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Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

• deleted 5y ago
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• mg 5y ago
  I am building an open source web framework comparison. The idea is to put together a project that gives an overview of how to set up a minimal viable web application from scratch via all the different frameworks. For each framework the project features a self explanatory shell script that builds a web app with routing, templates and user accounts. So there is no ambiguity of how to reproduce the results. And it is even possible to just copy&paste the steps into a docker container and see the framework in action. Here is the repo: https://github.com/no-gravity/web_app_from_scratch https://github.com/no-gravity/web_app_from_scratch So if you want to compare how the frameworks do templating, you can look at the "Let's use templates" part and have a quick overview of how it is done in Django, Laravel, Flask, Symfony, NextJS... I wrote the beginning of the Django script and two developers contributed Laravel and Symfony scripts. So far we have routing and templates. All three still need user accounts. If you are experienced in a web framework, feel free to add to one of the scripts or a new one and send a pull request!
  • vinyl7 5y ago
    Here is a similar project: https://medium.com/@ericsimons/introducing-realworld-6016654d36b5 https://medium.com/@ericsimons/introducing-realworld-6016654...
    • mg 5y ago
      Yes, there are a couple of these "build the same thing in different stacks" projects. The main difference is the "no ambiguity" approach I take. When you look at the Django part of the project you linked to, you see it starts with 8 manual steps and then a bunch of optional steps in case it does not work. I want to have no ambiguity. No manual steps. That is why every framework is handled by a script that is guaranteed to work on Debian 11 and leads to a running web app.
  • mdrzn 5y ago
    That sounds really cool, I have no knowledge of frameworks but I will definitely be a beta-testing user if needed.
    • mg 5y ago
      Great! You can find me on Twitter to be updated on the progress of the project: https://twitter.com/marekgibney https://twitter.com/marekgibney
  • Nextgrid 5y ago
    I'd suggest keeping the project templates in Cookiecutter-style repos (https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter) instead of embedding them as heredocs in a shall script.
  • gremlinsinc 5y ago
    I want to do something similar, only...for UI frameworks... So on the sidebar you have components...one is a sidebar right? so you click on it..on the right pane it shows implementations on the top of the pain is a dropdown so you can switch from say. MUI to AntD to Vuetify, etc... some are narrow scoped frameworks (Vuetify for example is only Vue), some are Wide... Tailwind Kit for example or Daisy UI... they target tailwind but are JS Framework agnostic... So under each implementation of each component might be code for Rails, Laravel, Django, views and maybe even some sort of api integration where you can have a webhook that can either connect to your dev and push the code to the right places, OR it could put it in a queue if your local dev can't receive incoming normal http requests, you could just use a cron job or manually import the code from your localhost backend... I'm imaging this sort of being like a mixture of low-code meets Storybook with already developed ui components, and you could even import full templates, etc... So for backend devs w/ an idea 90% of the UI stuff is just drag/drop etc.... you could even have a way to combine elements somehow so you can build up a whole page of elements...and some sort of marketplace where people could share designs and maybe charge like $1 for the code snippet MIT license, but access to the code is $1. Edit: It'd also be cool to extend this to data-layer..so say I am designing my migrations/models... and I want an Employees table....well maybe I type in employees and it organically lists all the columns previous people have used for employees tables and ranks them by how often it was used... so you can basically have most of the data points that are pretty common across similar apps be shared and almost done for you...and then you can export to django, rails, prisma, hasura, laravel, etc...
• DamnYuppie 5y ago
  What you mentioned seems to be the point of www.polywork.com. They want to make meeting people who want to collaborate easier.
  • boringg 5y ago
    Yeah but that site has a strong monetary angle from what I can tell. This is just a simple list board of people sharing ideas.
    • DamnYuppie 5y ago
      From what I can see there is no monetary angle to polywork. Their goal is to empower collaboration.
• megabless123 5y ago
  I'm looking to support any climate-tech projects. I'm a mobile dev but can pick up any language / framework / tool. Particularly interested in ReFi and the intersection between web3 and climate.
  • moralestapia 5y ago
    Hello there! Send me an email (check profile), I've never thought about web3 + climate, but we do a lot of climate tech so let's talk.
  • RankingMember 5y ago
    You might want to check out https://climateaction.tech/ https://climateaction.tech/ and join the Slack.
  • morphle 5y ago
    contact me at morphle at ziggo dot nl for two climate-tech startups that can use your support
  • radamba 5y ago
    Hey, if you're interested in working on reducing emissions in product supply chains (Scope 3), reach out (no email in your profile).
• alejo 5y ago
  I would like to code some Go. It’s been a while since my role now is way too far from the code So if anyone has an idea that want to develop or a project in Go already let me know.
  • itake 5y ago
    The trend these days seems to port cli applications to golang. I investigated porting rubygem's bundler to golang, but hit speed bumps (like in order to install the gem, you need to run ruby code). I'd be interested in trying this out again.
  • arschles 5y ago
    I am a core maintainer on the KEDA HTTP Addon project (https://github.com/kedacore/http-add-on https://github.com/kedacore/http-add-on). It's 100% written in Go and we are a small group looking for additional contributors. I believe there are interesting challenges ahead of us that will be enjoyable to solve. If you're interested, please reach out. My username here is the same as my username on the Gophers and Kubernetes slack groups. (You're of course welcome to just go pick up an issue in the repo if you'd prefer)
  • empressplay 5y ago
    Our codebase is getting a bit large for us to maintain alone so if https://turtlespaces.org https://turtlespaces.org appeals to you please let us know!
  • chillycurve 5y ago
    Hi Alejo, I commented about my current project above that is in need of some Go expertise. I am currently working to get into the summer YC class, so if that interests you, feel free to use the email in my profile!
• panphora 5y ago
  The web has gotten boring. I'm starting a static web host where every page is remixable by default. One click and you have a copy of any web page hosted on the platform. Not only that, but the front-end code (HTML, CSS, JS) is treated as the source of truth. Whatever changes the owner makes to a page (through DevTools, some custom JS, or clicking a button that does something) is saved permanently to the DB. This makes it possible for front-end devs to create interactive applications just by adding a JS plugin to the page. I'm hoping projects like this idea will lead to a renaissance of blogs, personal websites, and remixable apps that push our normal conception of what a website is to the breaking point. (Email in my profile if you want to discuss. This is a new project I haven't started yet.)
  • vaishnavsm 5y ago
    You can also add page versioning and forks to this! If I want to see an older version of the page I like: click click click I have a (like really) permalink If I wanna modify a page that someone else made, fork and edit! It's like Github, but for our pages! (too many exclamations smh)
    • toto444 5y ago
      I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but there is literally something called github pages that does exactly what you describe.
  • aklemm 5y ago
    Sounds pretty exciting. Be sure to implement Webmentions and IndieAuth and other IndieWeb stuff as a first step so you're not re-inventing things that are solved, but need more traction. The web has gotten boring. This is so true. Before it was boring, it was hard to use, though. I think that's why the federated/decentralized/indie stuff still struggles to find mindshare.
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• jeffreportmill1 5y ago
  I am working on a Java UI kit that works on both desktop and browser: Demos: https://www.reportmill.com/snaptea/ https://www.reportmill.com/snaptea/ Repo: https://github.com/reportmill/SnapKit https://github.com/reportmill/SnapKit There is a lot of benefit to this - fast, traditional desktop development with great deployment. It also has built-in developer tools and online access to a UI Builder. I hope this could make Java Client development interesting again. I need collaborators to help write demos and improve the kit. Jeff at ReportMill dot com
• kevmo314 5y ago
  I'm building a live video cdn backed by a kademlia dht (the BitTorrent one). https://github.com/muxable/cdn https://github.com/muxable/cdn No major benefit of using a dht except it's kinda cool that the entire thing runs sans centralized database. If you're interested, the space is what my startup is working on but the cdn specifically is mostly a fun tangent to learn about kademlia for me. It's always fun to work with more people in the live video space since it's a small community overall.
  • remram 5y ago
    What is the advantage over BitTorrent?
    • kevmo314 5y ago
      Using WebRTC makes the file "live", in that it publishes from the current timestamp instead of when the publishing started. In principle I think BitTorrent can be adapted to this, but essentially the output "file" doesn't hash correctly so I think it would be a lot of hacks to the point where it's avoiding actually using most of the parts of BitTorrent anyways. In particular this is evident on the DHT, my understanding is the DHT actually stores fragments of data and BEP44 verifies integrity. In my implementation, the DHT stores some metadata for who can publish the data because the media stream is live and we don't want to broadcast every packet over the DHT. Of course, I'm new to BitTorrent so that's my understanding. I'd love it if I could use more BitTorrent components directly :)
      • remram 5y ago
        I missed the "live" part in "live video cdn". Got it, thanks. I've used apps like Ace Stream and I know BitTorrent Inc launched a live streaming service a few years back [1] but I can definitely see the appeal of better, web-based solutions. I also know PeerTube has a Live feature now, but I have no idea how they do it. I think they use WebTorrent (at least for the non-live videos). [1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/bittorrent-inc-announces-live-streaming-tv-service-powered-by-p2p/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/bitto...
• pbowyer 5y ago
  I recently took over maintaining https://github.com/capacitor-community/camera-preview https://github.com/capacitor-community/camera-preview, an MIT licensed Ionic and Capacitor camera plugin written in Swift, Java and Typescript. I stepped up because I needed it, and lots of people wanted to embed a camera in their apps. Thanks to contributors I got a new release out yesterday. I'm not a Swift programmer, or Kotlin programmer, and haven't touched Java in a decade. I would love to collaborate with people on this project. I can offer lots of enthusiasm, and if you like programming without hassle I'll handle all the user-facing stuff and managing GitHub issues and support requests, project admin and writing documentation :) There is much to do (and users really want video recording on iOS), but I've not got the coding skills to start. Picking up one language would be a nice challenge; keeping the iOS, Android and web versions at feature parity... I can't do it on my own.
• threefiftyone 5y ago
  I'm with a friend and we're focusing on building cool SaaS projects as a way to improve our product building skills and possibly make some money. At the moment we have a HR platform that one client is using and we're looking to build other stuff - we have some ideas in the making. If anyone wants to join
  • artistminute 5y ago
    Hey there, I'm interested in your HR Platform and maybe expanding that? If you've got one client already, it might be scalable! Currently I'm working on wordpress plugin development to try and make small software that I cant bring to market quickly. Would you wanna connect?
    • threefiftyone 5y ago
      Hey there! Sure! Sent you an email!
  • dash488 5y ago
    I have been looking for similar like minded focuses. I spend a lot of time in the DevOps space while always expanding to other areas. Please do reach out, sean (at) ulation (dot) com
    • threefiftyone 5y ago
      Sent you an email!
  • sublime83 5y ago
    Myself working as a product manager, I'm always happy to improve my product building skills as well. I'll be glad to help.
    • threefiftyone 5y ago
      Hey Sublime! Sent you an email!
• throwaway2037 5y ago
  This is a cool idea. Thank you to post your imaginative idea! Recently there was a post reminding people about the excellent "polling" feature on HN. Suddenly there were a bunch of polls with great discussions that followed. It would be helpful if this page (https://news.ycombinator.com/submit https://news.ycombinator.com/submit) included tips about how to create a poll.
• conartist6 5y ago
  I'm interested in collabs on the make-inspired build system I'm working on, macrome. Repo is here: https://github.com/conartist6/macrome https://github.com/conartist6/macrome My goals are: - Restore the ability to use git repos as packages to the frontend ecosystem - Simplify tooling needs by encouraging devs to check in a readable version of their product compiled down to standard javascript - Provide the first interoperable way to package components, even those with styles - Make it all Just Work as long as you run `macrome watch`
• moralestapia 5y ago
  I work on tools to help companies/people keep track of their carbon emissions as open and transparent as possible. Always looking for others to join me or have a chat with. Emails welcome, check my profile.
• personjerry 5y ago
  I'm ideating around productivity and todo lists, I'd love to talk with and bounce ideas with any UX designers interested in the space! Email in profile :)
  • newaccount74 5y ago
    One thing I've been looking for is a simple to-do list app that allows sharing/syncing cross platform. There are some nice and simple to do list apps (eg. Notally on Android) that have no syncing. Then there are some platform specific solutions (eg. the Apple's Notes app) that work well on platform. I've been looking for something just to share a shopping list with my SO, and all I could find were elaborate SaaS productivity suites with projects and deadlines and calendars and project management features, but nothing just for syncing a single to do list between an iPhone and an Android device.
    • timlin 5y ago
      Did you try Google Keep? It does exactly what you ask for: sharing a simple todo list with another person.
      • newaccount74 5y ago
        No, I haven't. Thanks for the tip. (I've been trying to use as few Google services as possible, but it seems very hard on Android.)
    • dbuxton 5y ago
      Have you looked at Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/ https://workflowy.com/)? Allows you to share a subtree of your overall knowledge universe, works on all platforms, etc.
      • newaccount74 5y ago
        Looks nice! But I'm not sure I need all that complexity for a shopping list, and $60 a year is a bit steep if I'm only going to use it for a shopping list.
• ramirez60 5y ago
  anyone interested in the pdf -> word doc space?
  • scandox 5y ago
    I'm interested to hear more if you can share.
  • remram 5y ago
    Very interested in the PDF -> anything structured solutions (primarily HTML but...)
• aliljet 5y ago
  I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engineering skills to boot and I'd be doing this for fun with other engineers. The goal would probably be an implementation that would one day show up on hacker news as a post for other folks to build and enjoy!
  • 310260 5y ago
    I'd be interested in that! Would be a good learning experience and a way to understand WiFi more deeply. My experience so far is mostly in cellular.
    • aliljet 5y ago
      I'm convinced every side project should lend you awesome learning experiences. Why else would you do it? These specs and the chipsets that are implementing them seem to be deeply maddening, but I bet that's a good thing, right? :)
      • 310260 5y ago
        >These specs and the chipsets that are implementing them seem to be deeply maddening Oh yes. Much to the frustration of even the phone OEMs. Hopefully WiFi is easier to handle than 5G lol
  • spmurrayzzz 5y ago
    I'd love to follow along once you get this started. Sounds like a lot of fun. I'm personally limited on cycles currently (N.B. I am a cofounder / direct of eng. of an ISP that builds custom 802.11ax-over-mmWave last mile access networks and CPEs in-house), but since I have enough experience in that world I can probably jump in at points to help as I free up.
• _ukkk 5y ago
  I'm an instrument-rated pilot. I'm working on a Python library to model aircraft performance with just a few numbers specific to your airplane (e.g., the drag coefficient, and some measurements). I used performance data generated by the library to fly across the entire United States at altitudes and with efficiency beyond the POH. Seeking other pilot-programmer-contributors: [redacted]
• awayto 5y ago
  I made a web application generation tool built on top of AWS. It deploys all the basics you need for a web application in the modern era (db, ui, api, users, groups, roles). https://awayto.dev https://awayto.dev -- Check out the video https://github.com/keybittech/awayto https://github.com/keybittech/awayto If you like making tools for developers, contractors, and the business world. Come check us out and join the discord!
• kraig911 5y ago
  I'm a front-end developer / artist / father. I'm trying to make a software application for families common in my situation. I have an 8 year old daughter who is very autistic and there is a huge lack in tools I feel that a family and kid can communicate with. To that end - I am trying to make a communication board tool. In my mind think of Trello board but there's not much in the way of words only symbols. Right now I have mockups and am evaluating whether to do this in unity 2d or Web/JS. Throw everything you know of UX and common UI frameworks out the window this is for kids the world keeps turning it's back on to enable them to participate.
  • toddmorey 5y ago
    Also a father: 11 year old son who's very autistic. In process now of creating better visual tools / schedules to help him understand & have agency in his day. Have thought a lot about this space, too, and identified similar needs. Please connect via email in profile.
    • kraig911 5y ago
      I don't see your email. I put mine in the about box.
  • nivethan 5y ago
    This is quite interesting and important. Do you have anything I could follow or some literature about the topic? I'm not even sure what to search for as I never thought about alternative modes of communication.
    • kraig911 5y ago
      A quick google as an example but this is from healthline. https://www.healthline.com/health/communication-board https://www.healthline.com/health/communication-board I'll ask my wife who is a BCBA to share any studies related. The premise is symbols to help a kid reach from using symbols to letters/words. Right now they print a ton and velcro them to a board and communicate a complicated topic. There are apps out there but they kind of are lacking IMO and hard for a kid to figure out.
• noelhecht 5y ago
• jeofken 5y ago
  This may be the edge of what is off topic, but I’ve looked for a long time. I’ve worked on a compiler for a HM type checked language for a while. Since September last year I’ve been stuck trying to implement tagged unions (such as Maybe). I’ve got all other features. I’m looking for a tutor who would write a type checker with me in a screen sharing session. I’m located in Dalarna, Sweden atm, but can do any timezone that fits. I want to pay for this as I am really really curious to find out how it works! It’d probably be no more than around 100 LOC for just the type inferrer.
  • akkartik 5y ago
    What language are you developing in? Is the project code up somewhere? No payment necessary, but I'd be happy to do a videocall with you. I've implemented tagged unions once, albeit with a very different syntax: https://akkartik.github.io/mu1/html/033exclusive_container.cc.html https://akkartik.github.io/mu1/html/033exclusive_container.c... (this is a Literate format that eventually tangles into C. The `scenario` blocks show what code in the language would look like. Though none of these is a good example. They all sidestep the type checker to some extent since they're creating raw objects in memory.) Anyways, I'd be happy to chat with you :) I suspect it'll be a short call. There's a likely a single sentence somewhere that will get you unstuck.
    • jeofken 5y ago
      I’m writing it in OCaml, and for prototyping I like to make mini languages in a single file - just a definition of type and expression and a typeof function. Thanks for the offer! Sending you an email :-)
  • jeofken 5y ago
    Can’t edit so adding: I write OCaml but am open minded. HM = Hindley-Milner My email is in my profile please feel free to get in touch regarding type checkers! Here is a type checker, lacking inferring, for tagged unions. What I need to figure out is how integrate this with the unification algo http://www.martinjosefsson.com/ocaml/compiler/interpreter/typecheck/type/2021/09/15/Simple_Union_Type_Enum_type_checker_in_OCaml.html http://www.martinjosefsson.com/ocaml/compiler/interpreter/ty...
• abalaji 5y ago
  TL;DR--an automatic xkcd recommendation bot. [1] "Relevant xkcd" is a meme that's been a part of online communities for as long as the comic has had online notoriety. [2] I wanted to build a bot to see how true that was. I've got a lot of the hard parts completed (data collection / curation, initial models), sitting in my TODO box for quite some time and would love to pair up with a collaborator to get it across the finish line. The idea is an automatic xkcd recommendation bot that takes advantage of the latest and greatest in NLP advances (a fine-tuned hugging face model). [3] I've already got the training data (reddit comments that mention "relevant xkcd") and each individual xkcd's notes from the xkcd wiki. [4, 5] Feel free to reach out to me via email (in my bio). [1] https://github.com/adithyabsk/relevant_xkcd https://github.com/adithyabsk/relevant_xkcd [2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/xkcd https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/xkcd [3] https://huggingface.co/models https://huggingface.co/models [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3cej2b/17_billion_reddit_comments_loaded_on_bigquery/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3cej2b/17_billion... [5] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• mikestaszel 5y ago
  I want to play around with development on Solana. Not sure where to start. Could use a learning buddy.
• reidjs 5y ago
  Not super tech focused at the moment, but I'm trying to start a surf community in the bay area. Main reason is that sometimes it can be tough to find a ride share to the beach and also to share surf conditions at diff. places (cameras are pretty limited)
  • sublime83 5y ago
    Although far away from the bay area (southeastern Europe), I had suffered many times from misleading forecast and lack of cameras around. If you consider expanding the idea more globally, I'd be happy to contribute. I'm not super tech focused at the moment either, but work as a product manager / ba for the past 7 years and building a surf community sounds like fun.
    • reidjs 5y ago
      Sure I’ll send you an email today
• lukew3 5y ago
  I'm working on a website where you can play a 2-player version of Conway's Game of Life. https://github.com/lukew3/congol https://github.com/lukew3/congol I could use someone to help out and keep me motivated.
• DoTheySupportIt 5y ago
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  • giantg2 5y ago
    Perhaps you can work with this site. https://www.ontheissues.org/Issues.htm https://www.ontheissues.org/Issues.htm
  • octocop 5y ago
    That's a great project, would be awesome to have an EU variant to this, maybe extend to EU as well
  • bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago
    This is a nice project. I am an editor in the space and would like to help :).
  • culi 5y ago
    Interesting that a senator tweeting about Bitcoin's electricity usage is rated as "very anti-crypto". Is there a place I can learn a bit more about the methodology of how these statements are rated?
• wallawe 5y ago
  I just released a barebones MVP yesterday for a sports betting site with a little twist: We give users a little bit of money each week to play with ($0.50 right now) and if they can run it up past a certain point we'll pay them out in cash. If they lose the money, we put another $0.50 in the next week. It's legal in the US since the users aren't allowed to deposit and mainly for entertainment purposes. The plan is to make money through affiliate referrals if users want to bet with real cash. I think sports betting is inherently social, so the end game is to create more of a social sports betting experience where you can invite friends and talk shit about their bets, have leaderboards and so on, so forth. I'm a front-end dev / designer with some back-end chops but not great. I'd be down to chat with anyone who has a complementary skill set. Hit me up at will@pennywagers.com Stack: Next (serverless back-end), React, Tailwind, Prisma ORM, Postgres https://www.pennywagers.com https://www.pennywagers.com
  • vgeek 5y ago
    Reminiscent of the old Centsports?
    • wallawe 5y ago
      Haha exactly, actually talked to one of the cofounders before writing any code to figure out what happened to them. TLDR: when the DOJ cracked down on offshore sports books it cut off their revenue.
      • quadcore 5y ago
        when the DOJ cracked down on offshore sports books it cut off their revenue. Id be curious to learn more, how essentially did the US DOJ cracked down on offshore website - since they are offshore?
        • wallawe 5y ago
          I believe it was this https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1121531/download https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1121531/download in congruence with Poker's Black Friday crackdowns[0] where they shutdown many high profile gambling .com domains (which have since moved to .ag and .eu TLDs) [0]: https://www.beatthefish.com/poker-black-friday/ https://www.beatthefish.com/poker-black-friday/
• kpozin 5y ago
  In a slightly different direction, I'd love to collaborate with someone on writing and producing low-budget short films in NYC. I have some plot ideas bouncing around, as well as some basic equipment and (mostly theoretical) skills in cinematography, sound, and editing.
• jitl 5y ago
  I want the web to be more end-user programmable. Web apps big and small should offer plugin extension mechanisms! Ideally plug-ins are frictionless to author, and powerful enough to build fun UIs. Today, only really big premier apps like Figma and Google Docs have this kind of feature. One problem is that it’s very difficult for an app to run arbitrary, untrusted user code in a way that’s secure and efficient, especially in the browser. Apps need to worry about XSS and unintended remote code execution, much less try adding those things as a feature. I started working on a Typescript/WebAssembly library around the QuickJS JavaScript runtime to address this need. QuickJS runs modern ES2020 and provides an API for the host process to set CPU and memory budgets for the execution environment, which is completely sandboxed. My work so far exposes a basic interface to create VMs, expose APIs from the host to the guest, and evaluate code. Repo: https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/quickjs-emscripten https://www.npmjs.com/package/quickjs-emscripten Areas of work: - Make the library importable as ES modules on the web without a Webpack build step. - Design higher-level but still security-conscious APIs for building plugin systems on top of the existing library. - Expose more QuickJS C APIs to library users. - Performance or ergonomic improvements. If you share any of these goals or would like to help out, please drop me a line on GitHub (eg by opening an issue), or via any of the links on my HN profile.
  • catern 5y ago
    I expect you already know about this, but Secure EcmaScript is a similar project: https://medium.com/agoric/ses-securing-javascript-in-the-real-world-4f309e6b66a6 https://medium.com/agoric/ses-securing-javascript-in-the-rea... Similarly the older Caja project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project
    • jitl 5y ago
      Wow, there's been a bunch of public work in this space since I started! I was aware of the Agoric Realms work that preceded SES, but haven't kept up with their progress. I looked over some of the current SES/Realms code, and didn't (quickly) find anything that can limit CPU or memory consumption of the untrusted code in the browser. I decided to base my efforts on QuickJS/WebAssembly because there's much less inherent risk and a greater guaranteed deal of control compared to any solution that shares a GC heap with the untrusted code. FWIF, Figma's plugin system started out with Agoric's Realms shim and then switched to QuickJS after a security incident: https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/ https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/
• Simorgh 5y ago
  I'm working on a voice computing project to bring text-to-speech to new audiences. I think it's totally under-utilised and an easy-to-use tool of generating voicegrams could be super-sharable and - more importantly - useful from a cognitive perspective. I think that cognitive differences could be levelled using text-to-speech! And provide an alternative and measurable way of consuming quality content. My email is in my profile!
• mamcx 5y ago
  Working in a GENERAL relational language (ie: not just a query one, like SQL, but general to make full apps, like python/delphi/c# + linq): https://tablam.org https://tablam.org that is my attempt to resurrect the spirit of the FoxPro/dbase kind of tools. Is on Rust, and is also my way to sharp my skills on it. Now, I'm in the process of improve the parsing to be robust like in Rust, so i can show good error messages: https://github.com/brendanzab/codespan https://github.com/brendanzab/codespan and also, hopefully, implement a solid type inference that work fine with the challenge of infer joins like "customer CROSS JOIN address". --- The idea, long-term, is create a tool alike MS Access/FoxPro+Excel that I think could be great for a lot of companies (that are using stuff like "BigData" tools -like hadoop- when them are struggling with more fundamental issues!) and improve the condition of make business apps/analysis. I already hear some interest when the vision is described in full, and I certain any company that use Excel/Access to deal with data and/or make business apps is anemically served by it. The alternatives now are only for the cloud, and I instead wanna a local-first/on-premise offering...
• rukshn 5y ago
  I'm writing a FHIR server in NodeJS. The currently widely used FHIR server is a JAVA based monolith called HAPI FHIR. I haven't seen many alternatives to FHIR server other than HAPI FHIR. It's a super challenging project and I'm not even sure I can pull it off. Feel free to collaborate - https://github.com/rukshn/aurora https://github.com/rukshn/aurora
  • abrylov 5y ago
    There is also a managed service from MS Azure that some of the large insurance/healthcare companies in the US use. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/healthcare-apis/azure-api-for-fhir/overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/healthcare-apis/azure...
  • cameronbell 5y ago
    Checkout this TS implementation for inspiration: https://github.com/awslabs/fhir-works-on-aws-deployment/ https://github.com/awslabs/fhir-works-on-aws-deployment/
    • rukshn 5y ago
      Thank you so much for sharing this. I will definitely go through this.
• twodave 5y ago
  I'm working on Nap[1], a fast, file-based framework for defining and running HTTP integration tests via the CLI. The ultimate goal is to embed Nap into the SDLC--tests that are defined during development and then run during CI/CD. I'm closing in on a V1 release of the CLI tool, at which point I'll be looking to start expanding on the feature-set and add a UI. I could use contributors who are comfortable building something Postman-esque as e.g. a VSCode plugin that could take advantage of the file-based nature of my project and make it more approachable for the masses. [1]: https://github.com/davesheldon/nap https://github.com/davesheldon/nap
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• akkartik 5y ago
  I work on ways to write programs that help outsiders understand their big picture (rather than insiders understand incoming contributions). The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-source program, get an idea for a simple tweak, open it up, orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a single afternoon. More details: http://akkartik.name/about http://akkartik.name/about What I have so far: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva https://github.com/akkartik/teliva Lately I'm spending a lot of time thinking about the sandboxing model. I'm giving a talk about it at FOSDEM this weekend: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing As a concrete stress test, consider a file browser like Midnight Commander (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30137864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30137864). How would you craft policies for a file browser that give it just the permissions it needs to scan directories and open files, but prevent malicious code that creeps into it from scanning directories or opening files?
  • conartist6 5y ago
    This is related to the goals I have for https://github.com/conartist6/macrome https://github.com/conartist6/macrome, except that my focus is on restoring forking potential for frontend development. I expect if forks become more abundant that the need for trust will be a major driver of merges.
    • akkartik 5y ago
      This sounds tantalizing! Please write the blog post so I can read more about it :) Increasing the number of forks is a long-time goal of mine. Check out the bottom of this old page from a previous project of mine: https://akkartik.github.io/mu1 https://akkartik.github.io/mu1
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• zciwor 5y ago
  I'm working on a repository of open source hardware designs over at postdrc.com. I always like to take a pulse check on which components and configurations other people are using for different hardware functional blocks (think 3v linear regulator, logic level shifter, etc.). Taking inspiration from dribbble and tailwindcomponents applied to open source electronics. Let me know if you're interested in taking it for a test drive or helping with development. Technology stack is: Nextjs frontend, Strapi backend, AWS tools.
• sneilan1 5y ago
  I would love to collaborate on stock trading algorithms. I love the inherent beauty in a well designed trading algorithm and the output is like generative art. I have excellent leetcode skills (have spent significant time grinding as a hobby) am a crack mathematician in addition. And I like making money of course.
  • blueberrychpstx 5y ago
    I’m not quite working on stock trading algorithms, but rather designing a blockchain based game where the goal is to predict the state of the players of the game at the end of each round. The twist is that users can provide any answer they chose, but honest/consistent answers will win more of the prize pool over time. Would be happy to chat and see if there’s any overlap if this sounds interesting. My email is blueberrychopsticks@pm.me Here’s a write up on the game rules: https://enoemos.notion.site/Overview-of-Gameplay-ELI10-a9be058e3fce47a3a8f2244ad5a397be https://enoemos.notion.site/Overview-of-Gameplay-ELI10-a9be0...
    • sneilan1 5y ago
      That’s super interesting! I’ll reach out to you later today! :)
• Void_ 5y ago
  I'm building a new task manager. I'm aiming it to be like HEY of email apps - Kinda opinionated, but hopefully fits workflow for a lot of people. https://focustask.app https://focustask.app Building this in my free time, and would love to talk to anyone who might be interesting in helping with either coding or with marketing. My email is vojto at focustask.app
  • karanbhangui 5y ago
    This looks really good! Signed up for waitlist :)
  • wnolens 5y ago
    cool, also signed up for access. This fits my mental model. I do it in a markdown document for work, and paper for personal.
  • TrapLord_Rhodo 5y ago
    I find alot of my job as a consultant is assigning ownership to tasks, following up with clients, writing meeting notes, and pushing priorities. I've never found a productivity app/ task manager for consultants. I would love the ability to self generate follow up emails based on tasks for another person. I would love the functionality to assign tasks to another person in my task manager, and on the day those items are due ("analysis", "Documents", etc.) it automatically creates an email for me saying i'm following up on this task. OR a 'these are the tasks i am currently working on' automated email. So during the meeting i can be inside the app, writing down deliverables from the meeting and at the end it will generate a meeting email with each deliverable and who the owner is. If i have a task for a certain date and the next day i sign on and don't check off the task, it will generate an email saying 'Hey, sorry have been swamped, working on X today/ will get you this on X day. '
    • balutdev 5y ago
      I wrote one, as a consultant, because nothing existed. Captured time, tasks, and held key/values for documentation. Every task was assigned, never open, and timecards were auto generated (and emailed to management)
• catern 5y ago
  Distributed software, which accesses and depends on remote resources, is harder to run than local-only software. I'm working on making it easier to run distributed software for both programmers and end-users. See the main article describing my current vision: http://catern.com/integration.html http://catern.com/integration.html My most significant project in this area: https://github.com/catern/rsyscall https://github.com/catern/rsyscall My website in general: http://catern.com/ http://catern.com/ (happy to collaborate on anything on there) And my current plans: http://catern.com/plan.html http://catern.com/plan.html If you're interested, feel free to contact me using the information on my website.
  • remram 5y ago
    I read this comment 3 times and skimmed both links but I still have no concrete idea what you're building.
    • catern 5y ago
      Can you say what left you confused? I'm surprised, I thought https://github.com/catern/rsyscall https://github.com/catern/rsyscall is pretty self-contained and self-explanatory (if unclear on what exactly rsyscall is useful for), and I thought http://catern.com/integration.html http://catern.com/integration.html is quite detailed (perhaps excessively so).
      • remram 5y ago
        I understand the problem and the use-case, but what does your library provide? Running processes remotely? Supervising remote processes? Transparently running Python functions in remote processes?
        • catern 5y ago
          >Running processes remotely? Supervising remote processes? These things. This is mentioned in http://catern.com/integration.html#thread http://catern.com/integration.html#thread
• treasurebots 5y ago
  I’m working on making robots to collect bottles and redeem the California refund value. Basically so you could bring your bottles to a big mechanical sorter, dump your bottles in, and get maybe like 2c per bottle paid to you, then 3c pays for the cost of transport. Currently based out of Mountain View. My background is in machine learning and I’m muddling through the electronics and mechanics, would definitely like to have help with that stuff or really just find other people interested in this intersection. If interested send me an email at contact@treasurerobotics.com
  • bruceb 5y ago
    Might try experimenting with changing the reward. Instead of money, every 25 bottles means a tree is planeted or something. The 2cents a bottle isn't much of motivation for regular people. Easy for me to suggest as I don't have to figure it out, but maybe something to consider.
  • atdrummond 5y ago
    I just recycle my bottles here in CA but does CA not already have these? We had machines for the bottles/cans in Vermont. Interested in helping if I'm missing something.
• Palmik 5y ago
  Here are some things I have built in the past that I would be open to collaborate on: ScreenBud.com: Chrome extension to taking and annotating screenshots. - Example (best viewed on desktop) https://screenbud.com/s/8c0HkzGxZDv https://screenbud.com/s/8c0HkzGxZDv - Basic stats: Tens of thousands of uniques per month. - Internals: Rust on backend, TypeScript+Svelte on frontend - Potential for colab - Open sourcing some Rust libraries (e.g. auth) - New features (video support, payment subscriptions) WordBueno.com: dictionary without clutter. - Example: https://wordbueno.com/word/hello https://wordbueno.com/word/hello - Basic stats: Tens of thousands of uniques per month. - Internals: Rust on backend, TypeScript+Svelte on frontend - Potential for colab: - Better data - Nicer frontend
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• dcz_self 5y ago
  An open source bicycle computer. The goal: a privacy-preserving, standalone fitness assistant on which you can load custom apps. I always wanted a bicycle computer that I could program, which would help me not gethurt while training, and which would remember where I like to cycle. The modern ecosystem is full of devices, but I haven't seen a programmable one, much less one that can also survive for weeks on battery and wouldn't sell my data. The moment has finally come, and I found a decent base! I bought a Bangle.js 2 smart watch and a couple sensors, and have just started adapting it for this purpose. I'll need help getting the Bluetooth stack running, as well as creating an application to download and compare GPS trails. The project is not formally announced yet, but feel free to contact me over email or Matrix (see profile). Edit: obligatory mention of Rust as the preferred language ;)
  • npteljes 5y ago
    What's your opinion of the PineTime watch?
    • dcz_self 5y ago
      The idea is great! The hardware is a little less to my tastes: the one I picked up has a GPS unit, plus a display that can stay on for days (weeks?) on a single battery charge, plus it's readable in the sunlight. Otherwise I think there will be a fair share of software reuse between the projects.
      • minhmeoke 5y ago
        You might also be interested in https://github.com/daniel-thompson/wasp-os https://github.com/daniel-thompson/wasp-os which runs on nRF52-based hardware (there may be eInk-based variants as well)
• regnull 5y ago
  I'm working on https://ubikom.cc https://ubikom.cc, end-to-end encrypted email service based on the concept of self-sovereign identity. Basically, you keep the encryption key, and all your messages are encrypted, on the wire or at rest. The core platform is open-source, the code is available here: https://github.com/regnull/ubikom https://github.com/regnull/ubikom Billions of users use GMail (or similar services). These companies are making money by selling ads, and their "free" email service is just another way to improve ad targeting. Furthermore, your account can be disabled at any time and for any reason. Sure, you can switch to Protonmail, Tutanota, etc. because they are "good" companies. But why do you have to trust to any of them? Keep your encryption key, and have communication providers move around encrypted bytes on your behalf. Store your identity on a blockchain (maybe), so that no one can take it away. That's the idea. If you'd like to work on something like this, get in touch. lgx (at) ubikom.cc
  • gowthamgts12 5y ago
    SMIME won't solve this?
    • regnull 5y ago
      Well if you google for SMIME adoption numbers, you mostly find articles about why exactly SMIME is dead. I would guess it hasn't solved the issue. Our approach is to make it impossible to send a message that is not secure (signed and encrypted). We also have a decentralized registry of encryption keys.
• onemoresoop 5y ago
  I'd love to work with people who want to create free educative games for kids, games fun enough to keep kids playing while developing their brains in positive ways. Most games I found are infested with ads (hence not free), sprinkled with lots of dark patters and the games are not good enough I'd even pay for them. Maybe there are some free gems out there already but are quite hard to find. My kid is 4yo and it has been quite hard to find anything worthwhile for his screen time (something free at least).
  • andrewljohnson 5y ago
    I found you can get a lot of games that used to be good (e.g. Cut the Rope) in ad-free, IAP-free form by using Apple Arcade. Highly recommend for kids to give them a variety of great and challenging games without ads, and satisfy that constant desire for new stuff kids have.
  • johndetloff 5y ago
    I'm a fan of building games, and a fan of reducing the number of ads people see! I'm an iOS developer, if you could use help from a native iOS dev feel free to reach out at the email in my profile.
  • vivegi 5y ago
    I wrote an online single player strategy game called Trek and released it on GH pages a few days ago. Link is here: https://vivegi.github.io/Trek https://vivegi.github.io/Trek It is free and online. No user registrations. No trackers. No 3rd party scripts or dependencies and the entire web app is self-contained. Just HTML/CSS/JS + media assets. It is based on interactive 3-SAT solving although I deliberately made a point of not mentioning it on the game's home page to keep it appealing to the widest possible audience, not just CompSci/SAT folks. Would love to hear what you and your 4/yo think of it. Of course, open to collabs.
    • fladrif 5y ago
      Hey, I'm looking through it now, but the instructions aren't super clear to me. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. > The selected pieces must not contain both a and of the same color. The following example shows a couple X's selected with the same color in different rows. Are you trying to say O's and X's cannot share a color?
• virgil_disgr4ce 5y ago
  I'm working on Swymm.org, an interactive, crowdsourced timeline of all history. I would love to find a collaborator who sees the potential and can help out with software development. Check out the proof of concept at beta.swymm.org. If you're interested, please get in touch with me at t3db0t (that's a zero) [at] gmail!
• blueberrychpstx 5y ago
  I’m building a blockchain based game where the goal is to predict statistics about user provided information at the end of each round. Should a play win a round, they’ll receive a small percentage of their overall prize, the remainder going into escrow. That escrowed amount will be rewarded to them in the future if they continue to provide truthful/consistent answers to questions that are used as basis for building the “winning bingo card” Wrote up the rules here: https://enoemos.notion.site/Overview-of-Gameplay-ELI10-a9be058e3fce47a3a8f2244ad5a397be https://enoemos.notion.site/Overview-of-Gameplay-ELI10-a9be0... Shoot me an email at blueberrychopsticks@pm.me if this sounds interesting to you.
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• shakezula 5y ago
  I’m interested in collaborating with a small team of other software engineers on a project. I have 6 years of experience and currently fulfill a senior role at a startup. I know python, Go, node.js, vue, and I can handle most dev ops tasks. I want to build something a small project app with like-minded people. I have some ideas of my own, but if I am honest I think joining a small team and then picking the idea we pursue afterwards would net the best results. Hit me up here and we can chat more.
• moali01 5y ago
  I'm working on www.ghostly.kitchen; An operations forecasting platform which predicts sales & production demand then generates recommended solutions for foodservice operators. The approach is to depart from client-side ERPs UX & simplify the (data) analysis process. The goal is to reduce decision fatigue / information overload in the operator's day-to-day ops. I launched two foodservice companies in the past and have experienced this issue firsthand. It takes up substantial resources to maximize efficiency. Working on the MVP & signed two pilots in SF. Target markets are cloud kitchens, catering/causal foodservice companies. My background is in sales/bizdev/ops, happy to discuss my background in detail. If you're an experienced developer looking for a cofounder position in the saas/sustainability/ML space - please reach out to mo at ghostly dot kitchen Otherwise, still reach out. I'm excited to share this project
• andrewljohnson 5y ago
  I'm interested in collaborating on video games, maybe especially card games. I built a game similar to Hearthstone (deckzap.com) where the players make the cards, but it doesn’t feel fun. I think I would work better in the game space with a collaborator. I used to make a hiking app for a living, but now I’m just tinkering with side projects and writing.
  • shakezula 5y ago
    I have a card game app I’m working on, focused on the mtg community. I would be interested in collaborating.
    • andrewljohnson 5y ago
      Cool, want to shoot me an email and we can zoom sometime? There was a point in my life where all I did was play Magic ;)
      • shakezula 5y ago
        Yes absolutely, I’ll email you and we can setup a call
  • atdrummond 5y ago
    Please e-mail me - I am very interested in this space and have worked with Garfield and some of the designers at Games Workshop as well.
  • Artistry121 5y ago
    Dude nice! Gaia was great. Instantly recognized you from back in the day! Cool! I'd love to make a 2d pokemon like game based on real world interactions that can be fun to play, include teaching social skills and business skills and life skills, and have the same joy and fun adventurousness as pokemon. Would love to find a way to work together on something like that. I have a ton of fun real world experiences we could build in / characters / etc. and a vast idea world. A friend actually has a sci-fi universe of sorts and we could do some fun simple design around some of his plots. Lots of ideas. Would love to collaborate.
• bussyfumes 5y ago
  I do plain old boring FE/BE in JS, looking for stuff to do for boring evenings after work. Looking to contribute to some nice project ideas, browsing GitHub projects usually gets me nowhere. GMT+2, email address is in the About section of the profile.
  • ermir 5y ago
    Would you be willing to take a look at my JS game development book? Details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30166371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30166371
    • bussyfumes 5y ago
      Looks interesting, I have a simple canvas game published on gh pages, hmu at mynickname@protonmail.com
• nsomaru 5y ago
  I recently bit the bullet and started building my first SaaS. It’s an ordering tool for restaurants I am building with Django + HTMX. If I order out I usually phone the place directly because delivery app markup (plus delivery fees) are ridiculous where I live. Then I pickup. But I’m really not into phone conversations, for reasons. There’s already established products but I feel there’s space in the market where I’m at. At the moment I’m doing market research (talking to local restaurant owners) and designing the user journeys. Reach out username at gmail if you’re interested in chatting about it.
• yboris 5y ago
  My 4-year old project Video Hub App is MIT open source charityware desktop application (TypeScript, Angular, Node, Electron) and I'm happy to have people contribute PRs. I'm unsure what a "collaboration" would look like, but perhaps there are some who would like to assist, rather than take a lot of responsibility. I'm thankful and thrilled for whatever you're up for. My project for the year is adding facial recognition (I have a branch in PR that is 30% of the way finished with the feature already). https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://videohubapp.com/en/ https://videohubapp.com/en/
  • snarkypepperoni 5y ago
    I'm interested in assisting. I have experience in TypeScript, Angular, and Node.
    • yboris 5y ago
      Feel free to email me or jump in on any Issue on GitHub. Feel free to start your own discussion too! And no pressure :)
• dashwehacct 5y ago
  It’s a bit of a wacky idea, but there are a bunch of outdoors clubs that have sub-par technology solutions. As these groups are small, usually minimal hardware and a FOSS tool or two is all they really need. Meaning their actual cost is probably way less then their expected cost (or what some hungry web dev quoted them at). The idea is to bridge the gap between these groups and some tech that would add value to the groups. There is a strong possibility of cross pollination between outdoors groups, and for individuals in these groups to require more specialized tech solutions. It feels crazy enough that it might work, but the idea is still young. Email is in my profile if you have any advice, think this is stupid/great, want to collaborate, or just want to chat!
  • ggcdn 5y ago
    fyi email isn't shown, you have to add it to your 'about' to appear
    • dashwehacct 5y ago
      I’ve added it just now. (Thank you!)
  • buescher 5y ago
    Take a look at meshtastic
    • dashwehacct 5y ago
      Hey, that’s very interesting. I’ve considered something like this for my own personal needs a few years ago, but there weren’t a ton of options. Thank you for sharing this!
• alexandargyurov 5y ago
  If you like the game Teardown, and wish it had multiplayer support, I am building a server-based multiplayer mod for it. It's written in C# (client) and Golang (server) and using Nakama as an open-source game server. Just working on this in my free time, wouldn't mind an extra hand! Discord alexandargyurov#1220
• ikinsey 5y ago
  I've been developing web crawlers for the better half of a decade. They are used for various purposes such as cataloging sentiment/bias in news media, finding new tv shows to watch, or mapping out the Tor hidden service directory. Currently, I am writing a web crawler application framework in golang. Always looking for help or new ideas on what to crawl next! Emails welcome, check my profile.
  • vivegi 5y ago
    I had posted this on Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096235#30096410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096235#30096410) a few days ago. Your crawler perhaps could be customized to crawl and publish an index of all available Progressive Web Apps. A naive way would be to check for sites that have a PWA App manifest file in their root folder. Let me know if you are interested in collaborating.
    • ikinsey 5y ago
      This looks very possible. It would only require a two modules for analysis and frontier management. It would be great to collaborate on something like this!
      • vivegi 5y ago
        That's awesome. Thank you. Please do think about it for the next couple of days and I will drop an email to you in the next 48 hours (I live in India). We can then decide how to take it forward. Just curious: How long does an end-to-end crawl take and how much resources does the process consume (in terms of hardware/mem etc.,)?
  • fsflover 5y ago
    What's your opinion about YaCy: https://yacy.net https://yacy.net?
    • ikinsey 5y ago
      YaCy is a great tool! Haven't used it all that extensively since 2012. Very good for setting up simple crawls with minimal configuration or for crawling intranets.
• Buttons840 5y ago
  I'd love to research practical ways to apply modern machine learning techniques to video games. Video game AI techniques seem stuck in the 90s. Too many games have been limited by poor AI, and I want to fix that. I'm currently wanting to study bandit methods and tabular reinforcent learning. These are limited, but simple and predictable, which is important for games.
  • culi 5y ago
    Not sure I'd have the time to work on this, but gonna drop this old idea here anyways. A long time ago I had the idea for a Swords and Sandals type game (a gladiator game) where each opponent was actually a simulated neural network and you could peak under the hood much like this.[0] Each gladiator would be simulated against each other and would actually be learning as they played against each other. Difficulty for the player wouldn't be based on any setting, but rather just having to face the AI that's learned the most and gotten the best Anyways, since then I've figured it doesn't really have to be a gladiator game. It could be tic tac toe or connect4 or chess or whatever else [0] https://playground.tensorflow.org/ https://playground.tensorflow.org/
  • svalorzen 5y ago
    Hi, I'm the author of a C++ library focused on tabular bandits, mdps and pomdps. It's called AI-Toolbox, and it's one of the largest non NN libraries out there. The library is fully documented, but the text is probably a bit dry. I'd love for somebody to help me improve its accessibility, and I'd be willing to help them along learning how things work. My email is my nickname and Gmail, feel free to reach out if you are interested.
  • fxtentacle 5y ago
    My team is currently leading the gocoder bomberland competition. I wrote a very very long thread in their discord (help channel) about all the RL AI stuff I tried and how things failed and what finally worked in the end. (Some people are participating as part of their university studies, so they asked for help on how to get started). https://discord.gg/NkfgvRN https://discord.gg/NkfgvRN Even for a seemingly "simple" game like Bomberman, tabular reinforcent learning isn't going to work. I tried it with a huge table with 1000+ states and 1mio+ transitions but it still couldn't capture the complexity of that game. Plus you can mathematically show that the value estimates aren't going to converge, due to exploding variance. In short, I believe you'll need serious research to go from the current "state of the art" in RL AI to something that is remotely tolerable in a AAA video game. But that sounds like a interesting idea, so maybe you should get your feet wet by building a small RL AI for Bomberman yourself, so that you know how things work. I have replays and instructions for that in the discord too, search keywords "gocoder-bomberland-dataset" and "behavioral cloning".
• shakezula 5y ago
  I have an open source mtg boardstate engine I’ve been building that I would love to collaborate on with other mtg players. It’s written in Go, vue, and backed by Postgres. Hit me up at my email if you’re interested in helping contribute.
• mrfusion 5y ago
  Anyone know anything about getting a hardware product to market and interesting in working together? I’ve got an idea for a new kind of power outlet. Edit: my email is in my profile if you want to get in touch.
  • brk 5y ago
    Yes... I have a fair bit of experience here.
    • straffs 5y ago
      same here
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• f6v 5y ago
  A long short but I’m a PhD student in medicine with focus on bioinformatics. I have extensive prior experience in software development. Hit me up at i.am.filippov at gmail if you have something deep tech healthcare-related in mind.
  • atdrummond 5y ago
    Can you expand a bit on what areas you're interested in?
    • f6v 5y ago
      At the moment I’m working in genomics analyzing the next-generation sequencing data. My primary academic interest is in ageing. I’d love to turn that into a business interest as well. But something in the area of genomic disease markers will do.
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• nicholasnadel 5y ago
  I'd love to build new monetization streams for musicians/artists... something akin to Brave Attention Token, Podcasting 2.0 Protocol(streaming payments over Lightning Network), and Substack. I'm a front-end dev and very into product management. my.username@gmail.com
  • slothtrop 5y ago
    BAT has occurred to me as a means for artists to increase revenue. Would it make financial sense to exchange BAT for DRM-free downloads, is ad revenue per user anywhere near that even with multiples? I expect this would rely on the expectation that engagement would scale up owing to nil cost (except time). Thinking of myself as a consumer, I'd sooner just pay for an album outright.
• unix1 5y ago
  I'm working on https://rinse.one https://rinse.one which is basically a simple text box you enter common queries/commands and get answers. I have many ideas but not enough time on my own. For example, next thing I have planned is to make the commands composable. I mostly work on the backend. I would like to collaborate with someone who does the frontend (but backend collaborators are welcome too). I like keeping things simple. The whole thing (code and infrastructure) is open source - check out the "about" and "commands" links from the main site.
  • leetrout 5y ago
    This is a neat idea. I am always googling for formatters and such. Have you seen https://devutils.app/ https://devutils.app/
• mch82 5y ago
  I’m creating a set of hands-on learning activities for high school students that use the Donkey Car (donkeycar.com) AI self-driving platform. Each hands-on activity teaches a lesson about engineering or machine learning. This is a not for profit collaboration with a group of college & high school students. Please reach out if you have experience with Keras/Tensorflow and can help explain fundamental behavioral cloning concepts at a beginner/ high school level.
  • fxtentacle 5y ago
    Don't see an email in your profile...
• filed 5y ago
  I wish there was a way to connect law firms or attorneys in states where you can read the law or become an apprentice with those wanting to become a lawyer without law school. I know there are only a few states, CA being the big one.
  • filed 5y ago
    From Nate Hochman on the embarrassment at Georgetown Law after a struggle session to address Shapiro’s tweet- ‘ Me @NRO : At the Georgetown sit-in this morning, Dean Treanor apologized profusely for "betraying" student "trust" by hiring Ilya Shapiro, and promised to "do better." Student activists demanded everything from reparations to free food to "a place to cry."’
• mronetwo 5y ago
  I'm working on an (usually) open-source hardware designs - mostly HID devices. I'm pretty experienced with embedded programming. I do a lot of 3D art, which often inspires me to build devices. Currently I'm working on a BLE knob - here is a USB version https://ciesie.com/project/magknob/ https://ciesie.com/project/magknob/ I'm not focused on these making money but I'd like to reach a point where I can sell some devices. My main goal is quality and great user experience. I do lack some knowledge in PCB design which usually slows me down. Feel free to reach out via the linked website or the email I have in my 'About'. Even if you just want to pick my brain.
  • fxtentacle 5y ago
    Esp32 ist great for Bluetooth low energy work. E.g. the Watchy open source smart watch.
• wanderingstan 5y ago
  Typography of code : Design meets the IDE. How can the visual presentation of code be made more functional and aesthetic. Syntax highlighting doesn't have to be the zenith of how code is displayed. (Once upon a time indentation was a radical new idea!) I'd love to ideate and build prototypes with like minded coder-designers. Blog post I wrote about the steps in developer experience up till now: https://wanderingstan.com/2020-02-04/the-evolution-of-developer-experience-in-the-20th-century https://wanderingstan.com/2020-02-04/the-evolution-of-develo...
  • Sirajchokshi 5y ago
    Interested in learning more/working on this. Any reading you recommend beyond the blog post you linked?
    • wanderingstan 5y ago
      Sadly there really is not much. Glad that you're interested! This talk from 2018 is asking the right questions, though I'm not a huge fan of all his ideas: https://hilton.org.uk/presentations/beautiful-code https://hilton.org.uk/presentations/beautiful-code I have a rough Google doc I've been dumping ideas and links into that I'd be happy to share. You can email me at <my username>@gmail.com Would love to collaborate to develop some ideas and build some prototypes to try them out!
• speakspokespok 5y ago
  I'm looking for an accountability partner to meet with for 30 minutes once per week for the next few months over Zoom. I have a cert that I'm working towards completing and am procrastinating on. The way it goes is we schedule a weekly meeting where I tell you what I'm going to have completed by our next meeting, and then you do the same. At the next meeting we ask each other how that went and repeat. It's honest and transparent, but we don't judge or try to fix it. I'm available during North American hours.
  • wantsanagent 5y ago
    Just in case no one takes you up on this (and I know it's not quite as good) focusmate.com has helped me in the past!
    • speakspokespok 5y ago
      It's surprising at the end of the day just how much one can accomplish with consecutive sessions on focusmate. But then I'll forget about it and go a month or more before I use it again. Great call out.
• carapace 5y ago
  I have a project that I've been noodling around for many years, never really making much progress (life is eventful, eh?) What I really need is your attention. I tend to lose motivation if I'm working in a vacuum. Please let me know you find this interesting or even inspiring. I want to make large flying buildings. - Large: several kilometers or even larger. - Flying: they spend most or all of the time in the air. - Buildings: containing people and infrastructure. How do we make them? There are two areas to address: - The methods of manufacturing them. - The path from here & now to full production and deployment. The last time this "Who wants to Collaborate?" thread went by (last month) a couple of people were interested, so I posted an old site talking about it to https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ It still needs some clean up and updating. I also set up an IRC channel on libra.chat and have been hanging out there: irc://irc.libera.chat/#MagnusMotive The basic idea is to make huge geodesic cellular kites with Magnus effect propulsion and lift. https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/Cellular-Fractal-Structures.html https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/Cellular-Fracta... Two other aspects of the project would be good to mention here: First, the primary motivation is to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and other ocean gyres) by collecting and reprocessing the plastic etc. that's floating out there. Second, I want to make and use extremely simple computers systems to control these robots (the cellular geodesic flying machines are made out of swarms of geodesic flying drones.) I know this probably sounds crazy, but I've been over it and over it and I don't see anything insurmountable or even challenging. It's all off-the-shelf technology, and as time goes on hardware and software improvements make it easier all the time. One biggie is that I thought I would have to recruit an army of volunteers to drive the trash collector robots but now the recent advances in machine learning (et. al.) make that task (identifying trash) much much easier to scale up, eh? Anyhow, to sum up: Large flying buildings made from cellular swarm robots that assemble themselves into vast geodesic networks, collecting and recycling oceanic (and other) trash, using simple "provably correct" computer systems. More details and some graphics at the website: https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ or come on by the IRC channel (libera.chat #MagnusMotive) and say hi!
  • freemint 5y ago
    Please check your chemical equations H2 + CO + H2O != H2 + CO2
• tgorgolione 5y ago
  How crazy would it be to create an alternative to Locast, but using P2P tech to stream volunteer antenna video data? I was thinking to encode it in mpeg4/HLS and use webtorrent to distribute the stream -- that way a non-profit org could reasonably set it up and not have to charge money for bandwidth costs.
• jazzyjackson 5y ago
  I was thinking it would be nice to exercise in VR, but I would have to pick something aerobic I wouldn't mind doing blindfolded, which rules out a lot, but I think a row machine could work. So I'm imagining a pacific-island-navigate-by-the-stars simulator, maybe speed up time so 8 hours of night become 30 minutes of cardio. Choose a couple of islands to row between, get some directions of which star to follow, and get to work. Good news: some water simulation and a night sky are probably just a library include away, right? Bad news: would have to do something fancy to nail the motion sync, I was thinking an arduino and some hall effects, really just need to capture the bookends of each rep and adjust the video to match your movement. I guess goggles already do position tracking but I think I would basically want to predict the snap when you change directions, as even a few ms lag will ruin the immersion. Alas, I am merely a web developer without so much as a pair of goggles, but I think this will be a good starter project on account of not needing to create any assets. Godot looks very promising. If anyone else has VR-but-good-for-your-body ideas I'd love to hear them.
  • leetrout 5y ago
    :wave: Unreal has much better VR support with, basically, push button publishing. I would not choose anything else for VR. An Oculus Quest is wireless with inside out tracking in 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) and has no problem tracking people jumping and ducking in games like beat saber. Unreal will map the camera to the movement coming from oculus hardware and you just make your art and some basic visual scripting in blue prints to make a PoC. This is a couple week(end)s of work to get an MVP. I don't have a rower so wouldn't be able to help but good luck! Great idea and very doable. Although I will warn you sweating in a headset does feel icky with the included fabric pads. Edit to add: Sky is just a sky box (sphere) that rotates because stars in real life are effectively at infinity Water simulation is limited by whatever else you are drawing. Older quest hardware will be limited by draw calls. This is why you see so much stylized art in VR games that are cross platform. You likely would want a simple vertex shader and not a fluid sim. Now I want a Tron VR rowing sim :D
  • joeld42 5y ago
    I've been doing a lot of Zwift (cycling) and am itching to make a VR cycling app, I just don't have the time or money to do it myself. If you manage to get something working for rowing I'd be happy to test it out, and to try and help get bike and steering sensor hooked up and try out a "paddleboat" mode or something. I'm also happy to chat about tech/dev side of it, I've been doing game dev for a while now, I'd be glad to tell you how I'd build it. Shoot me an email (joeld42@gmail.com) if you want to chat about VR fitness sometime. btw, the Vive and the Quest2 both already do motion compensation, even if your game lags a little bit they reproject it so you don't notice if you drop a few frames, a big lag will still cause problems but the headsets take care of the predictive motion stuff.
• eezurr 5y ago
  I've been working on a city builder/simulation video game for the last few months. If that's something you're curious & passionate about, send me an email (see profile). The game is built from the ground up with SFML and C++. The graphics are sprite/tile based. The game is top down, 2D, and will display the interior of buildings so you can watch your citizens live their lives. You'll be able to change z-levels for multi level buildings. The focus of the game will be more on the simulation (Dwarf Fortress is a huge inspiration) than on building pretty cities (e.g. Cities: Skylines), although I do care about the art direction. I have a long runway to take off from, about 2-3 years, so I have the time (and patience, and desire) to care about quality and efficiency. What Im working on now: Here's a brag & demo of the pathfinding I am currently wrapping up: https://i.imgur.com/vtKXKLK.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/vtKXKLK.mp4 Note a few things: * All possible paths are found in O( m + n log n ) time, even though there's a binomial coefficient number of possible paths in this grid. The tree is stored in memory for constant time access. Im using parallel flat hash maps to significantly lower the memory footprint. * The units choose the shortest path that match their preference (i.e. the color of the unit), thus choose a path that contains the most tiles of their color. * Pink units dont have a preference and will use any of the paths available. * I'm not an artist! * Currently wrapping up multi-lane road pathing (which is quite tricky!). * In the game, preferences will be history, tourism, beauty, food, neighborhoods the unit can relate to (religion/nationality), etc.
  • skulk 5y ago
    Since you're inspired by DF, are you going to do a similar macro/micro split simulation that DF does? I thought this was one of the most interesting aspects of the game and implementation: how do you give the illusion to the player that other civilizations are evolving in a way that's not unlike the evolution of the player's fort without actually doing the CPU-crushing fine-grained simulation outside of the player's map?
    • eezurr 5y ago
      Indeed! The largest problem I will be tackling is simulating (to the best extent possible) an economy. One thing I liked (and made a lot of sense, at least to me) in SimCity 2000 is that the first demand you had to fulfill was industry. So the player will choose an industry to build their city around (though they'll be able to diversify any time. The price for that is possibly losing their edge in said industry). One of the goals in the game is cashflow. Each service/industry/utility (SIU) that is outsourced is lost tax revenue for the city. For example, a new map will contain national power lines running through it. You'll have to tap into those for power initially. This means your citizens will pay a higher price for electricity, which limits tax revenue in two ways: 1.) You're not taxing the profits of the power plant 2.) You're citizens have less money to spend, thus the businesses in your city have smaller profits to tax. Now iterate that math for every SIU required (which depends on city size). To counter this, the player starts by owning all the land, so the city's initial revenue is from property sales. As the city grows, land value goes up. (Fun point, once the land is sold, its permanent until you can afford a great lawyer on your board to win an eminent domain case). Over time the city will grow and more SIU's will be localized, increasing the cash flow of the city (more tax income). But, to attract/retain talent (thus have larger corporations), the city needs to spend this cash on services to make the city a desirable place to live. I think some fun side goals would be, for example, attracting the best chefs, artists, musicians, that are available, and have them e.g. open a restaurant in your city. So, the macro scale is competing against other cities (both for talent and services/industries). I could say the winning condition is to be at the apex in every industry in the game, though that will likely be impossible, and I dont plan on having any real win condition. I haven't sat down and mapped out how to simulate the competition (other cities), but I dont see a need to simulate each city at the micro level. I believe DF takes a similar approach. If anything, an infrequent mass calculation could determine who moves where and why, and to compare business competition. Im using SQL for storing game data to take advantage of what it does best, so this should be relatively easy.
• sjb326 5y ago
  I volunteer for a healthtech charity building mobile apps to support HIV prevention. Our first product, Preptrack, helps people to use PrEP, the medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV infection. It's live on the App Store and has a strong and active community of users who love what we do. We're always looking to talk to software engineers who would like to do a little good in their spare time or as a side project. Feel free to check out our website (https://preptrack.co.uk https://preptrack.co.uk), our volunteers page (https://preptrack.co.uk/volunteering/engineer/ https://preptrack.co.uk/volunteering/engineer/) or shoot me an email (sam [at] preptrack [dot] co [dot] uk). I'd love to hear from you.
• pdyc 5y ago
  I am creating a repository for database schema and er diagrams of popular open source software.
• zachrip 5y ago
  I'm looking for an artist to help me create bitmaps/art/ideas for a small handheld/desktop device (currently using m5stack core2, it has a screen + various sensors, mic, speaker). I am wanting to make small games/experiences that happen on your desk. Think tamagotchi but bigger.
• alexose 5y ago
  I'm working with the OpenAir collective (https://openaircollective.cc https://openaircollective.cc) on open source DIY-friendly carbon capture machines. We've made some strides lately, but we need more hacker types to advance our research initiatives. There are a variety of projects to work on, but I'm specifically interested in the electrolysis of CO2. I could really use help from anyone with a chemistry background or access to lab! If you're interested, please reach out to me via my email or hit me up on the OpenAir discord.
• marcusbuffett 5y ago
  I'm interested in collaborating with someone for my side project https://chessmadra.com https://chessmadra.com . There's no money in it, as I haven't monetized it and don't plan to, but if you're interested in chess, have ideas for training tools, have some design skills, any of the above, let me know, would love to collaborate. Also open to a mentoring sort of thing, if anyone wants to get some exp w/ React or Rust, as that's what it's built in.
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• culopatin 5y ago
  I just want to put myself out there if anyone thinks they’d have the time to bring me on board. I’m an IT dude trying to jump to software. I have some knowledge in Java and Python (spring and Django) and I’d love to just participate in anything to be honest. However, I’d probably not hit the ground running and I’d need a bit of a walkthrough. I know this doesn’t sound too useful to anyone but if you just need someone to grow with you let me know, I’m down to grind as much as I need to.
  • bostonsre 5y ago
    Not an offer, but a suggestion as an ex IT dude that transitioned into devops/site reliability engineering. You could look for a junior devops role somewhere or look for a smaller org with a team where there is a blend of IT and devops work so that you could start to learn the devops side (this is kind of how I moved into the software side more). The pay is great and some of your skillsets in IT will overlap with devops work. Universities don't really teach devops skills so there always seems to be very high demand for the devops side as well. I don't develop apps but have written a ton of stuff in python for managing infrastructure.
    • culopatin 5y ago
      This is not the first time someone points me in this direction. I shall dive into it and see if it sparks interest. Thanks!
• mfrye0 5y ago
  I'm not sure if this is the best thread, but I'm potentially looking for a partner. I'm the founder of https://bigpicture.io/ https://bigpicture.io/. The primary product is company data and IP data as a service via API. I'm debating what to do with the company. I've only raised a small angel round, and the company is profitable. A competitor reached out to me about an acquisition a couple weeks ago, so I'm debating that vs raising money vs continuing to bootstrap. I'm an engineer, but I have a decent amount of business experience. So I'm open to partnering with someone technical or business focused.
  • 07121941 5y ago
    I'd be interested to—at the very least—discuss, sounds interesting. How can I reach you?
    • mfrye0 5y ago
      Sure. michael <a t> bigpicture.io
  • fxtentacle 5y ago
    I've considered similar companies as a customer and I could never figure out why paying for such an API would be better than just purchasing a company database. I'm an engineer, ceo, and investor. I'm looking for projects where I can help with my money/connections/skills to build things now which will then later turn into passive income. My strong suit is AI and process automation.
    • mfrye0 5y ago
      A company DB can be expensive to buy and rapidly gets out of date. API is easier to integrate if you're building an app with company data, and easier on our end to keep the data fresh. I'm still debating on what I want to do, but I'm open to chat if you're interested in any of this. michael <a t> bigpicture.io
• kushan2020 5y ago
  Hey, I am working on an opensource web-based note-taking tool called Bangle.io [0]. Note-taking is a pretty crowded space with new tools showing up every other day. Bangle.io tries to stand out by allowing users to own their data and not locking them to a cloud provider. I also have plans to add extensions and multiplayer collaboration in the future. If this spikes your interest, please find me at [1]. [0] https://bangle.io https://bangle.io [1] https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle-io https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle-io
  • blueberrychpstx 5y ago
• brendoncarroll 5y ago
  I'm working on INET256, a 256 bit network address space for easily and securely connecting applications. https://github.com/inet256/inet256 https://github.com/inet256/inet256 - The API is focused around sending and receiving messages to addresses derived from public keys. - Each application can have its own stable address. - Runs as a daemon process which is configured with peering information. Additional network nodes can be spawned through the API. - Can easily support arbitrary routing algorithms through a well defined interface. - A TUN device (similar to CJDNS or Yggdrasil) is included as a separate application. (The IP6 Portal)
• thelastinuit 5y ago
  I'm in for some Rust and/or Elixir. I'm in for literally impossible things.
  • fouc 5y ago
    I'd be up for collaborating in elixir on something, I have a bunch of ideas and half finished side projects. I'm curious what impossible means to you. My email is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039
• adamqureshi 5y ago
  I am looking for someone to collaborate on with https://teslatracker.com/ https://teslatracker.com/ I need to scrape inventory and charge users and if a dev can handle the engineering i would offer rev share. I would do all sales / marketing / sign up paid users. I would like it if someone was in the USA so we can hop on a call to discuss feature. East coast would be even better since i am in NYC. Thank you. please reach out if you are an engineer and interested contact (at) teslatracker.com
• onassar 5y ago
  Would love support / collab on an open source project I'm running, Iconduck (https://iconduck.com/ https://iconduck.com/). I'm actually working right now with someone from the HN community to build a Figma plugin, as well as someone else who's doing research. Anyone who finds open source icons and illustrations interesting, would love your help :)
• chad_strategic 5y ago
  I'm a professional algorithmic trader and a registered investment advisor. Looking for marketing / sales collaboration or partner. Email me for more details
• impish19 5y ago
  Hi, I'm an ex-big-tech employee working on FeatureAsk.com It's 2022 and yet if you ever think of a feature for an app or a product you use, there's no good place to voice it and feel heard. I want to change that. Looking to collaborate with fellow engineers and people with a strong product/growth sense.
  • blueberrychpstx 5y ago
  • impish19 5y ago
    @blueberrychpstx yeah, I'm familiar with UserVoice. I want to build a public UserVoice.
• iKenshu 5y ago
  Hey, I can help to anyone with a project of Python and Django Maybe marketing stuff, like social media, SEO or anything organic :)
• psb 5y ago
  I'd be interested in building a listening comprehension tool for foreign language learners. I'm thinking having a slider for vocab (top 1000 words, top 2000 words, etc) and a slider for speed of speech plus an adjustable timer for how long the user has to understand the sentence.
  • fouc 5y ago
    This seems interesting to me, I wouldn't mind collaborating on this. My email is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039
• jetpackjoe 5y ago
  I'm building out a new budgeting/personal finance app born out of frustration with YNAB. Would love someone skilled with UX to help me out with it. The front-end is a react application, and the backend is Elixir/Phoenix. Some of my frustrations with YNAB: * Rigid categories. This makes you do a lot of work up front. I am envisioning letting people just assign categories on the fly without having to pre-define them. * What do to with my money? In YNAB, every paycheck you are a supposed to give each money a job (a category). In practice, there is a very little guidance around what to do if you have too much, or too little money. I'd like a little less flexibility here, as well as the ability to create/define rules to help make actual assignment of funds more automated. ( I have some ideas about this). * Its very common to budget intermittently. But you can come back to your budget after a month and have 100s of transactions to go through, your categories are all underfunded, and you don't know what to do, so you click "Make a Fresh Start". I also have idea around this * Reports: The default reports in YNAB leave a lot to be desired. Extensions like "Toolkit for YNAB" help, but good reporting should be a first-class citizen of a finance app. * Tagging transactions. related to the above, tagging transactions will help with reporting and seeing where your money is going. ------------------------------- If any of the above interests you, my email is in my HN profile. This is a side/after-work project, not a full-time one.
  • gVoNrsQqtb 5y ago
    Designer who would love to collaborate on this, but didn't see an email in your profile.
    • jetpackjoe 5y ago
      eek! sorry! It's there now
    • Artistry121 5y ago
      Nice! will you reach out to me too? I just paid to have an app developed and designed that is similar to this vein and would like to find more people creative and interested. I'm looking to launch in July and funded and have customers lined up and a core use case.
• musesum 5y ago
  I've been working on three projects, from short term to long term: 1. Visual synthesizer to synch with popular music to share and jam 2. Wearable thought recorder to predict your future intent (on hold) 3. Anonymous Collaboration to sort 10^12 intents for 10^9 users The first is pretty far along. I used to VJ semi-pro on a Wacom tablet and then ported it to the iPad (which Apple deprecated when they moved to 64-bit only). Have rewritten in Swift, and in process of redoing the menuing system in SwiftUI. Kids love it and is a subversive way of leaning STEM concepts through play. Demo of the Wacom tablet version (2005) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlkzZubHnM&t=9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlkzZubHnM&t=9s The second is an Apple Watch centric app that I spent a couple years on. Just raise your wrist to record your thoughts. I released a subset of the idea in the AppStore, but didn't market it. Spent a few more months on updating the design but is now on hold. Old version here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-now/id1323143774?ls=1 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-now/id1323143774?ls=1 The third is kinda hard. I spoke at the RSA Data Security conference (1998) on how to share interests without a trusted third party. The idea is to combine some homomorphic blinding to sort intent(s) through a massively parallel graph. It's kinda weird because the graph is an asynchronous cellular automaton. I'm not even sure if it is plausible. It's more of a lossy switching network than a static ledger. Somewhat inspired by the work of Goldreich, Micali, Widgerson: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Goldreich,+Micali,+Wigderson&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Goldreich,+Micali,+Wigd...
• tsycho 5y ago
  I am building a site to analyze my investment portfolio - run risk models, evaluate payoff scenarios, and even suggest options trades. I have been doing a lot of options trading in the past few years, and needed better tools to analyze complicated options positions, so I started with payoff calculator for a set of options (both at expiry, as well as at intermediate times using Black-Scholes). Here's an example: https://tinyurl.com/pa-example https://tinyurl.com/pa-example And now I am building other stuff to analyzing your whole portfolio, and to suggest options trades that will lead to a better payoff profile (as per your customizable utility function, eg: you might weigh losses exponentially and profits logarithmically beyond a threshold). This is a side project; I have a day job and a family, so I get about 4-5 hours a week to work on this. I have been building this in Rails. I have don't have any current plans of making this a real business. It's fun and useful to me, and I want to keep it that way, but I am open to launching it as a freemium/paid site in the future if others find it useful. An ideal collaborator would be someone who is good at Javascript and web UI; but most importantly, our goals should match. If you are that person, email me at admin@portfolioanalytics.org (or reply to this comment with yours)
• PianoGym 5y ago
  If you're interested - Piano Gym is looking for others who are interested in building out our existing website and tools Here's a quick video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4 Piano Gym is a learning and practice ecosystem focused on prioritizing music theory and performance skills acquisition through the use of flash cards. We use flash cards in order to pair them with modern learning techniques like spaced repetition, graded feedback, and progress tracking so that you can practice material and work through content that is managed by Piano Gym, and all you have to do is enroll in a school/course/lesson and do your reps! Just show up every day and do 15 minutes of reviews. You're going to make progress. Our website uses the Piano to navigate exercises as well as regular keyboard/mouse input. We work on browser technology and are looking to eventually make it mobile devices. We provide content creation for everyone so that anyone can make their own schools/courses/lessons and the best part is each school gets its own landing page. For example we're using the methods book from https://freepianomethod.com https://freepianomethod.com which is provided by Mayron Cole, and if you wanted to practice it without signing up or enrolling you could easily visit this link: https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method Even better when you find the piece you want to practice you can share it directly like so: https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method?sheet_music_id=193 https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method?sheet_mu... Our goal is to do this for free. We believe that no one should be blocked from learning. And one of the issues with this at the moment is that our team is very small and has been currently working nights and weekends to make this happen. We would love the chance to add a technical member to our team in order to build this product out to its full vision. If you're interested please feel free to direct message me or reach out on social media :)
  • 58x14 5y ago
    This looks really cool! I've been a pianist for 15 years, but most of that time, my practice has been in swings - a week with dozens of hours of practice, a month with none. I've been looking for a more incremental approach for me to practice daily.
    • PianoGym 5y ago
• Siecje 5y ago
  I created a Discord to find people to collaborate with. https://discord.gg/RRK8sS4KJ3 https://discord.gg/RRK8sS4KJ3
• ermir 5y ago
  I'm a web developer and I'm currently writing a book about game development in the web. The book is still a work in progress (it likely will never be "complete"), but it's quite usable and soon I'll be able to demonstrate small games with the currently existing chapters. The link is here: https://suldashi.github.io/gamebook/ https://suldashi.github.io/gamebook/ I'm looking for someone to try it out, give some feedback, and possibly even write a game by following along the instructions. The target reader is a somewhat experienced programmer (such as a close-to-graduation CS student) who won't need to be told what's a function or class, but you don't need to know anything about game development to make use of the book.
• novaleaf 5y ago
  I am making a C# (net6) game engine. Features very similar to unity ecs, and that works. But I don't have much of anything else implemented yet. graphics are crude, and no other systems. if you are interested in checking it out: https://github.com/NotNotTech/NotNot https://github.com/NotNotTech/NotNot
• 07121941 5y ago
  I'm making a pretty interesting digital graffiti web app and I'd love some help. I'm proficient with django, and I'm learning some computer vision stuff on the side to supplement the project. I've fleshed it out, but honestly I need some help with the operations and planning. If you're interested I can hop into a google meet just about any time this week. Leave a comment and I'll email you in like 40 minutes.
• jconley 5y ago
  I'm working on a "Unity for everything else". If you build an IoT product, most anything consumer facing, tools for small business, etc, your customers will expect a multi-platform experience. They want an app on iOS and Android as well as a responsive website. This is currently a pain in the ass to build. You either end up with a very carefully made architecture to share code or build everything a bunch of times or some combination. Huge budget problem. I know, I've had to do it... Currently looking for people who would want to collaborate on some of the open source pieces that are needed. Short term I think the right place to start is to build an open source toolkit leveraging NextJS + React Native to create a single project for all platforms. Long term imagine an IDE (VS Code Extension), hosting, backend ecosystem, marketplace for themes and plugins, a simple opinionated project structure for building things that run on web, iOS, and Android to start. Eventually probably Desktop too. Based all on open source tools to avoid vendor lock-in.
  • tomcam 5y ago
    I think that product already exists: LiveCode https://livecode.com/ https://livecode.com/
    • jconley 5y ago
      Yeah, they're proof that this sort of thing can be valuable. But they have a very different approach. Proprietary language, components, etc. I wouldn't want to be locked into their ecosystem. That's typical with game engines, but not with web and mobile applications these days. Even Microsoft has gone full open source. I wouldn't use LiveCode as the basis to build a company on. I'm building the open version. Made for startup teams and indie hackers that want to make world class products on top of the open source tools they would probably use anyway.
      • tomcam 5y ago
        Interestingly Livecode had a GPL version until a few months ago. But I can’t wait to see your project, which sounds right up my alley. You could build yours starting with JUCE which has done an immense amount of heavy lifting in the portability department. It is also GPL. https://docs.juce.com/master/index.html https://docs.juce.com/master/index.html
• bilater 5y ago
  I'm interested in finding folks who can complement my skillset. I'm a front end dev and can design and build (imo) really good web apps. My tech stack is Next.js + Tailwind CSS deployed on Vercel or Netlify (jamstack fan boy). I am opinionated about the tech I use not because its the greatest thing out there but because its the tool I know best and enables me to move really fast and effectively. I'd love to partner with a backend dev and/or marketing guru to build a cool project. You can check out some of my projects here: https://www.hackyexperiments.com/ https://www.hackyexperiments.com/
  • atdrummond 5y ago
    Do you have a specific project you are looking to tackle now/first?
  • samanator 5y ago
    I'm a backend dev looking for a similar complement. I'm quite busy right now but I'd love to save your contact info for a time when there's mutual interest and availability! You can get my email from my profile.
  • mathgladiator 5y ago
    I'm deep on back-ends, and I'm building a SaaS to complement Jamstack perfectly. Now, granted, it was initially designed for board games, but I'm standing up a production cluster this month. If you are interested, check out http://www.adama-lang.org/ http://www.adama-lang.org/ and reach out at adama [at] mathgladiator [dot] com. I'll ping you directly via your site as well.
• pawelwentpawel 5y ago
  I'm working solo on https://flat.social https://flat.social - a fun videoconferencing app for remote teams to organise social events. I'd be very happy to schedule a couple hours for some conceptual collaboration and to catch up with other makers to see if we can help each other in any way. I'm thinking occasional brainstorming, feedback sessions and exchange of advice coming from different domains of expertise. You can pick my brain in anything that's related to your project and vice versa. My background is technical so I'd be mostly looking to speak with people who come from business, marketing and design side of things. If you happen be interested, you can find my details and email in the profile or on my website https://pawel.io https://pawel.io, feel free to drop me a message :)
• actionfromafar 5y ago
  I'm building something probably best described as a Dropbox competitor but with a p2p twist. No blockchains or tokens, just performant code, no-non-sense offering with a SAAS style (optional) subscription. Currently at the proof-of-concept stage. One-person outfit so far.
• mynameisash 5y ago
  I have been mulling over the idea of starting a project that reads ONNX files and performs a codegen on the model, building model inference code directly that doesn't rely upon an ONNX runtime. In my experience, hooking up a runtime requires a lot of effort, and inference is often fairly latent. I'm wondering if it's feasible to generate code offline from an .onnx model then compile the generated code directly into whatever project is using it.
  • vivegi 5y ago
    Cool. I have thought about the same thing a while ago, but held back. The code gen you are talking about is for data wrangling and shaping, right? I used ML.net from MSFT and it comes with an ONNX runtime that is quite easy to use, esp if we are just using the model for predictions. The data shaping was not complex. That's why I held back. (See the first link below) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-use-automl-onnx-model-dotnet https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-... This one has a bit of involved processing https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/machine-learning/tutorials/object-detection-onnx https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/machine-learning/tut...
  • freemint 5y ago
    I think Julia's ecosystem FluxML/ONNX.jl does just that and writes it into a tape. Turning Julia into standalone executables is less fun, so you are probably stuck with Julia run time which is probably bigger?
• ellis0n 5y ago
  I am creating an innovative mobile programming platform for dev apps more fun Join to the community and try iOS App with TestFlight https://old.reddit.com/r/acpu/ https://old.reddit.com/r/acpu/
• Nefarius 5y ago
  A couple of FOSS enthusiasts and myself have taken over the decade old game controller remapping tool DS4Windows (https://github.com/CircumSpector/DS4Windows https://github.com/CircumSpector/DS4Windows) with the goal to rewrite major parts using latest dotnet patterns and technologies. There's still months worth of work left but despite being an ambitious task, it's quite doable and fun figuring out your way around someone else's massive code base. Join us if you like!
• smikatoots 5y ago
  Very passionate about the NFT space and have a couple ideas I'd like to build out and validate. Generally: - Diving deeper into ERC-1155s and exploring deeper "membership" or "pass-like" utility for web3 companies to leverage - Verticalized marketplaces - NFT studio model for certain celebrity personas I'm friends with
• photonpsd 5y ago
  Hi, I'm working on solutions to currency inflation and would love some help. Similar to a COLA (cost of living adjustment) on your salary, I think people should receive a COLA on their savings. Inflation destroys economies and lives all over the world, due mostly to uncontrolled currency printing by gov't. And, as obvious as it may sound, we don't have to sit back and just accept it anymore. We can build tools that protect people, and their savings, from dramatic losses in value. To do that, I am building an NFT "Russian doll" that is linked to CPI (consumer price index). How does it work?: As CPI rises past a predetermined level, the smart contract in the Russian Doll nft will auto-mint the holder a new NFT (Russian Doll #2), which the holder can then sell to cover inflation. Buyer of Russian Doll #2 gets same inflation protection, as CPI rises past a predetermined level, RD #2 auto-mints RD #3, and on and on. As governments print more money, and prices rise, the hope is that citizens can use these NFTs to combat that rise in price. That is the basic idea, which we can iterate on. I'm super excited about it simply because I think it has the potential to do a lot of good in this world. look forward to hearing from anyone interested, please reach out!!! (pdeckr at gmail).
  • robbiep 5y ago
    Sorry I’m not sure I understand. You’re countering inflation by building inflation into crypto? Wont that just lead to runaway inflation, algorithmically determined?
  • heliodor 5y ago
    The CPI data is determined and published by the government. It has received plenty of criticism. Also, blockchain is supposed to solve trust problems, government being one big one. Instead, you're going to trust their CPI data?
• le_el 5y ago
  I'm down to help out on anything. I am a self-taught software engineer since 2016, prior to that I was a supply chain optimization consultant. Currently employed as a senior software engineer. My experience (* means strong): - full stack development (mobile/browser UI, backend). Experience includes nodeJS*, Go, React*/Angular, Flutter*/React-Native/Swift, AWS/DO/GCP - bunch of side projects where I've taught myself design (and tools like Figma*), product management (books mostly), and have notion* documents for my projects. currently working on an app to alleviate loneliness. My goal is to launch my own company some day, but nobody in my family or close friends is an entrepreneur or entrepreneur minded. I am trying to find some friends in this circle. Please hit me up if I sound like a good fit, I am willing to grok on any brainstorming sessions or join you to work on something interesting.*
  • empressplay 5y ago
    You should put an e-mail address in your profile so that people can contact you :)
  • chillycurve 5y ago
    Hi! I just commented with a project I am working on. I need a co-founder who meets your qualification exactly! Check out my comment and feel free to reach to me via the email on my profile if you are interested.
  • radamba 5y ago
    Hey, if you're interested in working on reducing emissions in supply chains (Scope 3), reach out (no email in your profile).
• leetrout 5y ago
  Last month karlicoss the developer of Promnesia posted in the collab post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760122 I made a discord server in response (we mostly idle) to discuss knowledge management tooling Awesome Knowledge Management https://discord.gg/XPNeDSQE2j https://discord.gg/XPNeDSQE2j Would love to continue to chat about existing tools and new ideas in this space!
• jconley 5y ago
  Anyone interested in fixing news, and doing it with Web3? We build an open source and non profit news organization that's a combination of Wikipedia and Genius. The goal is to be a destination that people can trust to provide more than one side of a story and separate opinion from fact. It scrapes news, has an AI that organizes topics, human editors to make sure things are organized properly. It surfaces articles and videos that are meaningful contributors to the topic based on heuristics and editors. We markup biases of authors. Show when articles are making claims that lack evidence. Build a fact checking regime that is open and obvious. We don't do all the news, just pick a few hot topics each day, like Digg. It has a website, mobile app, probably a podcast. I imagine the non profit has a sister DAO where good contributors are rewarded with a new token we create. Use NFT's for badges. Various other options.
  • atdrummond 5y ago
    Can you drop me an e-mail? I'd love to chat - specifically, how this can be applied to hyper local news.
• vneur 5y ago
  Building virtual neuroscience software over here https://www.virtualbrainlab.org/ https://www.virtualbrainlab.org/ I think with so much hybrid learning and remote teaching going on there's an opportunity for STEM education to become more equitable. Right now to learn about neuroscience you have to go to a university, pay hefty tuition fees, and even then access to really cutting edge technology is blocked by the high cost of research tools. There's nothing stopping us from building virtual versions of this same content. My vision is that these are used as complements to low-cost in-person lab experiences, so maybe in a class people learn about neurons using a backyard brains setup and then they learn about the really cutting edge expensive tools using this virtual environment.
• magic5227 5y ago
  Musopen.org is designing a free, open-source app to learn how to read music and play an instrument. Think codecademy.com or duolingo.com but for music. We would love help bringing this to life. Write us if you want to join, and how you might be able to help: aaron [at] musopen.org
• akuataya 5y ago
  Hi, I’m a product designer and back in 2016 I came up with a concept for an AR/VR keyboard for one of my classes https://imgur.com/gallery/TomSq https://imgur.com/gallery/TomSq. Granted, the idea, including its description on imgur, are unrefined but even years later I think the concept, or at least some version of it, has got some potential. Let me know if it catches your fancy or if you have any feedback.
• empressplay 5y ago
  turtleSpaces is a Logo-based 3D game engine written in Go. It has desktop and WebAssembly builds, and a Javascript-based IDE. My partner and I currently work on it. It is becoming usable. We want to make it a better (less-toxic) Roblox, with kids making games and stuff for other kids. We need people to do documentation, make tutorials and help build up our library of example programs. If anyone familiar with Go is interested, they could help with our codebase, and we could use a Javascript / CSS wizard to help make our front-end more responsive. https://turtlespaces.org/ https://turtlespaces.org/
  • savingsPossible 5y ago
    Out of curiosity, why is roblox toxic? (idk much about it)
• vinner_roy 5y ago
  I'm building pagespace.app, a platform to create, publish and sell longer form HTML-based content. The vision is a cross between Substack and Github for longer form content. I mention Github because much like code, good content and knowledge should improve and change over time and have lots of "commits". Tech stack is Elixir, Vue 3, Prosemirror/TipTap. Looking for coders and writers.
• mariusor 5y ago
  I started a go project to create a link aggregator similar to HN and old reddit, but built on top of ActivityPub. It's targeted at small to medium communities, but at the same time it can reach outward through the federation mechanism that ActivityPub provides. Outside of immediate support to intercommunicate with other instances of its own platform, it will handle interactions from the larger fediverse at large: Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc. Currently this is a one man project, namely me, and I would welcome support in any area that people could help: development, design, documentation, graphics, copy, etc. The project can be found at https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr, and if anyone is interested there is a mailing list where people can get in touch: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go Some details about the project can be found on its wiki: https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/index.md https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/index.... [edit] for the curious, there's also a demo instance at https://littr.me https://littr.me
  • Artistry121 5y ago
    Nice. I'm gonna send you an email. I can help in design, docs, and want to build some things on top of ActivityPub. Maybe we can help each other. Want to reach out to me via my email please?
  • Tmpod 5y ago
    Cool to see more AP projects! I assume you're aware of Lemmy; maybe you could acknowledge it on the README/wiki and explain in what way the platforms differ. From what I understand, Lemmy is more reddit-like while littr is more HN-like. Is this correct?
    • mariusor 5y ago
      Yes, I am aware of Lemmy, however my project predates it by quite a while, and has a more comprehensive approach when it comes to the ActivityPub spec. They had the good fortune to receive a lot of publicity, which resulted in a lot more man power and some well deserved grants which helped them a long at a faster pace. I don't know why I need to acknowledge it on my project though. Users that are interested can click around and see what's different and which one is more to their liking. It will probably be mentioned in the wiki at some point, as it's one of the immediate targets for federating with other projects.
• hawkx 5y ago
  I am a DevOps engineer by day and hack around various technologies by night. I can design and work on backend and a bit of frontend. Looking to work on something in the side. I also have few ideas which have no concrete plan. If interested my mail in the about section of my profile.
  • chillycurve 5y ago
    Sent you an email about a project that might interest you.
• shiryel 5y ago
  I'm building a open source Raylib's binding for Elixir, to be the base of 2D/3D games in elixir (yes, I know that elixir is not the best language for that, but its something that would be cool to do with Erlang's VM regardless) Link: https://github.com/shiryel/rayex https://github.com/shiryel/rayex The project's architecture is already ready to use, it just needs more functions implemented from Raylib and I need to figure out how to make it work on MacOS (see issue #7) Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
• vkoskiv 5y ago
  If anyone here happens to like both C (C99) and raytracing, I've been working on c-ray[1] for a while now. It's your average pathtracer, but has some nice features such as clustered network rendering, a really fast BVH and an up-and-coming node-based material system. Scene descriptions are expressed as JSON. I'm looking into building a Blender plugin to be able to use it from there. Coding style is what I prefer - code should be dumb and simple, using nothing more than basic control flow, structs and functions. C suits this goal very nicely. [1] https://github.com/vkoskiv/c-ray https://github.com/vkoskiv/c-ray
• pbsurf 5y ago
  I'm working on computational chemistry, with the very long-term (decades) goal of designing molecules (proteins/enzymes) for things like artificial photosynthesis and molecular computing (chips still rely on the bulk properties of semiconductors; for miniaturization to continue, at some point it will become necessary to design molecules to function as logic and interconnect). See https://github.com/pbsurf/chem https://github.com/pbsurf/chem
  • kreeben 5y ago
    Extremely cool looking screen shot at the bottom of your repo's readme. I would put it at the very top of the file. Might get more people to star your project.
  • freemint 5y ago
    You might want to get into contact with CA Schafmeister which also develops a Common Lisp implementation clasp with focus on HPC.
  • akg_67 5y ago
    You most probably aware, but just wanted to highlight that latest Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry are currently involved in similar projects.
• fuzzythinker 5y ago
  Seems like a well received thread. Please continue to post monthly.
• ianberdin 5y ago
  Who is interested in javascript online editor https://playcode.io/online-javascript-editor https://playcode.io/online-javascript-editor (playground)? I have been working on it for 5 years, but it turned out to be impossible to make a startup alone, competitors such as CodeSandbox, StackBlitz, Glitch bypassed me with larger resources, So I am looking for: - a partner / partners of a javascript developer with a strong desire to make a startup. - Investments. E m a i l: ruslan @ playcode.io
• mrassili 5y ago
  A project in the health & fitness industry. I’m a Frontend/full-stack developer and looking to partner with a UX designer who’s also into health & fitness Email on my profile
• saradhi 5y ago
  I run https://extracttable.com https://extracttable.com - an API to extract tabular data from images & tables. To keep it simple call it image to excel conversion service. I fully built and managing the service. I'm looking for a SEO person and a B2B marketing person.
• sumnole 5y ago
  I'm working on devices to aid in learning and application of topics.
  • desertraven 5y ago
    Could you elaborate?
• tldrthelaw 5y ago
  I'm a former software engineer (way former, like 20 years ago) and current tax attorney -- call myself a "tax technologist." Looking to work on any projects at the intersection of the two.
  • iamwil 5y ago
    Look into the intersection of Tax and Cryptocurrency, if you haven't already. There's a lot of stuff to do in there, I would imagine.
    • tldrthelaw 5y ago
      Thanks, done a bit of writing and dabbling but nothing major. Still trying to find my niche.
• desertraven 5y ago
  I’m working on a search engine crawled by users themselves. If I think about it, I'm not interested in 99% of the web. Therefore I don't need to deal with exhaustively crawling the entire web. Hypothetically, if I could access only the sites visited by the HN crowd, that would be fine by me. Somebody in an art community might feel similarly. If there were some metric the crawlers could use to rate a page (time spent on page, manually downvote, etc), then the signal/noise ratio would be really good. Obviously if I wanted to do a really broad search, I'd use a typical search engine, but if it's tech related, I wouldn't mind pages that have been browsed by HN.
  • dominotw 5y ago
    this is such a cool idea. i am interested.
    • desertraven 5y ago
      Thank you!
  • another_story 5y ago
    You want something where users voluntarily (and anonymously) submit their search histories and they can be compared? That sounds interesting.
  • dpifke 5y ago
    I'd be pretty happy with a search engine that lived on my local machine, just for pages I've already visited. That might be a good first step towards what you're planning. Step two would then be figuring out how to do federated queries across users with similar interests. From a privacy standpoint, I'd be less uncomfortable letting random strangers run (sanitized) queries against my browsing history (stored locally), than I would be uploading my browser history to a third party.
    • desertraven 5y ago
      Great points, thank you. I've been wondering how to do it in a privacy-preserving way. Also the current implementation is a browser extension, I wonder if there may be a better architecture.
• chillycurve 5y ago
  Currently developing a distributed transcoder-as-a-service to compete with the likes of AWS's Elastic Transcoder and Google's Transcoder API. By my math, I can transcode the same file in half the time and at 1/20 or so of the cost of those guys. Hoping to get into this summer's YC and looking for one or two co-founders. I am mostly a business/marketing guy who can hold his own in devops/backend, but no where near professional. Looking for at least a backend co-founder who knows GO (ideally K8s, containers, and CI/CD, as well). A talented frontend co-founder would always make things a lot easier, as well. I am currently working on this ~10 hours a day in preparation for the Summer YC class. If anybody is looking for a project with some potential, hit me up!
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    • chillycurve 5y ago
      Sent you an email! Looking forward to talking.
  • TaylorPhebillo 5y ago
    1/20 the cost sounds good, but can you post your math there, or why you think they can be beat by that margin? It sounds like a fun project to work on, but I worry that the price improvement estimate neglects a lot of what the cloud providers are charging for.
• bshepard 5y ago
  Perhaps someone reading this might be interested in developing a joint national branding strategy and national development strategy for Thailand. More details here and here: https://infinitethailand.substack.com/p/the-value-chain-vault-explained-in https://infinitethailand.substack.com/p/the-value-chain-vaul... https://infinitethailand.substack.com/p/how-to-imagine-the-tunnelparks https://infinitethailand.substack.com/p/how-to-imagine-the-t... (email in profile)
• quickthrower2 5y ago
  I am learning smart contracts (Solidity) I'll probably write a few fun "not for profit" games that run on test networks once I have finished my course (so players can grab free tokens from a faucet, then play in the game, no real money at stake). I am interested in games that can kind of run a bit off chain (I've seen a chess example online that is quite clever in how it avoids the chain until it needs to). I have an idea of an adapted texas-holdem poker game. I also want to look into how NFTs can be done without needing these big central market places. Could work together on something, or just keep in touch an encourage each other, ask each other questions etc. Mainly would want to communicate async via whatever you use, or email. I might be "slow" in the number of hours a week I spend so bear with me! Contact info in profile.
• culi 5y ago
  I'll start off with my prototype: https://elegant-shaw-2cb49a.netlify.app/votevote https://elegant-shaw-2cb49a.netlify.app/votevote Anyone into electoral methods or game theory? If you've ever watched CGP Grey's videos on electoral methods or seen Nicky Case's *To Build a Better Ballot*,[1] it's very much in the spirit of that. It's mostly a toy that will run a single election in a large number of different electoral methods. Currently I've implemented ~26 different electoral methods which is pretty neat. However, I've shied away from the methods that voting theory nerds love the most: Condorcet methods. I've implemented Copeland (although there's a mistake I haven't fixed yet) as well as Kemeny Young. However, Kemeny Young is implemented in the most brute force way possible and is O(n!) right now. Mostly I think I'm just looking for people with a math/game-theory background that would be interested in helping out, but I'm open to anyone interested. I know there's a lot of optimizations I could make to the Kemeny Young algorithm, but I've been hesitant to do so because I can't find the right theorems to make sure certain assumptions are true. For example, I'm quite sure that a subset of weak Condorcet winners would be at the front of the winning path, but I haven't found a textbook that's stated this explicitly and it's been a long time since college so I'm kinda iffy on proving it to myself. I also don't think having to learn the proof everytime just to make sure my assumptions are mathematically sound is the best way to develop such a tool. Thanks It's all open-source and won't have ads and will hopefully just be a static site so it's really just a hobby project. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo [1] https://ncase.me/ballot/ https://ncase.me/ballot/
  • iamwil 5y ago
    This is pretty interesting. Have you connected with people doing token economics design or DAO governance? That would be pretty applicable. Where did you source all the different electoral methods?
    • culi 5y ago
      Thanks! The only people I've really connected with are other voting theory nerds. There's a voting theory mailing list where a lot of academics hang out. Some of them are leaders in the field like Forest Simmons and some others I haven't interacted with as much. Maybe once I have more to show I could reach out to wider audiences The electoral methods are sourced from various places. When I get the new site up and running I want to have a spec source for each of the methods' implementations since some of the names can be confusing. A lot of the methods were found on the electowiki[0] which is run by the same people who do the mailing list. Many others I just found from reading articles, publications, textbooks,[1] and even wikipedia. I've kept a list of ones I wanna implement so I've just been slowly working through them. But there's a strong bias towards simple to implement ones so far. The much-loved (by voting theorists) ones won't be implemented for a while until I figure out how to do things more efficiently [0] https://electowiki.org/ https://electowiki.org/ [1] https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-mathematics-of-elections-and-voting https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-mathematics-of-ele...
• WoodenChair 5y ago
  I'm building an IBM 5150 (original IBM PC) emulator. Most of it is therefore an 8086 (technically 8088 but no difference for this) emulator. I have it successfully booting the BIOS and running BASIC in ROM (Casette BASIC). I'd like to boot DOS. The CPU passes automated tests, but I could use help with the disk support chips (everything is low level emulation right now) such as the floppy controller and more CGA graphics modes. It's just a hobby project—I'm not looking to make it performant, just working. It's written in poor C++ with SDL. https://github.com/davecom/DK86PC https://github.com/davecom/DK86PC
• atlasunshrugged 5y ago
  Anyone into cryonics? I think there's an interesting angle making it more accessible which could have positive downstream effects (e.g. 1) increased funding for research into cognitive uploading, 2) potentially decreased healthcare costs if people use the service before the tremendously expensive last 5-10 years of life) beyond the obvious of potentially being able to advance tech that would be a step towards radical life extension or perhaps enabling interplanetary travel.
  • byteface 5y ago
    I don't think you can do this one as a hobby really. You need to store brains which means taking them out of peoples heads or getting hold of animal brains. Plus you need to create liquid nitrogen and you also need a block face scanning electron microscope which has diamond parts and scale that up to a brain. So ur looking at several mil and a team of 50 people.
    • atlasunshrugged 5y ago
      Yeah I was thinking more of brainstorming and ideating on how to do it at scale before launching a real co, I agree that you can't have a fly by night operation when you're dealing with something like this (just the regulatory issues alone I'm sure require tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to get set up correctly).
• throwaway158497 5y ago
  Thanks for the initiative. Very useful. I am developing https://www.interviewblindspots.com/ https://www.interviewblindspots.com/ It is crowd sourced feedback on your interview performance, targeted at software engineers. I am very bad at frontend technologies and could use some help on that front. I frequently get stuck on frontend (CSS). I need someone to consult with and unblock me. My immediate next steps will be to hire a designed to make the looks good, but I will need a frontend engineer to help me implement the recommendations. I am also working on a blog search engine. I could use some frontend mentoring for that also. Email in profile
• arturventura 5y ago
  Hi everyone, I was bored during Christmas and I decided to implement plan9 semantics inside the browser. I have 9p2000 working, file servers and I've imported namespace logic from linux. My objective is to be able to mount one browser into another, and eventually implement a network stack similar to GNS. My objective has been more academic, learn more about operative systems, but this might lead to some interesting places. I would like to get into a point where we can have a browser to browser web, with its own Name System, and applications. https://github.com/intigos/possimpible https://github.com/intigos/possimpible
• royosherove 5y ago
  Open Source Blockchain music registration & Royalties: I'm a fullstack dev working on a blockchain project (eth/polygon) for music registration and royalties on chain. Would love to work with anyone with web3 backend(solidity) / frontend(react) experience, that is passionate about disrupting the music industry - for now it will just be a big open source permissionless project. But it could end up being a nice startup with many hooks to use for profit on top: from distribution to integrations - it's a blue ocean. (email in my profile)
• iamwil 5y ago
  I've started doing programming language research, specifically in three topic areas: 1. How to tamp down program complexity by compartmentalizing side effects? Are hexagonal architectures, monads, and algebraic effects the best ways? What are their pros and cons and are there other potential candidates? 2. How would abstract concepts like data structures and architectural structures be reified visually? Is there a Tufte for data structures? Do they actually help in understanding a program? 3. Is it possible to run programs on a remote machine you don't control and be assured that it was executed correctly? If there's anyone else that's looking along these three avenues or even tangentially related to local-first software, tools for thought, or dynamicland, I'd be happy to trade notes on interesting areas.
• adjwilli 5y ago
  I’m a full stack dev for a large media company, and made https://nftpaint.app/ https://nftpaint.app/ in my free time as an experiment. I have some ideas for turning it into a social drawing NFT app, but would like to find some people to collaborate with, specifically people who know about promoting NFTs or Solidity development.
  • dwmbt 5y ago
    i made a similar tool to learn elixir and it's collaborative in nature, would be interesting to see if you could do a similar twist so people could work on a piece together.
    • adjwilli 5y ago
      Do you have a URL for your project?
• morphle 5y ago
  Collaborate with me on million times faster software with Squeak Smalltalk software for cloud- and supercomputers. A single virtual machine image with multiple cores and petabyte per second memory access speeds. The software also scales down to M1 Max or AMD Zen 2/3 with only 400 GBps memory speeds. You can speed up simulations, search engines, datamining all science papers, machine learning, pattern matching, reverse indexes, huge in-memory databases, etc. Squeak ports bit-identically to more hardware than Linux and can run at almost compiled C speeds. We can also run it on our smalltalk microprocessor (FPGA or ASIC) to speed it up more than current ARM and X86. I'm not stuck on Squeak, we use David Ungar and Alan Kay's [1] VPRI research [2] and write entire operating systems and apps in less than 10,000 lines of code by make high level DSL languages in Ometa and compile them to (supercomputer)hardware. Of course we try to get funding but meanwhile we make demo proofs. Morphle at ziggo dot nl [1] STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming, 2012 Final Report Submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf [2] https://vimeo.com/82301919 https://vimeo.com/82301919
  • angus-g 5y ago
    This sounds fascinating! In HPC environments how do the images communicate -- I'm just assuming there's some form of distributed computing going on there?
    • morphle 5y ago
      Yes, either Alan Kay's Croquet [1] with manycore parallel extensions or David Ungar's RoarVM [2]. Contact me for the much nicer demo's, videos and scientific papers. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U [2] https://www.slideshare.net/gron/sly-and-the-roarvm-exploring-the-manycore-future-of-programming https://www.slideshare.net/gron/sly-and-the-roarvm-exploring...
    • morphle 5y ago
      the images communicate with normal messages but the object table has tags for local and remote message
• bananarchist 5y ago
  Do you have a bunch of unused cables tangled in a box? Hanging in a closet? STREWN ACROSS THE GUEST BED? Do you find yourself purchasing a new tool or toy only to discover you need yet another USB cable to power it or one with a proper transfer speed for your setup? Or did your old tool or toy break leaving you with some bizarre proprietary(?) cable that you'll probably never have use for again? Well I want to make a website where people can: 1) Inventory 2) Share 3) Identify all their unused cables. Why keep buying new cables and contributing to waste? Why keep storing a bunch of cables we don't use instead of giving them to people who can put them to use? And what the hell is this connector I founded tangled up with my XLR and DVI-D cable? If someone wants to collab I think I've already got a killer name. Just haven't decided a TLD. My stack preference would be a backend using Haskell, Erlang, Elixir or Clojure. Frontend would NOT be an SPA, but I'm imagining some custom components (like a connector identifier and maybe a tabular inventory view) that I would lean towards using Elm for.
• gamerDude 5y ago
  This is more of a personal thing. I am creating better maps for DnD (Dungeons and Dragons). My goal is a google maps so that DMs and players will always have a map no matter where they go. I currently have some software in the works that can automatically turn a 2d map into a 3d rendering. Mostly looking for 3d design, map designer, and procedural generation skills.
  • fxtentacle 5y ago
    Try searching for "waveform collapse". It's a brilliant technique for creating 3D maps based on 2D tiles by stitching together meshes from a library of predefined shapes. It's how many procedural games generate their levels.
• mspdx22 5y ago
  I do research in programming languages, compilers, and program analysis for a living. I’ve got some ideas outside the day job in the same area I’m looking for collaborators on: 1. I am interested in exploring program synthesis techniques tailored for people who don’t want to go deep in learning PL theory or tooling. I am specifically interested in this related to some modeling and simulation projects I work on. 2. I have an old program refinement system I created a few years ago based on an ML derivative that I wouldn’t mind getting some feedback on. More broadly, I’m happy to chat with people interested in PL ideas. Email in profile.
  • vitiral 5y ago
    Would love your thoughts on github.com/civboot/fngi and http://civboot.org http://civboot.org. A set of rather radical PL requirements :)
• bkiran 5y ago
  I'm a dev-ops engineer by day. I creating a simple to standup and use message queue(similar to kafka and rabbitmq) in Golang. As of right now, the project is solely to learn more about Go and internals of the commit log. https://github.com/bdkiran/nolan https://github.com/bdkiran/nolan General things that could help with this project: - Single node only, add distributed support(based on raft?) - Improve or replace the custom protocol for sending and receiving messages(I wrote the current one, it's not pretty) - Update the CLI to allow for managing topics If you're interested in contributing to a Go project, in the area of distributed systems check out the repo or send me a message with your ideas.
  • Ingon 5y ago
    Interesting, I’m working on a kafka-like SaaS, in golang also. For the moment I’m keeping events/messages in postgres, but I have always targeted to have a real commit log per topic in some unspecified future. I will take a look at what you’ve got!
• ianbicking 5y ago
  I've been interested in conversational bots and how they might be used for purposes that are more fun than customer service. I'm specifically interested in ideas that are silly, or emotionally salient, or weird, or anything that's not productive and not commercial. I have been poking around with some stuff, but mostly just ideas in my head. So for "collaboration" I mostly imagine getting ideas from each other, trying each other's stuff out, all very low commitment. Like you know when you find someone who when you talk about ideas together and you both come away more excited than when you started? If there's any community where people do hang out like this that would be cool, though the tedious and tired commercial chatbot discussion seems to dominate. Some thoughts I've had: 1. How do you make a really creepy bot? (Barring profanity, racism, etc) Sometimes people worry about creepy bots but I honestly am not sure how a bot would be creepy. Making one on purpose might be a way to find out 2. Bots are often very reactive without any will of their own. What kind of personality or (imagined) motivation might make a bot proactive? Would that solve some of the "I don't know what you mean" problem of a chatbot? Like instead of a bland response when the bot doesn't understand, it can instead push back on what it cares about. 3. In this vein I've thought about a depressed bot, and your job is to find a way to cheer it up. 4. User-programmable bots. I've been thinking about this in user-buildable VR worlds. The worlds are all so empty. Can we make it feasible for a person to create their own NPCs? 5. Can a bot be loving and supportive? If it's just a façade, how good of a façade is enough to generate emotional response? 6. How do mediums like text vs voice impact this stuff?
  • crummy 5y ago
    Have you read about Jason Rohrer's stuff? Project December? Here's a great article about it from an end-users perspective: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...
  • muzani 5y ago
    GPT-3 does a lot of this very well, albeit expensively. Sample scenario: A woman discovers her husband's infidelity and struggles to hide her anger when he asks for a stack of pancakes. Output: She said, "It can't be done. We're out of flour and eggs." He asked, "No powdered eggs?" She said, "We're out of everything." He said, "I was hoping you might have some pancake mix in the pantry." She replied, "It's so dark in there, I couldn't see anything if I tried. Why don't you go to the store?" He said, "In this weather? It's snowing like crazy outside." She said, "Weren't you up half the night playing cards with your friends? And staying up half the night is what got us into this mess in the first place." Anyway, love to chat on this kind of thing. Email is on my profile.
• kumarsw 5y ago
  I've been working on a project for deduplicating version control written in Go https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver I've been a bit frustrated with existing binary version control systems which I've found to be either too centralized, not cross-platform. Right now I'm looking at ways to add special handling for compressed archive files which tend to not deduplicate well. Check out the repo if you're interested.
• DominoTree 5y ago
  I'm in a volunteer role as CIO for a nonprofit focused on human trafficking, and we're building a new investigations and case-management platform using Svelte/TypeScript/SvelteStrap, Rust/Rocket, and Postgres (and likely Neo4j at some point) because the options out there are either poor or very expensive. Once we have something working and solid, we're going to open-source it and provide it to other groups in similar spaces. This project is a great opportunity to learn or expand your skills if any of the stack is interesting to you - a big part of our goal is to help build up the technical skills of anyone who wants to dive in somewhere. We've got a number of investigators on staff and are starting to get a decent feedback loop with them to iterate on what we're building. We've also got some unique and useful ideas that haven't been implemented before, and if things go well, we really think this could give a kick-in-the-pants to Maltego and Palantir's offerings, amongst others. If anyone is interested or wants to know more, please let me know!
  • S4M 5y ago
    Hi, I would be interested to help a bit, as I think human trafficking is disgusting and should be stopped. Do you have a contact detail - my personal email is in my HN profile)?
  • ajax33 5y ago
    Hi ! I am interested! Would be a great opportunity to learn something new while delivering real value to the world! My personal email is in my HN profile!
  • howtousethetime 5y ago
    What's the name of the nonprofit? I'd be interested in learning more! Email is in my profile
    • DominoTree 5y ago
      Currently updating our website but it's https://nightowlrecon.org https://nightowlrecon.org Forgot that we cant message on HN but it doesn't look like your email is in your profile. Feel free to shoot me an email at nick dot price[@]nightowlrecon.org
• temporal_123 5y ago
  Do you want to collaborate in the Digital Musical Instrument space, designing open source real life products from the bottom up? We are building the first end-to-end Pipe Organ Emulator project, from the cabinet furniture and the Arduino specialized controlers, the 3D printed interfaces, to the customized Linux-based embedded sound engine. The home page of the project is https://openpipes.org https://openpipes.org Contact info in the mentioned page. Thanks!
• tepitoperrito 5y ago
  Whelp, I'm about to break the first rule of TAPBE. Imagine an Earth where all interactions / relationships are voluntary, with a societal structure that's resilient to everything from solar flares to the rise of oppressive governments. I dunno what that would really look like. But I'd like to explore gift economies, time banking, and brainstorm the strategies and games that could enable a more equitable Earth. As for the software side: In my head I am imagining a hierarchical set of nodes organized by geographical proximity each hosting a django application connected by "privately" operated physical links. I'd like to leverage http://www.nncpgo.org/ http://www.nncpgo.org/ to make sneakernets and dead drops a first-class component of any software systems involved. I put up a README with two guiding principles for now while I iterate on the concept more (https://sr.ht/~danielganado/TAPBE/ https://sr.ht/~danielganado/TAPBE/). If you've got a solarpunk or agorist bent we'll be fast friends so work out my email address from my profile and say hey!
  • culi 5y ago
    > TAPBE ?
    • tepitoperrito 5y ago
      Towards a pirate based economy (or ecology take your pick)
      • culi 5y ago
        as in https://syllabus.pirate.care/ https://syllabus.pirate.care/?
• chrisgd 5y ago
  There are inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual. We have highly compensated individuals perfecting PowerPoints but too many of the slide creation companies are not relevant for what bankers do. Would love to create something and have ideas on how to make it work but limited tech experience.
  • kaashif 5y ago
    It blows my mind that this isn't a solved problem. Isn't there a substantial profit motive in investment banks to allow analysts to do more with their time? And I guess the other people with this motive are analysts themselves, but they have no time in their 110 hour work weeks to sleep, let alone do something like this.
  • tacostakohashi 5y ago
    > inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual Really? I suspect it's actually pretty efficient getting analysts to do this and paying them for 40 out of the 110 hours they work each week.
    • chrisgd 5y ago
      Depends upon your interest in burning out your analyst. It all starts with the same data, then downloaded to excel and each sector group classifies and cuts a different way. When you go to update, most of that is lost in excel or to a previous team member, not stored by sector or product group on the cloud. If I categorize Certara as digital health, they should be like that for my team but pharma for the pharma team.
  • vqc 5y ago
    @chrisgd what's the best way to reach you / can you ping me at the email in my profile?
  • smallbluedot 5y ago
    I'm interested in niche product opportunities like this. I'm a product designer and web developer. If interested in chatting you can find contact info in my profile.
• farzher 5y ago
  ok. who wants to work on competitive ranked multiplayer games!? probably in the browser. with a focus on flawless netcode. i already have flawless p2p rollback netcode working!
  • hpx7 5y ago
    I'm interested - email is in my profile
• hapanin 5y ago
  I want collaborate on publishable ML research. I'm currently working as a machine learning engineer, but doing a lot more engineering than learning. I'm also applying to PhD programs with focuses in knowledge graphs and common sense reasoning, but willing to learn any other field. If I don't get in then some independent research is still a good career move. I have ideas of my own (goal oriented question asking) but happy to run support on other peoples stuff.
  • randomcatuser 5y ago
    how're you finding collaborators rn?
    • hapanin 5y ago
      Like this lol
  • vaibkv 5y ago
    I'd like to collaborate on this too. lmk if you have any cool ideas.
    • hapanin 5y ago
      Just the one I wrote my applications on: a method for training a model to ask clarifying or goal oriented questions using QA-GNN. My email is in my profile, we can talk there.
  • dummyvariable 5y ago
    Are you planning on doing a part time PhD? I am interested in the possibility, although I do not have a ML background.
    • hapanin 5y ago
      I would do PhD full time since my current job is not for anything publishable or in my intended field of study.
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• totemandtoken 5y ago
  Nothing I'm willing to share right now, but I do want to say that this is a great idea for a recurring thread and very much in line with the hackernews ethos
• randomcatuser 5y ago
  https://allogov.us/ https://allogov.us/ We're building the first political party that comes with an app. Imagine if American democracy was improved 10x. A fairer, more representative, more effective government for everyone. The goal is to start small, provide a 10x better experience for citizens, and gradually overtake/integrate with the 2 major parties: - The Software layer for the "hardware" of existing political institutions - Better voting - deliberate in app, and then vote all at once in a bloc - Better tools outside of voting - perks, feedback, and more Work with me! Shoot me a message at ztang230@gmail.com. Would love to talk to anyone interested! (or tell me why the idea sucks)
• forgotmysn 5y ago
  I've started working on a couple side projects that I would love to find some collaborators for. 1 is a broadcasting app for smart speakers (alexa, google home, etc). The other is a tool for newsletters and publications for tracking attribution and links. happy to chat about these further if anyone is interested. email is in my profile.
• mihaitodor 5y ago
  Benthos https://www.benthos.dev/ https://www.benthos.dev/ the streaming processor could use more contributors. It's written 100% in Go and it's a single static binary.
• themusicalduck 5y ago
  https://platelet.app https://platelet.app https://github.com/platelet-app/platelet https://github.com/platelet-app/platelet I'm working on a project to develop a dispatch system for volunteer emergency couriers, aka blood bikes. They deliver samples, blood, donated breast milk and equipment between hospitals around the UK, as well as supply blood to air ambulances. The app is meant to replace a system of pen, paper and spreadsheets that the service is mostly being run on. I've been working directly with the charities for it to best suit their needs. It uses React, JavaSript, Material UI, Jest, Redux, Amplify and React Testing Library. Eventually I'd like to develop a React Native mobile app too. There are some details on the issues page https://github.com/platelet-app/platelet/issues https://github.com/platelet-app/platelet/issues about some of the work that still needs to be done. I have a Discord too although it's a little quiet - https://discord.gg/tWhCM98ckB https://discord.gg/tWhCM98ckB I'd be glad to hear from anyone who feels like they'd want to contribute. If you have any questions, feel free to ping me (Ducky) on Discord.
• _sword 5y ago
  I'm interested. I lead software equity research at a global investment bank. Research work spans company-specific research, thematic research, and work related to IPO's and other advisory projects where appropriate from a regulatory perspective. Skills for this include relationship management, marketing, writing, modeling, etc. Also lots of networking. I self-taught programming back in my teens and studied some CS in college, but my academic background is in physics/math. I'm presently self-teaching the mathematical backgrounds of machine learning.
• g4zj 5y ago
  I'm a Godot game developer looking to join an otherwise complete development team. I usually enjoy working on my own projects, but I'm more qualified to write code than create artwork, write stories, compose music, and all those other things that make a game whole. If you've got a team who is ready to start building a game, feel free to reply here and tell me about it. :)
• scrapcode 5y ago
  I'm a junior full-stack developer with a nine to five career in an IT role that is not development, but is too good to give up. I would love to work with more senior developers on ideas where I can be productive on a useful project, with the guidance to keep me headed in the right direction. I have many years of experience dabbling in everything from C and C++ to Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, C#, and everything in between. Currently I have been finding joy in working with Python, Django, DRF, and Vue.js... I am always ready to learn new things. Reach out! codectc @ gmail
• syngrog66 5y ago
  I'm a programmer at heart, and by day career, and yet... I'm now trying to help fight what I believe are the world's top two biggest threats or future risks: democracy collapse, and climate collapse. They are strongly inter-connected. Therefore we're building an interactive software simulation about democracy and propaganda. With the goal of impacting voters, citizens, students, and key decision-makers, as well as providing an additional research tool for scholars. You provide (any or all of): -- cash (early/angel; via donations, grants or easy equity terms; anything from $5k to $5M would be signif and appreciated, in terms of concrete impact on our runway and speed/bandwidth; keep in mind that in this space we have ultra-hard external deadlines both in terms of scheduled elections, and ecosystem/agriculural collapse) -- connections, introductions, promotion (to your following, eyeball feeds, etc.) -- additional expertise or credibility related to history, psychology, politics/PolySci, foreign affairs or education -- user/audience impact validation testing -- QA testing -- localization/i18n We provide: -- gratitude -- name credits & references -- as we have budget: paying work on tasks needed, and, potential for early employees -- equity shares for potential key early partners We can provide a more detailed pitch document and a preview look, or live demo w/Q&A, of our working prototype software. If you're fine with waking up one morning to find yourself living in the kind of nighmarish world depicted in the Mad Max or Idiocracy movies, then please... feel free to keep living your normal everyday lives. If however you want a better future, or at least if you want to be able to look in the mirror and know you've tried your best to achieve it. Or you dont want to ever be forced to explain to your children or grandchildren why your generation -- and why you personally -- left them such a dystopian shithole, then consider perhaps giving us a ping today. Mike groglogic+ak-hn2022feb@gmail.com
• dave333 5y ago
  I want to build a prototype experimental Skytherm roof on a garden shed or tiny house as a proof of concept to reduce home energy consumption for heating and cooling. See http://www.solarmirror.com/fom/fom-serve/cache/30.html http://www.solarmirror.com/fom/fom-serve/cache/30.html for the concept. The idea is to have shadable thermal mass on the roof that will gain solar heat during winter, but in summer operates in reverse shaded during the day to prevent heating, but open to the sky at night to allow any heat buildup to radiate into space. Goal would be year-round interior temperatures in the range 60-80 degrees F without any additional heating/cooling. I am thinking the solar mass could be bricks or water bladders or bags of phase change material (e.g. snowmelt calcium chloride). The glazing could be cheap polycarbonate roof panels, and the shading can be motorized roller blinds or miniblinds. Could be operated manually or could be motorized and automated with custom arduino/raspberry pi controllers. Can measure temperature and humidity at various points in the building using cheap DHT11 arduino sensors. I am retired and don't have the space or physical capability to build this at my home so I'm looking for someone who has or wants to build a shed or tiny house and who has basic construction ability. I can help with basic design and maybe arduino prototyping and scripting. If it works I'd like to put it on the web so anyone could copy it and be confident it would work. Phase 2 might be doing the same with a manufactured/mobile home.
  • morphle 5y ago
    pls contact me at morphle at ziggo dot nl so I get you in contact with a tiny house builder who will test your prototype on his houses and land
    • fransje26 5y ago
      > "Because of its reliance on radiative cooling, the Skytherm concept is best suited for areas of low humidity and clear nights" Hopefully the tiny house builder has clients outside of the Netherlands. (-:
      • morphle 5y ago
        You can get a hightech offgrid mobile tiny house in Arizona, California, Portugal or Spain with a large roof water tank for thermal mass. Soon we will start offering this Skytherm addition so you can regulate the water temperature, but first we want to build this first prototype. The Fiberhood Coop construct the custom "software defined" tiny houses in Spain and ships them worldwide.
• lmilcin 5y ago
  I am developer/architect/tech lead with over 20 years of experience in operations, system/embedded/backend development (C/Java), managing technical projects and teams. Looking to volunteer for a nonprofit.
• jimmyed 5y ago
  I'm planning to start working on SICP, starting from chapter 1. Anyone wishing to join me is welcome!
• westoncb 5y ago
  I'm trying to reliably/systematically establish passive income so I can work on more ambitious ideas. I'd like to meet a "validator" to complement my rapid product dev skills. (I'm surprised this kind of pairing structure doesn't come up more often—I see it kinda like 'generator'/'discriminator' pairs in GANs. Seems like the ideal duo-form to systematically discover excellent PMF.) I have several projects in the works, that to my knowledge could each be seriously profitable—though my certainty around their potential profitability scales inversely with how profitable each may be. E.g. the one I'm most certain will be profitable will of course not be any kind of unicorn—more something that could provide comfortable passive income, and it's basically ready for open beta: https://diskatlas.com/ https://diskatlas.com/ I did a fair bit of market research with that one, but the others are a bit more 'intuitive'. I would love to find someone who I get along well with on a personal level who has some real chops/experience (or smarts/drive) in the realm of validating product ideas, collecting user feedback to make revisions to ideas or refine usability, doing market research, maybe generating/implementing marketing/advertising ideas, possibly taking care of other business-ey things(??). Shoot me a message on twitter, or you can find my contact info on symbolflux.com. I'm a 36yr old male, worked in startups in SF and Cambridge, do independent contracts now living in the southwest (US).
• Kinrany 5y ago
  I have too many ideas for side projects I want to do. I'd love to partner (or find a mentor!) so we can focus on a single thing and see how far we can take it. One idea: any two pieces of code should be able to communicate regardless of the languages they are written in and the transport between them. It's incredibly wasteful to keep writing client libraries and bindings from scratch every time. I think this can be solved with a low-level IDL, a thin layer on top of UNIX-style byte streams. I have a Bachelor's degree in CS. Professionally I worked on a TypeScript frontend, a TypeScript backend, and working on a Rust backend now, around three years total. I know other languages (and the project is obviously language-agnostic). I'm a big fan of interoperability. You can find me by `kinrany` on most platforms. Feel free to contact me even if this particular thing doesn't sound interesting, and you have something else in mind instead.
  • outside1234 5y ago
    I think you might be looking for protobufs? Or am I misunderstanding the problem you are presenting?
    • Kinrany 5y ago
      Protobufs are too high level and too opinionated about the structure of the data. It may or may not be "the right tool for the job" depending on the problem being solved. The goal is to have a schema language that is as universal as byte streams are. This necessarily means that the language should be open to being extended with new custom types. (Implementations that don't understand a type can always fall back to treating a type as an unsized byte stream.)
• babyshake 5y ago
  I am working on something involving algorithmic trading - nothing too fancy, just modifying positions based on indicators. I would love to collaborate with someone with a quant/algo background.
  • vivegi 5y ago
    I don't have a quant/algo trading background. My only experience in this area is from several years ago when I dabbled with QuantConnect (IIRC, at that time they didn't have option price history). However, I have always wondered if one could use stock price history and option price history to do the following: 1. Select an underlying asset (or small set of underlying assets) to focus on 2. Select a simple strategy over the underlying asset such as BUY CALL + BUY PUT at the same price, same expiry date, holding the position until a threshold gain is attained and then liquidating the position. Of course, you would lose the cost of the CALL + PUT if the position expires without hitting the threshold gain. But part of the algorithm's parameter choice would be to determine the threshold gain% for a specific underlying asset and selecting an underlying asset with a very high probability of exceeding the threshold gain% and thereby a very high probability of positive return on investment. Arguably, one could train a neural network to do Threshold gain% estimation for an asset based on asset price history and option price history and automate the order placements (both for buy and sell). For the end-user, the only input they would provide is the investment amount and a target ROI and the system could show a preview of all orders using this strategy that would meet their criteria and execute them at a click of a button (and where permitted, execute them automatically).
    • akg_67 5y ago
      Buying Call and Put at same strike and expiration is just simple Long Straddle position, typically used near Earnings announcements, when you are expecting underlying to move significantly but not sure of direction. You don't need a neural network to do this. Look up books by Lawrence McMillan and Sheldon Nutenberg to learn more about options trading.
• hpx7 5y ago
  I've been working on a multiplayer game framework (https://github.com/hathora/hathora https://github.com/hathora/hathora) and would love to collaborate with anyone who wants to make building multiplayer games easier!
• throwaway62323 5y ago
  I'm considering to set up a company to design vaccines and immunotherapies which are more efficient. The idea is that current vaccine vectors are great, but choice of antigens and adjuvants is too simplistic. It'd be a complement to Moderna, and all other market incumbents like GSK or Sanofi. Currently based in Cambridge but, paradoxically, having trouble to find good partners. I have previously worked in Oxford and developed methods which are used and cited by other patents in the field. I also have generated some validation data in vivo. All these things should greatly facilitate raising VC. I'm looking for very ambitious CS, statistics and bio backgrounds to work with me as cofounders. Contact details on profile. The company doesn't need to be based in the UK.
• narenkeshav 5y ago
  My name is Naren Keshav. I’ve built a product & built the legal structure for the company. It is a Canadian Incorporated startup. The product is iOS application with potential for scale & ride the next s-curve. On the face value, it is an augmented reality product. ## About me I’m passionate in what I do. With Master’s in Computer Video Games, I’ve worked in domains that would use three-dimensional geometry such AR, VR, Intel RealSense etc. | Company Webpage | https://www.mani.ai/ https://www.mani.ai/ | | --- | --- | | Social Proof | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27365797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27365797 | | On our future | https://narenkeshav.com/essays/mani-future https://narenkeshav.com/essays/mani-future | | Personal Webpage | https://narenkeshav.com/ https://narenkeshav.com/ | | More about me | https://narenkeshav.com/about https://narenkeshav.com/about | Moving forward, the company would need a two-pronged approach. The company requires a technical & business-oriented team. ### Business oriented Person who is passionate with a new product introduction & figure GTM strategy with the understanding of technical roadmap of the product. ### Technical oriented The product uses live sensors, camera & GPS to provide the value. Currently, it is built on top of Unity game engine. Person who is passionate with machine learning on mobile is preferred. ### Investment So far, I have deferred investment to have a solid product, product messaging & a team. Once the initial team is in place, with the team - we will have to build a roadmap & subsequently a pitch deck. I have built channel(s) to have us introduced to VC’s. ### Finally I am also looking for people who might be interested in working on this product & in-turn with the company. This is a startup & I find responsible to set a direction. It does not mean that I am right. The team always wins. I would love to find a mentor/advisor with B2C experience. If you know anyone who might be interested, please share my email address nkeshav@mani.team Let’s build the future.
  • fxtentacle 5y ago
    I think you could have summarized all of that into ... I'm working on private AR post-it notes that you can stick anywhere. ... which sounds like a great idea. But with your links and sections and stuff, that comment comes off (to me) a bit as trying too hard.
• 5ud0 5y ago
  I want to explore the idea of P2P/Web3 Uber/Doordash clone where the site and operations cost is decentralized and everyone benefits from the platform while taking very low percentage profits. I'm still learning web3/p2p to leverage this but I feel it's an interesting idea to iterate.
• dharmaturtle 5y ago
  I'm building an opensource GitHub for Flashcards. Basically Anki Online (though there's an offline first client). The idea is that it should be easier to collaboratively build flash cards. The project started out with F#/Blazor, but for various reasons I'm (sadly) moving to Typescript/Electron. https://github.com/dharmaturtle/cardoverflow https://github.com/dharmaturtle/cardoverflow
  • shivekkhurana 5y ago
    Offtopic: What made you move from F# to TS ?
    • dharmaturtle 5y ago
      I want my offline client to have a plugin system like Anki. Powerful plugins will want to manipulate the DOM directly. They can't do this if I'm using a virtual DOM, which is what Blazor uses. (VDOM updates will overwrite any plugin DOM changes.) There are Fable bindings to React, but of course that also uses a VDOM. I can't express in words how seriously sad I am to leave F# for the shitshow that is TypeScript. I tried to make ReScript work, but it's tightly coupled to React for baffling reasons.
      • kirse 5y ago
        No luck with Feliz either? https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Feliz/ https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Feliz/
        • dharmaturtle 5y ago
          Hm, I haven't tried it, but from the docs it targets Elmish and React, both of which use a VDOM, which sadly eliminates it as a possibility.
• cdelsolar 5y ago
  I am a developer who wants to build the lichess equivalent for Scrabble and other crossword board games. We currently have a pretty cool AGPL-licensed app over at https://woogles.io https://woogles.io but require help to add more to our app (automatic tournaments, puzzles, better analyzer, the list is large). We have over 1M games played so far and hosted the World Scrabble Championship last year. If you like coding and/or Scrabble please let me know.
• warrentr 5y ago
  My wife and I are (slowly) building an ios app to track daily family memories (impetus was having our son in 2019). We got this idea from an article long ago where the author used a spreadsheet to capture small notes of daily family life and especially note any child milestones. The app is close to being usable daily (each parent can add a note, separate field for milestone, edit, and list recent days) but it's ugly as sin. It's written in swift/swiftui with a go backend (also an older react web version exists if anyone was interested working on that). Totally chill project with no expectation of commercial viability
• anupmm 5y ago
  Analysts and consultants who use excel frequently are poorly served. Valuable time is lost in pivot tables, filtering/refreshing data, and formatting slides. We recently launched http://plot-ai.com http://plot-ai.com to tackle this problem. It is a no-code excel add-in for data analysis, visualization and publishing (slides/web). We have pilots going on and a lot of interest from folks in data science, consulting, strategy, finance, BI. If this excites you as an end user or a developer I would love to chat. Ping me - anup@plot-ai.com
• patrulo 5y ago
  I run tonik.pl, we do UX/UI mostly for early-stage companies. Happy to offer free design manpower to people working on making a positive impact on the world (not necessarily non-profits).
• Nikita-L 5y ago
  Hey For now we have a recession in real estate in tourist locations due to the covid. There are also signs of restrictions will be declined shortly. Predictions by sustainability experts, consulting companies and statements of World Health Organization are among that signs. So it becomes evident that it is a good time to establish real estate fund to operate assets around the world, mainly in tourist locations. For now, ICO and concept of token-as-a-share seems very reasonable. Team already consist of experienced developer and real estate professional. If you blockchain engineer or PR professional, will be glad to invite you to the team!
• mathgladiator 5y ago
  I'm working on http://www.adama-lang.org/ http://www.adama-lang.org/ which started as a programming language for board games, and it is turning into a reactive privacy-focused data store for Jamstack. I hope to launch in coming month an "Early Access" edition. While I do intend to turn this into a business, I'm primarily focusing on small projects to amuse myself. I'm going to break every rule in the business with my LLC. The #1 company value is sleep.
• JPLeRouzic 5y ago
  Peptide vaccines are different from mRNA vaccines, but they share some aspects, notably the (very) low cost, ability to be designed and tailored to a specific target. They exist since a long time, but they are not very efficient, so they never went mainstream [0]. I wrote my own suite of software to design such vaccines [1]. I wonder if someone have some comment or suggestion. Thanks! (my email is in my profile) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide_vaccine [1] https://padiracinnovation.org/en/peptide_PoC/ https://padiracinnovation.org/en/peptide_PoC/
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• ksr 5y ago
  I'm building a percussion PWA at https://github.com/infojunkie/drumkit https://github.com/infojunkie/drumkit. The main idea is to create a simple mobile-based app that can be used in live jamming situations (eg by plugging the mobile audio jack into a mixer). It's working well but I need help on the UX / graphics / branding side, so I would appreciate to hear from app designers. Thanks!
• niklas_tr 5y ago
  I am a computational biologists working with a group of colleagues to build an open-source community that hosts APIs for essential bioinformatics algorithms. We believe the progress in science could be accelerated, if tools like alphafold would not require 3 days of set-up to get working on your local compute infrastructure. Instead community members would host their algo and charge a small fee / token-tip to keep the API running. We are currently starting to build a community around it and would love to hear from folks with interest in bio-compute, docker, solidity, terraform and general frontend tasks. Head over to labdao.com or join our discord here: https://discord.gg/labdao https://discord.gg/labdao
• philipp1992 5y ago
  I'm looking for someone who wants to help me build a SaaS project that involves kubernetes and gitops. Need a web developer who can create Frontends, dashboards, add authentication and authorization. No investment needs to be made since everything will be based on oss and i pay for the infrastructure.
• rrrodia 5y ago
  Despite the 'growth' of the web and its related professions, I feel like a lot of it has neither good UX or interesting design. I've been out of front end for years now, but don't feel inspired to put it mildly.. my plan is to separate these interest: * build interesting graphical web styles / experiments, pushing the envelope * build a living UX guide founded in research (like an up to date wiki);
• jambamachine 5y ago
  I would like to try something novel (and not really art based) with NFTs. Ideally using Cardano and/or Ethereum (basically want Ethereum since it's the most authoritative source, but want something green/low cost, maybe L2). If anyone knows much about the blockchain and wants to try something out, email me.
• husamia 5y ago
  I would like to figure out if it's possible to do DNA sequencing at home. Like detect Covid virus or other viruses. The idea is to get a nanopore MinION, and some library kits, flow cells, learn how to extract DNA and a computer. I know how it all works.
• sarthak_ib 5y ago
• jlevers 5y ago
  Well, it's not programming-related, but here goes... I'm building a cooperative hands-on workspace in Brooklyn in an old warehouse. I have lots of interests that require space and tooling (old motorcycles/cars, woodworking, etc), and lots of friends in a similar boat (with fabrication, music, art, etc). I spent the last 6-8 months searching for a suitable space that I could actually afford, and finally found one about a month ago. I'm in the process of gutting most of it (it's in gnarly condition) and rebuilding it to suit what I'm trying to do. If there's anyone here who lives in NYC, is good with their hands or wants to be, and is intrigued by the idea of getting a bunch of highly motivated and creative people together in one spot to build Cool Shit (whatever that may look like), feel free to get in touch. My email is in my bio :)
  • secondstring 5y ago
    Heck yeah mate! There's one or two of these here in SF (I'm currently working in the one I'm a member of) and glad to see others are opening up other options. Best of luck with everything going forward, I might reach out to check on your progress the next time I make one of my occasional trips to NYC.
    • jlevers 5y ago
      thanks for the good wishes! definitely hit me up if you're in the area :)
• gagzilla 5y ago
  This is a great thread! I'm wondering if creating an ideas-people matchmaking site for it makes sense- it could be a collection of ideas along with their stage of development (idea only, prototype ready, production ready, etc) and a similar collection of skills/people who are willing to/interested in projects. All opensource/free of course. I'll be up for putting this together if someone wants in on this. I'm a generalist with mastery/expertise in [python, go, nosql dbs, aiml, bigdata] have product and business experience as well.
• adidum 5y ago
  I am looking to collaborate with people that are passionate on either one of the following 2 things: Music and Biohacking.
• mdnahas 5y ago
  I'm the designer of Par2, employee #7 of a successful startup (Broadway Technology LLC), a former Wall Street quant, and winner of two research grants. I'm looking at starting a company/public-benefit-corporation/non-profit to support formal math. The Lean prover (similar to Coq) is gaining traction, but academics and large corporations are not always good at innovation. There are multiple potential products to consider creating. Near-term plans are to pick one and apply to "America's Seed Fund" (SBIR) for initial funding. Will also consider angel funding and, obviously, applying to Y Combinator. I'm looking for someone else who wants to join me and can fund themselves for 6 to 9 months, until initial funding arrives. Ideally, someone experienced in formal math and with startups. But I'm open to anyone who is passionately interested in math and has significant skills to bring to the table. Skills include: running an early startup, running scalable online systems, growing an online community, grant writing, and ... a lot more than I can list, but those are the big ones. I'm based in Austin but am willing to move to work together. Contact me at hackernews2022@mike.nahasmail.com P.S. Just finished the draft specification for Par3. https://parchive.github.io/ https://parchive.github.io/