[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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