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Ask HN: New APIs to Build on Top Of?

20 points by PodCurator 5y ago

Any cool new APIs / cos to build stuff on top of for a weekend project?

thedevindevops 5y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API Fill your boots
speechly 5y ago
Speechly (https://www.speechly.com/ https://www.speechly.com/) enables you to create new kind of voice user interfaces with real time visual feedback easily for any use case. Easy to use libraries available for iOS, web, React and Android. Great use cases: - any app that needs to input (modifiable) items, such as food/health tracking, fast food ordering, etc - any app that has search filtering (see fashion.speechly.com for a demo) - or of course anything that benefits from voice, such as innovative games, apps used on the go etc Check it out!
- Graffur 5y ago
  Nice, but the first thing I always try with these things is negative phrases. E.g. "show me shoes that are not Adidas" doesn't seem to work. Positive flows worked great though.
hulitu 5y ago
X11, glibc
- hnnnnnnng 5y ago
  z lib might be a good option too
- hulug 5y ago
  X11 is a crime against humanity.
bemmu 5y ago
OpenAI GPT3 if you can get access.
- muzani 5y ago
  That's a big if. I'd be happy with just GPT-2.
- nocobot 5y ago
  is it really that hard to get access? it was a pretty painless process for me and I was just hacking together some toy projects.
finiteseries 5y ago
I have some Red Bull in the fridge for when https://www.albedo.space/ https://www.albedo.space/ finally opens. Ultra high resolution satellite imagery for $15 a pop, it’s ridiculous.
- hnnnnnnng 5y ago
  What are your plans to do with it? Create a reseller website?
  - finiteseries 5y ago
    Oh no, ridiculous in a good way. Prices in this space can be insane, and high resolution consumer stuff has only been legal for a year or two IIRC. To answer though, secret wild hog tracking first off if it ends up good enough. Family has property and a nearby asshole running hog hunts with alarming frequency.
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- photojosh 5y ago
  That looks amazing. I'll be placing instant orders for my house and the local running/MTB trail areas.
- akg_67 5y ago
  When do you think Albedo will be available? IIRC, their satellite will not be in orbit till 2024. Did they change their business direction?
ArtWomb 5y ago
Etherscan ;) https://etherscan.io/apis https://etherscan.io/apis Amazon is sponsoring a new ($50k) challenge on AI Crowd. Sense and avoid airbourne objects in autonomous flight. Relative velocities at which these things fly makes classification and tracking look extremely hard. But data set could be applied to search for UFOs... https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/airborne-object-tracking-challenge https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/airborne-object-tracking-...

20 points by PodCurator 5y ago

Any cool new APIs / cos to build stuff on top of for a weekend project?

thedevindevops 5y ago

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API Fill your boots

speechly 5y ago

Speechly (https://www.speechly.com/ https://www.speechly.com/) enables you to create new kind of voice user interfaces with real time visual feedback easily for any use case. Easy to use libraries available for iOS, web, React and Android. Great use cases: - any app that needs to input (modifiable) items, such as food/health tracking, fast food ordering, etc - any app that has search filtering (see fashion.speechly.com for a demo) - or of course anything that benefits from voice, such as innovative games, apps used on the go etc Check it out!

Graffur 5y ago
Nice, but the first thing I always try with these things is negative phrases. E.g. "show me shoes that are not Adidas" doesn't seem to work. Positive flows worked great though.

hulitu 5y ago

X11, glibc

hnnnnnnng 5y ago
z lib might be a good option too
hulug 5y ago
X11 is a crime against humanity.

bemmu 5y ago

OpenAI GPT3 if you can get access.

muzani 5y ago
That's a big if. I'd be happy with just GPT-2.
nocobot 5y ago
is it really that hard to get access? it was a pretty painless process for me and I was just hacking together some toy projects.

finiteseries 5y ago

I have some Red Bull in the fridge for when https://www.albedo.space/ https://www.albedo.space/ finally opens. Ultra high resolution satellite imagery for $15 a pop, it’s ridiculous.

hnnnnnnng 5y ago
What are your plans to do with it? Create a reseller website?
- finiteseries 5y ago
  Oh no, ridiculous in a good way. Prices in this space can be insane, and high resolution consumer stuff has only been legal for a year or two IIRC. To answer though, secret wild hog tracking first off if it ends up good enough. Family has property and a nearby asshole running hog hunts with alarming frequency.
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photojosh 5y ago
That looks amazing. I'll be placing instant orders for my house and the local running/MTB trail areas.
akg_67 5y ago
When do you think Albedo will be available? IIRC, their satellite will not be in orbit till 2024. Did they change their business direction?

ArtWomb 5y ago

Etherscan ;) https://etherscan.io/apis https://etherscan.io/apis Amazon is sponsoring a new ($50k) challenge on AI Crowd. Sense and avoid airbourne objects in autonomous flight. Relative velocities at which these things fly makes classification and tracking look extremely hard. But data set could be applied to search for UFOs... https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/airborne-object-tracking-challenge https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/airborne-object-tracking-...