[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?
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Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?
It's been ~one year since the first lockdowns started. What are you
working on now? I'll start: I'm building PriceUnlock, a tool that
will help you find the best pricing for your SaaS product. I'll
post more in the comments so as to not hijack the post's
description!
Author : chdaniel
Score : 22 points
Date : 2021-03-16 15:48 UTC (7 hours ago)
| kristintynski wrote:
| HTTPS://PDAP.IO a nonprofit with the goal of scraping and making
| accessible county level police data. With this data aggregated
| and made available, policing the police will be more possible.
| [deleted]
| akshaykumar90 wrote:
| I am building Savory to save my open tabs and bookmarks for
| later. It lets you add tags to organize and quickly find the link
| when you need it. It is similar to other bookmark managers like
| pinboard and delicious (rip).
|
| https://getsavory.co/
| DarrenDev wrote:
| https://liet.io/ - A text & document classification API.
|
| I'm focusing on legal text and documents over the more common
| "sentiment" classifications. Early days -- lots to do.
| apineda wrote:
| Custom renderer on top of a classic game.
| binnyva wrote:
| https://apps.binnyva.com/que
|
| A web app that will give you a list of questions that can be used
| to break ice or know others well.
|
| You can be with just one or more friends - once person goes thru
| the questions till they select one. Then everyone answers that
| question.
| chdaniel wrote:
| I'm announcing PriceUnlock here: https://bychgroup.com/price-
| unlock/
|
| But the gist of it is: * We're aiming to make it easier and less
| risky to try charging more/less * Aiming to help you stop leaving
| money on the table (or take too much money from the table?) by
| enabling you to easily charge different prices in higher/lower-
| income countries -- like Apple, Netflix, etc. do * Aiming to make
| A/B testing of prices headache-free
|
| I'm still building PriceUnlock and revealing more bit by bit!
| Curious to hear your story about your SaaS pricing and how you
| got there -- and whether you ever got to 100% confidence that the
| prices you set were "right"?
|
| That aside, would love to hear what others are working on now to
| see if my feedback can be helpful!
| willswire wrote:
| AFI SWiM: https://afiswim.com
|
| Extract crucial information from Air Force Instruction manuals
| (AFIs) and produce an Excel workbook with the results for better
| reference.
| mnembrini wrote:
| A Csv editor/viewer in Rust using druid. Very early stage, but
| the goal is to open large files (1 GB and over) easily and have
| some good filtering / sorting options. Excel stops at a certain
| amount of rows, LibreOffice is ok but slow and other editors I
| looked are not cross platform I know you can just import a Csv
| into a sql DB but it can be finicky it can take some time to map
| the columns, filter out invalid data etc. This can and should be
| all be automated
| maxwells-daemon wrote:
| A couple on and off, but most recently a GPU-accelerated
| differentiable fluid simulator: https://github.com/maxwells-
| daemons/deltaflow
| shanecleveland wrote:
| I filled my own need with https://howsyourblank.com.
|
| I have a minor, but chronic medical condition I am trying to get
| in check, and I just wanted something incredibly simple to
| identify good and bad days. I was inspired by "year in pixels"
| calendars.
|
| And I took the opportunity to try out Userbase[0] and build
| something with a secure backend and no tracking, considering the
| potentially sensitive nature of it.
|
| No plans for monetization at the moment. I could see adding more
| features such as tracking multiple data points, stats,
| correlations, notes, etc., and creating a premium version. I
| would need more users and feedback.
|
| [0]https://userbase.com
| JohanCutych wrote:
| We created https://www.getwelder.com/ as side project. Turn into
| main project and then back to side project haha.
|
| Great for recording content (interviews) remotely easily & in
| high-quality.
| chdaniel wrote:
| This pic: https://assets.website-
| files.com/5e93b09565892b4fad16784a/5f...
|
| Drives the point home! Would love to try it, as I've recorded a
| podcast with 13 episodes before: https://chdaniel.com/podcast
|
| What made you turn this from side -> main -> side project? What
| are you working on now, specifically, on Welder?
| Jefro118 wrote:
| I'm building https://pygma.app, a tool to turn Figma files into
| real websites. Perhaps not quite a side project as I've been
| spending half of the week on it. Should be launching this week.
| chdaniel wrote:
| I'm currently on Sketch, but been looking at Figma as I like
| the browser-dependency, as opposed to OS-dependency.
|
| Question (and bear in mind I haven't used figma more than 5
| min): what do I have to do besides the mockup in order to be
| able to use Pygma?
|
| Looks v cool!
|
| P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down?
| https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
| nodematic wrote:
| Sounds challenging to do well, but very cool concept. Best of
| luck.
| nodematic wrote:
| Software Delivery Simulator https://softwaresim.com
|
| A Rust- and WebAssembly-based simulation product that helps
| design, communicate, and analyze systems of software tooling.
| It's a fun and interesting side project, which should be finished
| pretty soon.
| hypermachine wrote:
| We have been working on getting VB6/VBA to run on the web and in
| cloud native environments.
|
| https://hypermachine.org
| high_byte wrote:
| W H Y ?
|
| why not COBOL or rocks or something?
| camhenlin wrote:
| I'm working on a system hand off nodejs workloads over a serial
| port to another machine running some host software.
|
| My intent is to easily write Internet-connected software for old
| machines where a host machine is doing all of the heavy lifting.
| I have been messing with 68k Macintosh systems first. The code is
| very much a work in progress that I am actively chipping away at,
| and not in a usable state just yet. I write a lot of nodejs
| professionally but haven't used C since college so its been a fun
| project.
|
| nodejs software for the "modern" machine:
| https://github.com/CamHenlin/coprocessor.js
|
| C software (targeted at a 68k mac) for the "slow" machine:
| https://github.com/CamHenlin/retro68-coprocessorjs-test
| knoebber wrote:
| Dotfilehub: https://dotfilehub.com
|
| I've always found various solutions that use git for sharing
| configuration files cumbersome. I set out to make my own simple
| version control system, and a lightweight web application where I
| can browse and edit them remotely. The main idea is that paths
| are aliased to simple names, so I can say `dotfile pull i3` and
| it will install https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/i3 to
| ~/.config/i3/config
|
| Overall the project is stable and I use it daily for all sorts of
| miscellaneous files.
| chdaniel wrote:
| Would love to comment with feedback but I'm not techincal
| enough to use it! Sounds like a time-saver though. Do you have
| any plan with Dotfilehub? Sell it as a product, keep it free,
| accept donations if it becomes widely used...?
| knoebber wrote:
| My plan is to find some users for it, but I'm not sure the
| best way to get it out there.
|
| I don't think I'd ever want to accept donations or sell it.
| It should always be pretty cheap to host unless it blows up,
| which I kind of doubt. But who knows!
| tiddles wrote:
| I've been alternating between two long term Rust projects, which
| seems to work in keeping the motivation up for both!
|
| A Dwarf Fortress-like game (and engine):
| https://github.com/DomWilliams0/name-needed
|
| A x64 operating system: https://github.com/DomWilliams0/DomeOS
| cwitty88 wrote:
| Like most people do I seem to start a million and finish none. I
| have been having trouble tracking my options trading cost basis
| lately and am thinking about writing something for that. I want
| to integration Plaid, but the version that supports Brokerage
| accounts starts at $500/mo :|.
| high_byte wrote:
| I completely identify with this. it's about bad time management
| or whatever, no tool can fix this - it's about education. well
| organized people use excel just fine to track whatever, and
| also some artists don't track anything and do amazing. so it
| also depends on your purpose.
|
| this is something I think about a lot. I think this affects
| some people more than other, not sure if this is ADHD, ADD or
| whatever but it is a huge problem even more so the information
| age.
|
| let me know if you have ideas how to tackle this.
| taphangum wrote:
| https://planflow.dev - The _easiest_ way to PLAN your website or
| mobile app.
|
| It tries to make planning a website or mobile app as close as
| possible to the pen and paper experience.
|
| It does this in a simple but (from my, and the experience of
| those who have tested it out) very effective and engaging way.
|
| I share a bit more about how this is done here:
| https://simpleprogrammer.com/information-architecture-develo....
| chdaniel wrote:
| Just subscribed, Tapha! Curious to see how it'll work, as I do
| UI/UX design as well
|
| P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down?
| https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
| taphangum wrote:
| Awesome! Thanks chdaniel. Happy to give you feedback. Check
| back in a few.
| ycm2007 wrote:
| Cloudblast: https://cloudblast.network
|
| Working to solve the online privacy problem by making it easy to
| discover and host copies of existing privacy-respecting web apps.
|
| Cloudblast spawned from my original "what I'm working on" project
| CloudFromScratch posted to this similar thread a year ago.
| chdaniel wrote:
| This CloudFromScratch, right?
| https://github.com/technomada/cloud-from-scratch
|
| I have a document for myself where I note down what I believe
| to be future industries -- trying to time the market. In the
| same way you might've timed the market in the early part of the
| previous decade by betting on remote working becoming a pretty
| viable option (hindsight is 20/20 tho!)
|
| Self-hosted for privacy reasons, to me, is like a bomb waiting
| to explode. Just like covid accelerated our habits around
| healthcare (Perhaps future generations will look down on those
| who don't wear a mask when one catches a cold, the same way we
| look down on those who don't wash their hands after using the
| toilet... but in the 17th century that wasn't a thing), I
| believe _mass_ privacy-awareness will come with a major leak
| /event.
|
| Looking forward to Apr 1st (if the beta is launched there and
| it won't be just April Fools' lol!
|
| P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down?
| https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
| uncheckederror wrote:
| Daily tax parcel data (shapefiles) from 21 of 39 county's in
| Washington State.
|
| https://waparcels.tax/
|
| Shapefiles are sort of a rare format. Hoping to ingest all the
| data into a SQLite/SpatiaLite database to make it a more general
| purpose data source.
| ecesena wrote:
| MultiPreview: https://multipreview.com
|
| Create sharable links with different images, so you can share the
| same article multiple times, e.g. on twitter keeping your feed
| nice and clean.
|
| For those interested in the details, it renders an html page with
| custom metatags and immediately redirects to the target. Redirect
| happens in js, so crawlers actually display our metatags vs the
| target ones. It's just a hack I've tested a while ago, a couple
| marketer friends liked it and so I decided to make it into a
| micro SaaS.
|
| If you want to try it out, I recommend to have a blog post handy.
| (also, credit card are disabled, but I like to keep the landing
| page "final".)
| chdaniel wrote:
| Ohh, kinda like Seth Godin's blog! If you share any of his blog
| posts, there's a rotation of pics that come up in Twitter's
| preview. Did I get it right?
|
| P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down?
| https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
| denysvitali wrote:
| A StackOverflow / Discourse alternative:
| https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-frontend
| https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal
|
| Porting Linux to the Surface Pro X (and failing doing that due to
| my lack of kernel experience):
| http://github.com/denysvitali/surface-pro-x-linux/
|
| Creating a Microsoft Teams library + client (WIP):
| https://github.com/fossteams/teams-api
|
| Unfortunately my free time is quite limited :(
| chdaniel wrote:
| The screenshots here look interesting:
| https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-designs
|
| Any live demo?
| denysvitali wrote:
| Still WIP, no live demo at the moment, but the screenshots
| that you see on the dev-portal repo are already what you get
| :)
|
| The design reference that you link is how I want it to be, I
| spent quite some time focusing on the look and feel with
| Figma, and I'm really happy about the results, I just need to
| do the 90% of the work now :D
| pizza wrote:
| Visual cortex seen-image reconstruction model
| high_byte wrote:
| Reminds me of that one House MD episode... crazy
| ptm wrote:
| I have been working on SceneRadar.
|
| This tool displays you timestamped alerts (nudity, sex, violence
| or gore). So if you plan to watch a film with your child, your
| parents or other conservative relatives - you know when the
| danger scenes are going to hit you.
|
| Since I watched lots of films during the lockdown, I thought this
| would be a good use of time.
|
| https://sceneradar.com/
| illwrks wrote:
| This is a great idea! Are you doing it manually or scraping
| subs for keywords etc?
| ptm wrote:
| Thanks. I have been manually adding the alerts. Users also
| have the option of submitting their own alerts.
| market_hacker wrote:
| you probably know this but you're building a nice labelled
| training set for machine learning to help you automate the
| process later
| ngokevin wrote:
| Coupling: language learning app for bilingual couples looking to
| pick up each other's native languages
|
| https://learncoupling.com
| high_byte wrote:
| Cool. I've fiddled with A-Frame and I've seen supermedium
| before. cool stuff. Why do you focus on couples though? I love
| the concept of partnering together but I don't think you should
| limit your audience.
| ngokevin wrote:
| Awesome!
|
| I'm just starting with a clear niche and solving my own
| problems. Where many of my friends and myself are in
| bilingual relationships that have been trying to learn our
| partner's languages.
|
| In the US, 15% of new marriages are multi-ethnic, so that's
| pretty large already. I think people are surprised how common
| it is. And it easily pique's people's interests who are in
| the situation versus another generic language learning
| platform.
|
| If the project goes well, it can expand and branch out (e.g.,
| adding friends/family, connecting to other peers, finding
| strangers to learn with). Right now, it works very well as a
| language learning tool, even without a partner.
| hpen wrote:
| Kanception.io
|
| Open source recursive Kanban board
| https://github.com/hpennington/kanception
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