reputation score, because becoming rich stealing
| books is going to need a _lot_ of books (especially as pocket
| books are very cheap), and so scammers would very quickly lose
| their stars.
| noja wrote:
| http://bookmooch.com/ uses a points system
| recursivedoubts wrote:
| https://hyperscript.org
|
| to compliment htmx, a language that embeds well in HTML, inspired
| by HyperTalk
| tbran wrote:
| Thanks so much for your work on this and htmx/intercooler!
|
| I just threw some htmx on a Django website yesterday and was
| blown away with how easy it was to do fancy app-y stuff with so
| little code. Awesome! I'll be trying some hyperscript this
| week.
| recursivedoubts wrote:
| glad to hear they are useful for you :)
| minitoar wrote:
| Built a level monitor for my 5k gallon water storage tank. Used a
| raspberry pi zero w & ultrasonic range finder. Tweeted about it
| some: https://twitter.com/minitoar/status/1343654848907018240
| hydroxideOH- wrote:
| https://duotonic.co
|
| Connect your Spotify account and listen synchronously with
| someone, either by sending them a link or by joining a queue to
| be randomly paired up.
|
| I basically had no idea what I was doing while developing both
| the react app and the the node back end so it's a little buggy.
| ravishah wrote:
| Reddit is awesome and houses some of the best content I've read,
| but there's a problem.
|
| In some subreddits like Writing prompts, ELI5, etc... we care
| more about the upvotes/score of comments than the comment's
| parent post.
|
| This is a problem because the best comments (explanations,
| stories, jokes, etc...) are not always in the highest-rated post.
| Sometimes comments are higher rated than the parent post. This
| extremely challenging when the Top filter in Reddit is sorting by
| post's upvotes and not the comment's upvotes.
|
| Here top posts from Reddit are ranked by the comment's
| upvotes/score (5th column), using data before 2019 (Forgotten
| content and also avoiding up-vote gamification.)
|
| https://topredditcomments.com/
| thunkshift1 wrote:
| Cool project. How us the score calculated?
| petr25102018 wrote:
| Contentwok: https://contentwok.com/
|
| The idea is to make creating & publishing content a bit simpler.
| The possibilities in the space are endless, but I started with an
| "automatic image finder". The way this works is that you just
| copy-paste your article/text or just provide an URL to already
| existing one and the tool will automatically recommend images
| that you can use in the article based on the context (currently
| from Unsplash).
|
| Some screenshots how it looks so that you don't have to sign up:
| https://twitter.com/stribny/status/1341490526609149953
| cosbgn wrote:
| Zero.sh a tool to build admin dashboards
| cameronehrlich wrote:
| Presenting my half-baked Faxing app "Fax It", built to take on
| Big Fax:
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fax-it/id1458261691
| mathgladiator wrote:
| http://www.adama-lang.org/ is a programming language for board
| games. The language works, and I'm sorting out how I want to do
| UIs. Documentation and platform are half baked.
| tenaciousDaniel wrote:
| Ha, I just posted a DSL for UI design in this thread. I
| remember seeing this a while back on HN, I love the idea!
| HDevo wrote:
| https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit
|
| Demo video: https://youtu.be/ZSz3zN14NTQ
|
| It's an editor and renderer for Fractal Flames[1] written in
| C++17 with a UI in Qt/QML. Other software that renders Fractal
| Flames is e.g. Electric Sheep[2] or Apophysis[3].
|
| It's a project that I've been working on and off for 10 years and
| it's still not ready... Reimplementing it several times certainly
| didn't help, but I learned a lot in the process! It's grown from
| a simple for loop to basically a language interpreter.
|
| Sorry for the lack of README or license, but this is still half-
| baked. I want to release and open-source it one day though.
|
| [1] https://flam3.com/
|
| [2] https://electricsheep.org/
|
| [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophysis_(software)
| mbb70 wrote:
| A simple Swiss Style Tournament manager for pairing small Magic
| the Gathering matches.
|
| The core pairing problem is a weighted bipartite graph matching
| algo which I took off the shelf after straining with the math for
| too long.
|
| Built for fun and for a friend a few years ago before wizards of
| the coast had their own app.
|
| https://hera2.xyz
| friebetill wrote:
| A spaced repetition flashcard app with the main focus on creating
| flashcards together. Sharing is still missing, but we are
| starting to work on it:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.space.spac...
| or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/space-spaced-
| repetition/id1546....
|
| I'm still a student and started programming the app with a friend
| because I wanted to learn physics with my classmates. But the
| other apps Anki, Brainscape and Quizlet have a pretty bad UX to
| create flashcards collaboratively, so I started working on it.
| sli wrote:
| https://gitlab.com/docmenthol/autotable
|
| It's a datatable written in Elm. I wrote it early on while I was
| learning, so I'm certain there is a _lot_ I could update about
| it. Even still, it does its job pretty well. Sorting, filtering,
| editing, and reordering columns are all there. The way it 's
| constructed allows new features to be built on top of it without
| any need to learn a table (or component) API. Just interact with
| the table state directly, the types make it pretty easy.
|
| One major problem is that columns are obnoxious to define. It's
| just a giant record type. And in general I'm just not happy with
| the code. I'll likely revisit this project again soon and rewrite
| some key parts.
| mfi wrote:
| https://github.com/maxvfischer/Arthur An AI art installation I
| built from scratch using a GAN network, Samsung The Frame, a
| button and a PIR-sensor (including, code, images and tutorial).
| The main draft is almost done, but quite some polishing to do.
|
| https://github.com/maxvfischer/shibusa An automatic Zen Garden
| drawing infinite patterns in sand. Using stepper motors, inverse
| kinematics and a Raspberry Pi Zero W (including, code, images and
| tutorial). I'm almost done building the robot, but still have
| quite some implementation to do. Also, the guide is far from
| done, I've mostly uploaded images so far.
|
| https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-arcade A full-size Arcade
| Machine I built from scratch (including, code, images and
| tutorial). I don't know where you draw the life of "half baked".
| It's done, but there's a lot of improvements that can be done.
| lytedev wrote:
| It's an app for churches (or any live performance) to display and
| manage lyrics.
|
| http://alpha.lyricscreen.com:6754/
|
| I'm missing accounts and some of the more frilly features, like
| different fonts and backgrounds.
|
| All the info is shared and HN could probably crash it. It's all
| synced live, so it's very loosely collaborative.
|
| Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
| jschulenklopper wrote:
| Interesting - have been thinking about something similar:
| collaborate on lyrics / song sheets with band, make a set list,
| transpose chords if required, display song (incl. notes) on
| iPads for band members.
| jansan wrote:
| Very nice, this makes a lot of sense.
| kubbity wrote:
| Interesting! Can you share the code/run on-premise server? I'm
| interested for a different (language) church.
|
| I started to try GitHub pages to share lyrics, but failed to
| add all songs I planned.
| unangst wrote:
| Interesting...
| andy99 wrote:
| Here is one of mine: https://github.com/rbitr/ivc
|
| Version control for ipython notebooks, the goal is to be able to
| use a Jupyter notebook in a hacky, iterative way, but track your
| versions and the output they produced in a searchable way so that
| you can capture what you've learned. Still a lot of work and
| research to do to make it something people can use.
| karl_t wrote:
| https://queuey.dev
|
| A waitlist platform. API focused so you can integrate it into
| your auth workflow and give/not give people access if they're not
| admitted.
|
| Currently building a free plan + form sdk/snippet to allow non-
| devs to implement.
| losten wrote:
| https://github.com/vitplanocka/eAndon
|
| I'm making an Andon signalling application that can be used to
| visualize production line problems in a manufacturing company.
|
| Andon is a powerful tool in the lean manufacturing concept,
| because it highlights problems, raises employee awareness, and
| encourages responsible persons to solve them quickly.
|
| There are many commercial packages available but they are often
| very expensive or inflexible. I feel that many companies would
| greatly benefit from having such a system but don't have it due
| to the costs involved. I'm trying to build an open source version
| that can be configured to many different situations.
| herval wrote:
| I'm making an open source Chess game, mostly to learn Unity:
| https://github.com/herval/OpenSourceChess
|
| Publishing binaries on itch as it evolves too:
| https://herval.itch.io/open-source-chess
|
| I'm forcing myself to work one hour a day on it (at least two
| Pomodoros) _no matter what_ , which is a nice change of pace to
| my day job (in management), and really adds up over time. I gave
| up on starting games many times in the past, because it always
| felt so _overwhelming_ to start from a blank page, and I 'm
| already starting to build up the understanding to tackle on some
| actually more original game next :-)
| jibbers wrote:
| This is about as half-baked of a project as I've made, being a
| designer and all. I'm not happy with the apps available today for
| playing and organizing music/audiobooks/podcasts/etc. because
| they all focus on streaming and not folks like me who prefer to
| manage their own files. I was inspired to design my dream apps,
| and that's exactly what I did. I call it half-baked because these
| are little more than screenshots, as I haven't learned how to
| code iOS apps.
|
| https://dillonbrown.me/mobile-audio-ui.html
| bochoh wrote:
| Built a sms api to ease friction in getting sms into your
| application for MVPs etc. had low traction so never finished
| planned functionality
|
| HTTPS://smallsms.app
| jellevdv wrote:
| My price tracker for AliWatcher: https://aliwatcher.com/ Full of
| bugs, prices are not updated nearly enough, but decided to put it
| live anyway while I start working on it
| everling wrote:
| https://cinetrii.com analyses reviews to infer possible
| inspirations behind a film.
|
| There are a bunch of things that could be improved with the text
| processing applied here. The wrong movie title is resolved
| occasionally, like failing to distinguish between an original and
| a remake, or a book. Sometimes the wrong part of an article is
| parsed, resulting in wrong connections.
|
| But I think it works overall, for the right type of film with a
| rich discourse.
| ramoz wrote:
| Could you apply this to tweets? e.g., take user1 tweet, analyze
| who they follow & current trends, some recursion, find root
| influencers like:
|
| user1 -> follows user2, tweeted similar -> userN, tweetN ->
| network and time-map of influence & themes, etc
| hooande wrote:
| great design and interesting content
| dekervin wrote:
| You should really run with that idea, it's simply brilliant !
| (I am a tad jealous )
| everling wrote:
| Thanks, I will. It's been my side project for a long time,
| but I only find time to work on it every so often. This past
| year saw some major updates, though.
| mikkergp wrote:
| Cool! this may be /r/internetisbeautiful material when it's
| done.
| hq1 wrote:
| Having very little time for stuff outside of my daily routine I
| took the opportunity to start yet another static website
| generator during my Xmas break. It's more of a personal wiki
| engine with zettelkasten flavor, very much work in progress.
| https://mtod.org/wb
| iM8t wrote:
| Real-estate tracker and analysis for my home country (Latvia)
|
| https://map.brokalys.com
|
| Open source: http://github.com/brokalys
| kalvisk wrote:
| Nice! Keep up the good work! :)
| mfbx9da4 wrote:
| An observable tree data structure which could form the basis of a
| state management library in typescript
| https://github.com/mfbx9da4/observable-state-tree
| sudoit wrote:
| I love this, but I need something like this for Swift. I'll
| probably review how you pulled this off
| mfbx9da4 wrote:
| Thanks :-)
| nergal wrote:
| Well, my whole github page is filled with these. Some are
| actually usable though :) https://github.com/lallassu
| ayakura wrote:
| https://github.com/aptrinh/Radio-Qt5
|
| An Internet Radio app with local playlist (.xspf) support.
|
| I still need to make a feasible .exe for Windows (preferably
| pyinstaller with --onefile but apparently assets are missing
| unless I place them right next to the .exe - in which case, it
| won't just be one .exe I will ship to users =( )
| thisistheend123 wrote:
| I am making an India based news aggregator like Google News.
|
| Development is slow as I work on it only on Sundays.
|
| Lots of bugs and broken links.
|
| And the let's encrypt certificate also just expired. Need to get
| it on auto-renew.
|
| It's Python and Go based.
|
| https://www.huakya.com
|
| Edit: Any suggestions/feedback most welcome. Thanks
| jhoh wrote:
| https://sbhn.netlify.app/
|
| Slightly Better Hacker News (SBHN). It's an alternative HN web-
| client that I built and use as my default HN version nowadays. It
| features some layout improvements over the original and has a
| dark theme.
|
| It is not yet feature complete (missing login, routing is broken
| in some rare cases) but I plan on improving it on my next "lazy"
| weekend and get a nice domain for it. I'm also going to publish
| the source code on GitHub.
| jozi9 wrote:
| REST API monitoring and testing (yeah I know cert is expired:)
|
| http://apilope.com
| mamcx wrote:
| I'm working in a relational language (https://tablam.org) that
| hopefully will be a great way to massage data and have in-built
| support for "linq/sql"-like queries across all the data sources
| (from site): -- A column, aka: Vectors...
| let qty := [10.5, 4.0, 3.0] -- Like APL/kdb+ operations
| apply to more than scalars prices * 16.0 --
| The ? (query) operator allow to do SQL-like queries to anything
| let doubled := qty ?select #0 * 2.0 let products :=
| open("products.csv") -- like files! for p in
| products ?where #price > 0.0 do print(p) end
| --so, we can do joins between anything: for p in
| cross(products, qty) ?limit 10 do
| print(p.products.price * p.qty) end
|
| I already have a crude working prototype, but need help (hands or
| funding) to move forward!
|
| ---
|
| My long-term goal is to provide an alternative to
| Access/Excel/FoxPro with a full suite of decoupled components
| (language + rdbms components + interactive data repl + form
| builder) to capture the spirit of what this kind of tools allow
| but with a more solid foundation.
| alonchb wrote:
| Over the break I started an ambitious project merging many ideas
| I've had in the last 3 years. This is the first note: Synergize
| Studio
|
| A place where teams can reach their best potential Dictionary
| Synergize: combine or coordinate the activity of (two or more
| agents) to produce a joint effect greater than the sum of their
| separate effects Dictionary Studio: a room where an artist,
| photographer, sculptor, etc. works.
|
| a gym, to train, to improve Personal Coach, simple, natural,
| fluid
|
| As I start with the end in mind, I flip the way I usually do
| personal projects. I started with the website, and doing happy
| paths POCs just to add more content to the site.
|
| As I work on the site, 3 main audience came to mind
|
| For individuals private, you control who can see your data, Skill
| tracker personal development, short term and long term goals
| Career development, current role and next steps organization
| agnostic, your info moves with you if you change companies Career
| path
|
| For teams Share and get to know your team members Conflict
| resolution tools Trust building Goals Norms and processes
| Discover the landscape
|
| For leadership, Inspire Anonymous Aggregated information,
| feedback, reward, incentivize influence.
|
| The site is somewhat mobile friendly, I'm currently working on
| the teams page
|
| https://synergize.studio/
| failedsides wrote:
| Probably doesn't even count as a project, but I mentioned this in
| the failed side projects thread recently and someone seemed to
| like the idea!
|
| You can browse books curated by prizes their authors have won ie.
| books written by Turing Award winners or Fields Medal winners.
| Anyways, I got encouraged a bit last time and I'm thinking about
| trying to expand the website a bit, so far I didn't get very far.
|
| https://categorybooks.com
| jonstaab wrote:
| I built a PWA for disc golf speedruns: https://www.anhyzer.io/
|
| I'm really quite pleased with it and I use it often, but there's
| only one course listed (the one I play on), and there's no
| feature for letting users contribute data for courses. Also, I
| use a database with public access, so if you know what you're
| doing you can hack the scoreboard.
|
| If you're interested or want to add a course I'd accept PRs:
| https://github.com/staab/disc-golf
| q_andrew wrote:
| I'm making an atmospheric exploration game about nostalgic
| liminal spaces.
|
| lim*i*nal
|
| adjective: 1. relating to a transitional or
| initial stage of a process. 2. occupying a position at,
| or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
|
| https://q-andrew.itch.io/anemoiapolis
| jsonGobbler wrote:
| oh boy this is the story of my life
| systemaccount wrote:
| We're building a collaborative meal planning site for
| personalized nutrition. If you've ever tried to improve your
| wellness or fitness through nutrition, you likely found yourself
| preparing more meals yourself. We think it takes too much time to
| pull together recipes into a well balanced, tasty meal plan that
| helps you achieve your goals. We intend to fix this at Fresh
| Batch.
|
| Two of my buddies and I have been hacking a solution together as
| our 5 - 8 through the pandemic. We're pushing hard to open up
| beta soon. You can request private beta access on the home page.
| Feedback much appreciated!
|
| https://freshbatch.io/
| mikkergp wrote:
| Added my name to the list. Curious to see what you come up
| with!
| TimmyTango wrote:
| https://logi.sh
|
| It's a tool for dev journaling. I use it for tracking tasks,
| marking accomplishments, and to back up my decisions. I have a
| really poor memory so I do little mind dumps multiple times a
| day. So it's sort of a log of your day.
|
| It's pretty bare bones right now. You can write logs in markdown,
| tag them for easy lookup, and mark your favorites. This weekend
| I'll probably release a new feature for adding task lists to
| logs. I have the backend finished and have started in the front
| end implementation.
| hundredeir wrote:
| https://github.com/hundredeir/NoSQL
|
| It's a work in progress DBMS implementation inspired from
| Google's LevelDB written in Rust.
|
| End goal is to create a distributed DBMS.
| epakai wrote:
| I wrote handbrake runner. It takes a plaintext (glib) keyfile and
| runs HandBrakeCLI repeatedly to encode video. I use it for my
| dvd/bd collection. It has a support script (hbscan.py) to build
| keyfile templates from handbrake's scan of dvd titles.
|
| https://github.com/epakai/hbr
| amingilani wrote:
| A free, low feature application tracking software to businesses
| to post vacancies to.
|
| I never launched: worklark.com
| ryeguy_24 wrote:
| https://taskflowy-9a9aa.web.app/demo (desktop browser only so
| far)
|
| The idea is a daily note/task management tool combined with the
| WorkFlowy concept of infinite lists. The real use case here is
| for heavy note taking and also tracking the todos within all the
| notes. I found that with WorkFlowy I had so many buried todos
| that I could never see them in one place and manage them
| throughout the day. It's great for notes, but wasn't working for
| tracking tasks.
|
| It allows you to prioritize the tasks at every level. You can
| zoom in on certain nodes to see only the tasks relevant for that
| node and descendants. It actually works for me but would love to
| get some task rabbit testers.
| rnbrady wrote:
| This is awesome, especially if you can keep it super
| lightweight and fast.
| jp1016 wrote:
| Its not really half baked but was stuck in a loop of adding new
| features on top , while starting the project , i was pumped up to
| build it.
|
| it is like google keep, but for storing and sharing code
| snippets, most of the ui is inspired from google keep and i have
| added more features on top of that, i named it codekeep (google
| keep for code snippets) i can summarize codekeep as , Codekeep
| lets you organize your code snippets by assigning labels or
| grouping into folders. generate code screenshots, share and
| discover reusable snippets.
|
| you can check it out on https://codekeep.io, i also built several
| templates for taking codescreenshots as well, by generating
| codescreenshots you can share it on social media, and link it on
| codekeep , so that they can click / copy the snippets, without
| you having to take codescreenshot on one site, put snippet in
| gist.
|
| let me know your thoughts
| brewingcode wrote:
| This is really cool! I like gist but it lacks some features.
| jp1016 wrote:
| thanks brewingcode :-) do you have any suggestions for
| improving or any nice features that you would like to see
| kevlar1818 wrote:
| Dud[1] is a tool for storing, versioning, and reproducing large
| files alongside source code. Planning a more "formal" release in
| Q1.
|
| Dud : DVC :: Flask : Django
|
| [1]: https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/tour/
| kumarsw wrote:
| Cool! I'm excited to see more interest in this space after Boar
| development appears to have been abandoned, and no one is
| willing to take on converting it into Python 3.x. I have a
| similar project also in Go (see DupVer elsewhere in this
| thread) though it is based on a centralized repo.
| rement wrote:
| This is a project I built to help with my job search. It pulls
| Stack Overflow job listings (using the RSS feeds) and maps them
| based on the city. It only supports cities in the United States
| or fully remote companies at the moment. It's functional but
| definitely half baked.
|
| Main tech: Rails and Leaflet.js
|
| https://railsmap.tuckerchapman.com/
|
| edit: I would love some feature suggestions if anybody has any
| kostarelo wrote:
| https://www.taskeera.com/: Monitoring background and async jobs
| from start to finish. Half of the infrastructure and coding is
| done but I didn't find a big audience so I'm in the process of
| just open sourcing it.
|
| https://presentador.dev: Opinionated presentation framework based
| on MarkDown.
| nabeards wrote:
| Taskeera looks very interesting and is something I need. FYI:
| you link to a Twitter account at the bottom, but that account
| has been suspended.
| winrid wrote:
| In 2019 I started https://watch.ly/
|
| It works, and I use it, but I never finished the self service
| aspect. MEAN stack + Twilio.
| bejako wrote:
| https://masksonaplane.com/
|
| A weekly email newsletter with updates on corona travel
| restrictions and options. I have the content ideas down... just
| haven't done anything about monetizing it yet.
| oshea64bit wrote:
| I've been building a small relational database
| (https://github.com/shoyo/jin) with the goal being fast, easy to
| read, and (eventually) Postgres protocol-compliant.
|
| What I've built so far are the lowest level components of the
| disk manager and buffer manager, and I'm currently implementing
| the system catalog for table creation/updates. I start work in
| April, so I'll be focused on this for the next few months!
| ithkuil wrote:
| https://github.com/mkmik/zerozone
|
| > Zero Conf public domain registrar
|
| Currently implemented using IPFS, but I plan rewriting it in top
| of another half baked project if mine:
|
| https://github.com/mkmik/udig
|
| > public-key addressed TCP tunnel broker
| pr0pm wrote:
| Half baked stuff here, web scrapping the details of spotify
| playlist from a given link and downloading it from youtube using
| youtube-dl. No API keys involved for the user. Issue I'm being
| lazy to debug is it's just extracting top 30 songs.
|
| https://github.com/pr0PM/mymusic-dl/
| sarora27 wrote:
| Hi Everyone!
|
| We started building https://kbee.app at the beginning of December
| after our frustration with other help center/wiki tools.
|
| Every wiki/help center tool seems bent on forcing users to learn
| a new authoring/text editor experience in order to publish new
| articles. Many times, folks are creating drafts in Google Docs
| first and then copying it over. We figured, why not cut out the
| subpar text editors and just publish to a wiki straight from
| Docs?
|
| It's definitely not ready for prime-time but we're at a point
| where we're actively looking for feedback!
| bberenberg wrote:
| Seems a lot like https://youneedawiki.com/ Best of luck!
| richardanaya wrote:
| A Web Assembly interpreter written in Rust. That works but has
| bugs and has no mass testing. It has one really badass feature,
| the ability to stop at any point.
|
| https://github.com/richardanaya/watson
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