[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?
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Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?
In the spirit of other Ask HN : Hiring and who wants to be hired, I
thought I would help people with their side projects. For free or
otherwise. Please post what your side project does and whether you
need help with technology(frontend, backend, databases) or with
marketing/growth hacking/sales etc. Personally, I can help with
Python, Java and other backend technologies.
Author : throwaway83242
Score : 19 points
Date : 2022-07-01 15:49 UTC (7 hours ago)
| thenewwazoo wrote:
| I've got an open-source Homebridge plugin
| (https://github.com/thenewwazoo/homebridge-lutron-caseta-leap)
| that has a bug in its client-handling code. There is some problem
| with connection handling that is causing user pain. I am an
| experienced developer, but new to Typescript, and absolutely
| cannot chase it down. I would love the help of someone with Node
| socket coding knowledge willing to take a look.
| bhu1st wrote:
| I am working on weekends occassionally on a side project of mine,
| a real-time version of board game Baghchal (http://baghchal.net).
| The stack is Node.js/MongoDB.
|
| I have identified couple issues that I'd love to work on at
| https://github.com/bhu1st/baghchal.net/issues but I lack
| time/resources.
|
| Many thanks in advance for any technical
| help/support/collaboration. Please DM me.
| meesterdude wrote:
| My project is a new way to browse the web, spatially. Built in
| unity/c#. Mostly done but there's always more to do so open to
| help with hte dev, Would also be great to work with a Ruby on
| Rails dev on building out the platform side.
|
| would also love help building up traction/excitement with
| users/potential customers.
|
| email is violentpurr at gmail if you're interested. I'm based on
| the east coast.
| RohitMartires wrote:
| sounds cool, is this in the same space as Arc
| (https://thebrowser.company)?
| meesterdude wrote:
| they don't have much to see, so hard to say what their
| implementation is; i think same problem space for sure.
| ternaryJimbo wrote:
| Interested! By spatially do you mean this is a vr app?
| meesterdude wrote:
| Sort of! It's in 3D. Spatial is leveraging the human ability
| to reason about & remember landmarks as part of navigation of
| a space and associate information.
| jms55 wrote:
| I'm working on a Screeps-like game using WebAssembly. You compile
| a script to WebAssembly, and for each robot you control on the
| server, it runs the script in an isolated environment to choose
| an action for that robot. The goal is to write a program to
| coordinate your robots into gathering resources, replicating, and
| expanding your control of the server.
|
| Here's an example bot script:
| https://github.com/JMS55/botnet/blob/master/example_bot/src/...
|
| The basic infrastructure of the project is more or less in place,
| besides a visual replay viewer which I'm working on right now.
| What's needed is a bunch of work in designing game mechanics and
| APIs. I don't actually have any plans at the moment beyond bots
| running around and harvesting randomly generated resources. Feel
| free to open a discussion on the github page if you're interested
| in Rust, WebAssembly, and video games.
|
| https://github.com/JMS55/botnet
| Rodeoclash wrote:
| This is cool! I've had this idea knocking around in the back of
| my head similar to this about an MMO like game where users
| could write WASM code and "imbue" items in the game with it.
| Sort of allowing them to create interesting game logic to build
| stories and things in it.
|
| Elixir always felt like it'd be a good backend to coordinate
| running things
| jka wrote:
| I've been developing a recipe search engine and meal planner at
| https://www.reciperadar.com/ -- all the code is free and open
| source.
|
| I think the two largest challenges it has at the moment are:
|
| - Developer experience / infrastructure setup: the service is
| Kubernetes-based, composed primarily of Python+Flask
| microservices, and although the setup steps are documented[1],
| they're not yet automated.
|
| - User interface: my lack of user interface design skills are
| fairly apparent, I think. Having some clear UI goals to work
| towards would be helpful - there's likely some overlap with
| product design questions here (what _should_ be the range of
| functionality that the the app offers?)
|
| To be transparent: although I hope to offer compensation in
| future, the project is zero-revenue currently, and I don't feel
| ready to provide any monetary returns yet. If that hasn't put you
| off: any feedback is welcome, from discussion comments to pull
| requests to business model questions/critiques!
|
| PS: Don't forget to mention one or two of your own side projects
| if there's anything you're looking for help with, too.
|
| [1] - https://github.com/openculinary/infrastructure/
| PhillyG wrote:
| I wouldn't say your UI is bad - it's certainly a reasonable MVP
| at this point. You could probably stick ads on it or a
| newsletter sign up on it for people interested in it. If I
| wasn't looking for UI improvements to point out, first glance
| would be it's pretty good, and what I'd expect - I certainly
| wouldn't immediately bounce - though the input boxes do need to
| support splitting ingredients by typing a comma - typing enter
| is not instinctive and even once I'd figured that out, when
| going again I "messed up". I listed ingredients as I'd expect
| to for an input box, and when I moved to the next box my input
| was lost.
|
| It sounds like you need to spend time using it yourself,
| thinking over it's use, getting others to use it, watching them
| get stuck, listening to their questions. Get family or friends
| who have never used the app to use it while you are there and
| find out what they struggle with. For knowing what
| functionality it needs - find people who are interested in
| paying for that kind of product - family and friends are great
| for doing the app equivalent of proofreading, but unless they
| are in your market they may well have lots of ideas, but you'll
| have no idea if they're the right ideas to build.
|
| Some confusing things about your UI (in order of me noticing
| them):
|
| - "Are there any ingredients that are not available?" - this
| looks like it needs rewording to something like "avoid these
| ingredients" or "any common ingredients not available", I knew
| what you meant, the search will exclude recipes with those
| items, but it felt weird to read - there are probably 1000s of
| ingredients that I don't have in my kitchen, I'm not going list
| those. I might list things like milk if I where cooking for a
| lactose intolerant person in that box, or I might use that for
| if I where out of something common.
|
| - on laptop screen, box around the search form has a huge gap
| to the right of the form inputs. I'd either make the inputs a %
| width of that box, or put them in two columns when wide enough
|
| - the previously mentioned thing about inputs needing to treat
| , being entered as if the user had tapped space
|
| - I'd probably expect to see filters for
| vegan/veggie/pescatarian / low gi etc but then maybe not -
| that's the kind of thing you could build if you run out of
| things from proper users - unfortunately I rarely cook proper
| meals so I'm not really in your target market I would assume.
|
| - Shopping list feature is a feature I could use, if it where
| better, (though I currently use a shopping list app that I
| threw together myself by quickly modifying another thing I'd
| made previously, and it works reasonably well for me) - your
| icons seem too small and fiddly, and I'd want a few buttons on
| screen of common things - so I can tap those instead of typing
| them.
| jka wrote:
| Thank you for the response!
|
| > support splitting ingredients by typing a comma
|
| That sounds sensible, yep; filed as
| https://github.com/openculinary/frontend/issues/210
|
| > "Are there any ingredients that are not available?" ... I
| knew what you meant, the search will exclude recipes with
| those items, but it felt weird to read
|
| That makes sense too. If I remember correctly, that prompt
| was most-recently rephrased during a pandemic-related
| lockdown (with subsequent unpredictable ingredient
| shortages), and so that context may have affected the choice
| of wording; either way, I agree that it's odd phrasing and
| should be updated.
|
| Hopefully that'll be a relatively quick correction, although
| it will require internationalization (currently machine-
| translated without review by native language speakers, not
| ideal); it's filed as https://github.com/openculinary/interna
| tionalization/issues/...
|
| > box around the search form has a huge gap to the right of
| the form inputs
|
| > I'd probably expect to see filters for
| vegan/veggie/pescatarian / low gi etc but then maybe not
|
| Two good points here, and possibly combinable. Perhaps those
| dietary recipe filters could be placed in the excess space
| available next to the search controls.
|
| Today the search API does theoretically support filtering[1]
| on a few dietary properties -- but that functionality isn't
| yet visible and available to the user.
|
| Feature tracker filed as
| https://github.com/openculinary/frontend/issues/211
|
| - Shopping list feature ... your icons seem too small and
| fiddly, and I'd want a few buttons on screen of common things
| - so I can tap those instead of typing
|
| The frequently-added-items shortcut idea is smart. The
| shopping list feature and the meal planner are under-attended
| components of the app relative to the recipe search/explore
| components, in my opinion. Let me think about this for a
| while, there are a few considerations and I'd like to be
| concise when responding about this in more detail.
|
| [1] - https://github.com/openculinary/api/blob/72075f66cd6fda
| 5b809...
| pm2222 wrote:
| There are columns of data, and as a simple example they are
| {{1,a},{1,b},{1,c},{2,a},{2,b},{2,c},{3,a}} of two columns and
| seven lines. I'd like to process the data through a function
| which would yield {{{1,2},{a,b,c}},{{3},{a}}} which is slightly
| better than {{{1,2,3},{a}},{{1,2},{b,c}}} because former has 7
| leaf elements vs latter 8 leaf elements while both has if you
| will two lines.
|
| How to write that function?
| lesuorac wrote:
| I think you need to provide more information.
|
| Do you have a CSV file? Is this a specific data structure in
| some language?
|
| Is the output another CSV file / std out?
| petronio wrote:
| If the data is ordered by row as in your example (e.g.
| {1,a},{1,b}, etc), a relatively straightforward option would be
| to read all columns for the row and use the values as a key
| such that hash(columns) -> list(rowNum).
|
| This may not give you the lowest number of leaves depending on
| your dataset. If you're looking for the absolute smallest
| number of leaves, you could use each column as an individual
| key and start intersecting their lists to see if that produces
| a reduced leaf count.
| shakezula wrote:
| In a similar vein; if anyone is looking for an accountability
| buddy on their project, hit me up!
| sharemywin wrote:
| Interests:
|
| Web3, OpenCV, NLP, using AI libraries and Apis, semantic search.
|
| Languages: C#, Asp.net, Databases, some python, Played around
| with Django,
|
| I was working on a way to scrape problems out of social media.
|
| Also an AI idea generator.
| hacky_engineer wrote:
| I was working on a NLP(ish) idea for a while and got a descent
| prototype put together, but haven't had time to take the
| project past that. The idea was to train a model to classify
| tone of voice (a kind voice, angry voice, whiny voice, etc).
| Writing this out again now. I wonder if we could train a model
| to predict whether a statement is sarcastic or not..
| sharemywin wrote:
| The dataset would be the hard part.
|
| I played around with Sentence Embeddings and Sentence
| Similarity.
|
| I thought about being able to compare a sentence with "Happy"
| and get a score between them. This could be a generalized
| solution for a nlp problems.
|
| I noticed it tended to match things a little different than I
| would expect. I would expect the subject of the sentence to
| match first.
| JPLeRouzic wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
|
| https://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/05/voice-tone-analysis-
| emotio...
| Rodeoclash wrote:
| I have a video player designed for esports coaches to do gameplay
| reviews of matches that their team has played. It has the unique
| feature that you can synchronise multiple viewpoints from a match
| together. It's free and open source.
|
| https://github.com/Rodeoclash/vodon-pro
|
| I've built it using Electron as an MVP but I'd like to rebuild
| the most successful features into a native app using gstreamer as
| a V2 version at some point.
|
| I'm looking for help with reaching more esports teams that might
| be interested in using it, graphic design feedback (I've done it
| myself :/ ) and someone who has knowledge building native apps
| that I could bounce ideas off.
| abe-101 wrote:
| I recently published a command-line tool written in python
| that'll convert a YouTube video into a Podcast (anchor.fm)
|
| https://pypi.org/project/tube-cast
|
| Under the hood the tool uses yd-dlp to download the video and
| pyppeteer to publish it on the site anchor.fm as a podcast.
|
| I could use help with documentation and testing
|
| https://github.com/abe-101/tube-cast
| hacky_engineer wrote:
| I am working on a baby book called Computer Engineering for
| Babies (https://computerengineeringforbabies.com). The biggest
| question I have is an SEO/branding one. I have about 3 brand
| names, and I don't know how to structure them or which ones to
| get rid of, and how to have a cohesive brand. Anyway, I'm looking
| for someone that can coach me on some SEO/branding stuff..
| digisign wrote:
| Looks fun, how can I get a couple without having to wait until
| December? Seems like that would be an easy way to boost
| conversion, to have them come in once a month. Guessing you
| don't have enough volume?
| kleer001 wrote:
| that doesn't sound like it's within the scope of OP's request,
| but best of luck!
| mannanj wrote:
| Your Life in Blocks: A concept inspired by Tim urban's Your Life
| in Weeks and by my weekly poster which I write a few blocks of
| text in.
|
| I wanted a way to track significant things that happened in my
| life, and looking back at the physical poster, it has quite the
| impact on my perspective but I noticed it's a hassle carrying
| that thing around.
|
| Angular, Firebase, Sass, NGRX Store: The MVP was functional for
| this stack but only for one account and without Firestore rules
| written. It has since been defunct and I've been stuck on scaling
| it to work for more than one user without public database rules.
|
| Site: https://yourlifeinblocks.firebaseapp.com/user
|
| Git (open repo): https://github.com/mannanj/life-in-blocks
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