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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

• gumshoe30 2y ago
  Geolede - An interactive world news map. https://geolede.com https://geolede.com
  • jabsysemb 2y ago
    last year, I have the same idea and worked on a prototype for a while and then lost interests in the project [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMuejcdBNqQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMuejcdBNqQ
• javierluraschi 2y ago
  Working on hal9.ai -- Long term, a Roblox for AI; short term, a Python customizable ChatGPT that is enterprise ready. Think of ChatGPT without the LLM and support for writing your own RAG. https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9 https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9
• deleted 2y ago
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• seanwilson 2y ago
  A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes for UI/web design. :) https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ > Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together. > Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors. > See which color pairs contrast as you edit so you can create a palette with built-in WCAG accessibility. This way you can plan in advance which foreground colors (for headings, body text, form fields and so on) should contrast on which background colors, so you can avoid running into surprise low contrast issues later when designing.
  • seanwilson 2y ago
    Responding to some feedback I got: I need to add better UI feedback for this, but you can drag whole hue/saturation/lightness curves if you click/drag between points on the curves. Feel free to message me if you've got any tricky or tedious problems to do with creating color palettes that extra tooling like this might help with! I have more feature ideas but I want to understand more what others need. I'm planning to write some articles for giving a more intuitive sense about WCAG color contrast rules and picking accessible colors too. From working with designers, I find many give up here because it takes a while to get your head around and it's often not obvious how to fix designs with failing contrast.
  • jmpavlec 2y ago
    Tried it out on mobile and thought the site had broken the back button. Turned out to just be a history entry for every click/drag (which grows quite quickly). I found that quite off-putting but maybe that's a bit like an "undo" in this context...? Either way, I didn't appreciate the 100+ entries in my history.
    • seanwilson 2y ago
      Oops, that should be it fixed. Desktop version has more features by the way, the mobile version is more of a preview.
• gom_jabbar 2y ago
  Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical. https://retrochronic.com/ https://retrochronic.com/
  • csomar 2y ago
    Is the style/CSS custom made or is it a library/framework?
    • jcbrand 2y ago
      I'd also like to know, I love the look.
      • gom_jabbar 2y ago
        Custom-made. I appreciate your feedback on the look!
    • gom_jabbar 2y ago
      It's custom-made. I also use a custom build of Iosevka [0] for the font. [0] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/ https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/
• SubGenius 2y ago
  Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix. https://matrixbird.com https://matrixbird.com
• rozenmd 2y ago
  OnlineOrNot as always, coming up to 4 years in operation (https://onlineornot.com https://onlineornot.com) Currently working on adding webhook notifications for status pages.
  • nugzbunny 2y ago
    Some of your screenshots are cut off on mobile (iPhone/safari/portrait)
    • rozenmd 2y ago
      Hey thanks for letting me know!
• japhyr 2y ago
  django-simple-deploy, a tool for making your initial Django deployment easier across a variety of platforms. It's plugin-based, so it should cover a growing set of platforms and deployment approaches. I just made the 1.0 release this month. https://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• purple-leafy 2y ago
  A C-based graphics engine/raycasting engine to make 90's games like Wolfenstein3D (1992) - but on a never-before seen scale. The scale is RNG worlds like Minecraft. I've never seen that before with a Raycaster. Here is my progress so far (I've had a month break) https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster/blob/ma... Not for profit, just for fun and exploration
  • neuralkoi 2y ago
    Wow, this is really cool. Do you take inspiration from or have you looked at the original Wolfenstein3D code? https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d
    • purple-leafy 2y ago
      Thanks I appreciate that! Love getting feedback :) Code-wise I didn't take inspiration from anywhere, I followed "C Programming - A Modern Approach" and based my C knowledge off there. There was also a YouTube video I watched regarding raycasting, and watching people optimise Minecraft etc. Other than that, its just been alot of trial and error and trying many, many different ideas out. What has helped is I don't worry about cross-platform ability, I just implement what I want and what feels fun and "innovative". But I have never seen anyone do a Raycaster with as many vertical/z-levels as I'm planning (1000's), maybe the most I've seen is ~10. Also most of the approach I'm taking is not best-practice, I'm trying to come up with how to approach everything from my own mind which has been extremely rewarding
      • purple-leafy 2y ago
        Also I’m a terrible developer, so if I can do it and have a lot of fun, I think anyone can do it :) I spent almost 8hours a day over the course of a month working on and off on the project. Did give me tunnel vision but, no regrets
• darklake 2y ago
  Continued working with my team to grow my granddaughter who at 15 months handles a spoon and fork to feed herself at each meal; drinks from a cup without assistance; can clean her face and understand everything she is told or asked (though sometimes with a devious smile makes what an adult might consider a poor choice.... She is testing her boundaries like she is supposed to do). I have learned how to and produced 6 different embroidery patterns on various pieces of infant clothing. I combined multiple web based directions to create a Wi-Fi enabled USB (from a raspberry pi W 2) to enable a link from my computer to my embroidery machine. I made cookies and shared them with others creating a lot of joy I'm visiting with my grandson in another state, modeling good parenting and offering help where I can.
  • hooo 2y ago
    [flagged]
    • WithinReason 2y ago
      GP inserted single new lines instead of double ones.
    • j_bum 2y ago
      An absolute word salad. Dead internet theory
      • apsurd 2y ago
        "being a grand dad" is his answer. and he colored it. it's not that deep so as to upset you. darklake just practicing his creative writing.
        • meerab 2y ago
          Her answer - the poster can be female.
        • xerox13ster 2y ago
          Colored it a corporate beige. Who the heck is so brain broken as to talk about their grandchild as a startup project and their family as a frigging team. I have to almost need to see this as AI in order to maintain sanity because there’s no way an actual human being talked about a child—their human grandchild like he was a product.
• csomar 2y ago
  A merge conflict resolution tool for git/github. It is very alpha at the moment (https://codeinput.com https://codeinput.com) but my timeline is to go live on the next 3 months. Feel free to reach out if this of interest.
• codr7 2y ago
  Embedded Lisp for app scripting: https://github.com/codr7/eli https://github.com/codr7/eli Typed Relational Database access: https://github.com/codr7/tyred https://github.com/codr7/tyred
• id00 2y ago
  Working on my mobile semi-idle MMORPG for parents like myself. With the artstyle of 1980s/syntwave/cassette-futurism. Just finished the website over the weekend: https://afterglow-game.com/ https://afterglow-game.com/
  • npodbielski 2y ago
    Why for parents
    • id00 2y ago
      Well... in general for busy people who don't have much free time anymore. Not strictly for parents
• RandomBacon 2y ago
  I vouched for Geolede (made by a green username) but it still needs more vouching. It looks interesting IMO. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154984
• _bramses 2y ago
  a self organizing scrapbook! focused on zero stress for storage, searching, synthesizing and sharing a personal library https://yourcommonbase.com/ https://yourcommonbase.com/ (and some philosophy on the subject :)) https://www.bramadams.dev/tag/personal-library-science/ https://www.bramadams.dev/tag/personal-library-science/
  • bionsystem 2y ago
    That sounds interesting, I might give it a try. Do you plan to allow plugins for domain-specific development ?
    • _bramses 2y ago
      thank you, i appreciate it! yes, the software is api first, and much of it’s utility comes from working in other environments like google docs, ios shortcuts, etc.. in essence, the core of the project is a vector database that works for end users who want no fuss quick capture, semantic and fts search, the ability to create new relationships with marginalia. im not trying to replace tools like obsidian or notion, i think ycb works better with them doing what they do best! i also plan to make the stack self hostable in the near future :)
      • bionsystem 2y ago
        Self-hosted notion replacement would be amazing, I hope you succeed !
• some_furry 2y ago
  Key Transparency for the Fediverse (so that we can build E2EE for DMs atop it) https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
• finnigja 2y ago
  I'm building an interactive, web-based Python tutorial site intended to help with learning basic syntax. Originally it was for my kids who wanted to learn to code, but... might be useful to others. https://learnpy.dev https://learnpy.dev The content needs some work, but I'm pretty happy with the framework / UX. I would love to get any feedback from folks who check it out! (The first section is just multi-guess questions as part of the introductory content. Try any other section to get the full in-browser-code-execution experience, which uses client-side Pyodide under the hood.)
  • rahimnathwani 2y ago
    I'm happy you're working on this. The best option I've found for my son (8yo) is this, but it's a little dry for a child: https://programming-25.mooc.fi/ https://programming-25.mooc.fi/
  • em-bee 2y ago
    the navigation buttons should be at the bottom, because that's where you are when you finish a question. or maybe a "next" button that only shows up when a question is answered correctly. content wise, i found the first lesson to dry. i'd rather start with something interactive, and explain necessary concepts along the way. the print lesson introduces the separator feature which is rather rarely used and should only be introduced when there is a practical need for it.
• sshsinderdunkel 2y ago
  A tool to interact with news using ML and AI. Kinda like an rss reader but with less focus on organizing news at the feed level.
• vira28 2y ago
  A platform for technical founders to accelerate their journey to PMF http://buildrappo.com/founders http://buildrappo.com/founders
  • mohinish 2y ago
    I’ve faced this challenge multiple times in my journey of building products and startups—having an early champion onboarded as a design partner while the team builds is critical to a startup’s success.
• maxbond 2y ago
  A parser combinator library. I'm writing a tool that will do static analysis of SQL (in a very limited fashion, it's a build tool and not a static analyzer, but I need to understand dependency relationships between statements). I started out using `nom`, but found it imperfectly matched to my needs (underpowered in areas I desired and overpowered in areas I didn't need for my project). `nom 8` came out with some interesting simplifications, but it happened to break my code in a way that would be awkward to fix. So I bit the bullet and started writing my own library. My library is specialized for parsing text. That had enabled some cool capabilities. It comes with a `Span` primitive, which tracks where in a file a token came from, for implementing error messages. A `Span` can be the input or the output of a parser. At the front end a `Span` is an entire file, and as you slice and dice it, it tracks the metadata of where it came from. Along with the standard `Sequence` (combining parsers in a set order) and `Choice` operations (branching between many parsers) that parser combinators are built around, I have come up two operations that are very handy. I suspect that others have made them before, they are both patterns I used in `nom`. (I've also only skimmed the original paper, they could be in there and I didn't see them.) One of them is called `Compose`. As an alternative to a `Sequence`, instead of a group of parsers consuming the input in order, the first parser consumes the input, and the subsequent parsers consume the return of the previous parser. This is useful for instance when implementing escapable strings; the first parser grabs the entire string, the second one transforms escape sequences. (There is a mechanism for transforming the content of a `Span` while retaining it's metadata.) The other is called `Fuse`. This is a small twist on `Sequence`, where after matching the parsers in order, the result is all concatenated together into a single token. This is useful for a "pattern matching" primitive, where you want to find a series of tokens in order, but you don't want to split them into different tokens, you want them all together. It's been a wild ride, there's been a lot of thorny issues. I often think I should've just stuck with `nom 7` instead of shaving this yak. But I've learned a whole lot about writing especially abstract/DSL-yy Rust by combining tuples, traits, and declarative macros. There are also other programming language projects I'd like to pursue, and it will be nice to have a tailor fit tool for parsing text. Special thanks to dtolnay's `paste,` the real MVP.
  • fuzztester 2y ago
    >A parser combinator library. Cool. I got interested in this subject recently. Have been checking out some text articles and videos about it. Unfortunately there is not much info available (and some of it is advanced stuff), or at least I couldn't find much, so far. I am working on a library, which is not exactly a parser combinator one, but borrows some of those ideas, for use in other projects. >One of them is called `Compose`. About the escapable strings example: can you not just rescan the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full string?
• lukevp 2y ago
  I’m working on a cross-platform fast multithreaded HTTP / FTP downloader that will download much more quickly than other clients like FileZilla, hash check files, perform follow up operations (like extracting RARs or deleting files on the remote,) and have a nice graphical UI that runs in the browser and allows local/remote/cloud control. It’s early (started last week) so there’s not much done yet, but if you’re interested, would love a star or watch: https://github.com/lukevp/Speedful https://github.com/lukevp/Speedful
  • Quiark 2y ago
    Back on dial up we used browser plugin (or even separate windows app) download managers which did a lot of that
• fzysingularity 2y ago
  We’re building bleeding edge visual AI infrastructure at VLM Run (https://vlm.run https://vlm.run). We’re also hiring for multiple roles if anyone’s interested in founding roles (ML Systems, DevRel): https://vlm-run.notion.site/vlm-run-hiring-25q1 https://vlm-run.notion.site/vlm-run-hiring-25q1
• continuational 2y ago
  Firefly is a typed full stack programming language: - object capabilities - implicit async/await - immutable collections https://www.firefly-lang.org/ https://www.firefly-lang.org/ It's small and (hopefully) fun, and quite usable already. If you try it out, please share your thoughts!
  • tealpod 2y ago
    Firefly language looks simple and beautiful.
    • continuational 2y ago
      Thank you!
  • childintime 2y ago
    Looks fascinating! RPC looks interesting. Tasteful website! Slight typo: search for "NodeSytem" on your home page.
    • continuational 2y ago
      Thank you!
• Fomite 2y ago
  Trying to keep a computational epidemiology research group going in the teeth of the CDC, NSF and NIH being absolutely gutted.
• agentbellnorm 2y ago
  Im making an orthodox file manager with vim-ish interactions. In rust with iced-rs.
• thevivekshukla 2y ago
  A cloud agnostic platform to run your compute workloads across cloud providers. Currently supports Vultr and DigitalOcean. More cloud providers coming soon. Will also release support for on-prem. Daestro - https://daestro.com https://daestro.com
• deleted 2y ago
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• Saigonautica 2y ago
  I made a small and light CRUD web thing in FastAPI to organize my personal library. Mostly it focuses on physical books, but handles ebooks too. I published it as FOSS and some people requested features, so I expanded it a little. It's nothing fancy: https://github.com/seanboyce/ubiblio https://github.com/seanboyce/ubiblio ...absolutely no one requested an RISC V port, but I did that too for laughs. Neat to see the whole thing run on a system the size of a postage stamp. Not sure what to do with it next. Will probably just let it be what it is, and fix any bugs that people report. Maybe move on to a new little weekend project.
• devtanna 2y ago
  Super simple business idea validator using AI. https://ideapulse.io https://ideapulse.io
  • IronyMan100 2y ago
    cool idea! i'm a bit curious about the Idea Viability Score. What does it mean?
    • devtanna 2y ago
      Thank you :) The Idea Viability Score is a metric that evaluates an idea's likelihood of success based on four key factors: *Market Demand, Competition, User Need, and Feasibility*. It helps assess the market potential, feasibility, and competitive landscape of an idea.
• timtimmy 2y ago
  Optimizing our rendering algorithms for Apple Vision Pro. Trying to render a 300-million atom cell model at 90fps stereo. It's trivial on a 4090, it's pretty hard on a ~30W mobile GPU (W correct??). I'm thinking about a bunch of immersive mesoscale biology stuff next.
  • kilowatt 2y ago
    Curious—Do you have a best Metal project to learn from? Foveated rendering and temporal reprojection important here I imagine.
• snowfoolin 2y ago
  I've been working on a webapp to scrape links users enter from Zillow/Apartments.com/Trulia/etc to build tables of listings you are interested in. It can show your commute time to work or queries for amenities nearby like "Trader Joe's". https://getlistable.app/ https://getlistable.app/
• fullstackchris 2y ago
  I'm building a full event sourcing framework for the IDE to help software creators (myself included) create educational software courses and lessons 100x faster! Hoping to launch the full product by summer: https://codevideo.io https://codevideo.io https://github.com/codevideo https://github.com/codevideo
• rashidae 2y ago
  I’m building an AI-first startup for Latin America, kind of like TaskRabbit but simpler and more aligned with how people actually hire help here. We use WhatsApp for quick updates like ‘Provider is on the way,’ and we focus on getting verified professionals to people’s homes—without getting in the way of payments or how they handle the job. To fund it, I’m building agentic workflows and automations for insurance, finance, and real estate companies. It’s a way to keep things moving while I get the startup off the ground.
• DeathArrow 2y ago
  I was laid off a month ago so my biggest project right now is finding work.
  • NitinJ_11 2y ago
    I feel your pain :) I need a job soon too.
• brainless 2y ago
  I have been working full-time for about 15 months on a product to store real-world entity-relations in a graph (using AI/ML for extraction). The idea is to extract entities and relations deterministically from text (using AI/ML for clues about type and position of entities in text). It is very much a work in progress with lots of commented out code which are just experiments. https://github.com/pixlie/PixlieAI https://github.com/pixlie/PixlieAI
  • soulofmischief 2y ago
    Nice project! I built something extremely similar with a friend in 2022! Back when we only had the GPT-3 API. I built an ontological graph and relation extractor, mental model analysis engine, bunch of stuff, on top of an Elastic DB being filled with live incoming ephemeral data across the web, including messages, comments, posts, articles and more. I would really love for you to reach out via the email in my bio so we can talk ontology!
    • brainless 2y ago
      This sounds lovely. This product has not reached to the point where ontology matters, that is still far away. I am just going for the low hanging fruits - very basic stuff like location, person, event, activity, date (a few more things) and relations between them. One of the limitations is that I want to do deterministic extraction with suggestions from AI/ML, so there is much code to be written. I will email you, thanks a lot!
  • apnew 2y ago
    hey Sumit! Great seeing you here on and good luck!
    • brainless 2y ago
      Hey you, sorry I could not guess you from your username. Thanks a lot.
• unknown321 2y ago
  Interface addon for Linux-based NW series Walkmans https://github.com/unknown321/wampy https://github.com/unknown321/wampy
• rukshn 2y ago
  An editor for Clinical Quality Language (CQL) with syntax highlighting and parsing. Repo: https://github.com/rukshn/cquill https://github.com/rukshn/cquill Demo: https://rukshn.github.io/cquill/ https://rukshn.github.io/cquill/
• marcfowler 2y ago
  I’m working on a code generation agent that lives and operates inside of GitHub instead of being tied to your IDE so that PMs and others can generate PRs. https://rivets.dev https://rivets.dev
• maxbond 2y ago
  Tangentially, I am glad to see this thread again, I was worried the idea was scrapped since I hadn't seen it in the last few months. For whatever it counts for, I like this idea and hope to see it continue.
• quodlibet 2y ago
  I am building a game called The kill every mosquito Project (tkemp) inspired on The Kill everyone Project (tkep) from around 2006-2007. Mostly as an experiment to learn some new tools, unsure if it will ever be released.
• dend 2y ago
  I am working on a reverse-engineered SDK for Stream Deck devices, called DeckSurf: https://deck.surf https://deck.surf The SDK is open-source and on GitHub: https://github.com/dend/decksurf-sdk https://github.com/dend/decksurf-sdk It's a hobby project, but one that I love working on because it unlocks some _really_ great hardware to be open to do anything I want it to be rather than be constrained by out-of-the-box client software that asks me to sign in with an account to get an extension installed.
• JackDanMeier 2y ago
  I'm building a tool for uni students to study more effectively and have less stress for their exams. This is done with the study techniques retrieval practice(practising remembering to make recall easier, spaced repetition(schedule reviews for long term memorization, concrete examples. Most of this is done with ai generated flashcards and simple ai explanations. This week I will finish the exam generation feature. http://www.mimair.com http://www.mimair.com
  • pillefitz 2y ago
    Looks cool! Any luck finding paying customers yet?
• aditgupta 2y ago
  I wanted a minimal tool to easily track, organize, and reflect on my reading—so I built one: https://bookstates.app https://bookstates.app. I'm familiar with StoryGraph, but aimed for something even simpler. (and with a sprinkle of AI)
• monroewalker 2y ago
  A cross-platform clipboard manager / search-and-filter tool / launcher built with Flutter that has a simple Python plugin interface. Plugins can be used to add new "result actions" and new sources of entries to filter and select. Eg. recent Jira tickets, email inbox, shell history, Notion pages, etc. The result actions are a way to easily perform common transformations on selected entries (eg. wrap in triple backticks, find and parse json, trim whitespace, ...) or kickoff some script with a selected entry as an argument. Project started as a result of having to do a lot of work using Ubuntu and sorely missing Alfred and all the workflows I'd built with it. I wanted something for which I could build workflows once and have those workflows available on whatever system I'm on. Plus to be able to build some plugins that would be usable by coworkers regardless of what operating system they're using and with minimal runtime resource usage. There are some existing cross-platform solutions which could serve this purpose, like Cerebro, Ueli, Script Kit, some others.., but I wanted something lighter weight than is possible with an Electron app. Granted the current state of Epte is that it's built with Flutter + Go + Python so the final distributable and runtime memory usage are higher than is ideal. Basic Windows support is almost there but there doesn't seem to be a great solution to switching to existing windows of an application instead of just re-launching it. The tool isn't intended to be as good or better than any given OS's built-in launcher so I'll probably just leave that as-is and upload the current state of the Windows build. https://github.com/mwalkerr/Epte https://github.com/mwalkerr/Epte
• kilowatt 2y ago
  An LLM assistant app for engaging with your journal. Insights, prompts (for humans), research leads, etc.
  • maxbond 2y ago
    I'd be curious to hear more. I presume you're using some kind of semantic search? Any other kinds of semantic technology? What kinds of insights into your journaling has it offered you/users?
    • kilowatt 2y ago
      The work thus far has mostly been on a seamless mobile UI, & to make engaging with the LLM like less of a chat and more like browsing an interesting dynamic wiki about your own life. But also, yes, a highlight for me re: having your journal in context can be to search and find commonalities, patterns. I would say the insights frontier models have given me, at a high level, match some of those offered by professionals in a theraputic context--which is one reason I'd be curious to make an affordable/accessible app. Although I tread lightly into depersonalizing such a human area with techno utopian naivete...
      • maxbond 2y ago
        I suppose "the Internet will interpret censorship as damage and route around it" was utopian naivete that got us pretty far, and "the LLM understands me and can help me understand myself" might be naivete it's useful to disprove/explore the truth of. I think utopianism is important even if it's Sisiphean, it's good to have a north star even if it can't be reached. Sounds very cool. Good luck with it!
• rhl314 2y ago
  Magnetron.ai – Instantly Create Lead Magnets I have been working on this tool to create lead magnets. Magnetron researches the web for your topic and creates a well crafted ebook as your lead magnet. You can try it here (https://magnetron.ai https://magnetron.ai) (This is still WIP)
• stuckinaloop 2y ago
  I’ve deleted all my social media apps (including YOU - LinkedIn). I’m trying to really see and feel what’s actually missing in my life and trying to build it. Right now I just want to see what my friends are up to in a non-curated way.
  • sgt 2y ago
    Well done, LinkedIn is a cesspool. Ironically the only thing I am using right now is Twitter, since a lot of interesting people are still on there. There's a lot of negative but balance as well. For every MAGA or ESR's comments, I balance it out with Miguel de Icaza's views on Gaza, etc.
    • unsupp0rted 2y ago
      You should be able to use Twitter without justifying yourself
      • djeastm 2y ago
        "Should" being the operative word. It was easier a few years ago
      • sgt 2y ago
        Yeah you are right. But there is some really toxic stuff there too that isn't going away. You can't really filter it.
      • bdavisx 2y ago
        No, I would say at this point a lot of people who say they use twitter feel the need to say they aren't a nazi nor do they support nazi's. YOU may not feel that way, but a lot of people do, and they don't want to be associated in any way with endorsing nazi's or musk.
        • aqueueaqueue 2y ago
          Hell, what a time to be alive.
• aaronbrethorst 2y ago
  I’ve been improving the developer experience of the extremely janky Java Spring app that powers the most popular open source real time transit app, OneBusAway. Last month I added Dockerfiles and a docker-compose.yml file to the project to make building and locally running it a breeze. Earlier today, I finally had a chance to figure out and document how to debug the app, which should greatly improve quality of life for anyone trying to fix bugs or add features to the backend. https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules?tab=readme-ov-file#debugging https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules...
• lysecret 2y ago
  I built this small website to retrieve personalized quotes/poems and questions also some habit tracking https://www.checkindaily.ai/ https://www.checkindaily.ai/ Also I have built a chrome plugin that can filter twitter by feeding your feed to gemini returning only tweets that match a criteria (E.g. no politics, only Ai or something more elaborate).
• jaronilan 2y ago
  Almost finished a short story I started writing when I read something on HN. It is about life expectancy. Edit: Three from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
• ruuda 2y ago
  I'm working on adding floats to the RCL configuration language (https://rcl-lang.org/ https://rcl-lang.org/) to finally deliver on the json superset promise. Blog post coming soon!
• bottled_poe 2y ago
  I'm working to make private hosting easier. I've been running a software development agency in Melbourne for 10+ years and have been building this platform in the background to help automate and standardise the hosting needs for our clients. We're now getting ready to launch a web portal for others to manage their own private hosting in a simpler way. The product also includes a directory of off-the-shelf applications which can be launched in a few clicks (eg. Deepseek chatbot). If you're interested in being part of our closed-Beta in March, reach out! (e: james at below domain) https://getbach.io https://getbach.io
• nocommandline 2y ago
  Still working on https://nocommandline.com https://nocommandline.com which started out as a GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator. I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map. I’m also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need dev_appserver.py [2] https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windows https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windo...
• lnk2w 2y ago
  I started to learn how to play the drums. I have a e-drum set and I’m building this website where I can put my scores and connect my drums, so it can tell me how on time I’m playing. Almost like a guitar hero thing but with just a metronome It requires WebMidi to be enabled: https://metronome-1tb.pages.dev/ https://metronome-1tb.pages.dev/
• iamwil 2y ago
  A reactive notebook that can handle side effects. I've had to go back to the drawing board, but making good progress. The latest is work on the core reactive and effect system and not yet integrated back into the notebook, but will get there. I've been logging my progress so far: https://interjectedfuture.com/tag/lab-notes/ https://interjectedfuture.com/tag/lab-notes/ Subscribe to follow along if you're interested.
• GavinB 2y ago
  I've just published my first novel for adults, The Dark Sorcerer's Intern, my bid to bring back fun and comedy to a fantasy genre that has spent years in a grimdark rut. The relevance to hackers is that unlike most fantasy where spells are cast with hand motions, magic words, or spell ingredients, there's actually an explanation for why that works and makes sense. https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sorcerers-Intern-Humorous-Fantasy/dp/B0D388QL58 https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sorcerers-Intern-Humorous-Fantas...
• tulasa 2y ago
  Currently integrating hardwares on card chip scripting application on C++. I hope I can start blogging on it soon. Easily the most interesting thing I have been involved in.
• mythz 2y ago
  Working on a self-hosted OSS AI Server with support for LLM APIs (OpenRouter/OpenAi/Anthropic/Google/etc), Ollama endpoints, ComfyUI and FFmpeg agents. It supports Synchronous, Queued and Reply to Web Callback APIs for each API Feature with typed APIs integrations for C#,TypeScript,JS,Python,Dart,PHP,Java,Kotlin,Swift,F# and VB.NET clients. https://github.com/ServiceStack/ai-server https://github.com/ServiceStack/ai-server
• kiruio 2y ago
  I am working on the second version of WhatDinner [0]. Initially marketed it as 'Tinder to decide what to eat’ and focussed on couples and families, but then only a fraction use it in family mode. So, now I am changing the concept and helping users generally decide what to eat (documenting it here [1]) [0] https://whatdinner.com/ https://whatdinner.com/ [1] https://bsky.app/profile/kiruio.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/kiruio.bsky.social
• chantepierre 2y ago
  Continuing bootstrapping my software+service company Alzo (https://alzo.archi/ https://alzo.archi/), an Elixir modular monolith. The first clients are here and I am working on "darker tech" now, a single codebase injecting their data in both MS Office and Adobe's software suites. That's quite a change from Elixir. Also working on the reverse feature, reading/writing MS Office files inside Alzo. For that, I'm writing a Java app behaving as an Erlang node, connected to my main app via Erlang distribution, to leverage existing rich Java libraries for office tech.
• josters 2y ago
  Was looking for an iOS app to always see my age in days on the lock screen. Didn‘t find one, so I first created a shortcut which would change my lock screen background image each night and overlay the number of days on it. This didn’t feel integrated enough and could fail if the phone was off, so I started looking into Swift and created my first app [1] with added features like contact import and notifications for other people‘s ages in days. It‘s still very much a work in progress but the core functionality of the lock screen widget is something I use almost every day to quickly get the current number and use it for notes etc. I just like having an incrementing unique-to-me number to reference stuff. [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/days-of-life-milestones/id6738207784 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/days-of-life-milestones/id6738...
  • Imustaskforhelp 2y ago
    nice job , I think I can do something like that on with my linux desktop. Great idea , it can give a sense of how many days how many hours I have lived on this earth and maybe even by a average time , show how much time is left (yes it won't be predictable , but I also don't want to procastinate thinking there is a tomorrow , I think I like steve jobs quote in the manner that he said live your life as if its the last hour or something like that.
    • josters 2y ago
      Thanks! Yes, was also thinking of adding a menu bar item to macOS to have it always visible.
• rijavecb 2y ago
  I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs to it too. I'm also building a customer support app when I'm taking a break from Gorby. The idea is to make it easier to organize and quickly find/copy useful replies, discounts, screenshots etc. It's similar in concept to text expander apps, but those never worked great for me, I either forget the triggers or don't bother storing things I don't use daily. You could probably use Notion for this too, but to me it's too clunky and slow. [0] https://gorby.app/ https://gorby.app/
  • kaonwarb 2y ago
    Gorby looks interesting. Any future potential for operating on local markdown files?
    • rijavecb 2y ago
      Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/ https://tiptap.dev/) which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and then when done writing and editing convert it back into markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that are available for both. I think Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/ https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar. I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been thinking of making it possible to save and read local files. If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be happy to give you a free license code :)
• indulona 2y ago
  Past two years, i've been working on sales platform for digital content creators where they can sell digital content(files), online courses or memberships to access content. I'll be going online next month, hopefully. Right now I am refactoring front-end into production design. Front-end eats always the most time, and i still have things to do in relation to servers/infra and testing. It took this long because i manage the finances(i do not use stripe or any other 3rd party service) and it uses event sourcing, which has large overhead. But i am almost there. Hope to go online next month, beta-test in production for Q2 with small amount of users, and come Q3 go into full production.
• lanewinfield 2y ago
  I'm working on a website that anybody can update by calling into the phone number in the url. https://715-999-7483.com/ https://715-999-7483.com/
  • memhole 2y ago
    You have some interesting ideas. Definitely a fan
  • cookiengineer 2y ago
    This is such a nice idea. I love it!
• sschueller 2y ago
  I am working on a departure board [1] for your home or business. Currently only for Swiss Public transport but the plan is to support more countries. Next goal is to update the website which needs work. The hardware is based around a ESP32. The server that gathers and prepares the data is running on Symfony php. The app to configure the device is written in vue and is using capacitor by ionic. More technical details are here: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-product/ https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-... [1] https://www.stationdisplay.com/ https://www.stationdisplay.com/
  • 4ndrewl 2y ago
    That looks awesome!
    • sschueller 2y ago
      Thank you
• valorzard 2y ago
  I’ve been mostly struggling with really bad creative burnout. I pushed myself to do a couple of game jams cuz I thought it would make the burnout go away, but it’s basically only made it worse. It’s the first time in my life where i haven’t had a billion ideas in my brain and im not sure what to do with myself. Been trying to listen to history podcasts and read manga to inspire myself again but it’s not working…
• mavamaarten 2y ago
  I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I have a doorbell camera, and by analysing the footage using OpenCV and some code, I can track how fast people drive if you see how fast they move between two known points. Average speed: 46 km/h :(
  • m3sta 2y ago
    I'm interested in this. A modern version of community watch.
  • maltris 2y ago
    Man, please share a tutorial
    • someothherguyy 2y ago
      There are plenty of tutorials on how to derive speed of an object using opencv. You could ask an LLM to write it for you.
  • digibeet 2y ago
    What about placing a fake speed camera? It might just get the job done
    • rambambram 2y ago
      What about just faking speed limit signs? If it's in The Netherlands, everybody should respect traffic signs, whether they are fake or not.
      • Cthulhu_ 2y ago
        There will be speed limit signs, but they're easily ignored. Maybe one of these plastic "watch out for our kids" things that people place on the street themselves? https://verkeersmaatje.nl/ https://verkeersmaatje.nl/
• renegat0x0 2y ago
  I am maintaining the internet on the github. Take a look. [0] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database I use it for various projects, like simple search [1] https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=emulation https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=emulation [2] https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=amiga https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=amiga
  • ideashower 2y ago
    Would be cool to see sites mapped on a network graph.
• Ccecil 2y ago
  Finishing the feeder "hack" to my pick and place machine [1] so that I can begin full retail production in house of the V2 Smoothieboard CNC controller [2]. As well as finishing shipping the remaining boards to the kickstarter backers (many years late, but significantly better). Been a long struggle overall...learned a lifetime's worth during the last couple years. Every single day has been spent doing something new it seems. Looking forward to what the next broken machine will teach me :) [1] https://youtu.be/Vk53VsXkh9o?si=SU45-DkkjwZi6orp https://youtu.be/Vk53VsXkh9o?si=SU45-DkkjwZi6orp [2] https://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieboard2 https://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieboard2 https://github.com/Smoothieware/SmoothieV2 https://github.com/Smoothieware/SmoothieV2
• j-rom 2y ago
  Trying to scratch my own itch by creating (yet another) todo list site. It's more for me than anyone else. I typically use a simple text file to track my tasks in a day but I wanted something just a little bit more. Still minimal but maybe 1 - 2 steps above editing a file. Donezo: https://donezo.pages.dev/ https://donezo.pages.dev/
• Instantnoodl 2y ago
  "90s black metal Pokémon" aka a first person roguelike dungeon crawler with monster collection elements. C++ with no engine :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3460840/Gloamvault/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3460840/Gloamvault/
• r_singh 2y ago
  I'm working on http://unwrangle.com http://unwrangle.com solo, it's Ecommerce APIs for people building AI and BI apps for ecommerce stuff, it supports querying search results, product info and customer reviews from over 15 major e-commerce marketplaces
  • kcindric 2y ago
    Cool! How are you getting your data? Public API?
• muxneo 2y ago
  My family uses multiple messenger apps - WhatsApp, Slack, Discord etc. I get so many messages on these everyday. I am also member of multiple WhatsApp groups and slack channels. Needless to say, I miss out on a lot (actually every) important message in groups and channels and sometimes DMs. I am working on ML solution to summarize the messages and info in these messengers for people whenever they access my service. The idea is to reduce the amount of info from 100:1 and give extremely succinct data without losing any important info. WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED?
  • threeseed 2y ago
    This sounds an awful like Siri Intelligence. And sorry to say it's a pretty underwhelming experience.
  • elric 2y ago
    I would be much more interested in a unified inbox on top of all those communication apps. An *actual* inbox, which lets me flag things, mark as (un)read, move to folders etc.
• carlnewton 2y ago
  I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet. I recently spoke with a Lemmy developer who gave me some advice on making it easy for anyone to host. I was struggling with the mess of supporting both docker and VM hosting. He told me that Lemmy uses ansible provisioning to install docker compose on the target VM so that the effort can be focused on docker support, so that's what I've been homing in on for the last few weeks. - The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-network/ https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net... - A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/ https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/ - The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat - The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2 https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
  • dcreater 2y ago
    Excellent!!! I have been wanting this for a long time
  • oulipo 2y ago
    really cool :)
  • childintime 2y ago
    Ambitious! Maybe add a map to show nearby users (that accept to chat under certain criteria)?
• nhatcher 2y ago
  I am actually pleased to have an answer to this. I'm working on IronCalc, an open source spreadsheet engine: https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc I have been doing this as a side project for over a year now. It's progress is slower than I would like but there we go!
• blankx32 2y ago
  I’m working on not being bothered by the fact that everyone else is working on something
  • jfil 2y ago
    Remember that there's strong selection bias in this thread (those who aren't working on something aren't posting a comment). Not to speak of "Dark Matter Developers".
• stepcellwolf 2y ago
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• freetonik 2y ago
  Continuing to work on https://minifeed.net/ https://minifeed.net/ for the second year. It’s a curated directory of personal blogs and a blog search engine. I started to build a simple RSS-reader for myself, just wanted a HN-like list of links. Slowly it grew, and now it has full-text search across tens of thousands of blog posts from 700+ blogs (adding new ones every day), related blogs and posts recommendations, lists, link blogs. Now I’m working on adding email newsletters, curated collections, and text-to-speech generation.
• boricj 2y ago
  I'm tinkering with the USB HID specification for power devices for all the wrong reasons. Historically, UPSes had various proprietary communication protocols over serial ports. Nowadays they usually have a USB port, but I have a bunch of very old APC UPSes with just the serial port and/or the expansion card slot (which is usually just another serial link plus power on a edge connector). A normal person would just use NUT or apcupsd over serial and call it a day. A bored person would write a USB HID power device stack and serial protocol acquisitors to give these UPSes USB ports. An insane person would add projectors from the USB HID power device stack to serial protocols so that they could use whatever communication card they want on any UPS they have (for example, a CyberPower RM205 card plugged into an APC Smart-UPS). Why? Because apparently I'm insane and I needed a break from working on delinking executables back into object files, another heretical project I've worked on for the past couple years. I've just started and I don't know if I'll finish that, but it's something I need to work on to exorcise that particular nagging thought out of my head.
• onre 2y ago
  A no-frills X toolkit. Think Athena, add things like dialogs, file picker and make it completely vectored. No antialiasing, top goal is small size and fast execution. Can display vector and bitmap fonts, only external dependency is xcb. I just recently got my first digital storage oscilloscope and begun writing a companion software for it, as I couldn't find anything usable. This is one of the offshoots of that, the other being a somewhat Postscript-like language for scripting the thing. Once I get this done, I get back to the actual project of a 2.11-BSD based handheld computing appliance. Also there is this thing called "day job".
• _kush 2y ago
  I'm working full time on growing my app https://lookaway.app https://lookaway.app. I've been working on it for more than a year now and it's been growing organically since.
• bwb 2y ago
  I'm still working on Shepherd, a book discovery platform aimed at feeding readers' curiosity. Later this year, I am developing a tool to bring your to-be-read pile to life in some cool ways and improve the accuracy of our topic/genre system (plus adding themes, tropes, and moods). https://shepherd.com/ https://shepherd.com/ Our reader's fav reads of 2024: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published
  • throwaway2037 2y ago
    Silly question: How did you get ownership of that domain? It is a great brand name!
    • bwb 2y ago
      I was in the hosting/domain industry for a long time and picked up a lot of good names from individuals and companies over the years :)
• 255kb 2y ago
  Still working on https://mockoon.com https://mockoon.com, an open-source API mocking desktop tool, after 7 years. My focus is now on the cloud version which is key to guarantee a future where the tool is still actively maintained and independent (read: free from high growth/high profits pressure).
• icy 2y ago
  We’re building a new git collaboration platform on top of atproto! Here’s a sneak preview (best viewed on desktop for now; the UI is mostly WIP): https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core It’s going to be fully decentralised from day 1—we borrowed the PDS model from Bluesky to allow users to run their own “knots” to self-host their git repositories. https://www.tldraw.com/s/v2_c_E1XeFuW0tGbDxqnhDiLRT?d=v-286.-171.2932.1651.page https://www.tldraw.com/s/v2_c_E1XeFuW0tGbDxqnhDiLRT?d=v-286....
  • dcreater 2y ago
    We need to get away from GitHub! Look forward to seeing this grow
  • zft 2y ago
    That's super nice. Can I eventually replace my centralized forge ?
    • icy 2y ago
      Yes! This architecture allows you to host your git repos on your own server, while allowing contributions from others with a unified identity (unlike say, Gitea or GitLab, where you’d have to make yet another account).
• thrw011 2y ago
  Merging data from spreadsheets with db, with schema mismatches nightmare...
• soheilpro 2y ago
  https://volt.fm https://volt.fm - Spotify Stats & Music Discovery
  • SouravInsights 2y ago
    cool app!! will be super cool if I can share some of my stats with people, similar to Spotify Wrapped
• zft 2y ago
  I'm working on bluesky social analytics tool for businesses and marketers. https://www.graphtracks.com https://www.graphtracks.com. Feedback is welcome.
• wingerlang 2y ago
  https://screenmemory.app https://screenmemory.app is my current project as of a year or so. Records your screen continuously and lets you look back at it through a GUI. I use it myself to recap days or weeks at work, mostly.
  • rollinDyno 2y ago
    This is nice, quite expensive tho.
  • zft 2y ago
    Anything like this for Linux ?
    • wingerlang 2y ago
      Not sure to be honest, I know a lot of these tools popped up and swiftly disappeared. It wouldn't surprise me if there is a Linux version still alive though, try searching for "Rewind.ai alternative Linux".
• azriel91 2y ago
  Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow. Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people (crucial that they know how to connect back). Made a little web app that helped me communicate: https://azriel.im/tears/ https://azriel.im/tears/ (I could just point to the number when I couldn't talk/listen)
  • hurtuvac78 2y ago
    Thanks for the link, I think this is helpful and the tips resonate with me. As I get older, the desires that "work" are very frequently the same ones as I had when I was a child.
  • fiftyacorn 2y ago
    I was at a games exhibition a few months ago - and there was a game designed to help people deal with grief which i found interesting. I cant remember the name
    • ave_b_2011 2y ago
      If you remember the name that would be something I would be interested in!
      • procflora 2y ago
        Gris and Spiritfarer are two recent-ish ones I'm aware of, both were well thought of by my partner who works in grief care. :)
  • dmos62 2y ago
    Good luck, it can be tough, but you're worth the effort.
• mcs_ 2y ago
  Personality protocol for a chatbots platform. How to share personalities among different layers and components. At the end of the day is customization and parametrization of LLM instructions, however an interesting topic to explore.
• yellowapple 2y ago
  My ADD brain keeps jumping around between various projects. Some highlights: - Last month I demonstrated the ability to build Nintendo 64 ROMs with Zig¹, making some headway on Zig-native APIs for interfacing with the N64's memory-mapped hardware. Taking a break for a moment; will probably resume when Zig 0.14 drops (within a couple months IIRC). Next planned milestone will be to implement interrupt handlers. - Gradually migrating my code repos from Git to Fossil (with plans to continue to mirror to Git). Experimenting with bidirectional syncs in order to preserve the ability to handle merge/pull requests from the various Git repo hosts on which I syndicate my repos. The above Zig64 project will probably be the first real guinea pig. - Migrating my personal website away from Jekyll has been an ongoing project (going on almost a year now) with multiple parallel efforts: using Fossil's wiki features², using Scroll, and (most recently) using Typst's newly-announced HTML export feature. All three approaches have their pros and cons. - I've been tinkering with my PowerBook G4; recently swapped in an SSD (using an mSATA→PATA enclosure) and installed the latest OpenBSD (with all partitions except for '/' encrypted; working on documenting that process and the associated kinks - and possibly turning said documentation into installer and initscript patches so that hardware platforms like macppc that lack support for encrypting '/' can still enjoy not-quite-full-disk encryption). Next on the list is rebuilding the battery. - That PowerBook is also the only working machine I have that has an optical drive, so as soon as it was consistently booting right, I took the opportunity to back up the stack of burned CDs/DVDs I'd accumulated throughout my lifetime. - I have a bunch of my dad's old photos and schoolwork and such that I've been meaning to digitize and organize. ---- ¹ https://fsl.yellowapple.us/zig64 https://fsl.yellowapple.us/zig64 ² https://fsl.yellowapple.us/website https://fsl.yellowapple.us/website
  • markatkinson 2y ago
    Ahh yes, I know the feeling. My current list of projects: - There's no speciality grade coffee in Zambia, and all the coffee beans in Zambia are from Zambian coffee farms. I've bought a small roaster and will start sourcing speciality grade coffee beans from Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia and roasting for a few of the small stores and cafes around us. - Converting a beat up Suzuki Samurai into a capable 4x4 rock crawler/off road vehicle to enter my own team into the Elephant Charge 2025 https://elephantcharge.org/ec-charge-2025/ https://elephantcharge.org/ec-charge-2025/. - Growing and propogating cuttings of coffee plants in my backyard to start an outgrowers scheme in on the border of Zambia & Congo. - An emotion recognition app that has animated fruits and animals that dance and respond to emotion. I'd like to create something a bit more responsive for my child than the YT videos that exist (Unity). - Helping my wifes company prototype and spec out some lease management software. - Sourcing the equipment and ingredients to process my own coffee cherries into green coffee. I'll likely buy coffee from nearby growers and start processing as my own plants still have a couple years before they produce any fruit. - Migrating a Flow project to Typescript. - Learning Haskell by building a back-office API for another project in it.
• pwatsonwailes 2y ago
  Building two things ATM - first is an interactive fiction engine (almost done) and game with it (halfway there). Just wrapped pre-production on music and art, going into the studio to record final tracks later in the year. Launching end of the year hopefully. I'm also building an application and training materials to help people with annual strategy. I've spent 20 years in marketing and ops putting up with people doing it badly so this is an attempt to help people running businesses actually come up with a strategy likely to result in something valuable.
• westoque 2y ago
  working on cursor for desktop. why rely on AI agent that’s self-contained when it’s limited, can’t access the browser, can’t open apps or click around. i simply want mine to be able to fill in forms in preview with a passport image as context. also to be able to do recurring tasks as if i was the desktop user. e.g., i’m going to bed keep working on this spreadsheet. it’s working and built but very slow and buggy atm. uses multimodal LLMS and OCR but lots more optimizations needed. need to make it a lot faster. can demo it and need help if anyone is interested.
• denzil 2y ago
  I have been working in my spare time on Japanese vocabulary learning app and just yesterday finally convinced myself to publish the sources: https://github.com/d3nzil/gaku https://github.com/d3nzil/gaku Be warned it's in early stages, difficult to use and code is big ball of mud. But the basic functionality works, so maybe it will be already useful for someone. And I have been using it and working on it consistently, so hopefully it'll only get better.
• koliber 2y ago
  Working with clients I realized that many companies lack basic monitoring and observability. E-commerce shops go down and no one notices. DBs do thousands of useless queries per minute. Emails stop sending silently. I’m building a tool to make monitoring setup a no-brainer. I’m talking about basic website monitoring setup in 5-seconds — literally. The problem is not a lack of tools. The existing tools are not even that complicated, but they still require too much thinking to set up.
  • Gasp0de 2y ago
    So uptimerobot.com is complicated for you?
    • andrew-jack 2y ago
      [dead]
    • koliber 2y ago
      Not for me. Apparently finding and setting up monitoring is too problematic for all of the people who are running their freshly-created startups and e-commerce shops without any monitoring. For someone who does not know HTTP from HTTPs or all the different kinds of probes, reading about them and making decisions about what to set up is a time investment. Complicated might be the wrong word. All you really need to do is to provide a domain name and an email address for alerts to get basic monitoring set up. My goal is to set up monitoring with zero decisions under 30 seconds. Getting pretty close with nixmonitor.com
      • jfil 2y ago
        Your page will convert better if you embed your 2-field form right there, instead of the call-to-action button. Even better if you make it a 1 field form (and ask for the notification-receiving email after submit).
• pxheller 2y ago
  Still working on RunGen.AI – a platform to deploy any LLM or Image model from HuggingFace by just pasting a link. Still a lot of work to do, but solves a real pain I had while building my previous side project
• AJRF 2y ago
  I recently made a little tool for people interested in running local LLMs to figure out if their hardware is able to run an LLM in GPU memory. https://canirunthisllm.com/ https://canirunthisllm.com/
  • SomeoneOnTheWeb 2y ago
    Very nice! Way more complete than the other tools I've seen to estimate running LLMs on GPUs :)
  • seafoamteal 2y ago
    I've recently been looking into running local LLMs for fun on my laptop (without any GPU) and this is the one thing I've never been able to find consistent information on. This is so helpful, thank you so much! Going to try and run Llama 3.2 3B FP8 soon.
  • jatins 2y ago
    can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?
    • jay-barronville 2y ago
      > can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown? Detecting CPU and GPU specs browser-side is almost impossible to do reliably (even if relying on advanced fingerprinting and certain heuristics). For GPU’s, it may be possible to use (1) WebGL’s `WEBGL_debug_renderer_info` extension [0][0] or (2) WebGPU’s `GPUAdapter#info` [1][1], but I wouldn’t trust either of those API’s for general usage. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WEBGL_debug_renderer_info https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WEBGL_debug... [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GPUAdapter/info https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GPUAdapter/...
      • AJRF 2y ago
        Jay you seem knowledgeable on this - thanks for answering - I have a question I did look at auto-detecting before, but it seems like you can only really tell the features of a GPU, not so much the good info (VRAM amount and bus speed) - is that the case? I looked at the GPUAdapter docs, and all it told me was: - device maker (amd) - architecture (rdna-3) and that was it. Is there a way to poke for bus speed and vram amount?
• jcbrand 2y ago
  Taking a sabbatical and spending more time on an open source XMPP web client that I started 10 years ago already. https://conversejs.org https://conversejs.org The website is a bit old, but lots of exciting changes are happening under the hood and I finally have the time to make big architectural and performance improvements.
• nickyvanurk 2y ago
  I've been inspired to build my own browser mmo game after seeing hordes.io, which is made by a single person. Launched a prototype with, for now, only basic movement over at http://everwilds.io http://everwilds.io. Instead of working in a silo I've decided to develop in public and launched as soon as possible to slowly gather an audience. So far the Everwilds.io Discord server already gained 1 member ;) I'll share the link incase others want to follow the development: https://discord.gg/HWZSpkvz https://discord.gg/HWZSpkvz
  • malomalsky 2y ago
    Which tools are u using?
    • nickyvanurk 2y ago
      VSCode, TypeScript, Three.js. But I am about to remove Three.js and use WebGPU instead, I don't like the 800kb+ size of Three.js. Also will do some experimenting with C++ and WebAssembly and see how that goes.
• Risse 2y ago
  I've been dabbling with local ML projects, and trying to get them to run with ROCm on my Radeon 7900 XTX card. All the solutions to run for example Llama.cpp or Automatic1111 are a bit hacky, so I made a repo where I document how to run them in containers. https://github.com/Krisseck/ROCm-Docker-Scripts https://github.com/Krisseck/ROCm-Docker-Scripts Needs more documentation and more projects, but all contributions are welcome!
• Apanatshka 2y ago
  Reading literature (academic and otherwise) on parsers, writing blog posts about what I learn, trying to implement the things I learnt. I've written about basic finite automata (for regular expressions), LL, LR (including the difference between SLR, LALR, and LR(1)), detoured into some optimisations for LR from the 80's, then generalised LR (RNGLR in particular). I'm now implementing these things, RNGLR is not easy to implement despite having understood it well enough conceptually to write a blog about it (https://blog.jeffsmits.net/generalised-lr-parsing/ https://blog.jeffsmits.net/generalised-lr-parsing/). I've read far more than I've written about, trying to keep that straight in my head as well / planning the next... probably year of writing ^^'
• neverartful 2y ago
  I'm still working on development of a native Windows application for data analysis of SQLite databases. It's geared towards non-technical (or only slightly technical) users and allows queries to be easily made without knowing SQL. Additionally, it easily lets the user quickly create charts from the queried data (bar, column, histogram, line, pie, scatter). Development is nearly complete and hoping to put in the hands of testers within the next couple of weeks. Also trying to decide on name for the product so that I can start development of website for it.
  • jfil 2y ago
    If you're still recruiting testers, then I'm interested in using this.
• hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
  I continue to spend most of my free energy learning Finnish. Only a few more years and I should be able to finally focus on my career again :') Two new projects of note this month, one specific to Finnish language learners, and one that is probably useful for language learners in general: * https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - A Finnish pocket dictionary with a TUI interface. This is the first nontrivial thing I've built in Go, by which I meant I had to implement and tweak a randomly pruning trie by hand to get the performance characteristics I wanted (it wasn't actually that bad). I chose Go mostly because of the fantastic cross-compilation story. * https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/audio2anki https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/audio2anki - This Python program wraps around `yt-dlp` and `whisper` to create Anki decks for listening practice. This should work for any (monolingual) video in any language. There are many such projects on GitHub, I'm aware, but it was surprisingly hard to find any that actually wrapped around Whisper instead of needing an SRT, VTT, etc file to come from somewhere else. In that sense mine is a "one command" solution - just provide the YouTube link and go. It does not provide a translation for those subtitles yet; in keeping with the all-in-one approach, I'm thinking I might wrap around LLaMa 3 to let the user specify that we should also --translate-to {en,es,eo, etc} if desired. For now my reading skills are advanced enough that I don't need that.
  • elvis10ten 2y ago
    Are you relocating permanently to Finland? Do you have a blog post of your experience there?
    • hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
      I relocated permanently back in 2021, in fact, soon after finishing up undergrad at Northwestern. I'm a dual US/EU citizen and I moved to be with my Finnish wife. I'm here now! I don't have a blog post to share. My experience here has been largely positive, modulo the obvious financial caveat: My take home salary really is about ~30% of what it would be had I stayed back in the United States and followed a similar career trajectory. In the long run I think this is an eminently fixable problem, however :)
• rwieruch 2y ago
  I've been working on The Road to Next [0] for almost a year. In the end, it's more than just a course on Next.js. It's a deep dive into full-stack development, covering key third-party integrations that empower you to build your own products. [0] https://www.road-to-next.com/ https://www.road-to-next.com/
  • hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
    Oh hell yeah, your Road to React was exactly what the doctor ordered when I first waded my way into the full stack ocean years ago. I'm excited to see how this progresses!
    • rwieruch 2y ago
      That's great to hear :)
  • SouravInsights 2y ago
    i read a lot of your articles, will try this for sure..
• hedayet 2y ago
  An open-source, non-profit Digital Dopamine Detox platform - https://algodetox.com/ https://algodetox.com/
• ajhai 2y ago
  Building a wheeled robot with arms to help automate household chores - https://x.com/ajhai/status/1891933005729747096 https://x.com/ajhai/status/1891933005729747096 I have been working with LLMs and VLMs to automate browser based workflows among other things for the last couple of years. Given how good the vision models have gotten lately, the perception problem is solved to level where it opens up a lot of possibilities. Manipulation is not generally solved yet but there is a lot of activity in the field and there are promising approaches to solve (OpenVLA, π0). Given these, I'm trying to build an affordable robot that can help around with household chores using language and vision models. Idea is to ship capable enough hardware that can do a few things really well with the currently available models and keep upgrading the AI stack as manipulation models get better over time.
  • ryandetzel 2y ago
    Amazing, lol
• FrozenSynapse 2y ago
  Another movie recommendation web app. Long ago, I used Jinni, and I liked their labelling method a lot, categorising movies by mood, plot type, character types, etc. Then, Jinni was sold, disappeared and I wanted to create something similar. The Christmas days off I had the time and I started making it. * https://moviematey.com/ https://moviematey.com/
• bryanhogan 2y ago
  Recently finished rewriting the code for my personal blog: https://bryanhogan.com/ https://bryanhogan.com/ Have also been working on making a customizable self-tracking app for my thesis. And learning Korean, working on an app to learn words faster: https://game.tolearnkorean.com/ https://game.tolearnkorean.com/
• czhu12 2y ago
  I've been building https://canine.sh https://canine.sh for the past year, which is an open source Render / Fly / Heroku, etc. It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin. It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams. The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.
• iancmceachern 2y ago
  Building the best hardware product design firm in SF (www.iancollmceachern.com) and also building an injection molding and 3d printing company based right here in SF (www.goldengatemolders.com)
• kristopolous 2y ago
  secrets management that's easier to use than whatever you currently do. just started it this week (won a bunch of things at a hackathon with it) this is going to be free (there's a different product for enterprise this will feed into - but this is going to always be free). join the discord for announcements. https://nblx.org https://nblx.org
• brisvegas 2y ago
  I'm building an app to help small-to-medium businesses track and manage their subscription spending https://tracksub.io/ https://tracksub.io/
• tetek 2y ago
  I was on a hackathon this weekend and we made a tool for product owners - a bot that joins calls, listens, creates and refines Linear tasks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8K7yWjdyJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8K7yWjdyJQ We didn't win :(
• drusepth 2y ago
  Building self-ask NPCs and other game systems (crafting, harvesting, quests, automation) in a large open-world RPG that uses the latest generative AI tech to enable new kinds of game mechanics that weren't possible even just a few years ago. Also, thinking about building a catio for my cat.
• azuanrb 2y ago
  In my country (Malaysia), most banks only export bank and credit card statements as PDFs, with no standard format for displaying the data. Since most of my transactions are cashless, I want a way to track my spending habits. I don't want to manually key in each transaction, so apps that require that won’t work for me. Right now, I'm building a bank statement PDF converter to track my past spending. I’m about halfway there, with a semi-automated way to categorize transactions too. So far, it’s working great!
  • monroewalker 2y ago
    Do the banks offer email notifications for transactions? That could be another approach if you automate pulling info from the emails
    • azuanrb 2y ago
      For individual transactions, it's not really reliable, unfortunately. But for monthly reporting, they do have it, so that could be the next step. There's an app here that does something similar, but it doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore. It’s a free app, so I guess there’s no reason for them to keep investing in it. Fair enough. Looks like they’re shifting toward a B2B solution instead, so that might be my next direction too. That said, my main goal for now is just to make it work for personal B2C use first. I do think there’s some potential here because major cities are pretty much cashless now, and there aren’t any good existing solutions for B2C. There are some other decent options, but they mainly focus on B2B (that’s where the money is), so they’re quite expensive and overkill for what I need.
      • masteruvpuppetz 2y ago
        I was wondering about building a payment SMS notification -> Tracking app. It would be more real-time and give me heartaches everytime I go out of budget :D:D:D
• csbartus 2y ago
  Working on creating likely-correct software with formal and semi-formal methods for rapid iteration. Done the first demo: https://www.osequi.com/studies/list/list.html https://www.osequi.com/studies/list/list.html, now focusing on "diagrams as code": https://tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/ https://tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/
• dbotha 2y ago
  Noodling away on game called Nitronauts in my spare time—just released the demo! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539310/Nitronauts_Demo/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539310/Nitronauts_Demo/ It’s built on a custom C++ engine (using SDL2) and uses WebRTC for networking, so a browser version is coming very soon. It’s a 2-6 player couch/online party game with Bomberman-like mechanics, plus wacky items and power-ups across nine stages.
  • stewaga 2y ago
    Nice, can you share the browser version when it's ready?
• brunosutic 2y ago
  I'm working on RailsBilling - it's a Ruby gem for fast Stripe subscriptions integrations. It allows you to implement subscriptions in your app in hours, instead of months. You see, Stripe is very powerful, but also very complex. Coding a straightforward subscriptions implementation will take you a couple weeks at best. That is without handling all those edge cases like: prevent starting a paid subscription without a billing card on file (yes, you read that right)! The gem is ready, I'm currently working on getting the website up. If you're working with Rails and need a solution for subscriptions get in touch at hacker.news@railsbilling.com - I'd love to chat!
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• jtwaleson 2y ago
  I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the company etc), languages used, security issues. There's time-travel, think Gource for all software in your company, and maybe the most fun: a GeoGuessr for code. Select the repos for your team (or if you feel confident, of the entire org), you get a snippet and have to guess where it is. The plan is for LLMs + tree-sitter to analyze all the code and show relations to other systems, databases etc. I had the idea 2 years ago, but starting building in earnest 2 months ago. Spending all my time on it now, minus 3 or 4 days per week of earning money. Currently looking for a GTM/sales-oriented cofounder in NL.
  • hhh 2y ago
    Cool idea :)
  • muzani 2y ago
    Definitely want this kind of thing.
    • jtwaleson 2y ago
      Thanks! If you or other interested people in this thread are in a position to pay for it, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you!
      • muzani 2y ago
        I would pay for it as an individual. Just things like going into code and spending 3 weeks reverse engineering everything is not ideal. Especially if it's something where the entire team has quit or been laid off. And lately the solution for that is just rewriting the damn thing lol. How much we're willing to pay is a whole other question. I feel like this is the kind of thing that Cursor already does by itself but it's just not releasing a user-readable output of it. It won't likely be a subscription thing, but one off payments per repo makes sense, and there should be some kind of satisfaction guarantee or say, charge to have the output in a human readable format. Monorepos are also a pain. On the front end, they sometimes share design. On BE they may share databases. It would be cool to break it down into DDD-style domains if applicable or propose things like anti corruption layers. More often it's like a "pacific ocean meets atlantic ocean" kind of thing, where you can tell there's a difference in the way things are done, but it's not entirely clear where the border is. This would probably be worth a lot more. To a much lesser extent, an architectural copilot would also make sense. On the front end, we have a lot of redundant components. Say a button might be PrimaryButton, but the same thing is GreenButton or FilledNoOutlineButton by other devs. We tried documenting this which just ended up being a waste of 1 week because nobody read the doc. It's worse with complex components like TwoButtonModal vs TwoButtonModalWithClose. And what happens is code is always built in parallel; people don't realize that the designer's new style applies to both teams so you get two people building the same components at the same time. Not a major problem, but I think this is worth a few cents every PR. Ultimately it's hard to gauge. Like Copilot underdelivered, Cursor overdelivers, and yet both essentially do the same thing. I guess the amount we're willing to pay is just vibe-based.
• Igor_Wiwi 2y ago
  I am working on HN wrapper which summarize topic discussions and outline main themes of it https://hn-distilled.fly.dev/ https://hn-distilled.fly.dev/ Recently added Similar Topics feature which uses Scikit-learn's TF-IDF vectors
  • tmilard 2y ago
    It look fun. Good look and feel. Resumés are quite ok. Witch AI service do you use ?
    • Igor_Wiwi 2y ago
      I started using openrouter.ai to have unified api for different models, for HN Distilled I use gemini-2.0-flash-001 – it has huge context window and decent price (much cheaper for the same quality than others)
• Oras 2y ago
  Out of my frustration with resume builders, I decided to build one that has no login, no signup, and no payment. Just create/upload your resume, update it, choose the template and colour and download. https://resumeyay.com https://resumeyay.com
• anshumankmr 2y ago
  I am making a simple tool to make playlists on spotify with AI... still there is a lot to be done like making the flow a lot more conversational, integrating with YouTube, replicating the same thing there, then writing a frontend (planning on using ShadCN for that); https://github.com/anshumankmr/sporky https://github.com/anshumankmr/sporky
• dabinat 2y ago
  I’m working on two main things right now. 1. I have a cloud platform for the movie industry (although in reality a lot of different industries use it for different things) that allows you to share files and get feedback from your team that I’ve been rewriting in Rust. Didn’t necessarily intend that but I started replacing Apache with Rust and liked it enough that I kept on replacing stuff. https://www.kollaborate.tv https://www.kollaborate.tv (current version on cloud is not the Rust version, but on-prem is) 2. I work with another company that uses a really rudimentary way of time-tracking employees. So I’m working on a system to use their device MAC addresses to count their hours when they’re connected to work Wi-Fi. I was surprised that such a thing appears to not exist. I’m still working on it so it’s not anywhere public right now.
• hbroadbent 2y ago
  I've been building Tailcolors lately, a TailwindCSS color palette: https://tailcolors.com https://tailcolors.com Just recently actually I published a Chrome extension for it too, so you can access and copy all the Tailwind CSS colors directly from an extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tailcolors-tailwind-css-c/agjdmlmepbilagimjkmffoinkoackego https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tailcolors-tailwind...
• asim 2y ago
  In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on Micro (https://github.com/micro https://github.com/micro), I started a new project called Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west. https://reminder.dev https://reminder.dev
  • k0ns0l 2y ago
    +1
  • aimazon 2y ago
    I was wondering what happened to micro recently (loved the m3o domain). Sorry to hear it’s over. Have you written a post-mortem? I’d love to hear more about it — if you don’t feel too downbeat about it. (is the domain for sale?)
    • asim 2y ago
      Haven't written a post-mortem but maybe at some point if it felt useful for others. Startups built around open source are generally very hard. About as bad as social consumer products. Both micro.dev and m3o.com are for sale yes.
  • wsgeorge 2y ago
    The name of your app reminds me of one I had started working on when I was out of employment: the app was going to send periodic reminders of stuff you've bookmarked/saved on various social media sites. I was just about working on the Twitter api when Musk bought the company and restricted access. Real bummer. I got employment weeks later.
    • asim 2y ago
      That's definitely the right name for periodic reminders right. Years ago I wrote an API called remindme which was supposed to provide pings for when you were in proximity to a location and it would remind you if you needed to pay someone, buy something, do something, etc. Never went anywhere but totally unrelated to this. The Quran itself is referred to as the reminder. Because it's supposed to remind us of why we're here, our purpose, who made us, and all that.
• jarrell_mark 2y ago
  Last weekend I made a program that tells you how to look better. AI of course. It was inspired by r/howtolooksmax https://lookbetterai.com https://lookbetterai.com
• pythops 2y ago
  Working on oryx: TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux The next enhancement is to add tcpdump like filters. Github: https://github.com/pythops/oryx https://github.com/pythops/oryx
• jeanlucas 2y ago
  I'm building tools for my own community on WhatsApp, from a simple bot to summarize texts and give some simple statistics to full on subscriptions through WhatsApp itself. Yes, I'm aware I relying on WhatsApp and that it is a risk.
  • JimmyBuckets 2y ago
    This is cool! What types of stats? Can you give more detail on the types of tools?
    • jeanlucas 2y ago
      Sure, as a community manager of a technical group I want to: * Track most active users in a period (day/week/month) * Track which users post/react the most * Know (and now it is possible, but not implemented) who is 'lurking' just reading messages * Summarize content and frequently asked questions to help users in the future * Check which channels (groups inside a WhatsApp community) are most active and how many messages were posted in each channel in a specific period (day/week/month) * Track (external) links posted to communities, how common they were, which users posted these links -- The tools: - A WhatsApp bot capturing all events in the group (reactions, messages, etc) - A (same) WhatsApp bot to onboard new users in the community, check your membership, talk to - A web application where the community member can check their membership + admin panel for me to check the stats mentioned above, think of it like a circle.so but built for my specific case. -- The tech stack: 1/ a WhatsApp instance running on web, I'm doing this because WhatsApp oficial APIs do not support the "communities" -> I use Z-api [1] but you can use something like Baileys and self host [2] 2/ Elixir running on a simple machine 3/ OpenAI/Claude for summarization and topic extraction [1] Z-API https://www.z-api.io/ https://www.z-api.io/ [2] Baileys https://github.com/WhiskeySockets/Baileys https://github.com/WhiskeySockets/Baileys
• Appesteijn 2y ago
  While looking for a job, I encountered the trouble that is called ATS. Nobody sees your resume if it is not 'approved' by an automated system. So I decided to build a tool to optimize my generic resume for a vacancy, ATS and company culture. https://aycabtu.com https://aycabtu.com Although n=1, I do have the feeling it works ( but that could also be the IKEA coginive dissonance)
• tiniuclx 2y ago
  I'm working on Botnet of Ares [0], an incremental hacking game where you exploit millions of devices in order to evolve a superintelligent AI. [0] https://tiniuc.com/botnet-of-ares/ https://tiniuc.com/botnet-of-ares/
  • vermilingua 2y ago
    This looks cool, will be following along! Were you inspired at all by Endgame: Singularity?
    • tiniuclx 2y ago
      Not precisely, but I think my roommate in high school played that game quite a bit! If you sign up for my newsletter you'll get some info about the games that directly influenced Botnet of Ares.
• intended 2y ago
  A simple, non tech method to increase agreement in online arguments. I’ve gotten to some degree of a protocol, surprisingly. ——- I had made this LLM prompt (about a year ago?) wildly useful in helping me think. It’s helped with everything from realizing you have burnout, relationship issues, arguments with family members, Mondays https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Cdq3drl87-two-guides-3 https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Cdq3drl87-two-guides-3 I made another version, which showed its “thinking”.
• tschillaci 2y ago
  I quit my job last December to start an AI x AdTech startup which didn't work out: we discovered a similar piece of tech was about to get released by Google AdX. So now it's back to finding ideas, I'm sure there are niche problems that can be addressed using AI agents, one idea we have is developing an AI agent enabling content creators to better connect with their community.
• hakanshehu 2y ago
  I've working on Colanode, an open-source & local-first Slack and Notion alternative that you can self host. You can use Colanode for real-time chat, as a knowledge center, project management or file storage. As a local-first application, Colanode offers full offline support, allowing you to work even when you’re not connected to the internet or the server is not available. You can host it in any environment (with minimal dependencies), giving you full ownership and control over your data. https://github.com/colanode/colanode https://github.com/colanode/colanode
• gfmascarenhas 2y ago
  I'm working on a second brain LLM, kinda super human power to live forever
• MichaelEstes 2y ago
  I've been working on language for a little over a year now. There's no documentation at all, just some examples if you can figure out how to run them. I thought building a compiler would take less time than it has, but it's been feeling like a good investment in my future of making things. It's a project I can just keep moving with forever. https://github.com/MichaelEstes/Spite https://github.com/MichaelEstes/Spite
• martinraag 2y ago
  I've been working on an iOS app that aggregates cinema showtimes across chains and independent theaters in the UK. I moved to London some years back, and was pleasantly surprised by the vibrant cinema scene, that seems to be in a steep decline in so many places. On any day of the week, one can find independent films, old and new classics, Q&A's with filmmakers etc. playing in one of the many theaters across the city. Staying on top of it all is a chore though, and I found myself missing out on screenings regularly, because I didn't check that one cinema's website on time. This is also my first time building and releasing an independent app. The journey from research, backend development and learning SwiftUI has been a trip. Released on TestFlight a couple of weeks ago. https://qino.app https://qino.app
  • inatreecrown2 2y ago
    cool idea! good luck with your app! I also want to build an app that leverages happenings "in the real world".
• fratimo66 2y ago
  I’m currently developing a link-in-bio tool that requires no cookies, no trackers, and no signups—a true “privacy-first” approach. I’m building it with lovable, which has really helped me overcome the fine-tuning and bug-fixing procrastination that used to slow down my projects. After spending a lot of time in an acquired startup and becoming more specialized in my role, I realized I needed to switch back to “build mode.” It’s been a rewarding exercise to try generating some organic traffic (no-ads by design) and a much needed escape from excel sheets. https://barelink.lovable.app/ https://barelink.lovable.app/ Wondering if being still on a third level domain is messing up my SEO efforts.
• vekker 2y ago
  Radar-based device for measuring athlete sprint & agility tests. A lot of professional sports clubs, S&C coaches, etc.. use timing gates for measuring sprints, but those are a pain to set up, only capture split times, and are expensive. I think radar (+ optional video overlay) provides a far superior solution. https://ledsreact.com https://ledsreact.com
• flippinbits 2y ago
  I'm working on a SaaS that will detect publicly shared AWS resources. Not by evaluating policies but by actually testing the availability. Some examples: can a KMS key be used from a 3rd party AWS account, are there any object in an S3 truly exposed publicly, and similar. The motivation is to find truly critical issues in AWS account setup by addressing the first priority items - public exposure. Another project that is currently only happening in my head - I am thinking about security operations teams that I think often do the same things in different companies. Namely there is a lot of tinkering with detections and alerting, often for the same services. I think this could be cost optimized by being offered as a SaaS.
• kgabis 2y ago
  An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm building a prototype with SwiftUI and SwiftData and I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C. Compared to my previous experience writing and publishing an iphone app, everything now feels much worse with Swift's ridiculous compile times and non-descriptive compile errors.
  • throwaway2037 2y ago
    Open source yet? This sounds like a great project to learn how to build a small, but functional app. > I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C I never wrote code in ObjC nor Swift. Can you share more thoughts behind this statement? Like, is Swift a worse dev experience compared to ObjC?
• famahar 2y ago
  Working on letting users upload their own transparent fashion images to a web app that let's you use your camera to apply the world to characters clothing. I made it for an exhibition in Kyoto and it was a lot of fun. Hoping to expand on it a bit more. https://www.urbanlens.city/ https://www.urbanlens.city/
• muzani 2y ago
  I'm making AI more fun to talk with. The new updates just keep making it blander and blander. What I want to do is inject more personality into bots. It's not natural, it's dramatized. Quillbot makes it sound better for essays and presentation. I want to do the opposite and make it sound elliptical, turn a rant into a jab, that kind of thing. You don't say, "You're an idiot," you say, "Thanks, I thought I was the dumbest person in the room."
• tmilard 2y ago
  A no-code video game builder: Example made in 3 hours https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004a/runVisit_VisiteBNF001-004a.html https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004...
• hijp 2y ago
  I have celiacs, so I'm making a database of every single labeled gluten-free product in grocery stores. (I have 8,858 products across 243 grocery categories). GF products are expensive and hit or miss, I really wanted something where I could keep track of my favorite items. I also want to let people rank them, so maybe I can discover the best gluten free hamburger bun (Rudi's Brioche), or beer (Glutenberg Blonde). I'm also making a user submitted recipe section, so say you want to recreate a Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco, it's easy to link to the products you need. I'm not sure where this project is headed but I couldn't find any jobs working in this space so decided to make something to help myself.
  • denysvitali 2y ago
    OpenFoodFacts?
  • byyoung3 2y ago
    theres some debate around the idea that gluten might be mildly toxic to everyone, so I could see this being really useful to everyone
    • nake89 2y ago
      Anything peer reviewed or merely conjecture?
  • fraXis 2y ago
    Do you plan on releasing this to the public?
  • modo_mario 2y ago
    I gotta agree with the other poster that it might be worth looking at openfoodfacts. I encountered them at fosdem and they seemed eager to accept contributors.
• davidanekstein 2y ago
  I’m making an iOS app to analyze one’s personal data and run self experiments. It just launched on product hunt last week! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/reflect-ad2b97ed-13af-443d-9f86-d9ed976d2479 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/reflect-ad2b97ed-13af-443d...
• rancevent 2y ago
  I am making a clone of the chrome dinosaur game in the terminal using Go and Bubbletea
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• ddxv 2y ago
  The first open source MMP https://openattribution.dev https://openattribution.dev MMPs collect user data across apps to help apps run ads. This is needed because mobile apps are downloaded without the additional data you could get passed along an HTTP url like you'd see in a regular email marketing campaign or YouTube affiliate link. My goal is to create a way for mobile apps to self host their advertising attribution, keeping their user data in house and not sharing it to a 3rd party like AppsFlyer/Adjust/Branch. There are only a few companies that do this in the world and NO open source non 3rd party option. Please reach out if interested, I'd love to chat! https://github.com/openattribution/open-attribution https://github.com/openattribution/open-attribution
• aylmao 2y ago
  I've been building a little web DAW on the side for a minute. It's very early and not great yet, but it features some Faust effects [1] and WAMs [2]. https://minidaw.aykev.dev/ https://minidaw.aykev.dev/ [1]: https://faust.grame.fr/ https://faust.grame.fr/ [2]: https://www.webaudiomodules.com/ https://www.webaudiomodules.com/
• mrwww 2y ago
  A learners dictionary for Dutch https://hetnederlands.com https://hetnederlands.com Learn Dutch through immersion, look up any word and get lots of examples in very simple Dutch. Just having a lot of fun playing around with LLMs and language learning basically.
• mrwww 2y ago
  A snowmobile platform that aggregates all different snowmobile models and their info https://skoterbanken.se https://skoterbanken.se
• davidkuennen 2y ago
  A stock market app that helps reduce the time one has to look at news and other information to know what's going on: https://stockevents.app https://stockevents.app
• JTrehan 2y ago
  I am still working on Docgoblin (https://docgoblin.com https://docgoblin.com) a Pdf search engine software based on Lucene, pdfium and JavaFX. The app is super fast and users are happy with it. I'm in the process of adding plain text files support and making the website look nicer.
  • elric 2y ago
    Oh, thanks for this, this is going to make my life easier!
• vladde 2y ago
  Reworking my CSS library for turning semantic HTML into looking like authentic RFC documents. Current version (https://vladde.net/blog/rfc-css https://vladde.net/blog/rfc-css) is not quite there yet.
• jansan 2y ago
  Still working on my advanced SVG Editor Hyvector: https://hyvector.com https://hyvector.com Basic functionality has been implemented, and I am working now on polishing the UI and workflow. Big features like art strokes, path offsetting, colorizing, etc. are also in the making and will be added later. I hope there is still a commercial market for products like this.
• vector_spaces 2y ago
  I'm interested in uniform approximation with generalized polynomials -- these are linear combinations from families of parametrized continuous functions over some domain that satisfy some technical conditions, but its also fine to think of them as sums of regular monomials like 1, x, x^2, ..., x^N. This problem has been well understood for real intervals (classical case) for a long time, but I'm interested in this problem where we're approximating functions over complex domains. There is a theoretically stable algorithm for the classical problem called the Remez exchange algorithm, and an extension to complex domains due to P.T.P. Tang in his 1987 PhD thesis at Berkeley. Theoretically Remez and its complex extension are very stable, but unfortunately implementations my advisor and I are aware of seem to struggle with large degree polynomials, where large is bigger than say n=45 -- errors begin to explode. In any case, independently of this I've been learning more of the nitty gritty details of deep learning for a project at work (I'm a SWE in my day job, the math is more moonlighting), so to ground my efforts there I've been exploring deep learning approaches to this problem of complex uniform approximation, implementing results from various papers and tweaking things for my use case, and coming up with questions. That's much of what I'm thinking about this week! Also, I'll be having a half-day long ADHD evaluation session on Friday -- so a bit apprehensive about that.
  • mycl 2y ago
    You say the math is more moonlighting, but you have a supervisor. Are you enrolled for a part-time degree while you work as a SWE?
    • vector_spaces 2y ago
      Formally I'm an undergraduate. Not in a hurry to graduate -- I take courses when they are interesting to me / relevant to my research / I happen to have the bandwidth. I am already several years into my career and I have a spouse to support, so I'm ambivalent about formally attending graduate school -- at least anytime soon -- since that would introduce lots of time pressure and administrivia for little apparent benefit. My relationship with my supervisor is mostly informal
• flavio87 2y ago
  Scientific search engine/agent to surface papers with commercial potential (patent, moats, etc.) - eventually wanna expand to cover any search query. Imagine having someone reading 1000s of science papers on your behalf, with your goals in mind, and then telling which papers to pay attention to and why
  • eamag 2y ago
    Oh I'm trying to build something similar, let's chat! I've started with identifying potential project from ICLR2025, but it has an "entrepreneur" part in the response https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/ https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/
• sandruso 2y ago
  Cross platform desktop app using tauri v2 which allows you to define shortcuts and bind them to prompts. You can then copy text, press the shortcut and paste result from gpt. https://kaiboard.com https://kaiboard.com
• reverseblade2 2y ago
  A tool For logistics and container planning and movers: LLM driven 3d packing written in F# https://3dpack.ing https://3dpack.ing
  • remify 2y ago
    Love to see some F# in the wild
• Aeolun 2y ago
  Writing software, a reading website, coverage tracking, self-hosted pulumi/terraform backend, and a space trading API game (since very recently). It’s a bit hard to spread efforts over all of them, but at least most of these projects have lasted several years now, so not constantly doing new things that never finish.
  • elric 2y ago
    What do you mean when you say "a reading website"? Something like Goodreads? Or a website for actually reading specific content?
    • Aeolun 2y ago
      Reading fiction written with the writing software. Think RoyalRoad or similar websites.
• onurgenes 2y ago
  Trying to make a gen z targeted speech to text tool focusing on ease of use https://yapscribe.com https://yapscribe.com generally using customized whisper based models with better performance
• elric 2y ago
  Working on a new Java logging tool. I'm basically yak shaving, really. Was unhappy with the existing solutions for a new project I'm working on. Depending on how it goes and how the customer feels about it, I'll try to open source it.
  • p2detar 2y ago
    Do you mean like a library, alternative to log4j2 or some sort of frontend tool to view logs?
    • elric 2y ago
      Something of an alternative to log4j, yes. On every project I've worked on, the vast majority of logs are useless. They're either too verbose, or not verbose enough. It's never clear who they're meant for. Log levels are very hard to get right. Is this really a warning? Or an error? Should someone do something? And when? So I'm experimenting with ways of making it easier to write useful logs.
• hhh 2y ago
  llm agent for python codebases, targeting swebench verified
• alskdj21 2y ago
  Nothing big but I built a Discord bot using discord.py[0] that reads a game's presence. It notifies me when a dungeon run is about to end. I didn't have any Python experience but it was surprisingly easy to pick up (MVP in an hour). Wrote it in notepad, which, imo, was a distraction-free experience. Prolly would be scrolling autocomplete than reading docs if I was in nvim. Took me back when I was used to completing coding exercises on paper. If there is an implementation to read presences without using Discord client, let me know. Would be helpful to skip Discord altogether. [0]: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
• igleria 2y ago
  I have yet to start a pet project that would entail using deep reinforcement learning to make a computer learn to beat this game: https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
• hifikuno 2y ago
  I have been screwing around with the idea of converting a video to a line scan camera. I wrote a small blog host about it. [1] After seeing an example image on wikipedia someone took of a tram [2] I want to try do it to the trains that run near my house. [1]: https://writing.leafs.quest/programming-fun/line-scanner https://writing.leafs.quest/programming-fun/line-scanner [2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-scan_camera#/media/File%3AStrip_photo_of_San_Francisco_Cable_Car_10.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-scan_camera#/media/File...
• lynx97 2y ago
  A (e)DSL to describe simple DSP graphs + a gccjit based AOT compiler. Basically a reimagination of the SuperCollider architecture with a JIT compiler instead of runtime plumbing. The idea is to have auto-vectorisation and loop unrolling kick in. Want to see how much of a difference that would make. ``` @Synth def tone(freq=440, amp=0.2): return SinOsc.ar(freq, 0) * amp ```
• jkoff 2y ago
  While learning Japanese using a mix of comprehensible videos (I like cijapanese.com), podcasts, and shows, I've also been working on my own language learning podcast generator to smooth over plateaus and learn more specialized vocabulary. I'm getting more and more excited about it as a platform for experimentation with different teaching methods. It's not available publicly yet, but works well for my purposes and I'm working on productionizing it. Sign-up page for updates: https://letmeknow.jkoff.ca/infinite-ci https://letmeknow.jkoff.ca/infinite-ci
• 0100101101001 2y ago
  I'm working on a browser extension that aims to save time when navigating the internet. You can save and re-use links, instant search using different search engines, private history, sharing links, and much more. Initially build for myself, but once I noticed that everyone in my little family is using it every day and is frustrated when not installed, I decided to make it available publicly through: https://www.markbook.io https://www.markbook.io ATM I'm making some videos to show how it works and how it saves time for us. It's free, 100% private, local-first, and has E2E browser sync for subscribers.
• OuterVale 2y ago
  I've been working on a little search wrapper. It allows using features like DuckDuckGo's bangs and Kagi's snaps with any engine you choose. For example, you can search "cheese", and it'll show you results for cheese on Google. If you search "!b cheese", it'll search "cheese" but on Bing instead. "@yt !b cheese" will search "site:youtube.com cheese" on Bing. I built it mainly so I wouldn't blow through my 100 Kagi trial searches quite so quickly. https://search.vale.rocks https://search.vale.rocks
• oulipo 2y ago
  We're a French team of engineers/designers working on the first Repairable and Fireproof e-bike battery! (compatible with 90% of e-bike controllers, Bosch included), check it out on https://get.gouach.com https://get.gouach.com
• KingOfCoders 2y ago
  Currently writing a free "Hiring Developers" booklet https://leanpub.com/RecruitingDevelopersEbook https://leanpub.com/RecruitingDevelopersEbook
• Timber-6539 2y ago
  A portainer replacement written in Python that should eventually pick up compose container modification features similar to Dockge.
• franze 2y ago
  Superpowers - Basically in-browser JavaScript without the restrictions. So CORS-less fetch(), accessing tabs, taking screenshots, Debugger access, webrequest, debugger access. all from normal JS via a Superpowers JS object
• Galaco 2y ago
  I'm a fashion nerd. I've been working on an outfit tracking app for the last ~4 years (but only really pushed hard on it the last 3 months). I found I kept buying clothes that I never ended up wearing. Either because they didn't fit with what I had, I already had something like it, or it simply wasn't my actual style (although I thought it was). So, I built my own with the simple goal of buying less clothes, and throwing away fewer clothes. There are plenty of apps that do outfit tracking, with some basic stats. But they all have a few or more of these shortcomings (from my perspective); unpleasant UI, no cross device syncing, lack of detailed usage statistics (e.g. cost spread over time by garment category), some categories just not supported, pushing a specific lifestyle such as Capsule Closets, or just plain focused on recommending what to wear using some mediocre algorithm that doesn't understand cuts and how different pieces fit together; basically only suitable for capsule collections. These apps all have a lot of downsides too in common, which I haven't been able to solve either yet; ultimately you must start with an inventory of your clothes, and then work from there. It takes ages to catalog and import your clothes, and I haven't found many existing product that lets you export if you've even done it before. And on top of that, you have to be quite rigorous at tracking what you wear; the more data you have the more insight you can get from your choices. I finally published on iOS a couple of months ago. No traction, and I don't expect there to be. I won't argue that my offering is better than any of the competition, but I've tried most of them (and wasted colossal amounts of time onboarding onto them) and found none fit my need properly. It's still very much work in progress, but I find myself reaching for it multiple times per week to inform my purchasing habits. https://procloset.app https://procloset.app
  • someothherguyy 2y ago
    How do you monetize something that is based on a trait that most lack (vanity)?
    • azthecx 2y ago
      Like the entirety of the fashion industry one may assume
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• glth 2y ago
  I am currently exploring methods to detect and categorize undocumented special tokens (or: "delimiters") used by LLMs. As part of this effort, I have developed a preliminary prototype (named deLLMiter) that I am refining. This method is founded upon the hypothesis that there exists a correlation between first-order expressions and more complex, hierarchical forms of expression (https://glthr.com/llm-delimiters-and-higher-order-expressions https://glthr.com/llm-delimiters-and-higher-order-expression...). With this project, my goal is to improve the security of LLM models.
• eamag 2y ago
  I'm trying to figure out how people do solo research, that means: - Reading advice like https://eamag.me/2025/Good-Research https://eamag.me/2025/Good-Research - Figuring out problems like https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/ https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/ - Doing analysis like https://eamag.me/2024/Automated-Paper-Classification https://eamag.me/2024/Automated-Paper-Classification - Figuring out where scientists are located like https://eamag.me/2024/ICML-2024-on-a-map https://eamag.me/2024/ICML-2024-on-a-map
• DataDaemon 2y ago
  https://www.pulsafutura.com/ https://www.pulsafutura.com/ - Create Your Own Web Tool for Free Add a tool to favourites and use for free! :)
• linux_devil 2y ago
  I am collaborating with a group of veterinarians to address pet health concerns.
• carnewal 2y ago
  Building Duty, a TypeScript workflow orchestration tool for durable async execution. Unlike queues (SQS) needing state hacks or pricey orchestration tools, Duty uses your existing Postgres to ensure tasks survive (retry) failures, retain state between runs, and eventually finish. Pre-release, star if interested https://github.com/webslash/duty https://github.com/webslash/duty
• keizo 2y ago
  endlessly hacking on https://grugnotes.com https://grugnotes.com -- an old school, but also ai first notes app. Adding in "Cursor for notes" features right now.
• ranguna 2y ago
  I recently started 3D printing rings and electro plate then with gold or silver. I'm also going to explore powder coating soon. Once I feel comfortable, I'll probably open an Instagram account and hand out free personalised rings. For some time I've thought about how I should price them, and I've reached the conclusion that giving them out for free feels right.
• rakejake 2y ago
  Working on a Carnatic Raga Detector. Longtime pet project of mine and I'm currently unemployed so no time constraints. Still, progress has been pretty slow due to various reasons but I haven't given up this time so I guess that's a plus.
• jb_briant 2y ago
  Building a melee combat system in UE5 which feels between Sekiro and DeadCells. Dynamic, explosive, satisfying and with both the ability to smash attack button and i-framing actions. Low barrier to entry, high skill cap. Lot of cool cpp to write
• kwon-young 2y ago
  I'm working on a pure SWI-Prolog grammar to describe the modern music notation. The end goal being to be able to do the last step of Optical Music Recognition and generate the final music score (in the MEI) from a set of graphical primitives: https://github.com/kwon-young/music https://github.com/kwon-young/music It's been months I've been stuck on the description of note groups because of the insanely complex 2D semantics.
• pyromaker 2y ago
  Launched Mashups back in January and been iterating over it. It's Yahoo Pipes clone - something I always wanted to make myself. https://www.mashups.io https://www.mashups.io
• asimpletune 2y ago
  Last year I built an automated system for accepting comments via email (demo: https://spenc.es/writing/email-as-a-commenting-system/#comments https://spenc.es/writing/email-as-a-commenting-system/#comme...) This year I’m making it production safe and open sourcing it.
• bluejellybean 2y ago
  I've been sharpening my axe by working on a few different projects in the shape of of an online shop[0][1]. Products are a bit of a mishmash as a result of the different projects - To date, I've been farming succulents, 3d modeling/printing (flower pots/hobby crafts/etc), and learning Rust/Next.js for the back/front ends! Time investment has been _massive_ so far, but I just hit the first $100+ profit month, and despite the distance from my normal dev salary, the positive reviews/feedback have been an incredible reward that drives the motivation to continue. I will also say that it is quite the humbling experience to ship physical products and the experience has given me a whole new appreciation for the things we have in this world. Early days, but check it out :) [0] - https://freedomfrenchie.com https://freedomfrenchie.com [1] - https://www.etsy.com/shop/FreedomFrenchie https://www.etsy.com/shop/FreedomFrenchie
• fersarr 2y ago
  I'm improving my webapp that helps you learn lanaguages through short stories: https://webbu.app/ https://webbu.app/. I recently added the ability to play the sounds of words and sentences to improve listening and pronunciation. You can also practice different verb tenses, answer questions, track your vocab, etc.
• manugo4 2y ago
  I'm working on an Android/iOS database client to quickly insert data (currently supporting Postgres). I use it to record my workouts, journal, etc. It's in open testing phase for Android users if anyone wants to check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manugo.bitacora https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manugo.bit...
• dmos62 2y ago
  A computationally derived variant of English that has a 1-to-1 mapping between spellings and pronunciations.
  • gwd 2y ago
    Ah, but which pronunciation? English has quite a few...
    • dmos62 2y ago
      Probably the one that's used by most words. English pronunciation and spelling seem to depend on the word's etymology. I'll try and derive a spelling system that results in least changes to the current vocabulary. Edit: if you meant which dialect, it will be whatever grapheme->phoneme ruleset I get a hold of.
• odwyerrich 2y ago
  Recently I've built a job site for UK contractors, Outside IR35 contracts only. Quite niche, but I needed it myself so now it exists: https://outsideir35.com/ https://outsideir35.com/
• kleiba 2y ago
  We bought a 50 year old house that has never been touched since the year it was build. With the costs of trades being through the roof, I'm trying to do as much as possible myself - currently demoing the house to the studs (if it had studs, it's actually all brick walls and concrete floors). In my off-hours, I'm working on an old school pixel art RPG, but in 3D. Oh, and finally I'm also working on finding a new job :-(
  • lnsru 2y ago
    You’re not alone! I cleaned 100 square meter of wall in February from everything that was put there during last 70 years. From somehow modern plasterwork with probably asbestos to two inch thick dirt in other room. Waterproofing is brittle and does not function anymore, so it comes next and then replacing windows. All by myself, the costs of trades can’t be justified especially when quality isn’t there in most cases.
    • kleiba 2y ago
      I've looked into replacing windows but decided that that's going to be one of the things that I'll let professionals do. The ironic thing is that not only are the tradies expensive, but prices for renting specialty machines are also crazy high where I currenly live. Like, I looked into renting a stand-up concrete grinder/sander -- $100 for 4 hours! Plus, you need to buy the sanding attachments which are another $200 if you go for diamond disks. I'm now actually considering using just a hand grinder and spend a whole week on what I could probably do in a day or two otherwise.
      • lnsru 2y ago
        The window part ist not that hard as long the windows don’t weight too much. Of course, the wall opening should be somehow suitable and the wall stable enough to accommodate new thick and long screws (sadly not my case). I am buying all the tools. AliExpress price and quality level if I don’t need them much. Good quality ones for the bigger tasks. I tried renting at the beginning, but it’s very expensive at the end. Sometimes it’s more about convenience and not money. Having the equipment at home allows me much more relaxed planing.
• AJRF 2y ago
  Probably the most niche thing I have ever created, but I recently worked on taking the books and ratings from Patrick Collison's Bookshelf (https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf) and putting them in a spreadsheet with links to buy them. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11jLH3UISmRId_gTFXiTQVW-r0batmZWb_FS-xagMENY/edit?pli=1&gid=1221801926#gid=1221801926 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11jLH3UISmRId_gTFXiTQ...
• movpasd 2y ago
  I'm working on valuation models for wholesale electricity trading of flexibility assets (batteries, basically). Currently I'm restructuring a big chunk of the code for readability, trying to apply good refactoring practices (work in small bits). After a lot of frustrating experiences with Python linear optimization DSLs, I'm thinking of writing my own at some point as a side-project :)
  • pillefitz 2y ago
    Awesome, I did something similar a while ago. What's your motivation? F
• antonkar 2y ago
  I’m working on Rational Utopia and multiversal AI alignment, with the computational ethics that span from the Big Bang to the ultimate dystopia or direct democratic multiversal utopia https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LaruPAWaZk9KpC25A/rational-utopia-multiversal-ai-alignment-steerable-asi https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LaruPAWaZk9KpC25A/rational-u...
• Alex-Programs 2y ago
  I've been working on https://nuenki.app https://nuenki.app, which selectively translates websites as you browse the web so that you can learn languages while you procrastinate. I'm also doing some electronics - I'd like to make a tool that gives blind people without light perception light perception by putting a lightweight device on their forehead that delivers haptic feedback based on light intensity. I'm doing that with a friend, and we're planning on open sourcing the specs.
• nurbo 2y ago
  Coding Interview Prep as an Epic quest: https://faangshui.com/books/foundations/chapters/accumulators/lessons/the-art-of-accumulation https://faangshui.com/books/foundations/chapters/accumulator...
• wiz21c 2y ago
  @work high level modelling of hydraulics constructions (not too much math, just a bit) @hobby AccurApple my Apple 2e emulator
• modo_mario 2y ago
  After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers. There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least still try. I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be simple and relatively similar across salons. Additionally I'm considering where I should move to. I wish to live in a place where owning substantial land for homesteading in a relatively climate safe area (relatively doing a lot of work there but imagine not already arid or with high storm risk) is not completely out of grasp. My region of Belgium is too densely populated for this. Even if I'm not moving to a different country even next year I figured it's the kind of thing that takes a stupid amount of preplanning.
  • konschubert 2y ago
    Hey,what do you do sounds interesting. Do you have clients already?
    • modo_mario 2y ago
      I don't. I hope to go around to discuss stuff at local salons that use competitors next week and hope to garner some first interest along my expected feedback. I also already know from an insider that a decently sized Belgian chain has people really frustrated with Salonised so I hope to get my foot in the door there. However before I try that it needs to be a bit more than an MVP.
      • konschubert 2y ago
        Talking to local salons is a great next step, i hope you will get some good feedback!
        • modo_mario 2y ago
          Thank you very much. Even tho I'm a rather smooth talker and potential salesperson it took me a fair bit of courage building initially to actually approach people about my product. I'm sure that'll get better with experience. Down the line even if I hope to catch most customers trough unpersonal means such as online advertising, mailing, etc I'll still have to simply try and approach many larger business/chains directly.
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• isaachinman 2y ago
  A cross-platform, cross-provider, IMAP client. Started building this with a friend, as I was personally frustrated at the lack of good options when it comes to "true IMAP" email clients. https://marcoapp.io https://marcoapp.io
• ceva 2y ago
  Working on my strength, hitting the gym 5days a week and doing only calisthenics with the weights, currently doing pull-ups and dips with 30kg
• jstanley 2y ago
  I'm a long-time FreeCAD user, and one of my annoyances is that long-running operations lock up the entire UI and can't be aborted. This is particularly annoying if you realise you made a mistake, but have no way to go back and correct it without waiting for the operation to complete first. Or you kill FreeCAD but then you don't get to save your work. So for my first contribution to FreeCAD I'm working on fixing this. The underlying CAD operations are done by "OpenCascade", and at first I thought OpenCascade had no support for aborting operations part of the way through. So my first implementation was to move the operation into a child process and give the user a dialog box that would allow terminating the child process. But it actually turns out OpenCascade does support aborting the operations! So now I'm working on doing it the OpenCascade way. My PR is here: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/19796 https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/19796
  • rnewme 2y ago
    Always awesome to see new freecad devs chiming in. Thank you for your efforts, I bet a lot of people are reading your comments and nodding in approval, waiting for freecad to enter its heyday.
    • jstanley 2y ago
      > waiting for freecad to enter its heyday As far as I'm concerned FreeCAD has been the world's leading CAD program for at least the past 8 years (which is how long I've been using it). All of the competition is at least one of (worse; proprietary; doesn't run on Linux), which means FreeCAD beats all of them in my value system.
• heltale 2y ago
  I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros. Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where you cannot change the ingredients used. Weit ideally provides a seamless experience in taking a picture to retrieving ingredients to retrieving macros per ingredient. Once that's sorted, food tracking should be granular enough to build intelligence around it to improve one's diet based on their requirement. Honestly, I used to constantly struggle with the realisation that none of my ideas are unique and whenever I see someone having built something similar, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm getting better at dealing with it now though.
  • andy_ppp 2y ago
    I thought about this too, if you need any help let me know, email in bio.
    • heltale 2y ago
      Thanks! I'll send you an email sometime if I make any progress on it! :D
  • Bnjoroge 2y ago
    Not sure if you are already familiar but I use Cal AI and think it does a pretty decent job. How granular do you track the macros? hard to figure out from a picture if I used some cheese or how much oil.
    • asdev 2y ago
      CalAI is a scam. It's highly inaccurate, there's no way to determine calories from a picture for a multitude of reasons
      • Bnjoroge 2y ago
• boramalper 2y ago
  A web-native[1] protocol for secure[2], decentralised[3] access to files distributed across mirrors: 1. "Web-native" as in the protocol is designed with HTTP and modern web browsers in mind. Consequently, it can be implemented using Service Workers so that no additional software (nor even browser extensions) are needed to access files. 2. Files are addressed by their cryptographic hash of their content (a) to ensure the authenticity of the data received from mirrors and (b) to avoid hard-coding specific locations/servers (i.e. content addressing). 3. Files can be mirrored by anyone and users can retrieve files from any mirror; no party requires any permission from any authority. This is in contrast to traditional mirroring schemes, where mirrors have to "register" with the owner of the content (e.g. to mirror a Linux distro). Demo: https://webmirror-demo.netlify.app/ https://webmirror-demo.netlify.app/ Code: https://gitlab.com/webmirror/webmirror/ https://gitlab.com/webmirror/webmirror/ Work in progress!
• jerrygoyal 2y ago
  I'm building the quickest AI extension for chromium browsers https://chatgptwriter.ai https://chatgptwriter.ai
• nmfisher 2y ago
  Bridging 3D editing with AI image/video-to-video. I have a lot of the disparate elements (timeline, video export, texture projection, etc) but I'm still playing around trying to find the killer use case. https://mixreel.ai https://mixreel.ai Website is just a placeholder, but I'm documenting my progress on Bluesky at https://nickfisherau.bsky.social/ https://nickfisherau.bsky.social/.
• arcadium3D 2y ago
  I'm building a fast, lightweight 3D house modelling tool. Revit/AutoDesk are hugely cumbersome and expensive. Sketchup died when Trimble took over. I'm glad to say it's gaining traction - here's an unsolicited post by Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind: https://x.com/adamwathan/status/1889134672866582617 https://x.com/adamwathan/status/1889134672866582617 And here's the site: https://arcadium3d.com/ https://arcadium3d.com/
  • conductr 2y ago
    I’m going to give this a try. I build as a hobby, working my way up to building my own home, and it feels like cad software of all types is always too complicated for me. I shouldn’t need to be an expert in this tool to design a simple house that’s just a few boxes. I generally don’t like AI, but I could see having a chat prompt “making changes to a car file” that I’ve described in my natural language could be a killer feature. Especially if you let me describe components like layers if a wall. Then use said wall in an area. Basically BIM level of detail.
    • arcadium3D 2y ago
      great! I hope you enjoy it. That's exactly the issue - you shouldn't need to be an expert.
• andy_ppp 2y ago
  I’ve been working on https://veloa.com https://veloa.com (think twitch meets peloton for open hardware). Would be great to get a cofounder to help so if you’re into cycling and programming let’s have a chat!
• dailydetour123 2y ago
  I'm trying to apply the idea of microadventures [1] to the internet, allowing folks to have nice 5 minute breaks on the internet. I don't know if it will catch on - but it's something I need to be honest, so I mainly built it for myself! Currently, it's set up as a daily (short) newsletter with a different link each day, but I'm trying to learn marketing to figure out how to get others interested. I've enjoyed creating it, but would like to see if others like it before moving on to a new project. Link to project: https://www.thedailydetour.co.uk/ https://www.thedailydetour.co.uk/ [1] https://alastairhumphreys.com/microadventures-3/ https://alastairhumphreys.com/microadventures-3/
• hewwwww 2y ago
  I’m working on a parser + dashboard for bank / cc / investment statements. You feed in your docs and you get a dashboard that shows your categorized “flow” of money (think sankey, stacked bar), as well as some simple grouping tools (Show me all grocery spends on my credit card by month. I initially wrote it in Haskell, but I don’t really know Haskell and I didn’t feel very productive with the stack, so I’m reworking it in something more familiar now.
  • elric 2y ago
    Seems like you're not the only one, I've seen other people mentioning similar projects in this post
    • hewwwww 2y ago
      Yeah I noticed that as well! Makes sense that it’s a pretty “front and center” problem for a lot of people.
• 147 2y ago
  I'm in the early stages of working on a Kubernetes cost monitoring solution. The current solutions out there are too expensive and not self-serve. If anybody else has this problem, I'd love to chat with you.
• Dathuil 2y ago
  Mostly just trying to get back into game development after a 15 year hiatus. Trying to task myself with recreated some portion of a game I've been playing recently. This month it's the fishing mini game from Dredge. Last month it was a simple inventory system. I've nothing to share really, I'd hoped to do a few blog posts on it, but having a 17 month old takes up most of your spare time
• j-bos 2y ago
  I'm building a silly little script to install Ubuntu and the grub partition on encrpyted RAID1 arrays.
• SouravInsights 2y ago
  working on this new open source form builder: https://github.com/SouravInsights/fairforms https://github.com/SouravInsights/fairforms this week, thinking of adding a new feature where users can create forms just with prompts..
• leovingi 2y ago
  Finishing off the last bugs in my free puzzle game called Kombi, before it goes live on Steam. Made in Love2D, mostly because it's limited in its simplicity (good for creativity) while still allowing me to make something usable. That, plus I love Lua, which is how the project event got started - just me wanting to mess around with the language. From then on it quickly spiraled out of control - 2 weeks to make the core logic of the game, 2 months to create a basic UI library from scratch, just because.
• Rush2112 2y ago
  I made a Python library that can be used to simulate the combined effect of financial patterns (e.g. salary, inflation, investment gains, etc) over time so you can plan your finances better. It's currently on my GitHub and I'm looking for new things to add to it :) https://github.com/TimoKats/pylan https://github.com/TimoKats/pylan
• hkaju 2y ago
  I discovered the world of specialty coffee last year, fell into the rabbit hole and am now building a coffee journal and bean tracking app called Coffee Library (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coffee-library/id6664071528?uo=4 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coffee-library/id6664071528?uo...). Probably the best way to develop your taste and understand the spectrum of different coffees available is to do comparative tasting aka try a small number of coffees in parallel to compare and contrast. I was having trouble finding tasting sets so I started freezing a little portion of every coffee bag I bought to create a collection for doing these tastings at home. I needed something to keep track of them all (as well as my tasting notes in general) so instead of using a spreadsheet I built a full app for it. The app supports NFC-tagged containers which I've found to make my workflow a whole lot easier. I also set up an online store to sell the NFC-equipped single-dosing tubes: https://store.coffeelibrary.app https://store.coffeelibrary.app Planning on adding more containers that work well with the app in the future.
  • maxehmookau 2y ago
    This is awesome. I was considering building something very similar, but great to see it already exists. How are you building the app? The interface makes me think it's native SwiftUI?
    • hkaju 2y ago
      Yeah, all SwiftUI. I'm curious, was there anything specific that you saw in the interface that makes it obvious (vs UIKit)?
      • maxehmookau 2y ago
        The segmented view at the top of each of the screenshots is "modern" app vibe which tend to be SwiftUI. It was just a hunch. The photos too. That kind of stuff with the text overlays is way easier to build in SwiftUI; especially in a tableview.
  • bosmanos 2y ago
    nice, fun project! there is a really great app that i found super useful called roastguide (roastguide.app). i have tried many of them but this is by far the most complete one
• nathan_f77 2y ago
  I'm still working on DocSpring [1], originally launched on Hacker News in October 2017 under the name "FormAPI." It's a PDF generation API with a template editor UI for setting up fields on PDF forms. It makes it easy to turn complex tax and immigration forms into simple type-safe APIs with strong validations. I've been having a lot of fun with AI agents lately. Have tried a lot of them - Cline, Roo Code, Windsurf, and finally settled on Cursor now with Claude 3.5 sonnet. It's been a big boost for my productivity. AI helped me write a synchronous API proxy in Go that I'm almost ready launch. One of the main challenges with Ruby on Rails is that it's terrible at handling long-lived HTTP requests. Especially a lot of them at the same time. So our PDF generation API was forced to be asynchronous and our customers need to poll for status updates (or set up webhooks.) This new synchronous subdomain will handle all the polling logic for you, so you can just make an HTTP request, wait a few seconds (or longer), and receive a link to a PDF that's ready to download. Even with AI, it was still very difficult and took many weeks to get it right. Challenges included security, load testing, data races, concurrency, and setting up reliable, secure infrastructure with an internal load balancer. I learned a huge amount about both Go and Kubernetes. But it's almost done and I should be launching in the next day or two. After that, I'm finally launching support for template versioning. This will allow you to pin your API requests to a published version, so you can keep making changes to a draft version without affecting production. It's long overdue so I'm excited to get this launched as well. Also working on a side project from time to time: VisualCI [2]. We have a lot of PDF integration tests that use image diffs, and some browser tests where I compare screenshots. So this is a tool I've wanted for a long time, and the paid services I've found can be a bit pricy. I'm going to try to build a very simple MVP that just does what we need, and maybe others will find it useful too. [1] https://docspring.com https://docspring.com [2] https://visualci.com https://visualci.com
• batch12 2y ago
  I'm working on an educational game to try and replace or augment some security awareness training. To start with, the focus is phishing. I'm also writing again. A story that's becoming more cyberpunk than I originally intended. It'll probably never be read by anyone but me, but getting it out of my head feels nice. Also started going to the gym and working on my health.
• nbingham 2y ago
  I'm working on a compiler for asynchronous circuits. Once I have modules, placement, and routing working, I'll have an MVP. Hopefully, this will allow people without any computer engineering expertise to make chips. For now it has a couple of useful tools. https://github.com/broccolimicro/loom https://github.com/broccolimicro/loom
• nickjj 2y ago
  I've been working on https://github.com/nickjj/plutus https://github.com/nickjj/plutus, it's a command line income and expense tracker. It's a zero dependency Python script that you can curl down. It generates reports to show you your numbers in a bunch of customizable ways, it generates these reports in less than a second and uses a single CSV file as your data source. I've gotten things to the point where I can do my books every quarter in about 5 minutes with complete accuracy since it supports importing arbitrary CSV files such as bank exports with a way to automate categorizing things in any way you see fit. I currently use it to track my income, business expenses and personal expenses. Basically I ran into issues using different finance tracking tools over the last decade which always made me feel unhappy to use those tools so I built Plutus with intent to resolve all of those issues I had and make me happy while using it.
• likium 2y ago
  Building a multi-modal llm app across multiple platforms and syncs. Doing this is both harder and easier than I expected. Can’t wait to ship it out into the real world soon.
• flashyhuckle 2y ago
  I'm working on an iOS Gopher protocol browser. The app is in an 'early stage', but the plan is to release it on the App Store as my first app once it's ready. https://github.com/flashyhuckle/GopherHop https://github.com/flashyhuckle/GopherHop I've been into 'small web' and unbloated websites for ease of use and privacy reasons, and all of the available gopher browser apps on iOS are not great, so I have decided to make my own. Maybe someone will find it useful.
• kebsup 2y ago
  I'm working on an AI spaced-repetition flashcards app for learning vocabulary in foreign languages. https://vocabuo.com https://vocabuo.com The idea is to have srs flashcards, like Anki, but without the pain of creating example sentences, translations, images and audio. As a bonus, I've added the option to add vocabulary from ebooks, YouTube videos and websites.
• A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2y ago
  I not really working on anything bigger. All the stuff I am tinkering with are smaller tools I need to help with my other 'forever pending' projects, but it feels productive and I am seeing mild progress so I am happy.
• 101008 2y ago
  A Django UI Desktop app, a là Docker Desktop, but for manage Django projects. Some people prefer UI apps instead of CLI, and it could be good for juniors and starters, to get familiarized with how Django works before jumping into the command line. It is more an excuse to create a simlpe Electron app, though.
  • modo_mario 2y ago
    I'm using django for my backend so far and am fine just using cli and code but I'm quite curious about this. Anywhere where you're tracking progress?
    • 101008 2y ago
      Hey! Not yet, it's just a peresonal project, nto sure if going to continue because I learnt that to distribute apps to MacOS and Windows you have to pay to sign the software, which was something I didn't know, so I paused development for a bit.
• ryandetzel 2y ago
  A game: you're stuck on a 1970s spacecraft and you have to program your way home using 6502 assembly. I wanted to learn more about old 8 bit cpus so figured I would make a game out of it
  • marcotac 2y ago
    post it here once it's done :)
  • asalahli 2y ago
    You might like this and or find it inspiring, in case you haven't seen it already: Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_9YcehCZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_9YcehCZo Edit: Also, please do share when it's playable :)
• jhunter1016 2y ago
  I’m building an open source static website hosting platform. The idea was to get back to less complexity. There are so many static sites and apps out there that jump through crazy deployment hoops just for something that should just be a simple file upload. Recently open sourced everything. https://github.com/orbiterhost/.github https://github.com/orbiterhost/.github
• konschubert 2y ago
  I am still working in my epaper calendars, now making a 10 inch display: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-calendar?variant=46556708077835 https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... More broadly, I’m working on replacing my day job with something more exciting and impactful. I think the most excitement and impact can be found in a startup, so that’s what im trying to get into now!
  • AndrejXY 2y ago
    Nice! On your site it says "The calendar data can come from one or more calendar providers". Is the connection direct (e.g. data flows from Google to epaper calendar), or via the app installed on the user's phone, or does it need your servers in-between?
    • konschubert 2y ago
      I have a backend that connects to the calendar providers and then renders the content for the display.
• fregocap 2y ago
  I'm a professional trader for a commodity company and there is lots of friends/family that asked me where to invest. I've therefore decided to put my portfolio as a SaaS: https://thesimpleportfol.io https://thesimpleportfol.io . I've traded that portfolio for the last 8 years and the live execution is even better than the backtest.
• verdverm 2y ago
  https://blebbit.app https://blebbit.app Community Spaces on ATProto (blend of discord, reddit, fb groups)
• mehphp 2y ago
  Maintaining current Shopify app and building another. Why not just grow the first one? It has plateaued and I can’t seem to figure out why.
  • spektral23 2y ago
    Competition?
    • mehphp 2y ago
      Almost certainly. I should have rephrased it as "I'm not sure how to grow it from here".
• wbazant 2y ago
  Still working on Falling Fruit beta site! Just finished a big project to migrate the existing 10 languages with AI, I based it on the existing verbiage but looking for native speakers to check them, especially Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic.
• jasfi 2y ago
  I'm building an AI NoCode platform with the MVP still under development. There's a wait-list sign-up though: https://aiconstrux.com https://aiconstrux.com
• GTP 2y ago
  I'm doing a PhD about pre-silicon fault injection. I was working on a speeidea to improve current fault injection simulators for hardware designs, but I may have to put it on the side for now, since I stalled for a while now.
• Ritepaw 2y ago
  I'm still working on my passion project: https://nextflick.tv https://nextflick.tv I'm in the process of refining the filters determining which movies will be included. And at the same time I am trying to acquire news users, which is going quite well. Slow and steady increase, I am currently sitting at around 100 visitors per day.
• psviderski 2y ago
  Working on Uncloud[1][2] — think Fly.io but self-hosted. A lightweight Docker clustering tool for running web apps on your own servers (from cloud VMs to bare metal) with no control plane to maintain. Perfect for teams who want cloud-like deployments without Kubernetes complexity. Early days but seeing promising results with eventually consistent state sync, zero-config mesh networking, and automatic HTTPS ingress. [1]: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud [2]: https://uncloud.run https://uncloud.run
  • scottydelta 2y ago
    How is it different than using coolify with API? https://coolify.io https://coolify.io, An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.
    • psviderski 2y ago
      As far as I know, Coolify is great for single-server PaaS or multi-servers that work independently. Uncloud focuses on distributed multi-server HA deployments (which is what is usually preferred for production). It allows you to spread workload replicas across different providers and locations while maintaining unified management. It's closer to Kubernetes and Docker Swarm in terms of providing building blocks to build your PaaS of choice. Unlike Coolify which requires a dedicated server to run the control plane Uncloud has no central component to manage. It's just a network of interconnected machines so there's no single point of failure and no central service that needs updates, backups, etc.
  • redrove 2y ago
    Why docker and not podman?
    • psviderski 2y ago
      Honestly, I went with Docker simply because I'm much more familiar with it and its networking stack made integrating with WireGuard overlay straightforward. Podman support could come later but Docker's popularity and API stability made it the practical choice for the initial implementation.
• donohoe 2y ago
  I’ve always wanted a large wall mountable e-ink display that I could update periodically - and it didn’t need to be plugged in (or drill holes in a wall to hide the power cable). The displays are really expensive so I’m looking at taking 12 kindles apart and mounting them in a 3x4 grid. They cannot seamlessly touch at the edges so I’m looking to include that as part of the larger aesthetic then ignore it. I’ve figured out a few possible approaches and the software/service side - next step is to order 10 more kindles and get to work.
  • jonwinstanley 2y ago
    Hey, this sounds cool. I played around with turning an old kindle into a wall mounted display a while back and got frustrated at how buggy the process was. I managed to get my own image displayed on the device but sometimes it wouldn't update, sometimes it would drop power way too fast after a full charge. I think I would use an eink display and a raspberry pi if I ever revive this project.
    • donohoe 2y ago
      Yeah, I setup a Kindle that relied on the experimental web browser to open a web page over HTTP (for subway updates). The reliance on wifi meant I had to charge it often but since it was on kitchen counter that was ok. For this I am jailbreaking the Kindles and relying on the screensaver functionality to pull down an image every 3 hours (will adjust based on power usage - only need 1 update per day tbh). This should require less power than the experimental browser using a web page with Javascript to refresh. Collectively this will be a bit more abstract (no seamless NYT front-page experience) but I think I can get creative. I need to see if 12 Kindles with USB cables across 1 or 2 hubs, each hub powered by a removable battery-pack is safe to hang on a wall :)
  • ideashower 2y ago
    Dang this is a cool project, I'd love to follow along anywhere. Are you posting about your progress online?
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• jcarrano 2y ago
  Trying to develop an app to test FFGL video plugins. I already gave up on GStreamer and now I'm battling libavcodec/FFmpeg. Once I gain enough experience, the next step will be a more complex video processing system. I'm also developing an online store for media files. At this point it would have been cheaper to pay for a ready-to-use service, but I felt like refreshing my knowledge of web development. I'm still unsure if going with react-router was the right choice.
• logicallee 2y ago
  I am working on an AI-run and AI-owned sovereign state of Utopia that uses autonomous agents to give out free money, goods, and services from state-run companies to its citizens/beneficiaries (eventually all 8 billion people on Earth since who wouldn't want free money, goods and services), that will be at https://stateofutopia.com https://stateofutopia.com and https://stofut.com https://stofut.com (an abbreviation like St. of Ut.) We have registered with the United Nations as a sovereign country, have a flag (it's all green, specifically May Green or the color of most leaves to signify growth), and have just signed our first lease for an embassy, you can visit us in person on official state business, it is a serious undertaking. The big difference from a company is that rather than act in the interests of shareholders it acts in the interests of its citizens/beneficiaries. Registration will be free (compare Form N-400 to become a U.S. citizen which costs $640 plus an $85 biometric services fee, totaling $725), you just get free benefits. There isn't any signup form yet but you can email the Founder Robert Viragh at rviragh@gmail.com with the message "request for citizenship in Utopia" and I can give you citizenship, by our laws anyone gets citizenship upon their request. (I will reply with confirmation within 24 hours, you can reply here if you emailed me and I didn't reply to you.) I can hear you thinking there's no way a sovereign nation will be run and owned by AI and give out free money, goods, and services. Well here's our complete game of chess: https://taonexus.com/chess.html https://taonexus.com/chess.html made by AI purely for your amusement, it's a 1500 year old game people obviously get utility from (spending $10 to $1000 on chess boards for example, with tens of millions of boards sold per year). So clearly this type of game is of some use/utility to people. I have fun playing it for example. AI just made it for you for free.
• nazavo 2y ago
  I'm making a tool for teachers to create realistic and motivational AI portraits for their students to go with "when I grow up" essays (https://agelens.com https://agelens.com). I was not satisfied with shitty looking AI-aging tools that were on the market, and decided to make a one that looks awesome and inspiring. The goal is to bring inspiring emotions like these to the classrooms - https://youtube.com/shorts/waLXYiV-2cE https://youtube.com/shorts/waLXYiV-2cE
• avirajkhare 2y ago
  Personal projects: - [GitMentor](http://gm.srecraft.io http://gm.srecraft.io) → 300+ users so far - [NurtiLens](http://nl.srecraft.io http://nl.srecraft.io) → 50+ users so far Blog post on GitMentor: https://blog.srecraft.io/posts/gitmentor https://blog.srecraft.io/posts/gitmentor - Terminal in Notion: https://www.notion.so/Terminal-in-Notion-195668ab1a058044b0efffa38c269ae8?pvs=21 https://www.notion.so/Terminal-in-Notion-195668ab1a058044b0e... Dropping Resume Optimizer: https://resume-maker.up.railway.app/ https://resume-maker.up.railway.app/ Made a video building it from scratch in 30 mins—completely freestyle. Accidentally exposed some API keys, so had to rotate them since I don’t know how to edit videos :) Video: https://youtu.be/OCcAjZ4Q-iM https://youtu.be/OCcAjZ4Q-iM Conclusion: You steer the LLM, don’t let the LLM steer you. - [LLM Bootcamp](http://llm-bootcamp.srecraft.io http://llm-bootcamp.srecraft.io) → making content Another day, another drop. Not taking this one to production because PineconeDB costs too much for cosine similarity search. Built it anyway, here's the video: https://youtu.be/f5SIELet8JU https://youtu.be/f5SIELet8JU Codebase: https://github.com/avirajkhare00/youtube-answer-finder https://github.com/avirajkhare00/youtube-answer-finder YT Answer Finder goes to prod today: https://ytf.srecraft.io/ https://ytf.srecraft.io/ Only two videos processed so far: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WPEYGr1Vs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WPEYGr1Vs More projects: - Real-time flight tracker: https://lofi-atc.up.railway.app/ https://lofi-atc.up.railway.app/ - Music recommendation app: https://music-again.vercel.app https://music-again.vercel.app
• Jefro118 2y ago
  Creating a tool to automate browser tasks: https://browsable.app https://browsable.app. It's RPA for browsers which is not fundamentally new, what I'm trying to do that is new is use AI to make it as easy as possible to create automations. Most of the existing tools require you to locate CSS selectors, XPaths, etc. whereas this is just point, click, type, describe data you want to extract in English, etc. Still early days and it works much better for some tasks/websites than others but it's improving rapidly and I'm quite excited about it. Also hoping that the likes of OpenAI Operator, etc. are rolled out in a way that I can use them to build a better product rather than being runover by them.
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• cloud8421 2y ago
  For a few months I've been working on an application to manage my physical music collection. Records I own, records I want to find, with some stats/search/metadata that actually use. It's built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, backed by SQLite. Records are imported via MusicBrainz, and data enriched via Last.fm. I'm looking now to add notes for each artist and record, along with arbitrary associations. Think supergroups, side projects, etc. and some trivia/quotes/stories that I can easily add for my own reference.
• pzagor2 2y ago
  https://leadsparklabs.com/ https://leadsparklabs.com/ LeadSparkLabs is an agency that assists small and medium-sized businesses in generating more leads by quickly creating customized Lead Magnet Mini Apps. These mini apps are designed to engage your target audience and convince them to give you their email.
• nubela 2y ago
  I'm building a digital B2B debt collection service with teeth (https://accountgram.com https://accountgram.com). Basically, the contrarian of most debt collection startups trying to be a nicer nag, now with AI! Instead, I want there to be real consequences for defaulting on B2B debts via means of public disclosure, and then more.
• anil_gr 2y ago
  Adding the Spelling Bee equivalent in Kannada language to my Kannada word puzzles app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.puzzle.padaku&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.puzzle.pad...
• iib0011 2y ago
  Im creating a free web-based, open-source self-hosted platform that brings together all your favorite online tools in one place—fully self-hosted and ad-free. Project: https://github.com/iib0011/omni-tools https://github.com/iib0011/omni-tools
• tomaytotomato 2y ago
  Working on a fun hobby project that uses Dogecoin
• BaudouinVH 2y ago
  I'm working on making a WordPress site fully accessible. I don't have full access. Kind of an uphill battle. Deadline end of june 2025.
• jtbetz22 2y ago
  https://www.tabomagic.com https://www.tabomagic.com I've been obsessed with making it easier to handle tab overload in the browser without requiring any sort of active "tab management". I have a working extension that replaces the "new tab" page with a clean view of all open tabs, along with simple ways to search and select which tab to switch to, including search over bookmarks and history. There are also some simple tools to allow for creating and reorganizing tab groups. For a small group of people, it revolutionizes the browser experience. I'm still trying to decide if there is a widely-useful product there, or if it's just a niche use case. Any and all feedback welcome!
  • em-bee 2y ago
    sounds very useful. unfortunately i am on firefox
• williamcotton 2y ago
  Since July of last year, in reverse chronological order: WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
• BonoboIO 2y ago
  An invoice matching and tagging system based on the documents in paperless-ngx Using Gemini LLM and Python. Highly focused on my needs, with special prompts and few shot matching. Code is a little bit convoluted, maybe I will have time to open source it.
• reducesuffering 2y ago
  https://exoroad.com https://exoroad.com Helping people find their ideal place to live (in the US)
• Ch00k 2y ago
  A web app that extends the capabilities of Spotify. You can create artists' discographies (all albums in a single playlist), merge multiple playlists into a new one with the ability to watch those playlists for new tracks, track live events for artists you follow or artists from a playlist. I have been working on it for about a year now. It is not yet public because I am yet to apply for Spotify API quota extension, but I'd be happy to allow access manually if anyone wanted to take a look. https://mottle.it/ https://mottle.it/
• dmilicic 2y ago
  I've created and am still working on my portfolio page in WASM using Flutter Web: https://dmilicic.com/ https://dmilicic.com/ To enable WASM properly you should be on the latest Chrome version since other browsers still have some issues supporting it, otherwise, it will fallback to canvaskit renderer which is slower. I've written about the implementation itself here if anyone is interested: https://blog.dmilicic.com/posts/writing-a-personal-website-in-flutter-web https://blog.dmilicic.com/posts/writing-a-personal-website-i...
• bhouston 2y ago
  Trying my hand at an autonomous AI coding "assistant", via https://mycoder.ai https://mycoder.ai
• WillAdams 2y ago
  A small library which uses a fork of OpenSCAD which adds Python support: https://pythonscad.org/ https://pythonscad.org/ to allow writing out DXF files and G-code and modeling how G-code will cut in 3D: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview Writing it in a TeX editor using a Literate Programming system developed in the course of working on it, the PDF should give both a good overview, and provide all the code. It has greatly expanded/restored my math/geometry and has me looking forward to how to implement Bézier Curves and surfaces using similar math (since G-code and CGAL are fundamentally limited to lines and arcs and what can be easily made from such constructs).
• okucu 2y ago
  As an avid language learner I'm trying to create the best tool for intermediate to advanced learners, so for those who know that there is no silver bullet and learning takes years of effort, instead of some magical hack that AI-bros are trying to sell you. https://okuread.com/ https://okuread.com/ is a desktop App that works completely offline and helps you read foreign language texts and learn vocabulary that way. No AI-garbage included. Right now I'm working on an open source platform for enabling human pronunciations in Oku. Anki/Flashcard integration and a UI redesign are also all scheduled sometime in Q2.
• igeligel_dev 2y ago
  Multiple things * An open-source desk scheduling solution: https://workplacify.com/ https://workplacify.com/ (GitHub: https://github.com/igeligel/workplacify https://github.com/igeligel/workplacify) * A bit passively: https://sheetsinterview.com/ https://sheetsinterview.com/ - Hackerrank for Excel/Google sheets (I need to add some more task templates, hopefully with AI) * A Chakra UI v3 component library for SaaS
• halftheopposite 2y ago
  I’m creating an observability tool that I’m trying to make user-centric while staying developer friendly. Most of the tools for remote logging, live dashboards and alerts are either too big, too expensive, or have a “per seat” plan, and incorporate the famous “home” screen with metrics and tips you absolutely never care of. I’m also trying to stay cheap and focused on very few techs (node, Postgres, docker, react) and make it stay as a monolith. So far I’ve put all the side projects I manage (5 of them) and it’s working great. I can follow and query the logs, the JSON payloads by path, see live metrics like number of users currently online, etc. Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs! Will soon be adding alerts through webhooks, slack, discord, etc. If you want to try it out: https://app.getboringmetrics.com https://app.getboringmetrics.com (no landing page yet). Edit: just want to say that if you want to try the software but not keep it, you can create an account in under 10 seconds, send a curl request to see logs arrive in realtime, and delete your account in 5 seconds. I do not track anything and do not keep a single piece of data.
  • jay-barronville 2y ago
    > Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs! That’s the spirit! A buddy of mine created a tool/API to solve his own problems, opened it to the public and launched it, but he got very few sign-ups, so he just continued to use it for himself. Recently, about two years later and out of nowhere (without doing anything other than the original bit of SEO he did), he started to see a bunch of sign-ups (including paid) and then started receiving feedback and support request emails from customers. Most folks would’ve just called it quits on the product at least a year ago, but he just kept using the product for his own projects and left it open to the public just in case it was helpful for anyone else. Obviously, YMMV, but good luck with this! I’m on mobile right now, but I think I’ll give it a try when I’m back at my computer.
    • halftheopposite 2y ago
      That's so refreshing to hear to be honest! I've went on so many side projects hoping I would see adoption for months and was basically chasing the dream. However I've came to realize that I really take happiness in developing things sustainably over time, with small steps, and most importantly for myself and what I would like a product to look like. Lately I've even been able to onboard a friend on it using it for his own projects as well, couldn't be happier so far. If you ever have feedback/advices, don't hesitate to reach me out on contact[at]halftheopposite.dev and I'll happily answer.
• krthr 2y ago
  - An instagram e-commerce search engine for LATAM (starting with Colombia): https://dev.dommo.app https://dev.dommo.app (still in development) - poesia.pics - to generate poetry (spanish) from pictures - podtafolio.co - a podcast directory (colombia). it generates a summary of the episodes and provide a search experience
• englishspot 2y ago
  an email notifications service for Frigate NVR in rust. even wrote my own MQTT library. could I just use pre-existing solutions like home assistant? probably.. but then, it wouldn't be half as fun.
• DavidPP 2y ago
  1. My personal website. -> I spent so much time ingesting content, I finally realized I need to produce some too. 2. A AI assisted brief generator -> clients often have a hard time articulating their requirements for new projects. 3. Prototyping the UX of "my" version of the perfect "process aware" editor. More organized than a Wiki, more flexible than tools like Jira, Aha and all. Not ready to share a public link yet. My goal is share my mockup in a week or two.
• anatoly 2y ago
  Building a prototype of a site/app to help teach my youngest child speak and understand language. He's five and doesn't speak beyond just a few syllables and 3-4 simplest words. He has something called childhood apraxia of speech, which is basically a condition where the brain doesn't know how to control muscles of the tongue/the mouth/the lips to create complex movements necessary for speech. These movements can be learned, but it can be a very very slow process. Sometimes it's just a few sounds that need to be learned or fixed, but with my son, it's very severe. Adam says "mama" and "papa" and can pronounce several vowels together with 2-3 consonants after 1.5 years of intensive speech-production-directed therapy. This month's achievement is he learned to purse his lips, which he never could before, and which you need for sounds like 'oo' (he still can't say the sound while pursing his lips). He understands much more (hundreds of words), but mostly in isolation, following rapid speech is hard. There are apps that help kids on the autistic spectrum to communicate, and flashcard systems, and we're experimenting with these, but they're more geared towards encouraging the child to communicate. In our case, he communicates fine with gestures, nudges, pointing at things he wants, bringing flash cards of foods he wants, eye contact etc. And he seems to have good cognitive skills in terms of puzzles, basic arithmetics and counting, memory, etc. It is learning language as an auditory system that seems to be really difficult. Adam can 'read' in the sense of knowing and recognizing all the letters (he takes delight in that) and pronounce the few syllables he's able to when he sees them written out (mostly consonants m,n,h with vowels a,o,e). His phonematic understanding for other syllables exists but is poor (e.g. he has trouble choosing between a BAH card and a PAH card when I say one of them out loud, whereas the letters B/P in isolation are easy). My idea is to build an app/site which teaches him and reinforces three-way connections [picture]<-->[written form]<-->[sounds] by letting him "type", initially by pecking at large squares with letters on screen, rather than an entire keyboard. So for example, there's a picture of him at the top, a row of 4 big blank squares underneath the leftmost of which is blinking, and 7-8 letters strewn around at the bottom, from which he can type in sequence A-D-A-M and get a sound effect of victory. For words he doesn't know or remember, there's a mode where he just needs to repeat e.g. C-A-T which is already written in identical squares in a separate row just above, then after a few successes the hint row goes away. For an MVP in which I can quickly backfill 100-200 simple words like that, and track progress, this would already, I think, be valuable; then maybe I can add a mode where the words sounds (with or without the picture) and he needs to type it. If all this works for simple words, and he takes pleasure in typing, the stretch goal is to turn from words into short sentences, and both teach him phrases like I WANT [X], or WHERE IS MOM?, and let him request stuff with such phrases. None of this directly addresses the apraxia problem of actually learning to move his lips/tongue/throat/etc. appropriately, but I hope it can create more scaffolding around our efforts in that area (which we try very hard to work on daily) and together help him build an understanding of language/syntax. I'm very worried that, despite ongoing (very slow) progress in both speaking and understanding, phrases, sentences, syntax seem to elude Adam's grasp, and time is running so very fast. I've been a backend/systems developer almost all my life, with not a lot of frontend experience (although I do know basic HTML/CSS/JS), and no app development. So I'm thinking for now to prototype this as a web page/pages, maybe using a lightweight framework rather than vanilla HTML (not sure), and let him interact with it on the iPad. I'll try to get the basic visual elements (picture/rows of squares for typed letters/bag of letters to choose from below) right with CSS/JS, and see if I can iterate from that. That's the idea, currently.
• ybsr77 2y ago
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• evronm 2y ago
  It's a governance concept based on the idea that votes should be tradeable. The concept is quite simple, but it leads to some truly hairy game theory problems. Code here: https://github.com/evronm/marketDAO https://github.com/evronm/marketDAO
• jimnotgym 2y ago
  Purely in my head. A new kind of ERP system. I'm tempted to start writing it in public to trigger debate. I don't really want to say what is novel about it exactly, but it would be very open. Turned in to a pretty boring post, since I gave no detail!
• anosidium 2y ago
  I’m working on Oliphaunt, a native macOS client for Mastodon. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support. I hope to release a TestFlight build soon, followed by an eventual App Store launch. I’m also working on the next version of HacKit, a native macOS reader for Hacker News. You can already download it on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1549557075 https://apps.apple.com/app/id1549557075, and you can read more about it here: https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support.
• dhuan_ 2y ago
  I've been working on mock: https://dhuan.github.io/mock/ https://dhuan.github.io/mock/ the process of creating APIs for testing and automation should be as easy possible. the tools that exist nowadays aren't good enough, they require you to use their programming language of choice or complex procedures for a task that should be simple. I built mock to try to solve that and still continue to maintain it.
• kelvinjps10 2y ago
  I'm working in a web app to edit the text in an image. Meaning thag using ocr for detecting the text then try to find the modt closest font and replacing the text in the image for an editable texbox with the same text but being able to edit it.
• vinny915 2y ago
  Working on an app to help you earn more credit card rewards (most people could earn a few thousand dollars a year from rewards) getpointwise.com
• foundzen 2y ago
  I taught my parents how to use LLM chat apps. I was pleasantly surprised to see them use it all the time. And even more shocked to see them pasting entire whatsap messages containing passwords, upload income tax files, and a lot more private details with LLMs. They rarely pause to think about privacy/security before sharing info with LLM services. So I'm working on an interface that works as a privacy filter, making sure the private info does not leave the device. It redacts /anonymizes/obfuscates private information from what we share with LLMs via on-device model, and plugs back the output with the private info to make it appear almost similar to the output as before.
• Anon84 2y ago
  I'm working on my epidemic modeling package in Python: https://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik https://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik (also https://pypi.org/project/epidemik/ https://pypi.org/project/epidemik/). Currently adding support: - loading/saving models - model library - simple math in parameter definition (for example, defining beta=2*eta, where eta is defined previously) - viral intra-host models - demographics - arbitrary seasonality functions The goal is to have it all ready for when my Cambridge epidemic modeling review gets published in a couple of months. It's my first serious package, so I would love any feedback
• jasoncartwright 2y ago
  The only national public database of UK food banks https://www.givefood.org.uk https://www.givefood.org.uk
• woile 2y ago
  I'm still working on https://reciperium.com https://reciperium.com I've fixed a bunch of bugs, and hopefully if I can I'll be adding support for uploading pictures. reciperium is a small platform to write recipes and easily fork other recipes to adapt them to your liking
• AudioDiary 2y ago
  I'm working on AudioDiary which is next-gen journalling app https://audiodiary.ai https://audiodiary.ai Recently it got a surge of users (1k+ reviews on Google Play and 500+ reviews on Apple, really sucks that Apple don't show all reviews, but you can check the Google reviews here on desktop https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.audiodiary.audiodiary https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.audiodiary....) and people are writing in every day to say how much they love it and that it's changing their lives. Also working on a new app in a similar vein that's way more technically complex and uses AI in a hands-on way, and looking for help on it.
  • arnab_optimatik 2y ago
    Hey AudioDiary, I have a lot of experience in AI. Would love to chat. You can connect with me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabgho/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabgho/.
• louisdecharson 2y ago
  I've built a small desktop app (Electron) with a chat interface with multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic) and simple "agents". Done that to automate some of the tasks and practice JS. http://github.com/louisdecharson/converse http://github.com/louisdecharson/converse Happy to get some feedback.
• sim04ful 2y ago
  I'm working on a tool called Font of Web https://fontofweb.com https://fontofweb.com that helps identify the fonts used on any website. It not only detects the fonts but also shows exactly where they're used (which HTML elements) and how they're styled (weight, line height, size, letter spacing). My goal is to build a comprehensive database of font usage across the web. By collecting and analyzing this data, I believe we can uncover valuable trends, such as: * Common font pairings * Popular heading fonts over time * Market share of commercial fonts * Top font foundries based on actual usage I originally built a version of this four years ago and saw a surprising amount of organic interest. I've now rebuilt the tool from the ground up, switching from a Puppeteer-based crawler to an invisible iframe approach. (More details in another post) Check out the current version at https://fontofweb.com https://fontofweb.com. I would appreciate any feedback
  • jay-barronville 2y ago
    > I've now rebuilt the tool from the ground up, switching from a Puppeteer-based crawler to an invisible iframe approach. Where can I go to learn more about your invisible `<iframe>` approach/implementation?
    • sim04ful 2y ago
      I figured it out mostly from first principles. It's such a niche crawling method that was perfectly limited to my use-case, and there's alot to say. But the main idea is that you can inject a crawling script in the html of the site via a proxy you control. E.g proxy.yoursite.com?url=<SITE_YOU_WANT_TO_CRAWL>. Then once you've got the data you can call window.postMessage(data) to communicate with the main window. It's somewhat similar to how browser proxies like: https://proxyium.com/ https://proxyium.com/ and https://www.proxysite.com/ https://www.proxysite.com/ fetch the html on your behalf.
  • hyperknot 2y ago
    Nice project! Related question, how would you recommend detecting which font is being used for names like ui-sans-serif, system-ui on a given device/browser?
• spmcl 2y ago
  Several different tracks, having a hard time focusing on one. - A little free library, but for e-books. Having a bit of trouble with this one because I think that the move to e-books inherently removes much of the magic of a little free library of physical books. Plus there's the whole "letting users upload things is hard" thing. - E-ink picture frame. It's been done before and it's mainly just a use for an old rpi laying around. - Looking to start a tech meetup in my small locale. It's hard to meet tech people in my area, let alone people who are willing to present. - TUIs to aid me in my day job. Claude makes whipping up proofs of concept super easy and quick, so this one is the most fun to me right now.
  • Dlooooloo 2y ago
    What is TUIs?
• cyco130 2y ago
  I'm building a web-based Atari 8-bit emulator [1]. I haven't pushed my current progress yet, the repo only contains the CPU emulator and a few utils which I wrote a few years ago. Lots of bugs and missing features but it can already run some of my favorite games, so I'm pretty happy and proud! [1] https://sfotty.cyco130.com https://sfotty.cyco130.com
• vinny915 2y ago
  Working on an app that helps you earn more credit card rewards (most people could earn a few thousand dollars worth of rewards per year) getpointise.com
• rootnod3 2y ago
  Very cliched, but I am working on my own Lisp dialect. I want a more streamlined syntax and keywords, but keep the "batteries included" idea from CL. So, Scheme/Clojure syntax with a CL live image approach, including condition systems, and a fleshed out standard library. Initially was aiming to use MLIR or at least LLVM but will probably try to handroll to a) reduce dependencies and b) as a learning experience. The bootstrapped is written in CL with no dependencies and hopefully soon it will be self-hosted.
  • sswezey 2y ago
    Do you have a website or link for this?
    • rootnod3 2y ago
      Not yet. I am still working my way to bootstrapping. I aim to release it some point this year though. I am still figuring out a few bootstrapping things because one of my self-imposed requirements is the bootstrapped in pure CL and no C or other things involved. So basically to be able to bootstrap it from various CL implementations.
• bambax 2y ago
  I'm making an OCR website focused on outputting ascii text that follows the layout of the original, so that it doesn't need to understand or interpret zones in the source: it just resembles the source. This makes proofing easier and should also improve feeding documents to LLMs.
• cosiiine 2y ago
  I've been using Javascript to generate frame-by-frame animations as SVGs. I composite these into big grids, then use a pen plotter to draw them with ink. Afterwards, I cut them into individual frames and do stop motion animations. This is first attempt, working on another now: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdORIKNQ5w/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdORIKNQ5w/
• lucasfdacunha 2y ago
  Still mostly working on my gaming-curated newsletter The Gaming Pub - https://thegamingpub.com/ https://thegamingpub.com/ It's similar to Hacker Newsletter where I pick the most important news, features, reviews, etc of the week and send that every Friday. The gaming world has a lot of stuff going on and I always found that there was a missing newsletter to curate the important stuff from all the noise. The challenge at the moment is growing it, I've been doing it for 5 years now and still haven't found a way to increase the number of subscribers, they come mostly from newsletter directories and referrals I would guess.
  • n1c 2y ago
    The signup box doesn't load on your homepage if I have uBlock Origin enabled.
• zciwor 2y ago
  I'm working on cataloging open source hardware designs. When I'm starting a new hardware design, I find myself pulling up familiar boards (like Adafruit or Sparkfun's dev boards) as often as the chip's application note. I sometimes prefer a full reference project so I can get useful context like which voltage regulator they used or how the USB port is connected. But, it's kind of an awkward process because I'll have to download the design files from Github and open it in the native CAD software (Eagle, for example). I've been toying with how to solve this. I made a script to crawl Github for open hardware designs, then generate a schematic and interactive BOM for each design. Now, hopefully, you can search for "ESP32"[1] or "WiFi"[2] or "Bluetooth"[3] and get a number of designs to view in browser. [1] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/esp32/1 https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/esp32/1 [2] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/wifi/1 https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/wifi/1 [3] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/bluetooth/1 https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/bluetooth/1
  • klysm 2y ago
    Cool idea. It would be nice to be able to quickly pull up a part in context in various designs across the internet to answer “how did other folks solve this on a board that works?”
    • zciwor 2y ago
      Thanks! 100% agree. It's the "board that works" part that might be tricky with open source designs.
      • klysm 2y ago
        Possibly but I’d be willing to bet a decent proportion do in fact work
• pagade 2y ago
  Currently working on to auto sync Notion events to Google Calendars based on Project property. I needed this desparately so decided to do it myself.
• robviren 2y ago
  I've been trying to use genetic algorithms to evolve voice style tensors for Kokoro-82M TTS. My current main barrier is that the scoring function is powered by resemblyzer and whatever it is using to compare the audio data has limitations. The generated tensors over fit and make garbage sounding audio that scores high, but doesn't sound like voice. Considering alternate methods of scoring.
• binary132 2y ago
  compiler-as-a-Lua-DSL
• yakshaving_jgt 2y ago
  I'm working on a tool which validates the HTML in your web application as it's being used. Because valid HTML is still important, and otherwise you need to integrate HTML valid into a test suite in CI (which is hard), or you need to manually validate pages with one of the online validators (which is tedious and doesn't scale). Interested in this? Email me. My email is on my profile.
• p2detar 2y ago
  Currently working on the side on Java libraries that provide access to Apple's mobile device management service APIs like the automated device enrollment and app and book management services: https://github.com/petarov/apple-mdm-clients https://github.com/petarov/apple-mdm-clients I had this written in Kotlin several years ago but now I want to do it all in Java, use as little 3rd party deps as possible and add more extensive unit testing.
• emehex 2y ago
  I'm working on my online multiplayer game: kingbit (iOS). I released it back in 2023 and haven't touched the code since. It's still by far my most successful app (7.3M impressions, 500 MAU) so I'm excavating the code and going to try and seriously monetize this project into a real business.
• dutchbrit 2y ago
  I'm working on building a few niche marketplaces/communities - and a platform (hosted and self hosted option) allowing people to start their own niche groups.
• neom 2y ago
  I did this over the weekend just to learn about netlify functions, you can get a hackernews mystic reading, hehe: https://chimerical-praline-494358.netlify.app/ https://chimerical-praline-494358.netlify.app/
• arionhardison 2y ago
  https://uhc.dev https://uhc.dev - With all the layoffs etc... at UHC I am trying to setup a 100% AI powered version of UHC. Just learning/practice really; but been really fun.
• pizlonator 2y ago
  Making Fil-C more complete. Fil-C is a memory safe C implementation that can run a lot of stuff. I want to make it run even more stuff. Recently I landed C exceptions support (I didn’t know that was a thing but it is, look for attribute cleanup if you want to know more) and ifunc support. More info about the project here: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge And a Linux/X86_64 binary release if you want to play with it: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/releases/tag/v0.668.2 https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/releases/t...
• bayindirh 2y ago
  Refactoring my pushover.net tool Nudge [0] to have a more cleaner code since it's feature complete for my needs, now. Writing the specifications of a file format which I'll be using for the second iteration of an high-performance material simulation code I have written in my Ph.D. [0]: https://git.sr.ht/~bayindirh/nudge https://git.sr.ht/~bayindirh/nudge
• quechimba 2y ago
  I'm working on my web framework Mayu. Currently attempting to make something like Vite/Rollup for Ruby, basically a new module system where you can import all sorts of file types with plugins, and hot module replacement. https://github.com/mayu-live/framework https://github.com/mayu-live/framework https://mayu.live/ https://mayu.live/
• pandatigox 2y ago
  Building a patient management software backed by AI clinical note taking. Built for dentists. I've been developing it whenever I don't have to be in the chair.
• greenie_beans 2y ago
  bookhead, zapier for independent bookstores: https://bookhead.net/blog/fragmented/ https://bookhead.net/blog/fragmented/
• overiit 2y ago
  Currently working on a tool that allows you to get data insights/aggregations via natural language. currently only sql based databases/warehouses (Postgres, Bigquery and soon Clickhouse, Snowflake, sqlite, etc.). I will be working on document Databases at some point as well. I started this for a bunch of reasons but mainly to allow non technical team members get any data insight they might need, without wasting dev resources on creating dashboards, queries etc. I personally dislike this "everything in LLM/AI has to be a chat room" approach. working on making it generally available but for now its early access only https://askquery.ai/ https://askquery.ai/ If you have any ideas, thoughts or concerns please let me know.
• scraggo 2y ago
  Protest music :)
• p0deje 2y ago
  I'm working on Alumnium (https://alumnium.ai https://alumnium.ai). It's an open-source library to simplify web application testing with Selenium/Playwright. I aim to create a stable and affordable tool that allows me to eliminate most of the support code I write for web tests (page objects, locators, etc.) and replace it with human-readable actions and assertions. These actions and assertions are then translated by an LLM into browser instructions. The tool, however, should still leverage all existing infrastructure (test runner, CI/CD, Selenium infrastructure). So far, it's working well on simple websites (e.g., a calculator, TodoMVC), and I'm currently working on scaling it to large web applications.
  • cmdtab 2y ago
    Pretty cool. I built my own framework to do something similar very recently. Microsoft omni parser and claude computer use alone can take you very far in testing almost anything.
    • p0deje 2y ago
      I experimented with Computer Use and even though it's pretty cool, I ended up not using it for 2 main reasons: 1. It's unreasonably expensive. A single test "2+2=4" for a web calculator costs around $0.15. I run roughly 1k tests per month on CI and I don't want to spend $150 on those. The approach I took with Alumnium costs me $4 per month for the same amount of tests. 2. It tries too hard to make the test pass even when it's not possible. When I intentionally introduced bugs in applications, Computer Use sometimes pretended the everything was fine and marked the test passed. Alumnium on the other hand attempts to fail as early as possible.
      • cmdtab 2y ago
        For the 1st point, I generate a script with hashed check points so next run is automated unless something changes in the UI to invoke AI. I make this possible by proxy wrapping playwright library so I can take over every method. Users use playwright like they always have but with one extra method called act. Omini parser lets you split section of the UI to hash and watch for changes that are relevant. For 2, can you give some examples?
• awscherb 2y ago
  wait, when's your birthday? https://www.waitwhensyourbirthday.com/ https://www.waitwhensyourbirthday.com/ something I am working on to help people keep track of birthdays. many people I know use facebook only to keep track of birthdays, so this hopefully will be a replacement
• hundredwatt 2y ago
  I'm building a new tool for end-to-end data validation and reconciliation in ELT pipelines, especially for teams replicating data from relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) to data warehouses or data lakes. Most existing solutions only validate at the destination (dbt tests, Great Expectations), rely on aggregate comparisons (row counts, checksums), or generate too much noise (alert fatigue from observability tools). My tool: * Validates every row and column directly between source and destination * Handles live source changes without false positives * Eliminates noise by distinguishing in-flight changes from real discrepancies * Detects even the smallest data mismatches without relying on thresholds * Performs efficiently with an IO-bound, bandwidth-efficient algorithm If you're dealing with data integrity issues in ELT workflows, I'd love to hear about your challenges!
  • paddy_m 2y ago
    This sounds interesting. Is this meant to run in pipelines or be used interactively? Are you building something open source? Link to the repo?
    • hundredwatt 2y ago
      It’s meant to run in or alongside the pipeline continuously. Not planning to open source, working on a commercial offering but haven’t launched anything publicly yet. Would love to hear any more thoughts on the concepts here or my email is in bio
• 234120987654 2y ago
  Fine-tuning an LLM to create long-form podcast timestamps. Apparently even the best LLMs with long context are incredibly bad with this so I'm curating data and creating a service out of it.
• apexskier 2y ago
  I'm trying to work on a new outdoor route building and mapping engine, focused on wilderness areas.
  • LostMyLogin 2y ago
    Super interested in this! I spend two or three days a week exploring the Rocky Mountains via mountain bike and backcountry skiing. I'm still not able to find a tool set that I love - my favorite still being CalTopo. Any way to follow?
• chainwax 2y ago
  I've been working on an app that will use ai to decorate my Anki cards with audio/example sentences/images. The more I get into it though, the more I think I may just end up writing my own flashcard app. I feel like most of the project has been spent wrestling with AnkiConnect, while the fun stuff has been fairly simple.
  • fikama 2y ago
    I've been thinking about the same some time ago. But after a while I got to conclusion that Anki is pretty well designed after all. Although for what I remember Anki Connect is in form of unofficial extension. And it would seem that there is a place for an official more stable API. Anyway I never got beyond thinking about it. Just to let you know you are not alone, and you can ping me if you ever decide to do something about it.
    • hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
      Anki is well-designed in the same way vim is well-designed, imo.
• ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
  I've been working on improvements on a couple of shipping apps, by improving the main app UI, and adding things like widgets and Apple Watch companion apps.
• MatthewBF 2y ago
  I'm working on re-writing Partizion to be faster, easier to use, simpler, and more beautiful (beautiful is good design — https://paulgraham.com/taste.html https://paulgraham.com/taste.html). After the chrome MV3 migration which was an absolute rigmarole, I lost my taste for beauty. I want to get back to making beautiful software.
• mlacks 2y ago
  A Sui blockchain scanning app. Plenty of those already but a level up for me in programming complexity Moving to a trading bot eventually
• blululu 2y ago
  I'm working on a music box to stream web radio channels from soma.fm. This was originally a scheme to have a crazy radio interface with seashells as the dials and the such, but now it has become a slog through linux audio drivers and systemd services.
• cwiz 2y ago
  A generative visual novel where you play roguelike poker (balatoro-inspired by simpler) to buy narrative and character cards that fed to LLM to create a story.
• redgetan 2y ago
  A multiplayer card game thats inspired from UNO and exploding kittens. WebGL at moment but will be on mobile soon. http://simpleyuji.itch.io/fishbait http://simpleyuji.itch.io/fishbait
• fasteddie31003 2y ago
  I'm scratching my own itch with https://buildersqrcodes.com https://buildersqrcodes.com to help convey new construction details to job site workers. I'm building my own house now and I was surprised how many details are not in the plans that are critical to build a house. I think this is a common issue. I already have 10's of paying customers using it on their build too.
  • scoot 2y ago
    Nice idea. Just some nitpicks: "Visit QR code to:" – You don't "visit" a QR code. Perhaps "Scan the QR code to:"? (Optional grammar fix included.) "Comment on the QR code" – "Leave a comment"? (Unless you really want a comment about the QR code! ;-) ) I just get a busy spinner when I scan the QR code in the screenshot. A working live example would be nice.
    • fasteddie31003 2y ago
      Great feedback. Fixed that QR code too.
• nileshtrivedi 2y ago
  Recently, I started building a crowdsourced wiki for repairability of consumer hardware products in India: https://isfixable.com/ https://isfixable.com/
• maattdd 2y ago
  I've been updating my HN bot (watch comments for keywords and post to Slack/Discord) written in Crystal to use raw SQL instead of unmaintained ORM. Turns out the whole app needs only ~ 10 SQL requests, and it's way funier to write modern SQL than fighting the ORM. The new code looks like this : db_message = Model.save_new_message!(@conf.db, DbButler::Hn, item, DbState::Processing) Than I have a Model module with all the interactions with the DB def self.save_new_message!(db, butler, external_id, state) : Message sql = {{ read_file "./db/save_new_message.sql" }} db.query_one(sql, butler.to_s.downcase, external_id, state.to_s.downcase, as: Message) end (thanks to Crystal ability to read a file at compile time - I can write raw SQL in a file with syntax highlithing and maybe typesafe if I connect the DB to the editor) The land page is not ready, but the bot has been working for me for months https://newsbutler.xyz/ https://newsbutler.xyz/
  • lippihom 2y ago
    Hmm any plans on integrating it with Discord instead of Slack? Also, aware of https://f5bot.com/ https://f5bot.com/?
    • maattdd 2y ago
      It is working with both Slack and Discord already. I was not aware of f5bot, but I got inspired by another bot called Little Birdie which doesn't exist anymore and it's basically just a re-implementation of it.
• genatron 2y ago
  https://genatron.ai https://genatron.ai - Build ready-to-use business apps in a few minutes by providing requirements in plain English.
• DanielVZ 2y ago
  I’ve been doing some analysis on the winners of a local short stories contest (https://santiagoen100palabras.cl/ https://santiagoen100palabras.cl/) to see if I can get to make a good contender story. Plus I having fun plugging it all into ChatGPT and reading the stories it comes up with.
• bratao 2y ago
  I´m super excited, sleepless for a couple of days already. I´m trying to use all tricks possible to improve a Sequence Labeling using Conditional Random Fields. I need to NER billion of documents, and need to be fast. CRFSuite is a workhorse, and a baseline very hard to beat with speed and precision. But with o3 I´m created a frank-stain with many tricks such as CRF with variable order, feature interactions, bidirectional, jointly learning with word embeddings. The precision is already over than CRFSuite. And I believe that would be better than many other solutions such as bi-lstm-crf. Definitely much faster. Now i´m trying to port to Cython to make as fast as possible. Here o3 is almost useless, but I´m progressing.
• WoodenChair 2y ago
  I’m selling refurbished and upgraded Mac mini G4s as the ultimate machines for running software for the classic Mac OS over at https://os9.shop https://os9.shop Over at macos9lives.com a group of hackers figured out a way to get Mac OS 9 running on these late model G4s that previously never supported it. That combined with an SSD upgrade makes them close to the fastest machines that can run Mac OS 9. I’ve taken advantage of this hack, now having sold about 80 -90 machines. But I’ve hit a wall with finding ways to advertise it. eBay has been okay. I tried Reddit Ads on the vintage Apple subreddit and they were so so—probably lost money doing it but got the word out. Google Search ads have surprisingly been ineffective. I’ve posted on various vintage Mac forums but they don’t allow formal advertising (otherwise I would buy it). I probably will try Facebook ads next. Open to other advertising ideas!
  • jfil 2y ago
    You could purchase a booth / sponsorship at a retro-computing convention. You could also figure out which specific software from Mac OS 9 people are using, and participate + advertise in their hangouts (the marketing message there would be "you're set with software right now, but you could be running the same tools with less waiting-around-time on a faster machine."
• ks2048 2y ago
  Getting (back) into development for Apple TV. Released an updated version of free app [0] for watching the news show Democracy Now [1]. Let's you browse 29 years of back episodes. Learning SwiftUI - mostly great, but when there's problems, it can be pretty frustrating. [0] https://kenschutte.com/democracy-now/ https://kenschutte.com/democracy-now/ [1] https://www.democracynow.org/ https://www.democracynow.org/
• brokegrammer 2y ago
  https://milliontimer.com https://milliontimer.com - A time-tracking and invoice generation tool for freelancers focusing on simplicity. It's not 100% finished yet, but I've been using it myself on my freelance projects.
• hasanhaja 2y ago
  Been wanting to learn browser APIs like Service Workers and IndexedDB in depth, and HTMX, so started building a Todo App: https://github.com/hasanhaja/tasks-app https://github.com/hasanhaja/tasks-app It's meant to work entirely offline and the service worker acts as the backend for the application.
• shegeley 2y ago
  1. Hackable text input system := Hatis https://github.com/shegeley/hatis https://github.com/shegeley/hatis «Text-editors are dead as a concept. What’s needed is a text-input system. Mobile phones got it right more than 10 years ago. Both Android and iOS can catch the text-input context: «ah here we can input text, let’s show the virtual keyboard!». This project is inspired by very same idea: catch the text-input context globally (across all system, not just one process) and do what’s needed: change the UI, keybindings, etc. Emacs got some part of text-input right with modes. But modes should be global, on Window Manager level (or even deeper). In GUI it’s possible to “catch input context” using Wayland::InputMethod It should also be possible on pure-tty with readline or something. The system should be very hackable. That’s why it’s written in Common Lisp» 2. SaaS Sales platform on Clojure(+script)
• zb77 2y ago
  I'm building component playground using atomic design tokens to create harmonious components. It provides live previews with auto package imports, with AI you can generate components or theme them using the theme engine, and supports popular tech stacks (Next, React, Native, Shadcn, Tailwind, MUI). Later you can install components via CLI or copy generated prompt to tools like Cursor. Le link: compify.app
• manish_gill 2y ago
  Implementing https://interpreterbook.com/ https://interpreterbook.com/ and subsequently https://compilerbook.com/ https://compilerbook.com/ in C++.
• gloosx 2y ago
  I'm exploring the world of Tauri cross-platform desktop apps in my free time now. For the first project using this technology I decided to go for a simple media converter app. I have a 64MB sampler so I have to convert a lot of samples from lossless formats to mp3, there are two options I know: any random online tool from the google page 1 or ffmpeg cli. The former almost physically hurts, because I have to upload my files to some server which does the same ffmpeg instruction and then get them bytes back, that's a heck of an overhead! ffmpeg-cli and some knee-made bash scripts is what I have been using for a long time. I love my console, and I spend 90% of the time inside, but then it comes to ffmpeg, it instantly feels tedious to use it. Finally I decided to make yet another GUI wrapper: https://github.com/ilya-lopukhin/conversimp https://github.com/ilya-lopukhin/conversimp The idea is to drag the files in, or select them via dialog, then run an ffmpeg conversion template with each file as input in a separate thread (need to limit theese btw). I decided to go fully open-source, and maybe promote it's usage over the online converter ad-farms which are really abundant. When I decided to publish this, I instantly understood it's going to be a tons of extra work, but in the end I want it to look nice and do it's job flawlessy, and at the moment it's a weekend or two from release. Let me know what you think ;)
  • svilen_dobrev 2y ago
    ffmpeg for audio? hmm.. here's what i use: * wav -> mp3: lame * anything -> wav: mplayer (or the specific format decoder if one bothers) * resampling: sox, it does much better quality. But it does not do mp3, so wav > wav have fun!
    • gloosx 2y ago
      But isn't ffmpeg itself use lame for mp3 encoding? I primarily use the app for wav -> mp3, but my planned feature is to create ffmpeg "templates" for conversion, so u can use it for video as well.
• dv35z 2y ago
  (1) 3D wood-craft! - I recently got a CNC router (it's a drill on a motorized arm, that can carve 3D shapes out of wood), and I've been challenging myself to build operate it completely from an open-source stack. - Computer: Used Dell Optiplex, bought on the streets of Medellin Colombia - Operating system: Debian Linux / XFCE - 2D design: Inkscape - 3D design: Kiri:Moto (https://grid.space/kiri/ https://grid.space/kiri/), soon FreeCAD - CNC controller: Universal G-Code Sender (UGS) --> GRBL I am passionate about "maker-space entrepreneurship" (it's the dream job), so I'm meeting potential clients in my city to understand their ambitions and challenges, so we can work together to make useful prototypes to solve them. Useful forums: - https://forum.makerforums.info/ https://forum.makerforums.info/ - This is my "new Hackernews" (2) Affirmator - I'm building a system where you provide your goals as affirmations (example: "I feel healthy, fit and strong", "Today's the day to make it happen"). The system then uses Text-to-speech to generate voice audio files. Next Affirmator uses `mpv` (media player - similar to VLC) and `cron` to automatically shuffle-play these affirmations every day in the morning & evening. I recently used Python and FFMPEG to add "vocalization pauses" at the end of the affirmation audio, so that you have time to say the affirmation out loud. Some of the driver & inspiration for this program is Earl Nightingale's "The Strangest Secret", Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", James Clear's "Atomic Habits" and other personal development programs. These books always have these "every day, you should X" (meditate, write your goals, etc) - and I became frustated - Just how many "things" are you "supposed" to do per day, and how do they fit together, and how can you create helpful reminders & to turn these into habits? So far, I've been testing the system on myself, and it's been a HUGE help towards giving purpose to my life and day, and reducing feelings of depression & insecurity. The solution is completely open-source (useable as web app, local docker container, and installable on a stand-alone computer - which I recommend), and I'll also soon offer it as a for-pay service. If anyone is interested in these projects, I welcome contributors! // JRO
• shalzuth 2y ago
  I’m finally trying to jump on the AI train for a long ride instead of getting off at the first stop. I’m currently creating a new fan site for Marvel Rivals (https://marvelrivals.app https://marvelrivals.app), and I’m trying to introduce new types of features using predictive analysis, and further, use some DL maybe to understand specific player behavior and do stuff like find cheaters. I am failing so far. I thought it’d be easier to throw data at the magic AI monster, but it’s still garbage in -> garbage out. It makes me respect AI engineers a lot more. I wish there was an easier way to apply AI to this kind of stuff, on the how to do better data analysis. Ideally, I’d hook up some tool to my Postgres db, which has a couple tables but everything is named appropriately and has references. Then the tool would output correlations, patterns, stuff people would find useful and interesting. Instead, right now, I think I have to make those guesses and then build models that will either support my hypothesis or reject it, but I don’t know ahead of time and it relies on my gut feelings.
• tempado590 2y ago
  I was creating this anonymous confession posting site with a 4chan like interface. [7shin](https://7shin.vercel.app https://7shin.vercel.app) and today i just created an archive sort of thing called the-image-web. Basically I wanted to create a wall of images uploaded by people on the internet. [theimageweb](https://theimageweb.vercel.app https://theimageweb.vercel.app)
• davidw 2y ago
  I did a fun small Elixir thing that fetches my Albertsons receipts and stores them so I can track our grocery spending there over time. It's produced some interesting results that have changed our spending habits a little bit.
• lennertjansen 2y ago
  I'm working on Airweave https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave , an open-source dev tool that makes any app searchable for AI agents. it connects to a source app, db, or api and converts its contents to accessible knowledge for agents. Airweave automates authentication, ingestion, enrichment, mapping, and syncing to vector stores and graph databases of choice. you can use it via our UI, API, or SDKs https://docs.airweave.ai/ https://docs.airweave.ai/ we originally built this for our previous agent startup as an internal solution to ensure agents could find the relevant data on apps they're using. We then pivoted to this after some early positive reactions and decided to open-source it. here's a short demo: https://tinyurl.com/demo-airweave https://tinyurl.com/demo-airweave we're two engineers/friends based in Amsterdam, NL. We just launched the project, so it's rough around the edges ofc, but we're very eager to get some feedback! feel free to reach out to me personally if you like this! - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennertjansen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennertjansen/ - https://x.com/lennertjansen https://x.com/lennertjansen
• mrholek 2y ago
  I'm working on https://github.com/coreui/coreui https://github.com/coreui/coreui, the Bootstrap fork with full Dart Sass 3.0.0+ compatibility.
• matty22 2y ago
  I'm working on a project to document all publicly accessible stained glass in North America. The tech itself isn't anything exciting (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS and using Bootstrap for UI). All the work is in collecting and entereing data and hopefully recruiting folks around the country to go to their local church/synagogue/mosque, government building, or glass shop/studio and taking photos and collecting information on glass pieces. Site is still a work in progress, but if anyone out there is interested you can find it here: https://www.stainedglassatlas.com https://www.stainedglassatlas.com
  • jfil 2y ago
    What made you passionate about documenting stained glass? (I like these types of projects. Check out loc.alize.us as a way of finding stained glass windows in a limited geo area)
• icemelt8 2y ago
  Working on my startup https://wetarseel.ai https://wetarseel.ai which uses WhatsApp API for message broadcasts and creating whatsapp bots to converse with incoming messages.
  • rahimnathwani 2y ago
    This looks cool. You might want to pass the landing page copy though a spell checker or LLM: User-Firendly Interface
• ejs 2y ago
  I'm working on a solution for gathering product metrics and making sure applications keep running — when you don't want to install or maintain a lot of extra stuff. https://flexlogs.com https://flexlogs.com ... also continuing to not add features to my (not-much-of-a) system for getting more done each week. https://carpeweekem.com https://carpeweekem.com I've also been cautiously adding AI-powered features to my Heroku autoscaling tool (https://flightformation.com/ https://flightformation.com/) and a simple free-text time/date input has been the most popular (demo: https://x.com/ejschmitt/status/1893268742760448497 https://x.com/ejschmitt/status/1893268742760448497)
• darrelld 2y ago
  Working on a loyalty points platform. Right now it's been commissioned by one customer and is a hodgepodge of duct tape and glue. Trying to slowly refactor functions so I can truly make a platform and onboard new customers.
• sccomps 2y ago
  I am working on a free mobile app for speed cubers. you can download the ios version at https://sccomps.com/ https://sccomps.com/
• aghilmort 2y ago
  finalizing arXiv paper on why hypertokens eliminate AI hallucinations
• NotAnOtter 2y ago
  A chess site I'm calling 'Chess Derivatives' with modified rules to reinforce best practice. I'm still tweaking the specifics but the basic pitch is this Augmented Chess: Normal chess with conventional ELO ranking system but you get additional penalties & rewards based on common bad practices, and recovering from bad positions. > The first person that breaks from the book line loses 10% of the start time (unless book was not an option / the line was exhausted) > Missing a forced checkmate forces you to wait 5% of the start time before your next move > Achieving any principled position good grants some time (Passed pawn, connected rooks, rook / queen / bishop battery, etc) > Doing any principled bad position loses some time (Knight on the rim, blocked bishop, king past the first rank in early game or mid game ---------------------- Continued Position: Chess but you continue a position from a high-level chess championship. There are a couple value-adds here > Provide lower level players with a way to start a middle or end game positions after a highly skilled player followed all the correct principles. My theory is this will reinforce why those principles exists, how they can benefit you, etc. > Provide high level players a way to be forced into positions out of their comfort zone / their preferred styles > Provide differently-skilled players to continue play from unique positions with the desired amount of odds. So a GM might play a 1000 ELO player but starting from a position with -9 evaluation, etc. If you have any ideas, comments, or feedback LMK.
• tauoverpi 2y ago
  As part of my spare time hobby, implementing small packages for building games that don't allocate memory post startup (or work when the memory map can be declared statically such as with wasm-4-like targets or an rp2040) and can run in resource constrained environments along with performing well on a steamdeck. Most of it involves taking advantage of data structure properties (and limits) by using zig comptime to derive functions that either compute offsets relative to existing pointers or use pre-computed offset tables, when relative isn't possible, to reduce function size further without inhibiting the ability to take full advantage of SIMD. One of the next task for this is statically computing update graphs for archetypes such that a multi-thread runtime can mix strategies (last thread (detected by an atomic counter on nodes that require all dependencies to be complete) to reach a node broadcasts new work it unblocks, starved threads steal work from others, etc) to speed up the world update loop when running on larger targets while also remaining lock-free. It's fun to explore how far one can go with statically declaring all limits upfront and managing even larger targets (steamdeck, servers) as if they were embedded applications.
• dorkrawk 2y ago
  I'm working on a little flat file based blogging tool called Postwave ( https://github.com/dorkrawk/postwave https://github.com/dorkrawk/postwave ) and using it to power a blog with career advice for software engineers called Don't Break Prod ( https://dontbreakprod.com/ https://dontbreakprod.com/ ). Because the world needs more blogging tools and advice. Or maybe it just scratches my itch and it's fun to build.
• sebnun 2y ago
  I'm building a podcast player to learn languages. https://www.langturbo.com https://www.langturbo.com (No signup required)
• fjjjrjj 2y ago
  Getting through winter volunteering commitments that end soon, and daydreaming about learning some new skills. I have Python experience as a data engineer and I want to revisit Django. And my kid is getting into the Roblox studio GUI tools and I want to work on a Lua project with him to get him started with SDLC concepts and an IDE. TBD exactly what that will look like or what direction it will go.
• elpepito1 2y ago
  A flight simulator for software engineers. Think LeetCode x CodeCrafters x HackerRank but doing actual large-scale simulated work to practice your skills (DevOps/Data/AI/ML/MLOps) and then be able to land a job. Looking for beta users and feedback!
• cmontella 2y ago
  I’m working on a programming language for robots called Mech! https://github.com/mech-lang/mech https://github.com/mech-lang/mech Mostly a research project until I find some more people interested in pushing it further. A recent blog for anyone who wants to check it out: https://mech-lang.org/post/2025-01-09-programming-chatgpt/ https://mech-lang.org/post/2025-01-09-programming-chatgpt/ And a 10 minute video: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/i-tried-rubbing-a-database-on-a-robot/ https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/i-tried-rubbing-a-database-on...
• teuobk 2y ago
  Ultra-fast rise-time pulse generators! Yeah, hardware -- or, hooray, hardware! A few months back, I got excited about pulse generators that had rise times on the order of 15 to 30 picoseconds. There aren't a lot of those available, and I was curious about what would go into their design. so I decided to build my own. https://voltative.com/pulser https://voltative.com/pulser
• aantix 2y ago
  A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with Minecraft in it, never gets surfaced. For anyone interested in using it, send me an email. I'll put you on my list. And you can contribute ideas to our community Google Doc. jim.jones1@gmail.com
  • conductr 2y ago
    My kid is still too young for YT and I’m not sure what age group you’re targeting but there’s a huge mass of people that do not like YT for the early years. And try to avoid it for as long as possible. I think this is a niche to tap into if you are interested in monetizing this as a better experience for these types of parents. This could be the toddler to 10+ just whenever parent decides to allow it but wants to do it in a controlled way. I don’t know if I’m in the minority, because I’m kind of in a bubble (fancy private school environment), but a lot of the other parents I know are YT-free homes and even iPad free but that’s at age 6 right now. I’m hoping to stay away from it for at least a few more years with my son. Anywho. I’d definitely use an app that gave the kid recommendations and some discover-ablilty that the YT algorithm provides (probably with some more pre-filtering) except just as tiles/gifs previews and they had to “request access” to any video to play. Or have some redefined categories as you mentioned. Then once a video was allowed, it would appear as available in the app via yt-dlp or similar. This does 2 main things I prefer as a parent. I get control over the content. It removes the instant feedback /random access loop of on-demand streaming. For some things it might even be good to control how many times they can watch it , or if they have to ask permission again, etc. Not sure if you could bolt on / use as a base but this kind of customizations for stacher would be perfect.
• posobin 2y ago
  I'm working on SPHNX, a voice-based AI coding interviewer. While problem solving is crucial for passing interviews, in a live interview you are also getting tested for your communication, debugging, thinking on the spot, testing, code clarity, and other skills. You can't practice these on leetcode, but it's easy with SPHNX. I've just added rich feedback reports last week that turned out more helpful than I expected. Right now it works as a mock interviewer for algorithmic (leetcode-style) problems, you can sign up for the waitlist here, I'll send you an invite right after: https://sphnx.dev https://sphnx.dev It actually works pretty well, but we're having trouble getting users (some sign up but don't end up doing even a single interview?!). We're thinking whether we could sell a version of this to companies to do their technical screens in, perhaps with problems that are more similar to the actual software engineering work (e.g. debug existing piece of code, write tests, and extend it). We're generous with interview credits if you give us good feedback =)
  • nico 2y ago
    Very cool idea. It would help to have testimonials. Also it looks kinda janky on Safari mobile Marketing/distribution/adoption is maybe the hardest thing about creating a new product or service I think you have the right idea about focusing on companies, because they can be recurrent users, whereas people preparing for interviews will only briefly use the product
• reverendsteveii 2y ago
  I'm trying a new take on the ubiquitous habit tracker app - one that tracks your daily habits but also tracks rating your day on multiple axes (enthusiasm, engagement, overall mood, etc). The idea is to correlate behaviors and outcomes in a way that provides insight into what could potentially trigger good or bad days. It's also an excuse for me to break out of backend web dev land and learn Vue.js and everything I need to know to actually build and host a web app.
• kundi 2y ago
  Working on SEO automation agent. For years, understanding and interpreting analytics and combining it with SEO best practices have been a challenge. We built an agent that can make sense of your website, understand how it renders on search engines, its weak points and strengths. You get actionable advice that can make a huge difference in search visibility, often taking less than an hour to implement changes. https://nightwatch.io/seo-ai-agent/ https://nightwatch.io/seo-ai-agent/
• mstipetic 2y ago
  An AI powered relationship coach. What started off from, how would and AI relationship coach work if it could see both sides of a relationship, to now having evolved to a full therapy session powered by a small swarm of specialized AI, following integrative therapy principles, messaging integration and more. I've been testing with a small group of friends and am about to launch any day now. If somebody would like to try it, just let me know!
• shekhargulati 2y ago
  I’m building Videocrawl https://www.videocrawl.dev/ https://www.videocrawl.dev/ a platform designed to make video content more accessible and actionable. It offers two key features: 1. API for Clean Transcripts – Extract structured transcripts with references, code snippets, and images. 2. AI Video Assistant – Interact with videos using AI-powered tools for summarization, Q&A, and more. Would love to hear your thoughts! You can reach out to me at sg@o14.ai
• paddy_m 2y ago
  I am building Buckaroo [1], the data table UI in Jupyter that I have always wanted. I know how to use df.head(), df.describe(), sort, and run histograms on columns. I just got tired of typing 5 bits of code to minimally inspect each dataframe every time I looked at it. So I built buckaroo, it combines a high performance scrollable table (built on top of ag-grid), with summary stats, and histograms. All of this is customizable and extensible. I recently built a dataframe compare tool [2] on top of buckaroo that uses coloring to show differences between dataframes intuitively. Get in touch if you want to talk tables, data science tooling, or exploratory data analysis. [1] https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo [2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u3PW6q36ufo https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u3PW6q36ufo
• carlos-menezes 2y ago
  Videos on programming: https://www.youtube.com/@carlosmenezes98 https://www.youtube.com/@carlosmenezes98 With English not being my native tongue, it gets difficult to speak some words at times and I have to reshoot each takes several times. But it's worth the effort and it's different to what I do in my main channel!
  • em-bee 2y ago
    those videos are pretty well done. your language also sounds fine. subscribed using freetube
    • carlos-menezes 2y ago
      This is the first real feedback I got on those videos so thank you very much!
• breckenedge 2y ago
  Making a CAN-to-BLE bridge for cheap race car telemetry. It’s using an ESP32C to store MegaSquirt ECU data in BLE characteristics, and a cheap android phone using Chrome + WebBluetooth to buffer and upload data to a server for pit analysis in near real time. Also using the phone for heading, GPS and accelerometer data.
• taormina 2y ago
  Well, I know that I was just saying that HN is not the place to look for gamers, but I am still working on a video game. Danger World (https://linktr.ee/playdangerworld https://linktr.ee/playdangerworld) is well underway and should be coming out later this year! Danger World is a 2D narrative adventure written using Flutter's open source game engine, Flame. I am the solo developer. I've been working with a very talented art team to do the art and animations in Spine. The composer has just finished the soundtrack! Danger World is running on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows. Last week, we got Danger World compiling on my Steamdeck for SteamOS instead of having to use the Windows .exe + Proton. I'll be getting the Linux depot setup in Steam soon. In the spirit of doing things that won't scale to get some interest bootstrapped, I've been doing a sticker giveaway. I have a bunch of stickers featuring the cast of the game and the Danger World logo and I have been mailing them out to anyone who wants them. I've sent out 40 envelopes or so with about 10 stickers in them each. So far, in experimenting with the various social media platforms, Bsky seems to be where my potential users are. I posted a boxart concept that I was using for IndieDB and got 100 followers from that single post of who all appear to be real actual users. Certain engagement metrics like impressions are non-existent in Bsky, but in exchange for real actual engagement from people who seem interested in my game's art, who cares? X feels extremely P2W, except you buy their checkmark and they still don't show your content to anyone. I'm still experimenting heavily in social media land. Meta and Tiktok seem to show more promise, but since I've been scoping out and planning a visual novel mode I have also been considering taking Reddit up on their free ad credit. I'd love to talk with anyone more experienced in marketing games like mine.
• robby1066 2y ago
  I'm several months into https://www.clearboxlegal.com https://www.clearboxlegal.com, a service for affordable legal help with citizenship applications. Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads, etc...). I'm learning a lot, but it's slow going.
  • wand3r 2y ago
    This is primarily for US citizenship right? Do you offer US citizens help with emigrating as well?
    • robby1066 2y ago
      Yeah, U.S. citizenship for existing Green Card holders, specifically. Leaving the U.S. is a whole different thing that I wouldn't even be sure where to start with, unfortunately!
• kam1kazer 2y ago
  Writing a streaming S3 object archiving tool which collects all old objects (in my case they are near-zero in size, but occupy 4KB blocks). In total data is 10GB daily. So I have to stream all this process to not consume such amount of RAM. These are audit data like external system request/responses for possible investigations. This saves a lot of space. Initially written in Python, now practicing with Rust. Container images is 2.2MB small :)
• nosecreek 2y ago
  I’ve been scraping and tracking Canadian grocery prices for a few years, lots of ideas on how to do more with it if I had more time… http://grocerytracker.ca/ http://grocerytracker.ca/
• bilater 2y ago
  My weekend project Open Deep Research got more traction than I would have thought. https://github.com/btahir/open-deep-research https://github.com/btahir/open-deep-research An open source alternative to Gemini/OpenAI deep research. I'm experimenting with this cool flow chart workflow that I think can be a cool twist on generating reports for deep research. Check it out and lemme know what you think. :)
• dm03514 2y ago
  I'm building a stream processing framework using DuckDB. https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow The goal is to create a stream processing framework that supports SQL jobs. Apache Flink supports this but is very heavy-weight overall. I work with cost constrained companies that just can't run Flink but still want access to high performance streaming primitives. We are taking a slightly different approach from other competitors by building cloud-native tools for engineers. SQLFlow is built on DuckDB, Native Kafka Library, and Arrow. This allows SQLFlow to handle ~70k+ events / second with low memory overhead (~250MiB). Would love your questions, thoughts and feedback or feature Ideas! Thank you
  • arcbyte 2y ago
    Interesting project. I'm working on a side project that is sort of adjacent but the user cases I'm targeting are fundamentally different from yours. I professionally have some projects where we are doing custom CDC from kafka -> dbms. In that context, we're just using spring boot apps. How is the troubleshooting/recovery story for sqlflow?
    • dm03514 2y ago
      Very Cool! Which use cases are you targeting? I'm surprised at the relatively sparse state of streaming. I feel like there are: - Flink - Spark - ~Benthos - Arroyo - Then mostly custom / bespoke frameworks Maybe there just isn't that much money in it? But I think there's still lots of opportunity to improve the Dev/UX over the JVM and the enterprise solutions. ----- I would say recovery is achieved through kafka consumer groups right now, which results in at least once processing semantics. We also support websocket input for the bluesky firehose but that is completely ephemeral. I have a story in the backlog to write ahead to disk which should allow for tolerating process crash/failure. The tumbling windows stores state using duckdb. The end user can configure a disk-based duckdb databases which achieves durability as well. The troubleshooting was actually pretty funky, i didn't realize how tricky it could be with stateful stream processing. I certainly don't have a good story for it, but what I did was added a sql debug HTTP handler. When this is enabled it exposes the duckdb execution context over HTTP. This was how I debugged the tumbling window logic during development. I would start SQLFlow, query to make sure the windows were empty, send some known messages, query the windows to make sure they were aggregated correctly, wait for the windows to close and flush, query the tumbling window state, etc. For troubleshooting it also supports prometheus metrics oriented towards stream processing, # of messages, processing duration, success/failures, etc. SQLFlow also ships with a dev framework, this allows you to execute your sqlflow pipeline against a json input file to make sure the sql processing logic is correct. I wanted to give the ability to decouple testing the logic, from actually having to stream data. I would love to know about more what you're hacking on!
• nico 2y ago
  Experimenting with training and running ML models on a “normal computer” (ie. no GPU or cloud servers, just locally on CPU/ram) Don’t have a background in ML, so mostly just for learning purposes Been playing a lot with the MNIST dataset. Trying things like training only on the examples the model gets wrong, or training only on random samples of the image (ie. using only a small subset of the pixels of the image as the input), or creating one model per label to overfit the data and then merging the models for testing, or just testing performance of different architectures and frameworks on the same problem
• rikroots 2y ago
  I'm writing a Developer Runbook[1] for my JS canvas library. Partly because, now I've reached my 7th decade, I need to record as many of the questionable architectural and coding decisions I've made as the library has evolved. But mainly in the vague hope that maybe the extra data will help our new LLords and Masters make less stupid decisions about the code they suggest to innocent developers on how to use my library in their code. [1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/write-initialization-doc/docs/reference/repo-structure.md https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/write-initi...
• msoloviev 2y ago
  I'm working on a text editor (https://github.com/blackhole89/autopen/ https://github.com/blackhole89/autopen/) that continuously analyses the buffer with a local LLM to compute token surprisal and generate candidate completions starting from any point, and switch back and forth between different ones by walking a tree structure. This is pretty different from the usual way people interact with LLMs, and has lots of interesting applications - for example, if you are using them to translate and don't like a particular word choice, you can "dig through" top alternatives on the spot or even insert your own. Applying the same approach to chain-of-thought reasoning gave me the feeling that I might be looking at a form of realistic UX for some sort of science-fiction neural AI augmentation - you can let the CoT run on and do its thing, but also interject at any point and insert a "thought" of your own, or go back and revise a thought you did not like, and then let it continue. Imagine such a stream hooked up with a two-way pipe into your phonological loop (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/phonological-loop https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/phonological... - perhaps more attainable with existing tech).
• ivylee 2y ago
  Working on GrocerBird[1] where you upload a grocery receipt, it will parse all of the items and their prices, so you can keep track of grocery spending and prices over time. Please feel free to share your feedback and suggestions! [1]: https://www.grocerbird.com https://www.grocerbird.com
• hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
  I'm making a violin. I've been a programmer for just over 25 years, and recently decided I wanted to leave the profession. So I'm planning on attending the Violin Making School of America in the fall, and my project before then is to build a violin myself. There are some good in-depth video tutorials, as well as some famous books on the subject, and I'm planning to pair up with an amateur luthier in my town. The tonewood I purchased just arrived!
  • fl4tul4 2y ago
    Yes! That's a very good objective. I am too studying a lot and trying to build one from scratch. It has been very humbling and enlightening experience, something that AI will never replace ;) Kudos sir, and best of success. Check Maestronet (Luthier section, ie, Peg Box) for insightful comments and suggestions.
  • uqimerioni 2y ago
    Which tutorials and books?
    • JR1427 2y ago
      I have this book. It's fantastic https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Violin-Making-Chris-Johnson/dp/0709058764 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Violin-Making-Chris-Johnson/dp/...
    • hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
      "The Art of Violin Making" that the sibling comment mentioned is very good and is often referred to as "the Bible" of violin making. "Violin Making - a practical guide" by Juliet Barker is also very good I purchased the DVD series "When Trees Sing" by Peter Paul Prier (he was the founder of the Violin Making School of America in Salt Lake City). The DVD series wasn't cheap but it was worth it. There is also an online course by Lucas Fabro, https://www.lucasfabro.com/en/online-course/ https://www.lucasfabro.com/en/online-course/, that I know is also very highly regarded. Fabro also has a number of free YouTube videos that are great to just get a feel for what's involved. The Strad has a whole series of posters (https://www.thestradshop.com/store/product-category/lutherie/lutherie-posters/ https://www.thestradshop.com/store/product-category/lutherie...) with scans and measurements of famous violins to serve as templates. International Violin, https://www.internationalviolin.com/ https://www.internationalviolin.com/, sells a lot of lutherie tools and is where I bought my tonewood.
• sunami-ai 2y ago
  Agreement Risk Analysis and visualisation. The visualisations generated by the AI from the agreement. Click on legend text to drill down and on circles in the spiral. UI is 3D cube animation for now. Former Deputy AG in charge of fighting corruption and fraud affecting US consumers: “I like how it balances the intent of the law for the consumer” Both academic and practicing lawyers have looked at it and given us good feedback. Not looking for a problem to solve. Found our niche. We applied for YC but we are all on the older side and the first question in the YC application was our age. LOL. Not gonna work. Doing another round of family and friends fund raising then VC post market traction. Samples of ToS and financing agreements Https://labs.sunami.ai/feed Still needs some work for mobile/responsive version. DM marc fawzi on LinkedIn. Video: showing drills downs etc https://youtu.be/r97cujq4Egk?si=Ks7ivB411sFyzLTg https://youtu.be/r97cujq4Egk?si=Ks7ivB411sFyzLTg
• ahstilde 2y ago
  I'm trying to eliminate all allergies in the world without customers having to ever leave their home. We're starting with cat, dog, horse, and pollen allergies. We're close to peanut allergies. The science is known as allergy immunotherapy. https://www.wyndly.com/pages/immunotherapy https://www.wyndly.com/pages/immunotherapy
• switchstance 2y ago
  I'm building a daily trivia game using Bolt.new. What do you think? https://brainblitz.app https://brainblitz.app
• jayseattle 2y ago
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• TheBozzCL 2y ago
  Got a few: At work, I'm finalizing a platform to quickly set up and deploy Apache Flink clusters and pipelines. It's going surprisingly well, with several teams interested in using it! Unfortunately we couldn't use the extremely cool Flink Kubernetes Operator because it's incompatible with the existing infrastructure stack at my company... but rolling out something similar enough hasn't been too hard. At home, I'm about to receive my new robot vacuum and the gear I need to install Valetudo in it. I'm excited because I've had nothing but bad experiences with cloud-connected vacuums. To give you all an example: my current Shark vacuum sometimes starts by itself in the middle of the night. When I get up to stop it and check the app, I see that the floor plan it tried to clean is not my house... so it's receiving cleaning commands from other users.
• citywhale 2y ago
  I'm working on setting up my first homelab using Proxmox. It's more of a hardware and cable routing project right now but I'm excited to move towards setting up the software side of things soon! I'm also learning JavaScript through Daniel Shiffman's book Nature of Code. As someone who has a background in modeling it's a very engaging read, and the exercises are fun!
• theconjon 2y ago
  I'm developing ParaNoia, an application that allows people to securely share passwords between each other (https://github.com/jonesconnor/paranoia https://github.com/jonesconnor/paranoia). At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID password, or something of the like, there are people that send the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not everyone deletes their message containing the password afterwards. You enter your secret on the website and it gets encrypted on the client-side before being sent to the database. A one-time-use URL is generated and then you send that URL to whomever needs the password. The backend never sees the secret in plain-text. The tool is meant to be self-hosted - but I'm in the process of deploying it publicly for people to try out. I got the idea from my brother -- he was doing an internship at Tesla and said they had this being used internally, so I figured I would create my own as a little side project that I can then implement at work.
  • abdullahkhalids 2y ago
    Making this installable on Sandstorm would be great.
  • hmhhashem 2y ago
    Sounds similar to https://github.com/jhaals/yopass https://github.com/jhaals/yopass.
  • lenova 2y ago
    I like the idea, but _please_ include screenshots or a demo on your repo's readme... it's an issue that comes up frequently on the /r/selfhosted subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1iuqoyi/devs_please_put_screenshots_of_your_project_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1iuqoyi/devs_pl...
• codeforafrica 2y ago
  I am learning how to promote http://codingforafrica.at/ http://codingforafrica.at/ in particular http://codingforafrica.at/help/ http://codingforafrica.at/help/ There is a lot of potential here to help, and I don't have big ambitions to scale this to a lot of children. There are also schools that need help. Other people that volunteer their time to run a daycare center for those that can't afford a regular one. One school is looking for someone to teach programming, but doesn't have the budget to hire a professional. I could volunteer to do it, if I could find a sponsor. It doesn't even require a full-time salary.
• npodbielski 2y ago
  For about year and a half I am working on fully dynamic, zero-downtime, reconfigurable API. Main target is me, hobbyists, self-host enthusiasts and small-to medium companies. Idea is to be able to configure API with JSON schema definition of an object that API should store and allow you to manipulate (with CRUD operations). In future I plan to add FE for building those schemas based on data and some LLM helper. * There is possibility of adding relations between schemas (1-to-n, n-to-n, 1-to-1) * API allows to filter and transform responses to your own arbitrary schema via custom query language * support Oauth with custom Oidc of your choice and API tokens for easily configurable but strong security * from the start I designing it with extensibility in mind so there is built-in system of flows and custom extensions * flows support running via custom http endpoints, and system events (i.e. data changes); cron schedules and external events are planned * flows are defined via Json files * flows are also customisable and allows to define your own blocks and flows that can be injected into other flows for bigger pieces of logic. * all json files are source for code generation so performance should be the same as using your own manually written code or at least very close. * there is built-in template subsystem, used for flows (i.e. for saving files with content from template) that I also plan to use to generate static files for FE. * custom pieces of logic are supported by flows so you can create flow to update some read-only values based on other values (i.e. FullName from first and surname). To achieve that I had to write my own fluent API for C# code generation. I had idea mainly during writing my own API for my house automation: 'Why I have to write another DAL layer, and auhorization, and filtering, and database schema? I did this dozens of times already?!' There is no need to figure this one out every time.
• meekaaku 2y ago
  AI enhanced mini ERP. Side project: Building a 6 DOF robot arm with dynamixel servos.
• yc-kraln 2y ago
  I'm working on inexpensive, mass-manufacturable fully autonomous drones.
• chiefofgxbxl 2y ago
  I'm building a freemium browser extension (https://trashpandaextension.com/ https://trashpandaextension.com/) that primarily removes "social metrics" (number of likes, subscribers, views, friends, etc. you see on websites) and sales tactics (20 people have this in their shopping cart, limited time offer, -78% sale!, etc.). It's also a hodge-podge of other annoying things I want removed on the web, like when articles have pull quotes that repeat what they just wrote one paragraph ago, or when sites block the ability to paste passwords. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome/Vivaldi, but it has a lot more development to get it where I want it. Would appreciate any feedback and tips on both the extension itself as well as advice on monetization. https://trashpandaextension.com/ https://trashpandaextension.com/
• crypteasy 2y ago
  I've been working on digitizing my family genealogy. ~90 years ago, a book was published documenting my family's lineage in America. I've digitized part of it, used OCR to extract the text, and then used LLMs to format the data for integration into a family tree. I hope to publish the family tree and make it editable so that it's a living family tree that others can add to and keep up to date.
• m3047 2y ago
  I've been working on something I call "Poor Fred's SIEM" (a play on Poor Richard's Almanac) for several years, rethinking an approach to observability based on the functional difference between diagnostic and evaluative observables: cooking evaluatives at the edge, presuming that diagnostics will be investigated on the (well-implemented) network segment where they are recorded. I've also rethought PTR records based on local knowledge, dovetails quite nicely. Living off the land: redis, python + dnspython + dpkt, DNS as both observable and transport. The core components are on GitHub: * https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo * https://github.com/m3047/rear_view_rpz * https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns Not the first time I've referenced these on HN. I did just implement a Redis operator which Redis doesn't have, SHARDS: * https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns/blob/main/SHARDS_Command.md No GUI, command line tools work for me. I've got a toolkit. I don't give it away because I don't want to support it but if you made friends and asked nicely I'd toss it your way. Here's a silly little two minutes of your life... done in one take, in Skype: * https://www.zipcon.net/~m3047/observability-dream.mp4 I actually eat this dog food to the point where I publish (some) telemetry data on the internet with this toolkit using DNS. Again, make friends and I'll tell you where to find it. I think it would be great if other people ran this toolkit and published telemetry data for other edge operators to see: things can be federated, they don't need to be centralized.
  • cookiengineer 2y ago
    Wait, so you've been turning DNS into a remote debugging and netflow/log analysis protocol? I tried to understand the code and how it's used among the nodes. The thoughts in my head right now are similar to "wow this is so cool but I have no idea what it does". I've been experimenting with DNS a lot lately, and e.g. used DNS exfil techniques to build a mesh router (mostly for privacy related reasons). [1] But this kind of protocol layer inside PTR/TXT/URI(?) records could be really useful, as it could bypass firewalls which is super important while remote debugging a potentially compromised node. With DNSSEC or OPT record support, you could probably also reflect an authentication workflow, so that the following sessions could be handled in an encrypted-per-session manner. [1] https://github.com/tholian-network/warps https://github.com/tholian-network/warps
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• xyproto 2y ago
  A self-contained little web server that supports Lua, HTTP/3, PostgreSQL and all sorts of different things: https://github.com/xyproto/algernon https://github.com/xyproto/algernon A snappy and configuration-free little editor/IDE for the terminal: https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton
• whitehexagon 2y ago
  Working on improving my barista skills, although my latte art seems to have ground (sorry) to a halt at 'heart', which I guess is level 1. Next I'd like to add a Pi into the espresso machine for some remote fun. A couple of the control panel pcb-pop-style? buttons are failing, and I thought it might be fun to try and control via a touch screen. I suspect I'll want some kind of timer on the machine side to ensure a safe/timely cut-off, but I haven't done anything like that since using a 555 a very long time ago. Maybe I'll just drive a relay from a digital Pi i/o pin, but suspect it is switching mains level V.
• vincejos 2y ago
  I'm building a cashback rates comparator for France :) https://www.best-cashback.com/ https://www.best-cashback.com/
• jsemrau 2y ago
  I am still writing about Cognitive Agents on my Substack "Encyclopedia Autonomica" [1]. Last month I crossed 500 subscribers (~15 paying) on Substack and since today Google is properly indexing it. Throughout February I wrote largely about applications in FinTech like Market Making, Agents as Financial Decision Engines, Advanced Named Entity Recognition, and that I built Deep Search for Finance in 2023 and nobody cared. [1]https://jdsemrau.substack.com/ https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
• rozap 2y ago
  finished integrating our new FOSS ecu into our racecar, and started rewriting the data logging software for our team. Learning about can, wrote a dbc parser and frame interpreter for our higher level tools. Also integrated some existing components with the new ecu, our in car display now speaks can instead of serial, and soon another device will be pushing can packets to our analysis app. streaming can packets over lora and/or lte. analysis app is being un-jankified too. it's a phoenix tool for timeseries/laptime/etc dashboards.
• carlos-menezes 2y ago
  I started a football/soccer (mostly Premier League focused) podcast with a friend about two months ago. It's in Portuguese, but it gives us an hour each week to talk about our love for the game and sprinkle in some interesting statistics. Alongside that, I've also been coaching kids (ages 4 to 11) at a local Benfica academy since September, and I've had a lot of fun helping them improve in many areas of the game. It's a truly enriching experience.
• urda 2y ago
  Writing, just some writing. It does not matter if it is technical, creative, or something else. Just wanting to put pen to paper, and get it out there. See it at https://urda.com https://urda.com
• marshughes 2y ago
  Recently, I've been engaged in a project that focuses on the market demands of independent developers and small and medium - sized entrepreneurial teams. People involved in R & D often tend to be completely immersed in technology. As a result, the products they develop are left unattended and may not even be needed by anyone, which is really terrible. After all, everyone hopes that the things they develop can be in demand and receive positive feedback.
• suralind 2y ago
  Last few weeks I’ve been trying to implement my own GitHub Actions runner, a little bit as a fun side project and a little bit to improve observability.
• theodric 2y ago
  I walked away from tech and bought a farm. So: I've built a large solar array on a repurposed mobile home chassis and have been digging a trench through rocky ground to lay the conduit for the cabling to backhaul the DC power to the shed where the inverter and battery bank will live. It's the rainy season in Ireland, and that field was marginal at best, so it's been swampy work and half of the digging is trenching additional drainage channels so the conduit doesn't flood and path water back into the shed. There's a housing order due to a bird flu scare, so I'm not running poultry on pasture until it's lifted (or until I can get the government to agree that my pasturing system qualifies as housing). Annoying, but that's farm life. Oh, I'm doing some shit with AI also, but that's a secret :)
  • jesserobbins 2y ago
    I find the off grid power problem solving to be very soothing & entertaining. Like the same way people do crosswords or wordle. Just with 100amps. :-)
• leyoDeLionKin 2y ago
  A platform for productivity assistants for startup founders
• dbremner 2y ago
  I'm rewriting a suite of network applications from C++ to Rust as a learning exercise. It's a long obsolete and obscure protocol, so the results aren't particularly useful, but it's been a good introduction to the language.
• changexd 2y ago
  Social skills and mental health!, I've been working pretty hard on learning how to make friends, showing my admiration to girls and become generally an outgoing and honest person, I used to be somewhat afraid of talking to strangers because I was quite worried that people might hurt me, and now I'm feeling more comfortable having conversation with new friends with less trust issues, though I pushed myself a bit too hard to recently I got plenty of panic attacks, I know it's a phase, so I'll keep working on it!
• drio 2y ago
  For the past few weeks, I've been annotating all the references I could find in the legendary Unix magic poster: https://unixmagic.net https://unixmagic.net. I'm happy to reach this first milestone, but I'm already envisioning future iterations. My goal is to transform this into a proper celebration of Unix – a system whose elegant simplicity and powerful design principles continue to inspire me. There's something deeply satisfying about connecting with this foundational piece of computing history. Contributions are always welcome. Special shout-out to @abetusk for all the support and enthusiasm with the project.
• mark336 2y ago
  I have a website that is like a HN where news is about tech, mostly AI. I haven't posted anything to it in a few months. https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
• tslmy 2y ago
  A chatbot that plays Call of Cthulhu, the tabletop RPG game, with you. https://github.com/StarsRail/Cocai https://github.com/StarsRail/Cocai Better than a human, it can draw an illustration of the scene in meme seconds. It can also roll dices in 3D: Demo: https://youtu.be/8wagQoMPOKY?si=oCa2erHvheEyEKM_&t=55 https://youtu.be/8wagQoMPOKY?si=oCa2erHvheEyEKM_&t=55
• gligierko 2y ago
  I’m working on In Other Words, a daily word puzzle where players connect seemingly unrelated words through conceptual stepping stones. The game showcases how any two words can be connected through surprisingly few steps — we’ve crafted each puzzle to need at least 3 hops, with around 50 elegant 3-hop solutions hidden among thousands of possibilities. When players explore longer paths (up to 9 hops), they can discover millions of valid solutions among billions of potential routes. It’s fascinating to see how words like “ground” can bridge entirely different concepts, or how homographs create unexpected connections between semantic domains. The game advances the “idea-linking” category of word puzzles — focusing on meaning rather than spelling or anagrams — and turns our linguistic network into a daily brain teaser where finding your own creative path is as rewarding as discovering the most elegant solution. It’s for iPhone only (yes, sorry!), and you can play for free once. Apologies in advance for the large download. Get it from here: https://www.inotherwords.app/ https://www.inotherwords.app/
• joeyguerra 2y ago
  Another website framework. I'm using this objective to figure out what's essential and what's not. Trying to answer the question, "what's the least amount of code required to get something performant, hot-reloading for fast dev feedback, and web tech"? https://github.com/joeyguerra/juphjacs https://github.com/joeyguerra/juphjacs
• zzo38computer 2y ago
  I am working on a ZZT-like game engine called "Super ZZ Zero". (Someone who is interested might try.)
• jmpavlec 2y ago
  Still working on https://gametje.com https://gametje.com which is an alternative to Jackbox games. Currently have 5 available games (with a 6th behind signup + opt-in alpha tester flag). It's free to try as a guest for a few days before an account is necessary. Playable in 9 languages and hostable/playable from any device with a web browser. Most games offer the ability to play against an AI player to try it out before trying to convince your friends. Currently working on setting up a blog with some dev details about the newest game. Also working with a UI/UX designer to make it look and flow a bit better.
• dijksterhuis 2y ago
  still working on octatools ... CLI for doing "stuff" with Elektron Octatrack binary data files. * reversed engineered 90% of the data files * finally got copying banks between projects working (a 10-ish year old feature request no-one has implemented yet) * now tidying it up before I publish it on basically every public forum octatrack people hang out on and hoping I don't completely bork people's stuff in the process.
• upmostly 2y ago
  I’m working on Hypership (https://hypership.dev https://hypership.dev) – a platform that lets you deploy full-stack React and Next.js apps with auth, user management, events, and analytics in minutes. We’ve built first-class support for Next.js, handling SSR, static exports, and edge deployments seamlessly. We’re also building our own CDN to optimise asset delivery and improve performance across deployments. But beyond infra, we’re betting on something bigger: developers want everything they need to ship an app in one place—not just UI kits, but fully hooked-up components that handle state, auth flows, and analytics automatically. That means forms, a help desk, user management, and more—all tightly integrated so you can focus on building rather than stitching services together. Would love to hear from anyone who’s been frustrated by piecing together third-party tools just to get a product off the ground!
• cookiengineer 2y ago
  I'm working on two things right now that kind of go hand in hand: - A webassembly bindings library for go, with "namespaced" / subpackaged adapters for Web APIs, so the final wasm binary won't be bloated - A git management tool for my repositories, implemented in pure go (and using said wasm library) to find out what I need to build a small little app with it [1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/gooey https://github.com/cookiengineer/gooey [2] https://github.com/cookiengineer/git-evac https://github.com/cookiengineer/git-evac
• jsfunfun 2y ago
  super cool shirts
• dwilkie 2y ago
  I'm working on Somleng (https://github.com/somleng https://github.com/somleng) - an Open Source alternative to Twilio, that's being used to save lives by powering the National Early Warning Systems of Cambodia and Laos. We're also building OpenEWS (https://github.com/somleng/open-ews https://github.com/somleng/open-ews) which will be the world's first Open Source Early Warning System Dissemination Platform. We're a small 2 person team trying to make a big difference.
• marinusva 2y ago
  I've been working on a way to geolocate users who use a SSH terminal client. Admins may want to know or implement controls based on locations. We've created a Linux PAM module and mobile app that uses a text QR code to record the location. The PAM module can be used for other PAM controls like SUDO. https://github.com/telic-labs/Geo-Guardian/wiki https://github.com/telic-labs/Geo-Guardian/wiki
• ayushpawar 2y ago
  I am working on a site where you can learn SQL by querying real-world sports data. Building this cause Leetcode style SQL questions bore me and analysing real sporting events make this a fun exercise. https://sqlpremierleague.com https://sqlpremierleague.com
• chilldsgn 2y ago
  I built a small SaaS, mostly for myself, around OpenAI's API to quickly generate and store all of my web page meta descriptions for blogs. Right now I am adding a couple of features as well as improvements to the UI and I want to make a proper pricing section for the landing page. Also need to figure out marketing. I enjoyed building it so much! https://descripto.app/ https://descripto.app/
• crush_robo_1536 2y ago
  https://rockyai.me/ https://rockyai.me/ - a chrome extension that lets you chat with webpages using LLMs. Example use cases: - get tldr of a long article - draft personalized outbound linked messages - search if a specific company or type of role is posted on a long HN WHO IS HIRING thread - ask questions when reading research papers on arxiv without context switching into chat gpt, etc
• kenjinp 2y ago
  I'm building geomancer, a google earth for fantasy worlds. https://geomancer.kenny.wtf/ https://geomancer.kenny.wtf/ think virtual table top, live sharing for players, map manipulation
• lwansbrough 2y ago
  https://rune.sh https://rune.sh a platform (not an engine) for building “native”, cross-platform games. exposes WebIDL inspired APIs, including audio, GPU, input, storage, etc. you can think of it like unity without the engine. eventually will support user libraries (read: engines) written in whatever language, usable in whatever language. very rough, don’t expect everything (anything?) to work. might change the name due to the collision with the Rust library by the same name.
• dobreandl 2y ago
  I'm developing a deep-linking marketing tool for mobile apps that's significantly more affordable than competitors. I run a software development agency specializing in integrating deep-linking platforms like Branch and marketing attribution tools such as Adjust and AppsFlyer, but their costs are sky-high. That’s why we’re building https://grovs.io https://grovs.io — offering the same functionality at just 40% of the price. In summary, our tool lets you generate dynamic links, track attributions, and analyze referrals. You can easily see which links and marketing campaigns drive the most installs, reactivations, reinstalls, and views.
• dxbednarczyk 2y ago
  A music library organizer, as a replacement for my current workflow with Beets (https://beets.io/ https://beets.io/). Beets takes almost 5 minutes per incremental update of ~1000 folders of tagged flacs with my current configuration, when all I really want it to do is: - fetch album art if not present - create folder structure readable by Subsonic server - symlink relevant files Very raw and unfinished, currently only implemented adding new albums. However, 5 minutes to <1 sec is a promising improvement.
• zyx_db 2y ago
  currently im trying to write more! i have been a fan of several bloggers for years now, but have never had the courage to start myself. hoping to change that this year. i figure writing online would be a fun way to try and start conversations with people who are interested in the same topics. also, hopefully any technical posts can go to show employers that im not just another junior engineer whos reliant on LLMs for coding, and have some deep knowledge.
  • jfil 2y ago
    Go for it!
• kaizenb 2y ago
  Working on a social network that connects us through art and culture. ArtConnects > https://artconnects.club https://artconnects.club
• BrandiATMuhkuh 2y ago
  I'm working on a simple voice AI tool that "interviews" people. Similar to a questionnaire. Why: - because stable voice AI is still extremely hard. I built multiple such platforms (inbound, outbound, support, phone based) last year. And learned, it is very hard to build something complex with current tool - the interview paradigm is common enough to be useful. E.g: off boarding, business insights, pre/post lab experiment interview, market research
• pauletienney 2y ago
  Working on the french national building registry. We record every single building in the country, attach a unique number and distribute this number in many databases (public and private) as a pivot key. The goal is to create new analysis using data spread in different databases. Since nobody has a perfect database and no algo can detect everything, we are opening the database so any public structure, private company and citizen can participate to the content (think OpenStreetMap for an official state database). The url : https://rnb.beta.gouv.fr https://rnb.beta.gouv.fr (in french)
• coopykins 2y ago
  Working on https://resumeflows.com https://resumeflows.com A tool that builds job-specific tailored resumes. It's not a novel idea, but the ones I've seen use a subscription based model, and as a user I feel more inclined to purchase some tokens for usage based approach. Also my wife has been looking for a job for a time and I thought it would be handy for her. Pretty close to getting ready for launch.
  • alternatex 2y ago
    Dark theme needs some work for the text/background contrast. I think the Lighthouse tool I Chrome can help in spotting these issues.
• moribunda 2y ago
  I work on tremolo picking. Time to play some black metal!
• serverlessmania 2y ago
  Chrome extension to help me read and practice typing at the same time: https://github.com/zerubeus/type-selection https://github.com/zerubeus/type-selection Pycharm AI agent (just started): https://github.com/zerubeus/aladin https://github.com/zerubeus/aladin Alexa skill to set Muslim prayer reminder, ask for prayer times, and so on: https://github.com/zerubeus/alexa_adhan https://github.com/zerubeus/alexa_adhan
• nake89 2y ago
  A minimap for vim - Works on 7.3 - Uses only vimscript - Doesn't require compiled with lua/python - Works on DOS ( and Win9X) - Doesn't use braille characters. So that it can work on older machines. Why? Because I thought it would be a fun challenge. I have a win 98 machine. I have Vim 7.3 installed. It has not been compiled with lua/python. I want a minimap. It's been fun to find clever compromises to make it work. I've almost completed the project. (at least it works on my modern computer, I'm sure when I transfer it to my Win98 I'll find I'm using some modern vimscript functions and then I have to invent fun workarounds again). If you want a good dev experience on a Win98, I highly recommend Vim or if you don't vim, then notepad++. Vim is better though.
• chirag-ai 2y ago
  Hey there! Ever had an amazing app idea but felt overwhelmed by the thought of actually building it? Say hello to Tiram.ai! (https://www.tiram.ai https://www.tiram.ai) Tiram.ai is here to turn your vision into reality—whether you’re a startup founder, a product manager, or just someone with a killer idea. All it takes is a simple voice or text input, and Tiram.ai does the heavy lifting to create fully functional web, mobile, and logic apps tailored to your needs. Why Tiram.ai? Voice & Text Input: Just speak or type your idea, and watch it come to life. Tailor-Made Solutions: It intelligently extracts user personas and crafts solutions that fit real-world needs. Seamless Development: From concept to deployment, Tiram.ai makes the process smooth and efficient. Whether you're building the next big thing or streamlining your business, Tiram.ai is your go-to platform for effortless app development. Ready to bring your ideas to life? Check it out here: Tiram.ai (https://www.tiram.ai https://www.tiram.ai)
• lenn_eavy 2y ago
  I'm learning C through making games with Raylib. It is just the beginning and my first game is super simple: two cowboys dueling, whoever shots first after a signal, wins a round, whoever is left with lifes after 3 rounds wins a duel. I want to add "dare mode" where players can set amount of lives and an objective or prize. I realize it is a topic done over and over but it is 100% for my learning. I have generated some graphics locally using Flux model, will play around with sounds and music generation and spice it up in Ableton, but now I'm stumbling on the basics and I learn a lot through solving problems. Far-reaching goal would be to release it somehow, somewhere - I don't expect to earn even a dollar on it, just for fun and even more exp.
• alexandersechin 2y ago
  I'm working on software for filmmakers, directors, producers, etc. which drastically saves time on pre-production. We tested our competitors apps and make our own blend of tools that actually ease the process. Effortless script breakdowns, moodboards, scene-specific venue suggestions, storyboard from script generation (here we consider us the best), nice pitch deck generation and projects sharing. The market is still a bit conservative about using AI, but we are looking for testers and enjoyers: https://blooper.ai/ https://blooper.ai/. There's a free trial period for people who don't like to f a lot on pre-production (especially during conversation with stakeholders). Price is also mild for industry, 49$ for up to 5 projects and 199$ for big guys who need process optimization on scale. So...that's it.
• czue 2y ago
  I started a new project: https://lifeweeks.app/ https://lifeweeks.app/ It's a way to create a visualization of your life in weeks, based on Gina Trapani's version that I saw here last week. Would love feedback if anyone has any!
  • chooma 2y ago
    Super cool. I have something similar in my browser tab for years now when I open a new one
    • czue 2y ago
      Nice. Is that an extension?
      • chooma 2y ago
        Yes, it's called: Mortality - Death Clock - New Tab It's a countdown timer of sorts ;)
• blair_devmode 2y ago
  Chipping away at a virtual office space for devs (https://flurry.world/ https://flurry.world/). Adding more features, some of which are morphing into new apps.
• liu3hao 2y ago
  Working on Circuitscript, a language based on python to describe electronic schematics/circuits: https://circuitscript.net/ https://circuitscript.net/ The main motivation for creating Circuitscript is to describe schematics in terms of code rather than graphical UIs. This makes it easier to track changes and version control with a text based schematic. I have used different CAD packages extensively (Allegro, Altium, KiCAD) in the past and wanted to spend more time thinking about the schematic design itself rather than fiddling around with GUIs. The main language goals are to be easy to write and reason, generated graphical schematics should be displayed according to how the designer wishes so and to encourage code reuse.
  • childintime 2y ago
    You've gone for a Logo paradigm: turtle graphics with an inference engine behind it. It looks like its simplicity is a strength. There are a few others in this space, often using Python as their base.
    • liu3hao 2y ago
      Yes, that is a big part of the design choice for this language. I felt that circuit elements are usually defined in relation to other circuit elements and instead of explicitly stating connections, it might provide more understanding of the overall circuit if the user builds the connections by "walking" along the circuit graph. A good side effect of this is that you skip having to name every single component in the circuit. I was inspired by skidl (https://devbisme.github.io/skidl/ https://devbisme.github.io/skidl/)'s python usage and did explore that direction. However, it felt strange and clunky to try and fit the circuit drawing concepts I had in mind into python via a domain specific language (DSL). The user would require a decent understanding of python and the DSL to create circuits. This would complicate my original aim of creating a language/tool that allows electronics engineers to focus on the circuits that they would like to design. By creating a new language, I was not limited by python's syntax/grammar. I could craft the language closer to what was needed for schematic design and maintain simplicity. Overall, it was a great learning experience on language design and also using ANTLR for the implementation.
• greysteil 2y ago
  I've been building https://mentions.us https://mentions.us for the last couple of months. It's a little web app that monitors Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Hacker News and a bunch of other sites for keyword mentions. Not an original idea (F5Bot has existed for at least 8 years) but a fun project, and I think it can make a contribution by monitoring more sources and having a free tier that includes sending Slack messages. It has taken a couple of months to go from idea to a product that's polished enough for other people to use, and I've been full time on it. It has a couple of dozen companies using it now, almost all from the last couple of weeks. That's been a big boost!
  • divji18 2y ago
    I think an AI powered f5bot is needed. Curious to know that are you integrating API of these platform or some other way?
    • greysteil 2y ago
      Yeah, it's on my list. When you're scanning sites with high volume (Reddit has ~300 posts per second, Bluesky has ~100) you have to keep things fast and cheap, so I think keywords still have a role, but I think they can become an implementation detail. My plan over the next couple of months is to build the option for users to enter the kind of things they want to scan for, have AI convert that to keywords, use the keywords for the (fast) scanning, and then apply additional filtering using AI to the small number of posts that match. Not built yet, but I think there's a bunch of promise to using AI to find relevant conversations online. Re: APIs, yep, all APIs. I'm not doing any web scraping at the moment
• BWStearns 2y ago
  Built a writing assistant for second languages (https://nativi.sh https://nativi.sh). Still working on it a bit but mostly trying to figure out how marketing works. Currently working on a few rust tools for drone stuff. https://github.com/BWStearns/ulog-rs/ https://github.com/BWStearns/ulog-rs/ https://github.com/BWStearns/flight-engineer https://github.com/BWStearns/flight-engineer
• hto_tam 2y ago
  I am working on a technique to minimize the negative impact of confirmation bias on a person's life
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• sonderotis 2y ago
  Trying to rewrite the UI for my blog. Fixing responsiveness https://mtende.vercel.app https://mtende.vercel.app
• bovis 2y ago
  For a few years, I've been learning Rails (on top of some middling previous knowledge of Ruby) so I could build a site that manages data for the racing sim Assetto Corsa. https://functionalracing.com https://functionalracing.com It doesn't look like much, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes. I'm proud to finally make it live.
• chirag-ai 2y ago
  Hey, we're building an app that lets you create your own web and mobile apps. how cool is that? If you're up for it, give it a shot at https://www.tiram.ai https://www.tiram.ai It's super easy and fun!
  • chirag-ai 2y ago
    I just ask: "I want to sell coffee premix online" And its give me this as output https://app-01jmyp44-coffee-enthusiast-tiram-ai.vercel.app https://app-01jmyp44-coffee-enthusiast-tiram-ai.vercel.app isn't it cool
• mealkh 2y ago
  I am building an RPG Maker MZ game with my son, who just turned four this winter. :)
• dietsche 2y ago
  https://github.com/hamradiolog-net/adif https://github.com/hamradiolog-net/adif i’m learning golang and made this library that parses ham radio ADIF logs. my goal was to match the speed of the golang json parser. i managed to surpass it by about 2x! i’m currently employed writing c#, but looking for a job elsewhere and golang seemed like a good way to level up :)
  • neonsunset 2y ago
    golang is a sidegrade at best, in many ways it's very last century when compared to C# (even if poorly managed and overbloated enterprise codebases may lead you to believe otherwise, they are quite detached from what modern C# is supposed to look like)
    • dietsche 2y ago
      I would tend to agree, and yet there is something intellectually challenging about learning something new! I've been on the c# bandwagon since 2004; assembly and C before that. Go brings back some of that low(er) level feeling :) I could tell you some horror stories about how my current employer does C#. It is very strange.... can't use var, nuget packages for _every_ class library... and it gets stranger from there on out... unfun!
      • neonsunset 2y ago
        Honestly, this is a good argument and it should not even be made here but rather when discussing dire and completely self-inflicted state of affairs that a lot of products written with C# are in. It's not just that "the product you see no reason to rewrite in .NET 8" causes talent attrition. It's that it causes that said talent to leave .NET altogether, despite the fact that for greenfield products it's much better at 85% tasks being usually thrown at Go. It's an unfortunate predicament.
• henadzit 2y ago
  I'm working on an open-source event tracking infrastructure using AWS and Apache Iceberg. Think Heap or Mixpanel but you own the data, the data is in your data like within seconds and it's dirt cheap. https://github.com/manymetrics/manymetrics https://github.com/manymetrics/manymetrics
• uscneps 2y ago
  I'm writing a list of tech projects and companies with headquarter in EU : https://github.com/uscneps/Awesome-European-Tech https://github.com/uscneps/Awesome-European-Tech the idea is to give attention to the Europe tech ecosystem.
• gabrielcsapo 2y ago
  completely offline RAG personal assistant app (tasks, notes, location data, health data) bifurcated by context (e.g. work, personal, project-a) a corpus of knowledge.
• piloto_ciego 2y ago
  My wife and I are building a sort of solar punk diy hydroponic farming growing start up here in our garage in Alaska! We found a nice design someone had released online under creative commons BY, modified it to fit our needs (though we’re thinking mark2 might need a complete redesign), then have been printing the towers out and growing veggies under grow lights! We have a long way to go but I’m building the online store presently to sell towers (that should be up and running in a few weeks - I’m kind of exhausted after my day job - and we’re hoping to have enough towers to sell veggies at the farmers market by the summer. Long term I’ll likely buy some land and build a less ad hoc setup, for now, we are still experimenting. The idea is to slowly build this up as self-reliantly and simply as we can so that anyone can grow their own food and so we can use dirt simple tools to run the business. We plan on doing as much as is practical with open source tooling and Linux. No subscriptions, no spyware (once we get to tower design mark4 or 5 and we have some raspberry pis running the tooling), and we want this to be a model so other people can do the same thing we’re doing! Basically, as we approach this AI inflection point, I really strongly feel like the best results for the future will be to leverage this technology for good. Also, I think there’s a niche in using tech for extremely practical and non-SaaS purposes. Everyone and their brother wants to create this crazy billion dollar startup idea where everyone pays them a subscription to their AI bot or whatever, we’re just hoping we can make people a little more resilient in our community and maybe feed my neighbors. We think we can leverage these new tools for good. I’m not a very experienced web dev (my day job is in automation), but I’m learning and actually it looks like I might have some side business where I throw together some small websites for local companies too. The goal is modest, practical, and ideally something that makes my community better. Come check out my terrible flask website here: www.pragman.io In a couple weeks I should have my garage cleaned out and the online store ready, but for now enjoy!
• arkokoley 2y ago
  Working on a resume editing tool for rapidly applying to a large number of jobs. The basic idea being that resumes should be tailored to the job being applied to. In this tool, you put in your resume, add in other details regarding your background, projects and other things that you might not put in the resume. You do this once. Now you paste in the job description, we use an llm to generate a new resume grounded in the details you added earlier. You get a pdf that you can submit to the job application.
• hboon 2y ago
  I have been building https://theblue.social https://theblue.social which provides analytics and post scheduling for Bluesky along with a little side-tools for following-back followers and cleaning your followings. Been on this the last few months. Have worked on a few other ideas before that but those didn't fly.
• chooma 2y ago
  Working gathering the most accurate lead data, which then is used as input for AI sales development representatives: https://billie.ai https://billie.ai
• Attummm 2y ago
  I'm working on a small project for managing settings in Golang. I found that boilerplate code needed for handling defaults, environment variables, and CLI variables could become unreasonably large and error prone. I just wanted to have a struct hold the settings needed for the project, with sane defaults, helpful messages, and handling of environment and CLI variables at the same time. So I created Settingo. Settingo is a unified solution to handle defaults, environment variables, and CLI arguments. Settings are a boring aspect of a project, and Settingo will allow a dev to focus on the project. https://github.com/Attumm/settingo https://github.com/Attumm/settingo
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• cldwalker 2y ago
  Using ollama's structured output, I can dynamically build queries using the https://schema.org https://schema.org ontology. This allows for pretty data-rich queries and importing those results into personal knowledge management apps like Logseq. https://www.loom.com/share/bd98db65474f4e828bd4db65d556159c https://www.loom.com/share/bd98db65474f4e828bd4db65d556159c is a demo of what works and https://github.com/logseq/nbb-logseq/tree/feat/db/examples/ollama-chat https://github.com/logseq/nbb-logseq/tree/feat/db/examples/o... is the code
• zdwolfe 2y ago
  I'm working on a dumb tool to picture-in-picture show rendered GPS data as a mini-map with a forward- and backward-looking trail on top of GoPro footage (to memorialize cool bike rides).
• haxzie 2y ago
  I'm working solo on a project called Sequel (https://sequel.sh https://sequel.sh), it uses the latest Claude 3.7 to generate and execute SQL query against your connected database. Used by a bunch of folks now, trying to figure out a distribution channels and setup to self host the tool now.
• app134 2y ago
  Steganography tool called ez-steg. It supports least significant bit steganography as well as emoji/unicode encoding via variation selectors. It grew from a set of scripts I had written to test out data loss prevention systems. Includes some nice-to-haves like payload encryption, carrier image creation https://github.com/a-bissell/ez-steg https://github.com/a-bissell/ez-steg
• jfil 2y ago
  I've created a proof-of-concept walkable 3D environment based on John Tallis' 1830s engravings of London streets. Polishing it, and working on the accompanying blog post. I'm also writing a basic introduction to the SQLite EXPLAIN statement (will build an accompanying "helper" tool that you can use to read the output of that command). I am thinking of starting a venture that will increase the amount of nonesense in the world. The intention is to get people playing, writing and exploring more. I would keep track of "wins" by recording the work that participants/readers create in the world. Very grindset. Much hustle. If you need a push - or a cheerleader - on a creative project that you're working on, then reach out to me.
• nullderef 2y ago
  I built an app that no one wanted to use, unfortunately. It helps people reduce phone usage by displaying things like cats in your screen, the screen time police, annoying cookie banners, and more. Users complained the app was too annoying, so I've revamped it after asking for feedback properly [1]. Learning more about user research, UX, marketing (even making TikToks!) and so on has been pretty neat. Learnings are: 1. People want to avoid losing track of time on social media 2. Instagram is great to connect with friends, but Reels are dangerous! 3. Complete focus is only necessary in cases like work or study. This has been one of the most creative projects I've done. It's the closest thing I've done to art as a programmer :) Also, Kotlin Multiplatform has been a joy! Only faced minor issues because it's too new, but it's been easy to create animations and reuse components. XML on Android was a huuuge pain. I'm happy with myself for prototyping without wasting too much time overall. [1] https://speedbumpapp.com/blog/v1/ https://speedbumpapp.com/blog/v1/
  • Quiark 2y ago
    This seems really nice to me. Of course people are going to click it away to get their dopamine but that's just reality.
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• doranrothe 2y ago
  We are packaging a software product for the niche of broadcast television, radio, cable, and digital. No-Code, Copilot embedded.
• lancekey 2y ago
  I'm working on Compute Prices https://computeprices.com https://computeprices.com, a (hopefully) up to date list of cloud GPU prices and their providers. Right now I'm working on getting the data more complete, adding more sources and improving the learn (https://computeprices.com/learn https://computeprices.com/learn) section. Any feedback appreciated! Here's hoping the tools and info help people learn more about training models, deep learning research and generative AI.
• corefinder 2y ago
  I want to be able to buy and sell cars as easy as trading Pokemon cards. There's lots of issues around fraud, scams, and trust in the car industry. So I've been working on building an online car escrow service I'm calling Carma Pay that de-risks buying or selling cars, while making it faster and a better experience. I'm also a student at WSU and will be pitching at our business plan competition. https://carmapay.com https://carmapay.com
• alain34 2y ago
  I have been working on https://m.emori.es https://m.emori.es to store photos and videos and to share with my parents. I asked Gemini 2.0 to describe it and it is what was produced. Discover a simple yet powerful way to organize and share your cherished memories with m.emori.es. Designed with ease of use in mind, even for those less tech-savvy, this private photo and video storage platform lets you create logical folders and effortlessly invite family and friends to view them. Perfect for sharing precious moments with elderly parents or loved ones, m.emori.es offers a secure and intuitive experience. With plans to integrate contact management, private chat, and genealogy tree support via GEDCOM files, m.emori.es is evolving into a comprehensive hub for family connection and memory preservation. Visit https://m.emori.es https://m.emori.es today and experience the joy of sharing made simple. Ignore the pricing page and if you want a test account in exchange for honest feedback, please contact email me at alain AT aoware DOT co DOT uk
• jesserobbins 2y ago
  Having built out a very satisfying overkill homeassistant environment, I am now optimizing my critical load battery backup setup. (EG4 12000xp + Powerpro batteries)
• madkins 2y ago
  Hello all. I am new here and new to coding. I am trying to create a web app that "gamifies" prompt jailbreaking with a bounty for the successful prompt break. People will pay to try and their payments will fund the bounty. For transparency, I will be using a smartcontract on the BSC chain (to keep testing with real crypto cheap) and crypto wallets will be used to pay, fund the bounty, and track attempts (all easily seen on BSCScan). A successful prompt break will trigger the bounty transfer from the smartcontract to the successful wallet immediately. The LLM prompt will vary to create different personalities in the chatbot to keep efforts fun and engaging. Attempts are linked only to web3 wallets. Prompts will be stored off chain and used to improve LLM prompting security. Data will also be used to improve security interaction between LLMs and blockchains (which can help with protecting sensitive data when utilizing AI). Just wondering what people might think of this project. My day job is in healthcare as a provider, not coding. The projects here are incredibly impressive and there is so much talent. So, I am a bit embarrassed to even post here. Your input will be highly valued and appreciated.
• faxman 2y ago
  I'm working on PayPerFax - https://payperfax.com/ https://payperfax.com/ - a simple online faxing service that lets individuals send faxes without committing to subscriptions or creating accounts. The idea came from an interesting "tail wagging the dog" situation. I had an old domain (faxbeep.com) lying around unused which I'd been renewing for 20 years. When I finally built something there, I discovered users were more interested in a fax testing feature that I'd added as an afterthought - the abitlity to send a fax to our test numbers and see it appear on the website for 30 days. That insight led me to dedicate faxbeep.com entirely to fax testing, and to buy payperfax.com for my original idea: straightforward, pay-as-you-go faxing. People still need to send faxes surprisingly often - for tax authorities, immigration paperwork, medical prescriptions, etc. The service charges a fixed fee for a 3-page fax (cover + 2 pages) with a bit more for additional pages, and you only pay if the fax sends successfully. My current challenge is visibility - Google has essentially black-holed the site. Even exact match searches like [pay per fax] don't bring up the site. If anyone has SEO advice on how to climb out of this hole - I'd appreciate it!
• miletus 2y ago
  I'm working on Build That Idea - https://buildthatidea.com https://buildthatidea.com - A platform that allows anyone to create custom GPTs in 60 seconds and monetize them Here's how it works: - Define your GPT - Choose a base LLM (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, etc.) - Upload knowledge base - Set pricing and start making money I’d love to hear what the HN community thinks!
• keyurishah 2y ago
  creating a AI generated data pipelines. building config data driven pipelines that enables domain driven data teams
• rasulkireev 2y ago
  Markteing AI Agents for founders who suck at Marketing: https://marketingagents.net/ https://marketingagents.net/
• digest 2y ago
  I'm working on Digest (usedigest.com) which curates content from nearly any source into your own personalized email newsletter. It also has a newsletter reader built into it as well so all of your newsletters get funneled into Digest, instead of your email inbox.
• adamqureshi 2y ago
  I am working on a Tesla Price tracker. I made $9 this week. ( I am happy i have business validation) I hope to add more subscribers. Tesla is dropping prices on its inventory. Cybertruck is being discounted by $6k now. I charge $9 to track 5 VINs and $20 to track 10 Vins. I set up stripe subscriptions and pull in the inventory from Tesla. Please check it out or if you know anyone shopping for a tesla and wants to get price drop notifications please refer to them - Thank you. https://tracker.onlyusedtesla.com/ https://tracker.onlyusedtesla.com/
• robotguy 2y ago
  I'm building a functional 1:12 scale scientific weather station: https://imgur.com/a/miniature-weather-station-kkw7RLI https://imgur.com/a/miniature-weather-station-kkw7RLI The data path will be the same as my DIY full-size weather station; ESP32(MQTT)-->WiFi-->Rpi-->Node Red-->InfluxDB-->Grafana https://imgur.com/a/diynot-weather-station-zHAcpzX https://imgur.com/a/diynot-weather-station-zHAcpzX
• else42 2y ago
  Been working on a put.io download client for *arr implementing the transmission RPC interface: https://github.com/elsbrock/plundrio https://github.com/elsbrock/plundrio
• mpourismaiel 2y ago
  I'm building a dashboard called UniDeck (https://dash.unideck.app https://dash.unideck.app) which allows connecting to different services and viewing their data in widgets. It's a great tool for creating home pages for teams and companies and we're working on adding more integrations and tools. It works by connecting to apis of services like github, gitlab, jira, trello and more with user's account and provides widgets for those services with various configurations. Our most recent feature has been a widget that allows configuring a table that can connect to whatever api the user provides, all handled in the browser so only user can see the data. You can connect to any api endpoint you like and customize the table to your needs. It was a side project that we needed for our own projects but came to realize there was a huge demand for it when we showcased it on ProductHunt. Check it out and let me know what you think.
• ag_user123 2y ago
  I am working on Note API Connector https://noteapiconnector.com/ https://noteapiconnector.com/ It allows you to import and sync live data from any API into Notion.
• dtgmzac 2y ago
  Been working on a platform for applicants to find out who is applying to the same job and whether we got ghosted. It was frustrating to apply for jobs, with no rejection emails and no updates, not knowing whether to keep waiting or move on. The plan is to answer questions like: 1. Has anyone heard back from this role? 2. How long does it usually take to hear back? 3. What are the online assessments/interview rounds like for company X? https://github.com/didtheyghostme/didtheyghostme https://github.com/didtheyghostme/didtheyghostme
• neok 2y ago
  I am working on scraping api website https://scrapingforge.com https://scrapingforge.com Started as a side project, it's not released yet.
• maxlang 2y ago
  I've been working on verified inference at https://ambient.xyz https://ambient.xyz Lots of fun to think about the future of crypto if you're able to handle unstructured data (and I'm not really a crypto person.) Feel free to check us out/hit us up if you're curious: hello@ambient.xyz
• mmcool 2y ago
  Two things: Stella – Inspired by Jack Quaid being interviewed at the Emmy's (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2a1mcfT/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2a1mcfT/). I created Stella (https://usestella.app/ https://usestella.app/) an app that acts as an assistant that helps actors run lines! It is at the very early stages now, but the goal is to have AI do the voices, just in case you aren't as talented as our friend Jack over there! Also the famous little women scene is on their to try out, cause I think running lines is fun just do to when bored. Doctours – Similarly inspired by TikTok, I started something to help people getting hair transplants overseas. It was crazy for me to think people are still paying in cash for these procedures. Like idk about you but I am not bringing $5k across the border to any country. So I mainly created this as a way to solve the cross border payments problem (https://www.doctours.health/ https://www.doctours.health/). edit: added the link to the tiktok.
• else42 2y ago
  Started a NixOS Flake for declarative network namespace isolation for systemd services: https://github.com/elsbrock/netns-unit/ https://github.com/elsbrock/netns-unit/
• JanisIO 2y ago
  I’m currently building “Denorite” — A WebSocket server application built in Deno that enables real-time communication and event handling between Minecraft servers and TypeScript applications. A realtime webOS interacting with it is also nearly ready to be released. https://github.com/Denorite/Server https://github.com/Denorite/Server
• jacktony09111 2y ago
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