[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What is your "I don't care if this succeeds"...
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Ask HN: What is your "I don't care if this succeeds" project?
Last February there was, in my opinion, a really uplifting thread
with the same title1. I'd like to see all the cool new things going
on, and I'll steal the intro text from as89 to explain: _One
where you don 't care if it makes money or gets a lot of attention,
but you are working on it regardless. I don't think I mean private
hobbies, exactly, but projects that could or will be shared with
others - you just don't care about the outcome._ 1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992782
Author : JNRowe
Score : 500 points
Date : 2022-02-10 07:13 UTC (1 days ago)
| lukifer wrote:
| Offline voice-controlled jukebox using RPi via Mopidy, and just
| pushed a branch with Mac support via iTunes/Music.app
|
| https://github.com/lukifer/voicetunes
| echan00 wrote:
| HellaDoge.com
| ThePaulAlek wrote:
| https://docit.dev/
|
| I am building a Knowledge Transfer platform for software
| engineers that let's people make documents with video recordings,
| screen recordings, voice recordings, diagram making, document
| hosting, and more all in one place. The goal is to put all the
| features native to the platform, that way the user can just click
| and use rather than be redirected to a third party integration.
| chanux wrote:
| Good idea. Pay attention to your Meta.
| sgb_QQ wrote:
| https://savingtool.co.uk
|
| It's specific to a UK audience but I made a tool that, at least
| in my mind, is better than the existing tax calculators for UK
| workers, and goes a bit further with letting the user forecast
| potential wealth building, using a very popular approach (index
| funds using ISA wrappers).
| spongeb00b wrote:
| > You are probably in a position to retire earlier than age 86!
|
| Woohoo!
| megapolitics wrote:
| This looks very useful, I'm looking forward to playing around
| with it. Do you have any plans to add support for Plan 4
| (Scottish) student loan repayments?
| quaintdev wrote:
| I built a URL shortening service that was originally an
| assignment. "linkdekho" in hindi means "see link".
|
| https://linkdekho.in
|
| The idea is to put the shortened links in social profiles to the
| content user want their visitors to visit or just use it as a URL
| shorten-er.
| raphaelj wrote:
| https://noisycamp.com
|
| A web platform I created 3y ago to help Musicians to find spaces
| to practice music.
|
| I'll most probably not be able to live on it, but it might
| generate some income.
| zrail wrote:
| I built VMSave a number of years ago to fulfill a request from
| some family members. My definition of "success" for it is that it
| helps people, that it's relatively maintenance free and that it
| sustains itself via donations. Especially since recently moving
| it to hosting with a more reliable internet connection it's been
| wildly successful according to those metrics.
|
| https://vmsave.petekeen.net
| livinglist wrote:
| here is a kanji dictionary app I started making when I was in
| college, I was learning flutter myself and also taking Japanese
| classes so I figured this could be a good way to practice both my
| Flutter and Japanese skill, as well as having some project to be
| put on my resume, the code is a total mess but overall I'm pretty
| satisfied where this has taken me.
|
| https://github.com/Livinglist/Manji
| kevincox wrote:
| I created an RSS-to-Email service. I used another hosted service
| for a long time but slowly fed up of some of its missing
| features. I considered running rss2email but wanted it to be
| really easy to add new feeds from anywhere, even my phone.
|
| I would run it just for myself, as it is already much better than
| the alternatives but decided to run it as a service so that
| others can enjoy. I have a handful of users but don't plan on
| making it big, ideally it will pay for itself and maybe a nice
| dinner from time-to-time.
| mikemcquaid wrote:
| I'm the project leader for Homebrew and have been maintaining it
| for 12 years. I have no planned dramatic changes for it or
| expectations I'll radically improve it in any way. I just try to
| keep all parts of the project ticking along and I still enjoy
| doing so, despite feeling no real obligation to continue.
| slinger wrote:
| I've been using homebrew for almost 10 years and I just wanted
| to say thank you for your amazing work!
| zachwill wrote:
| You've done an unbelievable job, Mike!
| arbitrage wrote:
| You do great work. Can I buy you a $DRINK for your dedication?
| sgt wrote:
| Homebrew has made a difference to me and dozens of other
| developers I personally know, and probably hundreds of
| thousands world wide. Thanks for your efforts.
| AussieWog93 wrote:
| Possibly dumb question, but have you considered looking for a
| successor to take over the project?
|
| Homebrew has basically reached the point where it's "critical
| infrastructure" for macOS devs, and it would really be a damn
| shame to see it slowly fade away just because the creator has
| moved onto other things.
| Centigonal wrote:
| I think you may be misunderstanding GP's clarity around the
| intended scope of the project with a lack of enthusiasm about
| maintaining the project.
|
| Homebrew is critical infrastructure, which is exactly why it
| shouldn't change dramatically.
|
| Now, if GP has lost interest in the project, or doesn't have
| the time to keep it running satisfactorily, I'd definitely
| agree with you - but I didn't get that impression from his
| post.
| telesilla wrote:
| If I understand correctly, it's not about losing interest
| but ensuring there is a successor for when GP wishes to
| step back or is forced to do so. The community should
| acknowledge this and fund training and possibly salary for
| who's next.
| sneak wrote:
| It's not critical infrastructure.
|
| There are better alternatives, even, that are a quick and
| painless install process away. For example, nixpkgs is
| competitive with it, and does not include the Google phone-
| home supercookie tracking spyware that is on by default
| without consent in every Homebrew installation, and works
| great on macOS.
|
| Homebrew could disappear tomorrow and nothing extremely bad
| would happen. That can't be said for the power grid or water
| system. Tossing around the term "critical infrastructure" for
| things that are important but very sub-critical is hyperbole
| that waters down the (important) term to meaninglessness.
| Ancalagon wrote:
| Is there a donation link or something for homebrew? I can't
| believe such a popular tool is not making you guys money.
| johnnypangs wrote:
| https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations
| sunsetMurk wrote:
| So casual :-)
|
| I use Homebrew every day. Thank you for the the incredible work
| in keeping things ticking along. And congrats on still enjoying
| it!
| llampx wrote:
| This is like meeting a celebrity. Awesome work on homebrew!
| thecleaner wrote:
| If you don't make money off of it, you really should. I'll
| definitely try to make my employer pay for it. Homebrew is
| quite important piece of tooling. Thank you for making it.
| shishironline wrote:
| You have done a great job, and helped innumerable developers
| along the way. Thanks
| fredley wrote:
| Can you invert a binary tree on a whiteboard though?
| amarshall wrote:
| For context:
| https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
| Gollapalli wrote:
| K I N G
|
| Is
|
| Not
|
| Genera
| antomeie wrote:
| For the past two years I have been building and maintaining
| https://webcamplus.app
|
| It is a free app that allows people to use their iPhone as a
| webcam for their Mac.
| pawelwentpawel wrote:
| https://flat.social - a fun video conferencing app where meeting
| attendees can fly around and speak with others around them.
|
| While I do care about the outcome, I work on it regardless. It's
| a lot of fun from a technical point of view and I keep meeting
| amazing people through it.
| FailMore wrote:
| This is very cool. How is progress going? What is usage like?
| pawelwentpawel wrote:
| Thanks! I've been on it solo since last year. Progress from
| the product side is going pretty well but still a lot to do
| and optimise! Usage wise, it's in experimentation phase so
| the pattern is rather spiky ranging from silent days to
| sudden influxes of traffic.
| vgel wrote:
| Me and my wife made https://sortesalearum.com , a web emulator
| for an ancient roman fortune telling system.
|
| In SEO terms it's one of my most successful projects though --
| not a lot of competition :)
| FailMore wrote:
| This was fun and gave me wise advice!
| Aeolun wrote:
| Oh, this is great. Simple, and I liked the historical
| background.
|
| It could really do with a re-roll button though. Now my refresh
| button fills the same need.
| kris-s wrote:
| I made a little dungeon crawler game that I needed to make to
| prove to myself I could actually ship a complete game, which has
| been a struggle for me.
|
| https://smoldungeon.com
| lelandfe wrote:
| This is really great, good job! Google did a good job with
| auto-creating your preview text, but you should definitely add
| a meta description to that landing page :)
| https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fsmoldun...
| kris-s wrote:
| Oh thanks! I'll do that, I do not know anything about SEO.
| lelandfe wrote:
| One's knowledge of SEO is inversely correlated to the
| quality of their life
|
| Keep the meta description at around 120 characters and
| you're golden. The HTML is clean and semantic so Google has
| treated the results quite well!
| Aeolun wrote:
| Hmm, I have a few now, but none of them are actually released.
| Most of them I use in my day job to make my life easier.
|
| - System to visualize code coverage/quality, to figure out where
| to focus improvement efforts, think mix of codecov/sonarqube, but
| better (in some ways)
|
| - A desktop client for Jira, so I can work offline and have
| instant responsiveness
|
| - Website for building resumes based on JSON, with export to word
| and PDF (currently offline)
|
| - Typescript to Go transpiler (only for really simple programs
| right now)
| vunzi wrote:
| I am particularly interested in the first two projects. Care to
| share a bit more information about them or some blog I can read
| about?
| t_christensen wrote:
| I launched https://thecitymapquiz.com some time ago and I really
| don't have any succeed critia for it. It was fun to built,
| playing around with rendering open street map data, and building
| the web part with phoenix liveview. I really don't have any plans
| to it going forward, and with a couple of small kids and a full-
| time job, I'll probably not have any time to spent on it if I
| actually had a plan. So in someway you could say it's already a
| success whether or not anyone will use it.
| randomsilence wrote:
| Could you add two multi-player options?
|
| 1) participants guess in turns, every correct choice gets a
| point
|
| 2) participants guess competitively and first right choice gets
| a point. Wrong choices are shown to others, result in a point
| deduction, and the game continues until the right choice is
| made
| ryangossiaux wrote:
| I think I saw this in a different HN comment of yours and
| played it. Love the concept. My only suggestion is that you
| expand the multiple choice option pool. I could rule out a lot
| of options later on in the quiz simply by remembering what
| options had already been used.
| Udo wrote:
| I'm working on a replacement for PHP, just for my own use. I
| don't really care if anyone else besides me will ever find it
| useful.
|
| Right now it's just a Git repo:
| https://github.com/ThingamaNet/uce
|
| My project goals: - minimal but stable FastCGI
| runtime that recompiles server pages as needed - minimal
| dependencies - web apps written for it should still run in
| 10+ years without change - combine the advantages of C++
| with those of PHP - equal-or-better performance in most
| scenarios - implement an additional WebSockets broker so I
| can use the same runtime for live apps
|
| Currently it's very early in development and very clunky still.
| shakezula wrote:
| I am working on a magic: the gathering board state emulator for
| the browser. Eventually I want to make a parser for the game's
| card language.
|
| I don't care if it succeeds because, like most projects of mine,
| I made it out of curiosity for the domain.
|
| It's in beta right now, and I don't have any plans to make it
| paid. I just wanted to bring mtg to the web.
| sillysaurusx wrote:
| I run a clone of hacker news with a small but dedicated group of
| users. I implemented support for basically every public feature
| in HN, with the exception of the "past" link and getting rid of
| dynamic links. It implements HN search via Algolia, HN's api via
| Firebase, HN's javascript and css. People have submitted a total
| of 2700 items over two years, which is frankly incredible to me.
| It's also scooped HN three or four times, where stories that
| appear there end up on HN a day or weeks later. I find that
| amusing.
|
| It costs $12/mo, runs on FreeBSD just like HN originally did, and
| requires almost no moderation. It succeeded in replicating the
| feeling of HN's early days, in terms of a sense of wonder when
| you stumble across it. But almost no one comments, much to my
| surprise.
|
| I should probably do a writeup someday. But mainly I wanted w
| high quality HN implementation. pg's original code vs this took
| two months of dedicated work. Figuring out firebase and algolia
| bindings for Arc took some (enjoyable) doing.
| jjuliano wrote:
| A lot, I don't list them in my resume or attach a title (founder,
| etc.), I just did it for the fun of it or to teach my son.
|
| active & hiatus projects (published in Google Play & Apple App
| Store)
|
| https://ABCDutch.app - Various Dutch learning apps I made for my
| son
|
| https://ChronoBook.app - Muji Chronotebook for iPad
|
| https://CloudArchitect.app (see wayback) -
| AWS/Kubernetes/Google/Azure Cloud Whiteboard Magnets for iPad
|
| https://SketchDesigner.app - UI/UX design tool for iPad
|
| PencilPuzzle - Over 25k+ puzzles, pictionaries, sudoku for iPad
|
| sunsetted projects
|
| https://PrintableFaceMask.com (see wayback) - last option
| printable origami Facemask to fight COVID-19
|
| Various auto-generative NFTs (anon. around ~6k ERC-721 NFTs
| minted)
|
| Too many. https://jjuliano.github.io/jjuliano/stuff-i-did.html
| warrenm wrote:
| I'd say doing it "for the fun of it" or "to teach my son" are
| both forms of "succeed" :)
| zulban wrote:
| Originally I made www.chesscraft.ca for my very long commutes.
| Put it on Google Play because I've never published an app before,
| and for friends and family. Eventually I added a donation-like
| IAP and Steam because the community and revenue continues to
| impress me. I suppose I now care about its success but I'm not
| sure what to do next since the project never had a long term
| roadmap. I'm thinking of making a cash prize kaggle competition
| out of the user generated chess variant data I now have, even tho
| it makes little business sense.
| interpol_p wrote:
| My partner and I created https://retrogram.app for iOS/watchOS
|
| We started designing it at the end of 2020 and released it in Jan
| 2022. We met over word games, and love playing them together so
| we wanted to make one with all the polish we could put into it
|
| It's inspired by the 1970s, old Atari game packaging, VHS tapes,
| Beach Boys albums, etc. We spend time making the puzzle together
| each day and put quite a lot into it in terms of stories for the
| different words, themes, and curating words based on upcoming
| events. You can see what I mean from our Twitter[1] or
| Instagram[2]
|
| Our goal was to have it cover its own costs, to earn about
| $500/year (Apple Dev expenses, font licensing, hosting,
| Firebase). This would allow us to justify working on it. It has
| earned $1000 in January so far (probably because Apple featured
| it) so we consider it a success for this year and next year
|
| [1] https://twitter.com/RetrogramApp
|
| [2] https://instagram.com/retrogram.app
| mNovak wrote:
| https://bytebucket.co
|
| I'm the kind of person that always buys electronics used on eBay,
| where you can get really powerful but 2-3 years old devices for a
| few hundred $. And, I find shopping for used electronics
| elsewhere is still terrible (how good is a 1yo i5 vs a 3yo i7?).
| So, I made this site to help me in that -- I started scraping
| eBay listings for laptops, picked out the specs and cross-
| referenced them to benchmarks.
|
| True to form, I made this early in the pandemic for the fun of it
| (I'm not even a software dev), then realized marketing is boring
| and never shared it with anyone. Real life makes me busy, but
| there's tons of features I want to add eventually. And now I have
| a very interesting dataset to play around with.
| breckenedge wrote:
| Scraping projects looking for relative deals is fun. Did that
| way back in the day with Craigslist motorcycles.
| jdmichal wrote:
| I have a small maybe-bug report for you. I thought, hey I don't
| want anything with a HDD, only SSD. So I set HDD to 0-0, and it
| just filters out everything. Even systems with no HDD
| disappear.
| peterfield wrote:
| THX a lot great idea. Table alignment is a miss on firefox :)
| https://i.imgur.com/6lBuwQ0.png
| mNovak wrote:
| Ah, yes looks like my hacky double sliders don't look great
| either. css was probably my least favorite part of this
| project
| exikyut wrote:
| This is great, except it's showing me listings for laptops with
| 8GB of SSD storage and 935GB of RAM.
|
| A flag button may be the most useful practical reaction to this
| problem. That way you can outsource the problem of faulty
| reports - and best case scenario even build up a following of
| trigger-happy users who are helpfully inclined to click the
| flag button in the future when the occasional glitch sneaks
| through.
|
| Publishing the parser may also honestly be a good idea as well.
| Not the whole site, just the parser specifically - maybe with
| instructions on how feed in the results of small-scale scrapes
| (~100 pages) - so people can understand exactly what it's doing
| and provide feedback.
|
| This is a very community-oriented sort of project IMHO, so by
| definition you'll wind up with a small following of stragglers
| if you hang in there; by the same token, it's possible (gain,
| best case scenario) that leveraging the spare cycles the
| community might be able to bring to the table may make it
| viable to maintain a level of quality that would otherwise be
| very hard to sustain long term.
| grp000 wrote:
| That is a seriously good concept. Your metric works too good
| though, compared to the refresh rate of the listings so all the
| good stuff is sold out. If you had a mailing list I would
| definitely subscribe.
| mNovak wrote:
| Thanks. Yeah I thought about a mailing list, but couldn't
| think of a way to make it not spam you every single day for
| the 1 or 2 best listings. But obviously can't aggregate them
| unless it's a digest of "here's what you missed," which would
| be slightly amusing.
| cobertos wrote:
| Very similar, but for servers, https://labgopher.com/. It
| originated from the Reddit r/homelab sub
| hedoluna wrote:
| great! unfortunately the pound/TB sorting doesn't work.
| Bilal_io wrote:
| Thank you! I've used this website before, but I had trouble
| remembering its name last week, I was searching "lab gator"
| "gator lab"...
| exikyut wrote:
| Sadly the Australia section redirects to ebay.co.au as
| opposed to .com.au, welp. Noticed this about a year or so
| ago, maybe more.
|
| Set and forget APIs that just work are kind of cool... maybe
| that's the moral of the story there lol
| BoppreH wrote:
| Another bug report:
|
| https://www.ebay.com/itm/125134793099?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-5320...
|
| 4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, and an i5-1035G is misparsed as 64GB RAM and
| 1035 GB SSD.
| RichardChu wrote:
| I'm working on an open source note-taking app called Notabase
| [1].
|
| It's built primarily for my use - I just never liked most
| existing note-taking apps and wanted to make one that's easy to
| use and fit the way that I think. I made it open source [2] so
| other people can build on top of my ideas, and released a hosted
| version so that other people can use it if they like it.
|
| It would be nice if other people found it helpful, but regardless
| it's something that I intrinsically enjoy working on.
|
| [1]: https://notabase.io
|
| [2]: https://github.com/churichard/notabase
| spyke112 wrote:
| I have a couple of projects I enjoy working on:
|
| Nanosite[0] Static site generator using Pug as a template
| language, and supporting translations. I have a couple of sites
| in production on Netlify and Cloudflare Pages, and it's a breeze
| to use.
|
| Spatium[1] Time tracking tool for my freelance business. I use it
| in a Git repo and have CI hooked up to generate artificates,
| timesheets for the customers in html, csv, pdf, excel and json.
| The data is stored in a rather simple json based database[2] I
| created, you should really don't do that, but it had to be easy
| to handle merge conflicts in the data.
|
| [0] https://gitlab.com/lvq-consult/nanosite [1]
| https://gitlab.com/lvq-consult/spatium/spatium-cli [2]
| https://gitlab.com/lvq-consult/spatium/spatium-db
| brentroose wrote:
| I've made a Dutch podcast about my first five years being a
| professional programmer at a web agency: clients were blatantly
| lied to, colleagues were pressured into doing all kinds of
| unethical stuff, I considered quitting programming altogether
| after a couple of years -- it was a wild ride
|
| I made it into a podcast because I wanted to practice my editing
| skills, but it was also kind of therapeutic being able to talk
| about all this. So I don't care whether there's a huge audience.
| Creating the podcast was a goal in itself, which I achieved :)
|
| If you're Dutch and want to give it a listen, here you go:
| https://stitcher.io/de-job
| rufname wrote:
| I built a game called Angularis, which is similar to Tetris, but
| based on triangles instead of squares. The new part is that it
| also allows and encourages diagonal movements.
|
| https://angularis.mondaybits.com
| tylerben wrote:
| Have two of these labor of love, don't really care if it takes
| off types of projects right now.
|
| First is Sonic Postcards - a digital postcard and playlist of my
| favorite music for the week. Pretty much doing it as an excuse to
| find new music, learn about the artists, and keep a writing habit
| going.
|
| https://www.sonicpostcards.io/
|
| Second is Streamster. OSS lib designed to make working with
| natural resource related APIs easier. Main goal being to provide
| an easier way to get the data and have it returned in a more
| consistent format. Allow devs to leverage the data and not spend
| all their mental bandwidth wrangling with it.
|
| https://github.com/streamster/streamster
| setgree wrote:
| I'm 53,000 words into a Harry Potter fanfic that fixed some
| issues I had with the seventh book. Basically, I object to how
| little the main characters 'play to win.'
|
| Example: Team Voldemort taboos his name, so that if you say it,
| his goons show up to arrest you. So everyone tries to stop saying
| his name. But here's another idea. One person says his name while
| another hides nearby. After saying the name, the first person
| disappears, and then whoever shows up, the second person shoots
| them. Like, with a gun -- a magical gun, if you want! Do that as
| many times as it takes until there are no more Death Eaters.
|
| You get a very different book with characters who think like
| that, and it's been a lot of fun to write.
|
| EDIT: link, in case this is your thing:
| https://archiveofourown.org/works/8180098 caveat that I have very
| uneven abilities as a fiction writer
| not1ofU wrote:
| Whenever anyone mentions Harry Potter I always think of this:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8shqjr6O8
|
| Stewart Lee is not everyones cup of tea however.
| ShortStretto wrote:
| Mind linking this fanfic? Sounds interesting.
| setgree wrote:
| Edited OP to include it :)
| ShortStretto wrote:
| Thanks!
| rohit89 wrote:
| One thing that bothered me a lot in that book was the trio
| hiding out in the wilderness scrounging for food. They could do
| magic! How hard was it to sneak into a muggle supermarket and
| steal some food?! Or lie low at some pre-arranged safe houses?
| Could have had Dobby bring supplies.
|
| I don't know how effective Taboo ambush tactics would be in the
| long run but not finishing off death eaters and letting them
| respawn was definitely a bad move tactically. Should have
| atleast dumped them all in a fidelius charmed warehouse or
| something in a Stunned state.
| setgree wrote:
| Yeah, so basically the joy of writing the book was imagining
| the cycle of tactics/counter-tactics that my stratagems would
| engender.
| pdyc wrote:
| https://github.com/newbeelearn/sserver , i don't care as i am
| using it myself and happy with it :)
| BrokrnAlgorithm wrote:
| I'm working on a real-time gpu accelerated 3d visualizer for high
| frequency market Exchange data.
|
| There's no practical use case for it except that it looks cool. I
| don't plan on making it useful either, instead I'm gonna
| implement all kinds of awesome looking but useless eye candy
| stuff. But it's a good excuse for a quant to get into graphics
| programming.
| Lapsa wrote:
| dude, I want that! is it open source? i can haz it?
| BrokrnAlgorithm wrote:
| I'll most likely open source it once it's refactored properly
| and I have a chance to show it off :)
|
| Right now it's not looking as fancy as it could, i've been
| focusing more on optimizing the render engine for speed and
| not much yet on fancy shaders and such.
|
| But I want to move away from OpenGL towards vulkan at which
| point I'll most likely publish the code.
| Laura69 wrote:
| mauvehaus wrote:
| I ginned up some python to generate an SVG file for a bevel
| setting gauge[0]. The code is ugly, and the SVG file doesn't
| render correctly except in a browser and Corel Draw, and that's
| ok, because that's all I need it to do to drive the laser cutter.
|
| I'll throw it up on GitHub under WTFPL if I ever get an afternoon
| to comment it and write a readme.md for the benefit of anybody
| misfortunate enough to stumble across it in the future.
|
| I might also add the option to do a lefty or righty gauge. It's
| identical in outcome, but I could see it being more ergonomic.
|
| [0] Just like this one:
| https://lostartpress.com/collections/tools/products/bevel-mo....
| I'd have probably bought one if they hadn't mentioned lasering
| them. Since I have access to a laser, I figured why not brush off
| the old programming skills. For the record, I'd have come out
| ahead buying one.
| treespace8 wrote:
| I have been running a small site at a slight loss for the past 15
| years.
|
| After spending a day in meetings dealing with architecture
| astronauts poking holes and questioning the quality of my work,
| it's nice to have positive real world feedback.
| highcode1 wrote:
| I built https://impactinsta.com - it's a SAAS for a skill
| assessment approach that is good for both companies and
| candidates.
|
| It was built out of frustration with how time consuming and
| tricky current tech hiring process is.
|
| I built it for fun, especially to enjoy all engineering thrill as
| documented here: https://ksh7.github.io/super-engineer
|
| I don't care if it's success or failure. It's been fun building
| it and running it till now.
| in_trag wrote:
| Highly impressive for a fun project. It can turn into a serious
| thing if executed well. Kudos!
| didizaja wrote:
| I made a Firefox web extension [0] that makes it relatively easy
| to extract and download references from Wikipedia pages. I call
| it Wikiref.
|
| I made it to scratch my own itch mostly, as I'd often visit
| Wikipedia pages and find myself wanting to save multiple
| references (text and links included), but didn't want to manually
| copy + paste all the little details.
|
| EDIT: I think at one point, when I was close to releasing the
| initial version, I really _did_ care about whether or not it
| "succeeded" (as judged by how many people used it), and I tried
| to write the code/docs to make the project as easy to use as
| possible. But then I realized it's a bit niche, and I was just
| happy with the fact I made it. There are still multiple
| improvements to make, but I'm currently focused on a different
| project.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/zaataylor/wikiref
| dangerface wrote:
| I make video games, I don't play them no one does they aren't
| very fun but making them is a lot of fun.
| darekkay wrote:
| Most of the projects I do are because they are useful to myself.
| I'm happy if other people find them useful, but I don't depend on
| them becoming successful.
|
| ---
|
| https://github.com/darekkay/dashboard
|
| Customizable personal dashboard and startpage. I have a pinned
| Firefox tab that I check daily to get a quick overview of some
| areas I find important.
|
| ---
|
| https://github.com/darekkay/static-marks
|
| Shareable bookmarks. I have first built it to maintain a list of
| bookmarks for me and my work colleages. Later I have migrated all
| my personal bookmarks as well. Now I can type "sm" (for static
| marks) in any of my browsers followed by a search term to open
| Static Marks and get to all my bookmarks, filtered by the search
| term.
|
| ---
|
| https://github.com/darekkay/evaluatory
|
| Web page evaluation with a focus on accessibility. My motivation
| was that my blog previously had a small accessibility issue. I
| didn't catch it, as I've tested only the desktop breakpoint.
| Evaluatory runs axe-core at multiple breakpoints at the same time
| and generates an HTML report.
| bijection wrote:
| I posted this as a show HN a few weeks ago, I maintain a small,
| completely free html/js game. There's no chance of it ever making
| money in its current form, it's just a fun waste of time with a
| few hundred players[0].
|
| [0] https://wallsmash.com
| crummy wrote:
| Ooh, like Holedown in a browser.
| martneumann wrote:
| Loved it! The fun parts of breakout (getting shots trapped
| behind blocks) without the stressful controls!
|
| It's really hard, though. I only survive like 5 shots. If
| theres a wall of 5s coming at me, what can I do?
|
| Still, really cool.
| thom wrote:
| There are 'laser' powerups and bullet powerups. You can use
| the laser to blast through big columns of blocks, and or at
| least weaken them until your shots kill them with bounces. It
| introduces an interesting tension between wanting nice
| horizontal bounces versus wanting to hit as many blocks as
| possible with the laser. Fun stuff.
| fm2606 wrote:
| Is this mentioned somewhere on the page? I was wondering
| what they do.
|
| I commented yesterday but I'll say it again, this is
| awesome.
|
| This entire thread is great and a true inspiration.
| freddref wrote:
| so so good, but yea maybe a bit too hard.. or too hard to get
| good at
| fm2606 wrote:
| This is awesome. Bricks on steriods.
| tomaskafka wrote:
| Wow, thanks! This is an incredible rethinking of breakout, and
| well balanced mechanics :).
|
| My only suggestion would be a button to speed up time in later
| levels (or to do it automatically), it gets a bit tedious
| watching the last 5 balls bouncing around for 15 seconds.
| makeworld wrote:
| Super fun!
| culi wrote:
| A while ago, I found this incredible website:
| https://wilderness.land/
|
| It's basically somebody's web adventures as a map. It's
| inspired me to make my own version with hex tiles. I'm adding
| this to my list of sites :)
| cybarDOTlive wrote:
| Can I see yours, I want to do it too!
| activitypea wrote:
| What is the wall-destroying ray that shoots before the balls
| fly out? It's really fun, but that prefire isn't obvious to me
| :(
| Victerius wrote:
| Fuck, this is hard.
| wilkommen wrote:
| Awesome game
| ihateolives wrote:
| > it's just a fun waste of time with a few hundred players
|
| Few hundred and one. Damn, I should be working instead.
| Sophistifunk wrote:
| This is an interesting mechanic, and I like the Arkanoid+Tetris
| kind of feel, but I have NFI what's going on. Why are there
| lasers? What determines how much lasers there is? What
| determines where the start point will be on the next go? A bit
| of explanation and polish could really make something great
| here.
| thom wrote:
| The ball shaped powerups add more bullets, the rectangle
| shaped powerups increase laser strength. Starting point is
| wherever your first bullet returns.
| jason_zig wrote:
| I run JQBX [1]. I have no plans to monetize it but its cool to
| just have it out there as a thing I made. I really enjoy the
| community and its a cool way to help with music discovery. It's
| also really rewarding to provide a meaning experience for some
| people out there using the web. A nice counterbalance to boring
| enterprise software!
|
| https://www.jqbx.fm
| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| I built a website to help me track my Apple Fitness+ workouts.
| Specifically, I needed several features that Apple doesn't offer
| today:
|
| - A chronological history of the workouts I've completed.
|
| - Notes and like/dislike tracking on the workouts I've completed.
|
| - Real search capabilities to let me find particular types of
| workouts (e.g. filter to yoga workouts and search for "pigeon")
|
| And, if people actually use it, then that'll be a big win,
| because I'd love to be able to see others' thoughts on workouts,
| find out what's popular in a category, etc.
|
| I have an 'invitation only' system in place on the site today to
| help mitigate the risk of spam, but I've been sending out
| invitations to people who sign up pretty much immediately.
|
| https://myworkouts.xyz
|
| p.s. in case anyone's curious about the tech stack: it's a
| completely boring Rails 7 website with a Tailwind-based UI,
| backed by Postgres, and running on Render
| (https://www.render.com).
| FailMore wrote:
| Hey, this looks really cool. Saved!
| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| thanks!
| fraetor wrote:
| Wodscribe is a danish startup doing something similiar.
|
| They use AI to determine what workouts you do, with logging and
| other features.
|
| https://wodscribe.com/
| donbrae wrote:
| Made an HTML5/JS puzzle game: https://www.tripodsgame.com. No
| expectation of it making any money. (That said I do daydream of
| the NYT buying it lol.)
| sarusso wrote:
| Definitely this one: https://github.com/sarusso/Timeseria.
|
| An object-oriented time series processing library without using
| any Pandas or Numpy data structures. It's "my" thing, "my way",
| don't care about the outcome or if someone likes it, just having
| loads of fun working on it :P
| api_or_ipa wrote:
| https://neighbs.us/#/location
|
| Takes your location, and tells you which neighborhood of SF
| you're currently in, as defined by datasf.org, and displays that
| on a map of the city's 117 neighborhoods. Built it just for
| myself, hosted for free on GitHub Pages, and it's been endless
| fun for me to use ever since.
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| I tried to use a SAT solver to take strings like "I am Lord
| Voldemort" and generate human pronounceable permutations such as
| "Tom Marvolo Riddle".
|
| I thought that if I could express permutation generation in
| language that the SAT solver could understand I'd end up with
| something faster than simply generating every permutation and
| checking to see if it is pronounceable.
|
| I can't be sure if I was wrong, or if my implementation sucks,
| but it's halting-problem grade slow
| (https://github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/tomriddle), an utter
| failure.
|
| Despite this, I sent a link to it in an interviewer with the
| message "here's some code I've written, in case you're curious".
| Instead of a coding challenge he just had me give him a tour of
| the code. I got the job (which is a good thing, because I become
| a much worse coder when people are watching me, I'd probably have
| bombed the coding challenge).
| anotherone2 wrote:
| I started and the paused a project of visually mapping every
| corruption case in my country, from small to big, from local to
| national. The premise is that people tend to forget corruption
| cases that drag over long period of time and generally can't
| judge the state of corruption. Therefor the idea is to put all
| the corruption cases and their details on a map, with ability to
| search by party, money involved, companies involved, state of
| judiciary process and so on.
| anotherone2 wrote:
| Just to add, the idea now is to switch to data wrapper that was
| featured the other day.
| tomtomtomtomtom wrote:
| I built tomsplanner.com in 2007/2008 without really knowing if
| there was a need for it. It was just something I would have liked
| to have in my project manager days.
|
| My wife thought it was an excellent idea. I wasn't convinced. But
| I really liked the challenge of building it. It took me two and a
| half years and I reasoned that if it would fail as a business at
| least I would have had some really fun years. I supported the
| thing by occasionally doing some freelance work and living
| frugally.
|
| After launching it in 2009, it turned out lots of people liked
| it. Now 14 years later, it's still a very viable business.
|
| So to all you stubborn and freewheeling people out there, go get
| them! It's great!
|
| Today, in a way, my motivation is still the same. I should focus
| all my attention on marketing, SEO, and promotion. That's where
| more growth, money, and 'success' are to be found, but I just
| want go over the top with the quality of product and customer
| support. Financially probably not the wisest course but "I
| (still) don't care".
| magarnicle wrote:
| A watch face for Fitbits that is themed based on the current
| season of the Western church calendar.
|
| https://gallery.fitbit.com/details/2187c817-4a13-409a-bf6c-8...
|
| At some point I might separately publish the JS library that does
| all the calculations if I can get the code to a less embarrassing
| state.
| blakewatson wrote:
| https://synthwave.live/ - a collection of synthwave mixes on
| YouTube with some specialized functionality on top of embedded
| videos that makes listening to music compilations more
| convenient.
|
| I made this mainly for myself because I was really into synthwave
| compilations at the time and YouTube's playlist functionality
| wasn't getting the job done.
|
| I run the update script every week and fix the occasional bug.
| I'll continue maintaining it because I like using it.
| disqard wrote:
| For the past ~6 years, I've been building and maintaining a
| website for a text-free visual programming language called
| BlockStudio at:
|
| https://www.blockstud.io
|
| The site has < 10 monthly active users on average, but they're
| middle-school (or younger) kids, and some of them have been using
| it for years now! It brings me great joy to work on it in the
| evenings whenever I can make time for it.
|
| [Edited to add an example]
|
| Here's one of the regulars:
|
| https://blockstud.io/profile/15572
| bambax wrote:
| I wrote a book about a historical figure, a (very) bad guy during
| WWII in France. The main character did actually exist but the
| book is a work of fiction, it's a first-person narrative.
|
| Self-published on Amazon this year. It was one of the five
| finalists of the French Amazon Storyteller contest. It currently
| has a rating of 4.3 with 90 reviews. It makes very little money
| but it's exciting to have people read your book.
|
| Tonya Harding, Patrizia Gucci, Anna Delvey (Sorokin)... Bad guys
| (and gals!) are having a moment right now in popular culture. I
| wonder if I should pitch the story to Netflix, but have zero idea
| how. (Also, the book is in French).
| olek wrote:
| Can you share the link? Would love to find out more :-)
| bambax wrote:
| Sure, here it is: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/295155933X/
|
| (It's in French though ;-)
| FriedPickles wrote:
| When you plug a Macbook in with the included two-prong power
| adapter, sometimes it buzzes slightly when you stroke it gently
| (ground loop). Im working with a factory to make a grounded
| duckhead adapter to fix this.
|
| https://ibb.co/P4Bjstg
| user_7832 wrote:
| Hi, could you explain why this happens normally? Isn't the
| output neutral line of the DC charger supposed to be pretty
| much 0/ground anyway? Or is it that the neutral is a few volts
| off the ground?
| FriedPickles wrote:
| I wish I could, but I honestly don't know. All I know for
| sure is that using the ground pin 100% fixes it. If anybody
| on here could explain it, I'd be super grateful!
| zczc wrote:
| There are filtering capacitors between mains and ground,
| see https://www.edaboard.com/threads/capacitors-between-
| power-an...
| jvanderbot wrote:
| That's actually useful.
| maxwellito wrote:
| I was looking for it for ages. Please make a British version as
| well! This is neat!
| FriedPickles wrote:
| Glad you like it! But I thought the UK duckhead already has a
| ground pin?
|
| https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MKU63B/A/67w-usb-c-
| pow...
| maxwellito wrote:
| That's right, but the short version isn't connected to the
| ground. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8594979
| FriedPickles wrote:
| I just found this too. So strange to have a useless prong
| --maybe it's just for mechanical support? IMO if thats
| the case they should make the whole prong plastic to
| indicate its lack of electrical function.
| egeek wrote:
| At least on my older mag safe charger, only 2 pins are
| connected. You can pull off the UK plug and plug in the US
| or EU one, or even just a regular figure 8 lead (not sure
| of the correct name for these!)
|
| Had a few times where I've had to disconnect the charger as
| I could feel an effect like static electricity on the metal
| case of the MacBook.
| FriedPickles wrote:
| Oh wow! Sure enough, the UK adapter _has_ the ground pin,
| but it's not connected to anything .
|
| https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17575/how-to-
| prope...
|
| Alright if I sell any of this North American grounded
| version, I'll make one for y'all across the pond!
| blunte wrote:
| Wow. I had never experienced this until I moved from US to NL.
| It sometimes really bothers (scares?) me. If you have two
| Macbooks side by side, and you touch them both at the same
| time, you can get an even bigger sensation.
|
| Now since you're in this area of expertise, do you think it's
| possible that on rare occasions I could lightly stroke another
| human (let's say in a bed, on a waterbed (water filled rubber
| container)) and feel the same sensation as I feel sometimes
| when I stroke the computer? Could be that both turn me on, but
| I'm pretty sure this was not imagined. It was also rare and
| strong when it happened.
| raverbashing wrote:
| > until I moved from US to NL
|
| So, my guess is you're using the 2 pronged brick (US) plug
| with a US->EU plug adaptor.
| blunte wrote:
| It also happens with EU spec machines and their respective
| EU power supplies. Could be that some of these older homes
| aren't properly grounding some outlets, so regardless of
| what you stick in there, maybe you're not getting a ground.
|
| Despite how dangerous it sounds, I've never heard of anyone
| having a real shock... so I guess it's fine.
| FriedPickles wrote:
| The sensation comes from the Macbook case voltage differing
| from that of ground, and finding a path to ground through
| your body. Sometimes, when you feel the sensation coming from
| the computer, if you lift your feet off the ground the
| sensation stops. This is because you are no longer a path to
| ground.
|
| It's totally possible for this path to ground to go through
| two humans, making it feel like their skin is buzzing! For
| example, if your friend is in bed using a Macbook, they're
| insulated from ground and thus at Macbook case voltage. If
| you stand on the ground beside them and touch them, the
| current now finds a path to ground through both your bodies!
| empressplay wrote:
| This happens to me when I use my MacBook on a bed with an
| electric blanket
| kgin wrote:
| I think this actually will succeed
| austinl wrote:
| I'm writing an "Introduction to programming" book (with Swift,
| but the language isn't very important based on the content).
|
| I'll likely host the web version for free, and then allow folks
| to choose their price if they want a digital version (that
| includes packaged code samples). I don't really mind if ten
| people read it or ten thousand, I just genuinely enjoy working on
| it and hope it will help someone.
| lewisgodowski wrote:
| I work at a consulting firm with 20k people and get a lot of
| restaurant recommendations while traveling. I don't like any of
| the existing methods of managing these recommendations and
| associated data, so I'm building an app that makes it easier for
| me.
|
| I envision the focus to be on the users writing the
| reviews/recommendations (rather than on a restaurant's star
| rating), where users and restaurants are suggested based on how
| well their own recommended and visited restaurants overlap with
| yours. In this way, you would be able to follow other users whose
| taste you trust.
| thenanyu wrote:
| That sounds awesome. I would really love to use something like
| that. If you ever open source it I might be able to contribute
| LinasKo wrote:
| Hello World,
|
| My mom's a textile designer, contracting with large companies,
| but somehow not getting to use any fancy tools they. She says
| design software existd, but it's pretty expensive.
|
| At the core, she's making plaids - a black-and-white pattern (2d
| grid) corresponding to vertical and horizontal threads being
| above one another, and color schemes (2 arrays) for the vertical
| / horizontal strings (in most cases, does not match the size of
| the grid).
|
| So she made her own monstrocity of a pipeline, with Photoshop,
| Plaid Maker (a rather old web app, https://www.plaidmaker.com/),
| screenshots, Excel (for designing stuff - yes!), and an old
| Soviet-era MS-DOS designer program (in Russian, of course).
|
| Throughout uni, I was jokingly saying I'd build a better Plaid
| Maker for her, even if the web is not my area of work. After The
| Great Resignation I figured, why not?
|
| Lots and lots of back-and-forth later, here's the outcome:
| https://plaid-designer.vercel.app/
|
| Note: not for mobile, but should work on a tablet. Privacy: no
| analytics are used, but it does rely on Google Firebase for
| authentication and auto-saving of your designs. Log in to keep
| them permanently; otherwise, they're saved on an anonymous
| account, cleared up once a week or so
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| I love this. I don't know much about plaids but I really really
| really enjoy hearing stories of people replacing DIY, hacky,
| inefficient or simply long and painful pipelines and workflows
| with custom well designed software.
|
| It's always nice to hear how much it helped people and removed
| the problems the previous version had - bonus points if it's
| for a small business or a single person rather than some giant
| enterprise org. I hope one day to actually be able to produce
| software that can benefit people that way. All I seem to do
| recently is write software that gets killed off because
| politics all while dealing with poor quality code from other
| teams and it's really demoralising.
|
| I would love to know if anyone has a site or something where
| these stories are documented!
| catsarebetter wrote:
| I have a blog that I write hshidara.com that I don't care about
| doing well. My mind tends to wander and I have a hard time
| articulating and forming abstract ideas verbally, usually I need
| to write it out in a journal, but this helps me get my thoughts
| even more in order because of the public nature of the content
| creating more social pressure to get it right.
|
| I have a tools section where I make small edge-case tools for
| myself, I host it on Render and use django admin so I can get
| away without having tons of core functionality in my tools.
| Technically they're MVPs that I launch on PH, but they never do
| well, but they're still useful to me and the problems it solves
| in my own life.
|
| But to answer you more seriously, I'm my own "I don't care if
| this succeeds" project. I don't think that I'm particularly smart
| or talented but I'm still young and excitable and exploring my
| own nature through software. Hopefully I'll make something that's
| really valuable to the world one day, but for now I learn, build,
| meet new people, fail, and grow. And that makes me happy.
| animesh wrote:
| > I'm my own "I don't care if this succeeds" project.
|
| It is like you are me. I came to a similar conclusion
| independently. Whatever I do doesn't need to "succeed".
|
| The only think I push myself is to build and build. Meet new
| people and hope it opens new doors.
| coffeefirst wrote:
| At this point I absolutely don't want my personal blog to
| "succeed." I don't want attention, or fame, or any of the
| shenanigans that come along with a large following. If it ever
| achieved these things I'd probably delete it.
|
| Building stuff just for yourself is underrated.
| sundarurfriend wrote:
| It would be ironic if you followed that comment with a link
| to the blog :D
| coffeefirst wrote:
| Yes but if I did that I'd need to perfect the absurdity by
| adding an aggressive "sign up for my newsletter" lightbox,
| and that's a line I can't cross.
| fredleblanc wrote:
| I've been making mint-tin tabletop games. I'm aiming for a new
| game every other month. Being a web person for like 20 years now,
| everything I make disappears in months-to-years. As someone I
| worked with once described it, we're digital ice sculptors.
|
| So as a change of pace, physical games! I've released 2 so far,
| next one coming in March.
|
| One is a set-collection competition called Come to Call where
| players are royal PR people. You're trying to win the favor of
| rich patrons without seeming too desperate. Your goal is to send
| the least interest delegate that will still steal the show. It's
| a game of kings, queens, fools, and way too many butlers.
|
| The second game is a push-your-luck dice-rolling egg hunt called
| Egg Roll! You've only got time to make 6 stops to find eggs. Roll
| the dice to find eggs. If you find some, you can move those to
| safety or roll to find more. Find nothing and score nothing for
| the round instead. Works well with kids and adults alike! And
| comes with 6 variants to change the game up.
|
| You can see both at my little corner of the web,
| https://fredandfun.com
|
| If you use the coupon codes on my site, I make less than 50C/ per
| game sold. I'll never recover what I spent on art. But I dob't
| care. As long as someone anywhere has fun with either of them,
| it's all worthwhile.
| scoofy wrote:
| I'm building a golf course wiki: https://golfcourse.wiki/
|
| It's stupid that there is no centralized database of detailed
| golf course information. People love their local munis, but they
| never get enough attention because there is no marketing dept for
| a municipal golf course. Jr golfers shouldn't have to pay
| hundreds of dollars for yardage books to compete on the same
| level. On top of that, the number of golf courses that even exist
| is shockingly low.
|
| Using SVGs, now supported in all browsers, the course
| maps/yardage maps can be easily be editable (especially once I
| build an in browser editor).
|
| This is a website that should obviously exist and i will keep
| building it and adding courses i've played, alone, by myself,
| until the day i die.
| jvanderbot wrote:
| Everything.
|
| - A Highfleet ship optimizer (Highfleet is a fun game where you
| build ships to wage a pirate / rogue state coup de etat)
|
| - Hypothesis testing tools for my Hunt Showdown matches to
| determine optimal loadouts https://github.com/jodavaho/kda-tools
|
| - A portable, private, roam-enabled dynamic dns service.
|
| And tons of other stuff at https://aenac.dev
| caffeine wrote:
| Just curious - why does not caring about it matter? Is there
| something special about not caring for a project that makes it
| more interesting? Not a snarky question, genuinely wanting to
| understand.
| JNRowe wrote:
| I think you're reading part of the description in a slightly
| stronger way than intended. Not strictly "don't care what
| happens", but more that chasing a unicorn exit isn't the only
| criteria for happiness from the result. Perhaps, "passion
| project" or similar could have been a better description.
|
| Then again the whole thing is nebulous, and we can clearly see
| that people are reading and treating the question in their own
| way. I actually think that is what I liked about the
| description in the original post, it meant we saw the full
| range of really odd things and -- if we're honest -- a little
| cheeky grifting too ;)
| lucas03 wrote:
| For me it's easy. I've been working on it for past 8 years, as it
| started as a school project and I have been slowly extending it.
| Why I don't care if it makes money? I keep the costs low. Why I
| don't care if it won't get attention? Hmm, I guess I do, positive
| feedback is always nice to hear. But I would be working on it
| even if nobody else would be using it, as I use it myself and I
| find it helpful for planning my future. Oh, it's digrin.com,
| portfolio manager for dividends.
| Rinum wrote:
| SQL Card Game - https://rowsandtables.com
|
| I made it to teach some kids, including my own. I've got it up
| for sale with $0 marketing budget. If it sells then that's great,
| if not then that's okay too.
| joegibbs wrote:
| I've been making a proper survival strategy game. I made a few
| games before but they were only about a week's worth of work
| each, so I don't count them as "proper".
|
| This time I wanted to make a full-on project with professionally-
| done models, art, music etc. It's a reverse of the 4X formula -
| rather than starting as a small country and becoming a vast
| empire over the course of the game you start off heading a vast
| empire that's on the brink of collapse and you've got to try and
| prevent that from happening as long as you can.
|
| I've never run a project with this kind of scope - I've been on
| them but when you're actually making the decisions it's a real
| change in perspective.
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/1830290/Fall_of_an_Empire...
| cure wrote:
| > you start off heading a vast empire that's on the brink of
| collapse and you've got to try and prevent that from happening
| as long as you can.
|
| Neat. Reminds me of some of the scenarios in the old Simcity
| where you became mayor of a big city with _issues_ and had to
| turn the ship around.
| mhaberl wrote:
| I really like the idea and the art looks good.
|
| You have set the release date to Nov, 2022 - when did you start
| working on it i.e. how much time is needed for a game like
| this?
|
| Also, how much expirience have you had with UE or any other
| game engine before starting this project?
|
| Do you do everything by yourself (art, music etc.) or do you
| buy / use free stuff from someone else?
| joegibbs wrote:
| Thank you! I started in July of 2020 with just the map and no
| mechanics, and worked on it intermittently until about 6
| months ago when I decided to put some actual work into it.
|
| November is the release date because if I don't set one I'll
| be more likely to get sidetracked, so I wanted to be concrete
| about it.
|
| I didn't have that much experience with UE, I'd played around
| a bit in school and uni but I didn't make anything
| substantial with it, and I did the same in Unity. Everything
| is custom-made for the game except for a save game system,
| since UE's save game stuff works well for smaller-scale
| projects but kind of breaks down when you've got to save
| hundreds of cities, armies, etc.
|
| I did the environment and static assets by myself, but I'm no
| good at illustration or music and I got some great artists to
| do that instead of me.
| maxencecornet wrote:
| What is the tech stack behind a strategy game like this ?
| joegibbs wrote:
| It's all done in Unreal Engine 4, which is great because you
| don't need to worry so much about all the cross-platform
| stuff. The assets are done in Gaea for terrain, Blender for
| models, Illustrator for icons and Photoshop for some more
| texture work
| yazan94 wrote:
| Wow, the premise of the game sounds really cool! Do you plan on
| adding a multiplayer mode to the game? Me and some friends have
| been on the hunt for a new fun mp strategy game for a while
| joegibbs wrote:
| Multiplayer is something I'd probably add post release, I
| think it would be hard to implement for the strategic world
| map since the factions are so asymmetrical. If I was going to
| add it in, it would probably have to be just the tactical
| battle map.
| blunte wrote:
| The title image is so reminiscent of Age of Empires ;). No harm
| there. Is it safe to assume that AoE series was an influence?
|
| As it appears to be targeted only for Windows, I will not be
| able to try it (on Mac). But the premise sounds good and pretty
| unique!
|
| Best of luck with it.
| joegibbs wrote:
| Thank you! Yeah absolutely it was influenced by AoE, more in
| a thematic sense rather than the gameplay which is more
| influenced by grand strategies and Total War.
|
| Come to think of it, there's really no reason I can't release
| it on Mac since it's Unreal Engine, apart from me not owning
| a new model that can run it. If the game's a success
| (hopefully!) it would definitely be worth getting one so I
| can build for it.
| folli wrote:
| >If the game's a success (hopefully!)
|
| Title of the thread: "I don't care if this succeeds"
|
| ;) Anyway, best of luck, the idea sounds awesome! I've
| added the game to my steam list.
| blunte wrote:
| Based on the spec requirements listed in the Steam store, I
| think you should be able to target 8 or 16GB M1 Macbook
| Airs. Everything else is above that. And targeting Intel
| Macs is pointless.
|
| An M1 Air is $1200ish. So it shouldn't be a burden assuming
| you have outside income and desire :).
|
| Good luck!
| joegibbs wrote:
| $1200 isn't bad! You've convinced me, I'm releasing it
| for Mac.
| voldacar wrote:
| I like the terrain rendering. Is that a prepackaged thing or
| did you write it yourself?
| joegibbs wrote:
| It's a custom material (since I'm using UE4) - there's small
| detail (grass, snow, sand etc) with their own normal maps,
| and that's all filtered to break up tiling and applied to the
| terrain.
|
| The other part is the macro-level stuff that you see more of
| when you're zoomed out. I did the landscape using Quadspinner
| Gaea to simulate erosion based on a heightmap I drew with the
| basic shapes I wanted. Gaea lets me do a colour map based on
| terrain features, which I added on top of the small detail,
| and an 8K normal map which I blend with the detail normals
| based on the distance to the camera. The normal map adds a
| lot of little hills and valleys that are normally invisible
| since they're only small variations in the height map.
| ivalm wrote:
| Wait, can you win/expand or is the demise inevitable?
| joegibbs wrote:
| You can't expand or capture any new cities, but you can still
| win since the win condition is based around completing the
| storyline and surviving longer is how you progress in the
| story.
| Myrmornis wrote:
| https://trogon.onrender.com
|
| Generate an audio or photo bird-identification quiz for the
| species at any location in the world. (Click on "Help")
| tpoacher wrote:
| A nice terminal-based ticketing system.
| https://github.com/tpapastylianou/bashtickets
|
| v2 on master is as simple as it gets, but still incredibly
| functional; my team is dogfooding the hell out of it at work.
|
| v3 on the "commandbased" branch is a total rehaul on the works,
| hoping to make this a more traditional/complete package, with a
| command-based interface (i.e. similar to how git works)
| shakezula wrote:
| This is amazing. I've wanted a system like this for so long.
| tpoacher wrote:
| glad to hear it!
|
| this is giving me the motivation to keep going with the
| command based version :)
| shhra wrote:
| _wldu wrote:
| https://gen.go350.com/login
|
| https://github.com/62726164/ed25519-login
|
| I built a website that uses public Ed25519 keys for user
| authentication (rather than passwords). Users sign the current
| Unix Epoch time (with the private Ed25519 key) and paste that
| base64 encoded signature into the login form.
|
| I don't care if the idea succeeds or not, I use it for myself. I
| like simple, secure things and I feel webauthn is too complex.
| ronsor wrote:
| For extra security, the website should generate an extra nonce
| to go with the current time, otherwise there's a window where
| the signature could be reused to login again (maybe to another
| site).
| _wldu wrote:
| A signature cannot be reused. It's only good for 60 seconds
| and once used may never be re-used because I do not allow
| that. Register for an account and try to submit the same
| signature more than once.
|
| I understand replay attacks. I don't allow that to happen.
| heavenlyblue wrote:
| Is that supported by any password managers? :)
| _wldu wrote:
| No, but it would be trivial to implement that into existing
| ones. But since it's not a password, it doesn't seem like a
| good fit.
| derefnull wrote:
| Cool! I have implemented a similar workflow (certificate
| signatures as authentication) for some backend processes. No
| public write up currently. Certificate based authentication
| usage will only increase with time, imho
| meigwilym wrote:
| For a bit of fun, I've built a (poor) Wordle solution stack
| generator. It just creates a solution stack from green, yellow
| and black tiles so that lazy people can copy and paste and keep
| up with the wordling Joneses.
|
| I really need to work on how it generates though.
| Charlieholtz wrote:
| I built a satirical social network called shlinkedin. It started
| as a way for me to learn elixir and make fun of thought
| leadership with my roommate, and has gradually gotten bigger.
| It's all open source and a ton of fun to work on. Everyone is an
| alter ego (think Beff Jezos or Office Spider), and it's hilarious
| to see how much people commit to the characters they create. And
| I can't say enough good things about working with elixir /
| phoenix liveview. Definitely a steep learning curve for me (I'd
| never used a functional language before), but payoff is huge.
|
| https://www.shlinkedin.com
| shrubby wrote:
| Thanks, had a blast there for a while. Nice alternative to
| trolling in LinkedIn, which I've done as well. A crapton of
| stiffies in the latter one.
| gcampos wrote:
| Love shlinkedin and I think you have a shoot of making it
| successful. Not "the next Google" kind of successful, but could
| be at least a life style business.
| mocmoc wrote:
| I love it and the people that I have share it with loved too
| throwawayHN378 wrote:
| Aaaaaaaand you're sued
| sizzle wrote:
| Love the hilarious emoji post options: chili, glass of milk,
| slap
| tomcat27 wrote:
| jacob_rezi wrote:
| Shlinkedin is the best. Still yet to use our software tho :(
| jvanderbot wrote:
| HN hug of death. And well deserved, I had a great time with
| this one.
| wsinks wrote:
| I was SO CLOSE to finishing the tale about the Officer Spider
| who ended up free his former employee of his biggest
| constraint, TIME, but... then it crashed. I really want to
| finish that story!
| Charlieholtz wrote:
| Damn! Sorry about that. I'm upping the servers right now.
| Can't wait to hear the end of this inspirational tale :)
| josefrichter wrote:
| I'd be curious to hear what went wrong and took the
| server down. Elixir apps usually handle these traffic
| spikes just fine.
| jtmarmon wrote:
| Should've built it in elixir, I heard it's webscale
| 0wx wrote:
| That's sound interesting, I wish the website up soon
| otherwise I'll just forget and moving on with my day.
| melony wrote:
| Isn't elixir supposed to scale better than this?
| trutannus wrote:
| Elixir probably isn't the bottleneck. The VPS instance
| itself, and whatever server they're using there, probably
| bit the dust.
| Charlieholtz wrote:
| yeah so I'm seeing a ton of "(Postgrex.Error) FATAL 53300
| (too_many_connections) remaining connection slots are
| reserved for non-replication superuser connections", which
| I'm guessing means the pool size is too small? Although
| I've tried upping that, CPU, and memory, and none have
| seemed to fix it. My devops skills still aren't great so if
| anyone has any ideas on how to help, let me know!
|
| This might be a good opportunity to change the server to
| try out fly.io
| dbetteridge wrote:
| Pgbouncer is your friend for postgres dB's with lots of
| client connections.
|
| Larger pool size only helps if they're freed up quicker
| than they are used.
| VVVExobyte wrote:
| tormeh wrote:
| BEAM is not fast. You're probably going to get better
| performance with Node.js. It is however really really low-
| latency. But that doesn't help with handling load. Anyway,
| even so I'd guess bandwidth or the database is the issue.
| exikyut wrote:
| > BEAM is not fast
|
| > It is however really really low latency
|
| I've been interested in Erlang for a while, and reading
| this is intriguing. Taken literally the above makes no
| sense :) but it also kind of... does, sort of, and I
| would like to understand how this works.
| tormeh wrote:
| There's often a tradeoff between latency and throughput.
| Think GC algorithms or IO buffers. The Erlang project has
| historically chosen the far left end of this spectrum.
| They also haven't cared about numerical performance at
| all, delegating that to C code.
| exikyut wrote:
| Ooooh, burst response as opposed to flat-out super tight
| hot loops.
|
| That honestly makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
| meowtimemania wrote:
| Probably too many queries to the database.
| zlib wrote:
| I'm also starting to learn elixir/phoenix liveview and seeing
| shlinkedin's code is a great help for figuring out how you've
| done certain things, thanks!
| nicbou wrote:
| I've seen it before. It's hilarious
| agentultra wrote:
| https://github.com/agentultra/adventure-engine
|
| It's an interactive fiction game engine built in Haskell. It's
| still in development which I've been doing on my stream [0]
| purely for fun and to show what it's like working on a non-
| trivial Haskell project.
|
| It has a UI built using a library called monomer and some basic
| interactivity. The plan is to build it up to a workable engine
| with decent authoring tools to make simple games with.
|
| [0] https://twitch.tv/agentultra
| DictumMortuum wrote:
| https://stats.dictummortuum.com/#/prices/
|
| I'm doing some work on a website that compares boardgame prices.
| I scrape about 10 boardgame stores in Greece and save them in a
| database that I've got in a raspberry pi. Then I try to associate
| the listings with games that are on boardgamegeek.com and then I
| put them online.
|
| This has a couple of interesting problems. E.g. scraping data,
| associating scraped data to a basepoint, so that I can group them
| with the data from other stores, how to save the data in a
| website that is basically serverless, etc.
| ghotli wrote:
| I have a lot of software written, basically just for me but with
| a bit of work it could be a thing. The core feature is burning
| through digital lists one item at a time but with as little
| interaction with a computer as possible.
|
| Data only push notification -> text to speech to bone conduction
| headphones (or really any headphones). Tells me the current task.
| Two buttons on my wrist. One is next task, one is "toggle repeat
| mode". I have voice actions that load specific lists or any of
| the other things I want it to do. Basically all manner of
| software exists in varying forms for working on basically every
| native user interface I interact with. Global hotkeys, system
| tray icons, background services, etc etc.
|
| The cli, custom launcher, watch software, and the chrome /
| firefox new tab extension get the most use. Small feature set
| makes "software for everything" realistic. "See/hear current list
| item", "Next task", "toggle repeat" -- I treat it as a way to
| learn things, but I also use it absolutely every day. I like to
| act like when I inevitably develop cognitive issues in my old age
| that this will be a useful utility to have.
|
| When I make a very detailed list for the day and burn it all down
| by just listening to what I'm supposed to do and tapping a button
| on my wrist for the next thing, I feel far far more productive
| than my baseline just due to not context switching. Put up the
| blinders, get in the zone, stay in the zone. :)
| caleb-allen wrote:
| Wow, this sounds really cool!
|
| What is the main way you create/edit the list items? Is it
| manual, automated, etc?
|
| Could you describe the way you use it to learn new things?
|
| I really like the philosophy behind this--seems quite elegant
| ghotli wrote:
| Thanks! Most of the "how" is shared in another reply. Really
| it's just an array of strings that keeps a cursor (and
| technically a stack for interruptions that pop off before
| returning to the cursor in the list). So posting a fresh list
| to the service that runs it is a common use case. Loading
| saved lists, routines, some things have state machines that
| inform task creation but that complexity I wax and wane
| finding all that useful.
|
| The book "the checklist manifesto" informed some of this
| philosophy behind the tool(s). To learn new things
| specifically is spaced repetition and keeping a backlog of
| things to dig into. One practice that has stuck is a list of
| reminders / active ongoing things that I burn through when
| making a hotlist. If I'm good I'll actually do what I load,
| if I'm not I'll load it with good intentions and skip things
| or take it out as the day gets hectic. Nothing really more
| than you'd do without the one item at a time system.
|
| It's all a work in progress and malleable since it's
| exclusively mine. If I come up with a better way then maybe
| that's what it will morph into.
| ghotli wrote:
| Actually, there's the other aspect of "learning things"
| which is if I want software to do something I just build it
| and usually I've never done it before. The elisp emacs
| functions, the Android launcher, the swift taskbar menu
| thing, global hotkeys on windows in c++, data only push
| notifications, background services on all the things. Just
| a good excuse to roll up my sleeves and get some code
| written for something I otherwise have no business digging
| into. It's fun and keeps me well rounded.
| ghostly_s wrote:
| Having a hard time understanding what you're describing. So you
| use it as a to-do list? There's no way to address the items in
| a different order?
| ghotli wrote:
| Well sure there is, alter the original list and load it
| again. Since I have exactly one customer, me, I've just
| dogfooded this. Written lists or something in an app or an
| editor are far more natural than anything I'd cook up /
| reinventing that wheel.
|
| Most commonly I just get to inbox zero, stack rank what needs
| to occur in what order, then make a precise step by step
| list. The process of making a punch list of actions in order
| I find useful for thinking things through. Then it's just
| load and execute it based on what's described above. Pull the
| next task one at a time like a short order cook.
|
| Loading the punch list is usually just some editor plugin or
| something native that catches shared text / intent recievers.
| In emacs, vscode, google keep, obsidian I just highlight text
| and hit a hotkey to load it. Or skip the highlight and just
| share / load the whole buffer. Rinse, repeat.
| adamhp wrote:
| I built a small application that lets you put together travel
| guides for your friends. Very MVP at the moment, but I got it out
| the door for once. No landing page, "start your trial" doesn't
| actually make you pay anything, I just forgot to change the text.
|
| https://tripmix.io
| ngburke wrote:
| https://fortunesrise.com
|
| I have been working on this investment tracker for the past 3+
| years. What started as a set of spreadsheets and python scripts
| has slowly evolved as my daily driver for keeping tabs on my
| investments across many asset classes.
|
| Of course, I took the time to productize it, but at the end of
| the day whether I find people who resonate with the product or
| not, I'm happy to continue refining it. My ultimate goal is to
| never have to go to other sites or use other means (notes,
| financial news sites, watchlists, etc.) for keeping tabs on my
| stocks, crypto, real estate - the total picture.
|
| Feel free to pop on over and give the free trial a spin, love to
| hear any and all feedback from those who resonate!
| voidfunc wrote:
| Pretty much anything I do for my employer. Ill make sure it works
| and is high quality but I am well past the stage of my career
| where I am emotionally invested in any of this crap.
| dataspun wrote:
| Funny. Industry? Just curious.
| [deleted]
| titoasty wrote:
| I launched a stupid game last week: Let It Slide. (if you like
| Altf4/getting over it/painful games)
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778910/Let_It_Slide/
|
| It was my first entirely finished project: gameplay, 2d elements,
| sounds, musics (but not 3d). I'm just proud I finished this
| project, having a tendency to get bored extremely easily and only
| motivated by new stuffs (oh a bird!)
| bagels wrote:
| The aesthetic is very reminiscent of Lovely Planet. Looks fun!
| titoasty wrote:
| Thanks! Oh yes it's cute, this is the kind of aesthetic I
| aimed for, to counterbalance the pain of playing with
| cuteness. When I read this, I realize I'm a monster.
| notuger wrote:
| are you a NL fan? kind of game that he likes. Only have a mac
| right now but the game looks great!
| titoasty wrote:
| NL? Sorry I'm uneducated :)
|
| Yeah no Mac version because I don't have a Mac to compile and
| try it.. :'( (maybe a Linux version coming later)
| viceroyalbean wrote:
| I believe they're referring to the streamer/youtuber
| Northernlion
| titoasty wrote:
| Ooh yes, Northern lion could definitely rage on this. I
| should shoot him an email..
| mindcrime wrote:
| Pretty much all of my "side project" stuff falls into this
| category in a sense (the sense where "success" means something
| about "making money").
|
| Some of these things I work on with the _hope_ of making money
| off of them someday, while others I never really had any
| financial interest in to begin with. But in either case, I really
| look at the true value of the projects as being the lessons I
| learn and the knowledge I gain from working on them.
|
| In the end, I figure I learn something from everything I work on,
| so in the sense that learning is the real goal, all of my
| projects are ultimately a success to some extent. It's only a
| question of degree.
| mamcx wrote:
| I'm building a _spiritual_ successor of the dBase /FoxPro family
| of languages with modern ideas, what I hope become a better
| alternative to Access/Excel (so, not just the base lang, but the
| UI builder + Data engine. Just asking little things, you know):
|
| https://tablam.org
|
| Is both true that I wish to have the means to work on it
| full/half-time and doing for pure enjoyment when I have time.
| yellow24 wrote:
| I am working on a project called VoterScore where we are
| collecting all state legislation and allowing people to vote on
| Bills similar to legislators. Users can then compare how their
| votes align with legislators in their state.
|
| You can view it at voterscore.org but the front end needs some
| cleaning up.
| gavreh wrote:
| Website to visualize the open data for my local airport:
| https://stlairportdata.com/
| motyar wrote:
| Building https://bruzu.com
|
| Currently at 100+ MRR but I don't care much about it.
|
| I ll keep working on it even no-one would buy, because I love
| this project so much.
| quantumite wrote:
| This is awesome. I will likely never use it but, I can
| definitely appreciate the effort that went into this. Great
| example of a side gig/hustle/project!
| motyar wrote:
| Thanks
| kromem wrote:
| I found a psych study about how vulnerable narcissists use more
| first person pronouns in their writing, and applied that to the
| Epistles in the New Testament to determine Pauline authorship
| (Paul has always struck me as a vulnerable narcissist).
|
| Amazing result. Very distinct clusters on relative usage between
| the undisputed non-Pauline letters (John, Peter, etc) and the
| undisputed Pauline letters.
|
| Almost all the disputed letters fall in the non-Pauline cluster.
| Only 2 Timothy falls within the Pauline cluster, and does so
| smack dab in the middle of it.
|
| Currently debating formatting the results for peer review (which
| probably won't publish for a year at least) or just creating a
| post with pretty graphs.
|
| As an aside, the whole "can't have published preprint elsewhere
| and can't submit to multiple journals" submission policies at
| academic journals is dumb.
| faxmeyourcode wrote:
| I vote graphs, this sounds really interesting!
| throwaway984393 wrote:
| I wouldn't bother with journals unless you really need it on
| your resume to get a research gig
| mfi wrote:
| Here are three hobby projects I've worked on during the last 2
| years. I've written extensive guides for all of them:
|
| https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-CNC-machine A CNC-machine I
| built using 40x 3d-printed parts.
|
| https://github.com/maxvfischer/Arthur An AI art installation
| using a GAN network, Samsung The Frame, a button and a PIR-
| sensor.
|
| https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-arcade A full-size Arcade
| Machine.
| bfbelmont wrote:
| https://character.place I started it to use in my Starfinder
| game, but I think too many character sheet creators / storage
| systems are too complicated.
| seirim wrote:
| Hmm, my clone of Hacker News but focused on Cybersecurity:
| https://cyber.report/
| shrimp_emoji wrote:
| Every one of my projects :)
| superfamicom wrote:
| I made a website to listen to Super Nintendo / Super Famicom
| music emulated in the browser. It was a great way to learn about
| Emscripten. Not sure what it would succeed at other than being
| popular, and I can assure you it is not.
|
| https://sfc.fm/
| nja wrote:
| I love this! Wonder if it would be possible to make something
| similar for other consoles (I'm thinking Game Boy?)
| naikrovek wrote:
| https://mmontag.github.io/chip-player-js/
|
| try that one.
|
| edit: oof no game boy, but I'll leave this in case anyone
| doesn't know about it.
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| That's awesome! SPC is an impressive music format, and music
| artists on the SNES pushed it to its limits.
|
| Also, props for the great Twitter handle.
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| This is so amazing. Thank you.
| shmde wrote:
| Nintendo lawyers shitting their pants furiously while typing
| out a cease and desist letter and issuing a takedown notice to
| your website hosting.
| superfamicom wrote:
| I've been waiting on this for decades. I think the not being
| popular is helping out on this front. Also that it only ever
| costs money and never makes any really helps.
| minhmeoke wrote:
| This is great!
|
| Some fans of Super Mario World also created a playlist of
| remastered soundtracks:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxKTbcs1t7M&list=PLD-vbw8Jmu...
|
| More info here:
| https://twitter.com/lebrickster/status/1356013269513863171
|
| Super Guitar Bros. also have some excellent covers of classic
| console music:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE89o33fqz4&list=OLAK5uy_nL7...
|
| I discovered these while creating visualizations of music
| transformed into the frequency domain using Fourier transform
| which you can watch here:
|
| Frequency Visualization: Super Guitar Bros. cover of Athletic
| (Super Mario World theme song)
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJUxzOP2fzs&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
|
| Frequency Visualization: Super Guitar Bros. cover of the Gerudo
| Valley song (from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXVbDfj4lzY&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
| dm13450 wrote:
| https://cryptoliquiditymetrics.com/
|
| Started as a way for me to learn some Javascript and get an
| overview of execution metrics for myself. Found it easy enough to
| host with Netlify, so might as well make it public!
| aditgupta wrote:
| I made a simple iOS app for designers called as UX Assist. It has
| been around for 6 years now. I'm just happy that it's out there
| and helping some folks now and then. [UX
| Assist](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/ux-assist/id1491649877)
| dimitar wrote:
| There is a company registered that commits the following mobile
| ads fraud:
|
| * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting
| small children and clients of a particular carrier
|
| * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you
| are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small
| fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a
| chrome window open and close.
|
| * If you extract the link from your chrome history and visit it
| again on your computer it looks like a benign form, with terms of
| use and you need to click at least twice to subscribe.
|
| Now these guys will actually return you the money if you bother
| to find them and ask it back. They will appear really legitimate
| as the fraud is difficult to reproduce, and the bet is that they
| steal a relatively small amount of money and it's possible not
| everyone notices it on time. Worse I'm sure many parents will
| blame their kids.
|
| The awful thing is that this scheme wouldn't be possible without
| Google and the mobile carrier. I actually had DCB disabled
| because I knew the problem exists, but the carrier had reenabled
| it without my knowledge. I clicked a link by mistake when I was
| choosing a video for my kid and got charged.
|
| My project is to research a possible way to reliably reproduce
| their fraud so I can report it to the authorities. I know for
| sure they don't have the means to properly investigate it..
| ovi256 wrote:
| This happened to me, in France, through the Orange mobile
| carrier, around 2018. They've reimbursed me without issue.
|
| I consider myself savvy, use an adblocker and don't click on
| obvious frauds. Yet it happened.
| dimitar wrote:
| That's what hurt my pride, not gonna lie. Plus its angering
| they are targeting children with this.
| Tepix wrote:
| Interesting! I bet you do care if this succeeds though.
| dimitar wrote:
| Well, I'm not betting anything on it..
| williamtrask wrote:
| Thank you
| danuker wrote:
| I wish you good luck! Perhaps TLSNotary might be of service:
| https://tlsnotary.org/
| xigoi wrote:
| Wait, how is this technically possible?
| dimitar wrote:
| I think this is the question. I think they either probably
| generate links that change once clicked once.
| xigoi wrote:
| The link is not the problem, but how do you charge someone
| money without their knowledge?
| dimitar wrote:
| I described how this works in the original post. They do
| send an SMS with a link to unsubscribe, but that only
| cancels future charges, not the original one. And it's
| possible that a lot of the scammed people don't see it on
| time or confuse it for another purchase they made.
| Especially since the presumed targets are children. Then
| even if you unsubscribe, you still get a bill from your
| carrier. I had to pester both this firm and the carrier
| to remove the charge.
| xigoi wrote:
| That doesn't answer my question. I'm asking: how is it
| possible to make it so that if someone clicks some random
| link, their money will be immediately transferred to your
| account, without needing any confirmation? And if it's
| possible, why do scammers bother tricking people into
| voluntarily sending them money when they could just do
| this?
| jinzo wrote:
| I have a somewhat related experience with DCB/premium SMS-es. I
| run a relatively small-but-not-trivial amount of IoT devices
| that communicate over GSM/2G. For that end I'm using a local
| GSM carriers "IoT SIM" cards/packages. A year or so ago we
| started noticing DCB/premium SMS charges on our account and
| that was super weird, as we know what our devices are capable
| and what not. First month it was a device or two, so there was
| a possibility someone stole our SIMs and is using them in
| regular phones or what. But next month, a lot more SIMs had
| these charges. We compiled our case, sent it to our contact at
| the carrier and the fees/charges were quickly dropped/refunded.
| All is well, it happens - weird but ok.
|
| But a month or so ago we were tracking down some other issues
| and requested detailed connection logs for 2 of our SIM cards.
| And what do we find there? DCB/premium SMS charges. It looks
| like they are just filtering them out from our invoice and not
| charging them to us, but some backend system somewhere is still
| processing those fees.
|
| So it seems like this whole DCB thingy is way more unregulated
| as one would think. Now I'm really interested how the charges
| even started appearing on our SIMs, why they did not resolve
| them at the source and how many people get their money stolen
| that way and they don't notice a few EUR here and there (fees
| were around 1eur in our case).
|
| Interesting stuff.
| [deleted]
| bojangleslover wrote:
| The number of times that anti patterns have morphed into this
| (literal fraud) seems to be increasing lately. For example,
| after paying extra for a refundable ticket from JetBlue, it was
| impossible to cancel. Their "cancel ticket" button threw an
| error saying "This part of our website isn't working, please
| call this number" for which there was obviously a 6+ hour wait.
|
| I'm really keen on finding a systematic way of preventing these
| types of scams.
| dimitar wrote:
| The systematic problem is the carriers who are processing
| such payments and don't ban abusive merchants, even when
| getting tons of complaints from users.
|
| Here I don't think there is a legitimate mainstream use for
| DCB beside connecting to Google Play and Apple Store. The
| carriers can and should be able to tell me where my charges
| where coming from. Instead they call centre told me "its
| probably something you got from Google Play" even thought
| I've disabled the DCB payment method there. I found the
| vendor by inspecting my history as clicking an ad leaves a
| trace. Most consumers probably are not savvy enough to do
| that and give up at that point.
|
| Edit: Even worse, this carrier offers a "safety online"
| package.. that is almost extortion since its safety they fail
| to ensure if you don't buy the package.
| 8organicbits wrote:
| Need any help with this? You've piqued my interest.
| dimitar wrote:
| Sure! I don't really know where to start, I got the link.. I
| wonder how I can increase the odds of getting one of their
| ads so I can record what happens.
|
| my email is duzunov@fastmail.com
| not1ofU wrote:
| You might be able to run a virtual instance of Android (on
| a PC), and use wireshark to capture the traffic, and maybe
| burpsuite if you want to get spicey. I think, I am no
| expert.
|
| I wish you luck.
| dimitar wrote:
| Already did that, however the link no longer works the
| way it did originally. Its either "expired" or they also
| detect the carrier, DCB enabled. Don't know how they
| could do that thought.
| paulorlando wrote:
| I like the prompt. Something I started a few years ago was
| writing about unintended consequences:
| https://unintendedconsequenc.es/ I was best at this when I truly
| didn't care about success. I took a diversion into trying to
| intentionally make it successful and now am back to not caring if
| it succeeds. But it's a win just because I've learned so much
| working on it. It also brought me to lots of people I never would
| have met otherwise.
| joisig wrote:
| I love using the Bear note taking app and am building a Bear-
| powered CMS so I can run my blog on Bear (with a tag controlling
| what is published publicly) and also have whatever set of notes I
| like (again based on tags) available to me and possibly a few
| others like my wife, behind a log-in, via a browser, as Bear
| itself is macOS/iOS only.
|
| Success will be when my blog is hosted on it and I open source
| the code so thst it might be useful to other Bear aficionados. No
| expectation of anything more.
| rlayton2 wrote:
| I have a small game that I made to experiment with some tech.
|
| https://donotplaythisgame.click/
|
| In short, you accrue points while you aren't playing it, but you
| have to log into actually get the points (similar to "the game",
| which you just lost). You get your global ranking only after
| logging in though.
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| Do you want a high global ranking? Or low? I was ranked 5 after
| logging in for my first time.
| rlayton2 wrote:
| It's newly up so you were tied fifth!also go for the best
| ranking which is closest to 1
| blunte wrote:
| There's a concept here to refine... I've thought about
| something that's perhaps related.
|
| One problem with a lot of modern (online/shared) games is the
| sense of missing out when you're not playing, or the sense of
| competition which demands focused attention. Both of those tend
| to upset life balance.
|
| I have pondered influence based games, somewhat like turn-
| based, where you aren't able to micromanage play but instead
| strategize and occasionally provide instructions or goals. Then
| the game does the playing, and you can observe if you wish. But
| importantly, for lengthy periods you cannot make changes or
| influences; so frequent observation wouldn't be rewarding or
| useful, and you could feel content to go away for a day or two.
| Then when you return, there's a bit of excitement to discover
| how things turned out and to plan what goals to modify or add.
| MaxikCZ wrote:
| I have been pondering the same concept for years. The problem
| seems to be: A) Making AI that is able to plan for goals set
| by players and achieve them is not just "not mainstream", its
| actually unique when its used. Even the algorithms like GOAP
| (Goal Oriented Action Planning) is very limited (eg cant
| really chain goals, one goal at a time,...), and while better
| algorithms have been proposed (UDGOAP - Utility Driven GOAP),
| they havent been implemented in any game yet. B) This type of
| game is not proven, so noone is gonna invest big bucks. And
| implementing completely new and untested mechanics and core
| loops will likely burn more cash as you iterate for usable
| outcome.
|
| Theres a wishing for games of the future, tho
| djbusby wrote:
| The only way to win is to not play.
| na85 wrote:
| >similar to "the game", which you just lost
|
| FUCK.
|
| I had a good streak going.
| godmode2019 wrote:
| I built a library that adds a digital copyright in the LSB of a
| for example image.
|
| It is resistant to cropping and other such edits.
|
| I don't care if it is successful because I was originally just
| having fun with steganography and stumbled on to this use case.
| kaycebasques wrote:
| https://bookworm.club - tell us what books you're reading, we'll
| find people around the world reading the same book so that you
| all can meet and discuss
| culopatin wrote:
| I'm building a databank for Cyanobacteria specific information.
| Like a genbank but for Cyanobacteria. I'm not even a biologist so
| I don't know what the impact will be, but my girlfriend is and I
| saw her struggle with some things and I decided to jump on it.
|
| Right now I'm just building the basic forms and such, but I plan
| on implementing fasta file parsing and an algorithm to locate the
| conserved regions
| onychomys wrote:
| I mean, actual genbank has cyanobacteria in it[0]. Not to be
| discouraging, but you're just duplicating a lot of work there.
| And I assume that's where you'd have to go get your sequences
| from anyway. So are you actually just building the file parsing
| and analysis tools?
|
| [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=cyanobacteria
| culopatin wrote:
| My project would focus on the ITS region motifs. Which I
| think are not in genbank. Genbank has the whole sequence but
| the motifs are not identified.
|
| The way the bio people I talked to explained it to me, when
| they want to compare ITS structures they need to find the
| motifs themselves and compare it that way. Is this incorrect?
|
| I'd love to chat if you are in the world.
| AnnikaL wrote:
| I'm currently working on a ranked-choice polling website!
| hoofedear wrote:
| I picked up the domain https://nothing.tax recently and tried
| turning it into a cute way for people to donate and support me.
| But right now, Stripe isn't very happy with the idea lmao
| w_for_wumbo wrote:
| I made an NSFW website, which was a wrapper around a streaming
| site, allowing me to load and watch up to 16 streams at a time. I
| couldn't find any other website that did it, so I just threw a
| couple of Azure functions together in a way that costs less than
| a dollar a month.
| FailMore wrote:
| I'm building https://www.taaalk.co/, it's a social network for
| conversations.
|
| The site went down a few months ago, but now it's back up. The
| first new Taaalk I'm having is with another engineer, and we're
| trying to publicly solve a technical chanllenge - how to
| repopulate the Taaalk database from archive.org download.
|
| https://www.taaalk.co/t/repopulating-the-taaalk-database-fro...
|
| I love Taaalk so much. I love all the little design features. I
| love tinkering with it. I love the conversations I have had with
| people on it; you can check them out on archive.org:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20210316214650/https://taaalk.co....
|
| I don't mind if it fails but I do have high hopes for it!
| cybarDOTlive wrote:
| This is really cool! Love the minimal design. Also I'm a fan of
| this as a form of article / content generation. Where an
| article is created by a team, as a collaborative effort,
| organized and started by an editor of some sort.
|
| Think of how many interesting conversations happen in walled
| gardens like slack, telegram, discord. Very thoughtful and in-
| depth sharing from users that would most likely be valuable for
| others to read. And valuable for these people themselves to re-
| read in the future at a specific easily accessible / shareable
| url.
|
| The reason these people share in the walled gardens is because
| it's a conversational / social atmosphere, not necessarily
| because it's a private discord server (IMO). And it's just that
| the walled gardens have become the popular place for discussing
| things. So it's more natural. This is to say I don't think
| people would be against having their conversations being in
| public, searchable, like taaalk is trying to do. I think a lot
| of people would prefer it, professional types. People who use
| these communities to learn and develop. Rather than the
| anonymous s*#@ posters who don't really leave a trail or
| anything valuable either.
| FailMore wrote:
| Thank you so much for the kind words. I couldn't agree more.
|
| I really think some of the best features happen when you
| start a conversation - so if you are inclined, please try:
| https://taaalk.co/start-conversation
|
| Additionally, is it clear from the UI that if you follow a
| Taaalk you will get email updates for every added
| conversation "blob"?
| franga2000 wrote:
| I've been working on a project that aggregates data for every
| public transport provider in the country (Slovenia) and presents
| it as a simple API, along with an application to find rides with
| as few clicks as possible (without having to check every
| provider's website). This has involved tiring meetings with city
| officials convincing them to give us access to the data and
| writing scraping bots where they weren't convinced, so I've sunk
| countless hours into the project.
|
| I currently know of only 3 people using it, but I'm one of them
| and I believe this is something that should exist, so I don't
| care that I'll likely never evem break even on it. I've started a
| nonprofit to fund the project, but it's been mostly my own money
| so far. Working on it has been really fun and I learned a ton
| about how stuff gets done in the intersection of public and
| private sector - both positive and negative.
|
| // For anyone in Slovenia interested in using it, there's an
| email in my profile. It's currently a closed beta, but everyone
| is welcome
| dorianmariefr wrote:
| maybe not being in closed beta could help?
| thecleaner wrote:
| Maybe not. Right now the traffic is manageable and manual
| rate limiting, blocking etc is feasible.
| franga2000 wrote:
| Of course :) That is the goal, but I don't want to "launch"
| it until the issues are ironed out - the last thing we need
| is to get a lots of users and then a bunch of them miss their
| trains/buses because our data wasn't accurate (this has
| happened once or twice to our testers).
| l72 wrote:
| I too have been working on public transit for my city in the US
| and several smaller cities that I visit that tend to get
| ignored by the big apps.
|
| Most of these cities have real time data, but it is from a 3rd
| party vendor that either tries to lock up the data or has a
| terrible app.
|
| For example, the one for Steamboat Springs Colorado, a small
| little ski town, uses a 3rd party vendor for real time tracking
| information. But the app from that third party vendor is slow
| and frustrating. On top of that, it is a single app that
| supports 30+ small cities. If you search for "Steamboat Springs
| transit or bus" in the app store, that vendor's app doesn't
| even come up. As a tourist, no one has any idea that an app
| even exists for their public transit.
|
| I wrote an opensource app that supports multiple real time
| vendors backends which I can whitelabel for different cities.
|
| https://gotransitapp.com/
| franga2000 wrote:
| Awesome! I'm pretty sure I came across your app when I was
| looking for open source systems to integrate with. I'm going
| for the big ones first (transportr (navita), onebusaway,
| OSM...), but if I do end up needing a standalone app, yours
| looks like a great base.
| exikyut wrote:
| This is, naturally, awesome.
|
| If I put my backseat driving hat on :D my next steps would be
| to
|
| a) Wait for things to take off, iron out the initial kinks, and
| become quietly successful, then talk to the city at a few
| levels higher to showcase the benefits of cohesive open data,
| or at least structured data - leading the conversation here
| might (?) be interesting, but fostering additional connectivity
| between different branches (while helping to frame the focal
| points of the technical discussion, which is critical yet often
| tricky) would leave a positive impression for starters, may
| also help with internal communication and efficiency, and will
| of course help everyone slowly lumber towards modernity
| overall.
|
| b) Whisper "GTFS" in Google's ear ;)
|
| I would definitely do (a) before (b) - particularly the slow-
| paced adoption and settlement process (maybe even quietly build
| the GTFS integration yourself, before making any noise) - to
| give the city the best fighting chance possible against
| involuntary infections of Chromebooks/Google Workspace/etc ;P
| around the time the GTFS people show up. Y'know, just in case.
| Good to have a position first and all that.
|
| The reason (b) could be particularly interesting, is that -
| presuming there is currently poor or no integration (this
| suggestion is irrelevant otherwise) - running interference here
| successfully may (alongside improving transport info for
| everyone) wind up netting you an interesting position at the
| city (consistent, set for life, good opportunity for lateral
| movement and initiative-taking given your start point, etc) or
| a decent shot at whatever office/presence Google has in/near
| Slovenia (could be interesting, could be hit/miss, might not
| appeal at all).
|
| It's entirely possible you're doing this because you're already
| in a solid position you're happy with, in which case ignore
| most of the above :D
| franga2000 wrote:
| The funny part is that several providers do actually have
| GTFS included in GMaps. Someone with decent lobbying power
| managed to score a contract to provide "Google Maps
| integration", so I don't think the providers even have the
| right to share the GTFS files, even if they have them.
|
| And since the contract is absurdly overpriced and (unofficial
| info) charges for each conversion instead of simply handing
| over the conversion software, their GMaps data is often out
| of date. So currently, for at least one city, the GTFS file
| my system generates from scraped data is actually more
| accurate than the one they have and provide to Google.
|
| One of my goals though is quite similar to what you're saying
| - to have the most accurate data and provide it openly enough
| that it takes away Google's (and anyone else's) power to come
| in and offer something like "we'll develop a conversion
| system for free if you push Chromebooks or GClassroom in your
| schools". Our municipalities love making deals that are
| "free", but actually end up costing far more in other ways
| and it really needs to stop.
| mabub24 wrote:
| This is deeply commendable work and a real public service.
| Access to public transportation is an issue for a lot of
| people, and outside of the usual issues of cost, often comes
| down to people finding the PT systems difficult and hard to
| use. When people make their own apps and make them freely
| available with the PT data, those apps are usually lightyears
| ahead of the official apps to the degree that it is
| embarrassing.
| cornedor wrote:
| In the Netherlands we have https://9292.nl/. It is awesome, I
| can plan a trip and it will show me how long I have to walk,
| whats buses/trains I have to take, and I can also buy tickets
| for all the different providers. Almost everyone here in NL
| uses it when they plan a trip, its even useful when you do this
| trip daily because it shows delays, maintenance and other
| important information.
| Tijdreiziger wrote:
| Is 9292's data open? The parent commenters' project sounds
| more similar to http://www.openov.nl/.
| dopamean wrote:
| This is a real public service and _I_ hope it does take off.
| veg wrote:
| https://usdc.cool - I wanted to track the supply of the
| stablecoin USDC, and check against their audits. Another benefit
| was trying to see what happens to the USDC supply during certain
| crypto events, like crashes or pumps.
|
| Turns out it's quite interesting. When crypto goes down, many
| folks sell into USDC, which causes more USDC buying by the
| exchanges. But when crypto goes up, people often get in with
| USDC.
|
| So basically: USDC goes up. And since this money is sitting in
| Circle's bank accounts, imagine what happens when the Feds raise
| interest rates. $CND is the SPAC supposedly taking Circle public,
| if it ever goes through.
| [deleted]
| eyedex wrote:
| https://www.eyedex.org/ It's an open directory search engine I
| have been slowly cooking on the side for past one and a half
| year. Basically an open directory is a webpage on the internet
| with autoindex set to on - it lists files and directories on
| server with some metadata. The real reason why I built it was to
| learn PostgreSQL together with some text searching functionality,
| so far it has been really fun experience. Another reason was that
| there haven't been sites like this, most of them are shameless
| redirects to google dorks or just straight up amateur jobs. What
| mine does differently is take care of file metadata and allows to
| order/filter by it, which narrows down searches quickly. I really
| don't care if it succeeds or no, there is no money in it, I don't
| really care anyways. It kinda scratches the itch about what great
| services can be build on good old internet and if it's useful for
| a few people out there, even better.
| dataspun wrote:
| A static site that is 100% free and open-source, competing with
| several businesses operating scammy subscription models.
| foxbee wrote:
| This has stole many mornings, days, nights over the last 5 years.
| But it's been an incredibly fruitful journey and scratches a
| personal itch as a developer:
|
| https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
| seanwilson wrote:
| Here's a word game I'm still tweaking you can play in the browser
| for people that like time-based challenges (top score I've seen
| is about 3000 points!):
|
| https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid
|
| Working on games without thinking about how you might monitise
| them is a fun way to spend some time. :) It's a nice feeling to
| know some other people got some fun out of something you made
| too.
| danShumway wrote:
| I made https://distilledjs.com/, it's a Javascript testing
| library with no dependencies, the entire API is only 3 methods
| (only 1 of which is really necessary to learn), and it very
| deliberately doesn't ship with a lot of standard features.
|
| Distilled is based on an evolution in my personal philosophy
| about how effective testing works and about how good APIs are
| designed in general. My goal building it was to have something
| that is extremely flexible, but that is also so simple that I can
| start using it within about a minute of setting up a new project.
| When I start writing Javascript, I don't add a testing framework
| immediately. Instead, I import Distilled and write my tests in
| the same file that I'm writing my code in. Later on, as the
| project evolves I start to separate things out and build a more
| complicated testing setup.
|
| I have obviously put some work into documenting it and making it
| available to other people, but I don't need anyone else to use
| it. The project is already mature enough that I am using it in
| every single personal project I maintain. It doesn't need a big
| ecosystem, it doesn't need a big community. I haven't touched the
| API in probably close to 2 years.
|
| I will likely use Distilled for the majority of all of my
| personal projects in Node for all of the foreseeable future in my
| development career. I've used a lot of testing frameworks, and
| for my particular needs I think that Distilled is the best
| testing library available for me to use. It has saved me an
| enormous amount of time, and it makes it easier for me to do
| complicated things with my testing suites, which has made
| developing other personal projects much easier. If nobody other
| than me ever picks it up or uses it, it doesn't matter. It's
| already paid for its own development costs in personal time
| savings on other projects by an order of magnitude, and I think
| it will continue to do so in the future.
|
| I think it's one of the most personally useful pieces of software
| I've ever written in terms of pure benefit to my own development
| processes, and (while I'd be happy to see more people use it) I
| don't think that having a community around Distilled would change
| anything or introduce any giant benefits. I'm not going to add a
| bunch of extra features or methods to the API. It's really stable
| and extensively tested; I've been using it for years and I'm not
| aware of any bugs that need to be hunted down that a community
| could help with. So if other people want to use Distilled, great,
| but them using it or ignoring it changes nothing about how useful
| it is to me.
| kebsup wrote:
| I'm working on a gif making website: https://gifmemes.io. My
| plans for the future are implementation of wasm ffmpeg and
| supporting videos also. I wouldn't say i don't care about the
| success, but my friends and I use it enough to keep me motivated.
| operator-name wrote:
| I remeber this being posted on HN but I could never find it
| again, so that's for posting it! Are you planning on enabling
| exports in webp/mp4?
| kebsup wrote:
| It was a top comment on a submission of someone making 5000
| USD/month with a gif making app.
| langsoul-com wrote:
| I was thinking about something similar.
|
| Use wasm ffmepg to convert video into avi format (most size
| efficient). Since it's done on client side, you don't exhaust
| all server resources.
| kebsup wrote:
| I have created a poc of that and it works. I did not include
| it because at the time, I've had user accounts through
| firebase and it did not work with a header required for
| ffmpeg. Quite an odd issue. :D It was something like this:
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69179866/firebase-
| auth-i...
| RelentlessOpt wrote:
| I'm building a game algebra and playthrough animations for the
| game Kingdom Rush. I love iterating on strategies but couldn't
| remember a whole playthrough well enough to iterate.
|
| Still in progress, but you can see my existing playthroughs at
| https://relentlessoptimizer.com/KR/maps.
| impish19 wrote:
| https://featureask.com/
|
| It's 2022 and there should be a place on the internet where you
| can voice opinions/feedback towards your favorite products, and
| feel heard.
| FailMore wrote:
| Cool concept, think it's a bit too locked behind a login
| button. Think you need to let people taste it more before
| asking them to sign up
| impish19 wrote:
| Yeah I agree. I'm trying to get my initial users before I
| open the gates for everyone else.
|
| Maybe just straight up opening the gates is the way to go
| forward - I'm considering that.
| kcbanner wrote:
| I built a Visual Studio extension that wraps ag (the silver
| searcher), because I was constantly flipping to the terminal to
| use it to search the UE4 codebase I work on. The built in MSVC
| text search is egregiously slow, and even tools like Visual
| Assist (which search via indexing symbols) take forever to run on
| the entire engine.
|
| It can do a full regex search on the entire UE4 codebase in about
| ~6s on my SSD. Searching just the game's codebase takes ~200ms,
| enough to feel instant. The speed is all credit to the developers
| of ag, I just put a convenient interface on it.
|
| I use it essentially as a navigation tool and it's a core part of
| my workflow, but haven't gotten any paying customers. I initially
| had hoped to sell a few copies, but since it has completely
| solved my own problem and probably saved me hundreds of hours of
| waiting for slow searches, I'm happy.
|
| https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CaseyBan...
| pmarreck wrote:
| isn't ripgrep (rg) better than ag, performance-wise?
| tessierashpool wrote:
| it is, but a) they don't care if it succeeds or not, b)
| there's a new faster grep-alike every couple of years, and c)
| there are diminishing returns from these performance
| enhancements. so if you're enjoying ag, more power to you.
|
| btw my own "idc if it succeeds or not" is forkfreshness.com,
| a system to surface active downstream forks of otherwise
| dormant projects. if you've got a project you want to use,
| but it seems like abandonware, you can find out if other
| forks are keeping it alive.
| pmarreck wrote:
| oh this is brilliant, I've often had to really dig into
| github to find out this information!
| tessierashpool wrote:
| thanks!
| kcbanner wrote:
| I haven't benchmarked it, but it could probably just be a
| drop-in replacement as I believe the arguments are
| compatible. Would be interesting to try!
| pmarreck wrote:
| Likely. The dude who developed ripgrep spent like 2 man-
| years on it full-time, apparently. Interesting (long,
| detailed) blog post about it:
| https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
| d3suu wrote:
| I'm not a professional software developer, it's just my hobby.
|
| Story is, I wanted to make some simple website project using
| Java, so I had to use some sort of web framework since I've read
| that CGI should not be used for medium sized project (like very
| simple social network, or whatever stores and handles data
| server-side). All the web frameworks I tested for Java (Javalin,
| Spring, something else I dont remember name of) used Maven, which
| I'm not familiar with. Why not create my own web framework then?
| _Insert xkcd 927_ With knowledge about HTTP protocol, I started
| making simple framework which uses sockets and regex for request
| handling, and allows developer to create simple endpoints. Main
| point is simplicity. It doesn 't need any dependencies, just
| compile it to JAR, import to Your project, and that's it. Project
| itself is faaaaaaar from perfection, however it works as far as I
| tested it, and I think young/beginner developers would find it
| fun and easy to use in private projects.
|
| Framework is in very early development stage, many things might
| change.
|
| https://github.com/d3suu/antiframework
| clucas wrote:
| I am actively working on improving a nearly 30 year old MUD
| (rewriting major systems, adding new ones, etc.). There are maybe
| one to two dozen players at any given time, and I don't really
| expect it to get much bigger. It is a lot of fun.
| stavros wrote:
| Oh, all of them. https://imgz.org, say. I make them for me,
| usually I make them available because other people might want to
| use them. Yesterday I made Dia[1], a small cli utility that helps
| you keep a work journal.
|
| [1] https://pypi.org/project/dia/
| ceroxylon wrote:
| The imgz FAQ is hilarious, thank you for that.
| stavros wrote:
| Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
| stickfigure wrote:
| I can't stand most http libraries (full of mutable state!) and I
| spend a lot of time making http calls. So I built a
| functional/immutable http request library which has been
| dramatically improving my personal quality of life for about 7
| years now. No idea if anyone else uses it, but it doesn't really
| matter.
|
| Java version: https://github.com/stickfigure/hattery
|
| Typescript version: https://github.com/stickfigure/hatteryjs
| ed_at_work wrote:
| Not tech related, other than using tech to promote it, but music.
| I tried a go at making a name for myself 10 years ago and failed.
| Now, I'm finally ready to write and record an album but I don't
| care if anyone listens to it. Just want to leave a tiny little
| piece of something to show I was here and made something.
| ceroxylon wrote:
| Same here, at least IT paid for a kickass studio to play around
| in...
| b1nj0y wrote:
| https://tabhub.io A Chrome/Edge Extension that's used to manage
| your new tab view.
| jerrysievert wrote:
| I started writing music plugins, many that got released, some
| that got sold, and many many more that have been my private
| playground.
|
| I used I for fun, then some supplemental income, and now as a
| test-bed for my software driven plugins for Eurorack.
|
| it's been an amazing amount of fun and most of the ones I gave
| away for free were released with a very permissive license.
| riantogo wrote:
| My covid side project. A platform for anyone to quickly start a
| forum. I'm going to add subscription option so that forum owners
| can make loads of money. https://discoflip.com
| jaan wrote:
| I got a friend to record guided meditations geared at techbros:
| https://dystopia.guide/
|
| Really meant as a critique of late stage capitalism where
| companies like Headspace have ads in New York encouraging us to
| "optimize" our mindfulness practice so we can train harder...
| jbuckner wrote:
| For the last few years, I've been building Live Music Archive for
| iOS (https://livemusicarchive.app), a player for the giant
| collection of free live music on archive.org because the other
| apps out there didn't provide the experience I wanted.
|
| I love working on it and wish I could make a living on it, but
| the nature of the app means I can't pursue commercial gains from
| it. It's the only side project of mine that I actually use all
| the time and it has gained a small fanbase, but really, I'm
| building it for me.
| josh-yates wrote:
| https://josh-yates.com/layowt
|
| It generates commands to launch Windows Terminal in any layout. I
| use Windows Terminal every day and found writing the split-pane
| etc. commands difficult, so built this to make these commands
| easy to generate.
| mlatu wrote:
| Well, I guess it depends on the definition of "success". I tend
| to leave projects unfinished, so finishing my projects would be
| something I do care about. The projects are aimed toward
| collaboration, so adoption would be favorable... but I could also
| use the finished product by its own. It would just be rather
| lonely.
|
| To wrap that thought up: I guess I don't care too much about
| success in regards to adoption and this becoming actually the
| world of VR after the C64-homecomputing-uesqueness that is the
| Quest and Meta et al.
|
| In my free time I work on some projects at various scopes, and
| they built upon each other.
|
| So, for a starter: currently I'm working on a plugin to enable me
| to use the janet language in godot. Because I like it. I think it
| was a mistake that javascript has the syntax that it has and even
| though I can't relocate the video that claimed that js originaly
| was supposed to be a lisp, this would have been magnificent!
| Well, as I said, I like it.
|
| And I want to develop something in it: at first I want to
| bootstrap me an OS-shell in which I then could implement vr
| representations of tools like a filemanager and a spatial Lisp
| codetree editor. I will definetly need an integrated webbrowser
| that you could place anywhere like a TV. Also handy would be a
| way to peek and poke at the host operating systems desktop. Also
| an HTTP server. And while were at it also slap in some IPFS and
| GNS ( www.gnunet.org ) and the 9P protocol for good measure.
|
| So that's as for how much software I guess I dream to write.
| Well, one key at a time. But what would you want all this for?
|
| Well, it is absolutely understandable that the zuck would have
| wet dreams over ready player one.
|
| But instead, or even meanwhile, I could imagine a decentralised
| DIY scene of VR homebrewers: Let's imagine I pulled through and
| my software is setup and running on your VR machine. You load up
| the vrkbnch and it presents you with your garden of code; Your
| Lisp code is visualized as trees that you can modify with various
| tools to cut or copy or search and replace, you know, just like
| in a normal editor. Well, I don't know yet if visualizing code
| like that is actually advantagous to software development in any
| way, but lets imagine this is the most efficient way to code in
| VR: you can grab your code "branches", cut them out and put
| something new in its place. I think it might be a neat idea and
| would like to try it out. ^^ Also I have some ideas for spatial
| vr keyboards...
|
| So you got your garden in which you tend to your code and you can
| of course programmatically change your environment, you can add
| other rooms to your world and each room is just another VR
| experience you can been working on.
|
| You can also create rooms that really are links to outside
| systems containing their "entrance" room, akin to an index.html
| file hosted on some webservers. Or perhaps a auto generated lobby
| that contains all their shared VR experiences?
|
| Also, rooms could be packaged in fossil-scm.org repos. I really
| prefer how fossil keeps the repo in a sqlite db file over the
| mess that is /.git/
|
| But yeah really at the beginning of that first project... but
| this is the big picture
| Lankyfelps wrote:
| givemeethekeys wrote:
| A few years back YouTube didn't support the sharing of playlists.
| In-fact creating playlists took far too many clicks. Fortunately,
| their API support was good and I built a 3rd party playlist
| builder, which worked brilliantly. I built it for myself and
| didn't care if anyone else used it. Turned out people did use it,
| but I didn't find out until YouTube changed their APIs and I no
| longer had time to work on it.
|
| A few years later, I learned that most Craigslist ads sucked. So,
| I created a simple "make your craigslist ads better" tool. You'd
| go to the site, fill out a much better form than the one
| Craigslist provided, and it'd spit out a much better ad that you
| could copy and paste. Then, whenever I saw a car ad that was
| crappy, I'd message them with a link to my tool and ask them to
| update the ad. People did it and it was growing organically. I
| was glad that people found it useful.. it was free and going to
| stay that way forever. Then I got a Cease and Desist from
| Craigslist.. for using their name, I think. They've made similar
| boneheaded decisions.. no wonder they're declining.
| prohobo wrote:
| I'm working on a Yahoo Answers clone that forces users to enter
| Oxford style debates revolving around Yes/No questions, and
| everything is run by a smart contract and stored on IPFS so it's
| censorship-proof.
|
| I'm calling it Yokel Answers right now.
| danuker wrote:
| You might draw some inspiration from Augur[0] (prediction
| markets) and Aragon[1] (governance and collaboration).
|
| [0] - https://www.augur.net/
|
| [1] - https://aragon.org/
| prohobo wrote:
| Augur or Kleros could be used for the final voting process on
| a "debate". It'll be interesting, and I wonder how best to
| promote "the wisdom of the crowd".
|
| Never heard of Aragon before, thanks!
| vood wrote:
| Kubernetes cluster on a bunch of old smartphones.
|
| Weird idea, but I can't stop thinking about it work on a project
| from time to time.
|
| Eventually, I want a random person be able to "lease" their old
| phone compute to my cluster for reward.
| [deleted]
| Myrmornis wrote:
| https://github.com/dandavison/xenops
|
| Mathematical LaTeX editing in Emacs with automatic inline
| rendering of math, tables, and TiKZ diagrams.
|
| It's hard to imagine this getting popular because (a) it's Emacs,
| (b) LaTeX is a pain and Overleaf is pretty nice, (c) I think it
| would require the Auctex team to want to adopt my implementation,
| and combine their expertise and code to parse LaTeX math
| delimiters as reliably as auctex does, (d) I only use and develop
| Xenops when I'm studying maths, which is not much now I have a
| real job again. But Xenops is nice to use.
| greggman3 wrote:
| https://jsgist.org
|
| It's like jsfiddle but your code is stored in github gists. It's
| entirely open source and except for the oauth handshake to log in
| it's entirely a static website.
|
| I don't really care if anyone else uses it but I used it a ton.
| Of course I worry that github will take it down or I'll hit some
| other limit but it was fun to build and your gists won't be lost.
|
| Also https://jsbenchit.org which similarly, uses gists and is
| open source, and, again I don't really care if anyone but me uses
| it but I do use it.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| https://enso.sonnet.io - I have perhaps 10-20 regular visitors
| per day.
|
| I've been writing with it every day for the past two years and I
| generally suck at sticking to new habits, so I've been happy with
| it so far! It's my favourite project that no one uses.
| andybak wrote:
| https://github.com/IxxyXR/polyhydra-upm
|
| It's a library and design system for creating and exploring
| geometric forms in surprising ways.
|
| I'm yet to figure out who it's really for and how it should be
| presented (A polished app? A design tool? A web app? Something
| purely generative without much interaction) but I find the
| results endlessly fascinating and creatively stimulating so I
| keep plugging away at it
| jplr8922 wrote:
| I want to help people aged 18-34 get better with their finances
| and economic thinking. By doing so, they can emancipate
| themselves and stop giving their soul to the boomercracy in
| exchange for financial security they don't need. I started a
| newsletter, I use twitter for R&D, and I expect to start an
| instagram with videos and infographics soon.
|
| Eventually I could develop a neat budgeting app which help people
| realize that the point of money is to finance their needs, from
| physiological to spiritual.
| chilling wrote:
| I've been working on mobbler[1] an analog music creation and real
| time visual performance just for the sake of learning JavaScript
| and finally understand the math behind audio creation.
|
| I thought that it might be fun for others as a great learning
| opportunity but I haven't managed to go through the scope of my
| own friends.
|
| [1] https://mobbler.js.org
|
| [code] https://github.com/Megaemce/mobbler/
| lewdev wrote:
| My Math Homework Generator. It's low risk since I'm hosting it on
| github and I work on it from time to time to create practice
| worksheets for my kids. I get a lot of visits from China and
| Taiwan. It's fun too.
|
| https://lewdev.github.io/apps/hw-gen
| jppope wrote:
| My band: Free Tequila. instagram.com/freetequila
|
| Real musicians don't really make dance music anymore so we
| figured we would get weird and build a "Dia de Muertos Disco Punk
| Band". It's a blast. People dress up and come to our shows. We
| drink, party, dance, and hang out with musicians. Though we get
| paid, we have to cover the horns and the makeup which are both
| more money than we make typically. Its still a cool project.
|
| Unfortunately, Covid messed everything up for live music. I have
| high hopes for this year coming up
| rlafranchi wrote:
| Symbol Tax - cryptocurrency capital gains calculator
|
| https://symbol.tax
|
| I made it for myself to make my life easier come tax season.
| Current solutions just didn't meet my needs. I made it a desktop
| application with a perpetual license because I just didn't see
| the value in a cloud service subscription for something I only
| need to do once a year. Hope to one day make it useful for others
| looking for alternatives, but operational cost is nothing, just a
| static website - so not really concerned if it doesn't go
| anywhere.
|
| Disclaimer - I'm not a tax expert/CPA, use at your own risk.
| folli wrote:
| http://genewarrior.com
|
| It's a DNA sequence manipulation tool to quickly get alignments,
| translations etc. for DNA sequences. It's already a couple of
| years old, never got any traction, but I'm using it for myself on
| a very regular basis.
| kilroy123 wrote:
| My art newsletter. It's been humming along for almost two years.
| I make zero money and it actually cost me money to run.
|
| https://randomdailyart.com/
| mavci wrote:
| Hacker News is part of my daily life. I try to follow the top
| stories every day when I have the opportunity. In order not to
| miss important stories on my busy days, I prepared a notification
| service. It was a very simple, ~40-line PHP script that sends me
| notifications for stories with over 200 points. I have been using
| this service for 7 months and I no longer worry about missing
| important stories.
|
| Finally, I made this service available to everyone so that it can
| be useful to others. I have also obtained the necessary
| permissions from the HN moderators to share such a service with
| you. So, I hope you will not miss important stories from this
| awesome platform with the help of this service. Also when I share
| this service with HN, I hope I will receive this story as a
| notification.
|
| And this is my "I don't care if this succeeds" project because I
| am already using and I just shared with everyone.
|
| Also I just received this post via this service and just came
| here to share this.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30153116
|
| https://hnn.avci.me
| csomar wrote:
| A dependency viewer for Rust/Cargo:
| https://crates.live/rand/0.8.4
| _jordan wrote:
| side note, I love the design / color scheme
| csomar wrote:
| Thanks. I was thinking it sucked and needed some
| improvements.
| thenerdhead wrote:
| Honestly everything I do. I used to have such high expectations
| of every side project I built, blogs I wrote, videos I made.
|
| At the end of the day, I realized that the very fact of caring
| too much prevented me from creating more. The more I created, the
| more people would engage and those projects would succeed. Weird
| how that works.
| dbalatero wrote:
| I have a Hammerspoon plugin that adds Vim motions/operators to
| every input in macOS. I like slowly working on it, and it's
| really just for my own fun!
| https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
| duijf wrote:
| Thanks for working on this!
|
| I've been using this on and off over the last two months (tend
| to forget I have it installed and fall back to old habits), but
| it's really really cool stuff!
| fatboypunk wrote:
| I made a web app to store book recommendations https://book-
| rec.com.
|
| Many times after reading a book, that I know a friend or
| colleague recommended me, I forgot why they told me to read it
| and couldn't follow up with them. I also use it to take notes of
| the books I'm reading.
|
| It's open to the public but it's good enough to build on it for
| myself.
| jimbursch1 wrote:
| A gaming community site I have been developing for years. Based
| on 18th century age of sail. Https://NavalGaming.com
| chasd00 wrote:
| I'm in the high power rocketry hobby. I want to get to the karman
| line. This year I'm on track to reach 130k feet which is about
| 1/3 the way there.
|
| There's no making money or early retirement possibility with this
| hobby nor fame and glory. Just something cool, so if i do it
| that's awesome but if not it's still fun trying.
| shadow5212 wrote:
| https://mocket.co - It's a website I built after ordering my
| sister alanis morissette tickets and not having anything to put
| in the birthday card.
| bc100000 wrote:
| I made little site called "Lodashing" recently that is an
| alternative way to browse and search the Lodash docs. I wanted to
| get better acquainted with all lodash contained and also try out
| some new tech, like Algolia search and Sanity. I'd love for it to
| be helpful to others but who knows!
|
| https://lodashing.netlify.app/
| imgabe wrote:
| No Nonsense Recipes - https://nononsense.recipes
|
| I built it mainly to scratch my own itch out of frustration with
| recipe blogs and their endless stories and photo collages before
| they get to the point where they actually tell you how to make
| the recipe.
|
| It seems a pretty common complaint, so I thought other people
| might be interested. I added a subscription because I don't like
| ads and tracking and everything that goes with that. A few people
| have signed up but, so far they all cancelled before the end of
| the free trial. I get a lot of use out of it though, so I'm
| pretty happy with that. It's cheap to run and gives me something
| to tinker with now and again.
| wilkommen wrote:
| I love the idea but it needs pictures really bad. I'm not gonna
| be able to pick a recipe based on a text description, the photo
| is what reels me in.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| Somebody should write the extension to snatch the pics from
| recipe blogs. /jk
| imgabe wrote:
| Working on adding it! I want users to be able to upload
| pictures, but that creates a host of problems with moderation
| and everything.
|
| Recipes you can copy, because they're not copyrightable, but
| images are, so just scraping them from other sites is really
| not ok. Cooking 18000 recipes and taking pictures myself is
| also not going to work. So, yeah. I totally get the desire
| for pictures though.
| cdubzzz wrote:
| Nice -- in a similar realm I made kcal[0] to scratch a very
| specific itch for myself and my spouse. Our diet is mostly
| plant based but we both also do a lot of weight training and
| running so we needed something for close tracking of macros.
| It's maybe 75% finished but takes care of all our needs with
| some quirks so it's slightly neglected now.
|
| [0] https://github.com/kcal-app/kcal
| pyuser583 wrote:
| A Python library that treats filepaths as objects.
|
| This was made redundant when the standard library introduced the
| same thing.
|
| I'm still convinced mine is better, and offers a lot
| functionality the standard lib doesn't.
|
| It can be extended to add functionality based on file type (it
| abstracts the blob, not just the path).
|
| It's also a lot faster.
|
| It also has limitations the standard lib doesn't. For example, it
| doesn't go to great lengths to support every file system under
| the sun.
|
| So it's going to lose eventually.
|
| I'm not going to link to it because there are a ton of libraries
| doing the same thing. They might be even better.
|
| But they're all in maintenance-only mode.
| myhikesorg wrote:
| https://myhikes.org
|
| It's my own personal hiking journal that I've made public so that
| other folks can document their own adventures too. It'll always
| be there as a way to explore something new or challenge myself -
| either to hike more miles, more vertical feet, adding new trails,
| or by building new features and working with contributors. There
| will always be new trails to explore, map, and write about over
| the course of my life. When I'm old and can't get out, it'll be
| nice to poke through the data, revisit the places I explored, and
| relive memories I had with friends, family, or loved ones while
| out exploring the woods.
| folli wrote:
| Hug of death? I just get a "forbidden" error message.
| BiteCode_dev wrote:
| https://0bin.net
|
| There is no analytics. No ads. It just sits there, costing a few
| $ in hosting and doing it's thing. It's been running for years,
| just for the sake of it.
| yekm wrote:
| Automatic streaming from rpi camera to twitch and local storage
| https://github.com/For-The-Birds. Currently pointed to a bird
| feeder https://t.me/moscow_birds
|
| Latest weekend project: 32 bit clone of PDP-1 Minskytron
| https://github.com/yekm/mtronpp
| augustusseizure wrote:
| I just started working on a cli tool to easily create, manage,
| and spin up dev environments in docker containers. The initial
| impetus for starting the project was to try out Doom Emacs
| without messing with my current Emacs setup, so an example
| session could be:
|
| dv new emacs dev-img-emacs:latest
|
| dv start emacs
|
| dv conn emacs
|
| The first line creates a new "development environment" named
| emacs, based on the docker image dev-img-emacs:latest. The second
| line starts up a docker container based on the saved image. The
| third line connects to the running image via mosh (or ssh).
|
| Mostly I just meant to use it as a learning experience, but it's
| actually been really convenient in a lot of ways, so I think I
| might develop it further.
| rank0 wrote:
| Have you considered using LXD instead of docker?
|
| LXD container instances are much better suited for portable dev
| environments. They are persistent by default and are intended
| to run multiple processes within a container instance. They can
| also be copied/migrated between lxd agents.
|
| In contrast, docker was created to run a single ephemeral
| process per container. It's nice in production environments,
| but its also a huge pain for some tasks. That's why were seeing
| folks create things like docker s6-overlay.
| augustusseizure wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion, this looks great! At a glance LXD
| seems to be a much more robust version of what I've built.
| Time to learn something new I guess lol.
| rank0 wrote:
| > Time to learn something new I guess lol.
|
| Yeah there's the downside. The interface is a bit unwieldy.
| Documentation for lxd is far lower quality compared to the
| massive and mature docker ecosystem.
|
| However if you know a lot about what docker does at a lower
| level, that knowledge is transferable to something like
| lxd. Most of these containerization tools are all using the
| same Linux kernel features under the hood!
| efrecon wrote:
| I have done something in a similar vein. DEW.
| https://github.com/efrecon/dew.
| augustusseizure wrote:
| Nice! It's cool to see that other people had the same issues
| I did, and solved them the same way (though you're much
| further along than I am). How are you hooking into the
| environment container? Are you running an editor in the
| terminal, or maybe something like tramp or vs code dev
| containers?
|
| Have you considered adding an option to "virtualize" the
| container's home directory? It's probably pretty niche but
| I've found it to be useful when I'm doing something more
| exploratory, like testing out a new editor config, where I
| don't want to commit to anything.
|
| Great idea to expose the host docker instance to the
| container btw (if I'm understanding this correctly). I didn't
| think to do that but it seems like it could be really useful.
|
| Did you end up incorporating dew into your workflow? Sorry
| for the jumbled response btw, this is mostly stream-of-
| consciousness as I read through the repo.
| mfru wrote:
| I am scratching my own itch and learning Clojure on the way with
| building a FLOSS alternative to a very famous project management
| tool.
|
| I found that this tool is quite a sweet spot for bringing small
| teams of technical and non-technical people together and get
| stuff done, but I yearned for an open-source version of it to
| hack around.
|
| It is all still in a very early prototyping stage, but I plan to
| release an alpha until summer.
| bbkane wrote:
| JIRA?
| rgbrgb wrote:
| My partner and I make music. It's a nice low-stakes unwind from
| software jobs but also kind of feels like it uses a lot of
| similar muscles in a nice way. Since Covid we've gotten back into
| recording and have started doing electronic stuff (previously all
| guitar based).
|
| https://campsh.com/sleeper-2
| throwaway984393 wrote:
| That's... all my projects. I learned a long time ago that I don't
| want to build anything for anyone other than myself, or if
| someone has already paid me. I open source them because it
| doesn't cost me anything and I want to cooperate with others and
| share as general principle. Is that weird now?
| robcorn wrote:
| I'm building an app to host one debate every day.
|
| https://getdebatable.com/
|
| It may never get traction, but it feels good to build something
| from scratch.
| asadawadia wrote:
| heh, this was next on my side projects list - i was going to do
| debate a stack - rails or node js type
| wojciii wrote:
| I wrote a bot that posts news articles from local newspapers to a
| subreddit(r/newsdk). I did this for myself but somehow people
| found this subreddit and are using it for their news intake.
| zuhayeer wrote:
| My project called RapBits, and this sound bite nicely summarizes
| my expectations for it: https://rapbits.com/s/522
| nebukadnet wrote:
| I'm creating a video game. I am being way to ambitious, and I am
| sure to fail or give up along the way, but honestly working on it
| has been so much fun, that I don't really care. Programming it
| and seeing progress, as well as the occasional funny bug has made
| the entire progress so far really fun and motivating.
|
| I've also immersed myself in game dev blogs and podcasts and
| similar, which is giving me new things to discover and learn
| about, so I no longer have that problem of "what am I going to
| watch on netflix tonight", since its a new world for me to
| discover. It's opened up the things I watch because I have never
| immersed myself in things like what makes a game engaging or
| similar, so its all new and interesting to me.
|
| There's a chance I'll get tired of it eventually, but right now I
| don't see it happening. I'm not worried about not finishing
| because I've had fun along the way. It was worth it in that sense
| already.
| JoeOfTexas wrote:
| I spent a year building a website to host real-time, competitive
| turn-based web games.
|
| https://acos.games
|
| The idea is similar to Roblox, where it's all user-generated
| games. If it gets attention, I'll continue evolving it, if it
| falls flat, I will still sleep like a baby at night.
|
| You can learn more in our docs: https://docs.acos.games
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| I'm a musician. Long term. 43 years old, been playing forever.
| Don't care if I get any success at it.
|
| Not a hobby. Makes money sometimes. I play professionally. For
| money. On stage.
|
| If you play for your entire life, you can get really good at a
| ton of things.
|
| I played pedal steel at a rehearsal for my country band tonight.
| I played piano at a rehearsal for my hot club jazz band on
| Monday. I played upright bass at a rehearsal for a string band
| last night.
|
| Sunday I recorded a new track with my girlfriend, ambient techno
| (novation circuit, moog, girlfriend's esoteric warblings).
|
| Monday I finished an EDM track.
|
| I have a bunch of aspirational goals. I'd like to DJ at my local
| ecstatic dance. I'd like to front a Louis Prima style jazz band.
|
| I've been playing trumpet and trombone every day for the last 2
| months.
|
| I don't care if I have any professional success. But hard to say
| all that is a hobby. Maybe I'll eventually be able to retire and
| just work as a musician, teaching and doing my little gigs and
| producing the records I engineer for other folks and running
| sound for the little parties we play out in the desert in Utah.
|
| Don't care. My kids are raised, I've got a reasonable remote day
| job.
|
| We'll see how it goes.
| daniel-cussen wrote:
| And success can't be completely ruled out. Only childish
| success, of being a prodigy and a star very young with no
| failures, a monotonic career after being (this is the secret)
| being picked to be a winner by the industry, can be ruled out.
|
| > If you play for your entire life, you can get really good at
| a ton of things.
|
| That's the thing. I think what ruined it was the concept that
| getting to the top required 10,000 hours of practice. That's
| prostitution, violin takes twice as much, and becoming the best
| at a very new skill can take only 1,000. But if you put your
| whole life into it, that too transforms what you can
| accomplish.
| sdfkj2 wrote:
| You aren't "succesful" because you have a "real" job that you
| care too much about. (You're a geek, not a musician.) A "real"
| musician tells the boss, the wife, the son to go "fuck
| themselves" and plays to an audience of homeless pedos if he
| has to, because it's in his blood man. It just ain't in your
| blood.
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| I mean, I'm sure your joking, but the reality is that I know
| folks who live that.
|
| From the places I grew up, I can look at Townes or Blaze
| Foley or any number of folks who drank themselves to death
| following that line of thought. And those are the
| "successful" ones.
|
| At some point I realized that the main difference between me
| and the dudes drinking themselves to death on the Armadillo
| Farm was that I didn't have to take amid-week $50 gig playing
| "into the mystic" and "brown eyed girl": we were all still
| playing the same shitty $150 gigs on Saturday afternoon.
| andrewzah wrote:
| Considering the cost of music gear + lessons, I find it
| unlikely I'll ever make a profit. I also consider it more than
| a hobby, but something I can't fully commit to due to having a
| day job to focus on.
| chrisrickard wrote:
| That sounds like a great life... I like making music for the
| sake of making music, which is specifically relevant atm with
| FAWM (February Album Writers Month) happening.
|
| I'm a hobbyist singer/songwriter, and the forced creativity of
| having to write 14 songs in 28 days really works for me.
| Shameless plug, 4 songs in so far!
| https://fawm.org/fawmers/christmascard/
| stillblue wrote:
| I'm 31 and just started learning music a year ago. Ever since I
| started this is probably the only thing I actually enjoy doing
| everyday. Is it possible to get to a level of proficiency at
| this point in life where you get to play good enough you can
| start getting paid for it?
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| Yeah, it's a side business for me. Pre-covid, I was making
| $10-15k a year playing on the weekend. Kind of a fun thing to
| chase too, as if you're playing paying gigs you get to play
| with better musicians,
| circlefavshape wrote:
| Making a living out of music is difficult, but it's not that
| hard to make pocket money from playing in bar bands. You
| don't need much in the way of technical proficiency, but
| probably you'll need to do a lot of playing (esp with other
| musicians) to learn things like stagecraft and timing before
| anyone will give you a paid gig.
| Minor49er wrote:
| You can get paid, but it on its own most likely won't cover
| the costs that go into creating it. But it's often worth that
| cost anyways
| bodge5000 wrote:
| Same for me, though I've never made any money off it, or even
| played in front of someone. About 4 years ago I started playing
| with synths because I needed some music for a game dev project,
| and have loved it ever since (at great detriment to my wallet)
| achenet wrote:
| you're an inspiration man, thanks for posting that. :)
| circlefavshape wrote:
| Similar for me. I turned 50 last week, and have a good remote
| dev job. ATM finishing off recording a song with the band I've
| been in since 1987. Also running FB ads for some solo piano
| stuff. Not quite true to say "I don't care" because when my
| (tiny) audience grows a little it puts me in a good mood, but I
| do it because its enjoyable in itself
| songeater wrote:
| Similar vein - making music with AI. I had never been blessed
| with "natural" musical talents so I needed "cybernetic" support
| to get it done... using openAI's Jukebox. Will write a longer
| post about the experience at some point / guessing HN may like
| that.
|
| youtube:
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVRpMo19NwYKloFhnw6QzMg
| soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/songshtr blog:
| songshtr.github.io
| andrewzah wrote:
| Music is about discipline. "Talent" is more or less a
| multiplier, but is useless without discipline in the first
| place. Needing "talent" (to be very good at it) is a myth.
| You don't have to be the best in the world to be very good at
| something.
|
| There is no secret. It just takes time and work to get good
| at an instrument or producing.
|
| edit: clarity
| songeater wrote:
| I mostly agree with you, but with some changes (applies not
| just to music but any other field). Discipline is the
| multiplier on talent, not the other way round. "Talent" is
| most definitely not a myth - to take it to an egregious
| example, no amount of discipline would ever make me play
| center in the NBA or piano in Carnegie Hall. But... that's
| ok.
| andrewzah wrote:
| I should specify there's a difference of being in the top
| percentage of people in a field, and just being very good
| at that field. With sports, physical attributes are more
| important but even if you're not gonna be in the NBA you
| can still be quite good, etc.
|
| I don't see music as really competitive in that sense
| though because everyone has different tastes. Once you
| put in the time and work to learn to produce or play an
| instrument, it then comes down to creativity and
| networking really.
| songeater wrote:
| Again, I mostly do agree with you, especially as you get
| to more creative fields. I think what I would rephrase as
| is: given my genetic makeup, discipline is more likely to
| yield benefits using openAI Jukebox rather than guitar or
| piano.
|
| On this topic, if you have not already, one of the best
| movies I have seen in last couple years:
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11423784/ (is on netflix in
| the US).
| andrewzah wrote:
| "think what I would rephrase as is: given my genetic
| makeup, discipline is more likely to yield benefits using
| openAI Jukebox rather than guitar or piano."
|
| I don't agree with this sort of sentiment at all. I'm not
| talking about benefits as in being in the top % of people
| in a field- I don't care about that. I'm talking about
| getting very good and playing with people and/or earning
| income. Anyone can achieve that with time and work.
|
| The best players that I know all study quite diligently
| and play/make music literally all the time. They're
| getting their 10,000 hours in and then some. I'm speaking
| here as a guitar & bass player but this applies to really
| any instrument.
|
| Unless you physically or mentally cannot play e.g. the
| guitar, if you studied it diligently for several years,
| you would be better than a lot of people who haphazardly
| study it. By 1-2 years you could already be sitting in
| and doing small gigs (for bass, a lot sooner, since
| there's a glut of of amateur guitarists). By 3-4 years of
| again, diligent study, you would be quite
| decent/respectable. As far as "making it", that comes
| down to the above + socializing with musicians +
| interpersonal skills like being on time, etc.
|
| "Genetic makeup" or "talent" have absolutely zero to do
| with that unless it's literally impacting your ability to
| play or practice. All that's needed is discipline to
| study correctly (and motivation, which goes without
| saying). And a great many people study poorly.
| songeater wrote:
| There are amusical people in this world for whom making
| music (ie keeping pitch, keeping rhythm) is difficult in
| such a basic way that it's hard to explain to others who
| just "get it." Sort of being dyslexic I suppose. I can
| tell you from personal experience 2-3 years was not
| enough for me me on the violin but maybe 4 would have
| been. Oh well maybe it's the "diligence" I didn't have
| enough of. Anyway- I only disagree with you in the
| absolutes... generally your formula holds.
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| I dunno.
|
| I started out playing punk rock and frankly if I listen
| to the stuff I was doing in the 90s, it sucked. My timing
| and pitch was pretty bad. Like, as bad as anyone
| including the people I know who say they are a-musical.
|
| I've gotten measurably better.
|
| I don't believe that this is a genetic thing. Rather, I
| just like goofing around with music so much that, over
| the decades, I've developed much better timing and pitch
| as well as my larger musical vocabulary.
|
| I cannot speak for other people, but it's pretty obvious
| that while I am a pretty good musician now, I was not
| born with those abilities... they are the product of
| many, many hours of joyful exercise. If people can't find
| joy in sucking really bad at things (which is super
| helpful) that's probably something that can be overcome.
|
| In the course of decades, unless someone has a severe and
| measurable impairment, the minor differences in people
| evens out to the point where I don't feel it makes much
| sense at all to bring genetics or even personal
| disposition into the discussion.
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| Added for clarity: folks should be able to make music
| however feels fun for them, as far as I am concerned.
|
| I really like self-generating sounds created by modular
| synths. If coding is fun and feels rewarding for folks,
| my feeling is that AI or whatever is a wholly legit
| thing. Have fun and keep at it.
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| I'm a musician too, for over 30 of my soon to be 40 years. I
| too don't care about its "success" I've made a grand total of
| $11 and two tall boys performing, and easily spent a few
| thousand on gear/recording software (not to mention the running
| joke that I'm not allowed to buy more guitars). I play/record
| inconsistently but I love the hell out of it when I'm in it,
| and I'm just tickled that other people have enjoyed anything
| I've written too. Good for you!
| jjulius wrote:
| 34 years old, been playing forever, and all that matters to me
| is that I get to keep listening to music, playing music,
| collecting music and spinning music.
|
| Started playing the violin in orchestra in elementary school,
| taught myself the double bass in middle school so I could join
| jazz band, then taught myself the alto sax so I could help
| teach my little brother. Ended up shifting my focus to DJ'ing,
| then picked up the guitar in my 20's and now I'm learning the
| piano. I own some synths, too, and produce Ambient music
| occasionally.
|
| Most of it's for myself, but sometimes I'll spin in a club
| which is always a blast. I love volunteering with local club
| promoters to help them throw underground shows. I love putting
| together abstract concept mixes for myself and sharing them
| with just some family and friends. I love trying to bend some
| of my favorite piano pieces into some kind of abstract Ambient
| piece. I thought about pursuing it as a career and took some
| music production classes in college, but quickly realized that
| I really didn't want to bring money into the equation.
|
| You could call it a hobby, but I think a better word for it is
| passion. There's always something new to learn; new methods of
| playing, new ways to build a set, new instruments to pick up,
| new records and artists to happen upon. It's exciting to know
| that I'll always be discovering and learning in an area that I
| love so much. There's also a strong emphasis on improvisation
| in most of what I do, and learning how to trust my gut without
| second-guessing myself is an area that's always up for
| improvement.
|
| I don't need other people to hear what I do, I don't need to
| make a single cent doing it. I just need to be able to get lost
| in it. Aside from my wife and kid, there's no better feeling in
| the world to me than when I get that itch, that urge, that
| screams, "Go play RIGHT NOW," because I've learned over the
| years that, even if I don't know what I'm about to play, I
| almost always fall into that "flow" so goddamned easily and for
| such a long period of time whenever that urge hits. I love it
| so much.
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| That's quite relatable. I've been doing a whole lot of pro-
| bono hauling of generators/ sound systems to the middle of
| nowhere lately.
|
| I will say that as my kids got older and I got better, going
| out and playing for a little cash made it slightly easier to
| feel okay leaving the house.
|
| Additionally, I've played with a lot of "Dad" bands, where
| Thursday night or whatever is how the guys get out and have a
| couple of drinks and socialize-- as an older guy who has
| raised kiddos and been through a couple hard relationships,
| one of the more rewarding things about this practice has been
| being able to have those social relationships with other
| guys.
|
| And while I like your term "passion", I think that "practice"
| might be the better thing. In the same sense that one might
| be a doctor or a plumber or a lawyer. Or in the sense that we
| might do yoga or meditate.
|
| I didn't start playing piano until my late 20s, and I don't
| think I will ever get to where I can play Brahms or anything,
| but that instrument by itself seems deep enough to explore
| for a long, long time.
|
| My only point where I am just starting to depart from what
| you're saying here is that I am finding that, as I get older
| and find myself more and more invested in this practice I
| feel like I need to get myself out into the world more. Like,
| I just bought some genelecs last month, and I have a pair of
| AKG 414 coming today. Over the last couple of years I've
| accumulated an octatrack and asome modular synth stuff, a
| pedal steel guitar setuo, a double bass amp, a PA... all
| that's paid for itself. But as my kids have left, I also find
| myself spending about 2-3 hours a day playing trumpet and
| another couple hours messing around with recordings.
|
| I feel like if I am going to spend that much time on stuff, I
| ought to at least explore how to share it with other folks.
| jjulius wrote:
| >Additionally, I've played with a lot of "Dad" bands, where
| Thursday night or whatever is how the guys get out and have
| a couple of drinks and socialize-- as an older guy who has
| raised kiddos and been through a couple hard relationships,
| one of the more rewarding things about this practice has
| been being able to have those social relationships with
| other guys.
|
| I've actually been interested in picking the bass back up
| precisely for this reason. Finding a couple of other
| musicians to just jam with on a regular basis sounds
| fantastic. My kid's only two and I have another arriving
| soon, so maybe this will have to wait for a couple more
| years, haha.
|
| Speaking of kids - as an aside, it's been really awesome to
| watch my kid learn how to listen to music and develop their
| own musical tastes.
|
| >And while I like your term "passion", I think that
| "practice" might be the better thing. In the same sense
| that one might be a doctor or a plumber or a lawyer. Or in
| the sense that we might do yoga or meditate.
|
| I don't know why, but I was going to strongly disagree with
| this until you compared it to yoga/meditation, and now I'm
| onboard! It's definitely a practice that I am continually
| improving at while simultaneously centering and, perhaps,
| "resetting" my _self_.
|
| >... as I get older and find myself more and more invested
| in this practice I feel like I need to get myself out into
| the world more.
|
| >I feel like if I am going to spend that much time on
| stuff, I ought to at least explore how to share it with
| other folks.
|
| I completely understand this. Most of my peers use
| Soundcloud to host their work, but I've really been drawn
| to the idea of building my own bare-bones website to host
| my work in perpetuity. I really like the thought of a
| website that presents my art exactly as I want it
| presented, with fewer copyright restrictions, no trackers,
| no fluff, just, "Hey, this is who I am musically, check
| back here from time to time if you like what you hear, or
| don't, I don't care," lol.
|
| I think one reason I'm drawn to that moreso these days is
| because I'm a father. Sure, the way I'm doing it now will
| allow my kids to see me interacting with the art, but
| there's no place for them to see all of the stuff I've
| completed that I'm extra proud of. I'd hope that having
| that kind of a repository would encourage their own
| creativity as they grow up.
| rohanagrwl wrote:
| Building a social network for music sharing and discovery-
| https://incentify.club
|
| Despite the fact that in my head this product could eventually
| have a roadmap that disrupts the music industry, for now, even if
| it only helps me and my friends avoid the sucky process of
| sharing music links back and forth on WhatsApp, i'll be happy
| enough
|
| It's all a figment of your imagination anyway
| dewey wrote:
| I built a project to scratch my own itch as I wanted to see my
| blog posts in my calendar. I made it into a somewhat professional
| looking project but if I'm the only user and it works for me I'm
| already happy: https://editorialsync.com
| conschy wrote:
| My project Globemallow.io.
|
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/globemallow/jibhio...
|
| A few years ago I learned about how large of a CO2 pollutant the
| Internet is, and I became extremely fascinated with that concept
| because I had never thought about it before. In fact, a lot of
| people haven't it seems.
|
| I researched sustainable methodologies for internet development,
| and created the Chrome Extensions listed under Globemallow.io. To
| help people become more aware.
|
| It shows users a rough estimation of their internet browsing
| energy usage, and CO2 emissions emitted.
|
| Globemallow Dev view shows sustainable development best
| practices, and how a page has implemented them.
|
| Check it out, and give any feedback. Thanks in advance!
| pathsjs wrote:
| I am making a series of books on commutative algebra. The first
| one is available at https://www.ams.org/open-math-notes/omn-view-
| listing?listing...
|
| There is a sequel on homological methods, which is not online,
| and I am currently trying to publish both. When I have time, I
| would like to write a third volume on homotopical methods
| (essentially all the stuff needed for Andre-Quillen cohomology
| and the cotangent complex).
| nivethan wrote:
| https://leftwrite.io/
|
| I'm working on a project to focus on reading things and writing
| more. I found that it helps quite a bit and ill continue working
| on it as I personally find it rewarding.
|
| The project is in the space of stuff like second brains, and
| zettlekasten note taking but I think something with a really good
| ui is needed to make this stuff popular. I went the other way and
| made it as simple as possible.
|
| I'm using this project to focus on limiting the amount of code I
| write as I want this working for a long time and I believe that
| having less code probably helps that goal.
| skanga wrote:
| Aerial robotic drones to fight wild fires in CA and elsewhere.
| The challenge is the amount of weight they need to carry.
| spike021 wrote:
| For the past month and a half or so I've been learning
| Swift/SwiftUI and developing an iOS app. I intend to sell it
| since I know there's a niche market for it. However, I don't know
| that I'll get many sales and I'll probably start off just handing
| out a bunch of promo codes at first to get initial users. I don't
| mind if it isn't "successful", but if I could sell enough copies
| to make up for the Developer Program annual cost and perhaps
| enough to help me pay a friend a bit for helping design an icon,
| that would be enough to make me "happy", I think.
|
| A cherry on top would be maybe $100 a month or so. Even $50. Just
| to buy a couple meals with income from it.
|
| But if it doesn't, I won't be hugely disappointed. It's just been
| a fun side-project.
| slhomme wrote:
| https://getgumball.com
|
| My wife and I started an online/offline shop last year. When our
| very first orders came in, it was the best feeling ever! I wanted
| some kind of celebration device that would turn on and play some
| celebrating music each time this happened. So I started learning
| IoT / hardware and build a cool retro-looking police light that I
| can plug into our WooCommerce/Shopify/Zapier accounts (or really
| anything else with webhooks). This was such a fun project and
| people wanted to get some for their own. So I'm working on making
| it a "real" product. I don't care if it becomes a "success" or
| not, I'm already so happy to use it for my own and my friends.
| alientida wrote:
| Will you support Amazon sales?
| slhomme wrote:
| Yes, at least via websites like Zapier, integromat etc. I
| haven't looked at it yet, but I'm sure it's very possible to
| do it natively from Amazon via webhooks too. So I'd say 95%
| yes!
| dhr wrote:
| This is so awesome!
|
| Any recommendations on how to get started learning IoT and
| hardware?
| slhomme wrote:
| Thanks! I knew absolutely nothing about IoT and hardware
| before this, but quickly realized how big and welcoming the
| community is. This made things very motivating and enjoyable
| to get started (but still quite overwhelming!). I personally
| started by diving into the Arduino ecosystem and the world of
| micro controllers, particularly the esp8266 and esp32. It's
| all open-sourced and there are tones of tutorials to help you
| get started. The most challenging part for me so far has been
| to go from a "DIY prototype" for personal use to a
| "certified, safe commercial product". It's been a LOT more
| challenging than I thought, and took way longer to get there.
| But very fun to say the least.
| fm2606 wrote:
| After you get the "certified" product up and running maybe
| look at selling it as a kit for the DIYer.
| stevekemp wrote:
| Cute project. Minor typo in this sentence:
|
| "We'e going to produce 100 of them."
| slhomme wrote:
| Nice catch, thanks! Just fixed it. I'm still working on that
| website, a lot of the copy is still kind of temporary.
| [deleted]
| amin wrote:
| Wordo Dictionary.
|
| It's a complete faillure by any standard, lol. But it has a
| handful of power users who have begged me to keep it online. I
| built it years ago because I was fed up with the other dictionary
| websites, they have clutter and ads. And the definition text is
| so small. Wordo is very simple: https://wor.do/love.
|
| Users also have profiles, and can follow other users. They will
| be notified if one of them 'likes' a new word ("@pg likes the
| word 'cap table', 14 min ago"), like this:
| https://wor.do/@aminozuur
| the_gipsy wrote:
| My kdice/dicewars clone written in Elm: https://qdice.wtf
|
| No ads, no plan to monetize.
| coreyp_1 wrote:
| I'm late to the party, but I'll add mine:
|
| 1. A scripting language, designed to be embedded in other
| programs, emphasis on web templating. C++20, Flex, Bison,
| Unicode, Unit Tests, Doxygen, Github, Docker compilation, and a
| YouTube series over its development and explaining how everything
| fits together. I'm almost done with my 1st draft of the language
| (6k lines of code, 3k lines of comments), after which I'll begin
| recording.
|
| 2. I record hymns in congregational style, as the traditional
| pianists used to play for church services. I'm focusing on
| public-domain hymns, re-typesetting them using Lilypond, and
| including the choral music as an overlay with an overhead shot of
| my hands playing. I don't care if I make money. I believe that
| this playing technique (improvisation based on 4-part vocal
| music) must be preserved, and I'm trying to do so.
|
| 3. I am planning on recording an instructional course (available
| for free) to teach how to play in the evangelistic church pianist
| style. Using my approach, I have had adult students go from
| "never touched a piano or read music" to "can play a hymn for
| church with the big, full sound of the evangelistic style" in 3
| months. Again, I believe that this style needs to be preserved,
| and I've seen a lot of the existing materials (and even bought
| them myself to evaluate, to the tune of thousands of $$$ spent),
| and I'm greatly disappointed in what is available. I teach
| technique and theory (I have a BMus in piano performance from a
| state university), and I really don't care to teach classical
| piano. I would rather teach church musicians.
| lexa1979 wrote:
| My 8 y.o. wanted to be a youtuber/gamer... So, I'm learning how
| to use OBS and Shotcut, and we've started his channel. It's fun
| for him and I'm learning something new, but we're filming faster
| than I can edit the videos, there's only one online for now.
| ...and it's in french.
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDwbFHc_n6sVERqI2kotiWw
| Gazoo101 wrote:
| A better fusion of audio and visuals for live shows:
| http://www.planmixplay.com
|
| Examples of usage:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-40ITVSRBE
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J1hhTWgCXM
| akuro wrote:
| I am currently building a suite of software that'll allow users
| to easily design and run Monte Carlo simulations to solve
| problems in statistical physics. I am in no rush, mostly because
| there are probably only a few thousand people who will ever need
| such capabilities and it's fair to say that most of them will
| have enough knowledge to build their own Monte Carlo simulations
| from scratch.
|
| Honestly, I'm only doing it because it's a nice way of wasting
| time whilst convincing myself that I'm not wasting time!
| malux85 wrote:
| This sounds cool! Is it open source? Or some way for us to
| follow or see a release?
| _jordan wrote:
| that's awesome! I tried to do the very same thing:
| https://github.com/simulatedphysics
|
| do you have a website by any chance where I can follow
| progress?
| notsentient wrote:
| I've been working on an WebAssembly Ultima Online browser client.
| It's a heavily modified port of
| https://github.com/ClassicUO/ClassicUO (an open-source UO client
| written in C#).
|
| You can play the test version using Chrome, however beware as it
| needs to download over 2GB of game resources, and still has a few
| glitches with audio. That said it runs at a stable 60fps on most
| systems I've tested so far. We have two test servers, one in AU
| and EU. Auto-account creation is on so just type in a
| username/password to get started.
|
| https://play.zhmodern.com/
|
| The server the client connects to is another project myself and a
| few others are working on. It's a ground-up rewrite of an early
| 2000s custom server for UO called Zuluhotel.
|
| https://github.com/ZuluHotelAustralia/zuluhotel
| mattw2121 wrote:
| Built a home maintenance todo list for myself and then decided to
| write up some details for each, link videos, etc so that others
| could use it to track their maintenance tasks around their home.
|
| https://homemaintlist.com/
| culi wrote:
| Most of my personal projects are open-source and, even though I
| often put effort into making them accessible and usable by
| others, it's usually just a passion project and/or an excuse to
| learn some technology
|
| I think part of me cares about making them presentable "just in
| case" they blow up. I'd love for my projects to spread an
| interest in conlanging, voting method theory, agroecology, or
| whatever else I'm currently obsessed with but I don't really care
| if they go unnoticed too
| bcl wrote:
| Ha! I've been working on https://movielandmarks.com/ since 2006
| or so. It has gone through various changes (started out as a LAMP
| stack). It is currently a static site built from a pile of json
| and a go program to assemble all the parts. I'm the only
| contributor these days, and only work on it when I feel like it.
|
| At the start I had dreams of selling tons of DVDs via Amazon
| associates. But I'm terrible at marketing :) So these days it's
| just a simple site with no ads -- just 1258 landmarks from 322
| movies. I sometimes announce new additions on twitter from
| https://twitter.com/movielandmarks but it only gets about 30 or
| so visitors a day (mostly bots).
| Eric_WVGG wrote:
| Looks fun. I'd fill in a few dozen suggestions if there was a
| form.
| dllthomas wrote:
| I'm making a board game based on A Night In The Lonesome October.
| If we define success as "it's good enough that I try to get the
| rights to the material and am able to and sell it commercially
| and it does well", that'd be nice but it's not the point. If we
| define success as "I have fun with some friends and family" then
| I definitely care whether it succeeds or not.
| kumar_jith wrote:
| A rummy game. Like some of the hobby project creaters, I was
| always starting a hobby project and in half way I start another.
| The saga of not shipping continued. I decided to end of this
| cycle.Let's start something fun and simple and ship it and dont
| care about it. Here it is and its special for me
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cards.roos...
| [deleted]
| ryanbigg wrote:
| I'm working on building an implementation of Magic: The Gathering
| in Ruby: https://GitHub.com/radar/mtg
|
| It's fun trying to work out the different card / game mechanics
| and how they all interact.
| adnanc wrote:
| I've been working on https://ayahbyayah.com an iOS app which I
| originally released in 2012 as a simple app for listening to the
| recitation of a single Ayat (verse) of the Qur'an.
|
| I've been performing intermittent upgrades over the years as I
| wanted to retain the simplicity, ease of use with a focus on
| providing the most accurate and clearest Ayat text in any app.
|
| The latest update has incorporated word by word audio timings and
| advanced play back controls for a completely hands-free
| operation, even serves as a teleprompter for the Qur'an.
| tsol wrote:
| I like this, it's useful to be able to go ayah by ayah
| especially when some are tougher than others. The hadith on the
| top of the page is a good one too, never heard it before
|
| Are you going to make an android version?
| snarfy wrote:
| I've been making mods for Unreal Tournament 2004. It's a lot of
| work for a 14 year old game that barely has any active users and
| zero chance of monetization, and I don't care. I like the game
| and like making mods.
| blunte wrote:
| Not the answer you're looking for, maybe...
|
| Life. Whether it "succeeds" or not (ignoring the biological
| succession pun) is in the eye of the beholder, but choosing
| whether to care or not is a fairly continuous active choice for
| the individual. At some point in life some of us may reach a
| state of not caring whether personally or societally important
| individual life goals are reached. Not caring can offer some nice
| freedom, although it might be unsettling for some people (akin to
| being disassociated from reality).
|
| Non-commercial endeavors, aka hobbies or passions. Dancing,
| playing music, woodworking, etc. For me it's music, dance,
| massage, and building things. All of these can be shared,
| directly/physically or at least in ways other people see and
| experience.
|
| Massage is my most practical example. I have some training, but I
| don't do it for money or profession. With friends, family, and
| lovers, there are many opportunities. And when traveling in
| places where massage is common, I occasionally offer to trade
| places with the therapist in the latter part of the time. Many
| therapists who work for a living are in great need of massage and
| therefore most appreciative. It is very rewarding. (I still pay
| the full price for my massage I received.)
|
| People who blog (not me) are very admirable. Most of them earn
| nothing, and often what they write is of value to others. This is
| very true for tech people who write solutions to bugs or problems
| or who build tutorials just to share. These latter cases often
| result in financial gain for their readers!
| slfnflctd wrote:
| This is actually the answer I came here looking for-- with some
| unexpected flavorful details! Sad to see it so far down in the
| thread.
|
| Letting go of whether I 'succeed at life' has been a difficult
| and ongoing process. I also think it's one of the most
| important and freeing personal psychological developments one
| can experience.
| alexnastase wrote:
| I was a bit annoyed I couldn't use keyboard shortcuts in most
| online json formatters so I build my own mostly for my personal
| use. After a while I got the idea to ask the guy who owns
| jsonformatter.com if he wants to host it and after a while he got
| on board. So there you go : https://jsonformatter.com/
| ggcdn wrote:
| I made this website for various little calculations and
| references I need to look up all the time for the day job.
|
| Its useful for me, and kind of relaxing to work on, so I'll keep
| hacking away at it, adding new tools over time. But I haven't
| really shared it with anyone yet.
|
| https://calcs.app
|
| Built with React, hosted on Netlify. Probably riddled with bad
| practices, but it seems to work for now.
|
| My current task is trying to figure out Fabric.js integration
| with React so I can do some more dynamic graphics (like general
| frame and truss analysis)
| ajxs wrote:
| I've been building a platform upon which people can host
| webrings. Unfortunately it's not public just yet. I _know_ this
| won 't _succeed_ in any shape or form, however I like the idea of
| doing my little bit to help the resurgence of the small-web.
| herval wrote:
| I'm working on a Wikipedia meets HN meets social bookmarking site
| (plus accompanying mozilla hubs space) called xrpedia
| (https://xrpedia.xyz)
|
| Idea is just learning me some Web VR by building a site about VR
| that can be visited in VR, like a meta-meta-museum :-)
|
| This is nowhere near complete or functional, and I don't expect
| it to move super fast, so not much to see yet, but exploring web
| VR has been fun!
| cableshaft wrote:
| Pretty much any of the books or board games or video games I'm
| working on. It'd be great if they did succeed, but I'm not doing
| a whole lot in marketing or promotion to try to make them
| succeed, especially right now.
|
| At some point (hopefully soon) I plan to make a new personal
| homepage for my projects, get back into streaming on Twitch, and
| make more Youtube videos about my games (I only have like 7
| overview videos of my board game designs on Youtube when I've
| made like, 40+ over the years, the ones with videos are only the
| ones I submitted to competitions), but in the meantime I'm just
| hacking away on them in the background.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/user/cableshaft/videos
|
| Like a new version of my Proximity video game I've made a decent
| amount of progress on this past year but my only update video is
| still from October 2020. I _had_ intended to make that update
| weekly, and stream every time I worked on it but then I got busy
| at work and worn out and my office became a mess and I stopped
| doing it. Been telling myself each weekend for the past like
| three months that I need to make a new update video and still
| haven 't yet. Maybe this weekend I'll finally do it:
| https://youtu.be/0IAx9fsBuus
| jimmy2020 wrote:
| Thinking of accessible no-code application needs a robust drag
| and drop library not just capable of dragging and repositioning
| the DOM element but also comes with high performance. So I made
| DFlex (https://github.com/dflex-js/dflex) where the DOM tree
| stays untouched, with the same order but the elements change
| their positions with CSS transform only. That's done without
| changing the element position to Fixed or absolute. I've added
| some features recently to handle huge numbers of rows up to 1k
| elements but still, there's so much to do.
| brentis wrote:
| Built a stock market scanner for my own needs and it has been a
| culmination of all my skills. Market is pretty saturated, however
| huge sense of pride which nobody can take from me.
|
| On top of that it's what I use to trade. Hearing the feedback
| from my subscribers is my gold. https://mometic.com
| ungawatkt wrote:
| just fyi firefox give a SSL error if I click the link, though
| oddly not if I open in a new tab.
|
| "Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does
| not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not
| valid for mometic.com. The certificate is only valid for
| *.mometic.com."
| city41 wrote:
| I am making a level editor for Super Mario Bros 3. My ultimate
| goal is to fully reverse engineer the game and support all
| versions (NES, SNES and GBA), which will likely take me years.
|
| https://smaghetti.com
| bravetraveler wrote:
| All of them until they prove to me otherwise
| carapace wrote:
| I'm making large flying buildings out of swarm drones that self-
| assemble into cellular geodesic structures to form vast kites
| that use the Magnus effect to move. I've got a half-baked website
| going now: https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/
|
| The project includes a simple system for writing provably-correct
| software, an innovative UI that integrates text and GUI
| interaction, and a plan to collect and recycle the plastic waste
| of the various oceanic gyres (the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,
| et. al.)
|
| It probably sounds overly ambitious and even crazy, but all the
| necessary pieces are there, it's just a matter of putting them
| together.
| grvdrm wrote:
| The number of newsletters out there is overwhelming, but a
| newsletter is my side-project relevant to this thread. Called The
| Teardown:
|
| https://theteardown.substack.com/
|
| Recently writing more frequently and focusing on the intersection
| between every day technology use and health (physical, mental). I
| like to dissect my own life to help describe that interplay in
| more detail. And I hope some of you can relate to the stories
| about experimenting with technology as you grow up and navigate
| adult life.
|
| Some recent favorites:
|
| https://theteardown.substack.com/p/the-different-internets
|
| https://theteardown.substack.com/p/is-it-better-to-look-stup...
|
| Two older posts:
|
| https://theteardown.substack.com/p/wanted-just-friends-the-t...
|
| https://theteardown.substack.com/p/paul-grahams-essay-about-...
| wmurmann wrote:
| Hooked up Apple's speech to text & Google's translation API's for
| subtitles during FaceTime. Just released it a week ago.
|
| https://closedcaptain.com/
| Rumudiez wrote:
| My day job. Personal projects get a little more heart, but
| "success" to me is usually intrinsic, not extrinsic. I'm probably
| a little weird when it comes to motivating factors, but not
| alone.
| bigpeopleareold wrote:
| I feel this way too. Success is measured in just "is my
| employer happy with what I do?"
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| Have you considered using "will the skills I hone here help me
| with my side projects?" as a way to decide which job to apply
| for?
|
| I don't have enough data to say it's a good idea, but so far
| I'm liking it.
| datameta wrote:
| Useful metric!
|
| Among the other factors, which are:
|
| "Does this job allow me to have time to do side projects?"
|
| "Does this job provide the funds for my hobby?"
| bigpeopleareold wrote:
| It's always been the reverse for me - side projects have
| tended to give fresh input that my day job doesn't provide.
| trutannus wrote:
| For me at least, its not the work tasks itself, its the
| dealing with the company and the amount of inefficiency that
| gets in the way of being able to _do my tasks_. When I do
| them, I enjoy them. Waiting a week for information and not
| being allowed to work on other tasks in the mean time will
| make anyone a little demotivated.
| Mezzie wrote:
| I'm doing/have done this!
|
| I took my current job (in communications) in order to get
| better at outreach, marketing, etc. for when I work for
| myself since that's what I was the weakest at as a
| freelancer. I'm also interested in tech ethics so I took a
| job in politics so I could become more familiar with how the
| sausage is made.
|
| Now I'm looking for a swe job so I can get more experience
| working in teams of devs since most of the tech work I've
| done has been solo work.
|
| I'll let you know how it worked out in 10 years?
| echelon wrote:
| Oof. This is probably most people, too.
|
| There need to be more jobs where the interest alignment in work
| is 100%. Disney animators, Nintendo programmers, audio
| programming, SpaceX engineers, ML/AI, bioinformatics, ...
| Rockets, chemicals, machines, visual toys, solving moonshot
| things, ...
|
| Less plumbing and glue code. Less adtech. Less studying and
| optimizing trivial human interactions that nobody will
| remember.
| tessierashpool wrote:
| there's a lot of jobs like this out there -- and a lot of
| people working in them -- but you pay a premium for it. I
| think economists even have a term for it. employers don't
| have to charge as much when people are willing to take a pay
| cut to do the work.
|
| be careful what you wish for, though. in the entertainment
| industry, for people like actors and directors, the pay cut
| is only at the early stages, and unions limit how deep it
| goes even then. for video games, though, it's an absolute
| nightmare. interest alignment in work, in that case, can turn
| into a recipe for suffering.
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| The haskell tax.
| lizard wrote:
| I like my job. I mean, it's not necessarily my _passion_, but
| I care about the cause and believe I contribute directly and
| significantly to it. And while there is a lot of plumbing to
| do, I also have freedom to explore news ideas and learn new
| things.
|
| But "anything I do for work" was my first thought when I saw
| this post.
|
| What it comes down to is that there's only so much I can do
| to help my work's projects succeed. There's just too much out
| of my control. Decisions have already been made; contracts
| are already being signed; the clients believe they've done
| enough testing.
|
| I can pick up the slack, go above and beyond, and do other
| people's job. But the project can still fail to get user buy-
| in, fail to make any notable impact, fail to make or save
| money, or just outright fail for reasons I can do nothing
| about.
|
| That doesn't mean I don't try. I just don't care if these
| projects succeed. If we did what we could and learned things
| we can carry forward, I'm satisfied.
| pram wrote:
| I work in data and ML and it's mostly plumbing and glue code
| lol
| bitexploder wrote:
| People seriously underrate how important data cleaning and
| massaging is in ML though.
| blunte wrote:
| FWIW, I find glue code and integration to be quite rewarding
| sometimes. You take other good, useful things and connect
| them, resulting in a new/bigger/better useful thing...
| without "doing anything"! :)
|
| Seriously, for some of the things you mentioned, I suspect
| the key is to NOT be highly focused on the career path which
| pays the most. I kind of doubt that audio programmers are
| paid as much as Sharepoint developers, but I would hope they
| have more fun.
| sdenton4 wrote:
| I work in audio machine learning, and it's pretty great. :)
|
| Sometimes people call it a niche field, but I think they
| are typically just over focused on imagenet.
| Tronno wrote:
| > There need to be more jobs where the interest alignment in
| work is 100%. Disney animators, Nintendo programmers, audio
| programming, SpaceX engineers, ML/AI, bioinformatics, ...
|
| Some of these jobs can involve crunch time, low pay, and
| other forms of employee abuse, since people are willing to
| suffer for the sake of their passion. Sometimes boring work
| is the healthier option.
| ss108 wrote:
| ^^ this
|
| Would add: prestige law and government jobs; trying to be
| an actor; working at Amazon; working as a chef/cook at most
| restaurants, esp fancy ones--the list is quite long of
| "passion jobs" that pay poorly and involve all sorts of
| abuse people wouldn't put up with at other jobs.
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| working at Amazon is a passion job?
| bitexploder wrote:
| I think more prestige. But yeah, for some people.
| ss108 wrote:
| Yeah I guess that label isn't accurate for Amazon (and a
| lot of other bigtech jobs) and prestige law, which are
| more about social status, etc.
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| Unless you're constantly changing jobs, it doesn't last.
| ryanbigg wrote:
| I'm working on an implementation of Magic: The Gathering in Ruby.
| https://GitHub.com/radar/mtg
|
| It's fun to work out the different card / game mechanics and how
| they all interact. It's a good different project from the typical
| web-dev-y stuff I do every day.
| spolsky_co wrote:
| I built a product monitoring tool couple months ago, because I
| had problems with knowing what users do in my app without looking
| into the database.
|
| Usually I was sending some logs to Slack, but I didn't get any
| stats from that and couldn't read easily the history of
| events/logs, so I created the Logspot which monitors user
| activity and automates workflows (WIP).
|
| Couple of users has registered - not much, but I'm still hoping
| it's going to take off some day.
|
| https://logspot.io
| umvi wrote:
| I'm working on a programming puzzle game with 2D sprite graphics
| where every object in the game has an API and can be interacted
| with programmatically. Every level can be completed either
| autonomously (i.e. scripting player movement/actions) or non-
| autonomously (using i.e. WASD to manually move around and perform
| actions). It's a game where you work smarter, not harder - if a
| level seems tedious at first blush, it means you haven't thought
| about how to automate the tedium with programming:
|
| https://www.bryanpg.com/games/pragma_twice
|
| I plan on doing a Kickstarter this year just for fun, but even if
| it doesn't get funded I'll still continue to work on it.
| minhmeoke wrote:
| I've gotten quite interested in music lately and decided to try
| some experiments where I visualize various sounds and music in
| the frequency domain using algorithms like Fourier transform and
| variants such as Welch's method for spectral density estimation.
|
| This works best on a device like a computer which is capable of
| 60 frames per second or higher refresh rate. Please also change
| the resolution in YouTube settings to 720p60 for best results.
|
| Warning: these videos contain lots of visual movement (basically
| lines moving around like on an oscilloscope), please avoid
| viewing if you are prone to seizures. But it should be fine for
| normal people (the level of visual intensity is comparable to
| watching an action movie).
|
| A few examples:
|
| 1. Dialtone using dual-tone multi-frequency signaling and 56K
| dial-up modem connection:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FomWraKuDFg&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
|
| 2. Deluxe Multitone Car Alarm:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uKcvZL7HM&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
|
| 3. Composition using only sounds from Windows 98 and XP
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lT-jr9sS6Y&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
|
| 4. Piano Music (Ballade Pour Adeline):
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnAfrEk429w&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
|
| 5. Electronic Music Demo:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MllJLIX1glg&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
|
| 6. Super Guitar Bros. cover of the Gerudo Valley song (from
| Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXVbDfj4lzY&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
| cakirh wrote:
| http://shorten.ist/
|
| shorten your web links/street adresses
| cakirh wrote:
| curl https://shorten.ist/index.php?url=http://www.google.com
| dadro wrote:
| I've been working on a side project that aggregates state gov't
| survey data on lakes/ponds (currently just one state) that
| includes water quality, depth, size, fish species, invasive
| plants, etc and allows me to search it and see it on a map. I use
| it to find good remote fishing spots for species I want to
| target. So far it has worked great and I've only shared it with a
| few fellow anglers.
| ryangittins wrote:
| https://siftrss.com/
|
| I've been running siftrss for about five years now. It lets you
| enter an RSS feed, add a filter, and get a new RSS feed excluding
| the stuff you specify. I made it to scratch my own itch.
|
| Originally it wasn't going to be public but I thought, "eh what
| the heck, it's only a bit more effort to put a simple interface
| on it." Since then more than 100k feeds have been created and
| donations have paid for the minimal hosting costs.
|
| I do get feature requests from time to time,and I would like to
| fulfill them eventually, but for the most part I rarely work on
| it. I'd love to have richer, more powerful filters with boolean
| logic along with feed combining, rewriting of tags, proxies, all
| sorts of things... but I've been a software engineer long enough
| to know that the greater complexity would mean more people
| emailing me their demands and blaming me for their (mis)use of
| the tool. It just wouldn't be fun anymore. It'd be another chore.
|
| I've thought about trying to monetize it but 1) it seems unlikely
| that it'd ever amount to anything substantial, 2) probably
| wouldn't be worth the effort, and 3) kind of feels against the
| spirit of RSS.
|
| I guess in some sense it has succeeded, but in reality it
| succeeded on day one when I was able to use it myself.
| [deleted]
| randomsilence wrote:
| Do you know https://linklonk.com from @lonk11? It feels like
| RSS is slowly regaining traction with all those small projects
| that add missing functionalities.
| hamburglar wrote:
| Ooh, this is something I have contemplated making for a while.
| I think a really good way to get sophisticated filtering is to
| allow filters to be specified in snippets of JS (or LUA) that
| are then executed by a sandboxed interpreter that presents the
| filter with a very restricted "DOM" representing the post+feed
| metadata. Include things like author and title and body and
| links, and let the user do whatever filtering logic they want.
| And if you really wanted to make it user friendly, instead of
| having them edit the code, give them a blockly UI for the
| filter editor. You have to limit the CPU time given to a filter
| to avoid runaways but that isn't hard.
| screenbreakout wrote:
| I bought some land over 10 years ago, it's about 2 hectares,
| water runs through it and I wanted to make a garden, so I started
| digging, would sleep on site for a couple of weeks then return to
| civilization... eventually I planted it with fruit trees and
| comfrey and stuff and just left it to it's own devices... there's
| an inverted swastika like you see on some churches in india, an
| @, and a bunch of other motifs.. at one point I thought of
| selling it as land art, but no idea how to go about it... I'll
| give a cut to anyone who helps me though :-) :-)
| https://imgz.org/iRe6wg3Z/ https://imgz.org/i9UEvZca/
| https://imgz.org/i8zESSAw/
| chilling wrote:
| what is your goal for this land? You are looking for help but
| in what? Creating more art?
| screenbreakout wrote:
| Help in ...selling it as land art, the goal was to make a
| garden in the style of permaculture, pfaf.org , plants for a
| future is a good example of stuff I wanted to plant, it's
| transformed pasture land into an "ecotopia"... ultimately it
| was a productive use of my time as while digging it manually
| I processed a lot of reading material in my head and had a
| healthy lifestyle. I think creating such gardens could be a
| matrix for (young) people as you create ongoing wealth that
| can be increasingly harvested over the years (there are more
| than 10kinds of willow planted on it, raspberries, mint
| spreading more each year ...
| vdddv wrote:
| https://goo.gl/maps/hpuj9X7srT46NN3o8
| exikyut wrote:
| IMHO I think it's very good that you don't seem overly
| eager to just get it sold all at once, because I can't help
| but cautiously suspect that a lot of buyers would say all
| the right things then either just let it rot, or go build
| on top of it (it seems to be located in a rural area, but
| near some other houses, suggesting low to moderate demand).
| abcanthur wrote:
| Wow! Can you post some non-satellite pictures? Is willow the
| primary plant making all those shapes? Or have you done
| significant earth moving too?
| amorriscode wrote:
| My partner and I are creating a product every month this year
| (https://12products.xyz) so every product in this project is "I
| don't care if this success".
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| "One where you don't care if it makes money or gets a lot of
| attention, but you are working on it regardless."
|
| The majority of software I use on a daily basis was created
| through such projects. Projects initiated not to make money or to
| garner lots of attention. Of course, eventually many of these
| projects became popular and/or comercialised somehow.
| forinti wrote:
| I built an ads site which lets you post ads via Telegram.
|
| https://trocadouro.com.br
|
| It was going to be used for my kids' school (people exchange
| uniforms a lot) , but then we switched schools. So it's in a
| limbo now.
| jmmv wrote:
| I guess mine right now is EndBASIC (https://www.endbasic.dev/)
| which I started at the beginning of the pandemic and still have
| plans for it.
|
| I've pretty good memories of how I learned to program on a
| computer with a much simpler environment than today's, and I've
| been trying to recreate that using modern technologies. Part of
| the motivation was to have something to teach the basics to my
| kids... but, well, all my time has gone into building and
| extending this stuff instead of teaching haha.
| tunesmith wrote:
| I have two, one more ambitious than the other.
|
| First is a site that has existed for around 25 years now,
| although it was shut off for several years. It came back to life
| when the pandemic started, and is behind private auth now.
| Basically, it lets me and other creative writers collaborate on
| branching fiction novels together. I write a chapter and put a
| couple of choices at the end, which serve as writing prompts. A
| reader comes along, clicks a choice, and is faced with the need
| to write that chapter, and so on. Our favorite story is currently
| 288 chapters, and is projected to reach about 1000 pages when
| it's done, which will probably happen in the next few months.
| We're all good enough writers to pay attention to
| characterization, dialogue, and theme, so all the threads tend to
| reach natural narrative conclusions, and I'm even able to export
| it to a printed "branching fiction" format and publish the books
| through Amazon KDP. Someday I'll find a lawyer and figure out how
| to open it to the public (it supports multiple in-progress
| stories) but for now I'm quite enjoying having weekly Discord
| meetings with my writer friends, writing a handful of chapters
| per week. As for the tech side, probably the most fun recently
| was writing a react component that lets you graph out the
| animated chapter map in all sorts of fun ways.
|
| Second actually has some technology in common with the above. I'm
| enamored with using propositional logic (not predicate logic) to
| make and verify argument graphs. Meaning, you create some nodes
| with sentences and truth values, and build up actual visual
| graphs with sentences in bubbles that you can derive from other
| premises, and then collaboratively judge whether the truth value
| is propagating throughout the graph. It would enable people to
| browse to someone's conclusion, and then explore down through
| their entire argument down to their facts (which should have the
| same truth value for all people) and values (which should have
| truth values that can differ from person to person), and then
| people could pick points in the argument to disagree with or
| challenge. Kind of my own attempt to turn the current age's
| destructive argument habit on its head, into something
| constructive and collaborative, in a journey to discover shared
| truths, and opposing perspectives that we can respect. Like I
| said, ambitious.
| leetrout wrote:
| I just started building a "terraform simulator" to teach
| fundamental concepts of terraform with no overhead of real
| services.
|
| Learn the tool behavior in a safe way very quickly. Thats my
| goal. I'll at least force it on my teammates for a small
| workshop.
| ctxc wrote:
| Where do I sign up?
| nileshtrivedi wrote:
| I am building https://learnawesome.org
|
| It's an attempt to organize world's knowledge. Right now, it
| looks like GoodReads-like social network for learning resources
| organized by topics, formats, difficulty levels etc. But there's
| a knowledge-graph that separates ideas and the medium those ideas
| are expressed in. For eg: "Sapiens - the book" and "TED Talk
| given by Yuval Harari" are connected to the same node.
|
| This idea isn't anything new. Here is Danny Hillis talking about
| it at OSCON 2012: https://youtu.be/wKcZ8ozCah0
|
| The code is open-source on github: https://github.com/learn-
| awesome/learn/
| LeonB wrote:
| Nice ideas and good work.
|
| I've put down various ideas and links about constructing and
| testing knowledge graphs here
| https://wiki.secretgeek.net/dependency-graph-for-knowledge
|
| Good luck with what you're doing.
| virgil_disgr4ce wrote:
| S E N T I E N T S: The Role-Playing Game of Artificial
| Consciousness - https://www.sentientsrpg.com/
|
| About 7 months ago I started writing a role-playing game because
| I loved the premise: you play an android who has spontaneously
| and mysteriously developed consciousness--but android
| manufacturers are actively hunting down these "Awakened" robots
| and suppressing knowledge of the phenomenon.
|
| I'm about 60 pages into the core rulebook and still working on
| the design and playtesting. Sign up on the homepage if you're
| interested!
| throwamon wrote:
| Ever heard of the anime Ergo Proxy? It's also about androids
| that spontaneously and mysteriously develop consciousness.
| mistursinistur wrote:
| I'm building wooden benches for bus and light rail stops in my
| neighborhood.
|
| Lots of riders are elderly and find themselves sitting on the
| curb, feet in the gutter, as they wait for transit. Studies
| suggest that perceived wait time increases by 30%+ when riders
| are forced to stand while they wait. There's no cheaper way to
| shave several minutes off of perceived trip time, for every trip.
|
| Inspired by
| https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam....
| tsol wrote:
| I'm just curious about the logistics-- so are you allowed to
| just put a bench down at bus stops, legally? No one removes
| them?
| spyke112 wrote:
| I have such a hard time relating to this. In Denmark I feel
| like 95% of bus stops have some sort of bench, and a lot of
| them has like a small shed, to get out of the rain in bad
| weather. It's wild to think that citizens should be adding
| those themselves. But I guess there's no profit in adding
| benches to each stop as a bus company.
| sangnoir wrote:
| > It's wild to think that citizens should be adding those
| themselves.
|
| Antipathy towards the homeless ends up harming other
| citizens: "If we add a bench there, the homeless could
| sit/sleep there, and we'd have to look at them". The result
| is lack of benches, or ones that are incredibly user-hostile.
| wishinghand wrote:
| I used to live in Southern California. Many bus stops have no
| bench and no weather protection. It can get brutally hot
| without shade, and since it's a drought area, lots of people
| get caught without clothing for inclement weather. I think it
| almost criminal that there's at least no covering for these
| stops, much less a bench to help wait out such conditions.
| nicbou wrote:
| I love this.
|
| I've been through so many places where it's nearly impossible
| to find a place to sit for free. You just walk and walk and
| walk, until you're ready to spend 4-6$ to sit inside a
| business.
|
| Benches have no economic value. You just sit there for free -
| you _loiter_ - for as long as you want with no expectation of
| buying anything. Yet they provide undeniable value to their
| users.
|
| I've made a habit of mapping benches on Open Street Map. Have
| you considered adding yours there, or updating the bus stops
| accordingly? StreetComplete lets you do it easily.
| JNRowe wrote:
| I really shouldn't ask and then pick favourites, but between
| you and me I _love_ this.
|
| Now that you've made me think about this, I can only place one
| bus stop with a half covered "perch" within a few kilometres of
| my house. All of the others are just a sign in the grass verge,
| or a wind exposed perspex cover in a couple of cases. Sadly, it
| hadn't even occurred to me how unhelpful that it is for many of
| the people that rely on busses.
| eb0la wrote:
| IMHO you succeeded the moment you installed the first bench.
| olek wrote:
| Good to know there are decent and kind people out there :-)
| beaconstudios wrote:
| I love this thread idea - I'm much more excited by people's
| passion projects than their money making ones.
|
| I seem to collect passion projects like nobody's business -
| honestly I think I get excited by concepts then bogged down in
| the details, but I'm starting to overcome this and get deeper
| into projects now so let's give this a whirl:
|
| - civarium, a game AI desk-toy where little villagers go about
| their lives and expand the village themselves (think Banished but
| zero-player) - pretty early days but good fun to occasionally
| tinker on: https://github.com/ajeffrey/civarium
|
| - my main fun project at the moment is a private branch off of
| the above - I'm trying to make a really systemic game where
| you're a mage apprentice trying to solve quests without violence.
| Not public yet but will be if I get to the point where the first
| demo quest is fully playable. The idea is that the world is data
| driven and by being one of the first magic users you can push
| various systems out of their attractor/equilibrium states.
| martindbp wrote:
| https://github.com/martindbp/merkl
|
| A ML pipelining/build library. Think like make but for ML models,
| but written in Python code and invalidating results based on data
| and code changes using Merkle DAGs. Similar to DVC, but again
| using pure Python instead of YAML files, and (arguably) more
| powerful caching. I use it myself and find it very useful, but
| don't have the energy to polish and promote it :) Maybe that will
| change in the future though!
| emeraldd wrote:
| I built a little toy that watches for node changes in k8s and
| adds them to haproxy load balancer. Mostly because I wanted ipv6
| and digital ocean didn't have a load balancer that supported it.
|
| https://github.com/The-Next-Bug/k8s-node-watcher
|
| It's really crappy go code, but it seems to work well enough for
| what I needed, which is basically a toy.
| bruce343434 wrote:
| I'm working on a programming language. It's a slow and tedious
| route and I still have so much to do, but I'm making it for
| myself. If others take it up, I'll be flattered. If not, I still
| got my worth.
|
| ananke.dev
| yitchelle wrote:
| I am posting adverts from old tech Magazines such as Byte,
| Computer, IEEE Spectrum etc onto Twitter. I look at magazines
| from 90s, 80s, 70s and beyond..
|
| https://twitter.com/OldTechAdverts
|
| Certainly uplifting and interesting reliving the old retro
| technology back in the day.
| nixpulvis wrote:
| a shell: http://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh/
| tslater2006 wrote:
| I built a few utilities that help PeopleSoft developers do their
| job. It's a pretty niche market and it's all MIT licensed. I work
| on it when I need it to do something, or someone requests a
| feature. They have stayed pretty low on radars since they were
| released (the oldest was 6 years ago). I don't work on them for
| them to be popular. I work on them because the few times I've
| needed them, they were indispensable.
|
| Trace Wizard [0] - Peoplesoft App Server trace file analyzer.
| Shows execution paths, sql statements, exceptions and a bunch of
| stars.
|
| DMS-Viewer [1] - Peoplesoft uses a program called Data Mover to
| migration data between databases. It exports the data into an
| undocumented file format. This utility allows you to inspect and
| alter the data before importing to a new database.
|
| Pivet [2] - command line utility that dumps various Peoplesoft
| definitions/code to disk and leverages git for tracking the
| changes. Intended to be run as a scheduled process.
|
| [0] - https://github.com/tslater2006/Trace-Wizard
|
| [1] - https://github.com/tslater2006/DMS-Viewer
|
| [2] - https://github.com/tslater2006/Pivet
| sockpuppet69 wrote:
| elorant wrote:
| I built a small project that parses tickets sites and generates
| reports for venues' attendance. I know that the data are not
| accurate because venues keep a percentage of tickets for
| themselves and there's no indication how many of those are
| eventually sold. Despite that it provides a very good indication
| as to which plays are the most popular and whatnot, although you
| can't really tell how many tickets exactly were sold. I built it
| out of curiosity, and there are a few venues which were
| interested in the data although not accurate because they can
| spot trends. So although as a project it never took off, and it
| never was meant to, it helped me earn some contacts and insights.
| I don't plan on upgrading it because there's not much that can be
| done.
| rohanagrwl wrote:
| Building a social network for music sharing and discovery-
| https://incentify.club
|
| Despite an ambitious roadmap to change how the music industry
| works, even if this just helps me and my friends share music
| without having to hop through multiple links on Whatsapp/DM, I'll
| be happy enough
| notakio wrote:
| I'm building a method to use Twitter (via API) as a configuration
| management repository, storing encrypted configuration files in
| twitter, then using API calls from new network clients to grab
| the role-appropriate configuration files for a given service. So,
| "puppet, but with Twitter as the storage component".
|
| It initially grew out of a test to build a shell-based encrypted
| method for posting and reading tweets, compounded by an
| underlying desire to figure out how to make twitter "useful" for
| me somehow. Discovering that stego data does not get stripped was
| an eye opener on the size of data chunks that could then be
| stored as tweets, which allowed me to push larger configuration
| files, while still having them be largely useless to random
| viewers.
| apolymath wrote:
| ninjaranter wrote:
| https://feelings.earth/
|
| Visualization of what the people of Twitter are feeling right now
| across the globe (or at least the ones who have geolocation
| enabled :)). It's fun to have it up on a monitor in the
| background to periodically gaze at.
|
| I'm an Engineering Director and can rarely justify finding time
| to code anything significant during my day job these days, so
| this was my cut-loose-and-have-fun project over ~a weekend. Had a
| blast doing it, and then rewriting it half a dozen "cool"
| frameworks ranging from NextJS to RemixRun.
|
| (It works on mobile, but much nicer on desktop)
| kilroy123 wrote:
| This is really cool actually!
| ArcMex wrote:
| Current projects
|
| - App that documents all the steps to successfully get married -
| App to organize my video game collection
|
| They are personal projects so I don't care if they succeed.
| mattsahr wrote:
| - App to catalog the conflicts between the prior two projects
| squarebizchris wrote:
| I working on an open source course for Learning Astrology. I'm
| doing it purely for fun and its been awesome
| kn81198 wrote:
| I very recently created a stupid joke website, to check/verify if
| you can see: https://canisee.xyz
|
| In the spirit of this thread I don't care if it succeeds because
| there is no 'success metric' as such. What I would love to happen
| is someone mentions this site back to me and I get to tell them
| 'Ha, I made that!'.
|
| Not holding my breath though.
| esbeeb wrote:
| I do some fun things with Wireguard on a few VPS servers.
| alexmingoia wrote:
| Mine is https://sumi.news. I use it, others use it, and I
| consider that a success.
| dimitrisnl wrote:
| Looks great, thanks for sharing - will definitely use it moving
| forward!
| jarbus wrote:
| Looks fantastic, thanks for sharing. Love how you include news
| sources from other nations.
| FailMore wrote:
| This is AMAZING
| alexmingoia wrote:
| Thank you. I'm always looking for ways to improve it.
| brianolson wrote:
| Impartial algorithmic redistricting. I wrote code to process the
| Census data into impartial compact districts for all the state US
| House districts and State Legislature districts. It's
| mathematically great, but politically inconvenient, but I'm proud
| of it.
|
| https://bdistricting.com/
| tiotags wrote:
| I designed a really small webserver (actually about 9 of them but
| only one on github) because I wasn't happy with the configuration
| file syntax of the other opensource servers. After repeated
| rewrites trying to fit both fcgi and a reverse proxy I somehow
| managed to fit most of the things I wanted in ~107k (the lightest
| mainstream alternative is like 350k). I really like small
| programs that do their job well so for me it's a pretty good win
| already. https://github.com/tiotags1/hin9/
| bl0b wrote:
| https://www.3d-beats.com
|
| Depth-camera powered MIDI drum kit. This has been my labor of
| love for the last several years. The current iteration runs on
| randomized decision forests trained to identify pixels as
| different parts of the hand.
| austincheney wrote:
| I am trying to solve for decentralization using file systems
| cross-OS as the primary design target. I chose the file system
| because it has a lot of complexity built in. If I can nail this I
| can decentralize anything.
|
| I am passionate about this, because decentralization is the most
| liberating online experience. Share anything, in any way, to
| anybody of your choosing without third party restrictions, their
| privacy violations, and no weaponizing of your data/content for
| any purpose.
|
| https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems
| DustinBrett wrote:
| I've spent the last 13 months making a "functional" web desktop
| environment. To me it's a life long project to push the limits of
| the browser and to help me learn programming. I enjoy the process
| of trying to replicate something in every detail. I have no
| desire for monetary gain from the project, nor employment. It's
| just for fun and I hope that never changes.
|
| Site: https://dustinbrett.com/
|
| Code: https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
| rozenmd wrote:
| My other "I don't care if it succeeds project" is an uptime
| checker I've been building extremely iteratively:
| https://onlineornot.com/
|
| Mainly started building it because I wanted to learn more about
| running a business, marketing, and SEO (all the technical parts
| of the business are relatively easy in comparison).
|
| I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if
| static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's
| offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and
| shipped it.
|
| I launched it into 200 competitors providing the "same" service
| and still managed to get customers.
|
| Mainly from working two hours a day, every weekday, for almost a
| year now. Each feature I ship has to be shipped within a two hour
| block and iterated upon later (so I use feature flags - the other
| service I built), and I only build features actual customers ask
| for and can explain how that new feature would fit into their
| business processes.
| eivarv wrote:
| https://cleave.app
|
| Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and
| loading all open applications, their windows (and their
| positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as
| a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level;
| Alternatively as "tab-groups", but encompassing multiple apps.
|
| I started working on it because of frequent multitasking of 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'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license
| verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...
|
| In the meantime, I've used various browser extensions to save and
| restore open tabs.
|
| I find it interesting (particularly from an HCI-perspective) that
| there hasn't been more research into the concept on an OS-level,
| as I can think of many times maintaining a set of application
| states for continued or re-use makes sense.
| sagebird wrote:
| lowhash.com => to collect sentences that produce low sha256
| hashes
| drzel wrote:
| I've been working on a fork of 1996 Quake Team Fortress mod on
| and off for a decade. There are a small group of dedicate players
| and that's enough for me to be able to play the game I love.
| hollerith wrote:
| I have my own way of indenting Lisp code along with supporting
| Emacs commands that I have been using for the last 9 years.
|
| Here is an example, which I chose by picking a file of my code at
| random, then scanning it till (after scanning about 80 lines) I
| found the first fragment that is clearly indented differently
| than how a normal Lisp programmer would indent it:
| (while (sit-for 1e-6) (save-excursion (while (progn
| (goto-char (random (- (point-max) (point-min))))
| (not (and (eq ? (char-after)) (setq face
| (get-text-property (point) 'face)) (setq bg
| (plist-get face :background)) . nil))))
| (assert (stringp bg)) (setq bg2 (substring bg -2))
| (put-text-property (point) (1+ (point)) 'face (list :background
| (if (consp prefix) "black" (cat (substring bg 0 5)
| (if (string= cc bg2) "ff" cc)))))))
|
| The standard way of indenting Emacs Lisp code has the number of
| spaces to indent being dependent on the "main operator" of the
| form being indented. For example, if the "main operation" is
| `cond` then the cond clauses are indented only once space more
| than the cond form itself is. Probably the reason Emacs
| programmers have settled on using only one space to indent the
| arguments of a cond form is that they have found that they run
| out of room if they make it larger than 1. I have a different way
| of avoiding (or rather postponing) running out of room with the
| result that I am able to adopt a rule that everything gets
| indented 5 spaces, which makes it easier to use my visual cortex
| to tell which lines are at the same level of indentation.
|
| This next is not valid lisp (or more precisely you would never
| actually write it): ((((((((((((((((((((((((((foo
| bar bash))))))))))))))))))))))))))
|
| But if it were valid, then it would be correctly indented
| according to my way. The main value I get out my way of indenting
| is that if `bar` or `bash` were many lines long, then there could
| be more levels of indentation internal to `bar` or `bash`
| compared to the usual way of doing indentation. I.e., my way lets
| me conserve levels of indentation, so I can write larger defuns
| without any individual line being longer than my self-imposed
| limit (which happens to be be 80 columns) and without indenting
| anything by less than 5 spaces.
|
| In exchange for being able to handle multiple open parens with
| only one level of indentation, I have to impose a rule that when
| I close one of those open parens, I have to close all of them. (I
| have Emacs signal an error by making a sound when I attempt to
| indent a line that disobeys that rule.)
|
| So for example this next is illegal in my indentation method:
| (foo (bar xxx) yyy)
|
| To make it legal I have to write it like this:
| (foo (bar xxx) yyy)
| omalleyt wrote:
| Interactive Latin:
|
| https://www.interactivelatin.com
|
| Classic Latin texts, where you can click on any word and see all
| possible translations
| kuang_eleven wrote:
| I have been very casually working on a service/website that
| allows users to vote on issues, _but_ using some of the more
| unusual voting methods; specifically Delegate Democracy and its
| variations.
| [deleted]
| IAmYourDensity wrote:
| I built a Chrome extension that makes Twitch chat messages easier
| to read.
|
| It allows you to:
|
| * Focus on a user, keyword, or conversation
|
| * Highlight users or keywords
|
| * Filter/Mute users or keywords
|
| It also has an Unlimited Message Buffer feature that prevents
| messages from expiring from chat.
|
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/electric-chat-for-...
| BeatQuestGames wrote:
| I've been working on a racing game for about 18 months. It's
| insanely fun just designing the levels. I plan on releasing what
| I have for free and then if it's popular working on a full
| version.
|
| Unity HDRP is really nice!
|
| https://youtu.be/82s0aX0EWfU
| sandreas wrote:
| My devtools with svelte and webasm: https://pilabor.com/dev/#/
|
| I use it to generate passwords, hashes, colors and base64
| encodings :-) I plan to add more stuff in the future...
| sandheepgr wrote:
| I built a free and open platform that allows the users to create
| a share short content on learning. Interested users can discover
| and follow topics or subjects and each content is concrete with
| links to relevant related entries. I created the app in react
| native ( available in both play store and app store ) and the
| back-end in Java microservices. The creator portal is in ReactJS
| that allows people with expertise to create content and engage
| with users.
|
| https://www.microideation.com/
| jupiterandmoon wrote:
| https://expiringcake.com
|
| I built it to get email reminders about things that expire, such
| as passports, free trial cancellation dates, Covid antigen tests,
| travel reward and free night expiration dates, etc.
|
| My real sob story is that my passport unknowingly expired and I
| didn't notice until I was checking in to an international flight.
| I really don't want that to happen again, especially now that I
| have more passports to keep track of in the family.
|
| It's built with blitz.js, Go, Postgres, and runs on a tiny VPS. I
| use it for myself and haven't marketed it much.
| thirdlamp wrote:
| Looks like your VPS Credit expired ;)
| sdeframond wrote:
| I am writing a collaborative real-time, offline-first spreadsheet
| in Elm. Obviously I am punching way above my weight and on my
| spare time, but this is fun!
|
| https://github.com/sdeframond/butter
| danielvaughn wrote:
| I'm building a programming language for UI designers. Kinda crazy
| since most of the industry is heavily leaning into low-code/no-
| code solutions for design. But my position is that you can have a
| coding language that feels familiar to designers but also allows
| them to express their decisions with much more clarity than what
| is currently provided by graphical editors.
| Jack5500 wrote:
| Well, in the last days I made a small app to generate a drawing
| prompt every day. I think it could be useful for people who want
| to get into drawing and just want a no-nonsense site to give them
| a prompt: https://daily-drawing-prompt.vercel.app/
|
| On a more serious note, I made a game with a friend that I care a
| lot about:
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/1462830/Super_Sketchy_Par...
| byecancer21 wrote:
| I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western
| nation, for fun.
|
| A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense.
| Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the
| presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would
| also influence the ensuing constitutional court case.
|
| The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case
| number. I waited for a month then caused the husband to panic
| with a morning fax sent to his law firm making fun of his
| felonious wife and mentioning the case. Without thinking, he used
| his close connections to the court, trying to save his wife I
| suppose. Apparently unaware I had caused this in a provable way,
| the top court decided the very same day to not take the case and
| gave no reason whatsoever. Such decisions are supposed to be
| scheduled ten days ahead by law, which did not occur here. The
| case was also objectively valid since one of the appeals court
| judges had refused to be on the panel, so the assignments were
| wrong, a severe procedural error. The judge assigned to fact-
| finding in the case was the President of this court, the number
| five in the diplomatic ranking of this nation.
|
| My intent is to end his judicial career and thus alter the course
| of his nation a little bit.
|
| I am only doing this for fun and don't care if this succeeds.
|
| E-Mail in profile if you are a lawyer or journalist and want to
| see something interesting happen. There is already a public
| website with all case materials that caused further drama within
| the judiciary.
|
| A tech connection: a false claim of immediate threat to the life
| of the felonious judge had been made to obtain an IP address from
| Cloudflare, bypassing due process.
|
| Another tech connection: The legal entity operating the website
| is a DAO on Ethereum, the (minimal) costs are paid with funds
| originated from a tech billionaire...
| sizzle wrote:
| Have you checked the carbon monoxide levels in your home lately
| for a leak? Genuinely concerned...
| na85 wrote:
| Your wiki's JavaScript hijacks the navigation controls on
| Firefox for Android.
|
| No way to escape the page except closing the browser
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Thank you for letting me know, this will be fixed soon. I
| should point out this is, for legal reasons, not "my" wiki.
| jacobriis wrote:
| If your strategy makes as much sense as your writing, you're
| definitely going to prison.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Had ended up in hospital with a potentially lethal
| complication in connection. It won't be me going to prison.
|
| None of the stuff published so far is writing targeted at the
| general public, it is directed at people involved who are
| aware of the details.
| tsol wrote:
| Weird to assume that when we don't even know which country it
| is. I don't find blanket cynicism in favor of apathy to be
| useful.
| rolandog wrote:
| What is the illegal part?
| c0balt wrote:
| Will be created^Wfound later on /s
| rolandog wrote:
| Ahh, sorry. Hadn't had enough coffee to spot the sarcasm.
| Indeed, dangerous games to play against people without
| scruples.
|
| I, too, have wanted to undertake projects that would
| fight against corruption, but I guess I shouldn't have
| any attachment to my family or friends if I were to go
| ahead.
| mellavora wrote:
| what does "illegal" have to do with "going to prison" when
| fighting top players in a known corrupt system?
|
| prison might be the nice outcome.
|
| Note I'm making a lot of assumptions here on the
| validity/veracity of the story.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| I did consider this and protected myself by letting the
| judges know in a side letter about some background.
|
| Obviously would not have pursued this matter if I wasn't
| a fairly well-connected person and Covid-19 restrictions
| made available the time to do so.
|
| The veracity of the case can be trivially verified as I
| filed nearly everything electronically thus have receipts
| with digital signatures. A singular court decision was
| also served digitally because an enraged judge wanted it
| served instantly right after an ex-parte phone call
| didn't go the way he had thought.
| [deleted]
| throwawayHN378 wrote:
| You sound insane. Generally concerned for your mental health
| byecancer21 wrote:
| I appreciate your concern.
|
| Her own staffer did ask me some time ago, unprompted, if she
| too must fear criminal charges. There exists proof of this.
|
| I do feel bad for her and even the judge's superior, the
| court president, who I believe failed to take action not
| because she couldn't recognize the problem but because this
| judge wields more power than her boss.
|
| Finally, some documents have been designated a state secret
| because public knowledge would be disadvantageous to the
| state, something I can agree with. These were circulated
| before I could interpret the acronyms thus outside my control
| now.
| can16358p wrote:
| What did I just read?
| Yanu-3452 wrote:
| I'm not qualified to say this, so this isn't a diagnosis, but
| the post strikes me as similar in tone to the postings of a
| paranoid schizophrenic who regularly used to post on a forum
| I visited.
|
| Completely convinced they're on the verge of uncovering
| something that will "change history" yet very difficult to
| follow the detail of what they're saying.
| nairboon wrote:
| Well, if you're not qualified for it, why do you still do
| it?
| byecancer21 wrote:
| I don't believe or have claimed this will "change history".
|
| Had in fact offered to let the whole matter slide if and
| only if two judges ruling on health insurance matters hand
| in their resignations, as I consider them a danger to the
| general public.
| bladegash wrote:
| Is that really a decision for you to single handedly
| make? People make mistakes, but it doesn't mean they are
| evil. Pushing them to admit their wrong doing, give up
| their livelihood/careers, etc. is just stupid. Especially
| if "doing it for fun". That's not admirable, it's
| disturbing.
| danuker wrote:
| > Especially if "doing it for fun". That's not admirable,
| it's disturbing.
|
| I see you are attempting to take away the "hacker" in
| "hacker news".
|
| I see this as social engineering, for a good cause.
| bladegash wrote:
| Good cause according to who? The OP? You? How about the
| other people that have received and live with judgements
| from this official?
|
| And sorry, but social engineering is pretty unethical if
| you ask me, and has nothing to do with the name of the
| site.
| danuker wrote:
| Exposing a corrupt judge is among the most noble goals a
| citizen can have. The more incentive judges have to act
| fairly, the better.
|
| I am not sure you read the story correctly. But I'm
| pretty sure a judge will get due process - not abusive
| penalties.
| bladegash wrote:
| People have been using "the ends justify the means" to
| justify all sorts of unethical behavior, not the least of
| which includes torture, genocide, and wars. Let's not go
| down that ethical reasoning wormhole.
|
| As for his story, my read on it must be much different
| from your own. Because from what I am seeing, this is far
| more about the judge's husband than anyone else, and it
| is to right a sense of personal injustice than a (still
| misguided) aim of doing what's best for everyone else.
| Oh, and he's doing it for fun (his words).
| byecancer21 wrote:
| The judge felt safe to commit an overt serious crime due
| to her husband. He is the conditio sine qua non without
| which this the entire matter had not happened.
|
| He could make a choice. Either talk to me or influence
| the court. The choice he ended up making is quite clear.
| Of course I could not point out his options, as that no
| doubt would have been misconstrued.
|
| There is some evidence suggesting the cases at the court
| don't get assigned randomly, as per the rules, and she
| might ask for off-label use cases to get preferentially
| assigned to herself.
|
| Upon an inquiry the court did not deny this is true. To
| find the truth one would have to verify the sequence of
| other case assignments, which should be possible from
| incoming filing times and such. Here a second case got
| assigned to her but with a sequence number oddly enough
| belonging to a different chamber. Per the law there was
| supposed to be a singular number, and for some reason she
| split the case without a required decision.
|
| She is also the only judge at this court who ever wrote
| anything public on the topic.
|
| Due to an adventurous recent personal medical history I
| became well-aware what problems unlawful denials do cause
| for patients.
| bakuninsbart wrote:
| Speaking of genocide, torture and war, since this topic
| is about german politics, it might be good to remember a
| certain time in that countries history, when the _law_
| was in support of all of these things. Breaking the law
| cannot be equated with ethical behavior. Social
| engineering is indeed a method, wether it is morally
| objectable needs to be argued and not assumed out of the
| gate.
| bladegash wrote:
| I don't think I made that argument, in fact, my comment
| was made specifically without the qualifier of it being
| legal vs. illegal. Manipulation (which let's face it,
| social engineering is a fancy way of saying) is a pretty
| solid example of an unethical behavior depending on your
| ethical world view. Utilitarian? Great, you must also
| think torture is acceptable so long as it saves lives.
| Deontological ethical world views might have something
| different to say, speaking of Germans (e.g., Kant).
|
| Regardless, I think contriving scenarios where you think
| someone may act corruptly just to catch them doing so is
| equally as unethical as a police officer encouraging
| someone to commit a terrorist act then arresting them
| once they do.
|
| It is manipulative, may not have happened otherwise if
| not for the original actor, and is akin to saying "I hope
| you don't behave like I'd expect a human to instinctually
| behave if put in a corner".
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Note I did nothing to manipulate the top court. The
| application was phrased politely and only hinted at a
| crime background.
|
| Severe procedural errors including denial of access to
| court files alone justified a reversal, besides the
| blatant misinterpretation of the law. There was no need
| to argue beyond this point or label anyone an offender at
| the time.
|
| (Ordinarily one would have filed to have the decision
| voided locally instead of applying to the top court, but
| that court had unlawfully denied access to the assignment
| rules and does to this day.)
| bladegash wrote:
| Nice use of words specifying your actions regarding the
| high court instead of the judges in question, who were
| specifically being referred to.
|
| You do realize that just because other people act like
| jerks, it does not give you license to do the same,
| right? I don't know why you believe what you are doing is
| going to have a positive outcome for anyone, including
| yourself, but I think you have some serious growing up to
| do.
|
| I'm sorry you had to go through what you did, I really
| am. It doesn't sound like a positive experience and I
| have my own chronic health issues that have been a battle
| and I can understand being angry.
|
| I just don't believe it is yours or anyone's place to
| take matters into their own hands, nor do I think their
| actions justify yours. In this situation, you all suck.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Consider I had just survived a rare cancer that kills
| nearly everyone who gets it quickly, then when addressing
| a serious side effect from treatment this happens.
|
| Not claiming any moral high ground here. Many would
| descend into anger and despair or feelings of victimhood,
| I simply made a choice to play this like a game instead.
| bladegash wrote:
| Hey, if nothing else, at least you're owning it at this
| point in the conversation.
|
| Separate: I sincerely hope you feel/get better my friend
| and are able to get the medical treatment you were
| seeking (if you haven't already). Best wishes to you!
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Thank you for your wishes. For future needs I was able to
| return to private health insurance which suffers from no
| such problem. However this cannot cover claims arisen
| prior to policy issue, so the subject matter remains
| open.
|
| No judge ruling in this court actually has public health
| insurance.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Different standards apply for judges within proceedings,
| especially those making decisions at the very top.
|
| I did offer each offender a second chance, as I thought
| they might have learned from this. They chose not to take
| it.
|
| The first instance judge had been given four chances
| even.
| bladegash wrote:
| Why do you believe it is your position to give any
| official ultimatums just to meet your own perceived sense
| of Justice? The way your are speaking about this is to
| right your own feelings of injustice, not anyone else's,
| yet you do it under the auspices of doing what's best for
| everyone else. Do they get a say in this as well?
| byecancer21 wrote:
| You interpret this as an ultimatum, I see offering them a
| way out as being nice. At the same time one has to assert
| seeing through obvious b-s.
|
| What is appropriate gets decided by lawmakers not judges.
|
| Once judges willfully violate the code they have stepped
| outside their assigned role. This quickly became more of
| a political problem than a legal one, and what is right
| is ultimately for voters to decide.
|
| Whether I am able to interpret the code and precedent
| correctly we will see. I did score close to the very top
| when taking the LSAT however.
| bladegash wrote:
| You can try to wordsmith and twist the logic all you
| want. Telling someone "resign and do what I want, or
| else" is an ultimatum and bordering on blackmail. It is
| an ultimatum that is directly counter to your stated goal
| as well, which to "allow the voters to decide". That's
| you deciding for them.
| midjji wrote:
| Providing someone a nasty choice isnt neccesarily
| blackmail or wrong.
|
| Imagine you work as a prosecutor. Someone submits fairly
| strong, and actionable evidence, that your wife has
| commited a crime your office is required to prosecute.
| You are legally compelled to excuse yourself, and let
| someone prosecute, preferably someone not independent of
| you. If you do, you know your wife will go to prison, and
| in the process of the procecution, your every dirty
| secret will be exposed, and even if you are entirely
| righteous, and was entierly unaware, and willing to
| believe the worst of your wife, your reputation will be
| in tatters. Its also possible that you know that the
| other prosecutor wont prosecute, but instead attempt to
| blackmail you, or your wife, using the evidence.
|
| You now have a nasty choice.
|
| Lets say you chose to hand the evidence over to a
| righteous collegue. Your reputation will be damaged
| regardless, but if you resign the damage will be light,
| and as you are no longer with the prosecutors office, you
| are not expected to approve requests for eg your personal
| banking information by default. Making it much easier to
| hide any missdeeds. But if you keep working, everyone who
| wants your job will spread the information, and your
| opponents in court will bring it up repeatedly. Both with
| insentive to lie, or exaggerate. Further, prosecutors are
| often required, or at least expected, to cooperate with
| legal investigations in ways regular people are not.
|
| Lets say you chose to hand the evidence to a non-righeous
| collegue. Your reputation is intact, but he will keep
| requesting favors, it looks better, but there are no
| guarantees it goes away.
|
| You can also immideately resign, knowing that it will
| take a year or two for a replacement to get up to speed,
| and all you need to do is put the specific case on the
| bottom of the priority pile, pretend you never read it,
| and techically have commited no crime, while getting
| years to prepare, stuff to get lost, or just jump
| countries.
|
| Or you can chose dismiss it for lack of evidence, toss
| the evidence in the bin, and pretend like it never
| happened. Its a boring procedural thing anyways, and odds
| are good it was just someone temporarily pissed off, who
| wont care. After all, they didnt even know they submitted
| it to your office, what idiot does that...
|
| Its not blackmail. Its just that resigning is the better
| option for you.
| bladegash wrote:
| I think the flaw in your logic is the assumption it was
| an either/or situation. There are a whole lot of options
| between "resign or face the consequences", and let's face
| it, is destroying someone's career one way or the other
| (via by choice or otherwise) really a choice at all?
|
| If you think it is, I'd be curious what your choice would
| be given the same scenario and whether you felt a bit
| coerced into your position.
| midjji wrote:
| Blackmail to me implies that the blackmailer requires
| something of the blackmailed, in exchange for the
| blackmailer to not take a specific action. In my example,
| the sender has already taken their action and given no
| indication that they are willing to accept a bribe to
| retract it. If they had required payment to retract it,
| it would have been blackmail. Meaning no blackmail. The
| ops story is confusing, so I wont say anything about it.
| Not sure what you mean about choice there?
|
| In my case? If I was roleplaying the example as the
| judge, probably call a press conference and loudly
| condemn my wife for her heinous actions, and promise to
| vindictively prosecute her to the full extent of the law.
| Then I would start doing that, knowing full well that her
| lawyer will argue I committed a procedural errors in
| managing the evidence(as people cannot prosecute their
| close relatives, or manage evidence thereof) which then
| precludes its use in court, letting her go free by
| technicality... While I win the next election for being
| the righteous crusader against corruption no matter how
| much it hurts... Well assuming I actually love her, if I
| didn't, or wanted to upgrade to a younger model, now is a
| perfect opportunity to get out of that pesky prenup...
|
| I would not feel coerced, but I would feel threatened. I
| would like to think that I would chose my wife over my
| career any day, I hope I never need to find out.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| I did not ask her or any judge to resign. This was a
| proposal to the prosecutor's office prior to filing any
| of the serious charges and triggering certain events then
| required from them by law.
|
| Unlike public officials I was fully within my rights to
| first seek a more politically tenable solution.
|
| There is no doubt everyone involved is fully aware of the
| situation, although people won't admit to it.
| bladegash wrote:
| Ugh, your story literally changes and is moving the goal
| posts. So now it was the prosecutors who made the
| decision? Not that an indirect threat is any better, but
| here's your previous description: "I did offer each
| offender a second chance, as I thought they might have
| learned from this. They chose not to take it."
|
| To each their own, do what you gotta do - but I stand by
| my original opinion on your actions.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| To clarify, the "way out" was simply a new filing for an
| interim order based on the novel fact that a potentially
| lethal complication had just occurred in connection with
| the case. I substantiated this with medical and research
| evidence.
|
| This was a very simple thing for her to grant, and in my
| view she was required to do so based on constitutional
| principles.
|
| I would more likely than not have let the previous
| incident slide. Why she did not take this opportunity I
| have no idea.
| joefife wrote:
| It does sound insane, but sometimes these things are
| founded.
|
| Just a few months ago, a local government body finally
| awards as millions to someone their formed chief executive
| had been persecuting for two decades. During that time, the
| random member of the public was imprisoned. This case
| involved multiple corrupt people.
|
| If it wasn't for the happy conclusion, I'd have said this
| was the tale of a lunatic.
|
| The podcast is at https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/68
| tsol wrote:
| Who knows. They used to say people who think the government
| is saying on people are tin foil loonies, now everyone is
| worried about privacy. Don't see the reason to assume this
| most be crazy. Journalists as a whole have that "when I
| break this story everything is gonna change" mood regularly
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| This really sounds like one of them projects you should care if
| it succeeds if you're doing it.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| This has realistically no more than a 10-15% chance of
| succeeding, not dissimilar to a startup. For either, it is
| perhaps better to not get attached too much to a specific
| outcome.
| bitexploder wrote:
| That is some count of Monte Cristo level shenanigans.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| There are many more fun details to the whole story. For
| example the judge had taken the case files to her house to
| keep them hidden there, in one panel decision a singular
| judge voted twice because he could only find one other judge
| willing to go along, the way I obtained certain info from
| court staffers was by showing up in person walking in
| crutches which I actually didn't need, some legal filings had
| appropriate chess endgame problems for a cover page, and so
| on.
|
| Nobody expects you to handle your cases like a tech venture,
| where we only really care for high-variance outcomes and not
| the simple wins...
| thom wrote:
| Chess endgames?!
| byecancer21 wrote:
| https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20210328-rittweger.cover.r
| eda...
|
| The resolution some months later:
|
| https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20211014-lsg-wicke-
| cover.pdf
|
| The court was unable to print pages due to a css media
| selector preventing this, so the - presumably bribed -
| judge had them printed at the nearby law offices of the
| influential husband. This showed up in log files with his
| IP address, and can likely be proven as the color
| printouts of screenshots have forensic features
| connecting them with his printer.
|
| Since this leaves little doubt about an inappropriate
| connection to the case and possible bribery, which the
| prosecutor's office has a legal duty to investigate, this
| was considered the game over moment.
|
| Somewhat bizarrely, the judge then claimed she felt
| threatened by this chess game. However, the queen
| actually remains standing at the end of the game.
| roblabla wrote:
| The wiki appears to be down. Cloudflare returns an Error
| 521: Web server is down.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Sorry, this is unexpectedly blowing up. Had wrongly
| assumed few people would care about the matter.
|
| Should be back up soon with Cloudflare caching.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| For clarification, evidence for the bribery claim is only
| circumstantial at this point, which is also made clear in the
| record. The other claims however are substantiated with strong
| evidence encompassing intent.
| Forge36 wrote:
| There's already a website and you tease with this? Why keep the
| website private?
| byecancer21 wrote:
| It's in German language and legal stuff, although one may
| enjoy the renderings of numerous corruption-involved public
| officials. These were made using AnimeGANv2.
|
| https://de.wickepedia.org/Wickepedia:About
|
| The felonious judge is named Wicke so this was thought to be
| the most hilarious domain name.
|
| It has been kept low-profile on purpose because analytics
| enabled amazing observability about who talks to whom, and
| who is particularly nervous about the matter. The caching
| gets bypassed currently due to tracking cookies, which may
| explain slowness.
|
| Also should point out the (excellent) criminal evidence has
| thus far not been made public. The state attorney has zero
| interest in touching a politically highly sensitive matter
| obviously, so his hand needs to be forced by means other than
| simply handing over the evidence....
| qwertox wrote:
| > It has been kept low-profile on purpose because analytics
| enabled amazing observability about who talks to whom, and
| who is particularly nervous about the matter.
|
| You are aware that this goes against the DSGVO? I think you
| are posting way too much information in this thread. I wish
| you the best of luck.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| I am not the publisher. Correlating times and locations
| with a sequence of events is no data privacy violation.
|
| Further, this is a research project into how corruption
| works in practice.
| two_poles_here wrote:
| Holy mother of a server this is glorious. Bruh/sis you are
| legendary.
| nairboon wrote:
| Das liest sich wie ein Krimi!
|
| So do you want this to go public yet, or are waiting for
| further actions by some of the involved courts?
| byecancer21 wrote:
| I expect all cases are going to be retried.
|
| As a criminal defense strategy the judge made a claim she
| "felt threatened" for an extremely long duration
| including all of her decisions. I have thus filed for
| nullification, since her claim implies judicial bias.
|
| This matter is currently pending.
|
| I wanted to complete legal proceedings first. A late-
| night post in a half-day old thread on HN is getting
| orders of magnitudes more visits than I had thought.
| orbifold wrote:
| Well this involves the German Supreme Court, any kind of
| corruption there would be Europe wide, if not World news.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Honestly not so sure. This appears to be a fairly corrupt
| nation as a baseline so many may find this matter not all
| that surprising. His appointment a few years ago was
| controversial within legal circles.
|
| Unlike SCOTUS, Constitutional Court here is by law not
| entirely at liberty whether to take a case but who gets
| to interpret the statute. Of course it will be claimed
| this court can do however it wishes.
|
| To fully convince the public the course of this case was
| far outside the norm certain data from this court will be
| helpful, which of course they refused to release
| voluntarily and the federal data protection authority,
| meant to enforce something similar to FOIA, claimed to
| have dropped a matter due to clerical error. This might
| suggest the matter is already a known political problem
| at the federal level, but one can only guess. Strangely
| enough, getting the info will ultimately involve suing
| the top court (administration) in a lower court.
|
| One thing to keep in mind is that this nation is one
| without genuine separation of powers. Any matter ends up
| being citizen versus the state, not citizen invoking one
| part of the state to check on the power of another part.
| rafale wrote:
| You have a serious case of delusions of grandeur. Get some
| help.
| EdwardDiego wrote:
| If you read the website, it's apparently because an off-label
| medicine wasn't approved.
|
| But it looks like Patient F has survived though, which is
| good.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| The medical reviewer, a public employee, had ruled on a
| matter she was not professionally qualified for.
|
| The court asked the patient's doctor for facts as they
| routinely do, which left no room for denial. The judge
| dropped this document from one file, then in another file
| claimed the same matter had already been decided and passed
| over all evidence while at the same time knowingly making a
| false assertion of facts.
|
| Access to these files was denied for months, beyond the
| constitutional court case even.
|
| Without the ability review the files, had to guess what she
| had done and this did turn out to be factual later. From
| judicial instructions found on the back side of a page at
| the appeals level it is clear these judges had been aware.
| The judge assigned to fact-finding had refused to handle
| the matter, a procedural violation.
|
| Had asked the medical board for proof as one way to have
| these decisions nullified. No response for months. In a
| hearing that was recorded I mentioned the medical board
| and, carelessly, two days later they sent a letter refusing
| me the information. It is clear a judge is behind this.
| This matter is now pending in administrative court.
| light_cone wrote:
| It is sad that you would rather believe the parent has mental
| health issues, rather than entertain the possibility that
| yes, someone is actually doing something effective against
| powerful corrupt people, and that requires creative thinking.
|
| To me, it echoes "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by La
| Boetie. Powerful people are just people. They are powerful
| because we are collectively granting them that power. This is
| not a case of delusion of grandeur, but a case of saying no
| to learned helplessness.
|
| So thank you byecancer21 for what you're doing against
| corruption, from a stranger on the internet.
| Eezee wrote:
| One of the documents shared on the page is a letter to the
| constitutional court of Germany where the plaintiff
| explains how not taking his case constitutes a mortal sin
| for which the president of the court will go to hell and
| lectures him that he cannot visit church services anymore.
| It is very hard to take the rest seriously if the same
| person is claiming the corruption.
| zeckalpha wrote:
| Was that sent by the poster or someone they are
| targeting?
| byecancer21 wrote:
| This was a fun thing sent three days before the election,
| which his party was expected to lose. The same judge was
| vice-leader of this party until his appointment and is
| known to be ultra-catholic.
|
| Such writing is obviously not directed at him but rather
| at his staffers. At the lower courts the same tactic
| actually worked to change staff willingness to make
| themselves an accessory to crimes. An interesting
| consequence is later decision were not served correctly
| because no staffer wanted to put any identifying
| information on there anymore - this is however a legal
| requirement for certified copies.
|
| Note I am not actually accusing the top judge of a crime
| but merely of inappropriate bias.
|
| I am well aware it is important to convey the events in
| manner understandable to the general public. This has not
| occurred yet as I had no immediate plan to go public.
| Before HN the site was only known to a small circle of
| lawyers.
| throwawayHN378 wrote:
| It's fairly obvious to infer that OP is experiencing some
| type of psychosis or schizotypical behavior
| light_cone wrote:
| Well, adding "obviously" to an argument does not add
| anything to the argument.
|
| I can see how you _might_ think this some type of mental
| health issue, but seeing a behavior that is weird from
| your point of view does not make it a medical behavior
| automatically. It might, it might not, and you can't tell
| for sure.
|
| To push another armchair diagnosis with exactly the same
| value, I'd say it looks someone who plays the game of
| life at a high level, which can sometimes looks like
| lunacy from the outside. But that's just like, my
| opinion, man.
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Not being able to tell if the facts are true I see why
| one might be inclined to think as much. I did discuss the
| matter with friends throughout the course of events to
| assure my own sanity however, also because certain
| aspects are in our view rather entertaining.
|
| A future matter is the health data protection violation
| the judge's family committed by hiring problem solving
| consultants first and giving them my personal info, prior
| to escalating to a false threat claim.
|
| Interestingly the law assigns such cases to her branch of
| the judiciary.
|
| So this judge might soon become a witness or even
| defendant at her very own court, in a matter directed
| against her actions.
|
| I will grant you this sounds crazy on the face of it. It
| is the law however (SGB X).
| sillysaurusx wrote:
| My inference is that you've never felt strongly about a
| topic like this, and live a fairly normal life. That's
| fine, but you shouldn't drag others down.
| tsol wrote:
| It's fairly obvious that actual psychiatrists make that
| diagnosis on a lot more than a HN post
| NicoJuicy wrote:
| A lot of judges are somewhat corrupt, the difference is how
| much.
|
| But make no mistake, the power/influence they yield is enormous
| and i would certainly restrain myself for ever doing this.
|
| A judge ( in Belgium) stopped a documentary about his criminal
| doings, pledged psychological issues ( and his brother is a
| shrink) and is now happily drinking beers and enjoying (
| forced) early retirement.
|
| He accepted briberies from anyone to influence cases fyi. Some
| cases are pretty nuts too.
|
| Oh yeah, "there was no proof of any briberies" was the result
| of many cases. But people who live nearby know a thing or two
| and there is exactly 0,0% chance that he was "clean".
| byecancer21 wrote:
| Well aware of the politics. The play here was to predict the
| ways corruption works and use their own moves against the
| other side.
|
| Obstruction of justice can already be shown to have occurred
| within the prosecutor's office, in a case against the judge
| related to her faking of a crime. Police had concluded there
| was no threat. That page went missing from her file but I
| have it from another source.
|
| A number of my friends and acquaintances are, in fact, high-
| level judges. This court had no way of knowing this.
| rwieruch wrote:
| I build react-table-library [0] for a client of mine one year
| ago. From there on, I used my spare time to advance the library
| and to let off steam when I need just hands on coding. It turned
| out to be a pretty powerful library, but I hadn't yet the courage
| to publicly announce it.
|
| - [0] https://react-table-library.com/
| tluyben2 wrote:
| Created https://flexlists.com 15 years ago to scratch an itch.
| For me it already succeeded; many happy users for over a decade
| but it is not a success by any going standard of money or
| attention and I do not care.
|
| Create a programming language with a friend currently; again to
| scratch an itch. It will be launched somewhere 2022 hopefully but
| if we are the only users, it is fine. If not, so much the better.
| jinay wrote:
| https://www.plorium.com/
|
| I created Plorium to solve a problem I've had personally: finding
| the "best" way to learn something new (ideally for free too).
| Right now, it's quite rudimentary, but I hope other people might
| find value in using this instead of sifting through ad-ridden
| Google search results.
| sibit wrote:
| https://freetabletop.app/
|
| A simple VTT for playing D&D with my friends. I found the other
| web based VTTs to be too tedious or confusing. I just wanted to
| load images I found online and move little circle pawns around a
| map.
| coreymaass wrote:
| https://Timerdoro.com - a productivity timer I build with a
| couple buddies 10 years ago. I've since rebuilt it with every new
| tech I've learned. It's used by a couple hundred people every
| day, but it's only ever received ~$20 in donations.
|
| https://mexicantrain.online - an online version of the dominos-
| based game, Mexican Train. Made during the pandemic so my wife's
| family could keep playing. It averages 50 - 100 games played per
| day, mostly by older folks. Donations are generous, and I
| regularly receive heartwarming emails of thanks.
| temporalparts wrote:
| I built a chrome extension that removes duplicate tabs silently
| and automagically. No complex interactions required. It's removed
| over 9000 tabs for me personally over the course of a year and a
| half.
|
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singletab/hjohicao...
| yurishimo wrote:
| How do you know about those metrics? Does the app share them
| with you or is it per user?
| temporalparts wrote:
| The extension has a counter that'll tell you how many were
| removed.
| purplebreak wrote:
| Speaking of duplicate removal:
|
| An extension to remove duplicate snippets in GitHub Code Search
| results.
|
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-code-search...
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I'm writing a reimplementation of Escape Velocity in JavaScript
| and it runs BEAUTIFULLY in the browser.
|
| I don't care if nobody plays it. I am in love with everything I'm
| learning by making a game rather than robotics software.
| chrispine wrote:
| link? I'd love to see it!
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I'll Show HN when it's in a very basic arcade playable state.
| The engine and systems are almost all done. But I've got to
| actually type in all the ships and weapon stats and such.
|
| Maybe two weeks. :)
| geoduck14 wrote:
| I'm trying to classify and group Stack Overflow Answers in bulk
| kulor wrote:
| I built https://inferoo.com for myself to summarise my
| calendar(s), weather and select news sources so I don't have to
| manually scour a bunch of sources in the morning. As much as I
| love others taking the benefit of the service, I mostly care that
| the service is up for me as it's painful when my briefing doesn't
| arrive (downtime/bugs).
| callumprentice wrote:
| International Space Station Photo Explorer: I made 2 versions - a
| 3D one
| https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer/ind...
| and a "flat" one -
| https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_fla...
|
| I feel like there is a vast untapped potential for exploring the
| amazing photos that are there now and appear every day as well as
| new functionality - for example, I think there is probably a good
| way to tag the start/end of a sequence of photos you come across
| and use them to generate a movie clip which would be neat.
|
| I still haven't found the right UI/UX and my web skills are
| sorely lacking so it all feels a bit clunky. It's fun to
| experiment with though and lots of eye candy to see - my daughter
| (8, now 10) and I worked on the first version which was nice too.
|
| All open source if anyone wants to fork and play.
| trevcanhuman wrote:
| I have a web server. Runs on a home internet connection (fiber,
| around 200 mbps). I run a blog [0] and some other stuff on the
| site.
|
| I set up everything myself. From getting a dynamic DNS service
| with duckdns, to configuring web servers with nginx, then
| figuring out that it's very complex and that lighttpd works just
| fine.
|
| I've also learned about Linux server administration. I'm also
| running some services I built myself like a tiny webserver
| accessible from here [1].
|
| Also, I have a git repo @ [2] and used to have an archive box
| instance but I'm having some trouble with docker.
|
| Additional info on the blog:
|
| It uses markdown. The discount version, the closest one to the
| first proposed standard [4]. Also, it uses blogit. My own fork
| actually, accessible thru the git repo. Very simple. Uses git, if
| you don't track a file it isn't deployed. The blog itself is a
| git repo and in theory you could view the history of my whole
| blog thru git. Also, whenever I push to the server repo it
| deploys automatically and runs a git hook that just executes the
| blogit command and lighttpd merely serves static files so yeah,
| pretty cool.
|
| Not to brag or anything but I am amazed at how much the internet
| has helped me. I am still a high school senior but like
| programming and got into Linux like a year and a half ago and
| I've just learned so much on my own and with the help of the
| internet.
|
| I did not take any formal classes to do any of this, but thanks
| to free knowledge I was able to do all this. I ain't trying to
| share or promote some propaganda, just my thoughts and me kinda
| spitballing here.
|
| So yeah, that's it. I have a list of possible project ideas on my
| blog as an article. I'd love to start out with a simple url
| shortener. No fancy data structures, no sql, no Db, plain C with
| sockets, maybe a linked list and maybe less than 500 LOC ?
|
| [0] https://trevcan.duckdns.org/blog/
|
| [1] https://trevcan.duckdns.org/short
|
| [2] https://git-trevcan.duckdns.org
|
| [4] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/discount/
|
| .PS yeah I skipped [3] because why not.
| ainiriand wrote:
| I am developing in C++ the videogame I wish it existed.
| Archelaos wrote:
| I am working on a programme that allows to compile historical
| events in a knowledgebase and easily create chronological
| overviews.
|
| https://www.factonaut.com/
| jondcallahan wrote:
| I built a fun project to help build a morning journal habit. It
| works for me because I stay on top of my email inbox. The service
| emails me a journal prompt every morning and I save my entries by
| replying to the message, filling out the questions in line. If
| this sounds interesting there's a free trial available at
| https://mymomentjournal.com.
|
| I had a lot of fun building this and thinking through the user-
| flows while I was out on long runs. That alone was satisfying
| enough, but it would be fun for more people to use it!
| ss108 wrote:
| oh that's cool man
| thenanyu wrote:
| I use it!
| holler wrote:
| I'm working on an alternative to Twitter/Reddit/Discord called
| Sqwok (https://sqwok.im)
|
| The idea sprouted some years ago when I had used Slack for the
| first time and wondered why there wasn't a non-enterprise/gaming
| open chat app for news discussion.
|
| It's the most ambitious thing I've built and the most joyful part
| has been meeting and building friendships with complete strangers
| across distant continents all through this silly website I built!
|
| I won't say "I don't care" if it succeeds because I believe one
| must give it their all and not worry about the outcome, but
| regardless it's been an invaluable learning experience and at the
| end of the day I have no regrets.
| brian_herman wrote:
| Losing weight I am hoping medical science will help me out but I
| think I just need to exercise more and eat less.
| abruzzi wrote:
| I have a job, and everything else I do I do for myself, and I
| have no expectations whatsoever for anyone else using it (and in
| most cases, no one else will ever see it because I don't make it
| public.)
| jaxx75 wrote:
| Web app that helps motorcyclists and automotive enthusiasts find
| fun roads to ride/drive. Uses OpenStreetMap data and currently
| indexes all roads in the US and Portugal. The "YawRate" of a road
| is a single number that sums up how fun a road is.
|
| https://app.positiveyaw.com
| spike021 wrote:
| This is really cool. I'm currently working on an iPhone app for
| helping save favorite and newly discovered routes. Wish I had
| the know-how to add a feature like this haha. I'm just using
| Apple Maps for my stuff. Nice work! :)
| culi wrote:
| I bought the domain name elmlang.org
|
| https://elmlang.org/
| azza2110 wrote:
| I've been working on an Excel tool to procedurally generate
| Powerpoint value driver tree graphics from spreadsheets.
|
| https://aaronbrooker.com/vdttool
|
| Most corporates only have MS Office so I've had to stick to using
| VBA.
|
| Built to save me time in my day job, but has become a passion
| project. The most challenging part has been improving the
| algorithm for displaying the trees in a compact form but with an
| eye-pleasing amount of whitespace.
| sleepingadmin wrote:
| I have a honeypot network that collects a good amount of
| attackers, but I also have multiple other sources of attacker
| infos that let me build a threatfeed that is unlike any other.
| ISP scale SOC, ISP DDOS, etc. My threatfeed is insane, every
| firepower I add it to ends up blocking virtually all threats.
| Better yet, everything is fully automated.
|
| Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside our
| non-profit membership.
| nix23 wrote:
| >Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside
| our non-profit membership.
|
| Why?
| sleepingadmin wrote:
| Nonprofits in Canada must write a mission statement. Once
| approved, you are legally obligated to follow.
|
| Mind you, im a tech, not a lawyer or boardmember or whatever.
| nix23 wrote:
| Ah, i see, i was thinking something along the lines.
|
| Thanks for answering.
| omgwtfpmr wrote:
| https://synsh.dev, a tool that automatically generates shell
| pipelines from example inputs and outputs.
| drbawb wrote:
| I have a dream of killing the "hierarchical storage" metaphor. It
| started as a program to organize my images w/ tags: the images go
| into content addressable storage, the tags get stored in a
| relational database, and then you can query the tags, link them
| into a tree (taxonomy) or graph, etc.
|
| While building this I realized I wanted it to interact w/ other
| programs in my operating environment: so I made some tools to
| take queries and spit out hardlinks on the filesystem hosting the
| content store. This would let me write a quick query in my shell,
| spit the results to a taxonomy of ephemeral folders, and then
| access those folders from your usual "naive" applications.
|
| Then I became addicted to this workflow and realized I wanted to
| organize _all_ my media this way; which spiraled out of control
| when I realized I never wanted to deal with paths again _for any
| of my documents._
|
| I'd stress that the idea of content-addressable storage w/ an
| interface on top is most emphatically _not novel_ , Venti[1] from
| plan9 was doing it in the early aughts w/ references to prior
| work from the decades prior, git and many VCS systems are just
| interfaces into a content-addressable store as well. It's just
| that hierarchical organization won in popular culture, and as
| best I can surmise nobody is really interested in replacing it.
|
| The problem one naturally runs into is: hierarchical storage is
| inextricably linked into our modern operating systems, file
| systems, shells, protocols, etc. at the most fundamental levels;
| so the complexity grows enormously w/ every layer I want to
| subsume. You either deal w/ the friction of the "impedance
| mismatch" between your storage and operating environment, or you
| basically resign yourself to building an entire OS where "files"
| live at one _and-only-one_ path, with a myriad of indexes &
| manifests to make sense of it all.
|
| Am I likely to succeed in killing the "filing cabinet" metaphor?
| Probably not. Has the journey been worthwhile? Absolutely.
|
| [1]: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/
| dflock wrote:
| I would definitely be interested this! Got any links or public
| repos anywhere?
| scottlilly wrote:
| https://github.com/ScottLilly/MogriChess
|
| It's a variation of chess where the capturing piece acquires the
| movement capabilities of the piece it captured.
|
| I originally wrote a version seven years ago, but never got far
| in building a good AI for the bot player. As much as I like the
| idea behind the game, the program is really a testbench for me to
| work on memory and speed optimization techniques and probably
| eventually learn some AI/ML.
| rglullis wrote:
| Either I am doing some very wrong, or very right. Individually, I
| don't care about _any_ of the projects.
|
| - Hub20: self-hosted, open source payment gateway for crypto [0]
|
| - Communick: XMPP/Matrix/ActivityPub-provider-as-a-Service [1]
|
| - An e-book for people that want to get into crypto but are
| (rightfully) weary of all the scams, the baseless hype and all
| the get-rich-quick schemes.
|
| - A yet-to-reach MVP website to help curate, fund and collaborate
| with open source projects
|
| The idea for me is always to keep making the things that are
| interesting/rewarding on their own, and expect that _on
| aggregate_ these become bigger than whatever single "obsession"
| could end. It is what Daniel Vassalo calls "a portfolio of small
| bets". Done right, there is always something to learn from these
| projects.
|
| [0]: https://hub20.io
|
| [1]: https://communick.com
|
| [2]: https://areyouinterested.co/site/rational-investors-guide-
| to...
| alfiedotwtf wrote:
| After reading Parsing Techniques by Grune and Jacobs, I wanted to
| write a parser in Rust... I got it working in the end, but took
| me at least 6 months.
|
| Nobody uses it, not even me... but damn was I happy when all the
| tests passed for the first time
|
| https://github.com/alfiedotwtf/gallop
| Rodeoclash wrote:
| I suppose my site counts. I do care about it, but if it made
| money, then that would be an unexpected outcome.
|
| The gist of it is feedback on how you play videogames via
| comments on videos that you upload. This is really the tip of the
| iceberg but you can see it in action here:
|
| https://kilk-valorant.vodon.gg/
| julianwachholz wrote:
| https://triviaroyale.io
|
| I created the current version in around 2017 and finally gave a
| real name to the project about a month before a very similarly
| named game launched to big fanfare.
|
| My trivia game is a multiplayer live quiz aimed at the nostalgia
| of the IRC quiz bot days. I have started several rewrites from
| scratch over the years but only now do I finally have a version
| that seems ready for public release soon with more friendly
| features. (I'm targetting Feb 22nd!)
| sixbrx wrote:
| Source generator for nested data queries: Give typescript
| description of related tables to pull data from (Postgres,
| Oracle, MySQL), it generates the SQL (SQL/JSON) and matching
| result types for Java or TypeScript.
|
| https://scharris.github.io/sqljson-query/
| miketery wrote:
| I'm making a self sobering identity vault / wallet where I can
| setup a threshold cryptography scheme to share keys with friends
| and family for recovery.
| seirim wrote:
| That sounds super interesting and useful, can describe how
| you're making it work more and how far along you are? I have
| plans to build something I think is similar.
| josephwegner wrote:
| For a short time I had become disenchanted with the corporate
| world, and decided I would go the entrepreneur/consultant route
| and try to start my own niche business. I had experience in both
| Developer Support and Engineering and thought I could serve that
| niche well.
|
| This led to me starting to build out a suite of HelpScout
| integrations. They had some momentum at the beginning, but from a
| combination at me not being good at marketing and HelpScout's
| marketplace not being mature, it was hard to keep it moving. I
| also ended up happy again in the corporate world, so my own
| motivation dwindled.
|
| That said, the tools continue to run well today, and I just have
| them up and do the occasional feature addition or bug fix. I have
| completely removed my ego from that project, but I was very
| excited to see this month I got my first recurring subscription
| payment!
|
| https://carrick.joewegner.com
| mjrbrennan wrote:
| I've written one fiction novel and I'm working on another one,
| and have ideas for the early stages of two others. While I would
| like to be published one day I don't think it would hurt me too
| badly if I wasn't. I love writing and the process of breathing
| life into a story and characters from nothing. I've got my
| manuscripts listed here in case anyone is interested
| https://writing.martin-brennan.com/works/#manuscripts
| ss108 wrote:
| What do you use as a word processor?
| mjrbrennan wrote:
| I use Word. It's the easiest option and everything that you
| would want to submit to for short stories (and for novels I
| assume) expect a Word document. I've seen things like
| Scrivener but honestly I think that would over-complicate
| things for me. I can use Word anywhere, I pay for Office 365
| so I can use the desktop application or edit in the cloud if
| I want to.
|
| _Before_ I get into Word I process the words from my brain
| either by writing in longhand, or by using my typewriter. I
| use the step from these analogue methods to digital as an
| initial cleanup phase.
| ss108 wrote:
| Thanks. Interesting re: typewriter.
| pjgalbraith wrote:
| Another amateur Australian fiction writer here. I started last
| year around the time of the lockdowns.
|
| I'm in the same boat as you just writing for fun and enjoying
| the process. I'll probably look at the self-publishing route
| once I've finished my current WIP. I've learned a huge amount
| about various topics, including empathy for the characters I
| write about, and it has given me more appreciation for the
| skill of the writers I love.
|
| Also I hacked together an E-Ink "typewriter" for writing
| https://i.postimg.cc/2S53Pt7J/foto-no-exif-1.jpg
| mjrbrennan wrote:
| That typewriter is really cool! Any more details on the
| setup? Here is a photo of my typewriter
| https://imgur.com/a/5I7xNjI
|
| > I've learned a huge amount about various topics, including
| empathy for the characters I write about, and it has given me
| more appreciation for the skill of the writers I love.
|
| I've learned tons about this kind of thing over time, and as
| I've gotten more experience I've drawn on my interactions
| with others IRL and thinking more about human experiences,
| how characters would react realistically, and such. There is
| so much to learn. It really does make you appreciate the
| great fiction that you love, and it gives you something to
| work towards, a greatness to emulate.
|
| LMK if you ever want to exchange writing with someone, it can
| be a lonely road sometimes.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Almost every one of my package projects is like that.
|
| I create them for my own consumption, but make them available to
| anyone that wants to use them:
| https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/
|
| Nobody seems interested, which is just fine, by me. Releasing
| them as shipped products, is one of my "best practices." It keeps
| the Quality of my work high.
| laurieg wrote:
| Micro Mysteries. Tiny short stories with a hidden puzzle that the
| reader has to figure out.
|
| (Inspired by Two Minute Mysteries by Donald J Sobol)
|
| https://lauriegriffiths.github.io/micro-mysteries/
| zem wrote:
| loving them!
| freddref wrote:
| Occasionally I've felt a frustration configuring email, so I
| created a simpler way to set up notifications: https://batsign.me
|
| I'm currently thinking about how the log view can be improved.
| popfastful wrote:
| jheriko wrote:
| a compiler generator working from descriptions of the language
| producing a clang quality compiler (with richer errors
| actually...) with LLVM backend.
|
| it actually already works, with a few short cuts for generating
| itself... and ive used bits of it to do the 'make a scheme in x
| hours' thing in x/10 hours... the next step is unpicking those
| shortcuts so it can be completely generalised - there is no
| theoretical boundary there, just work i need to do which is
| boring.
|
| kinda like flex/bison/yacc/bnfc/antlr but not of jaw-droppingly
| abysmal quality.
|
| too much time is wasted on compiler development, and academia
| seriously dropped the ball there... the last decent effort i've
| found is the META work, which is basically ancient now.
| samhw wrote:
| Similarly, I've been working on a faster interpreter for
| Python, making more tradeoffs than the existing alternatives do
| (e.g. no C ABI compatibility, no eval/exec, etc; but usable
| auto-migration for real-world projects) and achieving more
| performance. By now I've learned to ditch parser generators and
| I usually copy-paste-alter my own derivative-assisted
| (https://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf)
| bottom-up chart parser.
|
| It also makes a hell of a lot of use of 'continuous program
| optimisation' for performance, which I think should be in wider
| use. In general, the principle of adapting optimisations for
| the specific program seems to get neglected in favour of
| treating every program as though it were the lowest common
| denominator. (Say, maybe you need a top-down parser for your
| LSP server, but you can use a bottom-up parser for your
| compiler.)
|
| I have a deep philosophical belief in eliminating wasteful
| computation - I think we as software engineers have a
| responsibility not to waste energy, in excess of the logical
| minimum required by the job at hand - so I have more of an
| interest in this than the bulk of programmers, who seem to
| regard performance engineering as some sort of nerd game that's
| rarely advisable.
| jamiegreen wrote:
| I have a podcast called 'One Percent Wiser' where I talk to
| various people about being human and trying to do it better.
|
| I know there are about a billion podcasts and it is unlikely to
| ever make money.
|
| Nevertheless, I enjoy the process, I get to learn a lot and it
| pushes me to become better at interviewing. So I keep going.
|
| Link: https://jamiegreen.org/tag/podcast/
| jublime_dev wrote:
| I've been working on a job search tool (job application tracker +
| job boards aggregator) for my personal job search - Jublime:
| https://jublime.com
|
| It is supposed to replace a clunky spreadsheet I normally use for
| my job search. But I ended up working on it more and more.
|
| https://jublime.com
| notjoeellis wrote:
| I'm one of the co-organizers of The Big Elixir
| (https://www.thebigelixir.com). And I do it not just because I
| love Elixir but because I want smaller, more focused conferences
| to exist in general!
| goodgrief99 wrote:
| https://mudilo.me I created this to register bad drivers by plate
| numbers. Only on Russian.
| ungawatkt wrote:
| My hurricane modeling project. It tends to go on hiatus after
| every hurricane season, and has gone through several iterations
| and languages, but I always end up back working on it. The last
| push got an actual website I'll put in public and automated model
| generation (though we'll see how well it holds up in June)
|
| https://www.odinseye.cloud/
| totemandtoken wrote:
| I've written about it elsewhere, but I've made what I call a
| "newsbetting" site where users get an article stripped of
| defining details (author, news source, etc) and must bet whether
| the content comes from a right leaning or left leaning news
| source. I've been a good way for me to learn the basics of web
| development and I hope to introduce little side projects to
| improve it, like a toy blockchain or some NLP machine learning
| type project.
| Osiris wrote:
| SNL did a sketch like this. It's hilarious.
|
| https://youtu.be/8h_N80qKYOM
| danielskogly wrote:
| I created a privacy-friendly wishlist service
| (https://wishy.gift/) for my SO, and as long as she and my family
| uses it, it's a success for me. Going from ~1k to ~5k users
| during 2021 was a lot of fun, but it's the close circle that
| really counts :)
| wsb_mod2 wrote:
| I'm not sure if this counts compared to the other posts here, but
| for me, for many years, r/wallstreetbets.
|
| I think this actually falls in line with most subreddits. You
| build or support a community because you want to discuss
| something and there isn't anywhere else to do it.
|
| This is kind of a loose interpretation of the "gets a lot of
| attention" requirement though.
| pram wrote:
| I've run a community for 10 years now, I'm extremely burned
| out. You have to make so many compromises and babysit so many
| idiots it really saps the fun out of everything. I'm tired of
| being Literally Hitler because I have to ban someone or mediate
| other histrionic meltdowns.
|
| Also after awhile it grows so much you don't even know everyone
| anymore, and you pretty much don't care. My discord has 11k
| members and I don't even read 80% of the channels anymore lol
|
| I always wanted to be the big webmaster guy when I was young,
| but the reality can be a bitter pill.
| strongpigeon wrote:
| I've been working on a 5/3/1 app for a while now. My goal is to
| make $1000 from it so I guess I do care if it succeeds a bit?
| Made about $180 so far.
|
| https://fivethreeone.app
| Dardania wrote:
| I am building Miasma (https://miasma.app); a little toolbar app
| for macOS that shows air quality readings based on either public
| sensors nearby or you can choose your own from PurpleAir or
| SmartCitizen. Also shows some metrics of potential pollution
| sources like traffic, aviations, power generation, and lately I
| added some global warming stats and calcs.
|
| I am far from being able to program competently, so this was a
| stretch goal for me (using up all that lovely creative energy
| people had early in the pandemic) on a topic I care about. Code
| is horrible (with my minimal knowledge now even I can see that)
| but there wasn't anything reliable enough in the App Store at the
| time. There's no way I can monetise it (albeit on the even worse
| iOS app I did I show ads, as much to learn how to integrate them
| rather than derive any income) so it is purely a passion project.
| There have been over 1000 downloads, and based on the numbers
| using one of the data feeds I can see there are regularly 20
| people using it throughout the day when their devices are on.
| Small wins.
| warrenm wrote:
| If I "don't care if this succeeds" it's only ever one or two
| things: something that 'has to be done' (because of some external
| pressure/reason) or 'I'm learning so I can succeed elsewhere,
| elsehow'
|
| Why would I otherwise want to put time and effort into something
| I don't care about? That's irrational
| cybarDOTlive wrote:
| yes i think a lot of posters are just using this as an
| advertising space. a lot of posts have contained levels of
| desperation, implying they do care.
| radiantexp21 wrote:
| Believe it or not, I sell the following on Fiverr as radiantxp21:
| "I will special stocks and option picks lose all your money fast
| and intelligently"
|
| I know, it sounds a bit, non-English, but in my defense: it was
| my first time using Fiverr and I had no clue how to use it. The
| ad is up for a few months already, and I had many laughs creating
| it, but yesterday I had my first client! I panicked, I realized
| that I am as bad at picking bad stocks as good ones. I felt like
| a fraud! And I was laughing so hard that I felt like a fraud.
|
| I genuinely have impostor syndrome telling people how to pick the
| worst stocks of their lives that will lead them into financial
| ruin :') I feel there's something funny about the whole aspect
| of: you ask for a service where you lose your stuff, now you
| gained more stuff, you're happy as a person but probably not too
| happy with my service.
|
| Writing the order was a ton of fun! I just get so many questions.
| Why would one want to lose money? Why listen to me? Would he want
| to adopt me? What are they really expecting? How does one pick a
| horrible horrible stock? Should I inverse my own trades, or
| should I lose the money to feel a sense of comradery? How serious
| should I be?
|
| The result is: I set up this persona that I feel is funny as
| hell, yet I try to analyze things as intelligently as possible
| and really show my real side as well.
|
| Thinking the question through: how can I deliver the worst
| possible stock (that is not something synthetic, or an index)?
| Really having the same strong drive that I normally have when I
| want to buy a winning stock.
|
| I can't put my words on it, but I feel it's splendidly beautiful
| if done in moderation.
|
| And I am proud to now say at parties: I am a professional
| financial advisor, I make sure people lose all their money. I am
| so good at it, I need a place to crash, can I stay at your place
| tonight?
| htrp wrote:
| Traditional finance theory says that the world's worst stock
| picker is just as valuable as the word's best stock picker.
| ackbar03 wrote:
| > I panicked, I realized that I am as bad at picking bad stocks
| as good ones. I felt like a fraud! And I was laughing so hard
| that I felt like a fraud.
|
| Seems easy enough. Just tell them to give the money to you to
| buy them "special" stocks and options, keep the money, and make
| them do the New York Times crossword puzzle or something.
| You've then just "special stocks and option picks lose all
| [their] money fast and intelligently" and kept your end of the
| bargain. The original task is in such broken English anyways I
| doubt your legally liable for anything.
| leppr wrote:
| Maybe they mean to counter trade you, i.e. short the terrible
| stocks you recommend and become immensily rich.
| samhw wrote:
| Yeah, logically someone who can see a bad trade can see a
| good trade. Anyone who is able to reliably underperform the
| market would be a valuable trader.
| exp1orer wrote:
| This is pretty funny, but in functioning financial markets,
| it's just as hard to pick losers as winners.
|
| The beliefs of professional traders about whether a stock will
| go up or down is already baked into the price. If you believe a
| stock is going to go down, and you are right, you can make
| money by shorting it.
| eternauta3k wrote:
| Exactly, the only sure way to lose money is to trade so much
| that it all goes away in commissions.
| smeyer wrote:
| Are you licensed? Maybe the first candidate just intends to
| take your financial advice and then sue you into the ground
| afterwards.
| Galanwe wrote:
| I hope original comments see this. Advising investment
| vehicles for money, without proper disclaimers and a licence
| is a very bad idea.
| tgsovlerkhgsel wrote:
| I feel like licensing could be an issue, but if you're
| advertising that you will lose someone's money, either you
| succeed (hard to argue that the customer didn't get exactly
| what they asked for), or you fail (hard to prove damages).
| mellavora wrote:
| Rational interpretation, meet law. Law, meet rational
| interpretation.
|
| we already know how this ends.
| Galanwe wrote:
| Advising on losing stocks is definitely an investment
| advice, it just means client will short them. This will
| be obvious to a court especially if the advice is for
| money. They will not bite for the absurd argument of
| paying for losing money.
| nescioquid wrote:
| > I know, it sounds a bit...non-English
|
| Should one in 18th century verse himself be passingly versed
|
| your crier's cry rings out artfully.
|
| One fraud's earnest scheme to a knowing fraud's great mirth
| does bring
|
| a wild-cat's prey; loss an LLC's bounty.
|
| edit: s/knowing fraud/knowing fraud's/g; sorry for the typo
| tasha0663 wrote:
| Begun this clone war has!
| ant6n wrote:
| > edit: s/knowing fraud/knowing fraud's/g; sorry for the typo
|
| Wait, that was the typo in this post?
| MichaelMoser123 wrote:
| taking care of google ;-) I have a search tool / catalog of
| duckduckgo !bang operators
| https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - i am
| hoping that it allows for better discoverability of specialized
| search engines. The latest addition is a description for each
| search engine, just hover over the name, and you get a
| description derived from the sites meta and title tags.
|
| I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it
| has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene.
| They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have
| to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking
| for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would
| aid the discovery and use of these search engines. I hope that
| this will allow them to eat into the market from the 'low end'.
|
| The projects source is here:
| https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang
|
| Unfortunately they don't invest too much into !bang operators at
| duckduckgo, however that's my input data...
| sundarurfriend wrote:
| This looks good. I expect their main page
| https://duckduckgo.com/bang will feel overwhelming for most
| users if displayed this way, but this is much better for
| serendipitous findings - both have their place.
|
| Is there a mobile equivalent to the hovering, to get the short
| description you mention?
| MichaelMoser123 wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion, i didn't think about it yet. The
| whole page isn't quite optimized for a mobile user
| experience. I think that i would have to add a link that
| brings up the help text; maybe the link should be in the form
| of a question mark icon, similar to what they have at
| https://m.xkcd.com/ what do you think? I am not much of an
| expert in matters if web UI/frontend, so that any advice is
| very much appreciated!
| DwarvenAcademy wrote:
| I am building a D&D 5e character sheet app:
| https://dwarven.academy
|
| It has very few users but I don't care because I built it mainly
| because I didn't enjoy dndbeyond and wanted something different.
| I'm using it for all my sessions :3
| matthewmcneely wrote:
| Nectr - a place for IT professionals to maintain an free,
| accurate, sharable profile of their skills, experience and
| availability: https://nectr.network
|
| I've always wanted this service, so even if I'm the only user,
| I'll keep it online.
| zoidb wrote:
| A hobby project from about 5 years ago https://cmdchallenge.com .
| There is zero monetization and the only reason I keep it running
| is that it has been pretty low maintenance and doesnt cost
| anything to run (one small $5 vm). There seems to be some small
| groups who use it as a learning tool. I don't think it is a great
| way to learn shell fundamentals by any stretch but the low
| barrier makes it a bit more accessible than other tutorials.
| jon-wood wrote:
| Learning to make actual physical things. I'm trying to get back
| into building electronic things - mostly home automation bits,
| and blinkenlights, after an extended hiatus. Just after Christmas
| I also picked up a 3D printer so I could do cases for things as
| well, since the biggest aspect that had been putting me off was
| that projects always ended up as a bare breadboard/PCB lying
| around.
|
| So far I'm loving doing something real, as opposed to mostly
| software, but ultimately I don't intend for it to become some
| sort income source so if it turns out I'm terrible at it, meh, at
| least I had fun learning some stuff.
| jayfae wrote:
| Group of us are working on an FPS channel for fun (currently apex
| legends), been a blast breaking off the rust for my editing
| skils.
|
| I'm someone who struggles to enjoy a game without some kind of
| purpose or goal, this helps provide one for me whilst playing
| competitive games with friends.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTSceMt5EJ4
| jawerty wrote:
| I built a search engine for Facebook comments called Metaheads
| https://metaheads.xyz
|
| Wanted to see if I could source Facebook comments by location and
| wound up building this whole thing for fun
| d_philla wrote:
| https://spinup.dev
|
| A simple website deployer that has free server-side analytics on
| deploy.
|
| It was a pandemic side-project, and I was mostly just interested
| to see what was involved in building it.
|
| I made a paid plan and integrated stripe because I liked the idea
| of it possibly paying for its own infra costs at some point. I
| have some ideas for features I want to add for fun, hopefully in
| the next couple months.
| nathias wrote:
| I'm working on a philosophical project and will continue to do so
| for the rest of my life. I don't care if I don't have a single
| reader.
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| I'm building yet another JS test framework. I care if it succeeds
| in the sense that I want to use it for my own purposes, but I
| couldn't care less if it gets more adoption than that.
|
| Why I'm building it/what it is:
|
| - Disclaimer: I don't intend to shit on any work by comparison,
| everything else is also a monumental effort and in most cases a
| labor of love as well
|
| - Problem: there are several "blazing fast" alternatives which
| either are not as fast as they think, or are feature limited and
| hard to extend - Not as fast as they think =
| highly optimized but their metrics omit their biggest overhead
| (eg spinning up new threads) - Feature limited = poor
| support for ESM, build tooling at runtime, caching and mocking
| don't work as expected
|
| - Concurrent, isolated testing by default, with a lot of tuning
| to provide threaded parallelism without noticeable overhead where
| possible (startup will always have a noticeable cost, this is
| aimed at subsequent runs in watch mode)
|
| - ESM first, natively, correctly according to standards
|
| - TypeScript without additional build config or FS output
|
| - TS support is built on ESBuild, but I'm taking care to work
| around some of its limitations like lack of support for the new
| JSX transform
|
| - ESM imports can be mocked trivially without memory leaks
|
| - Ergonomic improvements to common setup/teardown APIs:
| beforeAll/beforeEach can return isolated values for tests
|
| - APIs for aroundAll/aroundEach which allow tests to be executed
| in the same stack as they're declared, which in turn means you
| can use things like async hooks and other stack local references
| (motivating use case: rolling back transactions to a clean
| current db state without re-running migrations)
|
| I'm probably forgetting other nice things going into this. And
| it's just a yak shave project because I want this to test more
| concrete things I want to build
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| I have a podcast where me and a guest talk about technical
| interviewing then they give me a live technical interview.
|
| Video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/TaylorDorsett/
|
| It's fun because I get talk with smart people about a topic with
| no real solution, then sometimes I do well or sometimes I get
| destroyed in the interviews. I'd love to have more subscribers
| but I don't think its ever going to make me any money.
| el_benhameen wrote:
| Do you have an audio version? I've been looking for something
| exactly like this for walks.
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| Yup!
|
| Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd
| ?si=6c7e...
|
| Podbean: https://professionaltechnicalintervieweewithtaylordo
| rsett.po...
| el_benhameen wrote:
| Oh man, this is an absolute jackpot--exactly what I was
| looking for. Thanks!
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| Hope you enjoy! Let me know if you have any feedback.
| This is my second year doing the show. Trying to make it
| better however possible.
| oliwary wrote:
| Built a daily word game in two dimensions, with a 5x5 wordsquare
| to uncover using valid word guesses.
|
| https://squareword.org
|
| It's been such a joy to work on it and add features and
| improvements. No way of making money, but seeing the game evolve
| and getting positive feedback from players has made it worth it
| already. :) I love small projects like that where there are no
| expectations or real targets, just the pure fun of creating.
| dreadlordbone wrote:
| really enjoyable, clever take and I like that you have a target
| goal set.
| fm2606 wrote:
| Great game
| claylimo wrote:
| This is so awesome! thank you! It's a lot more challenging and
| fun than Wordle.
| nicbou wrote:
| https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline
|
| It backs up personal data and puts it on a timeline. It's cool to
| pick a random day and see what I was up to. It also serves as a
| backup tool.
|
| Somehow, people find out about it and star it. One person even
| contributed a pull request. However I strictly built it for
| myself, with no intention to make a product out of it.
| 0xJRS wrote:
| Started TypeBuf https://github.com/shanahanjrs/typebuf a few
| weeks ago.
|
| It's just a fun little project that I tinker on in my spare time.
| The code's still not close to feature complete, nor is it very
| clean ATM but it'll shape up soon :)
| vilos1611 wrote:
| https://grueplan.com/ - I recently finished an initial version of
| a social event planning app. Idea is to have an alternative from
| Facebook events to quickly:
|
| - Create
|
| - Share
|
| - Collaborate
|
| On group plans. I eventually want to add in simple commenting +
| note taking features, but for now you can register, create/edit
| plans, and share those plans with other people.
| tbillington wrote:
| A persistent web game written mostly in rust, with some js for
| the frontend. I got into the habit of streaming my work to keep
| me focused (https://www.twitch.tv/sleepyteagames) I'm mostly
| doing it for the fun and learning, though I'm hopefully about
| what it could be.
| maxencecornet wrote:
| https://marketcapvsmarketcap.com/ - it's a project I made to
| learn more about the static page generation (SSG) mode of Next.js
|
| If it's useful to people that's just an added bonus, but it was
| just a way to learn the development and CI/CD aspect of SSG
|
| The idea is that I pre-create hundred of thousands of pages at
| build time - all the pages can be seen here:
| https://marketcapvsmarketcap.com/sitemap.xml
| SevenDucks wrote:
| You haven't explained how it works at all
| maxencecornet wrote:
| I am just using Next.js SSG mode:
| https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/static-html-export
| to generate a lot of pages based on a template and data
| fetched from a thrid-party API
| rozenmd wrote:
| For me it's a feature flag service I built over a weekend:
| https://deploywithflags.com
|
| Uses Cloudflare Workers to globally distribute the API, and I
| intend to keep it free for individual developers.
|
| I might monetize it for teams eventually, but I just like having
| a simple, performant way to disable/enable features for my other
| projects.
| zeroxfe wrote:
| Mine's https://pitchy.ninja - a vocal training game
| steven_pack wrote:
| https://notimeforbooks.com
|
| Was fun for a while and mostly for myself. A few 100 ppl used it,
| but I found I didn't really enjoy reading that way as I thought I
| would... especially when Covid killed commutes.
| Zealotux wrote:
| My own virtual tabletop: https://bonfiretabletop.com
|
| It's actually picking up some speed and have a small base of
| active users, but even without what: I learn a ton from this
| project, definitely made me a better developer and entrepreneur.
| [deleted]
| phkahler wrote:
| I'm currently the lead maintainer of Solvespace (CAD):
| https://solvespace.com/index.pl
|
| It's a very fun to use CAD program, but is somewhat limited in
| capability. When I came across it I loved it but quickly ran into
| its limitations, so I joined the effort. Long term I don't see it
| growing into full-fledged CAD, but I'm happy to see it progress
| and help it along. Some day, someone might undertake the major
| refactoring of the internals to enable it to go beyond, but in
| some sense I don't really care. It's just a fun project to work
| on and I like to watch it grow.
| drewzero1 wrote:
| Thank you! For several years I'd been looking to get back into
| CAD modeling but after >10y away (took a few courses in HS) I
| was feeling intimidated by the size and scope of many popular
| CAD programs. I really appreciate how approachable it was to
| me, and how well it runs on my older computer. I've yet to get
| very far with actual modeling but I've at least got a program
| to start with.
| karlkeefer wrote:
| I built a free service that sends you email prompts to think
| about gratitude. If you reply to the emails, it collects your
| responses into a gratitude journal.
|
| https://emailnotebook.com
|
| Its primary purpose is to get _me_ to build the habit, and so far
| it 's working for that :)
| radq2 wrote:
| I recently created an app to help make and animate stamps on iOS
| with a fun/quirky interface. You can export the stamps as gifs or
| use the iMessage "stickers" interface to drag them on a text
| message. It was a passion project. I even created all the assets
| in the app myself while the app was being developed which was a
| bit of a stretch creatively for me, but was a ton of fun.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stampfx/id1583460487#?platform...
| atemerev wrote:
| I am building a computational simulation of a nuclear weapon
| explosion. I learned _a lot_ since I started, and the success
| here is somewhat ill-defined, so I am enjoying the process.
| arrow7000 wrote:
| Don't you need a supercomputer to do this with any accuracy?
| jfdi wrote:
| https://increment.me "Get anonymous feedback on anything"
|
| Built it, use it, enjoy it, get value from it and I think
| everyone could. May turn into 501c3!
| ash110 wrote:
| I built a social media platform called Igloo -
| https://igloosocial.com I wanted a platform where I could share
| like on Instagram, but with restricted people that I can change
| as I wish so not all my followers have to see all of my content.
| Been a great learning experience, the first time I built a proper
| app and a backend of this size all by myself. Don't care if
| anyone else uses this, I had fun along the way.
| navyad wrote:
| built this and using this: https://github.com/navyad/moviematch
| [deleted]
| kingofkyiv wrote:
| darebak wrote:
| I'm sorry to be blunt, but this seems like it gears towards
| sexpats?
| VoodooJuJu wrote:
| I got the same feeling. I was immediately overwhelmed with
| cringe and disgust when I landed on the page.
| [deleted]
| irl_chad wrote:
| I'm an immigrant in Ukraine. I love this country very much.
| Speak the language, understand the culture, etc.
|
| After checking out your page, I'm absolutely appalled. I've
| forwarded this to a personal friend who works in the
| immigration department here.
|
| Ukraine isn't your playground to pimp women to men who aren't
| successful with them in their own countries.
|
| Btw you've probably seen me around Kyiv in bars/clubs/whatever.
| I'm the guy always wearing designer + an iced out rolex
| adrianmsmith wrote:
| Do you think it's a bit arrogant to announce yourself as the
| "king" of Kiev?
| eternityforest wrote:
| Really the only projects I'm truly happy just to do even if only
| a few friends see them are outside of tech. I like Filk music,
| woodworking, making YouTube videos, poetry, fiction, and random
| historical research essays(Currently I'm looking into a
| completely unfounded theory that the phrase "Diarrhea of the
| mouth" could have first gotten popular with in France).
|
| As far as Tech, I've got my KaithemAutomation server(Think Home
| Assistant esque but focused on commercial installs on cheap SD
| cards), which I'm working on extending to be a CCTV NVR.
|
| The idea of motion detecting multiple high res IP cams on a Pi at
| once is just too cool to ignore, and current CCTV software is so
| far behind where I want it to be that It's still exiting to work
| on.
| koch wrote:
| https://cascade.page
|
| Make timelines from markdown-ish text.
| float4 wrote:
| I've wanted something like this for a long time! Awesome!
| pattle wrote:
| I run a free to play browser game called Money Simulator
|
| https://simulator.money
|
| The aim is to help you with financial planning. I don't think it
| will ever make money but it's growing so I'll just see where it
| goes.
| farico wrote:
| This is fun!
| ssz wrote:
| I have a few.
|
| https://rate.house is a user generated media database. It's like
| IMDb but also has music, literature, video games, and podcasts.
|
| https://newsasfacts.com provides the most important news around
| the world concisely.
|
| https://wordhoot.com is a word guessing game inspired by Wordle
| featuring multiplayer, unlimited plays, and detailed playing
| history/stats.
| kirubakaran wrote:
| https://crushentropy.com/ - Markdown for planning your day
|
| I made it one weekend years ago and I've been using it daily ever
| since. It is completely free. My reward is the occasional fan
| mail :-)
| kevinventullo wrote:
| This is quite a limited effort, but I occasionally write code and
| accompanying blog posts about subjects in the intersection of
| algebraic number theory and low-level computing:
| https://kevinventullo.com/
|
| I'd like to think one day this stuff could end up in a compiler
| optimization or something, but I'm not too worried about it.
| rdm_blackhole wrote:
| I have been working on a browser extension that calculates your
| mortgage repayments while browsing home listings on
| https://trulia.com or https://zillow.com or https://domain.com.au
| or https://realestate.com.au
|
| The expectation was to learn how to create a browser extension.
| Since its been released, I have had a few hundred users
| consistently using the extension for the last 3 months, so I am
| planning to add more features in the near future.
|
| The extension is available on Firefox:
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/real-estate-b...
|
| And the on the Chrome store:
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/real-estate-buddy/...
| as89 wrote:
| Glad to see this thread come back! I'll share something of my
| own, though it's not a tech project.
|
| I've been working on translating Japji Sahib - which is the
| foundational prayer of the Sikhs - into English poetry. The
| original is a poem, but most of the existing translations are in
| prose and use Western religious terminology that's not really
| appropriate to the original.
|
| I just wrapped up a first draft of the translation itself. Also
| working on putting together an essay on why I felt another
| translation was necessary and why preserving the form of the poem
| is important to understanding its contents. Planning on getting
| it published one way or another.
|
| Been sharing snippets from my translation here, if you're
| interested in following along: https://twitter.com/verseofpunjab
| JNRowe wrote:
| Thanks for your original thread, obviously it stuck in my mind.
|
| It has been great to read all the responses again. I've
| probably spent a few years worth of upvote budget, assuming I
| haven't tripped some upvote spam detector ;)
| as89 wrote:
| Hah, same here
| linksnapzz wrote:
| Very nice!
| as89 wrote:
| Thanks!
| hypertexthero wrote:
| Windward, my first book of photographs:
|
| https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/windward/
|
| I'm glad I can finally point to a book and say "I made this" with
| no excuses. Don't care if it sells. Just happy it is finished!
|
| Back in the mid 2000s I was invited to come to Boston in the
| first Y-Combinator batch. Because of border and money issues I
| could not go and I regretted it as I had a project related to
| visual art and photographs that I wanted to make.
|
| But in a way it was a blessing because instead I concentrated on
| photography and visual work which is more compatible with the way
| my brain works and which I later came to understand makes me
| happier.
|
| I am thankful for this website and community of kind people
| interested in technology living on a [light blue dust dot][1] in
| the universe. I have learned so much here and continue to do so,
| and maybe I will make that project eventually, crappy code and
| all :)
|
| As Hawking says in the Pink Floyd song, all we need to do is to
| make sure we keep talking.
|
| Peace.
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
| mawise wrote:
| I found an old mix-tape (cassette) that I had bought from a
| thrift shop a long time ago. I needed (mentally) to shift focus
| from other projects so I decided to see if I could put together a
| site over a weekend to highlight the mixtape and let people share
| their own compilation albums.
|
| Fun story: I tried building social-media share buttons (just
| links, no creepware SDKs or JS imports) and was so confused why
| my icons disappeared as soon as I added links. That's what
| happens when you've been using an ad-blocker for so long you
| forget it's there. :)
|
| https://bethsluxmix.com/
| tgeorgedaniel wrote:
| I built this chess website so that my Dad didn't need to install
| an app... just click a link for the latest move:
|
| http://chextmate.com
|
| Sessionless, all state in URL.. no registration ... not sexy,
| just simple. (and buggy)
| szajbus wrote:
| I wrote Elasticsearch CLI just to scratch my own itch, as for
| certain tasks I just prefer to stay in the terminal. It's written
| in bash, uses curl under the hood and provides zsh completions
| for index and alias names.
|
| https://github.com/szajbus/elastic-cli
| akeck wrote:
| An self-published art book of my illustrations.
| tldrthelaw wrote:
| I have a YouTube channel of videos I make with my family at our
| cabin. Some of it is renovation, some of it is just enjoying the
| outdoors. Folks message us from time to time and say they enjoyed
| this or that. If it takes off and becomes something, that's cool,
| but only to the extent that it means it made someone's day
| brighter. Otherwise, I'm content to just enjoy the videos myself.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh0YKCZZHcfAIJgX9WwiTmA
| wila wrote:
| A programmer's text editor for a language called DataFlex,
| written in DataFlex (well some parts are in C++ for performance
| reasons)
|
| https://projects.vdf-guidance.com/projects/hammer
|
| It's only 21 years in the making :)
|
| Oh and I should mention that it is my main programmers editor for
| a variety of languages (not just DataFlex)
| kamarg wrote:
| This is only the second time in fifteen years of professional
| development I've seen someone say they work with DataFlex. What
| makes the language attractive to you compared to all the other
| languages that are around and see significantly higher
| adoption?
| wila wrote:
| Thanks for the question :)
|
| You are correct that there's not that many of us around.
|
| DataFlex is attractive for writing business software on
| windows (desktop and/or web).
|
| The framework is crazy effective in regards to how fast and
| efficient you can build an application. I have not seen
| anything that comes close and I do look around and try other
| things every now and then.
|
| A text editor isn't exactly the main target. I guess it is
| important to point out that the first release of that editor
| was in 2001. Not that it took 21 years to get something
| working :D.
| angarg12 wrote:
| I tried to train an adversarial neural network to play idle
| games.
|
| After several days of work it still wasn't learning anything, but
| I don't care.
| 0wx wrote:
| When I want to re-watch one piece from the episode 1 I can't find
| any good source, the one that has complete list of episode is
| from pirate site, but you know how pirate site, tons of pop up
| ads, so I made https://stream.yui.pw, basically just scrapper
| site from the original pirate site, but no ads, easy for me to
| navigate, and pretty good use case to learn react and I'm pretty
| happy about it because I could use it on my own.
| asah wrote:
| An invite-only social media site designed for "thoughtful,
| actionable conversation" free of ads, trolls and brigading. It's
| a bunch of domain experts, silicon valley insiders, New York
| finance folks, etc tired of social media and chat systems, and
| taking apart complex topics.
|
| We're building on Zulip and for now it's also open source.
|
| inviteme@forecast.chat if you care. Please include some links to
| thoughtful social media posts you've made.
| badestrand wrote:
| What a great thread, love all those projects!
|
| For me it's https://togetherdb.com, my passion project that I
| enjoy working on so much. It's an online database for developers,
| you can also manage your existing databases with it. If you work
| with databases, then please check it out!
| BareNakedCoder wrote:
| Made https://securemypw.appspot.com so I could securely share
| passwords with my wife (for bank, investment, biller accounts) in
| case something happened to me. URLs are saved in a Google doc we
| both have access to. Now I use it for most of my passwords.
| Folcon wrote:
| Mine is a simulation game that I'm working on in the spirit of
| having a forever project[0].
|
| I've been working on pieces of it on and off for years and as it
| stands it's very incomplete. More of a collection of systems and
| interesting mechanics that I've been trying to figure out how
| they fit together.
|
| For some reason I always find it difficult to make games, I can
| build complex systems spanning multiple servers that interface
| with clients, but the second the "what do I build next" becomes
| less a problem to solve with existing constraints and more an
| artistic decision, that the two sides of my brain decide they
| aren't really able to agree >_<...
|
| My creative side suddenly becomes the worst kind of client
| wanting all kinds of weird stuff that it thinks are cool and my
| dev side goes, great, but that's super vague, how does it work?
| What do I need to build? "But this would be
| really cool!" "Ok, but you're going to have to make
| some choices here so I can start implementing something, what do
| you want this or that?" "Ahh, I don't want to pick
| and also now that you've said that, that makes me think of this
| other thing that would be interesting, can we fit that in there
| somehow?" "How?" "You are the one who
| knows how to build stuff, you figure it out!" ~Brain
| locks up~
|
| Last June I decided to try and figure out how to make a game or
| bust, I didn't really care what, just that I made something, so I
| took part in the GMTK 2021, that went ok so I decided to try and
| take what I learned about focus, scoping and getting a small
| playable thing up and running asap and made a new project[2].
|
| It's super rough, you've been warned =)...
|
| The gameplay is still sort of non-existent, performance is pretty
| bad, there's still a lot of existing pieces from those old
| projects that I need to work out if I should add into it and code
| quality is kind of all over the place as I'm still really trying
| to work out how to build stuff like this and I know if I let my
| dev side have too much leeway it's going to take over and I'll
| probably no longer be able to figure out what my creative side
| wants to do.
|
| It's a fiddly balance that I'm still trying to figure out.
|
| I've intentionally not said anything about the game itself,
| you're welcome to ask me for details, but there are also bits of
| info littered about here and there[3].
|
| - [0]:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20130124211012/http://www.dev.gd...,
| original HN discussion [1]
|
| - [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5096009
|
| - [2]: Itch: https://folcon.itch.io/fruit-economy, GH:
| https://github.com/Folcon/fruit-economy
|
| - [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22791490
| warrenm wrote:
| Sounds like this flow chart someone shared on Facebook
| recently: https://scontent-
| ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/273415552...
| Folcon wrote:
| It is a lot like that and I want to find a better resolution
| for it.
|
| I don't want ideas to stop, I've had times where I've looked
| at a game system that I've built and had no idea what to do
| next. That's also horrible.
|
| Having a new idea shouldn't just have me building some new
| thing from scratch either.
|
| Working out how to navigate that tightrope when you are the
| client and it's not just solve this problem is one I'm still
| trying to work out :)...
| warrenm wrote:
| I wish I had a higher-res version, to ... Maybe I'll just
| draw it later :)
| lewisjoe wrote:
| I'm making a proof of concept UI library that runs in
| WebAssembly!
|
| Pros:
|
| - Rendering for multiple platforms
|
| - Much efficient server side rendering with all the goodies of
| SPA (no need to scale nodejs servers)
|
| Cons: It's just a proof of concept and I don't have enough
| bandwidth to take it to a full blown framework
| Gollapalli wrote:
| I care if this succeeds, because I want it.
| scary-size wrote:
| Really enjoying this thread, lots of great projects.
|
| I've been working on "Daily" [1], a desktop app for creating
| blogs and websites. Everything's stored in a single file, local
| preview, output static files or upload to Vercel. It's nearly at
| a point, where it's finished. Of course I've lots of ideas for
| features. and monetisation. But I don't like the marketing part,
| except talking about it here and there. And that's fine.
|
| [1] https://www.project-daily.com
| Uily wrote:
| I built a python library warhammer-stats for the Warhammer 40k
| tabletop game because all the other tools sucked. It is still the
| only 40k stats tool that can deterministically calculate the
| entire probability mass function for attack damage.
|
| I then wrote an iOS app, Stats Hammer, because I wanted to use it
| on my phone and wanted to learn some swift.
|
| Both are free for anybody to use and it warms my heart to see
| people using them, but I don't really care if either succeeds
| because I got what I wanted out of them
| gmitrev wrote:
| https://stonksfolio.com
|
| I started it to track my all my investment accounts in one place
| and a couple of years ago decided to open it up to the public.
| Active users are in the hundreds but not growing rapidly. Tried
| to monetize it with Patreon but only 2 people actually
| subscribed.
|
| It's a fun project to work on, though, and not having paying
| customers allows me to ignore it until I get the enthusiasm to
| work on it again :)
| aeno wrote:
| This is doing exactly what I'm currently doing locally with a
| spreadsheet - just better and polished. Great work!
| rv wrote:
| I have been writing a book about the fundamentals of large-scale
| distributed systems over the past couple of years.
|
| It's not a best seller, but thanks to it, I connected with
| engineers all over the world who I would never have met
| otherwise.
|
| https://understandingdistributed.systems/
| tma wrote:
| I've been working on something that helps me track my
| investments. It was to scratch my own itch since everything I've
| used was terrible. It's now grown to have a social angle and I
| hope to keep working on this for the rest of my life since
| investing is a life long journey for me.
|
| https://wealthly.com
| KerryJones wrote:
| Wow! This is great, I've done something similar but more
| focused on options trading -- did you do your own design?
| GrahamL wrote:
| I've been journaling for a very long time, and have thought about
| building a tool to encapsulate the "best practices" I've come up
| with over that time.
|
| Finally gave it a shot and whipped up a site this week. I'm
| having fun building it while using it. I hope it'll be helpful to
| some other people too, but even if it isn't it's enough for me.
|
| https://www.indelibleapp.com/
| louisstow wrote:
| https://signals.to
|
| I'm building a cybersecurity database that aggregates
| vulnerability information from about 100 different sources in one
| cohesive structured dataset that can be easily queried. It'll be
| much faster than CVEs and include way more things (remedy
| information, news, social media, forum, advisories).
| andygroundwater wrote:
| I've got a major a-hole neighbour that's been stealing my food
| when delivery drivers accidentally call at their home instead of
| mine. This guy has even claimed to be me to the delivery folks,
| which I guess is out-and-out fraud.
|
| Anyway, I've been sitting on a plan for a little while to deal
| out some karma - involving some ML, a camera, an SDR board and a
| Raspberry Pi.
| dyml wrote:
| https://listentothe.cloud/
|
| I built it to be an example to explain APIs. Turned out to
| beautiful to listen to, so I keep it alive for my own amusement.
| deepbream wrote:
| I make mostly pun-based, low-quality memes inspired by the world
| of Deep Learning. The current phase is to distribute them as NFT
| and publicize them on Twitter. The overall aim is to maximize my
| personal fun function while cultivating a sense of niche satire,
| with a dash of smuttiness at times.
|
| http://opensea.io/collection/deepbream @deepbream
| oberon1 wrote:
| I am trying to build an open-source extension on top of DBeaver
| that provides:
|
| 1. Basic charting capabilities 2. A tab that stores queries and
| their results in plain text format
|
| Especially (2) is vital for regular users where I work.
| sebastianconcpt wrote:
| 1. Circa 2014 I've created Mapless [1], a Smalltalk persistence
| framework to remove the Object Relational Impedance Mismatch
| problem by design so I can quickly prototype or (modify) maintain
| the persisted objects without caring about mapping. After being
| abandoned, it suddenly became a life saver. Now it's going for
| production with humongous load.
|
| 2. I'm discretely working in Lobster [2] because I don't like
| current Smalltalk IDEs and I want one with a native look and
| feel. So far I have implemented Transcript, Workspace, Inspector,
| REPL and partially a Class Hierarchy Browser.
|
| [1] https://github.com/sebastianconcept/Mapless [2]
| https://github.com/sebastianconcept/lobster
| scroot wrote:
| Do you have some instructions, screenshots, or video about the
| lobster project?
| empressplay wrote:
| The Print Shop emulated in the browser: https://theprintshop.club
|
| microM8 Apple II emulator (does 2.5D rendering)
| https://paleotronic.com/microM8
|
| and a crazy amount of mostly instrumental music I've composed
| just to stay sane, really https://soundcloud.com/xennial
| willmacdonald wrote:
| Making marmalade, no tech angle, just nice to work your hands!
|
| https://marmageddon.se/
| rsync wrote:
| "Oh By"[1]
|
| It's a "universal shortener" which means it doesn't just shorten
| URLs - it shortens _anything_ and turns it into a short,
| recognizable code.
|
| Or, what _would be_ a recognizable code if anyone used it :)
|
| Here's an example: https://0x.co/examples.html ... and for some
| reason I am still enamored with the " _send a text to someone in
| the future_ " use-case.
|
| [1] https://0x.co
| sundarurfriend wrote:
| Sorry, maybe I don't understand: from the comparison with QR
| codes I thought this was encoding the information in some way
| (like tio.run and many other places do), but it looks like the
| code is just a handle for your internal lookup? How is this
| different from the many pastebins out there? One could as well
| write on the shoe paste.ee/p/t7lCK and put the information
| there - or just the p/t7lCK part if paste.ee was seen as a
| universally recognised data store the way you seem to think of
| 0x becoming.
|
| Maybe the difference is on the social side, not at a technical
| level: having the code be recognised with the 0x, and
| encouraging people to converge on this as a standard. That
| would be perfectly legitimate, I'm just trying to make sure
| I've understood this correctly.
| kingcharles wrote:
| The lost and found example is horrible LOL. If I came across
| that glove, I guess I might be tempted to Google the code, but
| that's because I'm a nerd. At best you still need to write "IF
| FOUND PLEASE GO TO 0x.co". And bear in mind that 0 and O are
| very similar.
| ghostly_s wrote:
| If I found that I would think "how weird, someone wrote a hex
| code on this," and best-case might try to translate it to
| ASCII or google "hex code graffito" or the like, which I
| doubt would bring up this site because it doesn't use the
| term "hex code" anywhere.
| seaman1921 wrote:
| I work in abuse (prevention), and you might want to change the
| name of that website since it is very similar (edit distance 1)
| from some really bad stuff - unfortunately i can't share more
| details for obvious reasons :)
| seaman1921 wrote:
| By the way, your website access is already blocked by certain
| ISPs and marked as "dangerous".
| rsync wrote:
| I have learned that this is common with a URL shortener -
| they immediately get used by all kinds of scammers.
|
| I learned a bit and played the cat-and-mouse game for a bit
| but for now ... we're marked as "dangerous".
| ghostly_s wrote:
| Every other url shortener has the massive advantage over yours
| of providing urls that can actually be used to retrieve the
| information, whereas your codes are meaningless unless someone
| is already aware of the service. Furthermore, I would argue
| they are not "recognizable" because the format you've chosen
| already has a well-known unrelated meaning for hex notation.
| rsync wrote:
| Just to clarify: if you use 0x.co as _just a plain old URL
| shortener_ then it will work just like you expect it to.
|
| The odd use-case - codes out in the real world - is a
| chicken-and-egg problem that will probably never resolve
| itself.
| phemartin wrote:
| A free Product Hunt + Hacker News daily newsletter digest:
| https://producthacker.dev
| kulesh wrote:
| Timebot.chat
| mishu2 wrote:
| https://www.propup.net/blatta/
|
| I made a very simple feedback/bug report web app which can be
| integrated into other websites using a one-liner, because I
| wanted to quickly start getting user feedback for my other
| projects. Feel free to give it a try.
|
| It was also a fun way to learn ClojureScript, which I now love
| using for my side projects (although I find I'm slowly moving
| towards Elixir/Phoenix).
| ramkarthikk wrote:
| I created https://plaintweet.com/ primarily for myself. I posted
| it on HN sometime back and many people visited it. It is
| completely free and doesn't use any analytics so I don't know how
| many people use it (if any).
|
| It runs on a $5 VM along with some other small projects, so it
| doesn't cost me much and hence the outcome doesn't matter.
| Eighth wrote:
| Fantasic idea and implementation. My timeline on here compared
| to twitter.com looks more sane and inteligent without those
| recommendations of 'X liked this tweet', and all the news
| topics. I assume that's because it's getting the raw feed.
|
| I also love low-fi websites like this. I think websites
| shouldn't be a large drain on resources, and should embrace
| standard HTML as much as possible.
|
| This has the opportunity to curve timewasting scrolling by
| making it more a periodical read. As such, I'd like the return
| of the timestamps and to implement hourly pagination, so that
| there's an 'end' point and a easy bookmark to start where you
| left off.
| ramkarthikk wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback. Glad you like this. Yes, I was
| spending way too much time because of the endless feed and
| scroll. I was seeing more things I didn't subscribe to
| (follow) than what I subscribed to. So I created this app.
|
| The timestamp idea is great. I will look into implementing it
| next. It's always nice to have a start and an end. Maybe I
| will add a setting where the user can specify how frequently
| they want to fetch new items.
| AnonHP wrote:
| An alert for you: the donate link leads to a "404 Not Found"
| page on buymeacoffee.
| ramkarthikk wrote:
| Ah thanks. It should be fixed now.
| blago wrote:
| I'm working on an rsync app for iOS that will allow me to sync
| files from my laptop or server over ssh.
|
| Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who feels that all
| existing file transfer and cloud apps suck. They are either too
| slow, or don't allow syncing everything for offline use.
|
| Even if I end up the only user, I'll be happy and my time would
| be well spent.
| iljya wrote:
| Creating paper nautical maps. NOAA has stopped updating 15% of
| all their nautical charts and will discontinue the rest by Jan.
| 2025.
|
| The proposed replacement for the beautiful maps they produce now
| is "print electronic maps yourself". Unfortunately the electronic
| charts are only usable with an interactive interface which paper
| is not, to say nothing about their aesthetic qualities.
|
| There are data errors too in the new "custom charts" that are
| being offered for printing, one such error is that virtually all
| US water lots a foot of water according to the maps! I
| investigated this and it is due to rounding down when converting
| to meters and then rounding down again when converting back to
| feet.
|
| Let me know if you care, or want to help.
| subpixel wrote:
| Love to know more. I want to print them, and I'm sure others
| have similar needs:
|
| 1. I want a paper backup chart on my boat when I'm in the
| ocean. The one I have is deteriorating.
|
| 2. I want a large-scale print or collection of them so I can
| plan and track journeys with my family. I have them pinned in
| my stairway wall on foam board, and have been considering a
| different approach.
| jwang1020 wrote:
| This sounds like a perfect intersection of a few interests of
| mine so would be super interested in learning more. What type
| of help are you looking for?
| Gwypaas wrote:
| How are the British Admiralty charts for the US? Those have
| been the ones I've tended to use when going international in
| Europe at least.
| lukaszkups wrote:
| For the last couple weeks I'm working on my HTML5-based game that
| I eventually plan to release on steam (it will be my 1st
| commercial gaming project and one of very few games on steam that
| are web-based, without using actual <canvas> element) - I don't
| really care about the sales as it's my side gig that I've just
| wanted to create because of lack "Into the Breach" or "Mech
| Commander" related games available these days.
|
| Here's the link to the actual demo:
| https://lukaszkups.itch.io/monolith-wars
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