[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
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       Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
        
       I see so many AI product launches. Is there anyone who is working
       on non-AI products?  If so what are you working on?
        
       Author : jackedEngineer
       Score  : 161 points
       Date   : 2024-03-26 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
       | jvanderbot wrote:
       | A privacy-first personal finance stack, with free and SaaS
       | versions, with "power user" developer-friendly data analysis.
       | 
       | No ads, no data sale, E2E encryption, localhost option, basic
       | budgetting and transaction parsing, but _for power users_ allows
       | spinning up a jupyter notebook to play with your financial data.
        
         | matt_s wrote:
         | How would a privacy first SaaS with a localhost option work
         | from both business and technical perspectives?
        
           | jvanderbot wrote:
           | Access to fine-grained, well-classified financial data costs
           | money. The localhost option provides a way for you to
           | integrate with providers of said data, e.g., using their
           | "developer" api keys. As long as they support free personal
           | use and you stay in their limits, the localhost option incurs
           | no cost to you, and we have no reason (and no way!) to charge
           | anything if you `git pull` and set up these integrations
           | using our readme.md.
           | 
           | All storage will be encrypted w/ client side keys.
           | 
           | For SaaS, we do the integration automatically and pass
           | hosting and fintech costs on as a monthly subscription. We
           | provide automatic report options that also incur small
           | charges, mostly to cover additional compute, hosting, and
           | higher-tier integration with data providers. These reports
           | can use transient data and/or pass encrypted payloads to
           | client side report generation or display, e.g., SPA or CLI
           | tools.
        
             | wewtyflakes wrote:
             | Would it be possible to use the SaaS offering for a bit,
             | then transition to the local option, and vice-versa,
             | without losing my data?
        
         | eddd-ddde wrote:
         | Is there anything published as of now ? Even if bot ready ?
         | 
         | I'd be really interested in something like this.
        
           | jvanderbot wrote:
           | An aesthetically unpleasing MVP will be available soon, we
           | believe. Will be enough to exercise the "power user" use
           | cases.
        
       | solumunus wrote:
       | "Boring enterprise software".
       | 
       | A manufacturing focused ERP system using SvelteKit and SQL
       | Server. These systems are typically made with Java and it's
       | becoming clear to me that it's massive overkill when SQL Server
       | is (or can be) doing most of the work and the application is (or
       | can be) a thin layer between the user and the database. Using
       | only one language, with perfectly matched types and validation
       | schemas for both frontend and backend is a huge productivity win.
       | Some may sneer at JS but my product running on Node is snappier
       | than the competition and I think I can develop quality features
       | with good UX faster P4P (only a 2 man team).
        
       | r0n22 wrote:
       | Re-build of one of my desktop applications. The original was
       | written in VB6 so it's a big undertaking to rewrite it in C#.
        
       | blogslash wrote:
       | https://blogsla.sh/, small no-nonsense writing platform. Very
       | early stage, but if anyone is interested email is listed on the
       | website.
        
         | tithe wrote:
         | The "blogsla.sh/anna" text appears clickable (same style as
         | social links / `.has-text-link`), but isn't. Perhaps bold
         | styling would work, instead?
        
           | blogslash wrote:
           | Yeah that's fair point. I was trying to highlight that as an
           | example, but it can be confusing. I'll change it to bold.
           | Thank you
        
       | idempotent_ wrote:
       | I'm working on a money laundering simulator video game.
        
         | Shamanoid wrote:
         | How realistic is it? Asking for a friend
        
           | idempotent_ wrote:
           | Trying to keep it "realistic" in the sense of how the
           | structures are set up (bank reporting regulations, offshore
           | companies, shell companies etc) but I'm optimizing for fun.
           | It's an isometric Transport Tycoon-styled game but instead of
           | building physical infrastructure you create financial
           | connections between nodes like drug op -> cash business ->
           | bank -> offshore company -> real estate investment.
           | 
           | This has been my design bible so far
           | https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/money-
           | la...
        
             | eddd-ddde wrote:
             | This is amazing! Is there a way to subscribe for updates on
             | this?
        
               | idempotent_ wrote:
               | Working to get the Steam page up soon and I'll be posting
               | a Show HN
        
             | tithe wrote:
             | I was wondering where this sort of "business logic" might
             | come from. :)
        
       | fernandohur wrote:
       | An open-source, type-safe http client to your postgresql
       | database. It let's you access your database directly from your
       | react components. It's fast, safe and performant. Think Graphql
       | but you don't need to implement resolvers, it's all generated
       | from your database schema.
       | 
       | If this sounds interesting to you, ping me (email on my profile)
       | :)
        
         | throwaway11460 wrote:
         | What's the main difference from Postgraphile, PostgREST,
         | Hasura, Directus or Supabase?
         | 
         | Right now I'm shopping for a tool like this, tried all of
         | these. Can I try yours?
        
       | jallmann wrote:
       | Multi-factor authentication for your Github PRs.
       | https://otpguard.com
        
       | fredley wrote:
       | An elite-like for Playdate.
        
       | rozenmd wrote:
       | For the last three years, I've been working on
       | https://onlineornot.com
       | 
       | It's uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams.
       | 
       | In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've
       | worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot
       | before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are
       | innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k <vendor>,
       | all their system ever did was alert us when we weren't down".
       | 
       | I'm currently working on a self-documenting (OpenAPI, rolled it
       | myself: https://developers.onlineornot.com/) API that'll let
       | folks use terraform (or even just the API itself) to setup their
       | uptime checks, cron job monitoring, status pages, even their
       | teams.
        
         | matt_s wrote:
         | This is a super simple IT problem to solve technically (ping a
         | URL, provide a status HTML page, etc.) but really hard to get
         | right, like your customer comment about a vendor. If done
         | wrong, people will go to their "you had one job" card. How do
         | you handle hosting of your own service and isolation from
         | larger "cloud" or internet issues?
        
           | rozenmd wrote:
           | I replicate the service across several AWS regions, and
           | Cloudflare Workers.
           | 
           | At the moment, it's really good at answering "am I down
           | everywhere?", since I can just double check in several other
           | regions.
           | 
           | I recently taught it to answer "Am I down just in this
           | region?" by monitoring across cloud providers in the same
           | location, though it's more of a niche use case (for the
           | people I chat to, anyway)
        
             | nadermx wrote:
             | How do you check sites behind cloudflare or similar that
             | block the status code?
        
               | rozenmd wrote:
               | I don't. It's your website, you can unblock me.
        
       | yboris wrote:
       | _Video Hub App_ - shows many screenshots per video of all videos
       | from a directory as a pretty gallery. Thumbnails you can scrub
       | through, filmstrips you can scroll through; tons of filters and
       | search options.
       | 
       | https://videohubapp.com/
       | 
       | MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
        
       | AznHisoka wrote:
       | I'm building a crawler for remote job postings. As well as a
       | daily email that emails the latest remote jobs found in the past
       | 24 hours to people who sign up: https://bloomberry.com/remote-
       | jobs/
       | 
       | So far, there's more than 1500 subscribers after a month and a
       | half
        
         | jonnycoder wrote:
         | This is fantastic, I just subscribed!
         | 
         | I had a similar idea of scraping lever, greenhouse and linkedin
         | to get informed of absolute latest senior software engineer
         | jobs. I also wanted to correlate to past job posts to rule out
         | duplicates/reposts, and to analyze against what I am looking
         | for. Some jobs rule out certain states and timezones. Other
         | jobs are primarily java which is my only hard-no.
        
       | KevinUK wrote:
       | https://okzest.com - mail merge for images. I've had a few non-
       | technical people say 'oh cool, AI for images'!
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | Cool stuff!
        
       | typpo wrote:
       | I'm working on https://quickchart.io/, a web API for generating
       | chart images. I've expanded it to a WYSIWYG chart editor at
       | https://quickchart.io/chart-maker/, which lets you create an
       | endpoint that you can use to generate variations of custom
       | charts. This is useful for creating charts quickly, or using them
       | in places that don't support dynamic charting (email, SMS,
       | various app plugins, etc).
       | 
       | I messed around with some AI features, mostly just for fun and to
       | see if they could help users onboard. But the core product is
       | decidedly not AI.
        
       | romanhn wrote:
       | I'm working on Rolepad (https://rolepad.com), a tool that brings
       | together candidates (job application management) and hiring
       | managers / recruiters (better candidate experience). The
       | candidate side is pretty decent at this point, working on the
       | employer side now. The first capability this will unlock is
       | keeping the status of the application in sync between the two,
       | for greater transparency and hopefully reduced ghosting. I'm sure
       | I'll eventually start sprinkling some AI in the app, but for now
       | it's much more important to get basic functionality, user
       | experience, and market fit right.
        
       | amir_karbasi wrote:
       | I'm personally working on a specialized system monitor software
       | to address deficiencies with a popular enterprise IWMS. It is
       | aimed at companies that do not want to splurge for Splunk and
       | require some specific system admin controls and metrics. There is
       | a forwarder and backend API which will be completely self-hosted.
       | I'm using this project to build some expertise in Go :)
        
       | macilacilove wrote:
       | A myopic defocus screen effect. Some gradient descent may be used
       | to approximate a difficult mathematical function, but not AI in
       | any meaningful way.
        
       | Edmond wrote:
       | https://certisfy.com
       | 
       | PKI certificate based online information verification
       | 
       | Demo: https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY
       | 
       | I am working on bootstrapping the trust chain (kinda "web of
       | trust"), if you run an org (company,team,meetup,github
       | repo...etc) email me if you're interested in a cert.
        
       | andrew_eu wrote:
       | I've been working on and off on several smallish apps I use in
       | the kitchen, purely non-commercial.
       | 
       | I shared https://teig.pro a few months ago and it's made
       | substantial improvements since then. It's a recipe builder that
       | recalculates masses on-the-fly and supports adding/editing
       | ingredients -- especially focused on breads. Unfortunately Fly.io
       | seems to have flagged the project and is preventing me from
       | deploying updates without upgrading my account (which is already
       | paid). There are quite a few bugfixes which will be rolled out
       | once that issue gets resolved, or I change hosting.
       | 
       | I also made https://pepcorn.pro quite a bit longer in a similar
       | spirit, but much simpler. It uses your device's microphone to
       | detect popcorn "pop"s, and measures the time between them -- done
       | popcorn usually has ~5 seconds between pops.
        
       | terryjsmith wrote:
       | I'm working on a "low code" web app that helps developers build
       | web apps (not marketing or blogs or e-commerce sites). Create
       | your data models in the app and get an API, a database (or
       | connect your own), and a Next.js app with all of the scaffolding,
       | models, forms, validation, API calls, policies, access and
       | authorization, etc. ready for you to use and customize.
        
       | Yabood wrote:
       | https://socialweaver.com, an employee advocacy platform. Our
       | product enables your employees to directly share and engage with
       | your LinkedIn content from Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email.
        
       | isometric_8 wrote:
       | I'm working on the next update to my Pixel Art editor
       | https://lightcube.art
        
       | crostal wrote:
       | I'm working on a vscode plugin that let's you write documentation
       | easier and closer to the code.
        
       | NoTranslationL wrote:
       | We're working on a privacy-focused iOS app that enables you to
       | track anything. It's called Reflect. The app enables you to
       | answer questions like "how does meditation affect my mood" or
       | "how does this new supplement intervention affect my sleep". We
       | already support detailed visualization and correlation between
       | all of the metrics you track and are working on some very
       | exciting features to make self-guided discovery even easier.
       | 
       | Here is the link to the app:
       | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
       | 
       | Here is the link to our website with more information:
       | https://ntl.ai/reflect
        
         | jondwillis wrote:
         | I'm having trouble understanding how to use the app! I am
         | overwhelmed by the amount of configuration, and not sure how I
         | am supposed to actually add activities or diary entries, for
         | example.
        
           | NoTranslationL wrote:
           | Thank you for saying so. We want to make this interface
           | easier to get started with with something like an onboarding
           | flow or the SwiftUI TipKit.
           | 
           | Without knowing exactly what you want to use the app for,
           | I'll link you to our help page with some tutorials:
           | https://ntl.ai/reflect/support
           | 
           | Currently the flow to tracking is to create a form template
           | (called a Reflection template) to track a category of metrics
           | such as Mood. In that template you add metrics like
           | Happiness, Fatigue, etc. Once the template is created you
           | have a form available that you can fill out at your
           | convenience. You can design another template like Supplements
           | with metrics for specific dosages, for example. Your history
           | can be visualized and those metrics can be correlated shortly
           | after.
           | 
           | Every time you fill out an entry you have the option of
           | adding notes, which can serve as a diary functionality. Those
           | notes are searchable in your history.
           | 
           | Let us know any other feedback you have, we'd really like to
           | make this as usable as possible.
        
           | NoTranslationL wrote:
           | Would you be open to having a call to chat about what you are
           | looking for and your experience using the app?
        
       | byschii wrote:
       | https://github.com/byschii/nonoiseplease - trying to give my
       | (browser's) bookmarks another chance to pop on google searches.
       | very early, very slow development
        
       | cardamomo wrote:
       | A simple, self-hosted RSVP system for parties, now that FB is no
       | longer a unifying platform for my social circle.
       | 
       | And a "mood meter" mapping app that puts anonymous reports of how
       | folks are feeling on a world map. I don't quite have the skills
       | (yet) to do this latter project, so we'll see how much time I
       | have to dedicate to it.
        
         | vdddv wrote:
         | "A simple, self-hosted RSVP system for parties"
         | https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ is the fediverse version of this
        
           | cardamomo wrote:
           | Nice! Thanks for sharing! The fact that it's fediverse is
           | unfortunately a non-starter for almost all of my friends
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | Got a link?
        
       | tlh wrote:
       | https://www.osomatsu.net/ -- a little recipe writing and sharing
       | website that me and my wife (and some close relatives) have been
       | using over the last few years. Have got plenty of ideas to
       | implement on it, but it works well for us as is at the moment.
       | People can request to join for free if it could be useful for
       | them too.
        
       | funksta wrote:
       | https://hyperpaper.me/ - rich, customizable planner pdfs for
       | e-Ink tablets. I have another related project that I'm slowly
       | working on, essentially an RSS reader that sends daily pdf
       | digests/newspapers to your tablet.
       | 
       | Both are very fun and rewarding, and I love building things that
       | help spend less time in front of a (glowing) screen.
        
       | ciccionamente wrote:
       | https://weexpire.org - An opensource tool for creating emergency
       | notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your
       | death or if you are seriously injured.
        
         | jvanderbot wrote:
         | I love this! Thank you.
        
           | ciccionamente wrote:
           | Thank you!
        
         | wewtyflakes wrote:
         | Being as the timelines for seeing this product in action may be
         | measured in decades (i.e. time of death, hopefully far away),
         | how will you convince your customers that you will still be
         | operating for decades? What happens if operations do cease?
        
           | ciccionamente wrote:
           | One reliable way to convince customers is to provide
           | emergency notes with a fixed expiration date of a maximum of
           | 1 year from the time the note was written. After 1 year,
           | customers are, in a way, forced to create a new emergency
           | note, and at the same time, they can verify if anything is
           | going to change soon on the platform (e.g. upcoming
           | shutdown). This would also help to keep the emergency note's
           | content always up-to-date. When you sign up for car
           | insurance, you do so for a maximum of 1 year, as prices and
           | coverages may change.
        
       | oliv__ wrote:
       | Still working on my bootstrapped job board SaaS, Niceboard
       | (https://niceboard.co) which I launched about 4 years ago now!
       | Makes launching a job board for your
       | community/association/company super easy, with just a few clicks
       | and < 10min.
       | 
       | Been thinking about adding AI-related features but there isn't
       | that much AI that would really make the product better.
        
       | kjksf wrote:
       | I'm working on Edna https://edna.arslexis.io/
       | 
       | It's a web-based scratchpad and note taker for developers and
       | power users.
       | 
       | It sits somewhere between Obsidian and Simplenote.
       | 
       | It's particularly optimized for keyboard navigation: Ctrl + K /
       | [?] + K to open note navigator where you can quickly create new
       | note, switch between notes, delete notes.
       | 
       | Even though it runs in the browser, when running on Chrome you
       | can store notes in a folder on disk and share between computers
       | if that folder is replicated via DropBox / OneDrive / Google
       | Drive etc.
       | 
       | More info: https://edna.arslexis.io/help
        
       | netule wrote:
       | I have nothing to show yet, but I'm working on a tower defense
       | game in the vein of some classic Flash-based TD games.
        
       | lyxell wrote:
       | I'm working on a Wordpress-replacement written in Go, distributed
       | as a single static binary with SQLite/Postgres for db and
       | Disk/S3/GCS for storage.
        
         | throwaway11460 wrote:
         | Including the plugin capabilities?
        
           | lyxell wrote:
           | What plugins would you want? My hope is to support most use
           | cases for WP-plugins with built-in functionality.
        
             | throwaway11460 wrote:
             | I'm not sure, I write plugins when a customer needs it.
             | 
             | Stuff like custom forms, calculators, booking systems...
             | For one customer I implemented a complete web hosting
             | client control panel as a set of WP plugins.
        
               | lyxell wrote:
               | Custom forms with support for triggering actions is
               | definitely on the roadmap. I'm not sure where I stand on
               | the possibility to add a fully fledged plugin system.
               | I've been looking at the possible scripting environments
               | that are easy to integrate/execute in Go, there's a few
               | JS-interpreters for example. But it would be quite a task
               | to make the UX good in the case of runtime errors etc.
               | 
               | It was a while since I had a look on how the plugin
               | system works in Wordpress. I should read up on that.
               | Thanks for the feedback!
        
             | robotnikman wrote:
             | That's actually a good idea. Last I checked, a simple out
             | of the box WordPress install was not a good idea. I fully
             | functioning wordpress site required you to at least install
             | anti spam and security plugins if you wanted to use it in
             | any serious capacity, along with a bunch of other stuff for
             | basic functionalities now common to many websites.
        
       | meekaaku wrote:
       | I havnt actually built, but learning the relevant materials to
       | develop a web app, where you can import architectural drawings in
       | pdf/image and measure areas/lengths of spaces for easy export to
       | be used by costing/quantity surveying.
        
       | swagatkonchada wrote:
       | Working on onekontact, the only place you ever have to update
       | your address or phone number when you move.
        
       | tbeseda wrote:
       | Scratching an itch with a personal project: https://hnr.app/ "HN
       | Reader"
       | 
       | It's supposed to be the API layer for a Mac app while I learn
       | Swift, but I got carried away with the web view I was using to
       | debug and ended up with a usable HN homepage heavily inspired by
       | hckrnews.com
        
       | sgtnoodle wrote:
       | There's certainly a smattering of machine learning algorithms
       | involved in some of the software components, but I'm working on
       | Zipline's next generation "platform 2" delivery drone. As an
       | embedded engineer, something has gone horribly wrong if we're
       | trying to solve problems with AI!
        
       | sibit wrote:
       | It's not a commercial product but I've spent some time building a
       | Magic The Gathering deck builder[0]. I want to build a VTT engine
       | but I feel like if I'm gonna receive a cease and desist letter
       | from Hasbro that'll be the thing that triggers it. -\\_(tsu)_/-
       | it was mostly a 2 week project to learn Go and HTMX anyways....
       | 
       | [0]: https://divinedrop.app/
        
       | will42 wrote:
       | Simple app for managing your bike workshop
        
       | wczerniak wrote:
       | https://flatcal.com - a service which will allow to consolidate
       | multiple calendars into a single one for easy sharing with
       | others. For people who organize their time in separate calendars
       | by choice or by necessity. F.e. having personal Google Calendar,
       | corporate Outlook Calendar for work, and maybe another one for
       | freelance. No AI involved, just a good, old processing pipeline.
       | Which makes the service pretty flexible and allow to pre-process
       | the events before merging them into a new calendar, i.e.
       | anonymize events, change their type, filter them out, add some
       | buffer time for rest, etc.
        
       | rtcode_io wrote:
       | https://RTCode.io - web playground
       | 
       | https://new.rt.ht - code templates
       | 
       | https://RTEdge.net - edge network
        
       | zscoops wrote:
       | I am working on https://hellotrader.io - a service that allows
       | traders to define their trading strategies without coding and run
       | instant backtest between changes to give them feedback on their
       | potential profitability. Once the strategies are defined, the
       | service scans the market in real time on their watchlist and
       | alerts the users if the conditions required for their strategies
       | are present.
        
       | xenopticon wrote:
       | I'm building a set of tools to work with OpenAPI specifications
       | in teams.
       | 
       | Some of the workflows I'm trying to unlock:
       | 
       | - Track every breaking change pushed to your API and notify your
       | team on Slack and e-mail
       | 
       | - Generate a changelog from your OpenAPI automatically
       | 
       | - Generate mocks for every endpoint to share with your frontend
       | person/team
       | 
       | - Public, private, and password-protected API reference pages to
       | share with partners
       | 
       | Here's a link: https://frevo.dev (still in early access)
        
       | neonsunset wrote:
       | https://github.com/U8String/U8String which is a UTF-8 string
       | library for C# that aims to offer rich and performant API to
       | replace standard string for scenarios where you do want to
       | consume UTF-8 directly. I'm working on it since last summer
       | actually, it turned out to be much higher complexity project than
       | expected :)
       | 
       | Also comes with a few niceties like the ability to directly
       | consume Streams, Sockets, WebSockets and SafeFileHandles with
       | U8Reader (sync/async) that solves painful and error-prone manual
       | buffer handling when reading lines/segments/messages. It is kind
       | of like higher level Rust's BufReader.
        
         | riperoni wrote:
         | I like this a lot, thank you. Have to try it out in a project.
         | 
         | Is the default encoding when handling files UTF8 OR UTF8-BOM?
         | Is both supported?
         | 
         | Another question: in the readme you have this example
         | 
         | `var joined = U8String.Join(',', boolean.Runes); // "T,r,u,e"`
         | 
         | Why is " T" of true in uppercase?
        
           | neonsunset wrote:
           | That's what bool.ToString() defaults to which I'm matching.
           | As for the file API, it's a bit unfinished as I'm re-
           | consolidating logic into U8File (OpenRead and ReadLines work
           | acceptably - U8Reader is in a more polished state), but the
           | intention for the files is to detect and strip BOMs (it
           | already does that in most[0] places[1]).
           | 
           | There is way more heavy lifting that the library does on the
           | "data goes in" side of things because "data goes out" story
           | in .NET is already in a good shape with everything accepting
           | ReadOnlySpan<byte> and ReadOnlyMemory<byte> - zero-allocation
           | interpolated UTF-8 output into streams, sockets, etc. is
           | achieved through extension methods and should you want to
           | _write_ UTF-8 BOM, you can simply do so beforehand working
           | with the corresponding API directly.
           | 
           | However, if you have a particular use case in mind that
           | you're interested in or have trouble with - do let me know as
           | I'd love to have more user feedback!
           | 
           | [0] https://github.com/U8String/U8String/blob/main/Sources/U8
           | Str...
           | 
           | [1] https://github.com/U8String/U8String/blob/main/Sources/U8
           | Str...
        
       | jawns wrote:
       | You know how sometimes the gift you _really_ want is cash or a
       | gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts
       | that you can open and admire?
       | 
       | Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry
       | prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a
       | hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for
       | your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe
       | brand jewelry," and they go out and buy you a $50 necklace that's
       | actually worth only a buck or two, but has a gift card code worth
       | $45 on the underside of the box.
       | 
       | You thank them profusely for the lovely necklace, they feel good
       | for having bought you something besides a gift card, and you feel
       | good that you can put $45 toward a new washing machine.
        
         | westcort wrote:
         | This is brilliant
        
           | stoniejohnson wrote:
           | Isn't it super likely the gift buyer will realize what's up
           | when making the purchase?
           | 
           | There would have to be two websites or something.
        
             | tasuki wrote:
             | > There would have to be two websites
             | 
             | Yes. That... doesn't sound like a very hard technical
             | challenge?
        
               | digging wrote:
               | It sounds like a very difficult social challenge though.
        
               | stoniejohnson wrote:
               | ding ding ding
        
         | j2bax wrote:
         | Awesome! Makes me think of this song:
         | https://youtu.be/4s0KidJf5FQ?si=H56SCAivnsU6jy6W
        
         | curtisblaine wrote:
         | This sounds very useful, but isn't this service going to
         | automatically fail as soon as it starts to be known because you
         | can't market it to the intended audience (the gift-receivers)
         | without marketing at the same time to the adversarial audience
         | (the gift-givers)?
        
         | pkoird wrote:
         | This is such a first world problem. It's normalized in many 3rd
         | world countries to give and receive cash (red envelopes).
         | Directly not giving money and resorting to gift cards (and
         | roundabout methods like these) just, doesn't make sense to my
         | third world brain is all I'm saying.
        
           | alex_lav wrote:
           | Okay, and what is your hope by making this comment?
        
           | nitwit005 wrote:
           | Many, meaning, not all. It's obviously a cultural thing. That
           | red envelope idea is ancient.
           | 
           | China and Vietnam that do the red envelope bit would be
           | "second world" countries, incidentally, as they were part of
           | the communist block under that old "three worlds" labeling.
        
       | mjouni wrote:
       | I have been frustrated with how project management tools make it
       | hard for engineering teams to see the impact of their work on the
       | product. I built Beacon (https://anvilyard.com/beacon), to fix
       | this. Instead of focusing on moving a ticket to done, I am trying
       | to get teams to think of how their tickets get the team closer to
       | a product goal. I know there are a lot of cultural elements at
       | play in an organization that affect how teams measure their
       | progress, but I am trying to shape the tools we all use to make
       | it easier to focus on end goals, not just features.
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | I'm just imagining how _frustrating_ it must be when those
         | metrics stay flat.
        
       | fuzzfactor wrote:
       | My approach to internet radio may not be very intelligent
       | naturally either . . .
        
       | crazymoka wrote:
       | Integrating my funnel and website builder into a POS so people
       | can buy funnels and instantly sync products they want to sell
       | from their business.
        
       | mpeyton wrote:
       | I'm working on a small side project that allows you to react to
       | any URL with any emoji.
       | 
       | https://opinionmoji.com/
       | 
       | It's mainly an excuse to learn some new things (HTMX, Prisma,
       | DigitalOcean, etc.), as well as get comfortable building and
       | shipping something from scratch on my own.
       | 
       | My goal is to eventually see large (and funny) swings in
       | reactions in realtime.
        
         | FergusArgyll wrote:
         | This is the perfect mix of stupid and fun!
        
       | ysavir wrote:
       | Over the past few years, I've built up a bunch of tooling for
       | virtual D&D/TTRPG games I played with friends. DM prepping, note
       | sharing, inventory management, scheduling, etc. And all of that
       | with Discord integrations so you can pretty much manage
       | everything from a Discord server.
       | 
       | I'm currently in the process of converting it to a proper
       | commercial service and making it available to others. If this
       | sounds like something that would be of use to anyone, I'd love to
       | hear from you! Email is in my about section (or just respond
       | here).
        
         | QuantumGood wrote:
         | I know some folks who would be interested
        
           | ysavir wrote:
           | I'd love to hear from them! Once I get a design update I want
           | to start a private beta. If they're interested in
           | participating, I'd be glad to give them free lifetime access.
           | :)
        
       | theodric wrote:
       | A flock of pasture-raised broiler chickens
        
       | francoi8 wrote:
       | These past 4 years, I've been working on One Lab
       | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilixa.onel...
       | 
       | It's a non destructive photo editor with a strong bend towards
       | procedural generation.
       | 
       | Working on a video touch recording feature at the moment.
        
       | noop_joe wrote:
       | I'm working on a developer platform [1] that makes the
       | progression from local development to global deployment way
       | smoother than alternatives.
       | 
       | At some point AI may have a role in the platform. But for now
       | we're focused on much more fundamental problems related to the
       | process of developing and scaling software applications.
       | 
       | BTW we're looking for developers to try it out!
       | 
       | 1. https://noop.dev
        
       | indigane wrote:
       | A Git GUI https://gitlab.com/indigane/visual-git
        
       | pclmulqdq wrote:
       | I am working on randomness and cryptography to help the paranoid
       | use the cloud.
       | 
       | https://arbitrand.com
       | 
       | Next month is scheduled for a few projects that are aimed at a
       | broader market than the current products, like an API and a
       | toy/demonstration version for casual users.
        
       | abnercoimbre wrote:
       | A new terminal emulator [0] from scratch. It's native and cross-
       | platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
       | 
       | This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release
       | date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming
       | progress on Twitch.
       | 
       | If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1].
       | 
       | [0] https://terminal.click
       | 
       | [1] https://warp.dev
        
         | snowfield wrote:
         | I know it's crass, but why? Aren't terminals good enough
        
           | CharlesW wrote:
           | It seems like they're trying to solve a problem that they've
           | observed. I know I'd like to read more on the "recognizes
           | user intent and supports it with rich interactions" comment.
           | Time for a manifesto?
        
           | nurettin wrote:
           | It lets you run commands on program output text incrementally
           | instead of piping the initial command or re-running it.
        
           | nutrie wrote:
           | I wish somebody built an emulator as fast as xterm and as
           | configurable as something like kitty. Until then, xterm it
           | is.
        
             | pxeger1 wrote:
             | Kitty is fast enough for me. Why is speed such a concern
             | for you?
        
             | Xeamek wrote:
             | Have you tried 'wezTerm'?
        
       | lukko wrote:
       | Working on Lungy:
       | 
       | https://www.lungy.app
       | 
       | It's an interactive breathing app (responds when you breathe).
       | Initially for stress & anxiety, we're developing a medical device
       | (SaMD) for asthma + COPD.
        
       | jpb0104 wrote:
       | https://majorpager.com - Very simple on-call rotation scheduling
       | for small teams!!! I even toyed with the idea of putting a
       | `#noai` hashtag on the homepage.
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | > Two-pizza team of on-callers
         | 
         | Eh.... what?
        
       | skadamat wrote:
       | I'm working on the Synthetic Data Vault, a set of libraries to
       | generate realistic synthetic data. We have an option to use GAN
       | models but we've found that Gaussian & other copula models work
       | great because they're faster and more user configurable.
       | 
       | https://github.com/sdv-dev/SDV
        
       | zer0tonin wrote:
       | I'm working on a stock portfolio management app:
       | https://itako.app/
       | 
       | After diving a bit into finance last year, I found the book
       | "Smart Portfolios" by Rob Carver, which basically aimed at
       | teaching simple heuristics to help create and manage robust stock
       | portfolios. Sadly this book has quite a few simplifications that
       | were valid at the time of writing but are not anymore (ie.
       | interest rates ~= 0). So I set myself to re-implement this a bit
       | properly in a tool for me and eventually other people.
       | 
       | It's up and running online but still a work in progress. It only
       | work for US stocks and the charts can sometimes display non-
       | sense.
        
       | remyp wrote:
       | A developer happiness product, https://workdna.com. It sends out
       | employee pulse surveys that are purpose-built for dev teams and
       | don't suck to fill out.
       | 
       | Lots of companies just cobble together a Google Form full of
       | irrelevant questions, send it out, and throw their hands in the
       | air when nobody fills it out.
       | 
       | WorkDNA surveys your team on criteria like CI/CD reliability,
       | test flakiness, PR feedback quality, job satisfaction, and
       | psychological safety. The surveys take 20 minutes to set up, 5
       | minutes to fill out, and are completely anonymous.
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | > are completely anonymous
         | 
         | ...until they aren't. (Speaking from corporate experience)
        
           | remyp wrote:
           | This is a big concern for us. Fortunately, we are self-funded
           | and only answer to ourselves.
           | 
           | I'd love to hear more about your experience - please feel
           | free to email me (info in profile) if you're not comfortable
           | sharing publicly.
        
       | emceestork wrote:
       | I'm working on a tool that easily allows you to theme your UI
       | using CSS variables called Blueberry.
       | https://www.getblueberry.io/
       | 
       | The idea is that each CSS variable becomes a widget and then the
       | Blueberry endpoint will serve those variables so you can let your
       | users customize profile pages/portals and other places they
       | integrate with you UI.
        
         | robbiejs wrote:
         | Neat idea!
        
       | Yoric wrote:
       | A compiled programming language for analog quantum computers.
        
       | Hasz wrote:
       | Long-term (decades), no-subscription archival storage.
       | Essentially, you buy a block of space, upload your data over
       | time, and it gets distributed when you need it (if you lost a
       | primary backup), or on your death (to friends and relatives, or
       | whoever you choose), or on a specific future date.
       | 
       | It's a mashup of a safety deposit box, time capsule, and deadman
       | switch.
       | 
       | It's not ready yet, but will be ready in a few weeks. If you're
       | interested, I would really like to talk to you. My email is
       | ethan@ethanmye.rs
       | 
       | FWIW, I did use chatgpt to write a lot of boilerplate JS and fix
       | my bootstrap templates!
       | 
       | edit deadpan->deadman
        
         | curtisblaine wrote:
         | How are your clients sure that your storage lasts decades and
         | doesn't end if you lose interest / fail / sell to another
         | company? (They can't, of course, so: how do you convince them?)
        
           | Hasz wrote:
           | It's a good question. A lot of it centers around creating
           | good corporate governance and a reason for either me (or
           | someone else) to stay interested (careful incentive design).
           | This is obviously antithetical to the typical scale-up
           | strategy of a tech company, and the financials are very
           | similar to an insurance company. It's also why there is no
           | free plan in the pricing.
           | 
           | In terms of convincing, for the technically-minded, I have a
           | public disaster recovery plan, a public business continuity
           | plan, and "escape hatches" for "common" events -- war,
           | subpoenas, changes in law, a post-RSA future, etc. The goal
           | is to cover as many events as possible, including the very
           | improbable (like AWS losing a whole AZ!). The backing clouds
           | are Microsoft Files and AWS S3, both with excellent track
           | records and absurdly good durability. There is some special
           | caching in front to minimize cost.
           | 
           | For the less technically-minded, there are no good
           | alternatives. Self-hosted data is difficult to geographically
           | distribute (and if you do it's difficult to update true cold
           | storage). Cloud services have a very high lifetime cost, and
           | unclear rules around data distribution to next of kin. Other
           | methods, like burying some vacuum sealed MDISCs in a freezer,
           | are not realistic.
           | 
           | I am of the opinion that while it is impossible to predict
           | the future, it is possible to plan for it.
        
             | NetOpWibby wrote:
             | That last sentence should be in your marketing
        
         | ethanwillis wrote:
         | What's a deadpan switch?
        
           | mateo1 wrote:
           | Maybe it's ChatGPT speaking, although would it be making such
           | obvious mistakes?
        
           | Hasz wrote:
           | oops, deadpan -> deadman
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
           | 
           | It's not a perfect switch, but the idea is that you might
           | have things you would only rather release when you're dead.
        
       | wonger_ wrote:
       | https://github.com/wong-justin/fmin - I'm working on a file
       | manager for the terminal. A little like Midnight Commander, and a
       | lot like fman. Features: jump to directory (like zoxide), filter
       | as you type, a command palette, and custom commands through shell
       | scripting.
        
       | jjcm wrote:
       | Still continuing to work on https://non.io, which I kinda
       | accidentally launched on hackernews around 9 months ago:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296695
       | 
       | TL;DR elevator pitch: subscription based reddit-like platform.
       | Your subscription is split evenly between everything you upvote
       | that month. Nonio takes $1 out of your subscription to pay for
       | servers.
       | 
       | One thing I found from the launch was there was a huge volume of
       | mobile users, who didn't have a great experience. I hired a dev
       | to help work on an iOS app for this, which we're building in the
       | open.
       | 
       | Designs: https://www.figma.com/file/im8a7L7axmbj0S0lm27NKa/Nonio-
       | iOS-...
       | 
       | Code: https://github.com/jjcm/nonio-ios
        
       | breatheoften wrote:
       | Improving the accuracy and robustness of gps on mobile devices --
       | https://www.zephr.xyz/
       | 
       | Real physics and computational communication problems. Crazy
       | tech, fun stuff!!
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | I just looked at the field testing results and... wow! Not bad!
        
         | mateo1 wrote:
         | I've been suspecting for a long time that Google might be doing
         | something similar. Of course you need enough devices around
         | (and internet) for this to work but it's pretty cool, I hope it
         | takes off. Maybe a device manufacturer will be interested in
         | this and buy/fund you.
        
       | eflorent wrote:
       | https://dmba.info, a decentralized, self certified micro blogging
       | platform (Twitter like) : generate keypair on your mobile client,
       | register a name on your self hosted appliance. Your appliance is
       | configurable via Bluetooth and then http api and get visible on
       | the Internet via Tor,as an onion service. Register your onion
       | name on Namecoin with the built-in ElectrumNMC wallet and you,
       | and your good to be reachable. The stack is built on top on the
       | Secure Scuttlebut protocol and is working for personal use.
       | Looking for contributors.
        
       | kennyk37 wrote:
       | https://vibetrack.co - Calendly for people that prefer in-person
       | meetings.
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | > Never run out of interesting things to talk about with AI-
         | powered meeting preparation and collaboration.
         | 
         | Oh boy. :-)
        
       | stpn wrote:
       | I've been working on a local-first personal finance/expense
       | tracker called Tender: https://tender.run
       | 
       | Tender runs as a PWA and uses the Automerge crdt and sqlite via
       | wasm. The app more or less runs entirely in your browser (works
       | offline!), though our server proxies connections to pull in
       | plaid/splitwise data.
       | 
       | Feature-wise, we're targeting folks who do want to manage their
       | expenses but not have to do fine-grained budgeting. There's tools
       | for tracking getting paid back and a splitwise integration as
       | well. The app is desktop-centric right now, but we're working on
       | getting a good mobile workflow together too.
       | 
       | Since everything is browser-based, it was actually quite easy to
       | get a demo sandbox environment working. You can give it a quick
       | spin here: https://demo.tender.run
        
       | _kush wrote:
       | I am building a macOS app to help reduce screen strain and dry
       | eyes due to prolonged screen use. It's called LookAway --
       | https://lookaway.app
        
       | j-rom wrote:
       | I recently built a simple tool for comparing timezones and I'm
       | currently trying my hand at SEO to try to get more traffic.
       | 
       | https://currenttimeutc.com/
        
       | Alacart wrote:
       | https://approximated.app - reliably automating custom domains and
       | their SSL certs at scale. For SaaS, marketplaces, platforms,
       | outbound services, etc. who have a lot of domains to manage.
       | 
       | Coming up on a million domains served, it's been a fun ride!
        
       | OisinMoran wrote:
       | I've been working on a social link sharing site called lynmki
       | that allows you to follow a subset of someone's interests rather
       | than having to follow everything they post. E.g. Someone posts
       | lovely examples of typography, and also about events on in their
       | city but you live halfway across the globe so just want the
       | typography.
       | 
       | I'm focussing on smaller circles, avoiding "algorithmic" feeds
       | (aware sorting by reverse chronological order is an algorithm),
       | and no advertising.
       | 
       | It borrows a lot from the greats like HN, Delicious, etc. and
       | there's a long way to go (I just added likes last week) but
       | people are already finding some nice links from it!
       | 
       | You can see it at https://lynkmi.com/ and I'd recommend reading
       | the about page for even more. If it sounds interesting to you
       | please sign up to the waitlist--it's very short!
       | 
       | I'm also building it in public so follow along if you want:
       | https://twitter.com/TheOisinMoran/status/1725929527761596434
        
         | canadiantim wrote:
         | I feel dyslexic even trying to read that domain name. I want it
         | to say link me, but the f is lynmki
         | 
         | edit: thank goodness the domain name actually is
         | https://lynkmi.com/, crisis averted.
        
       | yanis_t wrote:
       | I've been working on a free rss client. It runs as a PWA on
       | mobile phones, and is very simple, and fast.
       | 
       | Don't even have a landing page yet, but you can sign up for free.
       | 
       | https://app.srssly.com
        
         | hgs3 wrote:
         | What a coincidence I'm looking for an RSS client right now.
        
       | knicholes wrote:
       | Last week the Android App Store finally approved my GopherGeyser
       | app! It's used to control our sprinkler controller (over MQTT) to
       | turn your outdoor living space into an animal-themed Bellagio
       | water fountain show / splash pad to entertain kids/dogs in the
       | warm months! :)
       | 
       | It's still pretty basic, but I'm pretty proud of it. Even though
       | it doesn't use AI, I used AI to write the app, generate copy, and
       | generate the image assets, as I didn't care to learn Flutter just
       | for this one app and have no artistic ability.
        
       | z3n0n wrote:
       | Been working on making learning German just a little bit more fun
       | with interactive stories: https://learnoutlive.com/stories/
        
         | mtlynch wrote:
         | This looks cool! What level of proficiency do users need to be
         | at to start with your app? Would this be a match for someone
         | who's coming in with zero German?
        
           | z3n0n wrote:
           | Thanks! I'd say it depends a bit on your mother-tongue and
           | general sense for languages, but yes, this is based on a very
           | intuitive approach to language learning where you infer
           | meaning from context, and even absolute beginners should be
           | able to pick up some basic phrases.
        
       | riperoni wrote:
       | Just for fun, I'm writing an internet forum software from
       | scratch, strongly inspired by phpBB and the likes.
       | 
       | It is split into an Angular UI, C# ASP.NET Core RESTful API and
       | postgres database. I aimed to let EF Core handle the data model
       | in the database and am pleasantly surprised by how well it works.
       | Also updating the database is a breeze with its migrations.
       | 
       | The features of a forum seem easy enough, but I find it difficult
       | to detail it out into the data model at times.
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | I miss phpBB forums.
         | 
         | Got a link?
        
       | mp3il wrote:
       | working on [1] ply.io, we let teams custom the tools they use by
       | building internal features into apps.
       | 
       | [1] https://ply.io
        
       | tekdude wrote:
       | Laid off last fall, and while looking for a new role I've been
       | working on an old idea I had for a MIDI sequencing app. It's
       | meant for live electronic music production, so it's not a full
       | DAW for composing and editing tracks or anything like that. It
       | just records notes for different MIDI devices/channels and loops
       | them back over a selected number of beats. There are some other
       | features as well, like an arpeggiator, but it's pretty basic so
       | far. I've been meaning to record a demo video with real audio,
       | but I'm not actually a musician myself so I haven't come up with
       | anything presentable yet.
       | 
       | https://www.pulselyre.com
        
       | yqiang wrote:
       | I'm working on a nutrition tracking app for iOS called FitBee
       | (https://fitbee.app). There's been a huge number of "AI" based
       | products in this space but they've all been relatively bad in
       | terms of accuracy and reliability (eg the Humane AI pin demo). At
       | some point I'm sure I'll introduce some AI based features into
       | the product, but for now I'm focused on making it the fastest and
       | most convenient way of tracking your nutrition.
        
       | duranduran wrote:
       | I'm working on a very experimental music generator:
       | https://app.bars.ai (I regret my domain choice). It's free to use
       | and you can play around with it pretty easily.
       | 
       | The idea is that you have a "framework" that you can change for
       | what you want the music generator to produce. You can download
       | the MIDI files it produces as well.
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | I honestly loved (!) the created melody, but stumbled across a
         | couple UX issues. Most of those, I think, could be fixed with
         | smarter defaults and some tweaks. Excellent work, though. Would
         | love to see how it develops...
         | 
         | During _creation of a new track_ :
         | 
         | - Why do I need a description?
         | 
         | - Why do I need a name, actually?
         | 
         | - Why is there only Latin and Empty available?
         | 
         | - Edit: Just realised that the Latin track is hardcoded?
         | 
         | During _editing_ :
         | 
         | - I was not sure whether / how my actions affect the tracks /
         | track items. (One remedy could be showing the actual waveform
         | of the created sounds in the editor instead of a placeholder
         | waveform.)
         | 
         | - Creating a new instrument -- I found the "Instrument Sound
         | Pack" dropdown menu only by accident after some clicking. It
         | would be great to see what type of instrument I'm dealing with
         | without having to click on the instrument itself. (Maybe map it
         | directly to the displayed name? I'd rather have Acoustic Bass 1
         | to 4 instead of a bunch of "Unnamed Instrum...")
         | 
         | - Some actions have no effect until you restart the playback
         | (e.g. changing speed of a track item).
         | 
         | - Some actions stop the playback (e.g. changing the instrument
         | type)
        
           | duranduran wrote:
           | Thanks for checking it out!
           | 
           | This is really good feedback, I'll try to address some of
           | these tonight.
           | 
           | I've added name and description because I made a feature
           | where you could create an account to save your work. During
           | development, I got tired of having to constantly recreate
           | test scenarios, so I integrated AWS cognito and started
           | saving compositions.
           | 
           | Latin is hardcoded. To be honest, I wasn't really sure what
           | to do there. The latin template really just bootstraps the UI
           | to save some time and act as a demo. My plan is to make 3-5
           | premade compositions for each major genre, and have the
           | create flow let you pick between them.
           | 
           | On making changes impacting the UI, this is something that
           | I'm still really struggling to find a balance between. I'll
           | prioritize this higher based on what you've said!
        
       | lbittner wrote:
       | I'm working on a super simple way to monitor your API at an
       | endpoint level - https://subbul.com/.
       | 
       | At work we spent a bunch of time implementing monitoring and
       | alerting for all our APIs and I figured it would be nice to have
       | a near plug-and-play solution, so I built exactly that.
        
       | tip_of_the_hat wrote:
       | I'm working https://annotate.dev, a tool inspired by the Stripe
       | documentation, to let anyone create step by step code
       | walkthroughs. Here's a sample of a walkthrough you can create:
       | https://annotate.dev/p/hello-world/learn-oauth-2-0-by-buildi...
       | 
       | Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
        
         | Kkoala wrote:
         | That's a cool idea!
        
         | entropie wrote:
         | This is really cool. I wish there was something like that when
         | I learned to code.
        
         | sentientslug wrote:
         | This is a really clever idea, and worked great on mobile as
         | well. Is there a way to choose to display the code window
         | underneath the documentation instead of on top?
        
           | tip_of_the_hat wrote:
           | Thanks for the kind words!
           | 
           | Not currently, can you elaborate why you'd want to the code
           | window at the bottom?
        
             | Ginotuch wrote:
             | I think I'd also like an option for the code window to be
             | at the bottom. Generally when I'm reading blogs/articles on
             | my phone I put the line of text I'm reading at the top of
             | my screen.
             | 
             | The code being up the top felt like it was in the way of
             | where I was naturally expecting the line I wanted to read
             | was.
             | 
             | Also, I think this is great! Definitely something I'd want
             | for my documentation.
        
               | tip_of_the_hat wrote:
               | This is great feedback, not something I initially
               | considered. I've add it to my todo list
        
       | madacol wrote:
       | A bookmarklet store https://getbookmarklets.com/
       | 
       | Though I am having trouble figuring out a simple way to solve
       | discovering and make it work autonomously without leaving it open
       | to spam
       | 
       | Any ideas or feedback appreciated
        
       | veyh wrote:
       | AutoPTT lets you customize how push-to-talk works in apps like
       | Discord or online games. It can even press the button for you
       | based on voice activity, in case the program does not support
       | voice activation natively.
       | 
       | https://autoptt.com/
        
       | trilorez wrote:
       | I've been building an app for the Apple Vision Pro for sharing
       | spatial videos: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spatial-
       | station/id6476346004
       | 
       | It's gained a decent amount of content and users since launching
       | shortly after the Vision Pro launch.
        
       | oriel wrote:
       | I picked up godot 4 to try out a game idea, and have been running
       | with it for a few months while leveraging chatgpt to get over the
       | skills hurdle, https://www.reddit.com/r/boomballs/
        
       | gigapotential wrote:
       | I'm working on https://UpVPN.app - Serverless VPN
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | Explanation (i.e. the Why) for dummies?
        
       | Kkoala wrote:
       | A suite of widgets / tools that many SaaS apps want at some
       | point, but that can be cumbersome to manage and build from
       | scratch, e.g. Announcements, NPS widgets, Product Tours, Feedback
       | widgets etc. etc.
       | 
       | All are creatable and editable without coding skills (after the
       | initial copy-paste setup). So for example, product managers and
       | customer success can manage them without having to bother devs.
       | 
       | https://produktly.com/
        
       | abhiyerra wrote:
       | https://cashmoney.lol I like to read the SEC 10-Ks (annual
       | reports) and 10-Qs (quarterly reports) first then look at Yahoo
       | Finance, etc. So I took the ticker info directly from the SEC and
       | created a single page app using jQuery DataTable and deployed to
       | Cloudflare Pages so I can quickly go to the SEC page for the
       | company, as well as others. The pro version is a Google Sheet
       | version of the site that plugs into =GOOGLEFINANCE for additional
       | data.
       | 
       | As for the domain, I had it lying around so I used it.
        
       | matteason wrote:
       | I'm building https://ambiph.one, an ambient music/white
       | noise/soundscape web app. It's a free alternative to apps which
       | have a monthly fee or are covered in ads. Lots of lovely feedback
       | from people who've found it useful for sleep, tinnitus, focus,
       | ADHD etc
       | 
       | Just launched a PWA and now working on more mixing features like
       | spatial audio, reverb and high/low-pass filters to let you create
       | even more immersive sound environments.
        
         | rrr_oh_man wrote:
         | I honestly love love love this since this post
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856999 and have
         | recommend it to half a dozen of people at least. Great work!
         | And free! \o/
        
           | matteason wrote:
           | That's so cool, thank you for recommending it!
        
       | notaustinpowers wrote:
       | I've recently started on an RSS Reader that helps minimize doom
       | scrolling by giving users 2 "Issues" a day, a Morning Rundown,
       | and an Evening Recap. As well as Feeds being able to be
       | categorized into user-created "Magazines" to gather content from
       | multiple sources that the user finds relevant to each other.
       | 
       | I'd like to provide a lot of customization options for the user
       | to customize it as they see fit. And ultimately make it FOSS in
       | case anyone else wants to play around with it.
       | 
       | I'm still working on UI wireframes, but I use my site to
       | publically post progress updates. https://www.keoni.dev
        
       | iamsanteri wrote:
       | I'm working on a simple Fuzzy Pay-off Method (FPOM) real options
       | calculator and a Datar-Mathews (DM) one based on Monte Carlo
       | simulation: https://sdss.lostbookofsales.com
        
       | jpmonettas wrote:
       | I'm working on http://www.flow-storm.org/ A time travel debugger
       | for Clojure with some unique features, aiming to enhance the
       | already awesome interactive development of Clojure by enabling
       | you to record and explore executions on demand.
        
       | pyrrhotech wrote:
       | I've been building algorithmic trading models for the last 4+
       | years. After trading them successfully with my own capital for
       | more than a year, I launched https://grizzlybulls.com as an
       | alternative to the traditional hedge fund monetization path.
       | 
       | Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed
       | the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown:
       | 
       | Model - Return - Max drawdown
       | 
       | S&P 500 (benchmark): +9.91% -27.56%
       | 
       | Platinum: +45.34% -16.48%
       | 
       | Gold: +39.53% -19.12%
       | 
       | Silver: +17.24% -22.96%
       | 
       | Bronze: +14.12% -23.93%
       | 
       | Vix Basic: +9.81% -24.23%
       | 
       | TA - Mean Reversion: +17.77% -19.92%
       | 
       | TA - Trend: +17.29% -24.98%
       | 
       | This is an unleveraged, apples to apples comparison. These are
       | not high frequency trading models. Most of them only make a trade
       | every 2-4 weeks on average. During long signals, the models are
       | simply long the S&P 500 and during short signals, they go to
       | cash. This can be implemented very tax efficiently by holding a
       | core ETF long position that never gets sold and then selling S&P
       | 500 futures (ES or MES) of equal value to the ETFs against the
       | long position. This way your account will accumulate unrealized
       | capital gains indefinitely and you'll only pay tax on the net
       | result of successful hedging. The cherry on top is that the S&P
       | 500 futures are section 1256 contracts that are taxed at 60% long
       | term / 40% short term capital gains rates regardless of the
       | duration they are held.
       | 
       | The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom
       | built. Most important are various VIX metrics (absolute level,
       | VIX futures curve shape/slope, divergences against S&P 500 price,
       | etc), trend-following TA metrics (MACD, EMV, etc), mean-reversion
       | TA metrics (Bollinger Bands, CMO, etc), macroeconomic
       | (unemployment, housing starts, leading composite), and monetary
       | policy (yield curve inversion, equity risk premium, dot plot,
       | etc). They've been backtested very cautiously to avoid
       | overfitting.
        
       | hyperkewb wrote:
       | Currently working on a prototype "fuzzer" for react components,
       | where the input is programmatic interaction with said component
       | (clicks, typing, toggling), and the output is graphical
       | representation of all possible states this component can get
       | into. This is tracked through code execution, but ultimately
       | displayed in DOM form.
       | 
       | Sort of an attempt at automatic yet structured ui testing for
       | both stress testing frontends and product design
        
       | Lich wrote:
       | Been working on a fishing journal app. Pulls in weather, tides
       | (salt), USGS streamflows (streams), add access points, save
       | notes, make journal entries with catch log, and photo/videos.
       | 
       | https://bluelines.app/
        
         | natebc wrote:
         | This is really neat! Kudos.
        
       | koeng wrote:
       | I've been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically,
       | I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of
       | what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I
       | make it in real life for them, then ship it to them.
       | 
       | Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically.
       | Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological
       | world and that's me!
       | 
       | After almost a year of work I finally smoothed out all the kinks
       | in the process, so can now go from a design to synthetic DNA in a
       | cell in about a week (not counting oligo pool synthesis time). I
       | can do about 600,000bp per week, which is large enough to
       | synthesize the smallest bacterial genome (each week), tho I only
       | do about 1000bp fragments. I'm also completely bootstrapped and
       | self funded, and only get help from my several opentrons robots
        
         | logtempo wrote:
         | https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...
         | 
         | Might interest you!
        
         | jmkni wrote:
         | How the fuck does one "assemble DNA" lol
         | 
         | Sorry but that's so outside of my understanding it reads like
         | pure science fiction
         | 
         | (I'm sure it's a thing, I'm just a moron)
        
         | javcasas wrote:
         | That is some seriously cool stuff.
        
         | JohnMakin wrote:
         | this is the coolest thing I have ever read. How did you even
         | get into that?
        
         | reaperman wrote:
         | Thank you so much for posting this. It's wonderful to hear how
         | excited you are about it all.
        
         | kuczmama wrote:
         | That is very cool. I'm curious if you can share some of the
         | things people are using this synthetic DNA for?
        
       | S201 wrote:
       | https://pirep.io - a collaborative database of all airports in
       | the US & Canada and their local amenities for general aviation
       | pilots. There's a bunch of local knowledge scattered about for
       | recreational pilots, most of it unpublished. Pirep aims to make
       | that more accessible so it in turn gets more people out flying.
        
       | NetOpWibby wrote:
       | I'm building a registrar, beachfront/, for Handshake TLDs I own.
       | 
       | For the uninitiated, Handshake is a blockchain that democratizes
       | the issuance of TLDs via Vickrey-style auctions. Handshake does
       | NOT handle SLDs (second-level domains, or just "domains").
       | 
       | That's where beachfront/ comes in. I recently presented my
       | progress at HandyCon a couple weeks ago and published the
       | transcription this morning.
       | 
       | https://blog.neuenet.com/post/handycon-presentation
       | 
       | Why do I bother with this? Handshake is a blockchain-based naming
       | system focused on TLDs (and security via DANE/DNSSEC). Other
       | blockchains are focused on finance, data, &c and just so happen
       | to have (SLD) naming systems.
        
       | gentlesoulcarp wrote:
       | I'm working on an app that ties a tech stack to psychological
       | configurations so we can stop the "How many times did you mention
       | Typescript" game on resumes and applicant tracking systems. The
       | result is that HR can find diamonds in the applicants who might
       | not match the precise keywords but can nonetheless do the job.
        
       | oinj wrote:
       | I'm working on a MPE MIDI controller with my friends at Aodyo.
       | We've launched our Kickstarter last Thursday:
       | https://loom.aodyo.com/en
        
       | mateuszbuda wrote:
       | We keep working on web scraping API with custom-made mobile proxy
       | pool: https://scrapingfish.com/
       | 
       | There is no AI in it so far but we consider adding support for
       | parsing the result to extract data using LLM.
        
       | andrewljohnson wrote:
       | A marketplace that focuses 100% on Magic: The Gathering cards.
       | 
       | https://manapool.com
        
       | rhin0 wrote:
       | I built a tool to help automatically conserve email storage (so
       | you don't pay for more).
       | 
       | https://www.mailsweeper.co/
       | 
       | It creates a new label in your inbox, auto labels according to
       | your preferences, and periodically moves those emails to trash
       | can.
       | 
       | Built to avoid me/my wife going over the free Gmail storage limit
        
         | victorbjorklund wrote:
         | Nice. Btw, your mobile menu does not close if you click away
         | (you have to click on the cross) even if that is pretty
         | standard behaviour (just in case you missed that)
        
       | endofreach wrote:
       | I am working on a new kind of device, that, compared to the
       | technology we use today, will make everything look like toys of
       | the past. I am 100% convinced we are very close to our
       | generations "PC revolution" era (no, no AI gadget waste). Not
       | only is it superior tech, it is actually sustainable. This will
       | chsmge everything.
       | 
       | While currently writing software prototypes & building hardware
       | PoCs, i should spend more time trying to find team members...
       | Otherwise i will not be able to secure financing which is crucial
       | right now... so, soon i either will still be working on this, or
       | i am dead. Let's see!
        
       | pitah1 wrote:
       | Working on a data generation and validation tool called Data
       | Caterer. The focus of it is being data source agnostic, fast and
       | simple. Just last week, I released a UI for it.
       | 
       | https://github.com/data-catering/data-caterer
        
       | mkw5053 wrote:
       | I'm making a small compost freezer. This way, while your compost
       | is in your kitchen and before you put it in the municipal compost
       | bin outside, it doesn't smell, isn't wet, doesn't attract flies,
       | and the bag doesn't rip. It has the form factor of a small trash
       | can and uses a TEC for cooling.
        
       | Jhsto wrote:
       | Nix-based PXE booting. It can boot different images than your
       | NixOS-based system configurations, but the main focus has been to
       | support NixOS. We even have a system which is able to scan your
       | hardware pre-boot, and then launch the initial ramdisk with a
       | kernel which has all the required drivers pre-installed.
       | https://github.com/majbacka-labs/nixos.fi
        
       | carabiner wrote:
       | A rock climbing tracking app that helps you climb faster.
        
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