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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

• franze 6y ago
  https://share.securrr.app/ https://share.securrr.app/ Secure Mobile Document Sharing Needs: GDPR, Data-Lawyer-Stuff
• kristerv 6y ago
  https://bashboard.io https://bashboard.io Spent 3 months making this metrics dashboard, where you can send any JSON or data and it'll pick out charts from it. Best part is - no 3rd party service is left out and the learning curve is super shallow (just make a request with any data). The backend is very stable, but UX at the moment is poor, since I didn't manage to reach my target audience and am still thinking how to continue.
  • Aztar 6y ago
    Looks like a nice idea. Maybe try targeting a niche or a specific industry? I agree the UX needs a revamp.
  • WoodenChair 6y ago
    I don't know if you're aware but in the late '90s and early '00s "bash board" was a term that referred to an online forum where kids would make fun of one another. My middle school had multiple bash boards... doesn't mean you can't use the term today for something different, but just something to be aware of.
• notoriousarun 6y ago
  I'll start with mine: https://pipecontent.com https://pipecontent.com - Right now trying to solve the content consumption problem. The intention is to build a second brain for knowledge workers. That will help knowledge workers save their best ideas, organize their learning, and expand their creative output. Hacker? Interested? Let's connect on https://twitter.com/notoriousarun https://twitter.com/notoriousarun
  • matt_f 6y ago
    This is cool.
• pettycashstash2 6y ago
  http://myoilguage.com http://myoilguage.com Hardware is version .1 and as well as web app. I am learning new web stack tech to Enable commercializing this and improve the hardware.
  • HeyLaughingBoy 6y ago
    Well done, I love hardware projects. We don't see enough of them here.
  • HeyLaughingBoy 6y ago
    Also, I just saw someone else here is doing something similar for a water tank. And your pipe cap housing reminded me that I had a similar project in mind but float switches would not be rugged enough. I'm going to revisit it using ultrasonics!!!
    • pettycashstash2 6y ago
      My version 2 is based off of laser. I believe it wil be more accurate. Also battery based.
• nikivi 6y ago
  https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything Currently can add and remove links (pinboard clone). But the big goal is more ambitious (https://docs.learn-anything.xyz/roadmap https://docs.learn-anything.xyz/roadmap) Hard to do without funding.
• ragnot 6y ago
  https://github.com/ragnot/roost-hsm https://github.com/ragnot/roost-hsm I wanted a C++ hierarchical state machine library didn't require massive compile times like boost msm.
• mattivc 6y ago
  https://github.com/matiasvc/Toucan https://github.com/matiasvc/Toucan I work in robotics and have for a long time been frustrated with how hard it is to visualize data in C++. I created Toucan to try to solve that. The project is still in a very early stage but has already started to become a useful tool. The API still needs work but it’s getting there. Toucan can be called from anywhere in your code, and runs in its own thread to always remain interactive and responsive.
• deleted 6y ago
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• sandermvanvliet 6y ago
  Voltmeter: an application to quickly provide an overview of service health using simple service status endpoints. https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/Voltmeter https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/Voltmeter Pretty much works for what we want at $workplace, I built it so that we can see if our platform services are up and running and healthy. It uses scraping of a service status endpoint to collect service health and the health of the dependencies of that service. Using that the app renders a graph with all services and dependencies which helps us quickly find services that are broken in prod. Recently added inputs from our metrics back-end so that we can have auto-discovery of new services and to support services that don’t have a HTTP endpoint we can scrape
• soneca 6y ago
  https://www.quidsentio.com https://www.quidsentio.com The idea was a mix of personal journal and private social network. But social network features are hard. Notifications, discovery, create a habit. I am the one only user (I use it as a habit tracker). Couldn’t convince even my wife to use it.
• montenegrohugo 6y ago
  https://www.namehunt.dev/ https://www.namehunt.dev/ I've always struggled with finding domain names for new projects (all the good ones are taken!) that I decided to do something about it. The suggestion engine isn't really fully working yet, but the idea is to input a desired word/name/set of keywords and see a list of available domain names. Kind of following the "build what you yourself would use" philosophy. P.S.: Love the idea of having a periodical post like this on HN
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    Keep working on it. I don't need it right now, but I could definitely see something like this be interesting, the only solution I can think of right now is just searching for different things in a traditional registrar and that's been a frustrating process. Good luck! Biggest challenge is well. One coming up with good recommendations, but two getting it into my head when I need it. I don't know if traditional advertising will help with that you almost just need to be come a household name.
    • montenegrohugo 6y ago
      Thanks for the encouragement! Glad you think it could be useful. Agreed, getting a userbase/people who know about my product is probably the biggest challenge (frankly, I think it almost always is), but I'll give it my best shot. If it fails then, well, at least it will still be useful for myself :)
      • atlasunshrugged 6y ago
        I think the other really useful thing is eventually adding a 'paid' version that's more robust - I know lots of corporates struggle with specific product names because they not only need the domain but need to make sure that no competitor or someone in the industry has a similarly named product, so if your solution could also make sure that when it recommended a domain/product name it isn't in use in your industry or with a competitive project already
  • biztos 6y ago
• ungawatkt 6y ago
  I made a API introspection documentation tool for Python Flask. Mostly a learning experience and possibly redundant to other projects, but it's just about good enough to use for my own purposes. I might ShowHN at some point. https://github.com/cliftbar/automd https://github.com/cliftbar/automd
• mysterydip 6y ago
  I wouldn't even call it half baked yet, more like a tenth, but I'm working on a total conversion (with a few engine changes) to the DOS Rise of the Triad. You can see one example here: https://twitter.com/mysterydip/status/1345112757050486785?s=21 https://twitter.com/mysterydip/status/1345112757050486785?s=... I am changing all textures, adding some new ones, repurposing enemies and weapons, all new maps and features. I think the engine really had some clever potential that didn't get fully realized in the end product, and I want to bring that out. Plus working on a DOS project has been very enjoyable for the simplicity and limitations.
  • tbran 6y ago
    Very cool! Not much of a gamer, but I replay ROTT every few years. Would totally play with your mech-enabled version!
  • paulryanrogers 6y ago
    Interesting! Why for ROTT and not use an engine like Doom if you're replacing all assets anyway?
    • mysterydip 6y ago
      I actually prefer the block layout of levels instead of the line segment geometry, just makes more sense in my head. Also I like the underdog, I want to show people the engine was more advanced than "wolfenstein with higher walls". So many things have been done with DOOM, I think it's interesting to explore the other engines of the time.
• peller 6y ago
  https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained I wanted something better than Django. So I built this. IMO it's already there from a technical perspective but the documentation needs some more work. Would greatly appreciate any feedback!
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    I used padrino for a while, because it advertised itself as half-way between sinatra and rails. I liked it, but I don't think the framework ever had enough support to be able to rely on it, and since it's not well known I wouldn't pick it again in an environment where someone else had to code on it. http://padrinorb.com/ http://padrinorb.com/
    • peller 6y ago
      Yea, I definitely need to put more effort into promotion and getting more active users. I'm not familiar with padrino, but at least for Flask Unchained, it's literally Flask under the hood - so my project is less a new framework but more of an improved way to use a highly popular existing framework. I'm hopeful this distinction can help with adoption.
      • mikkergp 6y ago
        Yeah Padrino is similar, it’s sinatra under the hood.
• sopromo 6y ago
  Public Transportation app: https://mappi.invisen.com/ https://mappi.invisen.com/ Website is Spanish only for now but the app has multiple languages. Still adding new cities whenever I can but I've been too busy lately. Started as a project to learn more about routing and public transportation in Madrid and GTFS data. It was fun and I learned a lot.
• tstegart 6y ago
  https://startupgroundwork.com/ https://startupgroundwork.com/ It helps people start a business by helping them find the right software and acts as a starting point for research. It's half-baked because writing content is very difficult and energy consuming. But hiring writers just gets you crap. Its difficulty to make money if words don't flow.
• jl6 6y ago
  https://github.com/jl6/hdrfs https://github.com/jl6/hdrfs "HDRFS is a lossless filesystem application which stores a complete history of every byte ever written to it. It is backed by a strictly append-only log, but works as a fully read/write POSIX-compatible filesystem. Think of it as a cross between a filesystem and tar, with infinite versioning and tuned to maximise ease of backups. It is intended to be used by individuals to archive personal files." Very half-baked. It works, but it turns out there are quite a few applications with highly pessimal write() patterns that bloat the metadata database, making it less general-purpose than I had hoped.
  • nfoz 6y ago
    I love the idea of this, how you write to volume files of a fixed configurable size, that become immutable once it's moved onto the next one, so you can pick up those prior volumes and move them to offline storage whenever you want. That just seems really nice and easy to understand.
• Winterflow3r 6y ago
  This has some traction (a couple of thousand users per month) but needs a bit more work. A colour search engine and browser for lipsticks https://lipcolourmatch.com https://lipcolourmatch.com
• koblas 6y ago
  Working on Tax/Person ID validation. First building out this JS library - https://github.com/koblas/stdnum-js https://github.com/koblas/stdnum-js which I plan on embedding in this React static site. https://tininfo.com/country/AD/individual/NRT/ https://tininfo.com/country/AD/individual/NRT/ - Currently mired in building out all of the country validation in JS (the thing I know how to do) - Should really be working on building out more website templates and proving the functionality. Why? Because I have to validate VAT numbers CPF or other random ID numbers on a regular basis and right now building unit tests just to test an 8 digit number...
• kidproquo 6y ago
  RiffPod[1]. Hardware and app to enable wireless recording of guitar. 4 years of iterating through hardware versions to finally converge on a design that works[2]. [1] https://riffpod.io https://riffpod.io [2] https://twitter.com/proquokid/status/1347713280953999361?s=19 https://twitter.com/proquokid/status/1347713280953999361?s=1...
• glacials 6y ago
  Dual-licensing platform for open source software: https://license.land https://license.land
• mping 6y ago
  Observideo [1]. Initially a web app that links to dropbox to facilitate my wife's student's research on behaviour by tagging video segments. Now it's a half baked electron app. Initially made for her research projects, most students either use excel or some expensive software. [1] https://github.com/mping/observideo https://github.com/mping/observideo
• rhn_mk1 6y ago
  http://rhn.github.io/jazda/ http://rhn.github.io/jazda/ Jazda is a simple hackable bicycle computer. You can build it out of components available in your local electronics store (except the display). I started it some 10 years ago as an experiment in AVR programming, before Arduino existed, and it keeps a honorable place in the back of my head ever since.
• drzel 6y ago
  https://www.tappydays.com https://www.tappydays.com Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    Hrmm the landing page doesn't have a lot of screenshots. What would tappydays give me that google calendar wouldn't? Do you have integrations to pull days from facebook/etc?
• gwph 6y ago
  https://lofichess.com https://lofichess.com I wanted a trimmed down interface for following live chess streams. To keep the website updated I run an AWS Lambda every two minutes that does the following: 1. Pulls active streams from the Twitch API. 2. Uses the Go templates library to repackage the response as static HTML. 3. Uploads the static HTML to S3, where it is served behind CloudFront.
  • woutr_be 6y ago
    Interesting approach to generate a static website. Is this completely free? Or do you end up paying for the Lambda task?
    • gwph 6y ago
      Average latency for the Lambda over the last week is 4.84s and it runs with 128mb of memory. Running every two minutes, that comes to ~25,000 invocations and ~15,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month. The AWS Lambda free usage tier includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month so the Lambda is definitely free. The website is tiny (homepage < 20kb excluding the thumbnails which are hosted by Twitch), so I'm also inside the free tier on S3 and CloudFront. I paid $12 upfront for the domain registration.
      • woutr_be 6y ago
        Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking about how I would do it, but always ended up reverting to Netlify. Good to have some different approaches.
• mStreamTeam 6y ago
  https://mstream.io https://mstream.io A self hosted music streaming server that's simple enough for my mom to use
• richardARPANET 6y ago
  https://github.com/veemshq/veems https://github.com/veemshq/veems An open-source platform for online video. (Looking for ReactJS and/or Python help! https://veems.tv/discord https://veems.tv/discord)
  • kubanczyk 6y ago
    CC-BY-NC license for a software? Care to say why not AGPL?
  • remram 6y ago
    If you don't mind me asking, what is the value-add compared to PeerTube? (seems to be the popular option right now)
• quaintdev 6y ago
  A hand coded Android homescreen. It has - App shortcuts on sidebar - App drawer - QOTD, TODO - Any flutter widget that you can think off! Why? Having multiple apps just to customize my home screen was not working for me. So I decided to hand code my home screen. Implementing Flutter widgets is so fast and easy that I have replaced apps like TODO, Quotes, Grocery list with Flutter widgets on home screen. I am planning to add more functions to it like - Drinking water reminders - Solar panel output monitor - Blog visitor counter The downside of using Flutter for this is existing widgets and App Icons on home screen are not supported. Here is the repo: https://github.com/quaintdev/anchor https://github.com/quaintdev/anchor
• vuciv1 6y ago
  Https://swapiverse.com/ It's just our pre-launch page for now. We are planning to match users and allow them to swap books with each other. As of right now, I'm not sure how to avoid scammers... that's my biggest issue.
  • kaliara 6y ago
    Maybe have them take a photo of the specific page of the book? Like the one with the copyright and publishing info? At least then it’s some indication that they have the book. You could scale up a bit using mTurk and the OCR to verify.
  • vuciv1 6y ago
    Sorry, link seems to be broken. https://www.swapiverse.com https://www.swapiverse.com
  • henearkr 6y ago
    Maybe use a reputation score, because becoming rich stealing books is going to need a lot of books (especially as pocket books are very cheap), and so scammers would very quickly lose their stars.
  • noja 6y ago
    http://bookmooch.com/ http://bookmooch.com/ uses a points system
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    I like the idea, but I think the trust problem + shipping costs + challenge of finding overlapping swaps could be challenging. But this may be interesting for rare or expensive books With the "overlapping was" problem you may have to create a currency/credit system in which case you're almost a used book store.
• recursivedoubts 6y ago
  https://hyperscript.org https://hyperscript.org to compliment htmx, a language that embeds well in HTML, inspired by HyperTalk
  • tbran 6y ago
    Thanks so much for your work on this and htmx/intercooler! I just threw some htmx on a Django website yesterday and was blown away with how easy it was to do fancy app-y stuff with so little code. Awesome! I'll be trying some hyperscript this week.
    • recursivedoubts 6y ago
      glad to hear they are useful for you :)
• mathgladiator 6y ago
  http://www.adama-lang.org/ http://www.adama-lang.org/ is a programming language for board games. The language works, and I'm sorting out how I want to do UIs. Documentation and platform are half baked.
  • tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
    Ha, I just posted a DSL for UI design in this thread. I remember seeing this a while back on HN, I love the idea!
• andy99 6y ago
  Here is one of mine: https://github.com/rbitr/ivc https://github.com/rbitr/ivc Version control for ipython notebooks, the goal is to be able to use a Jupyter notebook in a hacky, iterative way, but track your versions and the output they produced in a searchable way so that you can capture what you've learned. Still a lot of work and research to do to make it something people can use.
• ayakura 6y ago
  https://github.com/aptrinh/Radio-Qt5 https://github.com/aptrinh/Radio-Qt5 An Internet Radio app with local playlist (.xspf) support. I still need to make a feasible .exe for Windows (preferably pyinstaller with --onefile but apparently assets are missing unless I place them right next to the .exe - in which case, it won't just be one .exe I will ship to users =( )
• jsonGobbler 6y ago
  oh boy this is the story of my life
• rement 6y ago
  This is a project I built to help with my job search. It pulls Stack Overflow job listings (using the RSS feeds) and maps them based on the city. It only supports cities in the United States or fully remote companies at the moment. It's functional but definitely half baked. Main tech: Rails and Leaflet.js https://railsmap.tuckerchapman.com/ https://railsmap.tuckerchapman.com/ edit: I would love some feature suggestions if anybody has any
• justhw 6y ago
  http://thumbnail.ai http://thumbnail.ai My first project of 2021. Just paste a blogpost link and it will build a thumbnail for you.
  • nabeards 6y ago
    This is cool! Ran it on one of my pages, the preview shows some JavaScript at the bottom, not sure where you’re pulling that text from.
• franciscop 6y ago
  https://documentation.page/ https://documentation.page/ A documentation website generator for open source. No need to pollute your Github repo with html+css+etc etc files, just write markdown and point your domain there and it'll render it. Example output for a paid project (my own): https://statux.dev/ https://statux.dev/ The main fear from multiple people is that the project might "go evil" at some point and add ads or similar to project's documentation. I definitely don't plan on that (that's why I'll charge for premium features!) but totally understand the fears. The project is already "successful" for myself, so how can I dispel these fears from other devs?
  • tomgs 6y ago
    Just contemplating doc solutions for the open source repo I maintain (5K+ stars). Would be happy to use https://documentation.page/ https://documentation.page/. Ping me at my email / twitter (details in my profile).
    • franciscop 6y ago
      Thanks!
  • dairylee 6y ago
    Judging by the sidebar navigation on Statux I'm guessing you're using a Mac? https://kilianvalkhof.com/2021/css-html/you-want-overflow-auto-not-overflow-scroll/ https://kilianvalkhof.com/2021/css-html/you-want-overflow-au...
    • franciscop 6y ago
      No, I'm using Ubuntu :)
  • fishingisfun 6y ago
    great profile
• yarsanich 6y ago
  Actuflow - app that reminds you to be intentional with your phone usage. https://acture.app https://acture.app Shows you pop up window after phone unlock with intention form on Android, after app opening(using shortcuts) on iOS. Main features were implemented. Redesign and a lot of additional features are arriving. https://twitter.com/actuflow https://twitter.com/actuflow Offline, free, no-ads, considering to open source.
• epaga 6y ago
  https://smoothtrack.app https://smoothtrack.app - an app that uses your phone's AR for 3D head tracking for PC games. Kind of a "VR" feel for sim games, without VR. Has layout issues on some smaller screens, I'm still working on a USB connection feature, and lots of other stuff I need to improve on. But releasing early was the right decision, it's already doing pretty well!
  • nodematic 6y ago
    Cool concept. How is the experience moving the head, but keeping the eyes on the fixed location screen?
    • epaga 6y ago
      It works great, actually. The movement of the head is exaggerated in the game so you only need to nudge your head slightly to move the camera - you just keep your eyes on the same spot while you do so. Your brain gets used to it very quickly and it feels surprisingly intuitive.
  • bdefore 6y ago
    Nice to see your post, I've been using this on a Pixel 3a with MS Flight Simulator and it works well! I wish there was less latency, but it is manageable and definitely adds to the experience. Thanks! Curious what you think of my own submission here, a tool to make flight sim control maps from a browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25702356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25702356
    • epaga 6y ago
      Looks like a ton of work, quite cool! I don't use a HOTAS all that much, except for when I play Elite: Dangerous - and Elite already has a different site with lots of layout combos (though I forget its name).
• yufw 6y ago
  https://sharepad.io/ https://sharepad.io/ I developed this as my own remote coding interview tool to let me do collaborative editing and also run code. I learn the technologies as I am building it, so it also helps me try out new things. First released it to public at this new year, still got a lot of features to implement, it's a fun project to work on weekends.
  • thescribbblr 6y ago
    Thanks for building this sweet tool.
• tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
  https://matry-mvp.netlify.app/ https://matry-mvp.netlify.app/ A platform-agnostic programming language for UI designers. None of the links work; this is quite literally a half baked page lol. I'm still in the process of designing the language itself, been at it for about a year now and expect to spend about another year nailing down the basic syntax before revealing publicly.
• _pastel 6y ago
  https://github.com/benpastel/trees https://github.com/benpastel/trees I've always wanted my own gradient boosting machine implementation to compete with Xgboost and LightGBM. There's a huge space of tricks around regularization, randomization, tree structure, etc., that few people are exploring because neural nets are exploding. So far I've roughly caught up in speed and accuracy with a few original tricks (and 1/20 of the features), but no real breakthroughs.
• wyozi 6y ago
  Service for turning data sent as post requests into graphs with tools for some basic analysis: https://thisgraph.com/ https://thisgraph.com/ Here's an example graph containing docker image build times: https://thisgraph.com/buckets/242dc353-562d-4520-b82d-5f3525bae218?anal=median%21&time=All https://thisgraph.com/buckets/242dc353-562d-4520-b82d-5f3525...
• bunya017 6y ago
  https://github.com/bunya017/yaro-post https://github.com/bunya017/yaro-post I tried postman on my old machine (Hp 6715b) and it was slow. It took so much RAM and processing power that I couldn't run any other app simultaneously with postman, else it's BSOD :D. So I set out to build a stripped down postman with Quasar; a Vue Js UI framework, and Electron. It might be half baked, but it's usable. The name is coined from Ingausa; a creole of Hausa and English language. "Yaro" means boy in Hausa language.
• tbran 6y ago
  I just created http://unaffixed.com http://unaffixed.com for finding and posting Gumroad-like jobs [1]. It's just a markdown file converted to html and served from a Fastmail folder. My process was: Read this thread [2] yesterday afternoon. Thought this sounded like a "looser" work environment. Searched "synonym loose". 3rd result was "unaffixed". Bought unaffixed.com and pointed it at Fastmail. MD to html with pandoc. Added water.css stylesheet last night. Thought up some ideas on making it better. [1]: https://sahillavingia.com/work https://sahillavingia.com/work [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686678
  • deleted 6y ago
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  • biztos 6y ago
    I like this idea but I must point out that every single open position for “comma.ai” is “ON SITE.” So, um, affixed. For this to be useful you’ll need some screening. Good luck with it! (And assuming comma.ai posted this themselves, what a bizarre thing to do: start your recruiting process with an obvious lie? What does that say about your corporate culture?)
    • tbran 6y ago
      oooo, that's 100% my fault, not theirs!!! Removed it. Already being crappy and failing fast....
  • petr25102018 6y ago
    Great idea, bookmarked for the future.
  • lrossi 6y ago
    Your SSL certificate is misconfigured.
• victor_e 6y ago
  My half baked project isn't even hosted yet. I just work on it locally: https://imgur.com/a/FAVOOka https://imgur.com/a/FAVOOka It's a site to curate the best links for given topics.
• franky47 6y ago
  https://chiffre.io https://chiffre.io It's an end-to-end encrypted analytics SaaS. It allows me to provide a web analytics service to my customers where only they can see their usage data. More like 3/4 baked, currently running in private beta, hoping to ship Q1 2021. Feedback is welcome !
• garritfra 6y ago
  https://omegacrm.net/ https://omegacrm.net/ A simple all-in-one CRM for freelancers. Does not require JavaScript. Ironically built with Node.js and React. It currently only allows the user to manage their clients. Planning on integrating per-client projects and billing, as well as time management.
• motyar 6y ago
  Check https://bruzu.com https://bruzu.com a bit more than half!
• npsio 6y ago
  https://www.nps.io/ https://www.nps.io/ Create free online NPS surveys. Send them to your customers. When they answer one, you will get an email with their score, comments, and some statistics
• mikkergp 6y ago
  https://modquiz.com https://modquiz.com - A spaced repetition tool that combines a notion-like input interface to make creating flash cards more organic, using markdown text, tables and lists. Also has a flexible schema so that questions can be generated in different formats like multiple choice, true false, matching, etc. buggy and not all the dynamic question features work but the foundation is there. https://eniac.lrner.io https://eniac.lrner.io - An incremental game used to teach the history of the building of the first computer, ENIAC. Buggy and the mid-end game needs to be implemented. I planned on launching this to HN and PH in a few months.
• djedr 6y ago
  https://www.tree-annotation.org/ https://www.tree-annotation.org/ minimal universal syntax alternatives to JSON, XML, and S-expressions slowly baking on top
  • remram 6y ago
    You might want to put an example of the syntax on the landing page. I have been to the "comparison" page and I'm still not sure what it looks like, because of the heavy highlighting (are the big dots part of the syntax? Are the tiny square brackets?) and there doesn't seem to be another example on the site.
    • djedr 6y ago
      Thanks for the feedback, good idea. Will do! I continue to redesign the website for the best presentation. This is the second iteration. All feedback is very welcome. The bullet points and differently sized brackets are purely syntax highlighting. Bullet points highlight list items. Highlighting stripped, all brackets are regular square brackets. "Minimal" is not an exaggeration. It has only 3 tokens. There are some predefined examples on the interactive highlighter and parser pages at https://www.tree-annotation.org/highlight.html https://www.tree-annotation.org/highlight.html and https://www.tree-annotation.org/parser.html https://www.tree-annotation.org/parser.html. Perhaps I'll put that on the front page as well, after further polishing.
• c2nes 6y ago
  https://qrono.net https://qrono.net, https://github.com/c2nes/qrono https://github.com/c2nes/qrono A work in progress, Qrono is a persistent, time-ordered queue server providing at-least-once delivery. The time-ordering can be used to schedule values to be delivered in the future, implement exponential backoff within a consumer, etc. In addition to HTTP and gRPC interfaces, Qrono supports a RESP (https://redis.io/topics/protocol https://redis.io/topics/protocol) interface allowing Redis tools (e.g. redis-cli) and clients to be used.
• internalfx 6y ago
  https://github.com/internalfx/pageflo https://github.com/internalfx/pageflo A Flexible headless CMS. Create data structures and deliver them to any front-end through an API. It's actually not totally half-baked and is perfectly usable, but could use some more polish.
  • tbran 6y ago
    Nice! I've been looking for something like this. I'll watch your video.
• mvind 6y ago
  I'm struggling with https://memordo.com https://memordo.com which is a minimalist flashcard platform where you can create public and private decks. I use the tool religiously because I prefer my tool over the others tools available. I think the strategy forward for me is to create some public decks that others people would like to study.. Do you guys have any cool ideas for decks?
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    This is a pretty dense space (I also posted a flashcard app in this list :-) What would you say is your killer feature/unique value?
  • mushbino 6y ago
    Language learning decks are super popular. I've been learning Russian for a couple of years and finding good vocabulary decks has been a challenge. I know there are some spreadsheets out there with the 5,000 or so most commonly used words that might help you automate the process.
  • jll29 6y ago
    Something for geeks, perhaps? How about practice materials for a Linux certification?
• alanbernstein 6y ago
  http://alanbernstein.net/galleries/2020-pecos/#lg=1&slide=1 http://alanbernstein.net/galleries/2020-pecos/#lg=1&slide=1 Photo slide show correlated with gps track, for hiking trips. It's been a goal for years, I finally got it half-baked by just smashing together lightgallery and leaflet. Somehow it works ok on mobile.
  • a5seo 6y ago
    I like this a lot. Similar to the Relive app but something that’s easy to share/embed on the web. Nice!
• YPCrumble 6y ago
  https://omnifollow.com https://omnifollow.com - A site to follow things.
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    I'm not interested enough to pursue it, but I've wondered about a live twitter-like newsfeed that centralizes all your news sources. I like the "emotional feel" of having everything centralized and feeling connected live to all your feeds, I just don't know if it's tangibly more useful than refreshing a page on something like omnifollow. Good luck!
• axelf4 6y ago
  JavaScript Pokémon game: https://pokemon.axelf.nu https://pokemon.axelf.nu (https://github.com/axelf4/pokemon https://github.com/axelf4/pokemon) Subtle WebGL texture artifacts and browser-game microstutters drive me crazy. Any help with that would be much appreciated!
• IIAOPSW 6y ago
  playinverse.com One day I will finish making all the levels. Currently at 45/50 + testing and refinement.
• tomcdonnell 6y ago
  Flatpack Apps is a lo-code tool for database application development. No demo version on the website yet, but that will come soon. https://flatpackapps.com https://flatpackapps.com
  • leetrout 6y ago
    You probably already know this but https://flatpak.org/ https://flatpak.org/ is used for app distribution so you may struggle with organic discoverability
• eivarv 6y ago
  https://cleave.app https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources. I will release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...
  • SOLAR_FIELDS 6y ago
    Neat idea - I use MacOS virtual desktops to segment my in progress work like this. I might have my IDE with whatever I’m working on in browser on one desktop while I have all my communication stuff (email, chat etc.) on another desktop and then my random browsing on a third. But as you say running multiple tabs of Firefox and Slack and the IDE when you’re really only using about a third of them at any given time is a pretty big waste of resources.
  • LockAndLol 6y ago
    Is this the MacOS equivalent of KDE's activities? https://blog.hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-workflow/ https://blog.hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-...
    • eivarv 6y ago
      I remember trying to compare these before (but not what I ended up thinking), so maybe it's better if I just explain what it does: When you change your "context", all of your open apps and their windows (on all spaces, on all screens) are closed. The apps and their windows from the context you are switching to open – their positions and working state recalled from when you were last in this context. You can only be in one context at a time; Think of it as a workspace or project manager in an IDE, but on the OS-level.
      • bmn__ 6y ago
• earnubs 6y ago
  Fantasy UI thingy, or playing with dial UX ... https://carisenda.com/sandbox/fui/ https://carisenda.com/sandbox/fui/
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    Is it just a toy at this point? pretty, what data is backing it.
    • earnubs 6y ago
      It's just a toy. Dial's are difficult to make work in real UIs but they feature a lot in FUIs. FUIs also assume a lot of knowledge/expertise on the part of the user ... to move the dial with a mouse here you need to hold shift, you can also increment with up and down (or shift up/down). These dials try to be smarter by calculating the torque value of a mouse/touch movement, so you really have to move around the dial like a real one.
• Triv888 6y ago
  All mobile keyboard apps should have a paste button... That's all I have to say
• notoriousarun 6y ago
  A few days back, Submitted a co-founder thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644817 If anyone is looking for a co-founder... Please fill out this form with your info https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPVYIvrml546CUGZZ2MATCdYDQ/edit#gid=9 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPV...
• karl_t 6y ago
  https://queuey.dev https://queuey.dev A waitlist platform. API focused so you can integrate it into your auth workflow and give/not give people access if they're not admitted. Currently building a free plan + form sdk/snippet to allow non-devs to implement.
• everling 6y ago
  https://cinetrii.com https://cinetrii.com analyses reviews to infer possible inspirations behind a film. There are a bunch of things that could be improved with the text processing applied here. The wrong movie title is resolved occasionally, like failing to distinguish between an original and a remake, or a book. Sometimes the wrong part of an article is parsed, resulting in wrong connections. But I think it works overall, for the right type of film with a rich discourse.
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    Cool! this may be /r/internetisbeautiful material when it's done.
  • ramoz 6y ago
    Could you apply this to tweets? e.g., take user1 tweet, analyze who they follow & current trends, some recursion, find root influencers like: user1 -> follows user2, tweeted similar -> userN, tweetN -> network and time-map of influence & themes, etc
  • hooande 6y ago
    great design and interesting content
  • dekervin 6y ago
    You should really run with that idea, it's simply brilliant ! (I am a tad jealous )
    • everling 6y ago
      Thanks, I will. It’s been my side project for a long time, but I only find time to work on it every so often. This past year saw some major updates, though.
• hashtagjohnt 6y ago
  https://opskeeper.com https://opskeeper.com This is a job scheduler / project management software for construction companies. It's almost there... Still have a good amount of polish to put on it. And I need to expand the landing page...
• chad_strategic 6y ago
  The idea came out from the domain name and the project never took off. It has made a little money... back in the wild days of twitter. https://www.bestoftheinternets.com/ https://www.bestoftheinternets.com/
• tomcam 6y ago
  Still afraid to post mine but the vast majority of these look fantastic!
• tlarkworthy 6y ago
  A niche cloud that only runs public auditable source code, built on top of ObservableHQ so the user has the power to read and fork the serverside implementation if they wish https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/serverside-cells https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/serverside-cells The idea is if we shine a light on server side implementation, and give more power to the end user to see what is happening, we can build trust. Personally I want an AI to hoover up my data and act based on anticipate my needs. However, in the current climate its just too risky letting my data leave my control. So the problem is not privacy per se, but trust that my data is used in my best interests. This is my attempt at fixing the internet services trust issue: Make sure the production code that runs on the data is verifiable at all times. It's very half baked at the moment as the serverside runtime is not open sources, nor is there a billing system. I am acutely aware of the hypocrisy and will fix it in due time :p
  • ramoz 6y ago
    Like smart contracts? I also see relevance with compliance-heavy stacks, maybe integrating something like https://github.com/usnistgov/OSCAL https://github.com/usnistgov/OSCAL
    • tlarkworthy 6y ago
      No just javascript. Crypto and protocols are one way of solving this issue, but I wanted something any developer could adopt. So there are no "proof" of security, but you can always inspect the source code, so services no longer behave like a market-for-lemons. It adds a buying signal. Which although not watertight, does change the market dynamics I think for the better. Thanks for the links, it could well be relevant.
• mg 6y ago
  A lean HTML editor with instant preview: https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/ https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/ See the issues tab for the two issues still need tackling until it can be used as a nice local HTML/CSS/JS editor. It is awesome, that with the file access api, it is not possible to write full featured editors that run in the browser. I mainly made it for myself but then decided to open source it. Personally, I am fine with editing raw text, but of course it would be possible to add modules, so one could enable syntax highlighting etc.
• jeswin 6y ago
  https://retransmit.io https://retransmit.io - HTTP and WebSocket API Gateway Ready to use, but it'll be more useful once I have dashboards etc (which I'm building). I'm recovering from a minor surgery, so won't be able to reply today - sorry about that.
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• meagher 6y ago
  Help folks pay their phone and Internet bills https://evenaccess.org https://evenaccess.org Needs polishing and an application form for folks seeking help.
  • cj 6y ago
    I like it! I would donate if the homepage communicated how exactly the funds are used. Is the idea that you’ll directly match donators and people in need? If so, there’s the obvious chicken and egg problem, one idea to overcome that could be starting out with all donations going to an existing charity that shares a similar mission (and being transparent about that on the landing page), and then eventually start redirecting funds directly to folks seeking help (also while being very transparent as the use changes)
    • ramoz 6y ago
      also, tax exempt?
      • meagher 6y ago
        At some point, that’s the goal.
    • meagher 6y ago
      Good point about adding more info! Idea is folks apply for help and I call up the phone/Internet company to verify and pay their bills with the funds donated from others. All donations and payments would be viewable anonymously, and eventually tax deductible (need to go through that process).
• jnskender 6y ago
  https://www.debt-dash.io https://www.debt-dash.io Plug in some basic information about your debt accounts. Choose your payoff order and how much extra you can pay towards debt each month. I provide a month by month guide on how your payments will snowball until your debt-free. I’m the only user currently and I have a lot of work to do on branding/homepage before I share it with others but it fits the bill of unfinished but slightly useful.
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    I've thought about writing something like this. Right now I use a spreadsheet. The "killer feature" I've been looking for is the ability to compare things. Like, if I paid an extra $100 a month, how much faster would I pay off the loan and how much money would I save in interest. Also maybe different repayment strategies. Like one where your payments get gradually lower every month and one where they get gradually higher every month.
    • jnskender 6y ago
      I’ve got these features in the backlog! I’d love for you to play around and provide some feedback on current state! Everything is client side and reactive to your plan changes so it’s easy to quickly see how your changes effect your plan.
      • mikkergp 6y ago
        You should ask for term length and then calculate the minimum monthly payment, because I don't have to look up the minimum monthly payment. I notice that "mortgage" account type is missing. I always think that credit cards are tough for things like this because it's such a moving target, you'll probably have to integrate with the banks. Also I guess this is mostly around the snowball method (as you said it was) but my interest is more in, what are the most efficient ways to pay off one or two large debts.
        • jnskender 6y ago
• ramoz 6y ago
  Stable Matching: Demo (not mobile friendly): https://backnotprop.github.io/stable-matching/ https://backnotprop.github.io/stable-matching/ Code: https://github.com/backnotprop/stable-matching https://github.com/backnotprop/stable-matching Built a production model some years back, this was an attempt at making it explainable and how things need to adjust in the wild. https://medium.com/@rambossa/stable-matching-algorithm-and-how-its-used-913058fbbfcd https://medium.com/@rambossa/stable-matching-algorithm-and-h...
• Jugurtha 6y ago
  We're working on https://iko.ai https://iko.ai, our internal machine learning platform. Not really prime time SOC 2 Type II enterprise ready kung fu yet, but it has: - No-setup Jupyter environments with the most popular libraries pre-installed - Real-time collaboration on notebooks - Multiple versions of your notebooks - Long-running notebook scheduling with GPU support against Docker images, and output that survives closed tabs and network disruptions displayed into a page so you can watch from multiple devices. - Automatic experiment tracking: automatically detects your models, parameters, and metrics and saves them without you remembering to do so or polluting your notebook with tracking code - Easily deploy your model and get a "REST endpoint" so data scientists don't tap on anyone's shoulder to deploy their model, and developers don't need to worry about ML dependencies to use the models - Build Docker images for your model and push it to a registry to user it wherever you want - Monitor your models' performance on a live dashboard - Publish notebooks as AppBooks: automatically parametrize a notebook to enable clients to interact with it without exporting PDFs or having to build an application or mutate the notebook. This is very useful when you want to expose some parameters that are very domain specific to a domain expert. I think we'll always see it as half-baked.
• RubenvanE 6y ago
  https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com News in the digital age updates constantly. No matter what, there is always some "breaking news". This causes news sites to become more of a slot machine than a substantive source of information. A Brief History of Yesterday tries to be an antidote. It uses Wikipedia to show a summary of what happened yesterday. It's no news anymore, the content is already gradually becoming history. I started working on it last weekend. It is still in a pre-alpha state, but please let me know what you think of it!
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    Kind of an interesting aggregation but Wikipedia is a lot of information to try and consume for a "brief history" I do like the tree view, but I don't like having to open up the different sections, I think I should be able to get what I'm looking for on the landing page. Also, and this is subjective but something about the UX makes it feel like an overwhelming amount of information, especially the health and environment section. I would want it to feel like something I could absorb in a few minutes. How are you generating the trees?
    • RubenvanE 6y ago
      Yes, the 'Health and environment' section is quite overwhelming, mostly due to COVID-19. That's why I close each section initially, this way you open only the sections that interest you. I modify the tree from Wikipedia slightly to get a less cluttered overview.[1] [1] https://github.com/RubenVanEldik/a-brief-history-of-yesterday/blob/master/components/dayContent.vue https://github.com/RubenVanEldik/a-brief-history-of-yesterda...
• karlerss 6y ago
  https://get.recruitlab.co.uk/p/job-builder https://get.recruitlab.co.uk/p/job-builder It's a WYSIWYG job ad builder tool I built over a few days. It was supposed to be a lead generator for our ATS product, but the functionality does not seem to be useful enough yet.
• jrgnsd 6y ago
  http://hackerpla.net/requestd/ http://hackerpla.net/requestd/ RequestD - An Elasticsearch backed dashboard and interface to track and monitor websites and APIs. Great tool if you need to monitor error rates and other SLA related metrics for a web service.
• XCSme 6y ago
  I have one but I think it's almost baked: https://www.usertrack.net https://www.usertrack.net - Self-Hosted Analytics What I still want to do before calling it truly "ready": * Add a trial version * Implement a secondary session recording system * Improve documentation/onboarding/tutorials * Add some integrations (data import/export, alerts, weekly digest) Also, the landing page design is really poor, I should work on that too.
• susam 6y ago
  http://mathb.in/ http://mathb.in/ It has been in its half-baked state since 2012 when I wrote it in a single night so that I could share solutions to mathematics puzzles my friends and I used to challenge each other with. Somehow the use of this tool spread from my friends to their friends and colleagues, then schools and universities, and then to IRC channels that involve mathematical discussions.
  • joflicu 6y ago
    Nice! It would be nice to see some of the puzzles that were shared using this tool.
    • susam 6y ago
      Here you go: * http://mathb.in/13 http://mathb.in/13 * http://mathb.in/16 http://mathb.in/16 * http://mathb.in/20 http://mathb.in/20 * http://mathb.in/39 http://mathb.in/39 I wrote this tool all throughout a Saturday night 9 years ago and shared it with my friends on the next morning. The first URL (post 13) shows the first puzzle that was shared with the tool. The fourth URL (post 39) was the first post by someone I did not know. That's when I realized that people beyond my immediate friends' circle have begun using it now.
  • jll29 6y ago
    I would encourage you to keep working on this - IMHO it has potential in that scientific collaboration (also in mathematics) is increasingly done by globally distributed teams. You may need: - user/ID management - linking to Overleaf/GitHub for collaborative authoring of jointly produced output (e.g. papers to publish a proof) - integration (e.g. via HTML snippets) in user's personal blogs. There's semi-competition from e.g. Mathematica notebooks and the likes, but these are perhaps more targeting single authors, not conversations/teams.
• ramoz 6y ago
  Fast Style Transfer for iOS, converting models to coreml... models are still quite inefficient. https://github.com/backnotprop/fast-style-transfer-coreml https://github.com/backnotprop/fast-style-transfer-coreml https://medium.com/hackernoon/diy-prisma-fast-style-transfer-app-with-coreml-and-tensorflow-817c3b90dacd https://medium.com/hackernoon/diy-prisma-fast-style-transfer...
• lewisjoe 6y ago
  http://closetab.email http://closetab.email A solution for my OCD of keeping those 58 tabs in my browser open for two months now.
• amir734jj 6y ago
  IceCast stream ripper with FTP support. Basically turn any online radio into your own spotify alternative. All open source. https://stream-subscription-ui.herokuapp.com/ https://stream-subscription-ui.herokuapp.com/
• alexp 6y ago
  https://bitcoinparty.co/ https://bitcoinparty.co/ simple bitcoin price comparison tool with various brokers, p2p and classic exchanges.
• mcaswell 6y ago
  I made https://others.com https://others.com as an attempt to make a space for meaningful connection and conversation on the internet. Turns out the hard part is getting enough people in there!
  • tbran 6y ago
    I'm working on a website that I might try to turn into a community. Thought this comment on HN was useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444650 I'm starting with a niche, then try to go wider.
    • mcaswell 6y ago
      Incredibly helpful, thank you!
• dorianmariefr 6y ago
  https://socializus.app https://socializus.app Activities organised in Paris for now
• jbister 6y ago
  I think it's a little bit beyond "half" baked, but I built a thing I call Logsuck last year: https://github.com/jackbister/logsuck https://github.com/jackbister/logsuck The idea is to have a free Splunk alternative which you can set up with just one binary. I use Splunk at work and love it, but it just doesn't seem like a product for solo developers (I can't even find a pricing page on splunk.com), and the primary free alternative, the ELK stack, seems a bit complicated to set up. I am sure that I'll never be competitive with Splunk or Elastic in terms of features or scalability but I'm trying to build something that is at least useful for my own projects. I built it in Go and use SQLite with the FTS (https://sqlite.org/fts3.html https://sqlite.org/fts3.html) extension to store the log events in a way where they can be searched quickly.
  • ramoz 6y ago
    This is cool, do you have any usage detail and/or production nuances?
    • jbister 6y ago
      Currently it's not used in production anywhere, I mostly use it to view my own log files when I'm working on some hobby project locally, so I'm sure there are a few issues that would show up if it was used more heavily. I do have a list of known issues on a private Trello board, I should probably move those to GitHub so that they are at least visible to people, I'll take care of that right away. There is some info in the readme on how to get started, if you want to try it out and need any help beyond that let me know!
  • albertgoeswoof 6y ago
    This looks great! ELK is overkill for simple apps, sometimes all you want is to feed the logs from a few services into one dashboard. Datadog is really great for this but can be expensive
    • jbister 6y ago
      Glad you like it! Completely agree about the overkill-ness of ELK. I haven't had a chance to try Datadog yet but it looks great, the one complaint I've had with Splunk (or at least the way we use it at work) is that it's still "Just logs" and sometimes you need more than that to investigate issues while Datadog seems to cover more areas of monitoring in one package.
• shoelessone 6y ago
  “ミッチン“ - an “IoT”ish Christmas present built on a bunch of AWS services with cement, MongooseOS, ThreeJS, React and basically the kitchen sink. I’ve been working on and off (but mainly off) for the past few years. Even the blog post is half baked (also quite long) :( https://kevinmitchell.io/blog/mitchine-%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3-part-1 https://kevinmitchell.io/blog/mitchine-%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3...
• jacobedawson 6y ago
  Kwiz - Quizzes / Quiz creator for developers. Next.js + Node + MongoDB based, proper little code editor & syntax highlighting included: https://kwiz.dev https://kwiz.dev
• mlang23 6y ago
  I am trying to produce software to translate between visual and braille music notation. Have working prototypes for both directions. https://github.com/mlang/freedots https://github.com/mlang/freedots https://github.com/mlang/bmc https://github.com/mlang/bmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjfKDJm_xmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjfKDJm_xmI
• anonypla 6y ago
  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa (Please don't be too harsh as it's still a draft but any opinion, criticism or help would be welcome)
  • recursivedoubts 6y ago
    awesome: https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa/blob/main/CODE_OF_...
    • remram 6y ago
      AFAIK this doesn't (can't) override GitHub's site-wide guidelines: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-community-guidelines#what-is-not-allowed https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
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      • anonypla 6y ago
        Thanks, it doesn't claim to override GitHub ToS and I will adapt the guide if anything in there is against their ToS. So far nothing was reported to me as being against their ToS and I think it's fine as it is. This guide does not endorse/support anything unlawful in Germany. If that guide is used by anyone outside of Germany, they should check their local laws before. As for the code of conduct, the current "no code of conduct" approach is only meant to say that I have nothing to add besides the GitHub ToS which anyone has to agree to before signing up anyway. The guide also specifically states it's not meant for use for any unethical/unlawful activities of any kind and some sections of the guide have been limited.
    • justnotworthit 6y ago
      Unfortunately, a more robustly social-justice-informed code of conduct is a requirement to be supported by (and receive funding from) some big players in the online privacy/security community. On a completely unrelated note not at all related to the above paragraph, ask me if you need any help with the Whonix sections.
• agilob 6y ago
  Nice try Amazon
• ihaveajob 6y ago
  Working on https://agendaboss.com https://agendaboss.com, an aggregator of task and calendar systems (Trello, Asana, Priority Matrix...).
• showsover 6y ago
  I started something to track my progress to FI. So far you can track your portfolio and net worth in stocks. I still have to add a lot of stuff, like bank accounts, mortgages, etc but with the lockdown here I've kinda lost motivation for a bit. https://my.roadto.fi/ https://my.roadto.fi/
  • tsycho 6y ago
    I have been building something similar very slowly in my spare time. Do you want to collaborate? Contact info in my profile.
• carapace 6y ago
  Oh man! So I have a fractal half-baked project made up of smaller half-baked projects that all fit together to make a plan to save the world! Help people understand computers from the gates up using simple computer system based on LoF notation and Oberon RISC and ATMega328P microcontrollers (of Arduino fame; because I have a handful laying around) New computer architecture based on latching sort-nets. (This isn't written up online anywhere.) Programing system inspired by M. Hamilton's Higher Order Software et. al., implemented with Joy lang. Self-replicating swarm robots to collect and reprocess oceanic waste into more swarm robots and eventually large floating/flying structures. Combine Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language with Permaculture ecology-mimetic design patterns to design and build large "art" installations: essentially vast gardens that people can live in. (on land, at sea, and in the air. And maybe one day on other worlds, eh?) Join my mailing list. https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas I need an audience and feedback, I need to know people give a fig and want this. I tend to loaf around because to me it seems like folks obviously don't want the world saved, we're having a good time playing with our phones and shouting a lot. Who am I to disturb that? http://phoenixbureau.github.io/PigeonComputer/ http://phoenixbureau.github.io/PigeonComputer/ https://github.com/PhoenixBureau/PigeonComputer https://github.com/PhoenixBureau/PigeonComputer https://pythonoberon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://pythonoberon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://joypy.osdn.io/ https://joypy.osdn.io/ https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun http://phoenixbureau.github.io/ReGPGP/ http://phoenixbureau.github.io/ReGPGP/ Misc crazy notes with broken links, yay! https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXTnUTHEtJ8ZBAdEVP8VkNhzEvgRfyFXGyWrLhNrVbqLP/README.html https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXTnUTHEtJ8ZBAdEVP8VkNhzEv...
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• onurgenes 6y ago
  https://threadmaker.co https://threadmaker.co I am an experienced mobile developer but trying to learn web development these days. I have started this project a month ago and trying to build something useful. You can create new threads by just typing or copy/pasting. Main goal is show retention rate of thread from analytics. Beware, it is really in early stage.
• timdaub 6y ago
  I built a mini game engine in JS that allows someone to build a 2D game, but once it was done I started to become bored. Demo (desktop only): https://timdaub.github.io/videogame/ https://timdaub.github.io/videogame/ Code: https://github.com/TimDaub/videogame https://github.com/TimDaub/videogame
  • ramoz 6y ago
    Pretty cool, how far are you from an interface equivalent to Among Us?
    • timdaub 6y ago
      Uhhh, nice idea! Not that far, I'd say. But I'm really not a graphic designer, so I'd somehow have to overcome that...
      • edoceo 6y ago
        Boxes with different colors and single char labels can work. Just have to be skinnable later. Or stay simple color, see Surviv.io
• melkael 6y ago
  https://elkael.com https://elkael.com My personal website. Had lots of fun building it two years ago. I should migrate it to vanilla js and polish the newer informations (research activities) when I have time.
• trungdq88 6y ago
  Release early and often is absolutely the way. I decided to launch my macOS app even if it was only about "40% complete" as of my expectation. It turned out people still love it, and the launch gave me a huge confidence boost! My app (offline toolbox for dev with a bunch of small utilities): https://devutils.app https://devutils.app
• ArchieMaclean 6y ago
  https://github.com/macarc/PipeScore https://github.com/macarc/PipeScore music notation for bagpipes. I started this a year and a half ago and I keep throwing it away and restarting, but I'm hopeful for this iteration. I haven't got around to making a README yet unfortunately.
  • ryanianian 6y ago
    Neat. Knowing nothing about bagpipes but a bit about music notation from playing piano I'm curious what's different.
    • ArchieMaclean 6y ago
      Thanks :) There's a very heavy focus on gracenotes in piping - that's probably the main difference. There are a lot of different embellishments (probably more than 200) used very frequently with 3 to 10 individual gracenotes in them. Most general music notation apps are not so good with dealing with this - MuseScore, for example, has a massive list of all possible embellishments which you have to scroll through to try and find the one you want. PipeScore tries to take advantage of the patterns in gracenotes to reduce the number of options by categorising them (e.g. the 'doubling' class has 27 different embellishments in it, but they are all dependent on the notes immediately before and after the embellishment, so instead of manually choosing the correct doubling you just choose 'doubling' and it automatically gives the right one) There are other dedicated bagpipe apps but none of them are as frictionless as I'd like.
• frozenlettuce 6y ago
  A HTML5 strategy RPG (a mix of ogre battle and advance wars) https://lfarroco.github.io/mana_public/ https://lfarroco.github.io/mana_public/
• timdaub 6y ago
  I'm building an index fund using Ethereum that rates data sets. But I've not had time actually building the smart contract logic: https://rugpullindex.com/ https://rugpullindex.com/
• hq1 6y ago
  Having very little time for stuff outside of my daily routine I took the opportunity to start yet another static website generator during my Xmas break. It's more of a personal wiki engine with zettelkasten flavor, very much work in progress. https://mtod.org/wb https://mtod.org/wb
• q_andrew 6y ago
  I'm making an atmospheric exploration game about nostalgic liminal spaces. lim·i·nal adjective: 1. relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process. 2. occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. https://q-andrew.itch.io/anemoiapolis https://q-andrew.itch.io/anemoiapolis
• systemaccount 6y ago
  We're building a collaborative meal planning site for personalized nutrition. If you've ever tried to improve your wellness or fitness through nutrition, you likely found yourself preparing more meals yourself. We think it takes too much time to pull together recipes into a well balanced, tasty meal plan that helps you achieve your goals. We intend to fix this at Fresh Batch. Two of my buddies and I have been hacking a solution together as our 5 - 8 through the pandemic. We're pushing hard to open up beta soon. You can request private beta access on the home page. Feedback much appreciated! https://freshbatch.io/ https://freshbatch.io/
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    Added my name to the list. Curious to see what you come up with!
• ryeguy_24 6y ago
  https://taskflowy-9a9aa.web.app/demo https://taskflowy-9a9aa.web.app/demo (desktop browser only so far) The idea is a daily note/task management tool combined with the WorkFlowy concept of infinite lists. The real use case here is for heavy note taking and also tracking the todos within all the notes. I found that with WorkFlowy I had so many buried todos that I could never see them in one place and manage them throughout the day. It’s great for notes, but wasn’t working for tracking tasks. It allows you to prioritize the tasks at every level. You can zoom in on certain nodes to see only the tasks relevant for that node and descendants. It actually works for me but would love to get some task rabbit testers.
  • rnbrady 6y ago
    This is awesome, especially if you can keep it super lightweight and fast.
• etherio 6y ago
  https://archivy.github.io https://archivy.github.io - Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your own personal, searchable and extensible wiki. Maybe a bit more than half-baked but still there's still much to work on.
• seanwilson 6y ago
  Here's a fairly polished single player time-based word game I've been working on (works on mobile and desktop): https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid Looking at adding a global high score table (nobody is using the quick feature I added to share your score on Twitter), it might need more hints on what the orange tiles do for your scoring (I'm hoping players naturally work this out), I might tweak the rules more to encourage more strategy, the sound effects aren't great, music might help, it should be an offline PWA, and I'll maybe try to monetise it for mobile. Feedback welcome! :) Was it obvious how to play? Too easy or hard? Does the scoring system encourage you to play words strategically?
  • danvoell 6y ago
    Quick Fun! Not a smart guy. All 3 letter words.
• DataCrayon 6y ago
  I early-released access to an API for generating interactive chord diagrams. Can be used via Python package, Rust crate, or HTTP API. https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/ https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/ It's been/being used by people from many different sectors which is great to see. It's making enough to pay for 2 coffees a month, or at least to cover the server it's hosted on. If I didn't enjoy working on it, I'd factor in my time! It started as a quick way to generate a d3-chord diagram and has slowly grown since then.
  • marcusstenbeck 6y ago
    Two coffees! The dream. :D
    • DataCrayon 6y ago
      Don't know whether to laugh or cry! At least I can say we're talking two venti coffees from Starbucks...
• bitwize 6y ago
  https://github.com/bitwize/nullawesome https://github.com/bitwize/nullawesome NullAwesome, an unfinished Android game I've been working on, off and on, in my spare time, since a while ago. Basically a "run, jump, and hack" puzzle platformer where you have to use the environment to evade or overcome enemies and expose the evil corporation in a 90s-esque cyberpunk setting.
• chony 6y ago
  I built this project to automatically overlay baseball pitch motion and trajectory. https://github.com/chonyy/ML-auto-baseball-pitching-overlay https://github.com/chonyy/ML-auto-baseball-pitching-overlay It's ready for a quick demo. However, there are stiil some little improvements have to make. And I'll build an web app on top of it for people to use it online.
• etimberg 6y ago
  https://github.com/etimberg/pycircuitbreaker/ https://github.com/etimberg/pycircuitbreaker/ A python implementation of the circuit breaker pattern. Not a new concept, but I did innovate in how the breaker decides to open. I realized that with a normal breaker, if you set the threshold to 5, but 4/5 requests failed (say due to a backend service being partially down) the breaker would never open. To solve this, you can set the breaker to use the net error count so that the breaker would behave as such: Req Num | Req Status | Breaker Status 1 | Fail | Closed 2 | Fail | Closed 3 | Fail | Closed 4 | Fail | Closed 5 | Pass | Closed 6 | Fail | Closed 7 | Fail | Open
• methyl 6y ago
  Like LiveView, but for state not the whole DOM: https://github.com/surferseo/live_data/tree/master/examples/phoenix_livedata_todomvc https://github.com/surferseo/live_data/tree/master/examples/...
• axelthegerman 6y ago
  https://buzzmein.ca https://buzzmein.ca It's a simple project to allow call forwarding from apartment buzzers to multiple phone numbers - ideal for roommates, couples or families. Had something very basic working 2 years ago and should have released it like that. It's still not quite where I want it at, but now I can iterate instead of holding everything back
• mzafkismugi 6y ago
  I have a working bot for importing Messenger conversations into Discord. Does anyone see any potential here?
• jamiegreen 6y ago
  https://academyoffolk.com/ https://academyoffolk.com/ Site to learn traditional music. The cost of creating high quality original content is really high :/
• mzafkismugi 6y ago
  No webpage yet but I wrote a bot that imports Messenger conversations into Discord. Would anyone be interested in that?
• mobilio 6y ago
  Free QR Code Generator for macOS: http://www.mobiliodevelopment.com/products/osx/qrencoder/ http://www.mobiliodevelopment.com/products/osx/qrencoder/ Was released with 30% of features, but seems that people love it as-is. So updates went and getting more and more features.
  • tarasmatsyk 6y ago
    what was the main reason that made you built it? Did you want to have a QR code generator that works locally on a mac?
    • mobilio 6y ago
      Main reason is playing with macOS frameworks. And second - i've seen that all other apps using online backends. So they can't be used if computer is offline.
• jMyles 6y ago
  Cirque: A tool to create web frontends to introspect, administer, and deploy mesh networks (Python / Django). https://github.com/jMyles/cirque https://github.com/jMyles/cirque
• nichochar 6y ago
  Help developing the habit of creative writing by gamifying writing a short story, in 5 mins, following a prompt: http://avostories.com/ http://avostories.com/
• NiloCK 6y ago
  https://eduquilt.com https://eduquilt.com I don't even know off-hand if the current deploy is even semi-usable, but I'm jumping on the thread because ... you asked! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tvHMvF8Mo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tvHMvF8Mo This is a platform-in-progress for mass-collaborative interactive-tutoring-system authoring. Wikipedia for khan academy, duolingo, or anki, with arbitrarily interactive content. The above video shows some rich flash cards in action (ear training & keyboard harmony). Flash cards + SRS + dynamic difficulty sorting and pathfinding (ie, optimal content surfacing given demonstrated skills), and automated surfacing of achievement bottlenecks in courses so that the community knows where to author intermediating content or prescribe different approaches with existing content. Inside the classroom: peer-to-peer JIT instruction, and distributed competencies. Most tentatively, but maybe most crucially, I think there is potential in this project for anti-fragile adversarial communities to build mutual understandings around contentious issues, where the propagation of your own views is proportional to your acknowledgement of contrary opinions.
• glaze 6y ago
  Aether3D Game Engine (Linux/Windows/mac/iOS, Vulkan/D3D12/Metal) https://github.com/bioglaze/aether3d https://github.com/bioglaze/aether3d Some people like making games, I like making game engines. I don't have a specific goal/target in mind while making it. I've written several game engines since the nineties, and this is my most recent version. I have abandoned many of my older engines at some point to develop a new one, but with this engine I'll try to keep developing it a lot further before making a new engine.
• shafin_ 6y ago
  I am trying to write a programming language in Bengali language. But i only managed to write a crappy tree-walker interpreter. https://github.com/Shafin098/pakhi-bhasha https://github.com/Shafin098/pakhi-bhasha
• izerik 6y ago
  A remote control app (Android/iOS, written in Flutter) for Philips smart TV-s. I don't like the official one, it's buggy. Right now it only has basic controls and a trackpad, but I plan on adding channel/favorites/app lists and other stuff. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TAwsRf1 https://imgur.com/a/TAwsRf1 I cut a lot of features, as I want it out released, so I'm focusing on the basics, which is the auth with tv logic and basic controls. I plan on doing a beta release to iron out issues with the authentication logic. If you're interested, drop a mail to phimoteapp@gmail.com .
• robobro 6y ago
  Federated / decentralized, tag based anonymous messageboard : http://0chan.vip http://0chan.vip Could have just used nntp but nntpchan already did that.
• linklonk 6y ago
  A link aggregator where the votes of different users have different weights for you - based on how useful their previous votes have been. It is in a very early stage and is invitation only for now: https://linklonk.com/register https://linklonk.com/register with invitation code 'hn'. The idea was well described in this comment back in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003639
• dt3ft 6y ago
  I built https://20-things.com https://20-things.com Not ready for prime time yet, but I use it every day :)
  • mikkergp 6y ago
    Is it an algorithmic reddit that only shows you 20 things? How are they generated?
    • dt3ft 6y ago
      The things are submitted by users. Things to show is being selected using an algorithm similar to the one of HN (where age of submission, number of votes etc) play a role. Nothing fancy about this project, but I seem to use it as a bookmarking service where I tend to share things I find interesting. I use it also as a blogging platform where I sometimes post random thoughts as well as articles on how I solved a problem in IT which is otherwise undocumented.
      • mikkergp 6y ago
        Ahh so the 20 refers to the number of categories?
        • dt3ft 6y ago
          Yes, the number of categories and the number of items shown. There is no paging or endless scrolling, so users have more time for other things IRL :)
• dejv 6y ago
  https://legatoforte.com https://legatoforte.com App for practicing some basic piano stuff, things like note sight reading and piano scales. Worsk best when you connect MIDI keyboard. (More exercises comming soon)
• wic8 6y ago
  https://snapshop.netlify.app https://snapshop.netlify.app A search engine of all products selling on Shopify. In the same state as it was few months ago. There's obvious way forward but i need to get a job first. Also related https://stroget.now.sh https://stroget.now.sh
  • albertgoeswoof 6y ago
    How does this work?
  • moneywoes 6y ago
    Are you scrapping thousands of product pages and indexing the results? Would love more info
• benzguo 6y ago
  I’m working on a simple site builder, like Linktree but with styling and features more to my own taste. Not sure where it’s going long-term though: https://tray.club https://tray.club
• dbosch 6y ago
  Less than half baked, Kong (temp name) is the Goodread for movies. During lockdown, I decided to watch more movies, including classics. I noticed my friends were doing the same and I wanted to know what they were watching, and which film they were interested in... Very early. Lots of buggy features. Sorry. http://www.getkong.xyz http://www.getkong.xyz
  • WoodenChair 6y ago
    I signed up. Does nothing like this already exist?
    • Jommi 6y ago
      Letterboxd
• philmcp 6y ago
  4 days per week remote software development jobs: https://www.28hrworkweek.com/ https://www.28hrworkweek.com/
• paulryanrogers 6y ago
  Browser Routr helps me keep most of my browsing in my daily driver yet still test and use the company intranet on another browser. Unlike similar tools it's relatively transparent, not requiring right clicking or copy past ing. https://paulrrogers.com/product/browser-routr/ https://paulrrogers.com/product/browser-routr/
• cstegel 6y ago
  Are you learning guitar or ukulele and can never remember how to play a chord? Are you experienced with these instruments but looking to discover new chord shapes that you've never seen before? I wrote https://cortab.fun https://cortab.fun exactly for these purposes. It works with any custom tuning of a fretted string instrument. It also tells you what chord you're playing if you select your finger placement. I built it entirely in Rust WASM using the Yew web framework as a way to see what it was like to do front-end web dev in Rust. I've enjoyed the experience much more than I ever have using js. It's a little past half-baked at this point but it's fairly minimal and I wouldn't consider it done yet.
• maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
  I've just started running an interview series with the goal of creating new edges in my social graph. I have about a dozen participants so far, and am open to damn near anyone. First one published here: https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com/thedrongo/interviews/karthik-bala https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com/thedrongo/interviews/karthik-b... Sign up for an interview here: https://newsletter.maxwelljoslyn.com/subscribe https://newsletter.maxwelljoslyn.com/subscribe (this will also put you on the mailing list for others' interviews)
• HDevo 6y ago
  https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit Demo video: https://youtu.be/ZSz3zN14NTQ https://youtu.be/ZSz3zN14NTQ It's an editor and renderer for Fractal Flames[1] written in C++17 with a UI in Qt/QML. Other software that renders Fractal Flames is e.g. Electric Sheep[2] or Apophysis[3]. It's a project that I've been working on and off for 10 years and it's still not ready… Reimplementing it several times certainly didn't help, but I learned a lot in the process! It's grown from a simple for loop to basically a language interpreter. Sorry for the lack of README or license, but this is still half-baked. I want to release and open-source it one day though. [1] https://flam3.com/ https://flam3.com/ [2] https://electricsheep.org/ https://electricsheep.org/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophysis_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophysis_(software)
• lytedev 6y ago
  It's an app for churches (or any live performance) to display and manage lyrics. http://alpha.lyricscreen.com:6754/ http://alpha.lyricscreen.com:6754/ I'm missing accounts and some of the more frilly features, like different fonts and backgrounds. All the info is shared and HN could probably crash it. It's all synced live, so it's very loosely collaborative. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
  • unangst 6y ago
    Interesting...
  • jansan 6y ago
    Very nice, this makes a lot of sense.
  • kubbity 6y ago
    Interesting! Can you share the code/run on-premise server? I'm interested for a different (language) church. I started to try GitHub pages to share lyrics, but failed to add all songs I planned.
    • lytedev 6y ago
      Lyrics are complicated due to copyrights I believe, but I will throw my awful MVP up on GitHub. There's a Dockerfile work-in-progress as well, but it seems I haven't committed it yet.
    • lytedev 6y ago
      Here's the Repo: https://github.com/lytedev/lyric_screen https://github.com/lytedev/lyric_screen
      • pwgentleman 6y ago
        Nice! I did something similar when the pandemic started, but more focused on displaying slides and not organizing lyrics: https://github.com/paupin2/slides https://github.com/paupin2/slides I'll definitely copy some ideas from you :)
• losten 6y ago
  https://github.com/vitplanocka/eAndon https://github.com/vitplanocka/eAndon I'm making an Andon signalling application that can be used to visualize production line problems in a manufacturing company. Andon is a powerful tool in the lean manufacturing concept, because it highlights problems, raises employee awareness, and encourages responsible persons to solve them quickly. There are many commercial packages available but they are often very expensive or inflexible. I feel that many companies would greatly benefit from having such a system but don't have it due to the costs involved. I'm trying to build an open source version that can be configured to many different situations.
• alonchb 6y ago
  Over the break I started an ambitious project merging many ideas I've had in the last 3 years. This is the first note: Synergize Studio A place where teams can reach their best potential Dictionary Synergize: combine or coordinate the activity of (two or more agents) to produce a joint effect greater than the sum of their separate effects Dictionary Studio: a room where an artist, photographer, sculptor, etc. works. a gym, to train, to improve Personal Coach, simple, natural, fluid As I start with the end in mind, I flip the way I usually do personal projects. I started with the website, and doing happy paths POCs just to add more content to the site. As I work on the site, 3 main audience came to mind For individuals private, you control who can see your data, Skill tracker personal development, short term and long term goals Career development, current role and next steps organization agnostic, your info moves with you if you change companies Career path For teams Share and get to know your team members Conflict resolution tools Trust building Goals Norms and processes Discover the landscape For leadership, Inspire Anonymous Aggregated information, feedback, reward, incentivize influence. The site is somewhat mobile friendly, I'm currently working on the teams page https://synergize.studio/ https://synergize.studio/
• TimmyTango 6y ago
  https://logi.sh https://logi.sh It's a tool for dev journaling. I use it for tracking tasks, marking accomplishments, and to back up my decisions. I have a really poor memory so I do little mind dumps multiple times a day. So it's sort of a log of your day. It's pretty bare bones right now. You can write logs in markdown, tag them for easy lookup, and mark your favorites. This weekend I'll probably release a new feature for adding task lists to logs. I have the backend finished and have started in the front end implementation.
• frindo 6y ago
  linkdrop.co -- Pays for the occasional (happy hour) beer, but I have a huge backlog of user feedback and TODOs that I never have time for which is why I consider it half baked.
• chony 6y ago
  I built an app to visualize and analyze basketball shots and shooting pose with machine learning. https://github.com/chonyy/AI-basketball-analysis https://github.com/chonyy/AI-basketball-analysis The result is pretty nice. However, the only problem is the slow inference speed. I'm now refactoring the project structure and changing the model to a much faster YOLO model.
• mathgeek 6y ago
  I’ve been working now and then on a turn-based text RPG that is played in Discord (but really it’s API-driven so other clients are certainly possible). Passion project of mine from my childhood love of MUD’s and JRPG’s, up through early MMO’s like Everquest. Needs a lot of work and better docs but the first area is playable. https://www.ethrits.com https://www.ethrits.com
• scyclow 6y ago
  https://ronamerch.co https://ronamerch.co I started this face mask ecommerce website a couple months ago, but I'm not sure my revenue prospects are very good with the vaccine rolling out. And last time I posted this to hn it did _not_ get good reviews at all.
• osetinsky 6y ago
  Upward Accounts https://apps.apple.com/us/app/upward-accounts/id1494340479 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/upward-accounts/id1494340479 We help U.S. freelancers save on taxes by: * auto-deducting business expenses * making it easy to invest in self-employment retirement accounts * letting them know what they owe in taxes and when Having worked on side gigs in the past, freelance taxes have been a huge pain for me and others I know. First bank account is free for 30 days, $5/month or $50/yr after that for multiple bank accounts (we integrate with Plaid). Would love to hear what people think and how we can continue improving.
  • nabeards 6y ago
    Do you support the seasonal / annualized quarterly estimated payments tax form? I used that for many years for fluctuating freelance income, but I’ve not seen an app that supports it.
    • osetinsky 6y ago
      do you mean the schedule C? if so, yes we generate that for you
      • nabeards 6y ago
        No, I mean this: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p505#en_US_2019_publink1000194669 https://www.irs.gov/publications/p505#en_US_2019_publink1000... Unfortunately, most people don't even know about it.
  • bdefore 6y ago
    I'd be interested to try this but use Android.
    • osetinsky 6y ago
      we definitely plan on supporting Android once we achieve product/market fit on one platform - thanks for your input!
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• thomasrognon 6y ago
  https://www.cloudternal.com https://www.cloudternal.com It's like AirTable/Lists/etc but for big organizations. So the focus is on a more useful permission system, handling lots of data, dead simple data entry for tech-phobic employees, and getting the information you need quickly (as opposed to spending time fiddling around with how data is displayed, this isn't an "app builder"). The intent is to replace the hundreds of untracked, out of sync, insecure Excel files being used as a database in most large orgs. Cool tech note - people learn to use a graph database with Cloudternal, even if they never know what a graph is.
• rcoc 6y ago
  I am working on a tool called Playbook (https://useplaybook.app https://useplaybook.app). Playbook is an application that allows anyone who presents product demos to tell a more complete, integrated story. One of the primary features of many SaaS products is how they integrate smoothly with other platforms customers are already using, like Salesforce or Slack. However, in a demo environment, it can be difficult to show that workflow in a way that doesn't require flipping between persona accounts and taking precious time to generate the activity. Playbook hooks into a demoer's demo accounts and facilitates creating "plays", automated workflows between any number of SaaS apps that show off your product's integrations. It also supports working with multiple personas to create lifelike collaboration instantly. There are still many kinks to work out but this is the first step in building Demo Engineering-as-a-service.
  • nodematic 6y ago
    That's a great idea
• XtalJ 6y ago
  I’m working on an open source 3D printed vacuum cleaner robot: https://github.com/CodileAB https://github.com/CodileAB https://www.instagram.com/wolley.xyz/ https://www.instagram.com/wolley.xyz/ I’ve been working with it on and off for two years now and hopefully it can soon actually vacuum my floors :-)
  • superzamp 6y ago
    This is so cool!
• simpfai 6y ago
  I built football11challenge.com after spending a ridiculous amount of time solving this challenge on twitter: https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1250066001821130759 https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1250066001821130759 I wanted to extend on the initial premise by allowing users to define and share arbitrary constraints for a soccer starting 11 and automate verification of a squad given the set of constraints. It needs a little bit of polish but overall I really learned a lot working on it. Typescript + React is wonderful combination. It was my first time working with Django and it was a pleasant experience. Do play around with it and any feedback is welcome. Thanks! Here's an example of a "challenge": https://football11challenge.com/challenge/601246266 https://football11challenge.com/challenge/601246266
  • pletsch 6y ago
    This is really cool. Are you planning to add different sports? Would love to see Hockey.
    • simpfai 6y ago
      Thanks! At the moment I'm only focusing on soccer because that's what I know best : ) However, I can easily see this being extended to other team sports. The main bottleneck is obtaining data around the teams that a player played for. Right now I'm depending on wikipedia because the soccer data is very rich and easy to parse. I'm not sure this is the case for other sports. The data could always be crowdsourced if there aren't any good data sources for other sports.
• knoebber 6y ago
  https://dotfilehub.com https://dotfilehub.com Like github + git, but only works on single files. Looking for feedback on user friendylness and usefulness.
• Samantha97 6y ago
  http://bbwroller.com/frens http://bbwroller.com/frens Web viewer for exploring variations of pepe and other cartoon frogs. Attempts at removing duplicates was done with perceptural hashing as dimensionality reduction and clustering using dbscan. Dataset of 100,000 frog images is available by torrent on the homepage.
• riyakhanna1983 6y ago
  Been working on a new hypervisor that can directly run isolated containers (not VMs) to enable secure micro-services without virtualization overhead. Email me if interested in testing or contributing.
• edoceo 6y ago
  I'm still working on http://funnelpump.com http://funnelpump.com - a communication tool for early customer development / sales leads. Helps you grind that list and get those deals, forcing functions to drop unproductive leads
  • jll29 6y ago
    Nice idea. I like the focus on simplicity, and you could sell this as Docker container to folks who don't want to be on anyone else's cloud (e.g. salesforce.com).
    • edoceo 6y ago
      Watch this space! I've got a less publicly visible install that is going through "beta". Roadmap is foggy.
• dbattaglia 6y ago
  I've been working for some time on a capture the flag web game called Rock Paper Scissor Battle!, which is basically a simplified version of Stratego, but the pieces are rock, paper and scissor instead of numbers). Its open source on my Github: https://github.com/daniel-bytes/rps-scala https://github.com/daniel-bytes/rps-scala, the backend is Scala and Redis and the frontend React + Typescript. I have a live version of it up at http://rock-paper-scissor-battle.com/ http://rock-paper-scissor-battle.com/, although I have a feeling any real level of traffic will topple over my $5/mo Heroku dyno. Also don't mind the goofy font landing page. :) I'm overall happy with the backend code, except for the "AI", which can use some real work and research. Right now just some basic semi-random rules that make it pretty easy to beat.
  • nodematic 6y ago
    This is cool. I particularly like the styling.
    • dbattaglia 6y ago
      Thanks, appreciate it!
• Findeton 6y ago
  I am trying to create a light-field video platform, however I'm still at the point of training some CNNs... You can see this at least: https://twitter.com/realFelixRobles/status/1343644292447932417 https://twitter.com/realFelixRobles/status/13436442924479324...
• 16th_hop 6y ago
  Created a shell utility in Go, called go-live. The idea is that you start it in a directory, and then those files are immediately hosted on the network. The core idea is to be as lightweight and performant as possible, and to do one thing only and well - Unix style. https://github.com/antsankov/go-live https://github.com/antsankov/go-live Looking for contributors and feedback on it.
  • rbradford 6y ago
    Sounds a bit like woof: https://github.com/simon-budig/woof https://github.com/simon-budig/woof Two great things about woof: 1. You can use it as a verb, 2. Woof can woof itself. Cue shouts in the office, "Hey, can somebody woof me woof?" Followed by a reply of an IP address and lots of puzzled onlookers.
• koeng 6y ago
  I am building standardized and modular mass-distributed DNA toolkits. Two blog posts for context: https://blog.libredna.org/post/cheapdna/ https://blog.libredna.org/post/cheapdna/ https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/ https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/ Website offering version 1: https://www.sporenetlabs.com/ https://www.sporenetlabs.com/ I pretty much figured out (after quite a few years) how to distribute DNA for 100x-200x cheaper. Right now, I’m building DNA toolkits for engineering every different organism (it’s expensive, but I’m doing it in collaboration with other companies). All open source, too. Imagine if you could get a toolkit to engineer literally any life form for less than $100. It’d be super cool! The “money maker” here is that my DNA foundry can build DNA together from my toolkits quicker and cheaper than anyone else, which is attractive for new companies who want to engineer stuff using my toolkits. It’s a work in progress, but I’m actively working on it, and I’m ramen profitable from my B2B part. Good times ahead!
  • verdverm 6y ago
    Very cool What do you think about the apocalypse story that a person uses something like this to make a virus worse than covid? (or the AI fears but with bio)
    • koeng 6y ago
      I am a bigger fan of the hero stories where everyone is able to fight an epidemic themselves, instead of being subject to the whims of pharma / ineffective government policy. The moderna vaccine basically took a weekend to design, but many months to test, since they were going to give millions of doses out. What if one day, every small town had the ability to manufacture independently designed vaccines for local usage (once we have a better grasp of the background biology). It is quite likely that, while some of the vaccines may be toxic, they'll certainly be less toxic than the disease itself, and the distribution means that variation controls against new variants of the virus.
      • verdverm 6y ago
        ah, we share an important idea, distributed means of production, as a way to hedge against societal collapse
• Tade0 6y ago
  https://github.com/Tade0/emergency-poncho https://github.com/Tade0/emergency-poncho This is a HTTP mock server for reproducing issues on the front-end using a recorded HTTP archive(*.har file). The gimmick is that for a given endpoint it stores all the responses and serves them in a round-robin sequence. This way you can simulate situations where e.g. a request has been retried after the JWT expired, or something special happens when an item is added to a list, and the list is refreshed afterwards - basically every case in which you need backend state. It works... sometimes. Each new project I'm in uncovers new issues. That being said with the test team giving me both videos and *.har files of the bug reproduction I was able to solve a few long standing bugs in one legacy system.
  • gmandx 6y ago
    I had the same idea a while ago https://github.com/mandx/harplay https://github.com/mandx/harplay Pretty much the same goals as `emergency-poncho`, plus the excuse to learn making web servers in Rust.
• iillexial 6y ago
  https://github.com/ivaaaan/smug https://github.com/ivaaaan/smug A session manager for tmux. Not that fancy like tmuxinator or tmuxp, but pretty decent.
• dubcanada 6y ago
  Currently working on a few things but almost done https://checks.dev https://checks.dev a github integrated (gitlab planned but not done) checklist for PR's, so you submit a PR and it adds a bunch of todos that need to be checked off before it can be merged. Should be done in a week or two.
• osetinsky 6y ago
  Awestruck Audio – realtime synthesized, interactive music for video games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEC6-pBFj2Q&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEC6-pBFj2Q&feature=youtu.be Very half baked, even took that demo site featured in the video down. Intended to run hundreds of "channels" of music, each of which could support thousands of independent sessions (think cloud gaming but for audio/music). Uses Pion WebRTC, Gstreamer, JACK, SuperCollider and a simple Golang API for converting http requests to OSC toggles to manipulate audio running on a cloud server in realtime over the internet. Questions – is this crazy? Would game makers ever be interested in adopting a third party SDK for their music needs? What if that music had to be streamed over the wire (not baked into their console/mobile client builds)? Is the prospect of game player input influencing the sounds/music they're listening to compelling, or not really?
  • nodematic 6y ago
    Cool. Interesting concept. While I'm not in the video game space, it seems to me like there could be value for a particular niche.
    • osetinsky 6y ago
      thanks nodematic, appreciate the input
• tomaszs 6y ago
  Fantasy card game to learn PHP, Javascript, C#, Python and Java. Decks are already for sale but I still have A LOT to do on the website to describe them nicer and better: https://summonthejson.com/ https://summonthejson.com/
• nodematic 6y ago
  I'm building a simulator for analyzing and designing software delivery/ops/devops systems. The idea is to have prebuilt models for tools like GitHub and Jenkins, as well as models for human processes like approvals. The user can then easily build no-code simulations of end-to-end software release processes, and get quantitative insights from running those simulations. The app will eventually use discrete event simulation and advanced analysis (graphical), but currently its just some basic placeholder "function modeling". https://softwaredeliverysimulator.com/ https://softwaredeliverysimulator.com/
• jaredandrews 6y ago
  At the beginning of the Pandemic I wanted to get more familiar with React Native, so I made the motorcycle maintenance tracker app that I always wanted. I finished it in April and have been using it myself since then. I finally released it over the summer: https://pirsig.app https://pirsig.app It's definitely half-baked because its missing a lot of features. But it works perfectly for my use case which is all I really wanted.
• pjnz 6y ago
  Hacn: https://github.com/pj/hacn https://github.com/pj/hacn. It’s kind of like a React “monad” in F#/Fable using computation expressions. Control flow is a bit different, basically operations/effects can trigger re-execution of subsequent steps. Right now its alpha quality and any feedback is welcome.
• eden_hazard 6y ago
  https://github.com/ahussain1/medicine-app https://github.com/ahussain1/medicine-app I started this in April and never finished it. I wanted to start a WebMD for people in Bangladesh as people there don't speak English. It's a country of 180m and there's more people throughout the world. I think it has potential but I need help with app development :L
• pjnz 6y ago
  Hacn: https://github.com/pj/hacn https://github.com/pj/hacn. It’s kind of like a React “monad” written in F#/Fable using computation expressions. Sort of like async, but control flow is a bit different, basically "Promises" can trigger re-execution of subsequent steps in the function. Right now its alpha quality and any feedback is welcome.
• pionerkotik 6y ago
  I am currently building a (open-source) hiking and mountaineering equipment management web app. An early prototype is at https://www.zaino.io https://www.zaino.io . It's a bit rough around the edges (does not work on mobiles, not a lot of features, some UX issues probably) but core functionality should work. Code, docs, issues are at https://github.com/igor-krupenja/zaino https://github.com/igor-krupenja/zaino
• minitoar 6y ago
  Built a level monitor for my 5k gallon water storage tank. Used a raspberry pi zero w & ultrasonic range finder. Tweeted about it some: https://twitter.com/minitoar/status/1343654848907018240 https://twitter.com/minitoar/status/1343654848907018240
• bochoh 6y ago
  Built a sms api to ease friction in getting sms into your application for MVPs etc. had low traction so never finished planned functionality HTTPS://smallsms.app
• jp1016 6y ago
  Its not really half baked but was stuck in a loop of adding new features on top , while starting the project , i was pumped up to build it. it is like google keep, but for storing and sharing code snippets, most of the ui is inspired from google keep and i have added more features on top of that, i named it codekeep (google keep for code snippets) i can summarize codekeep as , Codekeep lets you organize your code snippets by assigning labels or grouping into folders. generate code screenshots, share and discover reusable snippets. you can check it out on https://codekeep.io https://codekeep.io, i also built several templates for taking codescreenshots as well, by generating codescreenshots you can share it on social media, and link it on codekeep , so that they can click / copy the snippets, without you having to take codescreenshot on one site, put snippet in gist. let me know your thoughts
  • brewingcode 6y ago
    This is really cool! I like gist but it lacks some features.
    • jp1016 6y ago
      thanks brewingcode :-) do you have any suggestions for improving or any nice features that you would like to see
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• sidwyn 6y ago
  https://apps.shopify.com/easy-theme-editor https://apps.shopify.com/easy-theme-editor Visual editor for Shopify apps. Click, modify, save! Would love any feedback.
• fuzzylearner2 6y ago
  An app for recreational and commercial drone flyers. Built the Android and iOS app but missing some features for users to create their own collections. Proud of it though - https://dronetrails.app/ https://dronetrails.app/
• daenz 6y ago
  A "survival wiki." I built it for myself. It's mediawiki on a raspberry pi zero, AC/DC powered, with an e-ink display. It connects automatically to a known wifi network and displays the connection details. When the wifi network goes down however, it automatically switches to access-point mode, allowing you to connect directly to it through your phone or other wifi client device. There's still some quirks to work out, but it works well. I store personal knowledge on it and I don't have to worry about rebooting my primary computer (and taking down the wiki), or a power outage preventing me from accessing my information. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CTYjKq0DLYVV7LBktW-bQrxZv2FadGIx/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CTYjKq0DLYVV7LBktW-bQrxZv2F...
  • entropie 6y ago
    Very interesting. Any code?
    • daenz 6y ago
      Thanks, nothing public yet but I am getting inspired to share what I have. It is really nothing more than some systemd units, /etc configurations, and a dockerfile. I will try to put something together though.
      • kodachi 6y ago
        Please do, real-life examples of systemd units are useful for learning.
• p3p3 6y ago
  I'm writing this app that is supposed to be a deep learning based calories counter, but so far I've only managed to recognize foods and attempt to classify them by categories. Here's the link on google play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guayaba.food_app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guayaba.fo...
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• raphaelj 6y ago
  Just released my MVP for my ‘Airbnb for Musicians’: https://noisycamp.com https://noisycamp.com I don’t have that many studios yet, but my goal is to make it super easy for musicians to find and book practice and recording spaces. I built the website using Scala, Vuejs, PostgreSQL, running on top or Heroku and BunnyCDN. The code is Open source: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/noisycamp.com https://github.com/RaphaelJ/noisycamp.com !
  • herval 6y ago
    this is a great idea, and execution is looking good! I'd not call it half baked at all :-)
    • raphaelj 6y ago
      It's half baked in the sense that I only have a few studios yet. Barely usable for a few groups of people then :P.
• kureikain 6y ago
  My app: http://hanami.run/ http://hanami.run/ It's an email forwarding service. You point your domain to us, and we will forward email to your domain to your personal email. We also support webhook so you can do creative thing with email workflow. Still need lot of work on backend to improve spam filtering and add privacy/tos pages, fix typo/grammaer. fix small UI/UX weirdness here and there.
• oneearedrabbit 6y ago
  About a month ago, I began developing Diggy [0]. It started as a simple Python notebook to explore small datasets, visualize results so can share them with my friends. Its initial purpose was to create a Python playground that I can run entirely in my browser without relying on server-side code. Zero setup, just type some Python code in the browser and instantly see results. I don't feel joy when I work with Jupyter-like environments. They are powerful, but feel complex especially for exploratory programming and for those of us who enjoy playing with ideas. That being said, Diggy is not for large-scale applications where you need Docker containers, cloud providers, integration with enterprise platforms, big data. It’s for those who like learning, coding, sharing and making it for fun. Diggy is a tactile and visual notebook: * It’s reactive. You don’t have to remember which blocks to run if you change a variable. A notebook will be automatically updated. There’s no hidden state, a notebook is always up-to-date. * You don’t need to install anything on your computer. You don’t need to create an account to run Python code. It’s as simple as clicking a link. * Web-native, runs completely in the browser pushing boundaries of edge computing. It was hugely inspired by Observable & Repl project. Overall, it’s a small attempt to move towards tools that bring joy to programming. Under the hood it runs Pyodide [1], and I’m planning to add extra languages at some point. [0] https://diggyhq.com https://diggyhq.com [1] https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide
• rpnzl 6y ago
  Well written post mortems can be full of interesting and useful information. I wanted to aggregate them and make them searchable by tech, company, etc. Not near half-baked yet (don’t have well defined tags or anything), just chipping away when I can. https://postmortemr.com/ https://postmortemr.com/
• yetihehe 6y ago
  Electromagnetic linear servo actuator. Not finished due to limited time, maybe I'll finish it this year. https://hackaday.io/project/19547-electromagnetic-linear-servo https://hackaday.io/project/19547-electromagnetic-linear-ser...
• tekdude 6y ago
  I posted this in the Side Projects discussion about a week ago, but I'll post again here. Pulselyre: A touch-screen synthesizer app for live music production - https://www.pulselyre.com https://www.pulselyre.com The concept is to create 'instruments' in the editor (2nd screenshot) by building a pipeline/graph of basic modules that create and transform audio based on user X/Y touch coordinates. Then, lay several instruments out on screen and use your fingers to loop sequences of notes live on stage. The demo video ( https://youtu.be/Qk85IrgXRj0 https://youtu.be/Qk85IrgXRj0 ) shows how that part works (I'm not a musician). I showed it on some music production forums and to friends who dabble... but I had made a terrible mistake from the beginning. Since my audio engine was custom, I didn't have compatibility with existing VST plugins. No producer would use a synth app that didn't support their favorite plugins, and no plugin developers would switch to a new system that had no users (my engine was also extensible). I looked into adding support, but VST's architecture is too different from my mine... One suggestion was to remove the audio engine entirely and just make the app a MIDI front-end/sequencer for other synths. This is something I might do in the future, though the limitations of the MIDI protocol would mean removing a lot of functionality. I'll probably open-source the project some day, but I need to clean up some things in the code first. I created a custom UI manager for the app and decided to split that off into a separate open-source Windows UI framework. I still work on it and have used it for other small utility apps: https://tinyurl.com/upbeatui https://tinyurl.com/upbeatui
• zipf 6y ago
  AnyFab: free, browser-based CAD and prototyping. https://anyfab-5d0d2.web.app https://anyfab-5d0d2.web.app The idea is that you can design parts and order prototypes all in one place. It's only working for 3D printing so far. This version is using jsketcher as the drawing engine until we have finished the custom one. The webapp is hosted on Firebase and the ordering backend/price estimation uses Rust and Rocket. Sign up here if you want to see the beta when it's ready: http://beta.anyfab.io http://beta.anyfab.io
• slk500 6y ago
  I'm making a community annotated music video database tagged by subject matter. In ex. music videos with chess https://culturevein.com/tags/chess https://culturevein.com/tags/chess , video games https://culturevein.com/tags/video-game https://culturevein.com/tags/video-game etc. There are over 600 tags https://culturevein.com/tags https://culturevein.com/tags . It's open source.
• egeozcan 6y ago
  I've made a half-baked newline separated JSON tailer for my small use case: https://github.com/egeozcan/json-tail https://github.com/egeozcan/json-tail it's super bare-bones, and the golang side of things could have been much better, but it kind of works.
• clintonb 6y ago
  https://getfriendlyreminder.com/ https://getfriendlyreminder.com/
• lukadante3 6y ago
  It's a pipeline engine for Kubernetes[1]. The idea is to build a tool that can be flexible enough for CI/CD, but also used for other things such as for example data processing. The pipelines are just designed as serial and parallel execution of pods with no fancy features (i.e. loops or conditions) and the idea is to let other tools generate more complex pipelines using code. Responsibility of triggering the pipelines is decoupled to standalone controllers such as github-screener[2] which enables triggering of pipelines used for CI/CD. The project currently builds itself, but the docs are a bit outdated and there's quite a lot progress to be made. [1] https://github.com/kuberik/engine https://github.com/kuberik/engine [2] https://github.com/kuberik/github-screener https://github.com/kuberik/github-screener [3] https://kuberik.io https://kuberik.io
  • tofflos 6y ago
    Looks promising. How does it compare to Tekton?
    • lukadante3 6y ago
      My goal is try to make it simpler than other tools such as tekton by having less of its own DSL. For example, steps are mostly pure Job spec, instead of defining its own subset of features. I think it's also more easily extensible than others if you want to trigger your pipeline in a different way. Sensors such as github-screener have a really simple event producing architecture. One thing specific to github-screener is that it's focused on pull mechanism instead of relying on public webhooks like most of the other tools do. So you can easily host your private CI/CD without exposing a public endpoint. (Edit) The reason I focused on having less of its own DSL because I ultimately saw how limiting it can be to have one. and it often end up as essentially a full featured language which is not reusable outside of the tool.
• wolfgang000 6y ago
  I'm a cloud book reader/organizer, basically a clone of google play books but instead of uploading the books to the page the books are fetch from your own google drive account. I haven't chosen a name or domain Not ready yet but very close to completion, maybe in next weeks I will be releasing it. Stack: Elixir/Vue.js https://gitlab.com/wolfgang000/cloud-books https://gitlab.com/wolfgang000/cloud-books
• t0mislav 6y ago
  https://random.country/ https://random.country/ It's few yeras old now, but still half baked. I will rewrite it, make better UX.
  • kirchhoff 6y ago
    Cool site - I run a similar one. Would be interested in discussing something with you - my email is in my profile.
• ben509 6y ago
  https://tenet-lang.org/ https://tenet-lang.org/ Tt's a generic data language with functions that compiles to other languages. I'm reworking how I do the tree transforms at the moment (since that's what most of the compiler does at they're a PITA) and hopefully will push out a thing that does something before long.
• RazorX 6y ago
  Production ready skeleton projects for bootstrapping new projects. I've used this approach professionally for over 7 years, but never marketed much past my current team. Included: JS and Python package /microservice / serverless projects; Serverless Benthos; LaTeX paper; zsh and neovim config. https://github.com/makenew/ https://github.com/makenew/ Reasons why this approach is successful 1. Most project generators don't provide a simple way to keep boilerplate updated. These projects leverage git merge and git diff which is designed for the task. So keeping all the generated projects updated as tools evolve is actually possible. 2. Fork friendly: you can fork and customize these repos to create your own personalized skeleton project, and still merge updates from the original. 3. These projects give you a working CI deployment. 4. The projects themselves are REAL working examples which are deployed / published. 5. Isolated boilerplate so any issues with tooling can be verified, tested, and upgraded independently.
• verdverm 6y ago
  Low-code for Developers https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof
• firstbatu 6y ago
  http://battleship.rocks http://battleship.rocks Its still under dev mode and wont support a production load, but feel free to play :)
• zomgep 6y ago
  I just launched an app to facilitate Chinese reading using pinyin. The concept is that you can simulate reading Chinese textbook passages, except with any text you choose, so it is more contextually relevant and interesting to learn. https://duguo-app.com https://duguo-app.com Right now, it only offers pinyin as a phonetic guide -- I'm looking to add zhuyin next. Also, the front-end is pretty basic. Open to any suggestions and feedback on the project!
• jonstaab 6y ago
  I built a PWA for disc golf speedruns: https://www.anhyzer.io/ https://www.anhyzer.io/ I'm really quite pleased with it and I use it often, but there's only one course listed (the one I play on), and there's no feature for letting users contribute data for courses. Also, I use a database with public access, so if you know what you're doing you can hack the scoreboard. If you're interested or want to add a course I'd accept PRs: https://github.com/staab/disc-golf https://github.com/staab/disc-golf
• epakai 6y ago
  I wrote handbrake runner. It takes a plaintext (glib) keyfile and runs HandBrakeCLI repeatedly to encode video. I use it for my dvd/bd collection. It has a support script (hbscan.py) to build keyfile templates from handbrake's scan of dvd titles. https://github.com/epakai/hbr https://github.com/epakai/hbr
• bdefore 6y ago
  HotasDB (https://www.hotasdb.com https://www.hotasdb.com) Last April, being holed up in the lockdown made me rediscover the fascinating world of flight simulators, and was encouraged enough that I bought a throttle and joystick and quickly ran into a massive barrier to entry: understanding and setting up the controls to fly the damn things. Two popular offerings in this space (IL-2 and DCS) have inadequate defaults and tedious and complicated control mappers. It's very hard currently to know if you'll enjoy flying if your initial experience is being forced to assign a spreadsheet of controls when you don't know what value any input has. It's exacerbated if you do this in VR because you can't see what you're holding and the games often don't indicate to you if your actions have any effect. There are public config files, but they are often incompatible because they are out of date or mapped to equipment you don't have. I set out to make a browser-based tool that: - Presented a more welcoming visualization for making assignments - Cross-controller sensible defaults for these two games - Let you import, export and share with others I feel happy that I've reached these goals but I have yet to get much attention for it. Admittedly it does not quite yet reduce much of the burden on new players. Ultimately the development time-cost of supporting the fractal of combinations of joysticks and config formats was higher than I expected (and I expected it to be very high). I reached out to the game developers and accessory manufacturers for funding and had some interest but nothing came through. My day job and a relocation bled the hours away that I'd have available to keep moving on it, so it's very slow going now but I hope to keep plugging along. Short-term upcoming milestones: - MS Flight Simulator support (where the heck do they store their configs?) - Printable PDF's of where controls are on your joystick - Custom controllers and Joystick Gremlin support Long term milestones: - Building a community of user submitted profiles - An Electron app to... - Copy your profiles into wherever a game expects them to be - Provide pop-up notifications as you take actions that describe what's occurring (particularly in VR I would think this would be valuable) The project is React-based with a lambda-based 'backend' and runs on a free Netlify tier. I'd be open to bringing in help if someone's passionate about it.
• era86 6y ago
  The MyFitnessPal desktop application sucks big time. In my attempt to create a better alternative, I found that their value doesn't come in the form of good UX or performance, but their food database. And it's huge. I didn't want to pay for PostgreSQL on Heroku, so I just dropped the database, but the application is still deployed. So, here's my useless calorie tracker NomTracker: https://nomtracker.herokuapp.com/ https://nomtracker.herokuapp.com/
• jacobrussell 6y ago
  Paint by Pixel: creates a custom paint-by-numbers grid based on an image you upload and colors you already have. The "download template" button doesn't work right now, but it just replaces the colors from the "preview" image with numbers and a white background that you print and color in. Similar to a paint by numbers craft. Right now I'm working on the backend before making the frontend minimally-less-ugly. It resizes the image, then uses k-means quantization (scikit-learn) to map the pixel colors to the color set you choose. Right now the options are a few crayola marker packs. Would love to add something where you can upload your own colors, or provide my own markers. The idea is that you can create a simple custom paint by numbers craft and get started right away using stuff you already have. I have a few other ideas, but trying to make a product cheaper than some existing custom paint by numbers kits. Would love thoughts or feedback on the idea. https://d3gmwd8ku7h7jh.cloudfront.net/ https://d3gmwd8ku7h7jh.cloudfront.net/
  • brewingcode 6y ago
    I couldn't get it work on mobile.. I selected and image and hit preview and nothing happened.
    • jacobrussell 6y ago
      Hmm.. do you know the size of the image? Also, there’s no loading wheel so it might take a second depending on the size of the image. Just tried on mobile with a 1.8mb image and the preview popped up.
• hydroxideOH- 6y ago
  https://duotonic.co https://duotonic.co Connect your Spotify account and listen synchronously with someone, either by sending them a link or by joining a queue to be randomly paired up. I basically had no idea what I was doing while developing both the react app and the the node back end so it's a little buggy.
• mbb70 6y ago
  A simple Swiss Style Tournament manager for pairing small Magic the Gathering matches. The core pairing problem is a weighted bipartite graph matching algo which I took off the shelf after straining with the math for too long. Built for fun and for a friend a few years ago before wizards of the coast had their own app. https://hera2.xyz https://hera2.xyz
• jibbers 6y ago
  This is about as half-baked of a project as I've made, being a designer and all. I'm not happy with the apps available today for playing and organizing music/audiobooks/podcasts/etc. because they all focus on streaming and not folks like me who prefer to manage their own files. I was inspired to design my dream apps, and that's exactly what I did. I call it half-baked because these are little more than screenshots, as I haven't learned how to code iOS apps. https://dillonbrown.me/mobile-audio-ui.html https://dillonbrown.me/mobile-audio-ui.html
• jhoh 6y ago
  https://sbhn.netlify.app/ https://sbhn.netlify.app/ Slightly Better Hacker News (SBHN). It's an alternative HN web-client that I built and use as my default HN version nowadays. It features some layout improvements over the original and has a dark theme. It is not yet feature complete (missing login, routing is broken in some rare cases) but I plan on improving it on my next "lazy" weekend and get a nice domain for it. I'm also going to publish the source code on GitHub.
• failedsides 6y ago
  Probably doesn't even count as a project, but I mentioned this in the failed side projects thread recently and someone seemed to like the idea! You can browse books curated by prizes their authors have won ie. books written by Turing Award winners or Fields Medal winners. Anyways, I got encouraged a bit last time and I'm thinking about trying to expand the website a bit, so far I didn't get very far. https://categorybooks.com https://categorybooks.com
• bejako 6y ago
  https://masksonaplane.com/ https://masksonaplane.com/ A weekly email newsletter with updates on corona travel restrictions and options. I have the content ideas down... just haven't done anything about monetizing it yet.
• pr0pm 6y ago
  Half baked stuff here, web scrapping the details of spotify playlist from a given link and downloading it from youtube using youtube-dl. No API keys involved for the user. Issue I'm being lazy to debug is it's just extracting top 30 songs. https://github.com/pr0PM/mymusic-dl/ https://github.com/pr0PM/mymusic-dl/
• peterlk 6y ago
  https://musicianship.studio https://musicianship.studio I built it a while ago, and don't have the heart to shut it down. It's basically meant to be musical flash cards. If it got some more traction, I could probably afford to spend time actually polishing it off.
  • tofflos 6y ago
    Interesting. I've been wanting to brush up on my piano for a while and will give this a shot. :)
• Bubblgames 6y ago
  Merge by bubbl (in app stores): https://bubbl.games/merge.html https://bubbl.games/merge.html My first game that I made with unity in 2019 and got away from it but there are still many features to write and lots to fix with the website as I just hacked everything together. Looking for any feedback people are willing to give. Free to play on the web.
• ctrager 6y ago
  A birdfeeder, a security camera, and this python script: https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/red_yellow_blue.py https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/red_yellow_... I want to record visits to my birdfeeder but not all the visits. 99% of the visitors are sparrows, which, no offense to any sparrows reading this, are dull colored. I want to capture the cardinals, bright red birds. The python script monitors the video stream and starts recording when the image gets suddenly redder. But it's configurable to also react to blue (bluejays) and yellow (goldfinches). This is barely baked, just a script. A video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vUjYrTwJkPVUlWIYQ6_qA9t1tqiodgVU/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vUjYrTwJkPVUlWIYQ6_qA9t1tqi...
  • bdefore 6y ago
    Sparrow here. You will be hearing from my avian attorney. In earnest, nice work! I recently bought what looks like the same feeder and have pondered making something similar. What camera are you using for it? Note that you are sharing your user/pass and server address on the local server, although with a 10.x.x.x target I expect that's behind your router.
    • ctrager 6y ago
      Amcrest IP2M-841B. This works the best of the three I've tried. The other two: The cheap Wyze cameras which special software that gives access to the RTSP stream, but the stream is so jerky it creates too many false alarms to be useful. If you just want to have a cheap security camear, though, these Wyze cameras are fun. I've also tried using a Reolink camera with Neolink to get at the RTSP stream, but it wasn't super stable. Missing frames. I wonder if that's because my laptops are old and slow. I don't know. I've also tried using a Raspberry Pi with a camear. Get the camera that you can focus. Here's a video I got with the that combo https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rMmap4fWgj8iTAYCo5eNaTDMLlOdfEwI/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rMmap4fWgj8iTAYCo5eNaTDMLlO... Using this script: https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/hummingbird_pi.py https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/hummingbird...
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• lancer 6y ago
  https://exportoutlookmacmail.com/ https://exportoutlookmacmail.com/ I started this Mac App project in early 2017 that uses AppleScript to export/archive mail messages from Microsoft Outlook for Mac. I was looking for beta users right as my family abruptly moved to a new city. I haven't made time to touch it since. It essentially went from close-to-baked to mothballed. I'll share it here with the caveat that it does not actually work at the moment due to an AppleScript-related error. If there's enough interest in the idea, I'll find time to look into that!
  • adamrmcd 6y ago
    I just signed up for your beta. I receive about 500 emails a day in Outlook for Mac, and every few months I have to rebuild my entire inbox due to search/filter anomalies. Need a way to purge past months/years while maintaining accessibility. Unless I'm missing something, the only way to do this is to move messages to a local mailbox, but it's still locked to Outlook.
• raphaelj 6y ago
  During the spring, I released an open source Bluetooth tracing app for Covid-19: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer The app is fully working, and supports most of the privacy protection that one could find in the most advanced apps. It's also my first app built using Xamarin.
• aparks517 6y ago
  Static SMS microblog, https://phasedust.com https://phasedust.com Been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, fast and snappy, doesn’t demand or abuse attention. Some things I’m still thinking about: image scaling and optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).
  • nabeards 6y ago
    This is really great. Would love to be able to host it as a section on my own site. Re: images, what have you tried so far? I’ve been using guetzli to get them nice and small.
    • aparks517 6y ago
      Thank you for the kind words! I guess it might depend on how your site is put together, but I bet you could whip up something like this for it pretty easy. I had meant for this to be a weekend project, but I had it mostly done before supper on Saturday, so... ;) I figured I might use ImageMagick to scale the images and maybe jpegoptim afterwards. Thanks for the tip on guetzli, I'll check it out!
  • oneearedrabbit 6y ago
    That's how Twitter started back in 2006. Also, you reminded me Posterous [0], which ironically has been acquired by the very same Twitter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous
    • aparks517 6y ago
      Thanks for that link! I remember hearing of Posterous, but I don't think I ever tried it out so that was an interesting read.
• krcz 6y ago
  Zygote [1], started as bunch of ideas about programming languages, now it is in exploration/design phase, might end up becoming a new programming language. Main goals: idiomatic translation (transpilation into readable code, with both imperative and functional targets possible, e.g. translating map-filter-reduce chain into a loop), restricted homoiconic syntax (with typed macros), advanced language concepts (dependent types, contracts, verification, effect systems) implemented as macros. Target uses: GPU/heterogenous programming, neural networks model definitions, cryptography; everywhere where control is needed over how abstractions are translated into the low level code. [1] https://github.com/krcz/zygote https://github.com/krcz/zygote
• pacefitness 6y ago
  https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pace-workout-planner/id1478030302 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pace-workout-planner/id1478030... I am a big fan of cross-functional fitness, and I learned a lot through a PT, but I struggled to find an exercise logging application that embraced complex exercise groupings beyond supersets, and could track my progress too. So I've been building an iOS app in my spare time. It's a little rough around the edges, and the progress pages are undergoing much needed TLC, but you can put together pretty decent workouts with it.
• firloop 6y ago
  Working on a private journaling app for iOS that opens ~instantly and feels like a private blog or Twitter page. Content is saved to your iCloud Drive and is totally private. It’s still a bit buggy and the UI needs a bit of polish, but I’ve been using it for the past year and it’s been helpful for thought and introspection. there’s a beta here: https://posting.app https://posting.app privacy policy here: https://posting.app/privacy https://posting.app/privacy
• Layvier 6y ago
  http://sci-map.org/ http://sci-map.org/ The idea's to build a collaborative graph-based learning map to learn seamlessly and optimally whatever's your learning goal. It's open source, non profit and I'm looking for contributors ! The tech stack is Neo4j/Node.js/TypeScript/GraphQl on the backend, React/Typescript/Chakra UI/Apollo client on the frontend. I would also need help on the design. My Twitter: @olivier_ramier, email: olivier@sci-map.org. Hit me up if you're interested !
• cookiengineer 6y ago
  This is definitely stealth [1] for me. Peer-to-peer networking works (without TLS for peer-to-peer yet), cache and tabs/history works, UI interaction works (since a couple weeks ago). Beacons and Echoes don't work, Parsers still don't work for CSS and HTML, filtering doesn't work again; and worked before... lots of things that need fixing. [1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
• gr1zzlybe4r 6y ago
  https://chaynring.herokuapp.com/ https://chaynring.herokuapp.com/ Made this app after having tons of people ask me during lockdowns about a "good bike" to buy. Idea is that Chaynring is the community driven backend to sites like CL, FB Marketplace, Ebay, etc. that gives localized prices of bike sales. Still trying to figure out the incentives to make users post, but I feel like there's some potential here.
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• jtwaleson 6y ago
  My game to teach my kids programming: https://game.stackybird.com https://game.stackybird.com
  • croisillon 6y ago
    would you like some help with translation (into french)? let me know
    • jtwaleson 6y ago
      Wow, thanks! Mostly looking for feedback/first impressions now. Texts will still change a lot for the next couple of weeks.
• WoodenChair 6y ago
  I've been working on an IBC PC 5150 emulator. It's written in pretty poor C++: https://github.com/davecom/DK86PC https://github.com/davecom/DK86PC It's at the point where it gets through booting the BIOS and gets to the IBM Casette BASIC (I haven't made much progress on the floppy disk controller to boot DOS). But then all keys get recognized as apostrophes: https://twitter.com/davekopec/status/1345925743902130176 https://twitter.com/davekopec/status/1345925743902130176 If someone wants to help me finish it, I'd be happy for the help. Right now most of the 8086 (8088 technically but no difference at this point) is done, memory works, CGA has text mode support, and a basic implementation of most of the essential support chips is done (PIC, PIT, etc.). It's an Xcode project but the only dependencies are SDL and SDL_TTF so it can easily be ported to other platforms. I've run some automated CPU tests and the CPU is reasonably good, but like I said still missing some instructions (DIV for example). I wrote it all by hand, only looking at other emulators when I got really stuck for a particular specific item.
• zoba 6y ago
  I have posted before but if folks want help getting their projects across the finish line, I can (personally) help! I help as an accountability coach. https://coding-pal.com/ https://coding-pal.com/
• aimor 6y ago
  https://news.deepfart.space/ https://news.deepfart.space/ Sick of uncurated clickbait and Google News, I wanted a site where people could rewrite their own better headlines. Users would vote on multiple ones for each story. Now it's just a list of links (including clickbait). Feel free to add one.
• empressplay 6y ago
  https://turtlespaces.org https://turtlespaces.org turtleSpaces is a 3D version of the Logo programming language. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux but _really_ needs to run in a web browser, which we are working on! It also doesn't have good collision detection (yet) and it needs serious optimisation. But you can make some cool stuff with it!
• xtracto 6y ago
  A multiplayer 9/12/15 tile domino game http://dominoparty.tk/hackernews http://dominoparty.tk/hackernews Also a multiplayer Scrabble(tm) like http://palabrixparty.tk/hackernews2 http://palabrixparty.tk/hackernews2 I made this around March early in the pandemic to play with my family who live far away. It is absolutely unfinished and open sourced https://gitlab.com/obaqueiro2/dominoparty https://gitlab.com/obaqueiro2/dominoparty
• krapp 6y ago
  I probably shouldn't show this because it's still kind of hot garbage but here is the Hacker News client I'm working on in the C# version of Godot[0]. Maybe the embarrassment of exposure will spur me on to actually finish it... [0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/godothnreader/src/master/ https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/godothnreader/src/master/
  • paulryanrogers 6y ago
    Why Godot? (I've only ever used it for game prototypes.)
    • krapp 6y ago
      A few threads popped up on HN a while ago about using Godot for application development and I just wanted to see how feasible it was. I like the basic idea, game frameworks are basically application frameworks already in theory.
• dewey 6y ago
  Lastcast.fm (https://lastcast.fm/ https://lastcast.fm/) is a half baked project that‘s supposed to be the Last.fm for podcasts helping you with discovery. You can automatically „scrobble“ (track) your podcasts and get statistics about your listening habits. You can also track things manually and put them into lists / follow friends and see what they are listening to and discover new shows.
  • paulryanrogers 6y ago
    My be wise to rename to avoid trademark disputes. Otherwise a great idea! I use gpodder.net for now but would prefer something more reliable and easier to use.
• simonhamp 6y ago
  I hit 35 a couple of weeks ago, so technically my life can probably be considered a half-baked project. Does that count?
• jozi9 6y ago
  REST API monitoring and testing (yeah I know cert is expired:) http://apilope.com http://apilope.com
• kostarelo 6y ago
  https://www.taskeera.com/ https://www.taskeera.com/: Monitoring background and async jobs from start to finish. Half of the infrastructure and coding is done but I didn't find a big audience so I'm in the process of just open sourcing it. https://presentador.dev https://presentador.dev: Opinionated presentation framework based on MarkDown.
  • nabeards 6y ago
    Taskeera looks very interesting and is something I need. FYI: you link to a Twitter account at the bottom, but that account has been suspended.
    • kostarelo 6y ago
      Oh brilliant! Please do get in touch, I would love to tell you more of how it works and hear more about your case. Thanks.
• ttymck 6y ago
  https://badpython.com https://badpython.com Share snippets of python -- let the public decide if it's bad or not.
• w_t_payne 6y ago
  https://github.com/wtpayne/xact https://github.com/wtpayne/xact - Model Based Systems/Software Engineering tool with support for machine learning and synthetic data.
• npilk 6y ago
  https://subscrippedoff.com/ https://subscrippedoff.com/ I'm fed up with the widespread adoption of subscription models by consumer companies - I think they tend to pray on people who don't track their usage or forget they signed up. This was one idea for helping people understand exactly how much they're really spending on subscriptions. Unfortunately I think it's a little long-winded, but part of that is just because so many services now use a subscription model.
  • lifeisstillgood 6y ago
    What about watching a persons bank account via Openbanking etc then you can easily (!) determine which ones are subscriptions ?
    • npilk 6y ago
      Hadn’t thought of that! Interesting idea.
      • lifeisstillgood 6y ago
        I don't know the issues in ok re in getting approved as a openbanking company, it would be interested.
• wiradikusuma 6y ago
  Android app to keep track of things -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.every https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.every From the name (Every.ID), it aims to be the one app to keep track of everything you collect: domain names, postage stamps, games, etc. I personally use it to keep track of my domain names, people I want to keep tabs of (sort of like mini CRM), software subscriptions, and lifetime deals purchased from AppSumo. It's far from finished. Feel free to suggest features in https://app.productstash.io/everyid https://app.productstash.io/everyid -- the completed ones are in https://app.productstash.io/everyid#completed https://app.productstash.io/everyid#completed
• rubymamis 6y ago
  A personal assistant for the desktop computer called Deus. Cross-platforn and open source here: https://github.com/nuttyartist/deus https://github.com/nuttyartist/deus, https://awesomenessnotes.wixsite.com/website-5 https://awesomenessnotes.wixsite.com/website-5 (didn't update it for a long time) Code is in C++ using Qt. Uses Porcupine for wake-up-word detection and Google API's for speech-to-text and text-to-speech. It can play music, move your windows, you can shout google searches at it, tell it open Gmail, take screenshots, etc. After launching it I found people didn't find it useful, including myself, after some time. Still, I open sourced it in case somebody will find it interesting. I loved developing the NLP engine part using tree structure to load the database and travel on it to find the most suitable command based on the user input. Moved on to the next idea (:
• terriblepodcast 6y ago
  Someday I will summarize HN daily in an audio format to save others some time... https://terrible.productions/#podcast https://terrible.productions/#podcast
• andriesvh 6y ago
  https://proofing.io https://proofing.io Youtube and Vimeo tagging. Certainly not ready yet but the basics work. Includes a feedback form to gather more input.
• c0nrad 6y ago
  I built a little tool to turn the dial on my thermostat. It's called the Thermoshat. https://blog.c0nrad.io/posts/thermoshat/ https://blog.c0nrad.io/posts/thermoshat/
  • geocrasher 6y ago
    Okay, the name gave me a giggle. Then I clicked the link. Then the picture of the device gave me a giggle. Then the tagline gave me a good laugh. Well played sir. Well played!
• dbecks 6y ago
  HiFutureSelf (http://hifutureself.com http://hifutureself.com) - Send Reminders to your future self
• abhiyerra 6y ago
  https://YieldPayroll.com https://YieldPayroll.com is a way to do payroll for hours tracked with Harvest Time Tracker. I built it to calculate what I owe subcontractors easily since I use Harvest for everything else. I built it last week so it is rough.
• mvolfik 6y ago
  https://eyp-calls.tk https://eyp-calls.tk https://github.com/mvolfik/eyp-calls https://github.com/mvolfik/eyp-calls if anyone wants to look. Simple scraping + results presentation, utilizing Cloudflare workers + python Scrapy, actually pretty interesting imo. (It probably won't be useful to you, this is a tool just for members of a specific organization.
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• CogitoCogito 6y ago
  This is _extremely_ half-baked. In fact, it's never meant for anyone's use but mine I just have it on github to use as an easy backup. https://github.com/ApproximateIdentity/vocab https://github.com/ApproximateIdentity/vocab Basically what I have is a open office spreadsheet that I add Czech words to and specify things like noun/adj/etc., gender, english/czech spelling, and more and then I have a tiny bit of code to generate flashcards for the Anki program to import. https://apps.ankiweb.net/ https://apps.ankiweb.net/ Basically the point is just to make it a bit easier to use the flashcard program and nothing else.
• chickenmonkey 6y ago
  https://github.com/meethari/todo_react https://github.com/meethari/todo_react I'm in the process of learning the MERN stack for full stack development. What I have here is a todo list app where you can perform CRUD actions on the todo list (add todos, delete them, update the done state). The front end is in React and the back end is an Express API that talks to a Mongo instance. Next actions include - Making this a full fledged product by throwing in login functionality, authentication, ability to create multiple lists - Honing my HTML/CSS skills to build components for the above purposes - Deploying this to Heroku
• oxinabox 6y ago
  Arborist.jl https://github.com/oxinabox/Arborist.jl/ https://github.com/oxinabox/Arborist.jl/ It implements one of the more advanced tricks in JuliaLang. Which is the concept behind Cassette.jl (https://github.com/jrevels/Cassette.jl https://github.com/jrevels/Cassette.jl) and IRTools.jl (https://github.com/MikeInnes/IRTools.jl https://github.com/MikeInnes/IRTools.jl). which is this notion of a recursive source code tranformation. This is the thing where you tranform code (kind of like a macro but not lexically scoped), including tranforming all function calls to also tranform their code. It's super powerful For example Zygote.jl (https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl) implements reverse mode automatic differentiation, by defining a function that is a generated transformation of the function being differentiated. MagneticReadHead.jl (https://github.com/oxinabox/MagneticReadHead.jl/ https://github.com/oxinabox/MagneticReadHead.jl/) implements a debugger by defining a function that has been transformed to include debugger interupts. This stuff also has a bunch of use for probabalistic programming languages etc. The thing is Cassette and IRTools implement this at the lowered code level. It runs on the SSA-form IR. This IR was never really designed for the user to write it. Though IRTools does a noble attempt to make it nice. Arborist instead runs at the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) level. Just like macros. This is designed to be written and manipulated by users. Users do that all the time by writing macros. I haven't touched it in a while (apparently 2 years). Largely because AFAICT it's not useful outside of pedagogical purposes. AST is not actually that nice for any program tranforms i want to do, since there are so many ways to write the same thing. E.g. different kinds of loops and branches, where as in SSA form IR they all look the same. Probably could be made to work, but i just don't really have a usecase that I can't do easier on IR. (probably people who haven't been deep into IR on the other hand would think of some) There are a bunch of edge cases where it crashes still, for things that are not allowed to appear in generated code. It wouldn't be too hard to make it work though, not really. Particularly since we now have tools like https://github.com/SciML/RuntimeGeneratedFunctions.jl https://github.com/SciML/RuntimeGeneratedFunctions.jl https://github.com/JuliaStaging/GeneralizedGenerated.jl https://github.com/JuliaStaging/GeneralizedGenerated.jl
• ARehmat 6y ago
  Currently building a search engine that allows you to search within a select list of websites. The idea is to allow users to search for content in sites that may not have the best search on indexing features. I started this as there are few websites that I use that have ancient indexing. How am I meant to know which year/month the article that I'm trying to find was published in?? https://github.com/AbdullahRehmat/SoundSearch https://github.com/AbdullahRehmat/SoundSearch It's very much work in progress and pretty much designed for my use case only...
• tziki 6y ago
  https://connectednotes.net https://connectednotes.net (github: https://github.com/tsiki/connectednotes https://github.com/tsiki/connectednotes) It's essentially Zettelkasten based note taking + flashcards + FOSS. More tchnically it's a PWA to make notes accessible anywhere, and the storage layer is currently Google Drive (although I want to make the storage layer easily swappable to eg. local hard drive). It's a bit beyond half-baked but I'm currently trying to crush most annoying bugs for the alpha release and there's plenty of those, so it's not exactly baked either.
• hamdouni 6y ago
  https://barim.surge.sh https://barim.surge.sh - yet another HN reader. Mostly done to learn SvelteJS. I use it every day and twick it as needed but still half baked as it lacks a lot of features to be a complete reader (no login, no contribution, ...)
• js4ever 6y ago
  Here is my half baked real-time server monitoring system: https://github.com/elestio/ws-monitoring https://github.com/elestio/ws-monitoring It's a web UI + websocket backend, very small, 10kb vanilla frontend and 300 LOC for the backend. My goal is not to compete with netdata or other big tools but serve my own needs using really few resources
• iliekcomputers 6y ago
  My project is funnel: https://funnel.fyi https://funnel.fyi I'm trying to build something that helps people organise their job search better with better stats and insights. Right now, we have a kanban board for all your job applications and a sankey diagram for state changes.
• fasouto 6y ago
  https://wheelcarnival.com/ https://wheelcarnival.com/ has been on my TODO list for almost a year. I created it to learn Vue, initially I used Gridsome but then I decide to use Nuxt. I also moved it from Netlify to Firebase to add storing+auth, so people can create custom wheels. It's getting a decent amount of visits so it will be wise to finish it, but it's not fun anymore and my day job takes a lot of energy.
  • cdaringe 6y ago
    I made https://dvd.js.org?names=sushi,tacos,pizza https://dvd.js.org?names=sushi,tacos,pizza as a silly thing for stuff like this last year too
• headgasket 6y ago
  https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable Bringing postgres triggers and notifies to mysql. I'm half-backing a linked mautic and davical service based on this, to automate analytics, marketing and messaging to your self-hosted contacts. end goal is de-googlify mail contacts and analytics.
• djleni 6y ago
  https://genre.rocks https://genre.rocks Silly genre generator
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• jstanley 6y ago
  I'm trying to learn FPGA by making a really tiny CPU: https://github.com/jes/jescpu https://github.com/jes/jescpu > An 8-bit CPU, and 8-bit address space. This means there are only 256 bytes of memory available. > There are no register operands, no immediate mode operands, and no indirect addressing. All operands are direct addresses. In particular this means that to use pointers you need self-modifying code (i.e. rewrite the address of the instruction to match the address that your pointer points to). It works right now, but only if I run the CPU at 1/8th of the clock speed of the memory (see slowclock.v). I understand that it takes an extra cycle for reads from memory to get the signals back to the CPU, but don't yet understand why it takes 8 cycles. Eventually I would like to expand it to support 16 bit addresses, put it in a fancy box with some actual IO devices, and possibly even implement it with logic gates instead of an FPGA.
  • fwsgonzo 6y ago
    I really wish I had the time to do this. I'll make sure to remember this for later!
  • appleflaxen 6y ago
    can you explain the pseudocode for opcode 6? I don't understan why mem[b] isn't present.
    • jstanley 6y ago
      Oops! That's because it said "mem[a] |= mem[b]", but a "|" ends the table cell in Markdown. Fixed now, thanks.
• arendtio 6y ago
  new-hacker-tab.com Motivation: I wanted to have a new-tab page for my browser that show things that are actually useful for me like a few links, a weather forecast, best-HN and a notepad to dump some information. So I built a website, which lets you edit its own code https://new-hacker-tab.com https://new-hacker-tab.com How-To: In the bottom-right side is a button which opens an editor, to edit the page. The result is stored in the localStorage of the browser. I use that page every day and have different versions for work and spare time. If you messed up, just delete the localStorage of that domain. Half-Baked: I would like to add sharing features, so when I have built a very nice widget/page, others can use it too, but so far the import/export functionality is all there is.
• variblex 6y ago
  I have an encryption utility that can work across IMs but I need another android developer to finish the project
• ravishah 6y ago
  Reddit is awesome and houses some of the best content I've read, but there's a problem. In some subreddits like Writing prompts, ELI5, etc... we care more about the upvotes/score of comments than the comment's parent post. This is a problem because the best comments (explanations, stories, jokes, etc...) are not always in the highest-rated post. Sometimes comments are higher rated than the parent post. This extremely challenging when the Top filter in Reddit is sorting by post's upvotes and not the comment's upvotes. Here top posts from Reddit are ranked by the comment's upvotes/score (5th column), using data before 2019 (Forgotten content and also avoiding up-vote gamification.) https://topredditcomments.com/ https://topredditcomments.com/
  • thunkshift1 6y ago
    Cool project. How us the score calculated?
  • fallenatreus 6y ago
    Awesome, what's the data source? are you using some kind of API or just scraping?
• friebetill 6y ago
  A spaced repetition flashcard app with the main focus on creating flashcards together. Sharing is still missing, but we are starting to work on it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.space.space https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.space.spac... or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/space-spaced-repetition/id1546202212 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/space-spaced-repetition/id1546.... I'm still a student and started programming the app with a friend because I wanted to learn physics with my classmates. But the other apps Anki, Brainscape and Quizlet have a pretty bad UX to create flashcards collaboratively, so I started working on it.
• thisistheend123 6y ago
  I am making an India based news aggregator like Google News. Development is slow as I work on it only on Sundays. Lots of bugs and broken links. And the let's encrypt certificate also just expired. Need to get it on auto-renew. It's Python and Go based. https://www.huakya.com https://www.huakya.com Edit: Any suggestions/feedback most welcome. Thanks
• hundredeir 6y ago
  https://github.com/hundredeir/NoSQL https://github.com/hundredeir/NoSQL It's a work in progress DBMS implementation inspired from Google's LevelDB written in Rust. End goal is to create a distributed DBMS.
• kevlar1818 6y ago
  Dud[1] is a tool for storing, versioning, and reproducing large files alongside source code. Planning a more "formal" release in Q1. Dud : DVC :: Flask : Django [1]: https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/tour/ https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/tour/
  • kumarsw 6y ago
    Cool! I'm excited to see more interest in this space after Boar development appears to have been abandoned, and no one is willing to take on converting it into Python 3.x. I have a similar project also in Go (see DupVer elsewhere in this thread) though it is based on a centralized repo.
• oshea64bit 6y ago
  I've been building a small relational database (https://github.com/shoyo/jin https://github.com/shoyo/jin) with the goal being fast, easy to read, and (eventually) Postgres protocol-compliant. What I've built so far are the lowest level components of the disk manager and buffer manager, and I'm currently implementing the system catalog for table creation/updates. I start work in April, so I'll be focused on this for the next few months!
• testmasterflex 6y ago
  Bathroom privacy device: https://Loodio.com https://Loodio.com Still prototyping and will launch Kickstarter soon. Demo Video: https://youtu.be/Z3DgxwjSTfg https://youtu.be/Z3DgxwjSTfg
• scottrogowski 6y ago
  Two to share: https://fastmap.io https://fastmap.io: A drop in replacement for map that makes your Python instantly scalable in the cloud https://ffer.io https://ffer.io: A comprehensive stock valuation ratio powered by machine learning (and just happens to use fastmap)
  • pizza 6y ago
    That fastmap.io looks pretty neat
  • durkie 6y ago
    fastmap looks really cool and like it has the potential to be "it just works" magical
  • hankchinaski 6y ago
    ffer.io is pretty neat
• AtroxDev 6y ago
  project: postcard.zone (https://postcard.zone https://postcard.zone), its a simple way to send a postcard to any address of your liking with fully customizable front and back of the postcard itself. A long time on my todo list to make more out of it. It works as-is but I'm not happy with the current editor and some other things. Still, it gets some use on occasion which is nice :)
• bradbeattie 6y ago
  I got hooked on building tools to assist in collective decision making. A decade back I built pyvotecore and https://modernballots.com https://modernballots.com to help folks run elections with fancier systems (e.g. SchulzeSTV). Years later, I built https://boardgamemenu.com https://boardgamemenu.com to help reduce choice paralysis with boardgame selection (consensus). A few after that was https://sortmatch.ca https://sortmatch.ca to assist in Glicko tournaments. Most recently, I built https://deckofnames.com https://deckofnames.com to help new parents decide on a name they'd both like. I built it for myself, but figured others might find it useful. So it's a bit rough around the edges, but does the job pretty well, I think. Part of the fun of implementing it was hunting down name statistics from various regional governments to compile a list of "which names are popular in which regions in which years". I really wish that kind of thing were standardized around the world, but that's life.
• ducaale 6y ago
  I am working on ht[0], a drop-in replacement for HTTPie[1] written in Rust. Since I am not planning on writing an extensive documentation for ht, I wanted to port 99% of HTTPie's features so its docs applies to ht as well. So far I have been able to port around 60-70% of HTTPie's features. [0] https://github.com/ducaale/ht https://github.com/ducaale/ht [1] https://httpie.org/ https://httpie.org/
• skytreader 6y ago
  Erdem (https://github.com/skytreader/erdem https://github.com/skytreader/erdem) is a small "media-center" webapp that I've been building. I'm also using this as an opportunity to learn React. Over the years I've amassed a collection of video files with filenames similar but not exactly like, "Lionel Messi vs Miroslav Klose". The actual data set is dirtier, can't be regexed, etc. A key property of my data set is that a name features in the filename of different files. I made this to easily answer the question "Hey, I want to watch a video about Messi. I wonder what I have?" So, being the computer scientist I am, I thought it'd be interesting to index the filenames. Hence, the indexer whose code I experiment with a lot; dirtier than usual, very "academic" style. Then I realized all I need is a search function (which I have implemented already!). Life works. Maybe I'll keep with the indexer idea but just for something to play with. P.S., I have words to say about React but this isn't the thread for it I guess. Been a frustrating experience so far. But well, that's why I used it in such a rough hack in the first place.
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• LukasReschke 6y ago
  I've been working on an open-source Identity Access Management solution in the past few months: https://gatekeeper.page/en/ https://gatekeeper.page/en/ Gatekeeper aims to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to have their own on-premise IAM solution that supports all relevant protocols and standards and is secure by default (by offering automated updates and using memory-safe languages etc.). Features include, for example, LDAP, OpenID Connect, SCIM, and Gatekeeper as an identity-aware reverse proxy. (with fully managed ACME certificate management) The tech stack is ASP.NET Core + Postgres on the backend. The frontend is written in C# and uses Blazor to run using Web Assembly. If someone is interested in taking a look, we are working on a hopefully helpful Developer Documentation (https://docs.gatekeeper.page/developer/ https://docs.gatekeeper.page/developer/) The code on GitHub: https://github.com/GetGatekeeper/Server https://github.com/GetGatekeeper/Server
• didizaja 6y ago
  Code Reading Club: https://codereading.club https://codereading.club The idea of this project is to make a small, cozy kind of “book club for code” that enables club members to study and discuss the architecture/structure of open source code. I wanted it to be both a way to study others’ work as a means of developing more intuition about how to structure software, as well as a creative exploration and discussion of code as art. I know the UI is quite poor right now, and the information about the time of the first session needs to be updated. I’ve pivoted to working on another project (a CLI reader for HN that lets you navigate with a UI like that generated by pager utilities such as “more”) while I flesh out the idea for this one more, as I’m not sure if I can reconcile the two aims for the club I cited above. I have to think more carefully about what I want it to be, and who I want to reach/how I want to reach them. I really like the idea of doing this, but I just don’t have the mental/emotional bandwidth for it at the moment, which is why I’m working on other, more solitary projects instead. I think it’s important to have discipline and “grind” through things at times, but when I’m doing something in my free time for my own enjoyment and already feel a bit burned out from my other existing roles/responsibilities, I prefer not to add to it by actively building something that might create even more expectations from others. Instead, I try to get back to my first passion, which is just the joy of building programs bit by bit and understanding every piece of what I do in a gradual, methodical fashion. A related idea I’ve had is making a YouTube channel where I do a similar thing to Code Reading Club, but just break down different applications on my own, bit by bit. I’d include architecture diagrams, doodles, and source code snippets. I imagine it being something like MaiZure’s Decoded: GNU coreutils project[0]. [0]: https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/ https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/
  • Freeboots 6y ago
    I like this idea. As a still learning developer I have occasionally stumbled across code reviews on youtube, and they've been enlightening. I rarely find them on purpose (If anyone knows or runs a channel that does this i would sub). Reading source code with some guidance from more experienced developers sounds similarly useful.
    • didizaja 6y ago
• koonsolo 6y ago
  RPG Playground (https://rpgplayground.com https://rpgplayground.com), the easiest way to make and share RPG games. No coding required. Been developing this for many years already, but this year I hope to go to some state where I could rival RPG Maker and all the likes.
  • sjbrown 6y ago
    That looks amazing! What's the tech stack? Code available?
    • koonsolo 6y ago
      I started out in ActionScript3, but years ago converted to Haxe with the Kha library. Backend used to be node.js with MongoDB, but now it's all WordPress.
• jamesrwhite 6y ago
  Over the past year I've been working on Check Sheet in my spare time which is an add-on for Google Sheets. It lets you define rules or "checks" for your spreadsheet and will then send you a notification when they match via Email, Slack or Teams. Google used to have a similar thing built in directly but decided to remove it, there still seems to be demand for such a thing so I've been working on something that adds that functionality back. The add-on runs primarily in Google's Apps Script environment which is essentially like Lambda/Cloud Functions although it's been around for way longer. In terms of the tech stack the frontend is a fairly simple Vue app and the backend is written in TypeScript. Apps Script is quite restrictive in terms of some of the quotas and limitations they apply so over time I've moved some of the logic and data out into Firestore and Cloud Functions. You can install it for free on the marketplace: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/check_sheet_notifications/239755856136 https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/check_sheet_not...
• petr25102018 6y ago
  Contentwok: https://contentwok.com/ https://contentwok.com/ The idea is to make creating & publishing content a bit simpler. The possibilities in the space are endless, but I started with an "automatic image finder". The way this works is that you just copy-paste your article/text or just provide an URL to already existing one and the tool will automatically recommend images that you can use in the article based on the context (currently from Unsplash). Some screenshots how it looks so that you don't have to sign up: https://twitter.com/stribny/status/1341490526609149953 https://twitter.com/stribny/status/1341490526609149953
• vmirz 6y ago
  A stock and options trading tracker for Robinhood with a social component. ios: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tradebase-for-robinhood/id1021829265 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tradebase-for-robinhood/id1021... android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epilix.tradebase https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epilix.tra... I started this project many years ago, but I still consider it "half baked" because it not nearly what I think it should be. Turns out, building reliable and accurate finance tools is not easy. The idea originally came from when my friends and I would exchange details on holding, returns, winners, losers, etc. If you're an active investor and have friends who are too, chances are you've asked the same questions.
  • enos_feedler 6y ago
    Neat idea I will check it out. It seems like a lot of potential in the trading + social space.
• sjbrown 6y ago
  Togetherness Table https://www.1kfa.com/table https://www.1kfa.com/table Open source SVG/HTML/CSS/JavaScript (no frameworks) project for playing Tabletop RPGs (D&D et al) online. It started out as just a dice-roller, but since it's so easy to nest whatever SVG thingamagic you like into it, it's been expanded to do card decks, tokens, and a thing I'm calling "Dynamic Trays". Dynamic Trays do the gruntwork of RPG calculations. Sums, tabulations, even "exploding dice". There's still a lot to do, every time I add a feature I think of two possible new ones. I've got to say, SVG is *really* nice. I think many developers would have the first instinct to do this in an HTML Canvas tag, but SVG does so much heavy lifting for you.
• tomaspollak 6y ago
  Two projects: - Archetype[0] - Offline code editor for Chrome OS (Pending: Theming, customization, etc) - Muki[1] - Web based chiptune & MIDI player (Pending: Rebranding, bigger catalog, personal playlists, recommendations) - [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archetype-an-offline-fast/kdkdfjfadjdgonjjkkfjimiachohndeb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archetype-an-offli... - [1] https://muki.io https://muki.io
• ISNIT 6y ago
  SES Templates: https://sestemplates.com/ https://sestemplates.com/ I built it over a weekend to scratch an itch. It's useful, it works, but needs some sales/marketing effort.
• benoror 6y ago
  BaseQL: https://www.baseql.com/ https://www.baseql.com/ A single GraphQL access point to all your cloud Data. The idea is to use existing relational data stored in the cloud to rapidly create a GraphQL API that is production ready. We support Airtable for now, and we're developing GSheets. Technical docs & examples: https://docs.baseql.com/usage/querying https://docs.baseql.com/usage/querying
• JohnDotAwesome 6y ago
  I built an app around the HTML invoice template I had been using for years. https://www.cannonvoice.com/ https://www.cannonvoice.com/ I used this project as a training ground for a ton of different ideas and technologies. From server rendered react to typescript and design systems to how the hell kubernetes works. I went from dokku, to lando, to trying to figure out Consul and Hashicorp stuff to managed K8s on digital ocean. I decided to try to only write SQL and create my own typesafe patterns with TypeScript. It didn’t work out all that great but it wasn’t all that bad either. This is half baked because I had so many more plans for a product no one asked for. Definitely one of the best learning experiences I had. I started with a monorepo of modules and realized that was a stupid idea for an app. I developed some strong opinions along the way. Oh I reimplemented email auth for the nth time but this time I used postgres’s built-in crypto functions. Man I like this implementation
• kumarsw 6y ago
  DupVer https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver is a deduplicating version control system for large binary files. It's designed to keep state in a repository on the local machine separate from the working directory so it plays nice with cloud synchronization software. I started it after constant headaches involving Git LFS and the corporate proxy. It's based around the Restic chunker library, with inspiration from both the Duplicacy backup software and Boar, another binary version control system for large binary files.
• kierangill 6y ago
  App for chores and roommates. https://imgur.com/a/lQsrDZj https://imgur.com/a/lQsrDZj I'm only showing a few pics because I took the backend down. Simple premise is that you can weight chores with points. When someone completes a chore (clean the dishes, mop the floor), they get rewarded those points. The point is to provide transparency into who's doing what around the house.
• arnaudl_ 6y ago
  My nagios as a service that I've been using on a few personal projects: https://github.com/arnaudl/nagios-docker https://github.com/arnaudl/nagios-docker It automatically adds hosts and services reporting to it through NSCA.
• tuangeek 6y ago
  Projects: https://rapidapi.com/apigeek/api/transcribe https://rapidapi.com/apigeek/api/transcribe - An API to transcribe any audio/video file using deep-learning. Still working on documentation. https://contect.io https://contect.io - An idea validation service using market research data, keywords, A/B landing pages with a fake checkout to help indie hackers validate their idea. Working on applying for Strip checkout.
• ay 6y ago
  Two very half baked projects: 1) https://github.com/ayourtch/tbpatch https://github.com/ayourtch/tbpatch read the unified diff and apply to files that may have whitespace changes compared to original. The aim is to experiment with structured source control. The first immediate use is to be able to more easily cherry-pick code changes between branches in a big project. 2) https://github.com/ayourtch/flex-sftp-server https://github.com/ayourtch/flex-sftp-server an experiment in making an SFTP server that is not tied to openssh, to implement more flexibility like more granular access control, different storage backend etc.
• philipcdavis 6y ago
  Resources for designers to learn declarative UI frameworks. 1. https://react.design https://react.design 2. https://swiftui.design/guide https://swiftui.design/guide
• jlizzle30 6y ago
  Suitro: Asana style project management tool for recruiters. https://suitro.com/ https://suitro.com/
• joaomacp 6y ago
  Reinforcement learning goalkeeper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t-W0U-WC6IikniINjeRjE8ZuskxWqbYT/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t-W0U-WC6IikniINjeRjE8Zuskx... The agent hasn't learned anything yet. I just finished setting up the environment, adding the ball and goal.
• knicholes 6y ago
  I've been trying to sell the idea of AI-assisted breast augmentation visualization. I call it breastimate. So far no plastic surgeons will meet with me to validate the idea. It's image to image translation using SPADE from before augmentation to after augmentation. NSFW (female breasts shown) https://spark.adobe.com/page/zZlziYu47YiwR/ https://spark.adobe.com/page/zZlziYu47YiwR/
  • nunja 6y ago
    The failed model screenshot have some Total Recall vibes!
  • dr_kiszonka 6y ago
    1. Are you sharing this website with them? 2. How well do your AI after photos compare to the real ones? Cool project!
    • knicholes 6y ago
      1. Yeah, I call and get the receptionist. I tell them about the software and get their interest (which is always seemingly high). They give me the email address of their plastic surgeon. I email the surgeon with a link to this page while explaining to them that I'm creating this software but want to validate the idea before putting more time into it. Nobody responds to my emails. 2. The photos are right there in the link, but if you're not able to view them, to me it usually generates pictures that are close to indistinguishable from actual photos. The breasts look like breasts (unless I'm cramming five on them onto one chest and make them shaped oddly... lol) I just need more pictures. I also need to apply a different image-to-image translation where I put "static" over JUST the segmented breasts, so as to not remove tattoos, freckles, etc. I've seen an awesome paper that does this called OASIS, but they've not released code. I want the synthesized picture to be as close as the original as possible (with the obvious exception of larger breasts). Still I need to build the actual pipeline instead of running the images through my segmentation network and my SPADE network AND I need to maybe programmatically increase the segmented "breast" category to be larger and maybe place the nipple in a more desirable location.
• dannygarcia 6y ago
  After spending a month of nights and weekends building this I'm not sure whether to scrap it or continue working on it - possibly monetizing advanced features: https://allocator.app/ https://allocator.app/
  • mod 6y ago
    Very cool look to it!
• barko 6y ago
  Up For X: https://upforxapp.com/ https://upforxapp.com/ I wanted to learn React Native and decided to build something simple and whimsical that I could see myself using. The app lets you set a status about what activity you want to do and see what your friends have set; ideally simplifying the first step in making plans with friends. It's still missing push notifications and some other key features, but I've gotten the basic functionality of adding friends and seeing and setting statuses up and running.
  • ipsum2 6y ago
    Reminds me of Google's "who's down for" app: https://www.greenbot.com/article/2999629/whos-down-is-googles-new-app-for-meeting-up-with-your-friends.html https://www.greenbot.com/article/2999629/whos-down-is-google...
    • barko 6y ago
      Huh, I'm surprised I never saw this. Thanks for the link
• zelon88 6y ago
  https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud3 https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud3 I've been picking away at making my own commercial grade cloud platform from scratch for over 6 years now. This is the third version which I hope to make a lot of progress on this winter.
• seriousmofo 6y ago
  Hey All. This summer I created a "virtual yoga class aggregator". Automated web scraping every night, MySQL db, a dotnet api, and a svelte UI. https://allthe.yoga/ https://allthe.yoga/ I think it needs some design work, and probably needs to list prices. Next stage would be to start tackling a way to avoid users having to register at every studio, business partnerships, etc.
• LeegleechN 6y ago
  Working on guitar learning software, similar to Rocksmith or Yousician. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_2JruqYPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_2JruqYPQ
• kstenerud 6y ago
  Concise Encoding: https://concise-encoding.org https://concise-encoding.org The friendly data format for human and machine. Think JSON, but with 1:1 compatible twin binary and text formats and rich type support. * Edit text, transmit binary. Humans love text. Machines love binary. With Concise Encoding, conversion is 1:1 and seamless. * Rich type support. Boolean, integer, float, string, bytes, time, URI, UUID, list, map, markup, metadata, comments, etc. * Plug and play. No schema needed. No special syntax files. No code generation. Just import and go. The specifications are pretty much ready for version 1.0 release now, but I'm holding off until I have the reference implementation done (about 90% complete at https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding). After that I'll start on the schema specification. Once that's done, I have a low-level communication protocol that will use this format under the hood. I could use help in the following areas: * Looking over the specifications and pointing out anything that looks weird or off or might cause problems. * Help with the schema specification. * Implementations in other languages.
  • kumarsw 6y ago
    Somewhat OT, but one of my pet crazy ideas is a Forth-like data file format based on a stack. I've never thought about it enough to say if it's completely stupid or not.
    • iujjkfjdkkdkf 6y ago
      Could you elaborate a bit? Would the file be a set of instructions that generates the data (this is how postscript works), or something else?
      • kumarsw 6y ago
        I was thinking some some subset of a stack-based language, enough to define different data types, eg. arr_name 1 2 3 4 5 array; float_name 5.75 float Sort of like how Clojure or KiCad uses S-expressions to store data. The idea was that like Forth, the parser for such a data structure would be minimal and suitable for even a crappy programmer to implement. I'd thought this would be useful for minimal systems like microcontrollers or locked-down corporate systems with no chance of installing third-party libraries.
• Yhippa 6y ago
  A "responsive" version of HN: https://github.com/yhippa/responsive-hn https://github.com/yhippa/responsive-hn The site works pretty well right now but I wanted to use this as a way to get better with front-end development and playing with stuff like Firebase. To see it in all it's half-baked glory go here: http://yhippa.github.io/responsive-hn/ http://yhippa.github.io/responsive-hn/. I think once I got a bare minimum of stuff to load I stopped working on it.
• antihero 6y ago
  Ten years ago I tried to bring encrypted comms to the masses and make an alternative to twitter and Facebook events using serveride and eventually browser based crypto. https://github.com/radiosilence/wire https://github.com/radiosilence/wire It was ripped apart (quite rightly in some cases) so I gave up. I guess now that we can have have unaudited binaries running on our phones and devices to provide this to the masses we are much safer.
• epilys 6y ago
  My terminal mail client. Work has been slow but steady https://meli.delivery https://meli.delivery https://github.com/meli/meli https://github.com/meli/meli
• jcuenod 6y ago
  I've been building https://parabible.com https://parabible.com for a few years now (code is at https://github.com/parabible/ https://github.com/parabible/). It's a tool for doing biblical research using the original languages. It provides the usual morphological tagging and parallel versions (with Greek/Hebrew, including the LXX but I'm not interested in just pumping it with rubbish data that a lot of bible sites like doing—I'm doing a PhD, I know what data is valuable). The real value proposition is the way that searching works. I have the BHS (the standard Hebrew edition) tagged with parsing and syntax and, critically, searches respect syntax. That means you don't have to search for words within n words of each other or within the same verse; you can search for words in the same clause. Finding Hebrew idioms is a lot easier like this. My research is in the Old Testament so this is only true of Hebrew right now but I'm doing a lot of work rewriting the backend which will make it easier to import new translations and search any of the tagged data. I am quite proud of the UI. It's React with MS's Fluent UI components, though, and I feel like it's a bit sluggish (but my server is also slow). But hey, I use it as my primary interface for working with the Hebrew so it serves my purposes. I also made some tutorial videos to onboard intrepid users (there's a button in the toolbar to take you there), which I feel like makes it a "real" project, now :)
• saeranv 6y ago
  Pincam: A simple pinhole camera library in Python/Numpy/GeoPandas. Pincam allows you to easily manipulate, analyze and plot 3D images with GeoPandas. https://github.com/saeranv/pincam https://github.com/saeranv/pincam It's dead useful (for the kind of work I do) - but I'm stuck on whether it's worthwhile to finish it up with a proper raycaster to more accurately resolve depth order of the geometries. Currently I've managed to implement ~70% of pincam's features with Pytorch3D's camera and mesh library, and while it doesn't provide clean graphics like Pincam, it gets the job donE.
• pzagor2 6y ago
  https://urlrec.com/ https://urlrec.com/ Export web animations as mp4 videos from any public URL. API or trough UI. Actually it can be any website, not just animation.
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• dgellow 6y ago
  A stupid game where you have to guess what parts of Trump's tweets are in FULL CAPS: https://www.trumpscreaming.site https://www.trumpscreaming.site Now that Trump is banned from everywhere, I guess I won't have fresh content anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• jonas_kgomo 6y ago
  affordance is a platform for scaling side projects with an expert ecosystem. https://affordance.app https://affordance.app
• deathcap 6y ago
  Voxelmetaverse, a voxel game platform based on voxel.js Live demo: http://voxel.github.io/voxelmetaverse/ http://voxel.github.io/voxelmetaverse/ Source code: https://github.com/voxel/voxelmetaverse https://github.com/voxel/voxelmetaverse I had big ideas for it but didn't get too far, after several years of working on it. Just published a retrospective today: https://medium.com/@deathcap1/6-years-after-6-months-of-voxel-js-a-retrospective-1e8a2eadeb0 https://medium.com/@deathcap1/6-years-after-6-months-of-voxe... - it could be developed much, much further.
  • Hydraulix989 6y ago
    The StackGL port was much higher-performance for me than the Three.JS one.
• gnyman 6y ago
  https://noscript.it/ https://noscript.it/ A little hack I made to view websites with JavaScript disabled, mainly useful on iOS where there is no real noscript extension. Useful to share links with JavaScript disabled. And as added bonus it bypasses a few paywalls or article-per-month limitations. Still has bugs and issues with detecting when a site blocks rendering in iframes.
• jermd 6y ago
  Tuna programming language: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang The intended use case is rapid development of microservices. I’m excited about it because you can describe reliable and secure apps concisely: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang/tree/main/demos/simple-twitter https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang/tree/main/demos/... Tuna presents a single system image abstraction so developers don’t need to concern themselves with scalability. It’s all open source and I welcome contributors/feedback!
  • superzamp 6y ago
    > Tuna's global state is persisted in a database, rather than held in memory. Very interesting. In addition to micro-services, this could drastically ease the pain of developing workflow orchestration systems. How do you plan to handle code updates in the context of global state?
    • jermd 6y ago
      You're right there are other use cases besides microservices. For me, the other exciting application is to use Tuna in an analytics tool. The beauty would be that you don't have to use any query language to analyze large datasets. With regards to orchestration, I hope to add primitives for events, batch processing, and things like that. Make sure I understand your question correctly: You're asking how updates will work so: -old deployments don't see the next version's types coming out of global state -new deployments only see valid types. I believe the compiler can do a lot of heavy lifting for updates while still remaining flexible. The compiler could take in two tuna files and type check across versions. For example, imagine two version of the same application. In v0 we store Foo. In v1 we store Bar. A couple options open up: - We can deploy v1 but a transformation from Foo to Bar must be executed across all stored data. This would need to be performed while v0 is down. - We can deploy a type safe version of v0 and v1 that handle the union Foo or Bar. Then, we can teardown the type safe version of v0. v1 should be the only deployment that migrates foos to bars. The benefits of this approach is that you have non disruptive upgrades.
• whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
  A little language for dimensional analysis programming: https://github.com/whatgoodisaroad/doggerel https://github.com/whatgoodisaroad/doggerel Rather than static types, primitive values have static dimensions and (in lieu of objects) complex values are built up into unordered vectors. The core idea being that if the language makes it easy to spin up descriptive purpose-built dimensions, vectors are the only data structure we need! It started out as a straightforward attempt to program with units and conversions, but slowly generalized to this vector concept. The next steps are about building a static dimension language (like a type language) to slice-and-dice vectors with projections.
• 68020 6y ago
  A Personal Configuration Manager. An OS 'WP killer' that pushes web designs (apps/blogs/etc) via ssh to target servers. Allows for an independent way of managing your web assets and designing beautiful web sites for your self or others.
• Akcium 6y ago
  https://pingr.io https://pingr.io - uptime (soon performance) monitoring service I'm looking for help regarding: - New features which you miss in such services - Pricing model (https://www.producthunt.com/discussions/how-to-choose-correct-pricing-model-for-saas-service?anchor=comment-1236602 https://www.producthunt.com/discussions/how-to-choose-correc...) It's already working, though might be buggy a little. Thinking of switching to B2B, instead of B2C
  • miyuru 6y ago
    Just had a look and your site looks great. some feedback. 1. I saw in the change log that you support IPv6, make it more prominent in the front page as well. (maybe add IPv6 support to pingr.io as well) 2. Your pricing is what I was looking for, per request and per location. but the fixed charge thing is what holding me back. maybe a prepaid option would be better. eg: a person adds $10 credit to the account and uses it at pay as you go pricing.
    • Akcium 6y ago
      Oh thank your for your feedback Regarding pricing, this is what I'm struggling with. The reason for fixed pricing is to cover commission + if I got a lot of users with like "$0.01/mo" usage, then it'd be hard to support all of them, it's literally free option. I thought about prepaid, I don't remember exactly why I declined that option. I think I liked the digital ocean model, though they don't have fixed dollar. Hmm
• shepik 6y ago
  https://potapp.co/#/doc/new/readme https://potapp.co/#/doc/new/readme Notes&todo app. You write everything like it's a document, and then view/change todo items on a kanbad-like board. I would love to hear some feedback.
  • tibu 6y ago
    I like this idea. Writing a memo and adding tasks while writing, maybe assigning to some people. The only drawback is that there are already so many todo apps. However it could be a good idea if it could work together with some Todo apps like Todoist.
• oneto018 6y ago
  I have started to write a simple 2d game engine for react Js based on box2d and pixi Js long back. I didn't progress beyond creating a proof of concept demo https://github.com/nagarajanSnapwiz/react-2d-game https://github.com/nagarajanSnapwiz/react-2d-game
• jhoutromundo 6y ago
  I building an alternative to Heroku for NodeJS projects with a small stack. It is focused on deliver apps faster. It also have a temporary container for testing purposes that requires no login. https://albumin.io https://albumin.io
  • jansan 6y ago
    Heroku is far too expensive for database usage. That should be your selling point.
• throwaway743 6y ago
  Biden Unleashed https://twitch.tv/biden_unleashed https://twitch.tv/biden_unleashed Voice/lexicon cloned, 3D, mocapped Joe Biden w/ interactive Twitch chat. Built it after joking with a friend about Joe Biden's "gaffes", how his platform doesn't generate much enthusiasm, and that an alternate more risque Joe Biden could bring excitement to the people. It's goofy, has some bugs, is in bad taste, but the account ended up qualifying for the Twitch Affiliate program which was neat. Also, I just think it's a funny project and my goal was to create it for those who share a similar sense of humor and could get a laugh out of it. I've been downvoted to hell and people have messaged with everything but the kitchen sink, from being called a transphobe, sexist, trumptard, bernie bro, the whole gamut. Thing is I'm none of these (maybe a bernie supporter... not bro. Support the policies, then the individual) and just wanted to make something absurd, funny, and fun for friends and others who share the same sense of humor. The setup is a bit complicated, but it's what my budget allows for. One linux machine w/ a GTX 1060 monitors for incoming chats, when one is received it generates a text and TTS reply, then adds the username and text/audio files to the queue. The second machine handles the streaming, playing of pre-generated audio files, and monitors the queue for usernames to display in the stream and chat responses to play/display. I've got a long list of other ideas for technical and content improvements, but they're taking the backburner for the time being while I work on learning/building more with React and search for work.
• Taylor_OD 6y ago
  Reachoutt.com It's an app that texts you reminders to reach out to friends/family/contacts you create on a regular basis. You set up the frequency of the reminders. There are a few API's that send along idea that to talk to them about as well. It doesnt really work in production right now because it uses ruby cronish jobs that don't work correctly on heroku servers. Just need more time to spend on it.
  • tomgs 6y ago
    I use https://www.monicahq.com/ https://www.monicahq.com/ mostly for this. Interesting, tracking.
• zzo38computer 6y ago
  I have my own software projects, mainly written in C, which I have made significant progress writing it, but seem to be missing some important parts. Fossil repositories are available and discussion is available on NNTP. - Free Hero Mesh - a puzzle game engine, for grid based games such as Sokoban, Hero Hearts, etc. - The behaviour of the game seems to work perfectly as far as I can tell, but the level editor doesn't work, audio doesn't work, destruction animations don't work, there are no examples provided, etc. - TeXnicard - a program for making card sets for card games using special cards, such as Magic: the Gathering, and making up your own card games. - Many features work, but the package manager and version control system are incomplete, and the typesetting engine could also be improved, and there are no rendering templates provided. Also, the Separations Output Format used for rendering probably isn't implemented anywhere else as far as I can tell. - sqlnetnews - a simple NNTP server software with SQLite. - Peering with other NNTP servers is not currently implemented, nor is authentication, nor the email/web interface. If you are interested, please mention it; maybe you are able to help with them, because I would want help with some things, I think.
• binwiederhier 6y ago
  I've been working on pcopy (https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy) a lot lately. It's a tool to copy/paste across machines. It can be used from the web UI, via a CLI or without a client by using curl. It's written in Go, and a lot of fun. I'd love some feedback and/or code review. It's used like this: - Copy: echo hi | pcp - Paste (on any machine): ppaste > hi.txt Live demo: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#demo https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#demo Videos: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#videos https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#videos
• cosbgn 6y ago
  Zero.sh a tool to build admin dashboards
• mfbx9da4 6y ago
  An observable tree data structure which could form the basis of a state management library in typescript https://github.com/mfbx9da4/observable-state-tree https://github.com/mfbx9da4/observable-state-tree
  • sudoit 6y ago
    I love this, but I need something like this for Swift. I’ll probably review how you pulled this off
    • mfbx9da4 6y ago
      Thanks :-)
• winrid 6y ago
  In 2019 I started https://watch.ly/ https://watch.ly/ It works, and I use it, but I never finished the self service aspect. MEAN stack + Twilio.
• VoxelBoy 6y ago
  MobileUO: https://github.com/voxelboy/mobileuo/ https://github.com/voxelboy/mobileuo/ I ported Ultima Online to Android and iOS devices. It's a really old MMO at this point but still has a niche following. New community shards are still popping up and some of them (such as UO Outlands) have high populations. I opened up a Patreon for the project in hopes that the community and the shard owners would support me enough to keep working on it but I never got past 100 euros per month in pledges. The app does have a stable userbase of around 1000 users though. Even though it wasn't a financial success by any measure, I'm really proud to have brought my childhood favourite game to new platforms.
  • cpufry 6y ago
    wow neat. ipy pvp on touch screen would be hell omg. very cool!
• woozymans 6y ago
  I’ve been building a curated collection of local restaurants for people to order delivery or takeaway from during the pandemic lockdown - https://woozymans.com https://woozymans.com Ranking for restaurants is based on an algorithm of engagement and current popularity.
• winrid 6y ago
  I'm doing the book Data Science From Scratch, but doing the exercises in C++ instead of Python, just to get familiar with the language. https://github.com/winrid/data-science-from-scratch-cpp https://github.com/winrid/data-science-from-scratch-cpp
• rvin 6y ago
  Hey all! Built out a passion project app to help podcasters find new listeners. Each podcaster is given a channel with a public facing website for their podcast. To give prospective listeners a taste of an episode, post an audio clip with a key moment (has to be less than 5 minutes long). We take these clips and serve them in a feed of posts for listeners. Example Website: https://jointidbit.com/c/startupadvice https://jointidbit.com/c/startupadvice App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tidbit-snackable-audio/id1465665388 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tidbit-snackable-audio/id14656... Thanks everyone!
• ms123 6y ago
  I’ve been working on a “virtual pub” - an internet message board where people can talk about what’s on their mind with strangers. It’s fully open source (code in golang). Works on web and Gemini: https://midnight.pub https://midnight.pub
• sudoit 6y ago
  I’ve been working on https://liveapp.cc https://liveapp.cc It allows for iOS apps to be deployed outside of the App Store by streaming apps through an App Clip. Apple has approved my app, but I’m expecting they’d ban it if I allowed users to host their apps for something more than beta testing
• raudaschl 6y ago
  Amazon Hunt. A solution for tracking the number of sales of different products on amazon and how much merchants are making. Never got the nerve to actually sell it and not sure if I will do anything with it. http://www.amzhunt.com/ http://www.amzhunt.com/
• lawrjone 6y ago
  Postgres change-capture device that supports high-throughput and low-latency capture to a variety of sinks (at first release, just Google BigQuery): https://github.com/lawrencejones/pgsink https://github.com/lawrencejones/pgsink I know there's debezium and Netflix's dblog, but this project aims to be much simpler. Forget about kafka and any other dependency: just point it at Postgres, and your data will be pushed into BigQuery. And for people with highly-performance-sensitive databases, the read workload has been designed with Postgres efficiency in mind. I'm hoping pgsink could be a gateway drug to get small companies up and running with a data warehouse. If your datastore of choice is Postgres, it's a huge help to replicate everything into an analytics datastore. A similar tool has helped my company extract expensive work out of our primary database, which is super useful for scaling (nevermind the business-intelligence and data-engineering uses!). The project is 90% there, about 10hrs and some testing away from being useable. Once there, I'll be hitting up some start-up friends and seeing if they want to give it a whirl.
• chadwittman 6y ago
  I'd call it 2/3rds baked; but doing nba + tech questions w/ friends via 30 second takes. Would love a couple of thoughts / feedback on playing around with it. A lot of features, but still refining core experience dramatically: https://trypersona.com/feed https://trypersona.com/feed (check out on mobile)
• throwawayHN9876 6y ago
  after realising how frustrating is to work with third party recruiters and companies that do no share clear salary ranges, i built https://golang.cafe https://golang.cafe for myself. golang cafe is a golang job board with no recruiters and clear salary ranges. i also don't like sites that use excessive javascripts, ads, and other crap and bloatware. golang cafe will try to remain analytics free and bloat free. i have managed to get a salary explorer https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developer-Salary-Remote https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developer-Salary-Remote a list of companies actively hiring and using go in production https://golang.cafe/Companies-Using-Golang https://golang.cafe/Companies-Using-Golang also experimental a bunch of go devs open to work https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developers https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developers [edit] ps. it is also open source https://github.com/golang-cafe/golang.cafe https://github.com/golang-cafe/golang.cafe
• rathboma 6y ago
  https://beekeeperstudio.io https://beekeeperstudio.io - cross platform database manager. Fully open source. It's been doing well but still has a long way to go to have all the features we want. Open source is great for side projects that aren't fully finished!
• lucas03 6y ago
  https://www.digrin.com/ https://www.digrin.com/ It's a stock portfolio manager focused on dividends. I have been thinking about financial independence and financial literacy for years. How so many of us were never taught about the impact of credit card loans and inflation on our financial situation. So as I've read more about how a brand new car is the worst thing you can do with your money, I dug deeper into how money can make money. As I started investing right after university, I thought the web would be a better way to track dividends automatically, instead of manual google spreadsheets. So this is my project I work on weekends mostly, trying to visualize dividend stocks and what passive income I can expect. It's always half baked project because there are so many exchanges and stocks that all have their own problems and it's hard to automate from free data sources. I really like building the project I use myself! Hopefully, it will last!
• wwilim 6y ago
  I made a serverless website that gathers and displays tweets with variants of the phrase "latest research" (in Polish). My goal was mostly to see how the phrase is used to add credibility to complete bull. I also tried to deploy an English version, but the volume of tweets was so large I gave up for now. I will probably continue working on it at some point, mainly because I want to try out Lambda Layers. http://www.najnowsze-badania.com http://www.najnowsze-badania.com
• thebeardisred 6y ago
  I was tired of the limited/awkward search structure of trying to find parts for surface mount device (SMD) assembly for printed circuit boards (PCBs), a process generally referred to as PCBA. Thus, I slapped together Google Apps Script utility which runs via a ~cron job~ time based trigger and keeps the _same URL_ updated with the daily updates to the JLCPCB inventory (a subset of LCSC). Check it out here via the "easy to remember" link: https://brianredbeard.com/jlcpcb-parts https://brianredbeard.com/jlcpcb-parts *edit: that also reminds me, leave a comment if there are specific filter views which you think would be useful. I've been adding a few here and there so that everyone can benefit.
  • DenseComet 6y ago
    100% going to use this. Was trying to pick out SMD parts from the JLCPCB inventory just a couple weeks ago, and it was definitely a giant pain. This looks great!
• networkimprov 6y ago
  Building a legitimate email replacement, "mnm": https://mnmnotmail.org https://mnmnotmail.org https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail Not production-ready, but well past half-baked. I began publicizing it this month. Legitimate, i.e. n-identity, decentralized, store-and-forward, simple protocol, open source. Contributors welcome! #banSMTP
• sibit 6y ago
  A VTT I'm building/using with some friends for our weekly D&D 5E sessions. https://freetabletop.app/ https://freetabletop.app/
  • djbeadle 6y ago
    This looks really cool, I've been annoyed at how Roll 20 tries to do everything and isn't super intuitive.
• yc-kraln 6y ago
  Here's my not-quite-complete Telegram bot to help you track your eating/exercise habits. Log in with Telegram, the rest happens in the app. https://gesundheit.ai/dashboard/ https://gesundheit.ai/dashboard/
• sli 6y ago
  https://gitlab.com/docmenthol/autotable https://gitlab.com/docmenthol/autotable It's a datatable written in Elm. I wrote it early on while I was learning, so I'm certain there is a lot I could update about it. Even still, it does its job pretty well. Sorting, filtering, editing, and reordering columns are all there. The way it's constructed allows new features to be built on top of it without any need to learn a table (or component) API. Just interact with the table state directly, the types make it pretty easy. One major problem is that columns are obnoxious to define. It's just a giant record type. And in general I'm just not happy with the code. I'll likely revisit this project again soon and rewrite some key parts.
• iM8t 6y ago
  Real-estate tracker and analysis for my home country (Latvia) https://map.brokalys.com https://map.brokalys.com Open source: http://github.com/brokalys http://github.com/brokalys
  • kalvisk 6y ago
    Nice! Keep up the good work! :)
• mamcx 6y ago
  I'm working in a relational language (https://tablam.org https://tablam.org) that hopefully will be a great way to massage data and have in-built support for "linq/sql"-like queries across all the data sources (from site): -- A column, aka: Vectors... let qty := [10.5, 4.0, 3.0] -- Like APL/kdb+ operations apply to more than scalars prices * 16.0 -- The ? (query) operator allow to do SQL-like queries to anything let doubled := qty ?select #0 * 2.0 let products := open("products.csv") -- like files! for p in products ?where #price > 0.0 do print(p) end --so, we can do joins between anything: for p in cross(products, qty) ?limit 10 do print(p.products.price * p.qty) end I already have a crude working prototype, but need help (hands or funding) to move forward! --- My long-term goal is to provide an alternative to Access/Excel/FoxPro with a full suite of decoupled components (language + rdbms components + interactive data repl + form builder) to capture the spirit of what this kind of tools allow but with a more solid foundation.
• a_alakkad 6y ago
  Journal Prompts, get constant prompts delivered to your inbox, to help you make the journaling habit stick! https://sendfox.com/journal-prompts https://sendfox.com/journal-prompts I'm still in validation step, wanted to know if people are interested in such service before I jump in to development. Honestly I just wanted to dive into development and dealing with code, but if I want a proper product I need to validate it first and I need to deal with people and make them top priority rather than my personal interest in coding :)
  • foopod 6y ago
    I signed up, this is really interesting. I have been working on a journalling pwa (https://zenjournal.org/ https://zenjournal.org/ - I need to change the name). The daily template is configurable, but it has been a week and I am already bored of my default template.
    • a_alakkad 6y ago
      Thanks! Wish you all the best in your app, I think a touch of css would change it drastically (I'm sure it's on your list)
• Nihilartikel 6y ago
  I've had an in-browser animated meme editor in the freezer for a few years now: https://www.ultime.me/ https://www.ultime.me/ The idea came when I wanted to make a simple animated meme, but found it exceedingly frustrating to caption a simple animated gif with nice text options (like outlines). Over time, it's grown to have full keyframe animation for all text and image/video clip attributes, so it is actually pretty capable short of using a desktop video editing/fx package. That said, the UX is bad and I should feel bad :) . I made the deliberate choice up front to focus on the underlying data model and internal APIs rather than polishing the UI - as such, it is very much an engineer interface. It would be more usable with some demo videos or call-to-action helpers for new users, but really the UX just needs reworked. Especially around animation/keyframing. On the bright side, the clean data model and content addressable assets leave the path clear to add things like collaborative multi-user meme editing, git like meme-forking(and diffing?), and so forth. Started it about 3 years ago when I had a period of mostly free time to play. It's been idle for a long time due to starting a family and getting consulting momentum, but I'm intending to make the time this year to polish the UX to the point of general usability and experiment with promotion/monetization. Failing that, I'll probably just open source it and write a couple of blog posts about the internals. It is more or less a static web app, with no server side function short of some optional stats collection. It's written in Clojurescript/Clojure and uses https://github.com/tonsky/rum https://github.com/tonsky/rum as a React wrapper and https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/ https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/ to import most animation formats and export gifs/webm fully in browser (I don't want to pay real server costs to encode animation).
• spirodonfl 6y ago
  I've got a couple. https://spv.spirofloropoulos.com https://spv.spirofloropoulos.com Send positive vibes into the world! https://spirofloropoulos.com/machikoro/ https://spirofloropoulos.com/machikoro/ Web based hotseat version of machi Koro. Multi-player might work. I don't even remember, haha. You can do local hotseat though. Both use no frameworks. Yes one is a subdomain and another a subfolder. I haven't got around to fixing it.
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• jivank 6y ago
  I am working on a self-hosted web application designed for NAS and devices like Raspberry Pi to serve files/media with a Netflix-style view. Currently implemented in Nim. https://gitlab.com/jivank/sambalshare/-/tree/prologue-switch https://gitlab.com/jivank/sambalshare/-/tree/prologue-switch
• sarora27 6y ago
  Hi Everyone! We started building https://kbee.app https://kbee.app at the beginning of December after our frustration with other help center/wiki tools. Every wiki/help center tool seems bent on forcing users to learn a new authoring/text editor experience in order to publish new articles. Many times, folks are creating drafts in Google Docs first and then copying it over. We figured, why not cut out the subpar text editors and just publish to a wiki straight from Docs? It's definitely not ready for prime-time but we're at a point where we're actively looking for feedback!
  • bberenberg 6y ago
    Seems a lot like https://youneedawiki.com/ https://youneedawiki.com/ Best of luck!
    • oriettaxx 6y ago
      uhh, too expensive
      • sarora27 6y ago
        Thanks for the feedback! If you don't mind me asking, what other pricing are you comparing ours to?
• dalanmiller 6y ago
  https://tenugui.market https://tenugui.market
• Lxr 6y ago
  I’m working on https://www.dragondictionary.com https://www.dragondictionary.com, a Chinese-English dictionary aimed at Chinese learners. I am building it because there’s no good desktop alternative to Pleco at the moment.
• AstroNoise58 6y ago
  A very simple web application (aimed at being self-hosted) to collect videos for watching them (repeatedly) later: https://github.com/tomszilagyi/copycat https://github.com/tomszilagyi/copycat It invokes youtube-dl under the hood, but the user can add videos (to be downloaded) via the browser. It is quite usable as is, but pretty slim on features. Maybe someone here wants to take it further.
• wilsonfiifi 6y ago
  I bought a paid of Wahl Senior hair clippers from the US and I figured all I'd need was a step down transformer (240v to 110v) for it to work and boy was I mistaken! Apparently you need to also take into account the frequency of the current. To cut the long story short, all my early search for a solution was leading me to overpriced "kits" on ebay and the likes. All you have to do is type "frequency 60hz clippers" to understand what I'm talking about. The solution, which is cheap and simple is to buy a $18 power adapter with a $20 inverter from Amazon. I figured I'd make that information available online for anyone facing that same problem. So I just put together a site [0] with some amazon affiliate links. I haven't done any SEO or marketing yet. Me being a backend dev, this is a nice little learning project. [0] https://www.freedomclippers.com
  • ficklepickle 6y ago
    Add a blog, pay a writer because SEO gobbledygook will rot your brain (I believe they use ahrefs to get keywords), add JSON-LD structured data. Cultivate back links, maybe post in forums where people are already discussing this. There is not much good technical SEO info out there for developers to find. It is frustrating for someone used to being able to find documentation/best practices easily. This is stuff that I have picked up working with SEO people. Not guaranteed to be 100% accurate but hopefully it helps.
    • wilsonfiifi 6y ago
      Thanks. I've set my mind on learning as much as I can beforehand so I don't get bamboozled when I start delegating. But I agree that SEO appears to be a black art, to me at least!
  • yurishimo 6y ago
    Curious if you know the potential efficiency loss of converting back and forth from AC to DC and back to AC again? I assume a lot of energy is wasted in heat? Do clippers use so much energy that it may be cheaper in a short time to simply buy new clippers? $40 for conversion hardware already, it's only a few more bucks to get a decent set of clippers that match your new country's grid.
• snshn 6y ago
  Mostly baked: https://github.com/Y2Z/invisible-ink https://github.com/Y2Z/invisible-ink Currently wrapping up solid blocks (instead of empty glyphs) and merging with another "donor" font.
• andreygrehov 6y ago
  https://www.bithub.com/ https://www.bithub.com/ - Instant Cryptocurrency Exchange
• cloogshicer 6y ago
  https://nocrunchgames.com/ https://nocrunchgames.com/ Game studios that don't crunch, and are hiring.
• smashah 6y ago
  Project Eagle https://egl.chat https://egl.chat Find my friends alternative but on WhatsApp. Why is it half baked? It's so stupid, I built everything but got stuck on the hero image screenshot. Smh. I'll get it back up and running tonight and work on a screenshot (would appreciate help on the screenshot).
• sandrot 6y ago
  - My first Godot game, which isn‘t downloadable yet but lots of fun to work on. https://sandrot.itch.io/starboard https://sandrot.itch.io/starboard - Sound Bath iOS app for ambient relaxing sounds. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1534808677 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1534808677 - Bread Book iOS app for saving recipes that use baker percentages. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bread-book/id1519534917 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bread-book/id1519534917 - capybara-chrome is a Capybara driver for headless Chrome using the remote debugging protocol. Works pretty well but could use some TLC. https://github.com/sandro/capybara-chrome https://github.com/sandro/capybara-chrome - Rewriting my website using a 2 file architecture: 1) Go (web) executable and 2) SQLite db. All html pages and assets are stored in the database. https://turriate.com/articles/my-own-static-site-generator https://turriate.com/articles/my-own-static-site-generator
• chaosharmonic 6y ago
  Here's a workout tracker for rhythm games that I threw together as a personal project -- https://step-step-recollection.bhmt.dev/ https://step-step-recollection.bhmt.dev/ It's really only a demo, since I primarily built it to have a MERN-stack site for my portfolio and to track my own cardio during the plague, rather than ever really intending it to be as a service. It actually also turned out to be less useful on the tracking, because I found myself falling down rabbit holes about building a usable tool for tracking cardio -- as opposed to consistently doing the cardio I wanted to track, or bothering to keep the API stable enough to track it when I did. (Up until then, most of my experiences with Express and MongoDB in particular had been in existing codebases, so for the first few iterations I was more concerned with getting everything configured and deployed.) Other sticking points, since in this case "usable" was defined as being able to visibly log data from real gameplay sessions, included setting up basic JWT auth (enough for myself and a demo account), and the trial-and-error calamity that was sanitizing ~1300 game files from my song library in order to scrape metadata from them and import it into my db. Additionally it's been through several attempts to refresh the visual design, just since that's not really a personal strong suit. Aside from this leading to the same problem as XKCD's automation strip[0], it also became a whole side adventure into another project I had been putting off -- streamlining this and all of my other deployments -- because when I tried to share an early iteration, the host I was testing for this (Vercel) had been flagged by LinkedIn's spam filters. Getting around this involved finally deploying the whole thing to a custom domain and setting up the appropriate routing, which meant moving several projects off GitHub Pages. Vercel, it turned out, also had a hard limitation on custom domains, with theirs being that the only apparent way to use one was to register it through them. I eventually ended up moving all of them to Netlify, setting up dedicated subdomains for each (so that I also didn't have to worry about managing things like the multiple view layers used across different projects) and deploy branches (for storing any config files, etc. that are specific to a host) while I was at it. By the time I actually solved all of these, I was also caught up in a mouse hunt in the space where I work/sleep/DDR instead. I do intend to pick it back up at some point, once I'm fully convinced I won't need to keep deep-cleaning my pad. In all, though, it's arguably been more productive for the various side effects than it was for its actual purpose. One particularly fun one, at least, was the excuse it gave me to toy with Deno - which I used to handle converting and sanitizing my game files, scraping their data, and seeding my database with them. The built-in fetch client is particularly useful here, but truthfully I was also just happy not having to touch Babel again for this. If anyone's interested in toying with it, here's the Github link for the API code.[1] Add -react to the end for the UI or -scripts for the various Deno tools. [0] https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/ [1] https://github.com/chaosharmonic/step-step-recollection https://github.com/chaosharmonic/step-step-recollection
• ficklepickle 6y ago
  I'm building an unauthorized web interface for a car share service I use. They discontinued theirs in favour of their terrible mobile apps. I just finished the API client in TypeScript, now I'm on to the UI. I RE'd the API calls using an android emulator and mitmproxy. It has been a ton of fun. If ur in Vancouver and use evo, you may be interested. If you work for vulog, look away! https://github.com/jeremy21212121/evo-client-nuxt https://github.com/jeremy21212121/evo-client-nuxt
• PStamatiou 6y ago
  Over the last 9 months I've been learning Swift/SwiftUI and have been building a simple, well-designed (at least that's my goal) app for tracking your stock holdings. Ideal for casual investors that may use multiple brokers or already track their investments in a spreadsheet and want a better way to keep tabs on their holdings that's not some some clunky broker app/site. I've been maintaining a thread of my progress on it on Twitter (Scroll up) https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1346273355306037250 https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1346273355306037250 Have a few more things to build but here's my landing page for now: https://stocketa.com https://stocketa.com Given the cost of market data APIs (and other services I use) this will likely be a monthly subscription product.
• zuhayeer 6y ago
  https://rapbits.com/ios https://rapbits.com/ios Send rap audio bites as memes to friends. Demo: http://rapbits.com/video/ad.mp4 http://rapbits.com/video/ad.mp4
• herval 6y ago
  I'm making an open source Chess game, mostly to learn Unity: https://github.com/herval/OpenSourceChess https://github.com/herval/OpenSourceChess Publishing binaries on itch as it evolves too: https://herval.itch.io/open-source-chess https://herval.itch.io/open-source-chess I'm forcing myself to work one hour a day on it (at least two Pomodoros) no matter what, which is a nice change of pace to my day job (in management), and really adds up over time. I gave up on starting games many times in the past, because it always felt so overwhelming to start from a blank page, and I'm already starting to build up the understanding to tackle on some actually more original game next :-)
• gabereiser 6y ago
  I’ve been working on a docker swarm front-end/management container: https://www.github.com/gabereiser/hive https://www.github.com/gabereiser/hive I still dabble on my 3d engine: https://www.github.com/reactor3d/reactor https://www.github.com/reactor3d/reactor Nothing really special and nothing I would call “the next big thing” so...
• karakanb 6y ago
  I am building SaaS Starter Kit: https://saasstarterkit.app https://saasstarterkit.app It is a simple starter kit that includes: • Subscriptions & Payments via Stripe • Invoices • Multiple payment methods • TailwindCSS & FontAwesome integration • Dashboard layout • Settings page • Test coverage • Docker & Docker Compose setup • Kubernetes & Helm • GitLab CI/CD Thanks to these, one can go from unzipping the source to automated live deployments in less than 15 mins, including fully functioning payments. I aim to improve it further with more functionality out of the box, as well as additional API endpoints. I am currently exploring early access options, therefore I have applied up to 75% discount. I would love to get some feedback, so, feel free to hit me up with questions or suggestions!
  • bluedevil2k 6y ago
    This looks really cool and what you’ve got so far looks pretty useful to people. I think the next step is offering options on the programming language and frameworks. For example, React front end with node back end.
    • karakanb 6y ago
      Thanks! I have been thinking starting with a Vue-powered frontend along with the same backend including the API, so that people can have both of the options, simple server-side templating or an API with an SPA. Thanks for the suggestion again!
• joshmn 6y ago
  I made an open-source Rails engine to offload marketing campaigns: https://caffeinate.email https://caffeinate.email. I haven't tweeted about it yet so I guess I would call it half-baked since nobody else has really touched it and I don't know all that I missed. We use it at work. We were using a combination of Outreach.io, Salesforce, Iterable, and our own awful in-house solution when I realized how bad it was needed. Then I needed it for one of my side projects, so I hacked something together and it works. But who knows how well.
  • oriettaxx 6y ago
    since you did it for yourself it is sure something useful, but the webpage do not give me enough info about it: I am very curious, and would like to know more: if you have time can you add here some more info, maybe examples? (btw: I love RoR)
• primitivesuave 6y ago
  I'm working on a free reminder/analytics service for keeping your resolutions this year: https://resolution.fail https://resolution.fail The idea is to get a periodic email questionnaire that lets you easily record metrics about a resolution and see progress over time. I'm still in the process of adding charts and an analytics view to the service, so you can visually see your progress in each email. I built the entire thing during my December holiday. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
• egberts1 6y ago
  For parsing Bind9 named configuration file, I have built using PyParsing for this. It is 99% completed. MIT license. Three minor issues left. Two cleanup issues remaining. https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues
• realbarack 6y ago
  A toy for speaking with a synthetic personality and generating synthetic audio: https://uberduck.ai/ https://uberduck.ai/ It's more like 10% baked, but it sort of works. It's much better with GPT-3 but hasn't yet been submitted to OpenAI for approval, so that part is private. My priorities are improving the synthetic voices, adding additional dialog scenarios, and adding multiplayer mode either natively on the site or through bots that can be added to Discord voice channels.
• crazypython 6y ago
  A massively multiplayer game with a fresh start every time, that's easy to learn and easy to start having fun, doesn't guilt you into playing (healthy long-term relationship with the player), and has lots of replay value: http://vnav.io http://vnav.io Currently there are multiple major bugs with damage.
  • kper 6y ago
    Wow, this is really fun
    • crazypython 6y ago
      Thanks! We just fixed a major bug where you would sometimes take far, far more damage than was correct, especially with bots.
  • primitivesuave 6y ago
    This is an awesome game!
  • mod 6y ago
    I really like this. Wish it had a little bit of a tutorial. In about 10 lives I haven't figured out what all the shapes/colors do, or how to use them, or why I'm getting almost insta-killed by guys who I seemingly can't hurt (maybe the damage bug). Either way, very cool!
    • crazypython 6y ago
      Thanks for the words. We fixed that bug! We also increased the size of the arena so the density of people shooting at you is less.
  • vlod 6y ago
    Love to know the tech behind this. Please share!
    • crazypython 6y ago
• egberts1 6y ago
  For parsing ISC Bind9 DNS (named.conf) configuration file in Python3, I have built using PyParsing for this. It is 99% code completed. MIT license. Designed for Bind9 version 9.0 to 9.17.2. Three issues left. Solid unit-testing coverage, moderate-system testing. Probably the largest PyParsing to date. https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues
• mjac 6y ago
  I built Running Level https://runninglevel.com/ https://runninglevel.com/ recently along the same lines as my other site Strength Level https://strengthlevel.com/ https://strengthlevel.com/ but have only done a soft launch. Gyms are closed here in the UK so a lot of us are out running instead. Running Level has running standards for your age/gender over many distances like 10k/marathon/mile. The calculator on the homepage helps you rate your running performance against other people your age/gender, predicts race performance and recommends some training times. I was hoping to do a Show HN or Product Hunt but marketing has never been my strong suit. Hope someone likes it!
  • jschulenklopper 6y ago
    Very nice; I like the simplicity of Running Level (with less options than Strength Level). Where do you get the reference level data from (for running)?
    • mjac 6y ago
      Thank you for the encouragement! Did you find any areas to improve? The seed standards reference data is mainly from publicly available race data in CSV form and common running formulas used in the industry (e.g. Effective VO2 Max / VDOT). There are plenty of online calculators and literature (mostly based on Jack Daniels' Formula). However this is just a baseline and it'll be based on its own data set in the future (e.g. survey input). Some links: Brian Mac - https://www.brianmac.co.uk/vo2max.htm https://www.brianmac.co.uk/vo2max.htm Age grade tables - https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-Grade-Tables https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-Grade-Tables Jack Daniels' Running Formula - https://runsmartproject.com/calculator/ https://runsmartproject.com/calculator/ (and related book)
  • dmje 6y ago
    Like it, nice and simple and useful too :-)
• kper 6y ago
  My own webassembly engine. https://github.com/kper/funky https://github.com/kper/funky
• ekzy 6y ago
  2 years ago I created a guitar chords website to solve a problem I have with finding songs to play on my guitar/ukulele. You can login with your Spotify account and get some suggestions based on your listening history, and also import Spotify playlists. I wanted to create a website that is lightweight, more accessible and less invasive for the user. Existing chords/tabs websites can be a real pain to use. The design and the UX of my app is a bit clunky, but it's fast and works and without JS. I have not really touched it since but I kept it online because some people use it (including me). I'm getting around 5-10k unique visitors per months, I think mostly from google searches. I also worked on a feature that generates printable songbooks that people can order but I am concerned about copyright and legal issues, any comment on that would be welcome. I've implemented it already but activated just for me, and I ordered a few books already... (all the pdf generation, payment and shipping workflow works). I'd love to get some design help or some fresh ideas for the project. https://www.lyrink.com https://www.lyrink.com
  • snakeboy 6y ago
    Hey this looks awesome ! I've been getting into guitar this year during confinement (apologies to my equally-confined neighbors), but Ultimate-guitar is so bloated it barely loads on my shitty wifi. This is exactly what I need. Thanks :)
• pul 6y ago
  A DNS web client that doesn't suck: https://www.nslookup.io https://www.nslookup.io The main functionality is now pretty much complete, but is in dire need of a visual redesign. It also lacks parsing of many record types and email configuration in TXT records. Additional landing pages for specific DNS record types are also still to come.
  • simplyinfinity 6y ago
    This is awesome, i frequently use similar tools, but this is far cleaner than the rest! Instantly went to my bookmarks!
• Folcon 6y ago
  Been spending the last 2 years or so working on putting together a data processing and exploration tool. Primarily allowing for the importing of csv files, though handle excel files to a degree (need to improve that). The data exploration side basically allows the user to put together a stack of transformations which then get applied to the data which the user can then view the result of. The data processing side allows you to select a single transformation and it applies it directly to the data and then let's you download it. The current version runs entirely client side in a js browser context. Not sure if anyone finds any of that interesting :)... I'm a little limited by the fact that UI isn't quite my forte. I'm on my phone at the moment so I'll add some more details when I get on my desktop. EDIT: ----------------------------------------- So a bit more detail, it's a bit of a long story to be honest, I was working on it with a friend of mine, him non-technical, myself technical, we were looking at it as a bootstrapped company, got a reasonable amount of consulting work from it, but not really figured out a space where there was enough repeat interest where I could really build out a nice specific solution and pursue product-market fit. The goal was to provide non-technical people (who could at least use Excel), access to no-code machine learning solutions and data transformations. We realised that there was a lot of things that people like my non-tech friend wanted to be able to do, but just couldn't use any of the existing tooling to do. Over the last year we basically stopped working on it, but at the same time, I put a fair bit of dev work into it and I'm sort of trying to work out whether there's something there, or if it's a "sunk cost". I'm sort of fine if it is? I just really want to know. The tooling's not perfect, a bit too much building to solve the problem our clients had at the time which didn't make for a great cohesive product, but the thought process was get enough repeat stuff in that we can start focusing on a particular direction. Now I'm sort of toying with putting some time in to cleaning up the code and trying to see if I can make something of it, but I'm not sure if I'm kidding myself to be honest. I've also been wondering if I should go the whole hog and just make it an offline tool with some online functionality. Porting it would be relatively trivial at this point, it's written in Clojurescript so I could easily do an Electron thing or a native Clojure version that's downloadable while still maintaining it in it's current form without that much of a problem. This question has been a bit of a fortuitous circumstance really because I was thinking of doing a proper writeup of the tool as a blog post and then seeing whether anyone had any decent suggestions, but I'd been putting it off a bit because I'm still not quite sure what I could say =)... So in the end this has been sort of a forcing function, so that's at least something =)... So without further ado, the tools: - [Data Processor](https://tools.guanxi.ai/ https://tools.guanxi.ai/) - [Data Explorer](https://guanxi-upload.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/data-explorer-beta/fast.html https://guanxi-upload.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/data-exp...) Data Explorer is CSV only, it was built really early on first and I've not really gone back and unified them. I can do an overview as well of the tools as well if anyone's interested?
• jimmy2020 6y ago
  Hello Everyone. I’ve been working on a project called DFlex: https://github.com/jalal246/dflex https://github.com/jalal246/dflex that contains multiple packages all written in Pure JavaScript to manipulate DOM elements in a completely new way depends on creating a DOM registry. The ultimate result is moving every element from destination to target with CSS animation. This means all possible operations should be done in 60fps. It is also extendable. In most existing solutions the more elements you are trying to manipulate the more lagging you get. Here, no matter how many elements you are dealing with it’s always going to interpret each movement to CSS transform without asking the browser to get the node for each request. It is not restricted to any frameworks I have examples for React and Vue with some explanations inside each package. And maybe add more later. It includes: • DOM Generator DOM relations generator algorithm. • DOM Store Traverse through the DOM tree using element id. • Drag & Drop Lightweight Solution for a Drag & Drop App based on enhanced store algorithm. • Draggable High-performance draggable elements. • Unit test & end to end test • Packages are decoupled and work separately. Each package has it own universe including test and playground There's a lot to add and improve with new packages. I am looking for contributors who like to get involved in open source. So, if you are interested, open an issue, or pull request. I need your support. Thank you!
• secfirstmd 6y ago
  Umbrella - a free open source app to help people learn about digital and physical security. From how to use Signal for safe communication to how to deal with a kidnapping. Multiple languages and widely used by journalists, activists, aid workers, traveling business people and those any one living in high risk countries. More info: https://www.secfirst.org https://www.secfirst.org iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715310 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715310 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.umbrella https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u... Web (Beta): https://umbrella.secfirst.org https://umbrella.secfirst.org
  • frequentnapper 6y ago
    how is this half-baked, not ready for prime-time?
    • secfirstmd 6y ago
      Well we've built the tech but need a lot more work pushing it out. Also to make it easier for people to build their own custom versions. It mentioned in the piece about looking for help and we always are! :)
• richardanaya 6y ago
  A Web Assembly interpreter written in Rust. That works but has bugs and has no mass testing. It has one really badass feature, the ability to stop at any point. https://github.com/richardanaya/watson https://github.com/richardanaya/watson
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• inferense 6y ago
  https://acreom.com/ https://acreom.com/ is a powerful text editor for life organisation. Currently, there are many tools specialised in 1 area (todo, cal, notes etc) with terrible user interfaces. We want to create an intelligent all-in-one tool with lightweight design that will tackle the problem of how do we "design" our life holistically. The landing page is in progress, so we're currently aggregating sign-ups here: https://forms.gle/HMTw4xa5ppABzCFRA https://forms.gle/HMTw4xa5ppABzCFRA We'd be delighted to share once its fully baked :)
  • nickthemagicman 6y ago
    This looks like it's got a lot of great potential. I use Trello right now and one thing it's sorely missing is dependencies. Like this to do depends on this other to do. there's mods and all but it's pretty clumsy and I wish it was baked in. Just something to think about.
• mattlondon 6y ago
  http://byexample.xyz http://byexample.xyz Ran out of time to make more content, but I still add something every now and then when I learn something new. I think the plan was lots of useful copy-pasteable snippets (inspired by the gobyexample site) and then some ads. For the curious, it is a Jekyll site (ported from Hugo) served from GitHub. Source on github. Workflow is super nice - edit markdown and run locally (if you want to preview - you don't need to if you dont want) and just push to GitHub and the changes are live within a minute or two - GitHub pages is an awesome service for this sort of thing.
• samiralajmovic 6y ago
  Building an editor to create, view and edit vim color themes in your browser. Half-baked app architecture with a self-built redux and event emitter and code structure, gets the job done though. https://pintovim.dev/ https://pintovim.dev/ https://github.com/alajmo/pinto https://github.com/alajmo/pinto Also building mani, a tool that helps you manage multiple repositories. It's helpful when you are working with microservices or multi-project system and libraries and want a central place for pulling all repositories and running commands over the different projects. You specify projects and commands in a yaml config and then run the commands over all or a subset of the projects. https://github.com/alajmo/mani https://github.com/alajmo/mani
• pavel_lishin 6y ago
  I don't have a link, because this is a Discord-based project, but it's a scheduler for D&D games. A DM issues a command in a channel, which generates a link for them to use; the link takes them to my website, where they choose their available dates and times. Once they're done, a message is sent back to the Discord channel with the possible play dates, and potential players vote by reacting to the message with the emojis which represent the available dates. The DM can "lock" the votes and choose the date by reacting with another emoji on a "summary" message. It works, but the match-the-emoji-with-the-date interface is annoying, since you have to keep track of which emoji means what. I'm going to eventually rewrite it to send multiple messages, one per date, but I got stuck when trying to add React to the project (for no good fucking reason.)
• beenieman2021 6y ago
  https://pillr.io https://pillr.io Pillr - automated property management
• beenieman2021 6y ago
  https://pillr.io https://pillr.io - Pillr. automated property management for the landlord.
• 66d8kk 6y ago
  I'm building a privacy-first fitness / health tracker. I managed to lose a lot of weight during lockdown with the help of fitbit but using a Google service to handover my most personal of data doesn't sit right with me (it served a purpose). So I've started to build what I need from a tracker. Where I'm heading generally: - Platform / API access (so you OWN your data) - Client-side encryption - No tracking / knowledge - Weight, Calories, Diet, Run - Import GPS from Garmin etc.. graph/store/play _cringe_ but what do I have to lose (best viewed on mobiles for now - haven't considered a desktop yet) https://endotherm.app https://endotherm.app
• lanewinfield 6y ago
  I made a pullchain that immediately ends your video call to avoid awkwardness. https://twitter.com/lanewinfield/status/1339257875034566656 https://twitter.com/lanewinfield/status/1339257875034566656 It was hacked together in an afternoon and def not ready for prime time, but it got quite a bit more interaction than originally thought. Also, perhaps its greatest form (like many things I've made) might be as half-baked. Now the question is: do I make more? My instinct says no because of how hard hardware is, especially as a joke... Either way, at very least, the interaction definitely defends the "don't worry, be crappy" hypothesis.
  • andrewflnr 6y ago
    If you make more, it would be even more hilarious if they were pull-up handles on your chair like for an ejection seat.
    • rzzzt 6y ago
      I'm voting for those supersized plush Enter keys.
      • kayyay 6y ago
        You mean escape!
• smaddox 6y ago
  https://sneakysnake.io/ https://sneakysnake.io/ Browser-based endless arcade multiplayer snake game with mobile support. For some reason, it always seems to run smoother on mobile than on desktop. Browsers make it basically impossible to get a smooth frame rate :-/ It's been on the back burner for a while. I need to finish adding a way to choose your name.
• evphn 6y ago
  https://breathing.tips https://breathing.tips I began doing some breathing exercises and after a while started building this collection of 3D animated breathing techniques.
• JimWestergren 6y ago
  https://thespacewar.com/ https://thespacewar.com/ The Space War is a a card game I have been working on as a side project since summer 2018. Similar but in my opinion better than Hearthstone and Magic. Can be played online for free in the browser here https://play.thespacewar.com/ https://play.thespacewar.com/ Need help with Node development, sound effects and playtesters.
• golergka 6y ago
  https://github.com/golergka/hn-comment-bot https://github.com/golergka/hn-comment-bot Telegram bot to notify me about new comments. Hosted on a free Heroku dyno and will definitely fail under load, but works for me.
• bionade24 6y ago
  https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd A CI/CD with webinterface for Archlinux packages which optional AUR push support if builds succeed. It's based on Django and works with Docker/Podman. I originally made it for my own AUR packages (> 300), I needed accessible build logs if I want to collab, which the common builders didn't provide. I made the project public and it's crazy for me as an open source beginner to see how many people like this. The basic features are complete, but things like multiarch are getting added soon.
• rkp8000 6y ago
  https://github.com/rkp8000/hypothesize https://github.com/rkp8000/hypothesize In grad school I made a browser-based app to integrate note-taking and reference management as seamlessly as possible, having been disappointed with existing software. Basically, it's kind of wiki-like, except links open in place by default so you don't lose your place jumping between pages. I got it working well enough to use for the entirety of my PhD but don't really use it anymore just because it's still fairly clunky in certain ways. I have zero time to continue working on it, but I do still kind of like the idea and would be thrilled if someone else picked it up!
• k__ 6y ago
  Started a new project this year after taking part in the future founder course of startup school. I want to build a SaaS product for asynchronous communication for remote companies. "Twitter for companies" or "Slack for microblogging". Don't know where the journey will take me, but as a remote worker for 6 years that doesn't like these omnipresent chats, I wanted to build an alternative. Nothing to show for right now, since I just got started. https://dev.to/fllstck/building-a-saas-product-eba https://dev.to/fllstck/building-a-saas-product-eba
• mourner 6y ago
  I have a ton of unfinished open source projects, but here's a recent small one I believe can take off: https://github.com/mourner/tinyjam https://github.com/mourner/tinyjam — a bare-bones, zero-configuration static site generator that deliberately has no features, an experiment in radical simplicity. Essentially a tiny, elegant glue between EJS templates and Markdown with freeform structure (enabling incremental adoption) and convenient defaults, written in under 120 lines of JavaScript. I also made a modern EJS implementation specifically for this: https://github.com/mourner/yeahjs https://github.com/mourner/yeahjs And planning to implement a strict, minimal subset of YAML to switch over to: https://github.com/mourner/yeahml https://github.com/mourner/yeahml Will be happy to hear any feedback :)
• wes-k 6y ago
  Creating a data driven 2d vector drawing app. Essentially, a no code d3. Still early, here's a few animations I made while playing with the tool: https://imgur.com/a/3ww4ql1 https://imgur.com/a/3ww4ql1 Inspiration: http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddendum/ http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...
• m463 6y ago
  Good time to haul out the old quote... "Stop Starting and Start Finishing" (but honestly I'm happier the other way)
• errozero 6y ago
  A web based DAW type app for music production with instrument modules, piano roll etc. https://errozero-metronic-studio-718699.netlify.app/ https://errozero-metronic-studio-718699.netlify.app/ Click on the button with the piano icon at the top to test out the piano roll. You can play notes with the typing keyboard. I got much further than this previously but decided to throw a lot of the code away and start again. I spent a load of time building a custom UI library before starting with things like draggable windows, linked scroll containers, dropdown menus etc.
• jsncbt 6y ago
  Hipcharts.com is an app I’ve wanted to build for a longtime that allows you to create and share your favourite albums of the year.
• nergal 6y ago
  Well, my whole github page is filled with these. Some are actually usable though :) https://github.com/lallassu https://github.com/lallassu
• LegendaryR3D 6y ago
  https://sharehub.live https://sharehub.live Indian social media platform I have been working on over the past several weeks. Still a long way to go, and a lot might change in the near future based on user feedback. Give it a try!!
• ultra_nick 6y ago
  https://datingchances.com/ https://datingchances.com/ A virtual dating coach and learning community for practicing your social skills. I focused too much on non-core features and ran out of motivation.
• embit 6y ago
  I made https://hope.embit.ca https://hope.embit.ca to pay tribute to all our frontline workers. Half-baked as done in an afternoon and then not spent any time on it.
• mfi 6y ago
  https://github.com/maxvfischer/Arthur https://github.com/maxvfischer/Arthur An AI art installation I built from scratch using a GAN network, Samsung The Frame, a button and a PIR-sensor (including, code, images and tutorial). The main draft is almost done, but quite some polishing to do. https://github.com/maxvfischer/shibusa https://github.com/maxvfischer/shibusa An automatic Zen Garden drawing infinite patterns in sand. Using stepper motors, inverse kinematics and a Raspberry Pi Zero W (including, code, images and tutorial). I'm almost done building the robot, but still have quite some implementation to do. Also, the guide is far from done, I've mostly uploaded images so far. https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-arcade https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-arcade A full-size Arcade Machine I built from scratch (including, code, images and tutorial). I don't know where you draw the life of "half baked". It's done, but there's a lot of improvements that can be done.
• jellevdv 6y ago
  My price tracker for AliWatcher: https://aliwatcher.com/ https://aliwatcher.com/ Full of bugs, prices are not updated nearly enough, but decided to put it live anyway while I start working on it
• ithkuil 6y ago
  https://github.com/mkmik/zerozone https://github.com/mkmik/zerozone > Zero Conf public domain registrar Currently implemented using IPFS, but I plan rewriting it in top of another half baked project if mine: https://github.com/mkmik/udig https://github.com/mkmik/udig > public-key addressed TCP tunnel broker
• kassner 6y ago
  https://ytemail.com/ https://ytemail.com/ I like e-mails, and I was pretty sad when YouTube removed the e-mail notifications for channel uploads, so I decided to build my own. It's pretty unpolished, but it has the MVP (sends e-mails, opt-in per channel and very basic billing management). This is my first ever project that takes any payments and I have only one paying customer so far, but I don't really expect to make any money out of it. Feedback will be highly welcomed at contact@domainname.
• bradgessler 6y ago
  https://www.thingybase.com/ https://www.thingybase.com/ It’s a home inventory app! I’ve been working on this and using it for almost two years now in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and raising 2 kids. I’ve embraced the “half-baked” aspect of shipping a project like this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations. It’s just been so much fun building and using it. If you use it, don’t worry about me abandoning it. It’s improved my life so much that I’m going to be constantly improving it and keeping it around. Working in an iOS turbo app for it next, and I’d like to build lending and expirations into it too. It’s going to be awesome. Share your feedback with me if you use it!
  • pmx 6y ago
    I actually really love the illustrations!
    • bradgessler 6y ago
      Thanks! Me too, and I say that because they’re my 4 year old daughter’s style of stick figures: egg bodies with arms and legs sticking out.
  • lsferreira42 6y ago
    Is it open source?
    • bradgessler 6y ago
      It’s not open source.
  • dingsbumps 6y ago
    I'd love to make labels like this for the boxes in my storage unit (and then be able to look up the contents from home). Your site clearly explains the product, it's very compelling for me! I couldn't find anywhere on the site though: can I export the data and self-host? If I were to invest time cataloging my data this way, I'd want to be sure I had a backup plan just in case the service went down one day
• jimnotgym 6y ago
  I have started a blog about gardening! It is something I was writing for myself. https://watchingplantsgrow.com/ https://watchingplantsgrow.com/ I never get to code at work any more so I decided to write a static site generator in Python using Jinja2 templates and markdown. Front end is Bootstrap. Hosted on Netlify. It really fits in this thread since I have probably spent a day on it and have not even rendered all of the blogs I have written, or added images yet.
• ithkuil 6y ago
  https://knot8.io https://knot8.io Alternative approach to yaml templating for k8s manifests. It includes a structural 3-way merge algorithm that allows you to temporarily "fork" the manifests by just exiting some fields in-place, knowing that synchronizing upstream is way more predictable than what you could achieve with a general purpose textual merge like git.
• dreaming_sun 6y ago
  I made a simple number puzzle game with React - https://alexanderstewart.github.io/circles-web/ https://alexanderstewart.github.io/circles-web/ I released it under the MIT licence. Here’s the code - https://github.com/AlexanderStewart/circles-web https://github.com/AlexanderStewart/circles-web Feel free to build off it and release your own version!
• brendan0powers 6y ago
  I've been fiddling around with building UI's that use hand tracking in VR. Given the lack of physical feedback and the low fidelity of today's tracking methods, it turns out to be quite challenging. It feels really good when it works though. VR Keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiva93bf_0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiva93bf_0 VR Whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-hECpf-BY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-hECpf-BY
  • toroskilly 6y ago
    Any chance you could get the vr cameras to recognize a physical keyboard (not necessarily plugged in) and map the virtual keyboard over the top? Obviously it relies on the user sitting at a desk. But it would provide physical feedback.
    • brendan0powers 6y ago
      This is doable. I'm using the Quest, so you don't have access to the camera images, but you can do a calibration phase where you figure out how a user's hands map to keys. I'm not sure the hand tracking is accurate enough for non-touch typers though. There's some work being done for Bluetooth keyboard support when you're sitting at a desk.
• hawski 6y ago
  Half-baked as in eating it can cause gastric problems, not as in 50% done? https://github.com/hadrianw/werf https://github.com/hadrianw/werf a graphical mouse driven text editor inspired by Plan 9's acme. It can open quite big files, you can WIMP around a bit, but README is just wishful thinking, it can't even save files. Written in C with cairo and fontconfig. Currently for a few years I'm in process of rewriting text buffer, I have something nice, but did not test it enough and did not integrate it. Now I'm thinking of a rewrite in Zig to learn it and also make it easier to test. But that's my wishful thinking again. https://github.com/hadrianw/tomatoaster https://github.com/hadrianw/tomatoaster a ChromeOS like Linux distribution based on Void Linux build system, AB partition scheme, building squashfs image without root privileges. Currently I did a nice and almost proper script to handle it and do not need to patch as match to build an image, that runs, but is not entirely useful. Need to clean-up the script and commit. Mostly bash, bunch of patches and config files and a bit of C. https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra a search engine, that will not index pages with ads (all results would be uBlock-Origin clean), that is not yet even a proper pipeline to check whether a page does contain ads or not, no crawler yet at all. I want to go through Common Crawl archives first. I did something in Go first (https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra-legacy https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra-legacy), but now I'm rewriting it in Rust, because of awesome lol_html crate, that will make filtering fast and easy. Currently writing code to filter URLs with Rabin-Karp and a bit of loops. It created an e-mail thread years ago with people wanting to help, but I've been too slow. I don't want much help to code things, I would appreciate however a bit of pointers on a couple of things regarding Rust and watchdogs (to recognize a partition as unbootable and reset the system to the previous partition).
• darcys22 6y ago
  GoDBLedger https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger Its the core of my open source accounting system. Its slightly further along than half baked because it is pretty much feature complete for what i want core to do, but that just means you can do double entry bookkeeping on the command line. Currently building a web interface to interact with it which hopefully will attract non technical users
• acj 6y ago
  A command line tool for visualizing high-resolution ping latency to hosts on your network: https://github.com/acj/ping-heatmap https://github.com/acj/ping-heatmap It began as a crude answer to "why is this so slow" and slowly turned into a fun data viz project. Needs a better name :)
• amingilani 6y ago
  A free, low feature application tracking software to businesses to post vacancies to. I never launched: worklark.com
• NonceStudios 6y ago
  A local multiplayer arcade game (great timing with the pandemic, I know). I think the current number and quality of local multiplayer PC games could be better. There are certainly some great games out there, but I believe there's a lot of room to explore new concepts as well. I also wanted to figure out just how much work it is to ship even a simple polished game. It's a pretty simple concept but I think has some potential (I've had fun testing it with friends at least). The version up works, but a new version with some fixes and features is in the works. If you are interested, can grab a friend or seven, and have some gamepads, give it a shot! https://noncestudios.itch.io/ballgame https://noncestudios.itch.io/ballgame I'm also looking for playtesting input, so if you have any comments I would love feedback! (On Itch.io or at this username on Reddit)
• mysterymath 6y ago
  I'm porting LLVM/Clang to the 6502. Notoriously difficult project, attempted dozens of times by as many folks. https://github.com/mysterymath/clang6502 https://github.com/mysterymath/clang6502 My take generates pretty darn good assembly for the cases it handles, but it's absurdly incomplete. Still, a huge amount of risk factors have already been addressed, and there's only a few big known unknowns left. Example input: void print_int(char x) { if (x < 10) { x += '0'; asm volatile ("JSR\t$FFD2" : "+a"(x)); return; } print_int(x / 10); print_int(x % 10); } Example output: .code .global print__int ; -- Begin function print_int print__int: ; @print_int ; %bb.0: ; %entry CMP #10 BMI LBB0__2 ; %bb.1: ; %if.end.preheader LDX #10 PHA ; 1-byte Folded Spill JSR ____udivqi3 JSR print__int PLA ; 1-byte Folded Reload LDX #10 JSR ____umodqi3 LBB0__2: ; %if.then CLC ADC #48 ;APP JSR $FFD2 ;NO_APP RTS ; -- End function .global ____udivqi3 .global ____umodqi3
  • rzzzt 6y ago
    OMF:2097 profile picture spotted! Loved the game as a child. Will the compiler support 65C02 instructions?
    • mysterymath 6y ago
      Shouldn't be too hard to add later, since they're mostly just swizzles onto the existing instructions, and LLVM already has good support for registering slightly different versions of a target (subtargeting). For now, I'm targeting the plain-jane MOS chip, since it's the buggiest and least capable, and thus the most difficult.
• delf 6y ago
  This has not been updated in a year or so as I am working on a Svelte-based replacement: https://www.nightlife.fm https://www.nightlife.fm It shows which DJ's are playing at which nightclubs. Since Covid started it has been quite empty, hence API/Svelte replacement.
• Sukram21 6y ago
  I’ve been working on this Google Slides productivity add-on as a side project: https://powerpack.21solutions.de/ https://powerpack.21solutions.de/ The idea is to spend less time tweaking your Google Slides - PowerPack makes positioning & alignment easier, finding licensed images & icons, and checking the consistency of the presentation. Inspired by similar add-ons for PowerPoint, like think-cell and empower slides. Quite hard to find the time besides a demanding full-time job, but it’s slowly getting better and better... :)
• chrsstrm 6y ago
  I built a service called Rotary Rider [0], which allowed you to order an Uber using just your voice. No need for a smartphone or the Uber app, you could call in using any touch-tone enabled voice line (that you had registered) and speak your current address and the address of your destination and we would present ride options and prices. Choose an option to book and then we would call you back when the driver was minutes away. The idea was primarily about accessibility - removing the requirements of needing a smartphone and app opens rideshare up to everyone. It was also a great backup option for those times when you need a ride but your phone doesn't have a good data connection. The system was finished and I was literally double-checking everything and preparing for a test ride (I even bought a Nokia feature phone to prove I wasn't using the Uber app) when Uber cut off access to their API (for everyone, not just me). I had always planned to integrate Lyft as well, but getting shut down on Uber really took the wind out my sails and the project died. I obviously still have all the code and if someone here works for Lyft and wants to see what ordering a ride without an app looks like, I could probably be persuaded to pick it back up. [0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20200804021958/https://rotaryrider.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200804021958/https://rotaryrid...
• d_watt 6y ago
  A purely in browser SQL editor and runner for education purposes, and to be able to quickly upload csvs for querying with SQL: https://editor-omega.vercel.app https://editor-omega.vercel.app Very rough currently, but press the "Chinook" button to get a demo sqlite database loaded in for usage. Or, upload a .csv and reload the page (bugs!). All data is stored in indexdb, nothing leaves the browser. cmd + enter to run the sql. Tech note: Uses WASM sqlite + Monaco (vscode) engine. This may eventually become a electon app instead to allow other DB drivers + better sql auto completion.
• zakokor 6y ago
  I built a web to basically temporarily save information that I found on the Internet and avoid keeping the links open on my cell phone to remember them, and I thought that it could be valuable for others to find that information curated in the form of link lists ... surely there was already something it would help me but I decided to build it to release it as open source and that could be improved by the community. Repo: https://github.com/zakokor/pegao https://github.com/zakokor/pegao My public bookmark: https://pegao.co/@zakokor https://pegao.co/@zakokor
• strzibny 6y ago
  https://deploymentfromscratch.com/ https://deploymentfromscratch.com/ Book on web application deployment, VERY close to pre-release. Previews: https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview_november_2020.pdf https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview_november_... https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview2_november_2020.pdf https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview2_november... Hit me up on Twitter (https://twitter.com/strzibnyj https://twitter.com/strzibnyj) if you are interested in beta reading it and help me out to polish it. Thanks!
• g1ntas 6y ago
  Boilerplate generator tool. It’s a single binary (compared to most JS based solutions e.g. Yeoman), and also it supports scripting within template files, which allows to handle some edge cases (in my experience most common problem with such tools). https://github.com/g1ntas/accio https://github.com/g1ntas/accio I didn’t want to separate scripts from templates, because of context switching, so I implemented custom markup language, to make code and template live together in single file. I am actually quite proud of the end result. However, there’re still quite some features missing, and I am taking a break now to focus on other projects.
• miccah 6y ago
  I have two: An android app to remotely control mpv: https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app An interactive CLI for sending parameterized HTTP requests: https://github.com/mcastorina/repost https://github.com/mcastorina/repost
• russellthehippo 6y ago
  brain-plasma: a fast Python dictionary interface to the Plasma shared memory object store (pyarrow project) https://github.com/russellromney/brain-plasma https://github.com/russellromney/brain-plasma I had a speed problem repeatedly loading large dataframes into memory for a Dash project - threads can’t share object updates and Redis gets slow with large objects. So I built brain-plasma. It lets you keep objects in memory, but separate from service memory - no need to read data into memory over and over. Fast access and arbitrary namespaces. It’s not perfect but it works well.
• advanced__pizza 6y ago
  I'm building a service for developers who want to help out small businesses or non-profits [0]. I'm still at the ideation stage, gauging interest, but would love to hear everyones thoughts! The backend is a simple Python/Flask/Postgres app [1] but holding off on building it out until there is more demand. Spun off a GCP Flask starter template from this repo useful for folks wanting to deploy python apps to GCP/App Engine [2]. Thanks for looking. [0] https://www.hackforgood.dev/signup https://www.hackforgood.dev/signup [1] https://github.com/ckahle33/hackforgood https://github.com/ckahle33/hackforgood [2] https://github.com/ckahle33/gcp-flask-template https://github.com/ckahle33/gcp-flask-template
  • Irongirl1 6y ago
    I submitted my email address and got a prompt to confirm, but no confirmation email came through. Is this what you meant by "not built out." I am sure it is clear to others but I'm so non-techie I could be retro. I could definitely use the help though. I have a bunch of file folders on my laptop that represent a fair few side projects...but I can't build my way out of a paper bag. I need an executioner. Someone who can just execute the basics all day so I run traffic through them and test to see if anyone else finds the idea worthy. I would love a simple, one sheet build guide that tells me what APIs to string together in what order...
  • wanttocommentt 6y ago
    awesome idea, but I think you should add some more skills to the list.
• Gazoo101 6y ago
  A bit late to the party, but I'm building PlanMixPlay. An audio/video DJ/VJ software that sits somewhere between a performance and a production environment. Thanks for reading! [0] http://www.planmixplay.com http://www.planmixplay.com [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0
• cameronehrlich 6y ago
  Presenting my half-baked Faxing app “Fax It”, built to take on Big Fax: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fax-it/id1458261691 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fax-it/id1458261691
• Jefro118 6y ago
  https://qualex.dev https://qualex.dev (landing page pushed yesterday). A tool to improve commit messages. I have some other plans to apply the API to other text around code (PRs and changelogs). Feedback on the idea very welcome.
  • solarmist 6y ago
    I like this.
• dgavey 6y ago
  I've been working on https://dedolist.com/ https://dedolist.com/ on and off since summer. I wanted a one stop place to find and be able to use open data from around the web. I even have an open API (no authentication required currently) for each data source. I have basically done no marketing at all for it. Mostly just wanted an excuse to play with some new technologies (Netlify and Eleventy in this case). Not sure how much I want to continue adding data sources or supporting it, but it doesn't really cost me much keeping it online currently.
• jscottmiller 6y ago
  I’ve been building a set of web based tools for making little multiplayer (and single player) games. https://www.miniboss.gg https://www.miniboss.gg All the tools, including programming, art, and sound are baked in. I’m reworking the editor now and hope to have a proper release this year.
• faebi 6y ago
  http://www.nochrichte.ch/ http://www.nochrichte.ch/ A hackernews for swiss news with a touch of RSS feeds. I had no users, adwords didn‘t work so I disabled most half implemented stuff. Now it‘s just a swiss news rss.
• the__alchemist 6y ago
  I built a search engine designed to balance against clickbait, SEO abuse etc. https://www.pageref.org/ https://www.pageref.org/. Also, no ads or tracking. Works well for some things, but needs improvement, especially for technical or specific queries.
• chrsstrm 6y ago
  I built a small voice communication portal I'm calling Rally Call [0] that will be submitted to the Digital Ocean/Dev hackathon tomorrow [1]. Rally Call is intended to be a backup group communication portal that can be used in emergencies and situations where use of cell phones is lost. It is essentially a group voicemail-box that runs on Twilio. If you and your group had the foresight to sign up for an account, you could use Rally Call to let others in your group know your status ("Hey everyone, I'm OK. I made it out and am staying at a friend's house") or to organize ("Let's all group up and meet at uncle John's house in two days."). You dial in from any touch tone phone and enter your Crew's Account PIN to access the account where you can listen to or record messages for the group. Only one Crew member needs to register for an account and can share the dial-in number and account PIN with anyone they want in their Crew. While the project's intent is a backup comm system for emergencies, it could obviously be used for any number of purposes. I still have a couple things to button up before submitting, but it's mostly done and should be a solid MVP by this time tomorrow. [0] - https://github.com/chrsstrm/rallycall https://github.com/chrsstrm/rallycall [1] - https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-digitalocean-app-platform-hackathon-on-dev-2i1k https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-digitalocean-app-platf...
  • nabeards 6y ago
    This is really great. I had thought of building something similar a few years ago, just never got around to it. Great work!
• kfarr 6y ago
  I'm working on detailed 3d visualizations of streets using WebXR (A-Frame and three.js). Still "half baked" :) Repo: https://kfarr.github.io/3dstreet/ https://kfarr.github.io/3dstreet/ Example use case: https://17thpreso.glitch.me/ https://17thpreso.glitch.me/ Traffic signals WIP: https://aframe-ped-signals.glitch.me/ https://aframe-ped-signals.glitch.me/ Would love to collaborate esp. with those interested in learning 3d web dev, urban planning, etc.
  • sneeuwpopsneeuw 6y ago
    Nice demo. I noticed some small things you could improve for when you are going to do a real demo. The shader of white houses the first link do not look right on my machine https://imgur.com/uo6ajXj.png https://imgur.com/uo6ajXj.png It looks a it like z-fighting and a bit like a shader error. the error is on both firefox and chromium, I only get some .drawMode has been removed. errors in the console. The second link took 20 seconds to load and was downloading 10mb, mostly slow images. Maybe you can lazyload those.
    • kfarr 6y ago
      Correct all around. Lots of room for optimization.
• svjatoslav 6y ago
  I would like to create tool to analyze, interact and compute with arbitrary dimensional data. Shall greatly extend human capabilities. General overview: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/ https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/ Ideas for computation: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/ https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/ 3D engine demos: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/ https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/ Because it is done on my little free time, it might be ready somewhere in the next 50 years or so.
• jmarquis 6y ago
  I've been working on a super simple Goodreads alternative off and on for the past year or two since I frankly can't stand the Goodreads UI. There's not much to it yet other than personal library management, but it's good enough that I already use it myself to track books I've read or want to read. https://rooseve.lt https://rooseve.lt
  • thismodernlife 6y ago
    Nice. I like GoodReads but it’s slow and unloved. Have you seen http://www.librarything.com/ http://www.librarything.com/
    • jmarquis 6y ago
      I have! Although to be honest I haven't given either of them a very fair shot since the UI and complexity are a pretty quick turn-off for me personally. It's hard to compete with the established community of either site though — maybe I'll figure out a way to integrate with one or both of them eventually so people have the option of keeping things in sync between Roosevelt and elsewhere. Another nice-looking solution I've been trying out is Readng: https://beta.readng.co https://beta.readng.co
• thismodernlife 6y ago
  https://blogline.co https://blogline.co I wrote this during the first lockdown mainly because I wanted to write some fresh code in the evenings, but also because I was dissatisfied with Wordpress, Tumblr, Posthaven and static sites, having tried all of them over the years for my blogs. A blog app is literally every web framework tutorial so it’s a bit embarrassing to show (“is that the best idea you’ve got?!”) but the funny thing is, I actually really love using it and it makes me want to write more, and I am writing more on my blogs! Which is the point of a writing/blogging app after all. It should encourage you to write, not get in the way with themes, CSS, hosting and all that entails. You can only sign up with an invite code because I haven’t fully decided whether to subject the world to YABA (yet another blog app). I was going to add billing support first as I don’t want to support free customers, but I might see what the reception is here first ;-) I have a bunch of ideas that will keep the basic writing/publishing concept but make it more of a hub for reading too.
  • piccolbo 6y ago
    What are the shortcomings of Wordpress, Tumblr etc and how did you address them? Thanks
• AlexDenisov 6y ago
  Not really half-baked, but not ready for the prime time either: Mull[0] is a tool for mutation testing of C and C++ projects. The goal of mutation testing is to show the gaps in the semantic coverage [0] https://github.com/mull-project/mull https://github.com/mull-project/mull
• glamp 6y ago
  I’ve been working on a site/app that displays river flows. This is something that is important for fly fishing (helps determine which flies to use, where to fish, etc.) My goal is to keep the OPEX as low as possible and not charge for it or run ads. Currently running using a combo of Vercel and GitHub Actions for $0 / month. https://riverreports.com https://riverreports.com
• donbrae 6y ago
  https://www.jazzkeys.fyi https://www.jazzkeys.fyi: a toolkit for jazz piano players. Landing page live; working on content in the background.
  • dmje 6y ago
    Loving it, will sign up :-)
• l2silver 6y ago
  It's a kids activities website for parents and caregivers. https://goodplans.app https://goodplans.app I would say I'm close to shutting it down after not getting any real traction over the break. I think I've had about 3-400 unique users, all parents, and I've got a low bounce rate, but no real repeat users.
  • solarmist 6y ago
    I saw your comment and that made me want to take a look. This is my first impression. I clicked on it and got dropped into a screen with a blank text field and a double ended slider. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do at this point. So I left. I have no idea if it is interesting, good, or bad, but I'm not going to waste any time with it unless I get a strong feeling that it will be worth it for me. To me this feels like I stumbled onto someone's prototype of something (I think), but there's no description or instructions or anything to give the user context or tell them what they can or can't do with it or why they might want to.
    • solarmist 6y ago
      I went back and clicked on one of the sliders and was presented with a button and a new tab. That at least gives me some indication of something to do. But it wasn't until I actually clicked the button that I got anything that might resemble content. That's also when the walk-thru pop up appeared. Don't make the user have guess. Also, very unexpectedly I actually felt intimidated by such a blank screen being presented to me. It felt like being dropped into MS Word or an IDE for the first time. It wasn't until I had stuff on the screen I could interact with that the (slight) anxiety went way.
• cole_cornford 6y ago
  https://www.colecornford.com/flashcards/ https://www.colecornford.com/flashcards/ I wrote this because I felt a lot of the online content for studying security content doesnt have great assessment options or an okay UX. Often they are awesome lists or too far into a specific niche. So wanted make a more general one thats quick and easy. The reason it is halfbaked is because I need to spend a lot more time on writing more questions AND refining/streamlining ones I have written already. My feedback I've receives so far has been that more focus should go into ensuring the questions are well written. Happy to hear feedback and hope you like my little piece.
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• wheybags 6y ago
  Unix cp, but with a proper progress bar, and much faster: https://github.com/wheybags/wcp https://github.com/wheybags/wcp Getting close now but not ready for real use. io_uring is awesome.
• andersthue 6y ago
  Working on a tree planting, earth saving, bio link tool :), have a few signups but need to rewrite the edit flow and a thousand other things on my todo. Frontpage https://maelt.co https://maelt.co Profile page https://maelt.co/anda https://maelt.co/anda
• basicallydan 6y ago
  Hi! I have a public Trello board [0] with a list of projects I'm working on, or ideas I have, which from time to time people comment on! Currently I'm doing a version of Conway's Game of Life in Solidity for the Ethereum network. Spoiler: it's not going to be affordable to actually use it on the network! 0: https://trello.com/b/v4dV9CQS/1-dans-side-project-ideas https://trello.com/b/v4dV9CQS/1-dans-side-project-ideas
• rpastuszak 6y ago
  https://ulysses.sonnet.io https://ulysses.sonnet.io -- It's a "text input" tool I built to develop a daily writing habit and reduce stress. It makes editing text really hard so you can focus on writing first: https://sonnet.io/posts/ulysses/ https://sonnet.io/posts/ulysses/ So far I'm doing 800-1000 words per day on average so I'm pretty happy with it! My fluency has improved drastically. TODO: - I need to change the name because Ulysses is a well known writing app. (I think I'll go for homer.sonnet.io--Homer was blind, I did like the stream of consciousness aspect as it describes the UX well...) - privacy-aware analytics (or a button you can tap if you enjoy the app). I have no idea how many people are using the app at the moment. - package as a Vercel app/docker image (so you can host your own instance easily) I'm also working on a small indie game called Mannerbomb. It's the opposite of Bomberman--you're a bomb trying to exit the level before exploding.
  • tonyjstark 6y ago
    Ulysses is really beautiful, no distractions and just a natural flow. As a name, maybe Ensō?
    • rpastuszak 6y ago
      Hm, that's a good idea, and it fits so well with the goal of the app, cheers!
• subpar 6y ago
  I made a thing the other weekend that returns a "canonical" image for whatever you put in the subdomain, for example: https://welcome.gif.so/ https://welcome.gif.so/ or https://goat.jpg.so/ https://goat.jpg.so/ I use it to quickly put an image of a thing in slack.
  • davchana 6y ago
    Nice usage of domains. Isn't each of .so domain like $80/year? or $60
• ronvoluted 6y ago
  Tailor - Chrome Extension that give you direct access to style DevTools with your own fully custom vanilla CSS. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tailor/cigchnpekefnhmjboagkcmlbpohcfjma https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tailor/cigchnpekef... When I say fully custom, I mean it: https://twitter.com/ronvoluted/status/1344629519638937602 https://twitter.com/ronvoluted/status/1344629519638937602 The idea came from the fact that when you zoom into DevTools, the entire thing gets enlarged including Panel tabs, setting icons, etc. It would be great if you could just zoom the source code under Elements or the input under Console. Well now you can! It's obviously out there for people to use already but it's half-baked because I want to improve the UI+UX, and I suppose this counts as DX too haha.
• nelsonenzo 6y ago
  Https://github.com/nelsonenzo/Tolocal - self hosted ngrok automated with terraform and wrapped in an nodejs cli to make it easy to configure and run (without knowing much about terraform)
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• thepra 6y ago
  https://collanon.app https://collanon.app collaboration tool based on threads with temporal anti bias anonymity in mind. Good also in business scenarios.
• r0s 6y ago
  https://testfromthetop.com/ https://testfromthetop.com/ I did a soft launch for my idea Test from the Top last year. After talking to so many engineers in my industry at conferences etc. I heard over and over their frustration with management; Ignoring or understanding the value of software testing. That reflected my own experience and so I decided to launch a set of management training videos. It's half-baked because I'm currently trying to understand what will actually sell, and get some feedback from customers. Mainly focusing on hiring guides and domain jargon currently. https://www.linkedin.com/company/test-from-the-top https://www.linkedin.com/company/test-from-the-top I want to be the person engineers tell their boss about to learn software testing from a high-level. I'm about to hire a social media manager to try to drive more traffic via blog posts. I have a ton of content developed already, getting geared up to hit it hard in 2021!
• oliv__ 6y ago
  https://beamhire.co https://beamhire.co, an easy way to create a beautiful careers page for your company. Still private for now since it's not 100% complete, but the landing page explains the basic, I'm curious to see if anyone would be interested in this service!
• mud_dauber 6y ago
  "The Commish". Think Monopoly for sports nerds, but with a broadcasting angle for the business crowd. Users start as fans & graduate to being athletes, team owners, coaches, commishes (league owners), referees (owning the rulebook for a sport), landlords (owning venues), etc. Or, users graduate to being broadcasters, content providers (eg, owning a gamefilm), sponsors/advertisers, and station owners (TV, radio, ...). Finally, users can become demographers. This means you can predict, for a given audience, their willingness to attend a game, buy merch, or "fan" a team or athlete. The idea is to offer a rolling, continuous slate of seasons in which users compete for properties. I've built some simple protos using RubyOnRails. The biggest challenge is settling on a set of rules/interactions between of the personas shown above.
• spiffytech 6y ago
  https://impermalink.spiffy.tech https://impermalink.spiffy.tech - Save Links for Later. Optimized for a triage-save-read-trash loop. I'm a long-time Instapaper/Pocket/Wallabag user. I love scanning my RSS feeds, saving links into those apps, and clicking 'mark all as read'. Then, when I have some downtime, I pore over all the interesting articles/videos I saved. I always have something interesting to read, and I can read it with focus, not doomscrolling and hoping to luck into something good. But Instapaper et al. aren't built for the way I use them. I put a link in, read it, and delete it. No tagging, no archiving. I usually don't even want text extraction. I just want to read something interesting, then I'm done with it. I can bookmark the link in my browser if I really want to. Also, I want to open HN/Reddit/YouTube links in their native mobile apps. Instapaper/Wallabag make that clumsy, Pocket makes it almost impossible. These apps also have bugs with sync, but I don't care about offline access, so why am I paying the cost for buggy offline sync I don't use? Impermalink is designed to streamline my workflow. You can share to it from other apps[0]. When you click a link to open it, it's marked for deletion and will disappear the next time you click another link. You can rescue a link from the recycle bin if you want to come back to it later. Links are grouped by domain, so it's easy to lump all those YouTube videos under a collapsed header so you can focus on other content. Links are just links - your browser will open them however it's normally configured to, including opening them in native apps on mobile. The app's condition is "rough and ready". It works enough that I use it every day and really enjoy it. The UX has obvious areas for improvement. The home page has no content. Svelte has bugs that double-render some of the content sometimes. But it's there, and it works. Give it a try, let me know what you think, impermalink@spiffy.tech [0] Install the app to your home screen with Chrome on Android. Yes, Chrome, not anything else, not even Chrome derivatives. I haven't tried on iOS yet. You can use the app in any browser you want, but only Chrome on Android knows how to share links to web apps. https://impermalink.spiffy.tech https://impermalink.spiffy.tech https://github.com/spiffytech/impermalink https://github.com/spiffytech/impermalink
• LadyCailin 6y ago
  MethodScript[0] is a programming language I’ve been working on for a decade or so. It’s can be run on the command line, but it started as and is mostly useful as a programming language for Minecraft server admins, through a bukkit plugin named CommandHelper. It has a lot to desire as a general purpose programming language, and it’s clearly a work in progress, with bugs aplenty I’m sure, but I’m proud of what’s there so far, and it’s got a niche but devoted following in the domain it’s currently in. Would love for more devs to join as contributors! [0] https://methodscript.com https://methodscript.com
• holler 6y ago
  I'm working on a new open public discussion site called Sqwok - https://sqwok.im https://sqwok.im The idea sprouted from using Slack & Reddit and wanting to combine the two and create a new place for live discussion that's accessible to a general audience. It's small so far but has a growing community of awesome people. In my mind it's still half-baked as there's a lot more work to do to fully bring it to life. Uses a lot of python, websockets, ember.js (recently did a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672)
• davidsojevic 6y ago
  I wanted to play around with websockets last year, so I started out by building out a prototype multiuser whiteboard in a few hours one weekend. From that, I decided it'd be cool to turn it into a game, so I built out a drawing/guessing game from there and got it up on a domain I'd been sitting on for a while (https://www.multiplayer.com.au/ https://www.multiplayer.com.au/) It's got some mild polish on it now, but there's still a lot of scenarios where disconnects/reconnects or generally unexpected behaviour can break the current game room. One of my goals this year is to address all the remaining bugs, add some more UI polish, then look into working on bots to seed a single game room because right now if you land on the game and no one else playing, you're met with a "please wait for another player to join" screen. This essentially means that it's BYO friends for the most part right now. Later in the year when the current game has been fully-baked, I'm sure I'll come up with some other random idea to try and it'll end up as another half-baked game to put up there.
  • oliv__ 6y ago
    Playing it right now, this isn't nearly half-baked, it's amazing and super fun!
    • davidsojevic 6y ago
      Thanks! It's definitely playable, but there's still a lot of room for improvement and a few pesky bugs that you definitely notice the longer you play. For example, only shortly after I posted here and all the current players had guessed correctly except for one person, then that person left, the game waited the extra 60 seconds for the round to time out instead of immediately because everyone left had answered it. Then there's things like the scoring system, game-generated hints, and all that little stuff that needs definite improvement... they mostly work at the moment, but they're, well... crap haha
• ls65536 6y ago
  I created SailNavSim, a real-time sailing navigation simulator using real-world weather/ocean data where you can also set up races and play with/against others online: https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/ https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/ Some months ago, I had also shared it as a Show HN post [0], and I am thankful for the feedback received then, but I will be the first to say it's still not really ready for "prime time" despite continuous improvements since. Mostly I've been focusing a lot on the simulation and back-end side of things, but I do think it could benefit from a more modern UI (maybe someday). Nonetheless, we have a small community of virtual sailors who regularly participate in races, and I could not be more grateful for all their feedback and help with this project so far! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661326
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• domano 6y ago
  My Flutter Hacker News Reader i hacked together for a tech talk (and want to finish). Here you can access it as a PWA https://techfriday.gomano.de https://techfriday.gomano.de
• chrisrickard 6y ago
  I started out as a software engineer, but have spent the 8 years building and running a custom software development agency, which was acquired last year by a larger company. I am now looking to help developers who want to start a software agency themselves, so have created Dev to Agency where I am writing about the lessons and insights I learned. https://www.devtoagency.com https://www.devtoagency.com
  • bugBunny 6y ago
    I tried to dm you, but you disabled dm on twitter. Somehow we have almost same path, running an agency at the moment with 9 ppl :-)
    • chrisrickard 6y ago
      Oh really, weird.. Do you follow me? whats your twitter I will reach out.
• qilisiang 6y ago
  I am currently working on my screenshot API SaaS. This project running on VM (like EC2) as opposed to most similar SaaS running in AWS lambda. I going to move to dedicated server for better performance. The project is working but I still need improve marketing site, multiple regions support, CDN caching, migrate to dedicated servers, billing, etc. If you sign up now, you basically getting all features for free and without restrictions! https://www.24browser.com/ https://www.24browser.com/
• isubasinghe 6y ago
  I'm working on a search engine in Rust which is unique because it can offer search in O(n), various sacrifices have been made in order to accommodate for this. I also want to support metadata filtering etc. but having some trouble with storing and indexing JSON through rocksDB. I've made some progress but not really there yet.
• princemaple 6y ago
  A platform for people to build real-time multiplayer games / multi-user apps with ease. Developers write JS code to only handle the rendering and interaction. Separate game code written in a DSL will be parsed and run on the server. A SDK is provided to help the client side communicate with the game / app server. A dirty PONG demo at https://dev.byog.live/games/pong https://dev.byog.live/games/pong Very early SDK at https://github.com/byog-live/byog-sdk https://github.com/byog-live/byog-sdk The PONG demo with more organized code at https://github.com/byog-live/byog-example-pong https://github.com/byog-live/byog-example-pong A playground was under development to help devs understand the platform and this is where I burnt out https://play.byog.live/ https://play.byog.live/ It's been a few months since I last worked on it. Sigh.
• hgarg 6y ago
  Recently got access to OpenAI. Thinking of building something in the Education space for Kids. Any Ideas would be welcome.
• spicysheep 6y ago
  Self driving toy car that uses deep learning and comes with a web app for data collection (driving with a PS3 controller), data cleaning, model training, and model deployment: https://github.com/RyanZotti/Self-Driving-Car https://github.com/RyanZotti/Self-Driving-Car I’ve been working on this for 5 years, and it has hundreds of GitHub stars, but it will probably always be half baked. I also haven’t had a chance to commit code in awhile
• fromaj 6y ago
  I had an idea for a library that follows log files and triggers some events that can be defined through python code. I used it for one task at work and gave up on figuring out how to structure it since. The idea is that it allows you to verify and test logging, which is an odd concept but helps ensure that things are predictable and consistent. https://github.com/arvind-iyer/logan/ https://github.com/arvind-iyer/logan/
• jrpt 6y ago
  Super Source (supso.org) Open source software is used by practically all businesses, yet maintainers are overwhelmed and under-appreciated. Donations barely make any money. The solution? Don't give it away for free! Fork your own project and release the next version under a paid license with Super Source. (You can still make it free for non-profits and individuals) Larger businesses pay more money.
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• krishnanunnir 6y ago
  I am working on this www.ezhuth.in. This is a website I am building as a social media for my vernacular language(Malayalam), my main reasoning being 1. Facebook has a lot of Malayalam discussions and literature but they are lost past a few days, and it is very difficult to rediscover this content. Basically we are losing out on quality content once Facebook has decided it is not viable to show a post algorithmically. 2. For vernacular languages niche content has largely been reduced to Youtube, but still there are no platforms for discussion on these topics. 3. his might sound generic but we often hear about stories of kids chancing on content on the internet and developing a passion for a subject, what are the chances this can happen if you are not English speaking? We can learn from China on this, even though it is a population that is largely shielded from the rest of the world, their adoption of native langauge on the internet have allowed for proliferation of all kinds content to everyone. 4. Localisation is the future. Being able to use our own language has allowed a lot of people to explode on the scene and make a living - ask tiktokers. I am not yet done with the features, but a priority for me now is to do translations to Malayalam and get audience coming.
• blubeard 6y ago
  Long time reader, first time poster. I'm nervous posting; but anyway I wanted to share my reading platform: https://tutee.io/books https://tutee.io/books In short I wanted to create a platform that allows kids and adults to enjoy reading regardless if the content is fiction or non-fiction. However, I didn't want just another material design site, I wanted to make it add a retro aspect to it. It's using MDB, a heavily hacked RPGUI (http://ronenness.github.io/RPGUI/ http://ronenness.github.io/RPGUI/), old school fonts (previously posted on HN https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/), and using OctoberCMS as the backend. There's so much content in the wild web but reading it can make your eyes strain (especially on large / wide monitors). Reading pages should be easy on the eyes, making it reading more enjoyable. In addition, the concept is to take content and split the content into smaller chunks. For fiction I want to import books from (https://www.gutenberg.org/ https://www.gutenberg.org/). For a full book example, I took Frankenstein https://tutee.io/pages/frankenstein/1 https://tutee.io/pages/frankenstein/1 For a full short story, I took H.G Well's A dream of Armageddon: https://tutee.io/pages/dream-armageddon/1 https://tutee.io/pages/dream-armageddon/1 Finally for e-learning, I have some AWS notes: https://tutee.io/pages/cloud-computing/1 https://tutee.io/pages/cloud-computing/1 Another thing that helps is the Summary section that will help you remember or refresh where you left off. Note: the summary notes are made up...just filling it in beyond Lipsum. In the end I would love to make it social where users can create their own content such as short stories, full books, or even notes. Perhaps even the agility to collaborate or write material together, "check out books" (like going to the library) except you can contribute your own material in the book you just checked out. I would love some help in developing this further and taking it to the next level. For those readers out there, I can use some help on content to put up there as well as summary notes as I don't have time to read everything I post. If you have a book from GutenBerg you want imported please let me know (assuming you can provide summary on each chapter) as my current time is dedicated on developing the site. That's it , I hope you enjoy it. I'll take any feedback or suggestions I can get.
• aidangrimshaw 6y ago
  Open source federal income tax calculator / filer https://ustaxes.org/w2employerinfo https://ustaxes.org/w2employerinfo https://github.com/thegrims/UsTaxes https://github.com/thegrims/UsTaxes
• vinhnx 6y ago
  I've been working on a minimal calendar app on my spare time. I only use Calendar for everything note, so having an app for me is both satisfying and something I wanting to build for a long time. I will release the app on the app store soon. > https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site/ https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site/
• Zealotux 6y ago
  https://bonfiretabletop.com https://bonfiretabletop.com A virtual tabletop for RPGs, because I was just not satisfied with the current offering. It's very not supposed to be available to a lot of people right now, there are a lot of bugs and it's still light-years away from what I want. But hey, you can register an account and play a few sessions, I see it more like an advanced POC than a MVP, which I'm currently working on. Feel free to join our Discord server to chat about it!
• jadavies 6y ago
  A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-method/ https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is released under a GPL licence - https://github.com/john-davies/mapter https://github.com/john-davies/mapter Problems / improvements are * Improved Editor with features like search/replace and undo. At the moment the GTKSourceView component looks a likely candidate. * A method of moving or swapping the contents of cells without a lot of cutting & pasting ( drag & drop? ) * There's also an annoying bug with the tree control drag & drop that I need to fix I'm currently using it to try and write a novel. I'm about 35% of the way through and it works surprisingly well.
• marcospoerl 6y ago
  https://crowdfunded.fyi https://crowdfunded.fyi I want to support the creator community. The idea behind Crowdfunded is to provide data on past crowdfunding campaigns as a foundation for product research. You can use the data to understand customer demand, discover successful product categories, see what competitors are launching, and find promising product ideas. Or do some general research on crowdfunding.
• kzerby 6y ago
  http://my-handicapped-pet.io/ http://my-handicapped-pet.io/ Intended to be _no less_ the free and simple Data Analysis platform for all. But because I'm lazy ass, it's like a high school lab project.
• mbar84 6y ago
  https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/sbk https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/sbk WIP documentation: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/sbk/READMEv2.html https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/sbk/READMEv2.html Looking for long term contributors, especially for documentation and code auditing.
• asgekar 6y ago
  We have a Android Keyboard, a working application. However, we know it needs more work and some more killer features. In that sense it's half-baked. Lipee Keyboard ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.svayu.lipi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.svayu.lipi ) is a keyboard for Indic scripts and languages that uses gestures to speed up typing by 100%. I am also my own prime user, typing various texts (messages, social media, etc.) in Indic scripts, so I can also vouch of its utility myself. A video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgW9V4YOHGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgW9V4YOHGQ The first novelty is that it solely focuses on people who do NOT read/write English, but know their own mother tongue and script well. So, a native Kannada user (of Kannada script) or Bhojpuri person (of Devnagari script) are our prime targets. The second novelty is that almost all Indic scripts add an extra line/symbol next to consonants, called "maatras" to create sound out of a consonant. Each sound has a unique maatra, for any consonant. We use gestures to add such a maatra to all consonants, which speeds up the keyboard typing hugely. We know we can add more features and killer technologies to make typing in Indic scripts very smooth and fast. We need more tech talent and support to make this happen, and I hope to on-board a CXO or a senior free-lancer for rapid development. Do up-vote if you like this project, and spread the word! Thanks!
• elisescu 6y ago
  A very simple tool for sharing a terminal session over the Internet. It doesn't require anything for the remote person to join the session. https://github.com/elisescu/tty-share https://github.com/elisescu/tty-share
• wildfyre 6y ago
  Clubhouse App Growth Tool... https://joinmyclub.co/ https://joinmyclub.co/
• morenoh149 6y ago
  A social network for nyc for finding activity partners https://littlive.com https://littlive.com Still fixing up the mobile app
• r0ck3r008 6y ago
  Hey HN, this is a project started abut 2 months ago as an assignment to myself so that I can finally learn Go. Its an implementation of Kademlia DHT protocol in form of a Go lib. I eventually want to make it useful for the community but right now its largely untested. https://github.com/r0ck3r008/kademgo https://github.com/r0ck3r008/kademgo
• danskeren 6y ago
  https://ask.moe https://ask.moe Ask.Moe is a European non-profit, free and open-source software, privacy-focused search engine. The initial plan is to build various categories, such as Podcast, Flight, Food, Shop, Math, etc. This approach will allow us to provide higher quality results compared to a general-purpose search engine, and it can hopefully allow us to slowly grow until we figure out how to handle the costs of Bing's API. We just launched a Domain category (https://ask.moe/domain https://ask.moe/domain), which consist of a domain name finder that makes it easy to find great domains like FireFox, MailChimp, TaskRabbit, etc. by combining two words, searching through hundreds of domains in seconds.
• relaunched 6y ago
  iprompted.com - dead simple task reminders that others schedule for you w/ a feedback loop I never was able to crack into a niche / use case for an addressable market. If anyone wants to help, let me know. Email in contacts.
• BrandoElFollito 6y ago
  My first real public project: a way to handle some smart plugs on a LAN (https://github.com/wsw70/meross-local-mqtt https://github.com/wsw70/meross-local-mqtt). The project itself is not that interesting for the majority of pepole. What was nice for me was this kind of thrill to push something for everyone to share. I put more attention into the details, description, etc. A very fulfilling learning experience. This is going to help me release the 10 or so other projects I was keeping private but was ashamed to publish. I just need to find some time to polish them.
• desertraven 6y ago
  I’m looking to phase out my phone wherever possible, so when I’m out and about I would like to use my notebook to replace some phone functions (notes, non-urgent messages, adding to a list, setting a reminder, new contact, etc). The issue is, once I write in my notebook, I tend to never reread what I’ve written. Enter Typoglyph. I assign blocks of text a glyph or symbol (#, <, ~, etc). I can then map these symbols to any command using the text as input. At the end of each day I simply snap a picture of my notebook pages and all the queued actions in my notebook are executed. Unfortunately I’m using Google Cloud OCR, as it’s the most accurate at detecting handwriting (that I’ve found). It also doesn’t allow for custom glyphs.
  • drusepth 6y ago
    This sounds super cool. A few questions, if you don't mind: 1) Do you have any examples of the kinds of "actions" you execute (and what you would write to execute them)? Is the text also in some kind of strict DSL (e.g. @ firstname lastname number to add a contact?) 2) How do reminders work? I'd assume only at-least-next-day ones work well if you only execute/set them at EOD. Do you use them more to remind you of daily things in the morning, or do you have your phone ping you throughout the day as specific-time reminders kick in? 3. Are you planning on releasing this as an app? Planning on adding any support for people adding their own glyphs/actions? (I ask because I've been tempted to do something similar, but moreso for worldbuilding -- where I jot down character/location ideas and OCR them into notebook.ai later or similar). Does it work on any notebook, or do you need a special one to anchor for OCR accuracy?
    • desertraven 6y ago
      Hi there, thanks for the interest! Edit: new line characters don’t seem to work on HN. So the commands might not make much sense. 1. A couple of examples I’ve been using for development: # Joe Smith 314 395 112 % why is the sky blue? +¥:3 Carrots Avocado Tomato Spaghetti $Joe Smith Long time no talk Hi Joe, it’s been a while. How are the kids? # - create contact % - research (will open browser with this search term when getting home) + - add to list ¥ - shopping : - denotes length of list. The above will ignore spaghetti. $ - send email Regarding the separators, I’ve obviously been using new line for the different arguments, but could use anything. More so I was trying to make it so you could annotate any page from the past in glyphs. Just annotate a few glyphs on an existing page (or whiteboard) and it’d run operations. I’ve tried lots of systems, but there’s always pros and cons. Open to suggestions! 2. More so I’d use them to remind me of dates or set wake up alarm. Reminders throughout the day doesn’t really help me (plus the phone isn’t with me). But there’s no reason you couldn’t do all of the options you mentioned. 3. I did a proof of concept as a desktop app. I’d just upload pictures I took to cloud, and pull down. Because desktop is much more powerful for the user, I could write custom scripts and run them from the notebook. But an app would be a good idea for those who don’t mind the hit in flexibility. DEFINITELY have support for custom glyphs. Because I’m using Google OCR I don’t currently have support for custom glyphs (a little shape or squiggle), hence the glyphs are just symbol characters. But yes they can be created and assigned actions. I’ve been using it on any old book. Just make sure the lighting is ok. Of course it’s not always perfect, but it’s close enough if you take effort to write clearly.
• timqian 6y ago
  https://feeds.pub https://feeds.pub A social RSS reader
• PhilosAccnting 6y ago
  I built a map that tried capturing all the programming languages. It's about 700-1000 of them. https://github.com/PhilosAccounting/langmap https://github.com/PhilosAccounting/langmap My reasoning is that there's plenty of looking forward, but lots of rework from not observing history. The map is an ambitious attempt to capture everything. It's amazing how arcane some stuff gets in 40 short years! I'm also rather discouraged about how much work it's taking given my present technical acumen, so anyone is free to hijack all my data and make something better than I can.
• gadders 6y ago
  https://www.outagereports.net/ https://www.outagereports.net/ Was building up a library of outage reports/post mortems.
• pseudoselector 6y ago
  This is a little past half-baked... https://mindfulmanager.io https://mindfulmanager.io It's a productivity app I've been building for the last couple months that allows you to manage your focus, organize your projects, keep a daily journal, and work in timed sessions. There are a lot of additional features that I will be releasing soon as well :) This is actually the first time I've told anyone about it, as I still have a lot of refinement to do, but I'm looking forward to early feedback! I made a 20% off discount code for this thread - just enter HN20 at check out if you're interested! Also, if you can't afford it, just hit me up and I'll hook you up ;) Super excited! Happy coding everybody!
• geekster777 6y ago
  Not even at the development stage yet, but I want an app version of the "X days since the last accident" sign to use for accountability. I want my phone to tell me "7 days since you last called your parents", "4 days since you last did the dishes", "3 hours since you just took a moment for yourself". These would be silent yet persistent notifications that I'd see anytime I check my phone. Easy to dismiss/reset to 0. I want to feel accountable before the task turns into something I'm ashamed of like "147 days since you called your grandma". I imagine you'd set thresholds for each event, and the notifications would have a simple reset button. But other than that, you'd never really open the app. If you do something on your own, it'll feel good to dismiss the item like crossing it off the todo list. I assume this would be real easy to make, but learning anything app related always feels like a monolithic task. I'd ironically love a "It's been 4 days since you looked up Android documentation" to help keep me on track with this project (:
  • krenel 6y ago
    I strongly suggest you the Loop Habit Tracker [1][2]. Simple yet powerful app. You configure your habits and associate a frequency, and once done they disappear from the list. You can set up reminders/alarms as well. The only "tip" I would suggest to you is to open the app once a day. For that, I created a daily habit of "checking my habits". A little bit meta, but it holds myself accountable. Some of my tracked habits: calling mom/grandma, reading, use Anki, gratitude journal, exercice, drink 1.5L or water a day, meditate, breathing exercices, no screen time after 20:00, etc. Of course, not meant to disencourage you from doing your own app, just to show how I scratch my very same itch. May the code be with you ;) [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits&hl=en&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha... [2] It's an OpenSource project! https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
• lcall 6y ago
  http://onemodel.org http://onemodel.org A text-mode personal organizer with internal structure and plans to capture/manage/share/integrate arbitrary knowledge for & by humankind, something like AGPL + wikipedia or evernote + local control + structured/effective/efficient sharing + computability more than with just piles of words as the fundamental layer. Currently in scala+postgresql, aiming for rust and maybe sqlite. Self-explanatory site I hope; I use it daily and am making very slow progress (health limits currently). But maybe it is just for my own benefit. Hard to say :)
• NiagaraThistle 6y ago
  I've got a couple in various stages (shiny item syndrom maybe ?) https://ZeroToCentury.com https://ZeroToCentury.com - basically enter in your name, optional email, start date, fitness level, cycling level, and miles / km, and it creates a riding schedule for you to build up to riding a century (100 miles) over the course of about 50 days (depending on riding and fitness levels). It was a quick throw away app that i built to keep myself accountable during the summer / fall to get out and ride my bike. I rode a lot but was not consistent nor did i hit my century...i did lose 20 pounds which i've subsequently gained back since october though :( https://Eurotripr.com https://Eurotripr.com - planned to be a site to showcase itineraries to allow users to plan trips to Europe (COVID obviously threw a wrench in this one), but it's been a goal of mine for over a decade to build something like this that helps people plan trips to Europe and build a community around European Travelers. I recently saw what Pieter Levels did with NomadList and figured it was finally time to get off my A$$ and build the thing...but COVID, life, 9-5, procrastination habit got in the way again http://craigcampbell.io http://craigcampbell.io - Test site for Soccer Skills Training App (its behind a login but free and i won't contact anyone who registers to check it out, i'll probably just delete you) - built this for a local soccer club when COVID first hit to allow coaches to upload training videos (self made or from Youtube/vimeo) and have players compete in app by practicing new skills http://craigcampbell.io/books.php http://craigcampbell.io/books.php - My personal reading list - i built this out this month and entered all the books i have in my ever growing 'want to read' pile / library. https://Solomaker.life https://Solomaker.life - blog site to discuss my journey to try to get out of the 9-5 and build an actual useful project i can monetize. The goal WAS to document my journey daily, but life and procrastination destroy me :/
• hershyb_ 6y ago
  I wanted to build a location based discussion application. I thought during covid, people who were talking to others in the same area it could be really helpful for people feeling lonely so I built an app called Jest. It's still in beta, but I would love it if anyone could try it out and send feedback :) https://testflight.apple.com/join/NPwgYK3H https://testflight.apple.com/join/NPwgYK3H
• pidtuner 6y ago
  A tool I made to use myself, but also colleagues that were asking me all the time to help them with the task of tuning their PID algorithms. https://pidtuner.com https://pidtuner.com
• smhanov 6y ago
  https://languagenow.app https://languagenow.app I created an HTML app to help you learn Mandarin or German. It's flashcards for vocabulary and writing. I was very excited about it a couple of years ago but then I stopped and now I'm the only one using it. It's written in go and postgresql and Vue, and right now its just running inside of a "screen" session in a terminal on Linode.
• larrydag 6y ago
  Boardgame Recommendation Engine based on collections from boardgamegeek.com. Needs more work. Built it off of the R Shiny platform. https://larrydag.shinyapps.io/boardgame_reco/ https://larrydag.shinyapps.io/boardgame_reco/
• kmclean 6y ago
  This is so true but my biggest struggle. Everything I have just shipped before I thought it was ready did really well, yet I still struggle to do it. I built my own static site generator, which I use for my own blog: https://github.com/kiramclean/morphy https://github.com/kiramclean/morphy I need to at least add documentation, and obviously there's a million other things I think I need before I tell anyone else about it.
• agent00shoe 6y ago
  I built a tool to help realtors easily create slideshows from still photos without any technical knowledge. It hasn't really gotten a lot of traction and there are probably other markets where this might be useful, but I've been so busy with other stuff lately. https://www.vidboto.com/ https://www.vidboto.com/
• czue 6y ago
  I tried to make an analytics tool for Github repository contributions, but never got it "good enough" to do much with. It also times out a lot on API calls which makes it a pretty poor UX. https://repostory.app/ https://repostory.app/
• seogasparini 6y ago
  I made a lorem ipsum generator for landscaping words called "Landscape Ipsum" and I'm pretty sure no one besides me will ever have a practical use for it. Okay even I didn't need it. http://www.landscapeipsum.com/ http://www.landscapeipsum.com/
• rphillips 6y ago
  I made a tool to take my Kindle highlights and import them into a SQLite database wrapped in a Datasette website. https://github.com/rphillips/datasette-kindle-highlights https://github.com/rphillips/datasette-kindle-highlights
• amorriscode 6y ago
  https://postage.care/ https://postage.care/ I build a tool for residents at care homes to find pen pals around the world. I didn't try to get care homes on board so the project basically died upon launch. Sometimes I think about trying to go for it or make it just a general pen pal service instead...
• caviv 6y ago
  A friend of mine she is a professional beach volley ball player. She said there is not enough information on the internet about Women Beach Volleyball. No leagues or players information, so I have started working on https://wwbv.org https://wwbv.org for Women Beach Volleyball data, players, games, tours, etc'. I never finished though.
• jurajpal 6y ago
  http://returnofthenewsletter.com/ http://returnofthenewsletter.com/ For @martinsrna and I, newsletters became the go-to source for learning from domain experts like Packy McCormick who writes Not Boring, Lenny Rachitsky, or Stratechery’s Ben Thompson. But we think there should be a better reading and learning experience that also helps with the newsletter fatigue so we started working on a newsletter reader as a side project. We spent the past few weeks validating the idea, spoke with over 20 potential users to better understand the problem and have a clickable prototype in Figma. Right now, we’re looking for someone who could help us build the first MVP. If you’re looking to get involved with a side project and any of this resonates with you, we'd love to chat!
• mhulse 6y ago
  A macOS Node.js module/app that generates a random Google Street View desktop wallpaper. https://github.com/mhulse/kludgy https://github.com/mhulse/kludgy Note: I have not ran this code for some months now, but last time I ran it, it worked OK. I had a lot of fun building it and reverse-engineering the Google street view API was a good challenge. Overall, it was quite a bit of work. https://github.com/mhulse/kludgy/wiki/History https://github.com/mhulse/kludgy/wiki/History (This is my first post here, but I read this on Hacker news newsletter and thought I'd share.)
• piniyini 6y ago
  A little late but I would like to chime in with mine https://emailalerts.net https://emailalerts.net
• rrjoson 6y ago
  I started posting a weekly review series of my notes as I try to progress my skills based on CircleCI's engineering competency matrix. Would love to get any feedback/ideas on how I can improve this https://rrjoson.hashnode.dev/weekly-engineering-competency-review-2 https://rrjoson.hashnode.dev/weekly-engineering-competency-r...
• robalicious 6y ago
  I built a quiz that loads when Google Analytics is loading (I've spent a lot of time waiting) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buffer-buddy/ehnggpfjmbapbcpgdjhonppagcefeicl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buffer-buddy/ehngg... Added a payment system to buy more trivia but no one used it and the Google Chrome payments system is about to be decommissioned. Plan on making all content free but barely bothered lol
• radotzki 6y ago
  A funny multiplayer trivia game: https://bullshit.wtf/ https://bullshit.wtf/
• adamjlev 6y ago
  Youtube video zapper: https://zapper.video/ https://zapper.video/ Do you miss zapping through channels like back in the day, and ending up on a random documentary about ants in the amazon rainforest, zap again, you're in the middle of a Spice Girls music video? The channels are generated by aggregating lists of finely tuned youtube search results, and some randomness. I haven't touched the code in a few months but it works well enough, let me know what you think and also let me know which channels you would like added. Thx!
• mrdobelina 6y ago
  https://www.discofm.co https://www.discofm.co Actually live and working, but looking for an iOS Developer/vinyl fan to take it to the next level!