Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25700135

by notoriousarun • 6 years ago

420 819 6 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Release early, release often. Don't worry, be crappy. Fail fast. Iterate.

Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects.

Also, if you need any help with a project, a startup, or an idea, just post it here.

kristerv• 6 years ago

https://bashboard.io

Spent 3 months making this metrics dashboard, where you can send any JSON or data and it'll pick out charts from it. Best part is - no 3rd party service is left out and the learning curve is super shallow (just make a request with any data).

The backend is very stable, but UX at the moment is poor, since I didn't manage to reach my target audience and am still thinking how to continue.

Aztar• 6 years ago

Looks like a nice idea. Maybe try targeting a niche or a specific industry?

I agree the UX needs a revamp.

WoodenChair3• 6 years ago

I don't know if you're aware but in the late '90s and early '00s "bash board" was a term that referred to an online forum where kids would make fun of one another. My middle school had multiple bash boards... doesn't mean you can't use the term today for something different, but just something to be aware of.

notoriousarun2• 6 years ago

I'll start with mine: https://pipecontent.com - Right now trying to solve the content consumption problem.

The intention is to build a second brain for knowledge workers. That will help knowledge workers save their best ideas, organize their learning, and expand their creative output.

Hacker? Interested? Let's connect on https://twitter.com/notoriousarun

matt_f2• 6 years ago

This is cool.

pettycashstash22• 6 years ago

http://myoilguage.com

Hardware is version .1 and as well as web app. I am learning new web stack tech to Enable commercializing this and improve the hardware.

HeyLaughingBoy2• 6 years ago

Well done, I love hardware projects. We don't see enough of them here.

HeyLaughingBoy2• 6 years ago

Also, I just saw someone else here is doing something similar for a water tank.

And your pipe cap housing reminded me that I had a similar project in mind but float switches would not be rugged enough. I'm going to revisit it using ultrasonics!!!

pettycashstash22• 6 years ago

My version 2 is based off of laser. I believe it wil be more accurate. Also battery based.

nikivi• 6 years ago

https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything

Currently can add and remove links (pinboard clone). But the big goal is more ambitious (https://docs.learn-anything.xyz/roadmap)

Hard to do without funding.

ragnot• 6 years ago

https://github.com/ragnot/roost-hsm

I wanted a C++ hierarchical state machine library didn't require massive compile times like boost msm.

mattivc• 6 years ago

https://github.com/matiasvc/Toucan

I work in robotics and have for a long time been frustrated with how hard it is to visualize data in C++. I created Toucan to try to solve that. The project is still in a very early stage but has already started to become a useful tool.

The API still needs work but it’s getting there. Toucan can be called from anywhere in your code, and runs in its own thread to always remain interactive and responsive.

sandermvanvliet• 6 years ago

Voltmeter: an application to quickly provide an overview of service health using simple service status endpoints.

https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/Voltmeter

Pretty much works for what we want at $workplace, I built it so that we can see if our platform services are up and running and healthy.

It uses scraping of a service status endpoint to collect service health and the health of the dependencies of that service.

Using that the app renders a graph with all services and dependencies which helps us quickly find services that are broken in prod.

Recently added inputs from our metrics back-end so that we can have auto-discovery of new services and to support services that don’t have a HTTP endpoint we can scrape

soneca• 6 years ago

https://www.quidsentio.com

The idea was a mix of personal journal and private social network. But social network features are hard. Notifications, discovery, create a habit.

I am the one only user (I use it as a habit tracker). Couldn’t convince even my wife to use it.

montenegrohugo2• 6 years ago

https://www.namehunt.dev/

I've always struggled with finding domain names for new projects (all the good ones are taken!) that I decided to do something about it.

The suggestion engine isn't really fully working yet, but the idea is to input a desired word/name/set of keywords and see a list of available domain names.

Kind of following the "build what you yourself would use" philosophy.

P.S.: Love the idea of having a periodical post like this on HN

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

Keep working on it. I don't need it right now, but I could definitely see something like this be interesting, the only solution I can think of right now is just searching for different things in a traditional registrar and that's been a frustrating process. Good luck! Biggest challenge is well. One coming up with good recommendations, but two getting it into my head when I need it. I don't know if traditional advertising will help with that you almost just need to be come a household name.

montenegrohugo2• 6 years ago

Thanks for the encouragement! Glad you think it could be useful.

Agreed, getting a userbase/people who know about my product is probably the biggest challenge (frankly, I think it almost always is), but I'll give it my best shot. If it fails then, well, at least it will still be useful for myself :)

biztos2• 6 years ago

I tried it out and the suggestions were not bad but there are two huge problems.

It shows everything as available even if it’s very obviously not, and it uses underscores in the names.

The first problem might lie with the registrar API assuming you’re using one.

ungawatkt• 6 years ago

I made a API introspection documentation tool for Python Flask. Mostly a learning experience and possibly redundant to other projects, but it's just about good enough to use for my own purposes. I might ShowHN at some point.

https://github.com/cliftbar/automd

mysterydip2• 6 years ago

I wouldn't even call it half baked yet, more like a tenth, but I'm working on a total conversion (with a few engine changes) to the DOS Rise of the Triad. You can see one example here: https://twitter.com/mysterydip/status/1345112757050486785?s=... I am changing all textures, adding some new ones, repurposing enemies and weapons, all new maps and features.

I think the engine really had some clever potential that didn't get fully realized in the end product, and I want to bring that out. Plus working on a DOS project has been very enjoyable for the simplicity and limitations.

tbran6• 6 years ago

Very cool! Not much of a gamer, but I replay ROTT every few years. Would totally play with your mech-enabled version!

paulryanrogers4• 6 years ago

Interesting! Why for ROTT and not use an engine like Doom if you're replacing all assets anyway?

mysterydip2• 6 years ago

I actually prefer the block layout of levels instead of the line segment geometry, just makes more sense in my head. Also I like the underdog, I want to show people the engine was more advanced than "wolfenstein with higher walls". So many things have been done with DOOM, I think it's interesting to explore the other engines of the time.

peller2• 6 years ago

https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained

I wanted something better than Django. So I built this. IMO it's already there from a technical perspective but the documentation needs some more work. Would greatly appreciate any feedback!

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

I used padrino for a while, because it advertised itself as half-way between sinatra and rails. I liked it, but I don't think the framework ever had enough support to be able to rely on it, and since it's not well known I wouldn't pick it again in an environment where someone else had to code on it.

http://padrinorb.com/

peller2• 6 years ago

Yea, I definitely need to put more effort into promotion and getting more active users.

I'm not familiar with padrino, but at least for Flask Unchained, it's literally Flask under the hood - so my project is less a new framework but more of an improved way to use a highly popular existing framework. I'm hopeful this distinction can help with adoption.

sopromo• 6 years ago

Public Transportation app: https://mappi.invisen.com/

Website is Spanish only for now but the app has multiple languages. Still adding new cities whenever I can but I've been too busy lately.

Started as a project to learn more about routing and public transportation in Madrid and GTFS data. It was fun and I learned a lot.

tstegart• 6 years ago

https://startupgroundwork.com/

It helps people start a business by helping them find the right software and acts as a starting point for research. It's half-baked because writing content is very difficult and energy consuming. But hiring writers just gets you crap. Its difficulty to make money if words don't flow.

jl6• 6 years ago

https://github.com/jl6/hdrfs

"HDRFS is a lossless filesystem application which stores a complete history of every byte ever written to it. It is backed by a strictly append-only log, but works as a fully read/write POSIX-compatible filesystem. Think of it as a cross between a filesystem and tar, with infinite versioning and tuned to maximise ease of backups.

It is intended to be used by individuals to archive personal files."

Very half-baked. It works, but it turns out there are quite a few applications with highly pessimal write() patterns that bloat the metadata database, making it less general-purpose than I had hoped.

nfoz• 6 years ago

I love the idea of this, how you write to volume files of a fixed configurable size, that become immutable once it's moved onto the next one, so you can pick up those prior volumes and move them to offline storage whenever you want. That just seems really nice and easy to understand.

Winterflow3r• 6 years ago

This has some traction (a couple of thousand users per month) but needs a bit more work. A colour search engine and browser for lipsticks https://lipcolourmatch.com

koblas• 6 years ago

Working on Tax/Person ID validation.

First building out this JS library - https://github.com/koblas/stdnum-js

which I plan on embedding in this React static site.

https://tininfo.com/country/AD/individual/NRT/

- Currently mired in building out all of the country validation in JS (the thing I know how to do) - Should really be working on building out more website templates and proving the functionality.

Why? Because I have to validate VAT numbers CPF or other random ID numbers on a regular basis and right now building unit tests just to test an 8 digit number...

kidproquo• 6 years ago

RiffPod[1]. Hardware and app to enable wireless recording of guitar. 4 years of iterating through hardware versions to finally converge on a design that works[2].

[1] https://riffpod.io [2] https://twitter.com/proquokid/status/1347713280953999361?s=1...

glacials• 6 years ago

Dual-licensing platform for open source software: https://license.land

mping• 6 years ago

Observideo [1]. Initially a web app that links to dropbox to facilitate my wife's student's research on behaviour by tagging video segments. Now it's a half baked electron app. Initially made for her research projects, most students either use excel or some expensive software.

[1] https://github.com/mping/observideo

rhn_mk1• 6 years ago

http://rhn.github.io/jazda/

Jazda is a simple hackable bicycle computer. You can build it out of components available in your local electronics store (except the display).

I started it some 10 years ago as an experiment in AVR programming, before Arduino existed, and it keeps a honorable place in the back of my head ever since.

drzel• 6 years ago

https://www.tappydays.com Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

Hrmm the landing page doesn't have a lot of screenshots. What would tappydays give me that google calendar wouldn't? Do you have integrations to pull days from facebook/etc?

gwph2• 6 years ago

https://lofichess.com

I wanted a trimmed down interface for following live chess streams. To keep the website updated I run an AWS Lambda every two minutes that does the following:

1. Pulls active streams from the Twitch API.

2. Uses the Go templates library to repackage the response as static HTML.

3. Uploads the static HTML to S3, where it is served behind CloudFront.

woutr_be2• 6 years ago

Interesting approach to generate a static website. Is this completely free? Or do you end up paying for the Lambda task?

gwph2• 6 years ago

Average latency for the Lambda over the last week is 4.84s and it runs with 128mb of memory. Running every two minutes, that comes to ~25,000 invocations and ~15,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month. The AWS Lambda free usage tier includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month so the Lambda is definitely free.

The website is tiny (homepage < 20kb excluding the thumbnails which are hosted by Twitch), so I'm also inside the free tier on S3 and CloudFront. I paid $12 upfront for the domain registration.

mStreamTeam• 6 years ago

https://mstream.io

A self hosted music streaming server that's simple enough for my mom to use

richardARPANET• 6 years ago

https://github.com/veemshq/veems

An open-source platform for online video.

(Looking for ReactJS and/or Python help! https://veems.tv/discord)

kubanczyk• 6 years ago

CC-BY-NC license for a software? Care to say why not AGPL?

remram4• 6 years ago

If you don't mind me asking, what is the value-add compared to PeerTube? (seems to be the popular option right now)

quaintdev• 6 years ago

A hand coded Android homescreen. It has

- App shortcuts on sidebar

- App drawer

- QOTD, TODO

- Any flutter widget that you can think off!

Why?

Having multiple apps just to customize my home screen was not working for me. So I decided to hand code my home screen. Implementing Flutter widgets is so fast and easy that I have replaced apps like TODO, Quotes, Grocery list with Flutter widgets on home screen. I am planning to add more functions to it like

- Drinking water reminders

- Solar panel output monitor

- Blog visitor counter

The downside of using Flutter for this is existing widgets and App Icons on home screen are not supported.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/quaintdev/anchor

vuciv12• 6 years ago

Https://swapiverse.com/

It's just our pre-launch page for now. We are planning to match users and allow them to swap books with each other.

As of right now, I'm not sure how to avoid scammers... that's my biggest issue.

kaliara• 6 years ago

Maybe have them take a photo of the specific page of the book? Like the one with the copyright and publishing info? At least then it’s some indication that they have the book.

You could scale up a bit using mTurk and the OCR to verify.

vuciv12• 6 years ago

Sorry, link seems to be broken.

https://www.swapiverse.com

henearkr• 6 years ago

Maybe use a reputation score, because becoming rich stealing books is going to need a lot of books (especially as pocket books are very cheap), and so scammers would very quickly lose their stars.

noja• 6 years ago

http://bookmooch.com/ uses a points system

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

I like the idea, but I think the trust problem + shipping costs + challenge of finding overlapping swaps could be challenging. But this may be interesting for rare or expensive books With the "overlapping was" problem you may have to create a currency/credit system in which case you're almost a used book store.

recursivedoubts3• 6 years ago

https://hyperscript.org

to compliment htmx, a language that embeds well in HTML, inspired by HyperTalk

tbran6• 6 years ago

Thanks so much for your work on this and htmx/intercooler!

I just threw some htmx on a Django website yesterday and was blown away with how easy it was to do fancy app-y stuff with so little code. Awesome! I'll be trying some hyperscript this week.

recursivedoubts3• 6 years ago

glad to hear they are useful for you :)

mathgladiator• 6 years ago

http://www.adama-lang.org/ is a programming language for board games. The language works, and I'm sorting out how I want to do UIs. Documentation and platform are half baked.

tenaciousDaniel2• 6 years ago

Ha, I just posted a DSL for UI design in this thread. I remember seeing this a while back on HN, I love the idea!

andy99• 6 years ago

Here is one of mine: https://github.com/rbitr/ivc

Version control for ipython notebooks, the goal is to be able to use a Jupyter notebook in a hacky, iterative way, but track your versions and the output they produced in a searchable way so that you can capture what you've learned. Still a lot of work and research to do to make it something people can use.

ayakura• 6 years ago

https://github.com/aptrinh/Radio-Qt5

An Internet Radio app with local playlist (.xspf) support.

I still need to make a feasible .exe for Windows (preferably pyinstaller with --onefile but apparently assets are missing unless I place them right next to the .exe - in which case, it won't just be one .exe I will ship to users =( )

jsonGobbler• 6 years ago

oh boy this is the story of my life

rement• 6 years ago

This is a project I built to help with my job search. It pulls Stack Overflow job listings (using the RSS feeds) and maps them based on the city. It only supports cities in the United States or fully remote companies at the moment. It's functional but definitely half baked.

Main tech: Rails and Leaflet.js

https://railsmap.tuckerchapman.com/

edit: I would love some feature suggestions if anybody has any

justhw• 6 years ago

http://thumbnail.ai

My first project of 2021. Just paste a blogpost link and it will build a thumbnail for you.

nabeards6• 6 years ago

This is cool! Ran it on one of my pages, the preview shows some JavaScript at the bottom, not sure where you’re pulling that text from.

franciscop3• 6 years ago

https://documentation.page/

A documentation website generator for open source. No need to pollute your Github repo with html+css+etc etc files, just write markdown and point your domain there and it'll render it. Example output for a paid project (my own):

https://statux.dev/

The main fear from multiple people is that the project might "go evil" at some point and add ads or similar to project's documentation. I definitely don't plan on that (that's why I'll charge for premium features!) but totally understand the fears. The project is already "successful" for myself, so how can I dispel these fears from other devs?

tomgs2• 6 years ago

Just contemplating doc solutions for the open source repo I maintain (5K+ stars). Would be happy to use https://documentation.page/. Ping me at my email / twitter (details in my profile).

franciscop3• 6 years ago

Thanks!

dairylee• 6 years ago

Judging by the sidebar navigation on Statux I'm guessing you're using a Mac?

https://kilianvalkhof.com/2021/css-html/you-want-overflow-au...

franciscop3• 6 years ago

No, I'm using Ubuntu :)

fishingisfun• 6 years ago

great profile

yarsanich• 6 years ago

Actuflow - app that reminds you to be intentional with your phone usage. https://acture.app Shows you pop up window after phone unlock with intention form on Android, after app opening(using shortcuts) on iOS. Main features were implemented. Redesign and a lot of additional features are arriving. https://twitter.com/actuflow Offline, free, no-ads, considering to open source.

epaga3• 6 years ago

https://smoothtrack.app - an app that uses your phone's AR for 3D head tracking for PC games. Kind of a "VR" feel for sim games, without VR.

Has layout issues on some smaller screens, I'm still working on a USB connection feature, and lots of other stuff I need to improve on. But releasing early was the right decision, it's already doing pretty well!

nodematic5• 6 years ago

Cool concept. How is the experience moving the head, but keeping the eyes on the fixed location screen?

epaga3• 6 years ago

It works great, actually. The movement of the head is exaggerated in the game so you only need to nudge your head slightly to move the camera - you just keep your eyes on the same spot while you do so.

Your brain gets used to it very quickly and it feels surprisingly intuitive.

bdefore4• 6 years ago

Nice to see your post, I've been using this on a Pixel 3a with MS Flight Simulator and it works well! I wish there was less latency, but it is manageable and definitely adds to the experience. Thanks!

Curious what you think of my own submission here, a tool to make flight sim control maps from a browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25702356

epaga3• 6 years ago

Looks like a ton of work, quite cool!

I don't use a HOTAS all that much, except for when I play Elite: Dangerous - and Elite already has a different site with lots of layout combos (though I forget its name).

yufw• 6 years ago

https://sharepad.io/

I developed this as my own remote coding interview tool to let me do collaborative editing and also run code. I learn the technologies as I am building it, so it also helps me try out new things. First released it to public at this new year, still got a lot of features to implement, it's a fun project to work on weekends.

thescribbblr• 6 years ago

Thanks for building this sweet tool.

tenaciousDaniel2• 6 years ago

https://matry-mvp.netlify.app/

A platform-agnostic programming language for UI designers. None of the links work; this is quite literally a half baked page lol.

I'm still in the process of designing the language itself, been at it for about a year now and expect to spend about another year nailing down the basic syntax before revealing publicly.

_pastel• 6 years ago

https://github.com/benpastel/trees

I've always wanted my own gradient boosting machine implementation to compete with Xgboost and LightGBM. There's a huge space of tricks around regularization, randomization, tree structure, etc., that few people are exploring because neural nets are exploding.

So far I've roughly caught up in speed and accuracy with a few original tricks (and 1/20 of the features), but no real breakthroughs.

wyozi• 6 years ago

Service for turning data sent as post requests into graphs with tools for some basic analysis: https://thisgraph.com/

Here's an example graph containing docker image build times: https://thisgraph.com/buckets/242dc353-562d-4520-b82d-5f3525...

bunya017• 6 years ago

https://github.com/bunya017/yaro-post

I tried postman on my old machine (Hp 6715b) and it was slow. It took so much RAM and processing power that I couldn't run any other app simultaneously with postman, else it's BSOD :D. So I set out to build a stripped down postman with Quasar; a Vue Js UI framework, and Electron. It might be half baked, but it's usable.

The name is coined from Ingausa; a creole of Hausa and English language. "Yaro" means boy in Hausa language.

tbran6• 6 years ago

I just created http://unaffixed.com for finding and posting Gumroad-like jobs [1].

It's just a markdown file converted to html and served from a Fastmail folder.

My process was:

Read this thread [2] yesterday afternoon. Thought this sounded like a "looser" work environment. Searched "synonym loose". 3rd result was "unaffixed". Bought unaffixed.com and pointed it at Fastmail. MD to html with pandoc. Added water.css stylesheet last night. Thought up some ideas on making it better.

[1] https://sahillavingia.com/work [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686678

biztos2• 6 years ago

I like this idea but I must point out that every single open position for “comma.ai” is “ON SITE.”

So, um, affixed.

For this to be useful you’ll need some screening. Good luck with it!

(And assuming comma.ai posted this themselves, what a bizarre thing to do: start your recruiting process with an obvious lie? What does that say about your corporate culture?)

tbran6• 6 years ago

oooo, that's 100% my fault, not theirs!!! Removed it.

Already being crappy and failing fast....

petr251020182• 6 years ago

Great idea, bookmarked for the future.

lrossi• 6 years ago

Your SSL certificate is misconfigured.

victor_e• 6 years ago

My half baked project isn't even hosted yet. I just work on it locally: https://imgur.com/a/FAVOOka

It's a site to curate the best links for given topics.

franky47• 6 years ago

https://chiffre.io

It's an end-to-end encrypted analytics SaaS. It allows me to provide a web analytics service to my customers where only they can see their usage data.

More like 3/4 baked, currently running in private beta, hoping to ship Q1 2021. Feedback is welcome !

garritfra• 6 years ago

https://omegacrm.net/

A simple all-in-one CRM for freelancers. Does not require JavaScript. Ironically built with Node.js and React.

It currently only allows the user to manage their clients. Planning on integrating per-client projects and billing, as well as time management.

motyar• 6 years ago

Check https://bruzu.com a bit more than half!

npsio• 6 years ago

https://www.nps.io/

Create free online NPS surveys. Send them to your customers. When they answer one, you will get an email with their score, comments, and some statistics

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

https://modquiz.com - A spaced repetition tool that combines a notion-like input interface to make creating flash cards more organic, using markdown text, tables and lists. Also has a flexible schema so that questions can be generated in different formats like multiple choice, true false, matching, etc. buggy and not all the dynamic question features work but the foundation is there.

https://eniac.lrner.io - An incremental game used to teach the history of the building of the first computer, ENIAC. Buggy and the mid-end game needs to be implemented. I planned on launching this to HN and PH in a few months.

djedr2• 6 years ago

https://www.tree-annotation.org/

minimal universal syntax

alternatives to JSON, XML, and S-expressions slowly baking on top

remram4• 6 years ago

You might want to put an example of the syntax on the landing page.

I have been to the "comparison" page and I'm still not sure what it looks like, because of the heavy highlighting (are the big dots part of the syntax? Are the tiny square brackets?) and there doesn't seem to be another example on the site.

djedr2• 6 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, good idea. Will do!

I continue to redesign the website for the best presentation. This is the second iteration. All feedback is very welcome.

The bullet points and differently sized brackets are purely syntax highlighting. Bullet points highlight list items. Highlighting stripped, all brackets are regular square brackets. "Minimal" is not an exaggeration. It has only 3 tokens.

There are some predefined examples on the interactive highlighter and parser pages at https://www.tree-annotation.org/highlight.html and https://www.tree-annotation.org/parser.html. Perhaps I'll put that on the front page as well, after further polishing.

c2nes• 6 years ago

https://qrono.net, https://github.com/c2nes/qrono

A work in progress, Qrono is a persistent, time-ordered queue server providing at-least-once delivery. The time-ordering can be used to schedule values to be delivered in the future, implement exponential backoff within a consumer, etc.

In addition to HTTP and gRPC interfaces, Qrono supports a RESP (https://redis.io/topics/protocol) interface allowing Redis tools (e.g. redis-cli) and clients to be used.

internalfx• 6 years ago

https://github.com/internalfx/pageflo

A Flexible headless CMS. Create data structures and deliver them to any front-end through an API.

It's actually not totally half-baked and is perfectly usable, but could use some more polish.

tbran6• 6 years ago

Nice! I've been looking for something like this. I'll watch your video.

mvind• 6 years ago

I'm struggling with https://memordo.com which is a minimalist flashcard platform where you can create public and private decks.

I use the tool religiously because I prefer my tool over the others tools available. I think the strategy forward for me is to create some public decks that others people would like to study.. Do you guys have any cool ideas for decks?

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

This is a pretty dense space (I also posted a flashcard app in this list :-) What would you say is your killer feature/unique value?

mushbino• 6 years ago

Language learning decks are super popular. I've been learning Russian for a couple of years and finding good vocabulary decks has been a challenge. I know there are some spreadsheets out there with the 5,000 or so most commonly used words that might help you automate the process.

jll293• 6 years ago

Something for geeks, perhaps? How about practice materials for a Linux certification?

alanbernstein• 6 years ago

http://alanbernstein.net/galleries/2020-pecos/#lg=1&slide=1

Photo slide show correlated with gps track, for hiking trips. It's been a goal for years, I finally got it half-baked by just smashing together lightgallery and leaflet. Somehow it works ok on mobile.

a5seo• 6 years ago

I like this a lot. Similar to the Relive app but something that’s easy to share/embed on the web. Nice!

YPCrumble• 6 years ago

https://omnifollow.com - A site to follow things.

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

I'm not interested enough to pursue it, but I've wondered about a live twitter-like newsfeed that centralizes all your news sources. I like the "emotional feel" of having everything centralized and feeling connected live to all your feeds, I just don't know if it's tangibly more useful than refreshing a page on something like omnifollow. Good luck!

axelf4• 6 years ago

JavaScript Pokémon game: https://pokemon.axelf.nu (https://github.com/axelf4/pokemon)

Subtle WebGL texture artifacts and browser-game microstutters drive me crazy. Any help with that would be much appreciated!

IIAOPSW• 6 years ago

playinverse.com

One day I will finish making all the levels. Currently at 45/50 + testing and refinement.

tomcdonnell• 6 years ago

Flatpack Apps is a lo-code tool for database application development. No demo version on the website yet, but that will come soon.

https://flatpackapps.com

leetrout• 6 years ago

You probably already know this but https://flatpak.org/ is used for app distribution so you may struggle with organic discoverability

eivarv3• 6 years ago

https://cleave.app

Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on.

Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources.

Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I will release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

SOLAR_FIELDS• 6 years ago

Neat idea - I use MacOS virtual desktops to segment my in progress work like this. I might have my IDE with whatever I’m working on in browser on one desktop while I have all my communication stuff (email, chat etc.) on another desktop and then my random browsing on a third. But as you say running multiple tabs of Firefox and Slack and the IDE when you’re really only using about a third of them at any given time is a pretty big waste of resources.

LockAndLol• 6 years ago

Is this the MacOS equivalent of KDE's activities? https://blog.hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-...

eivarv3• 6 years ago

I remember trying to compare these before (but not what I ended up thinking), so maybe it's better if I just explain what it does:

When you change your "context", all of your open apps and their windows (on all spaces, on all screens) are closed. The apps and their windows from the context you are switching to open – their positions and working state recalled from when you were last in this context.

You can only be in one context at a time; Think of it as a workspace or project manager in an IDE, but on the OS-level.

earnubs2• 6 years ago

Fantasy UI thingy, or playing with dial UX ... https://carisenda.com/sandbox/fui/

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

Is it just a toy at this point? pretty, what data is backing it.

earnubs2• 6 years ago

It's just a toy. Dial's are difficult to make work in real UIs but they feature a lot in FUIs. FUIs also assume a lot of knowledge/expertise on the part of the user ... to move the dial with a mouse here you need to hold shift, you can also increment with up and down (or shift up/down).

These dials try to be smarter by calculating the torque value of a mouse/touch movement, so you really have to move around the dial like a real one.

Triv888• 6 years ago

All mobile keyboard apps should have a paste button... That's all I have to say

notoriousarun2• 6 years ago

A few days back,

Submitted a co-founder thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644817

If anyone is looking for a co-founder...

Please fill out this form with your info https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPV...

karl_t• 6 years ago

https://queuey.dev

A waitlist platform. API focused so you can integrate it into your auth workflow and give/not give people access if they're not admitted.

Currently building a free plan + form sdk/snippet to allow non-devs to implement.

everling2• 6 years ago

https://cinetrii.com analyses reviews to infer possible inspirations behind a film.

There are a bunch of things that could be improved with the text processing applied here. The wrong movie title is resolved occasionally, like failing to distinguish between an original and a remake, or a book. Sometimes the wrong part of an article is parsed, resulting in wrong connections.

But I think it works overall, for the right type of film with a rich discourse.

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

Cool! this may be /r/internetisbeautiful material when it's done.

ramoz7• 6 years ago

Could you apply this to tweets? e.g., take user1 tweet, analyze who they follow & current trends, some recursion, find root influencers like:

user1 -> follows user2, tweeted similar -> userN, tweetN -> network and time-map of influence & themes, etc

hooande• 6 years ago

great design and interesting content

dekervin• 6 years ago

You should really run with that idea, it's simply brilliant ! (I am a tad jealous )

everling2• 6 years ago

Thanks, I will. It’s been my side project for a long time, but I only find time to work on it every so often. This past year saw some major updates, though.

hashtagjohnt• 6 years ago

https://opskeeper.com

This is a job scheduler / project management software for construction companies. It's almost there... Still have a good amount of polish to put on it. And I need to expand the landing page...

chad_strategic• 6 years ago

The idea came out from the domain name and the project never took off. It has made a little money... back in the wild days of twitter.

https://www.bestoftheinternets.com/

tomcam• 6 years ago

Still afraid to post mine but the vast majority of these look fantastic!

tlarkworthy2• 6 years ago

A niche cloud that only runs public auditable source code, built on top of ObservableHQ so the user has the power to read and fork the serverside implementation if they wish

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/serverside-cells

The idea is if we shine a light on server side implementation, and give more power to the end user to see what is happening, we can build trust. Personally I want an AI to hoover up my data and act based on anticipate my needs. However, in the current climate its just too risky letting my data leave my control.

So the problem is not privacy per se, but trust that my data is used in my best interests. This is my attempt at fixing the internet services trust issue: Make sure the production code that runs on the data is verifiable at all times.

It's very half baked at the moment as the serverside runtime is not open sources, nor is there a billing system. I am acutely aware of the hypocrisy and will fix it in due time :p

ramoz7• 6 years ago

Like smart contracts? I also see relevance with compliance-heavy stacks, maybe integrating something like https://github.com/usnistgov/OSCAL

tlarkworthy2• 6 years ago

No just javascript. Crypto and protocols are one way of solving this issue, but I wanted something any developer could adopt. So there are no "proof" of security, but you can always inspect the source code, so services no longer behave like a market-for-lemons. It adds a buying signal. Which although not watertight, does change the market dynamics I think for the better.

Thanks for the links, it could well be relevant.

mg• 6 years ago

A lean HTML editor with instant preview:

https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/

See the issues tab for the two issues still need tackling until it can be used as a nice local HTML/CSS/JS editor.

It is awesome, that with the file access api, it is not possible to write full featured editors that run in the browser.

I mainly made it for myself but then decided to open source it.

Personally, I am fine with editing raw text, but of course it would be possible to add modules, so one could enable syntax highlighting etc.

jeswin• 6 years ago

https://retransmit.io - HTTP and WebSocket API Gateway

Ready to use, but it'll be more useful once I have dashboards etc (which I'm building).

I'm recovering from a minor surgery, so won't be able to reply today - sorry about that.

meagher3• 6 years ago

Help folks pay their phone and Internet bills https://evenaccess.org

Needs polishing and an application form for folks seeking help.

cj• 6 years ago

I like it!

I would donate if the homepage communicated how exactly the funds are used.

Is the idea that you’ll directly match donators and people in need?

If so, there’s the obvious chicken and egg problem, one idea to overcome that could be starting out with all donations going to an existing charity that shares a similar mission (and being transparent about that on the landing page), and then eventually start redirecting funds directly to folks seeking help (also while being very transparent as the use changes)

ramoz7• 6 years ago

also, tax exempt?

meagher3• 6 years ago

Good point about adding more info!

Idea is folks apply for help and I call up the phone/Internet company to verify and pay their bills with the funds donated from others.

All donations and payments would be viewable anonymously, and eventually tax deductible (need to go through that process).

jnskender3• 6 years ago

https://www.debt-dash.io

Plug in some basic information about your debt accounts. Choose your payoff order and how much extra you can pay towards debt each month. I provide a month by month guide on how your payments will snowball until your debt-free.

I’m the only user currently and I have a lot of work to do on branding/homepage before I share it with others but it fits the bill of unfinished but slightly useful.

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

I've thought about writing something like this. Right now I use a spreadsheet. The "killer feature" I've been looking for is the ability to compare things. Like, if I paid an extra $100 a month, how much faster would I pay off the loan and how much money would I save in interest. Also maybe different repayment strategies. Like one where your payments get gradually lower every month and one where they get gradually higher every month.

jnskender3• 6 years ago

I’ve got these features in the backlog! I’d love for you to play around and provide some feedback on current state! Everything is client side and reactive to your plan changes so it’s easy to quickly see how your changes effect your plan.

mgkimsal• 6 years ago

a bit OT, but I have a mortgage, and noticed that my mortgage processor did an upgrade last month, and have included a "what if I paid $x/month more?" live calculator, as well as a 'one time payment' calculator. of course, you can find many of these around the internet, but it was useful to see it baked in to my account dashboard with my exact numbers/dates/etc.

matt_f2• 6 years ago

This is a really good thing.

I know a lot of the people who are overwhelmed by debt don't have the spare mental or emotional space to deal with something else equally overwhelming, which is visualizing their path out of it.

Should be higher on the list.

bluedevil2k2• 6 years ago

You should recommend the payoff order based on their interest rates. Also, for completeness as a financial tool, they should be able to plug in savings like retirement savings. A student loan of 8% sounds bad and some people think they should pay it off above all else, but really a 401k where the employer matches 50% of the first 6% you contribute should be the primary focus for the person, since the 50% return is sooo much higher than the 8% interest rate.

WesleyJohnson• 6 years ago

I've wanted to build this into a web application for a while, but the idea always ballooned into wanting to do a YNAB or Mint competitor with debt calculator as just one feature. And while possible, building something like that as a solo founds seems daunting!

Anyway - check out this google sheet by Vertex42 which has some different paydown options, instead of just Snowball. Maybe something you can incorporate, if you haven't already.

http://www.vertex42.com/Calculators/debt-reduction-calculato...

66d8kk2• 6 years ago

This is great. Thanks for sharing.

I've often wonder how the gamification of debt / saving could work.

Have you considered that at all?

ramoz7• 6 years ago

Stable Matching:

Demo (not mobile friendly): https://backnotprop.github.io/stable-matching/

Code: https://github.com/backnotprop/stable-matching

Built a production model some years back, this was an attempt at making it explainable and how things need to adjust in the wild.

https://medium.com/@rambossa/stable-matching-algorithm-and-h...

Jugurtha• 6 years ago

We're working on https://iko.ai, our internal machine learning platform. Not really prime time SOC 2 Type II enterprise ready kung fu yet, but it has:

- No-setup Jupyter environments with the most popular libraries pre-installed

- Real-time collaboration on notebooks

- Multiple versions of your notebooks

- Long-running notebook scheduling with GPU support against Docker images, and output that survives closed tabs and network disruptions displayed into a page so you can watch from multiple devices.

- Automatic experiment tracking: automatically detects your models, parameters, and metrics and saves them without you remembering to do so or polluting your notebook with tracking code

- Easily deploy your model and get a "REST endpoint" so data scientists don't tap on anyone's shoulder to deploy their model, and developers don't need to worry about ML dependencies to use the models

- Build Docker images for your model and push it to a registry to user it wherever you want

- Monitor your models' performance on a live dashboard

- Publish notebooks as AppBooks: automatically parametrize a notebook to enable clients to interact with it without exporting PDFs or having to build an application or mutate the notebook. This is very useful when you want to expose some parameters that are very domain specific to a domain expert.

I think we'll always see it as half-baked.

RubenvanE2• 6 years ago

https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com

News in the digital age updates constantly. No matter what, there is always some "breaking news". This causes news sites to become more of a slot machine than a substantive source of information.

A Brief History of Yesterday tries to be an antidote. It uses Wikipedia to show a summary of what happened yesterday. It's no news anymore, the content is already gradually becoming history.

I started working on it last weekend. It is still in a pre-alpha state, but please let me know what you think of it!

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

Kind of an interesting aggregation but Wikipedia is a lot of information to try and consume for a "brief history" I do like the tree view, but I don't like having to open up the different sections, I think I should be able to get what I'm looking for on the landing page. Also, and this is subjective but something about the UX makes it feel like an overwhelming amount of information, especially the health and environment section. I would want it to feel like something I could absorb in a few minutes.

How are you generating the trees?

RubenvanE2• 6 years ago

Yes, the 'Health and environment' section is quite overwhelming, mostly due to COVID-19. That's why I close each section initially, this way you open only the sections that interest you.

I modify the tree from Wikipedia slightly to get a less cluttered overview.[1]

[1] https://github.com/RubenVanEldik/a-brief-history-of-yesterda...

karlerss• 6 years ago

https://get.recruitlab.co.uk/p/job-builder

It's a WYSIWYG job ad builder tool I built over a few days.

It was supposed to be a lead generator for our ATS product, but the functionality does not seem to be useful enough yet.

jrgnsd• 6 years ago

http://hackerpla.net/requestd/

RequestD - An Elasticsearch backed dashboard and interface to track and monitor websites and APIs. Great tool if you need to monitor error rates and other SLA related metrics for a web service.

XCSme• 6 years ago

I have one but I think it's almost baked: https://www.usertrack.net - Self-Hosted Analytics

What I still want to do before calling it truly "ready":

* Add a trial version

* Implement a secondary session recording system

* Improve documentation/onboarding/tutorials

* Add some integrations (data import/export, alerts, weekly digest)

Also, the landing page design is really poor, I should work on that too.

susam2• 6 years ago

http://mathb.in/

It has been in its half-baked state since 2012 when I wrote it in a single night so that I could share solutions to mathematics puzzles my friends and I used to challenge each other with.

Somehow the use of this tool spread from my friends to their friends and colleagues, then schools and universities, and then to IRC channels that involve mathematical discussions.

joflicu• 6 years ago

Nice! It would be nice to see some of the puzzles that were shared using this tool.

susam2• 6 years ago

Here you go:

I wrote this tool all throughout a Saturday night 9 years ago and shared it with my friends on the next morning. The first URL (post 13) shows the first puzzle that was shared with the tool. The fourth URL (post 39) was the first post by someone I did not know. That's when I realized that people beyond my immediate friends' circle have begun using it now.

jll293• 6 years ago

I would encourage you to keep working on this - IMHO it has potential in that scientific collaboration (also in mathematics) is increasingly done by globally distributed teams.

You may need: - user/ID management - linking to Overleaf/GitHub for collaborative authoring of jointly produced output (e.g. papers to publish a proof) - integration (e.g. via HTML snippets) in user's personal blogs.

There's semi-competition from e.g. Mathematica notebooks and the likes, but these are perhaps more targeting single authors, not conversations/teams.

ramoz7• 6 years ago

Fast Style Transfer for iOS, converting models to coreml... models are still quite inefficient.

https://github.com/backnotprop/fast-style-transfer-coreml

https://medium.com/hackernoon/diy-prisma-fast-style-transfer...

lewisjoe• 6 years ago

http://closetab.email

A solution for my OCD of keeping those 58 tabs in my browser open for two months now.

amir734jj• 6 years ago

IceCast stream ripper with FTP support. Basically turn any online radio into your own spotify alternative. All open source.

https://stream-subscription-ui.herokuapp.com/

alexp• 6 years ago

https://bitcoinparty.co/

simple bitcoin price comparison tool with various brokers, p2p and classic exchanges.

mcaswell2• 6 years ago

I made https://others.com as an attempt to make a space for meaningful connection and conversation on the internet. Turns out the hard part is getting enough people in there!

tbran6• 6 years ago

I'm working on a website that I might try to turn into a community. Thought this comment on HN was useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444650

I'm starting with a niche, then try to go wider.

mcaswell2• 6 years ago

Incredibly helpful, thank you!

dorianmariefr• 6 years ago

https://socializus.app

Activities organised in Paris for now

jbister6• 6 years ago

I think it's a little bit beyond "half" baked, but I built a thing I call Logsuck last year: https://github.com/jackbister/logsuck

The idea is to have a free Splunk alternative which you can set up with just one binary. I use Splunk at work and love it, but it just doesn't seem like a product for solo developers (I can't even find a pricing page on splunk.com), and the primary free alternative, the ELK stack, seems a bit complicated to set up.

I am sure that I'll never be competitive with Splunk or Elastic in terms of features or scalability but I'm trying to build something that is at least useful for my own projects.

I built it in Go and use SQLite with the FTS (https://sqlite.org/fts3.html) extension to store the log events in a way where they can be searched quickly.

ramoz7• 6 years ago

This is cool, do you have any usage detail and/or production nuances?

jbister6• 6 years ago

Currently it's not used in production anywhere, I mostly use it to view my own log files when I'm working on some hobby project locally, so I'm sure there are a few issues that would show up if it was used more heavily.

I do have a list of known issues on a private Trello board, I should probably move those to GitHub so that they are at least visible to people, I'll take care of that right away.

There is some info in the readme on how to get started, if you want to try it out and need any help beyond that let me know!

albertgoeswoof2• 6 years ago

This looks great! ELK is overkill for simple apps, sometimes all you want is to feed the logs from a few services into one dashboard.

Datadog is really great for this but can be expensive

jbister6• 6 years ago

Glad you like it! Completely agree about the overkill-ness of ELK.

I haven't had a chance to try Datadog yet but it looks great, the one complaint I've had with Splunk (or at least the way we use it at work) is that it's still "Just logs" and sometimes you need more than that to investigate issues while Datadog seems to cover more areas of monitoring in one package.

remram4• 6 years ago

I've been looking into making something like that myself. My beef with current platforms is that they are good for extracting metrics and routing logs to their correct team (by service/deployment/...) but not so much for analysis.

When there's a problem in my system, I want to bring up multiple views, manually annotate, highlight the new debug log statements I just added, mark events as good/bad from complicated rules, etc.

None of the current systems (except maybe Grafana+Loki) really do this, they focus on ahead-of-time ingestion rules and tags. I would love a desktop or web tool that can do that, working from a log file that I can easily extract from my log platform.

jbister6• 6 years ago

I think I know what you mean! It does feel like there's something missing in Splunk when it comes to analyzing issues.

When there's a problem at work it's usually easy to see that something is wrong on a dashboard, but when I want to drill down into it I usually end up with ten tabs of different searches and Grafana dashboards that I'm trying to correlate between manually.

I haven't fully formed any ideas about how to tackle this since there are still fairly basic features missing in Logsuck that I need to work on first but it's definitely something I'll be thinking more about in the future!

egeozcan2• 6 years ago

Wow, I just commented this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25702294

Maybe I can add yours a JSON view and call it done :)

jbister6• 6 years ago

Interesting! I have it in the backlog that I want to support structured logging via JSON at some point. It's pretty far down the list right now though since I personally haven't used structured logging very much.

I added an issue about it: https://github.com/JackBister/logsuck/issues/7 - if you want to chip in with any comments or even help out with implementing it it'd be much welcomed!

dastx• 6 years ago

Is the aim to have this production ready as an alternative to ELK/Splunk? Or is it more of a tool for local development?

jbister6• 6 years ago

Yes, the goal is that it should be usable in production as well. The limitation it will probably have compared to ELK/Splunk is that since there's only a single recipient node and it uses SQLite for storage, the upper limit to how quickly it can ingest logs will probably be lower compared to ELK/Splunk. So Logsuck may not ever be suitable for large deployments that are logging huge amounts for sustained periods of time.

I haven't really tested what the limits are yet so unfortunately I can't put a concrete number on it, but my vision is that Logsuck should at the very least work for a small-medium sized company with "normal" logging needs.

The current state is that it's got quite a few bugs and is lacking many features you would expect from an ELK/Splunk alternative but the basic concept is working. If what you need is a GUI for grepping across logs spread out on multiple servers it can be used for that today, but it's not doing much beyond that yet.

mamcx2• 6 years ago

My main problem making full use of structured logging is the lack of good visualization tool (ie: something that is not a big cluster of stuff :) ). So this look very nice.

Maybe you can combine https://vector.dev that is actually a good shipper and transformation of logs and focus in the visualization and integration? Anyway I hope yours get very good. Will be nice if the whole setup is just a simple go exe and that is all!

boundlessdreamz• 6 years ago

Vector looks amazing.

Wasn't really happy with any of the existing solutions and ability to collect and export both metrics and logs is just brilliant.

shoelessone• 6 years ago

“ミッチン“ - an “IoT”ish Christmas present built on a bunch of AWS services with cement, MongooseOS, ThreeJS, React and basically the kitchen sink. I’ve been working on and off (but mainly off) for the past few years. Even the blog post is half baked (also quite long) :(

https://kevinmitchell.io/blog/mitchine-%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3...

jacobedawson• 6 years ago

Kwiz - Quizzes / Quiz creator for developers. Next.js + Node + MongoDB based, proper little code editor & syntax highlighting included: https://kwiz.dev

mlang23• 6 years ago

I am trying to produce software to translate between visual and braille music notation. Have working prototypes for both directions.

https://github.com/mlang/freedots https://github.com/mlang/bmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjfKDJm_xmI

anonypla5• 6 years ago

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa

(Please don't be too harsh as it's still a draft but any opinion, criticism or help would be welcome)

recursivedoubts3• 6 years ago

awesome: https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa/blob/main/CODE_OF_...

remram4• 6 years ago

AFAIK this doesn't (can't) override GitHub's site-wide guidelines: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

justnotworthit• 6 years ago

Unfortunately, a more robustly social-justice-informed code of conduct is a requirement to be supported by (and receive funding from) some big players in the online privacy/security community.

On a completely unrelated note not at all related to the above paragraph, ask me if you need any help with the Whonix sections.

bitxbitxbitcoin• 6 years ago

Thanks for doing this!

anonypla5• 6 years ago

Thank you!

strzibny2• 6 years ago

Looks great, starred.

anonypla5• 6 years ago

Thank you!

agilob• 6 years ago

Nice try Amazon

franze• 6 years ago

https://share.securrr.app/ Secure Mobile Document Sharing

Needs: GDPR, Data-Lawyer-Stuff

ihaveajob• 6 years ago

Working on https://agendaboss.com, an aggregator of task and calendar systems (Trello, Asana, Priority Matrix...).

showsover• 6 years ago

I started something to track my progress to FI. So far you can track your portfolio and net worth in stocks.

I still have to add a lot of stuff, like bank accounts, mortgages, etc but with the lockdown here I've kinda lost motivation for a bit.

https://my.roadto.fi/

tsycho• 6 years ago

I have been building something similar very slowly in my spare time. Do you want to collaborate? Contact info in my profile.

carapace• 6 years ago

Oh man! So I have a fractal half-baked project made up of smaller half-baked projects that all fit together to make a plan to save the world!

Help people understand computers from the gates up using simple computer system based on LoF notation and Oberon RISC and ATMega328P microcontrollers (of Arduino fame; because I have a handful laying around) New computer architecture based on latching sort-nets. (This isn't written up online anywhere.) Programing system inspired by M. Hamilton's Higher Order Software et. al., implemented with Joy lang.

Self-replicating swarm robots to collect and reprocess oceanic waste into more swarm robots and eventually large floating/flying structures.

Combine Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language with Permaculture ecology-mimetic design patterns to design and build large "art" installations: essentially vast gardens that people can live in. (on land, at sea, and in the air. And maybe one day on other worlds, eh?)

Join my mailing list. https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas I need an audience and feedback, I need to know people give a fig and want this.

I tend to loaf around because to me it seems like folks obviously don't want the world saved, we're having a good time playing with our phones and shouting a lot. Who am I to disturb that?

http://phoenixbureau.github.io/PigeonComputer/

https://github.com/PhoenixBureau/PigeonComputer

https://pythonoberon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://joypy.osdn.io/

https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun

http://phoenixbureau.github.io/ReGPGP/

Misc crazy notes with broken links, yay! https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXTnUTHEtJ8ZBAdEVP8VkNhzEv...

onurgenes• 6 years ago

https://threadmaker.co

I am an experienced mobile developer but trying to learn web development these days. I have started this project a month ago and trying to build something useful.

You can create new threads by just typing or copy/pasting. Main goal is show retention rate of thread from analytics.

Beware, it is really in early stage.

timdaub3• 6 years ago

I built a mini game engine in JS that allows someone to build a 2D game, but once it was done I started to become bored.

Demo (desktop only): https://timdaub.github.io/videogame/ Code: https://github.com/TimDaub/videogame

ramoz7• 6 years ago

Pretty cool, how far are you from an interface equivalent to Among Us?

timdaub3• 6 years ago

Uhhh, nice idea!

Not that far, I'd say. But I'm really not a graphic designer, so I'd somehow have to overcome that...

melkael• 6 years ago

https://elkael.com

My personal website. Had lots of fun building it two years ago. I should migrate it to vanilla js and polish the newer informations (research activities) when I have time.

trungdq88• 6 years ago

Release early and often is absolutely the way.

I decided to launch my macOS app even if it was only about "40% complete" as of my expectation. It turned out people still love it, and the launch gave me a huge confidence boost!

My app (offline toolbox for dev with a bunch of small utilities):

https://devutils.app

ArchieMaclean2• 6 years ago

https://github.com/macarc/PipeScore music notation for bagpipes.

I started this a year and a half ago and I keep throwing it away and restarting, but I'm hopeful for this iteration.

I haven't got around to making a README yet unfortunately.

ryanianian• 6 years ago

Neat. Knowing nothing about bagpipes but a bit about music notation from playing piano I'm curious what's different.

ArchieMaclean2• 6 years ago

Thanks :) There's a very heavy focus on gracenotes in piping - that's probably the main difference. There are a lot of different embellishments (probably more than 200) used very frequently with 3 to 10 individual gracenotes in them. Most general music notation apps are not so good with dealing with this - MuseScore, for example, has a massive list of all possible embellishments which you have to scroll through to try and find the one you want. PipeScore tries to take advantage of the patterns in gracenotes to reduce the number of options by categorising them (e.g. the 'doubling' class has 27 different embellishments in it, but they are all dependent on the notes immediately before and after the embellishment, so instead of manually choosing the correct doubling you just choose 'doubling' and it automatically gives the right one)

There are other dedicated bagpipe apps but none of them are as frictionless as I'd like.

frozenlettuce• 6 years ago

A HTML5 strategy RPG (a mix of ogre battle and advance wars) https://lfarroco.github.io/mana_public/

timdaub3• 6 years ago

I'm building an index fund using Ethereum that rates data sets. But I've not had time actually building the smart contract logic:

https://rugpullindex.com/

hq1• 6 years ago

Having very little time for stuff outside of my daily routine I took the opportunity to start yet another static website generator during my Xmas break. It's more of a personal wiki engine with zettelkasten flavor, very much work in progress. https://mtod.org/wb

q_andrew• 6 years ago

I'm making an atmospheric exploration game about nostalgic liminal spaces.

lim·i·nal

adjective:

    1. relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.
    2. occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

https://q-andrew.itch.io/anemoiapolis

systemaccount• 6 years ago

We're building a collaborative meal planning site for personalized nutrition. If you've ever tried to improve your wellness or fitness through nutrition, you likely found yourself preparing more meals yourself. We think it takes too much time to pull together recipes into a well balanced, tasty meal plan that helps you achieve your goals. We intend to fix this at Fresh Batch.

Two of my buddies and I have been hacking a solution together as our 5 - 8 through the pandemic. We're pushing hard to open up beta soon. You can request private beta access on the home page. Feedback much appreciated!

https://freshbatch.io/

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

Added my name to the list. Curious to see what you come up with!

ryeguy_24• 6 years ago

https://taskflowy-9a9aa.web.app/demo (desktop browser only so far)

The idea is a daily note/task management tool combined with the WorkFlowy concept of infinite lists. The real use case here is for heavy note taking and also tracking the todos within all the notes. I found that with WorkFlowy I had so many buried todos that I could never see them in one place and manage them throughout the day. It’s great for notes, but wasn’t working for tracking tasks.

It allows you to prioritize the tasks at every level. You can zoom in on certain nodes to see only the tasks relevant for that node and descendants. It actually works for me but would love to get some task rabbit testers.

rnbrady• 6 years ago

This is awesome, especially if you can keep it super lightweight and fast.

etherio• 6 years ago

https://archivy.github.io - Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your own personal, searchable and extensible wiki.

Maybe a bit more than half-baked but still there's still much to work on.

seanwilson• 6 years ago

Here's a fairly polished single player time-based word game I've been working on (works on mobile and desktop):

https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid

Looking at adding a global high score table (nobody is using the quick feature I added to share your score on Twitter), it might need more hints on what the orange tiles do for your scoring (I'm hoping players naturally work this out), I might tweak the rules more to encourage more strategy, the sound effects aren't great, music might help, it should be an offline PWA, and I'll maybe try to monetise it for mobile.

Feedback welcome! :) Was it obvious how to play? Too easy or hard? Does the scoring system encourage you to play words strategically?

danvoell• 6 years ago

Quick Fun! Not a smart guy. All 3 letter words.

DataCrayon2• 6 years ago

I early-released access to an API for generating interactive chord diagrams. Can be used via Python package, Rust crate, or HTTP API.

https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/

It's been/being used by people from many different sectors which is great to see. It's making enough to pay for 2 coffees a month, or at least to cover the server it's hosted on. If I didn't enjoy working on it, I'd factor in my time!

It started as a quick way to generate a d3-chord diagram and has slowly grown since then.

marcusstenbeck• 6 years ago

Two coffees! The dream. :D

DataCrayon2• 6 years ago

Don't know whether to laugh or cry! At least I can say we're talking two venti coffees from Starbucks...

bitwize• 6 years ago

https://github.com/bitwize/nullawesome

NullAwesome, an unfinished Android game I've been working on, off and on, in my spare time, since a while ago. Basically a "run, jump, and hack" puzzle platformer where you have to use the environment to evade or overcome enemies and expose the evil corporation in a 90s-esque cyberpunk setting.

chony2• 6 years ago

I built this project to automatically overlay baseball pitch motion and trajectory.

https://github.com/chonyy/ML-auto-baseball-pitching-overlay

It's ready for a quick demo. However, there are stiil some little improvements have to make. And I'll build an web app on top of it for people to use it online.

etimberg• 6 years ago

https://github.com/etimberg/pycircuitbreaker/

A python implementation of the circuit breaker pattern. Not a new concept, but I did innovate in how the breaker decides to open.

I realized that with a normal breaker, if you set the threshold to 5, but 4/5 requests failed (say due to a backend service being partially down) the breaker would never open. To solve this, you can set the breaker to use the net error count so that the breaker would behave as such:

Req Num | Req Status | Breaker Status

1 | Fail | Closed

2 | Fail | Closed

3 | Fail | Closed

4 | Fail | Closed

5 | Pass | Closed

6 | Fail | Closed

7 | Fail | Open

methyl• 6 years ago

Like LiveView, but for state not the whole DOM: https://github.com/surferseo/live_data/tree/master/examples/...

axelthegerman• 6 years ago

https://buzzmein.ca

It's a simple project to allow call forwarding from apartment buzzers to multiple phone numbers - ideal for roommates, couples or families.

Had something very basic working 2 years ago and should have released it like that. It's still not quite where I want it at, but now I can iterate instead of holding everything back

mzafkismugi2• 6 years ago

I have a working bot for importing Messenger conversations into Discord. Does anyone see any potential here?

jamiegreen• 6 years ago

https://academyoffolk.com/

Site to learn traditional music. The cost of creating high quality original content is really high :/

mzafkismugi2• 6 years ago

No webpage yet but I wrote a bot that imports Messenger conversations into Discord. Would anyone be interested in that?

mobilio2• 6 years ago

Free QR Code Generator for macOS: http://www.mobiliodevelopment.com/products/osx/qrencoder/

Was released with 30% of features, but seems that people love it as-is. So updates went and getting more and more features.

tarasmatsyk• 6 years ago

what was the main reason that made you built it? Did you want to have a QR code generator that works locally on a mac?

mobilio2• 6 years ago

Main reason is playing with macOS frameworks. And second - i've seen that all other apps using online backends. So they can't be used if computer is offline.

jMyles• 6 years ago

Cirque: A tool to create web frontends to introspect, administer, and deploy mesh networks (Python / Django).

https://github.com/jMyles/cirque

nichochar• 6 years ago

Help developing the habit of creative writing by gamifying writing a short story, in 5 mins, following a prompt: http://avostories.com/

NiloCK• 6 years ago

https://eduquilt.com

I don't even know off-hand if the current deploy is even semi-usable, but I'm jumping on the thread because ... you asked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tvHMvF8Mo

This is a platform-in-progress for mass-collaborative interactive-tutoring-system authoring. Wikipedia for khan academy, duolingo, or anki, with arbitrarily interactive content. The above video shows some rich flash cards in action (ear training & keyboard harmony).

Flash cards + SRS + dynamic difficulty sorting and pathfinding (ie, optimal content surfacing given demonstrated skills), and automated surfacing of achievement bottlenecks in courses so that the community knows where to author intermediating content or prescribe different approaches with existing content. Inside the classroom: peer-to-peer JIT instruction, and distributed competencies.

Most tentatively, but maybe most crucially, I think there is potential in this project for anti-fragile adversarial communities to build mutual understandings around contentious issues, where the propagation of your own views is proportional to your acknowledgement of contrary opinions.

glaze• 6 years ago

Aether3D Game Engine (Linux/Windows/mac/iOS, Vulkan/D3D12/Metal)

https://github.com/bioglaze/aether3d

Some people like making games, I like making game engines. I don't have a specific goal/target in mind while making it. I've written several game engines since the nineties, and this is my most recent version.

I have abandoned many of my older engines at some point to develop a new one, but with this engine I'll try to keep developing it a lot further before making a new engine.

shafin_• 6 years ago

I am trying to write a programming language in Bengali language. But i only managed to write a crappy tree-walker interpreter.

https://github.com/Shafin098/pakhi-bhasha

izerik• 6 years ago

A remote control app (Android/iOS, written in Flutter) for Philips smart TV-s. I don't like the official one, it's buggy.

Right now it only has basic controls and a trackpad, but I plan on adding channel/favorites/app lists and other stuff.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TAwsRf1

I cut a lot of features, as I want it out released, so I'm focusing on the basics, which is the auth with tv logic and basic controls.

I plan on doing a beta release to iron out issues with the authentication logic. If you're interested, drop a mail to phimoteapp@gmail.com .

robobro• 6 years ago

Federated / decentralized, tag based anonymous messageboard : http://0chan.vip

Could have just used nntp but nntpchan already did that.

linklonk• 6 years ago

A link aggregator where the votes of different users have different weights for you - based on how useful their previous votes have been.

It is in a very early stage and is invitation only for now: https://linklonk.com/register with invitation code 'hn'.

The idea was well described in this comment back in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003639

dt3ft3• 6 years ago

I built https://20-things.com Not ready for prime time yet, but I use it every day :)

mikkergp16• 6 years ago

Is it an algorithmic reddit that only shows you 20 things? How are they generated?

dt3ft3• 6 years ago

The things are submitted by users. Things to show is being selected using an algorithm similar to the one of HN (where age of submission, number of votes etc) play a role.

Nothing fancy about this project, but I seem to use it as a bookmarking service where I tend to share things I find interesting. I use it also as a blogging platform where I sometimes post random thoughts as well as articles on how I solved a problem in IT which is otherwise undocumented.

dejv• 6 years ago

https://legatoforte.com

App for practicing some basic piano stuff, things like note sight reading and piano scales. Worsk best when you connect MIDI keyboard. (More exercises comming soon)

wic8• 6 years ago

https://snapshop.netlify.app

A search engine of all products selling on Shopify. In the same state as it was few months ago. There's obvious way forward but i need to get a job first.

Also related https://stroget.now.sh

albertgoeswoof2• 6 years ago

How does this work?

moneywoes• 6 years ago

Are you scrapping thousands of product pages and indexing the results? Would love more info

benzguo• 6 years ago

I’m working on a simple site builder, like Linktree but with styling and features more to my own taste. Not sure where it’s going long-term though: https://tray.club

dbosch• 6 years ago

Less than half baked, Kong (temp name) is the Goodread for movies.

During lockdown, I decided to watch more movies, including classics. I noticed my friends were doing the same and I wanted to know what they were watching, and which film they were interested in...

Very early. Lots of buggy features. Sorry.

http://www.getkong.xyz

WoodenChair3• 6 years ago

I signed up. Does nothing like this already exist?

Jommi• 6 years ago

Letterboxd

philmcp• 6 years ago

4 days per week remote software development jobs:

https://www.28hrworkweek.com/

paulryanrogers4• 6 years ago

Browser Routr helps me keep most of my browsing in my daily driver yet still test and use the company intranet on another browser. Unlike similar tools it's relatively transparent, not requiring right clicking or copy past ing.

https://paulrrogers.com/product/browser-routr/

cstegel• 6 years ago

Are you learning guitar or ukulele and can never remember how to play a chord? Are you experienced with these instruments but looking to discover new chord shapes that you've never seen before?

I wrote https://cortab.fun exactly for these purposes.

It works with any custom tuning of a fretted string instrument. It also tells you what chord you're playing if you select your finger placement.

I built it entirely in Rust WASM using the Yew web framework as a way to see what it was like to do front-end web dev in Rust. I've enjoyed the experience much more than I ever have using js.

It's a little past half-baked at this point but it's fairly minimal and I wouldn't consider it done yet.

maxwelljoslyn• 6 years ago

I've just started running an interview series with the goal of creating new edges in my social graph.

I have about a dozen participants so far, and am open to damn near anyone.

First one published here: https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com/thedrongo/interviews/karthik-b...

Sign up for an interview here: https://newsletter.maxwelljoslyn.com/subscribe (this will also put you on the mailing list for others' interviews)

HDevo• 6 years ago

https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit

Demo video: https://youtu.be/ZSz3zN14NTQ

It's an editor and renderer for Fractal Flames[1] written in C++17 with a UI in Qt/QML. Other software that renders Fractal Flames is e.g. Electric Sheep[2] or Apophysis[3].

It's a project that I've been working on and off for 10 years and it's still not ready… Reimplementing it several times certainly didn't help, but I learned a lot in the process! It's grown from a simple for loop to basically a language interpreter.

Sorry for the lack of README or license, but this is still half-baked. I want to release and open-source it one day though.

[1] https://flam3.com/

[2] https://electricsheep.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophysis_(software)

lytedev6• 6 years ago

It's an app for churches (or any live performance) to display and manage lyrics.

http://alpha.lyricscreen.com:6754/

I'm missing accounts and some of the more frilly features, like different fonts and backgrounds.

All the info is shared and HN could probably crash it. It's all synced live, so it's very loosely collaborative.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

unangst• 6 years ago

Interesting...

jansan2• 6 years ago

Very nice, this makes a lot of sense.

kubbity2• 6 years ago

Interesting! Can you share the code/run on-premise server? I'm interested for a different (language) church.

I started to try GitHub pages to share lyrics, but failed to add all songs I planned.

lytedev6• 6 years ago

Lyrics are complicated due to copyrights I believe, but I will throw my awful MVP up on GitHub. There's a Dockerfile work-in-progress as well, but it seems I haven't committed it yet.

lytedev6• 6 years ago

Here's the Repo: https://github.com/lytedev/lyric_screen

jschulenklopper2• 6 years ago

Interesting - have been thinking about something similar: collaborate on lyrics / song sheets with band, make a set list, transpose chords if required, display song (incl. notes) on iPads for band members.

lytedev6• 6 years ago

Yep! This is exactly what I'm hoping to build! I'm putting the source on GitHub shortly.

lytedev6• 6 years ago

Here's the repo: https://github.com/lytedev/lyric_screen

benkaiser• 6 years ago

Long time ago I was interested in the same thing, but focussed on the "animation" side of it and built some backgrounds to use behind a lyric screen.

Fader: https://kaiserapps.com/lab/fader Tunnel Fader: https://kaiserapps.com/lab/tunnelfader

losten• 6 years ago

https://github.com/vitplanocka/eAndon

I'm making an Andon signalling application that can be used to visualize production line problems in a manufacturing company.

Andon is a powerful tool in the lean manufacturing concept, because it highlights problems, raises employee awareness, and encourages responsible persons to solve them quickly.

There are many commercial packages available but they are often very expensive or inflexible. I feel that many companies would greatly benefit from having such a system but don't have it due to the costs involved. I'm trying to build an open source version that can be configured to many different situations.

alonchb• 6 years ago

Over the break I started an ambitious project merging many ideas I've had in the last 3 years. This is the first note: Synergize Studio

A place where teams can reach their best potential Dictionary Synergize: combine or coordinate the activity of (two or more agents) to produce a joint effect greater than the sum of their separate effects Dictionary Studio: a room where an artist, photographer, sculptor, etc. works.

a gym, to train, to improve Personal Coach, simple, natural, fluid

As I start with the end in mind, I flip the way I usually do personal projects. I started with the website, and doing happy paths POCs just to add more content to the site.

As I work on the site, 3 main audience came to mind

For individuals private, you control who can see your data, Skill tracker personal development, short term and long term goals Career development, current role and next steps organization agnostic, your info moves with you if you change companies Career path

For teams Share and get to know your team members Conflict resolution tools Trust building Goals Norms and processes Discover the landscape

For leadership, Inspire Anonymous Aggregated information, feedback, reward, incentivize influence.

The site is somewhat mobile friendly, I'm currently working on the teams page

https://synergize.studio/

TimmyTango• 6 years ago

https://logi.sh

It's a tool for dev journaling. I use it for tracking tasks, marking accomplishments, and to back up my decisions. I have a really poor memory so I do little mind dumps multiple times a day. So it's sort of a log of your day.

It's pretty bare bones right now. You can write logs in markdown, tag them for easy lookup, and mark your favorites. This weekend I'll probably release a new feature for adding task lists to logs. I have the backend finished and have started in the front end implementation.

frindo• 6 years ago

linkdrop.co -- Pays for the occasional (happy hour) beer, but I have a huge backlog of user feedback and TODOs that I never have time for which is why I consider it half baked.

chony2• 6 years ago

I built an app to visualize and analyze basketball shots and shooting pose with machine learning.

https://github.com/chonyy/AI-basketball-analysis

The result is pretty nice. However, the only problem is the slow inference speed. I'm now refactoring the project structure and changing the model to a much faster YOLO model.

mathgeek• 6 years ago

I’ve been working now and then on a turn-based text RPG that is played in Discord (but really it’s API-driven so other clients are certainly possible). Passion project of mine from my childhood love of MUD’s and JRPG’s, up through early MMO’s like Everquest. Needs a lot of work and better docs but the first area is playable.

https://www.ethrits.com

scyclow• 6 years ago

https://ronamerch.co

I started this face mask ecommerce website a couple months ago, but I'm not sure my revenue prospects are very good with the vaccine rolling out. And last time I posted this to hn it did _not_ get good reviews at all.

osetinsky5• 6 years ago

Upward Accounts https://apps.apple.com/us/app/upward-accounts/id1494340479

We help U.S. freelancers save on taxes by:

* auto-deducting business expenses

* making it easy to invest in self-employment retirement accounts

* letting them know what they owe in taxes and when

Having worked on side gigs in the past, freelance taxes have been a huge pain for me and others I know.

First bank account is free for 30 days, $5/month or $50/yr after that for multiple bank accounts (we integrate with Plaid).

Would love to hear what people think and how we can continue improving.

nabeards6• 6 years ago

Do you support the seasonal / annualized quarterly estimated payments tax form? I used that for many years for fluctuating freelance income, but I’ve not seen an app that supports it.

osetinsky5• 6 years ago

do you mean the schedule C? if so, yes we generate that for you

bdefore4• 6 years ago

I'd be interested to try this but use Android.

osetinsky5• 6 years ago

we definitely plan on supporting Android once we achieve product/market fit on one platform - thanks for your input!

thomasrognon• 6 years ago

https://www.cloudternal.com

It's like AirTable/Lists/etc but for big organizations.

So the focus is on a more useful permission system, handling lots of data, dead simple data entry for tech-phobic employees, and getting the information you need quickly (as opposed to spending time fiddling around with how data is displayed, this isn't an "app builder").

The intent is to replace the hundreds of untracked, out of sync, insecure Excel files being used as a database in most large orgs.

Cool tech note - people learn to use a graph database with Cloudternal, even if they never know what a graph is.

rcoc• 6 years ago

I am working on a tool called Playbook (https://useplaybook.app). Playbook is an application that allows anyone who presents product demos to tell a more complete, integrated story.

One of the primary features of many SaaS products is how they integrate smoothly with other platforms customers are already using, like Salesforce or Slack. However, in a demo environment, it can be difficult to show that workflow in a way that doesn't require flipping between persona accounts and taking precious time to generate the activity. Playbook hooks into a demoer's demo accounts and facilitates creating "plays", automated workflows between any number of SaaS apps that show off your product's integrations. It also supports working with multiple personas to create lifelike collaboration instantly.

There are still many kinks to work out but this is the first step in building Demo Engineering-as-a-service.

nodematic5• 6 years ago

That's a great idea

XtalJ• 6 years ago

I’m working on an open source 3D printed vacuum cleaner robot:

https://github.com/CodileAB https://www.instagram.com/wolley.xyz/

I’ve been working with it on and off for two years now and hopefully it can soon actually vacuum my floors :-)

superzamp2• 6 years ago

This is so cool!

simpfai2• 6 years ago

I built football11challenge.com after spending a ridiculous amount of time solving this challenge on twitter: https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1250066001821130759

I wanted to extend on the initial premise by allowing users to define and share arbitrary constraints for a soccer starting 11 and automate verification of a squad given the set of constraints.

It needs a little bit of polish but overall I really learned a lot working on it. Typescript + React is wonderful combination. It was my first time working with Django and it was a pleasant experience.

Do play around with it and any feedback is welcome. Thanks!

Here's an example of a "challenge": https://football11challenge.com/challenge/601246266

pletsch• 6 years ago

This is really cool. Are you planning to add different sports? Would love to see Hockey.

simpfai2• 6 years ago

Thanks! At the moment I'm only focusing on soccer because that's what I know best : ) However, I can easily see this being extended to other team sports.

The main bottleneck is obtaining data around the teams that a player played for. Right now I'm depending on wikipedia because the soccer data is very rich and easy to parse. I'm not sure this is the case for other sports. The data could always be crowdsourced if there aren't any good data sources for other sports.

knoebber• 6 years ago

https://dotfilehub.com

Like github + git, but only works on single files. Looking for feedback on user friendylness and usefulness.

Samantha97• 6 years ago

http://bbwroller.com/frens

Web viewer for exploring variations of pepe and other cartoon frogs. Attempts at removing duplicates was done with perceptural hashing as dimensionality reduction and clustering using dbscan.

Dataset of 100,000 frog images is available by torrent on the homepage.

riyakhanna1983• 6 years ago

Been working on a new hypervisor that can directly run isolated containers (not VMs) to enable secure micro-services without virtualization overhead. Email me if interested in testing or contributing.

edoceo3• 6 years ago

I'm still working on http://funnelpump.com - a communication tool for early customer development / sales leads. Helps you grind that list and get those deals, forcing functions to drop unproductive leads

jll293• 6 years ago

Nice idea. I like the focus on simplicity, and you could sell this as Docker container to folks who don't want to be on anyone else's cloud (e.g. salesforce.com).

edoceo3• 6 years ago

Watch this space! I've got a less publicly visible install that is going through "beta". Roadmap is foggy.

dbattaglia2• 6 years ago

I've been working for some time on a capture the flag web game called Rock Paper Scissor Battle!, which is basically a simplified version of Stratego, but the pieces are rock, paper and scissor instead of numbers). Its open source on my Github: https://github.com/daniel-bytes/rps-scala, the backend is Scala and Redis and the frontend React + Typescript. I have a live version of it up at http://rock-paper-scissor-battle.com/, although I have a feeling any real level of traffic will topple over my $5/mo Heroku dyno. Also don't mind the goofy font landing page. :)

I'm overall happy with the backend code, except for the "AI", which can use some real work and research. Right now just some basic semi-random rules that make it pretty easy to beat.

nodematic5• 6 years ago

This is cool. I particularly like the styling.

dbattaglia2• 6 years ago

Thanks, appreciate it!

Findeton• 6 years ago

I am trying to create a light-field video platform, however I'm still at the point of training some CNNs... You can see this at least: https://twitter.com/realFelixRobles/status/13436442924479324...

16th_hop• 6 years ago

Created a shell utility in Go, called go-live. The idea is that you start it in a directory, and then those files are immediately hosted on the network.

The core idea is to be as lightweight and performant as possible, and to do one thing only and well - Unix style.

https://github.com/antsankov/go-live

Looking for contributors and feedback on it.

rbradford• 6 years ago

Sounds a bit like woof: https://github.com/simon-budig/woof

Two great things about woof:

1. You can use it as a verb, 2. Woof can woof itself.

Cue shouts in the office, "Hey, can somebody woof me woof?" Followed by a reply of an IP address and lots of puzzled onlookers.

koeng2• 6 years ago

I am building standardized and modular mass-distributed DNA toolkits.

Two blog posts for context: https://blog.libredna.org/post/cheapdna/ https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/

Website offering version 1: https://www.sporenetlabs.com/

I pretty much figured out (after quite a few years) how to distribute DNA for 100x-200x cheaper. Right now, I’m building DNA toolkits for engineering every different organism (it’s expensive, but I’m doing it in collaboration with other companies). All open source, too.

Imagine if you could get a toolkit to engineer literally any life form for less than $100. It’d be super cool!

The “money maker” here is that my DNA foundry can build DNA together from my toolkits quicker and cheaper than anyone else, which is attractive for new companies who want to engineer stuff using my toolkits.

It’s a work in progress, but I’m actively working on it, and I’m ramen profitable from my B2B part. Good times ahead!

verdverm3• 6 years ago

Very cool

What do you think about the apocalypse story that a person uses something like this to make a virus worse than covid? (or the AI fears but with bio)

koeng2• 6 years ago

I am a bigger fan of the hero stories where everyone is able to fight an epidemic themselves, instead of being subject to the whims of pharma / ineffective government policy.

The moderna vaccine basically took a weekend to design, but many months to test, since they were going to give millions of doses out. What if one day, every small town had the ability to manufacture independently designed vaccines for local usage (once we have a better grasp of the background biology). It is quite likely that, while some of the vaccines may be toxic, they'll certainly be less toxic than the disease itself, and the distribution means that variation controls against new variants of the virus.

oriettaxx3• 6 years ago

very interesting.

btw: the link in "If you would like to support the development of Sporenet, check out the shop at Sporenet Labs." at https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/ takes me to a missing page: https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/sporenetlabs.com

Tade0• 6 years ago

https://github.com/Tade0/emergency-poncho

This is a HTTP mock server for reproducing issues on the front-end using a recorded HTTP archive(*.har file).

The gimmick is that for a given endpoint it stores all the responses and serves them in a round-robin sequence.

This way you can simulate situations where e.g. a request has been retried after the JWT expired, or something special happens when an item is added to a list, and the list is refreshed afterwards - basically every case in which you need backend state.

It works... sometimes. Each new project I'm in uncovers new issues.

That being said with the test team giving me both videos and *.har files of the bug reproduction I was able to solve a few long standing bugs in one legacy system.

gmandx• 6 years ago

I had the same idea a while ago

https://github.com/mandx/harplay

Pretty much the same goals as `emergency-poncho`, plus the excuse to learn making web servers in Rust.

iillexial• 6 years ago

https://github.com/ivaaaan/smug

A session manager for tmux. Not that fancy like tmuxinator or tmuxp, but pretty decent.

dubcanada• 6 years ago

Currently working on a few things but almost done https://checks.dev a github integrated (gitlab planned but not done) checklist for PR's, so you submit a PR and it adds a bunch of todos that need to be checked off before it can be merged.

Should be done in a week or two.

osetinsky5• 6 years ago

Awestruck Audio – realtime synthesized, interactive music for video games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEC6-pBFj2Q&feature=youtu.be

Very half baked, even took that demo site featured in the video down. Intended to run hundreds of "channels" of music, each of which could support thousands of independent sessions (think cloud gaming but for audio/music).

Uses Pion WebRTC, Gstreamer, JACK, SuperCollider and a simple Golang API for converting http requests to OSC toggles to manipulate audio running on a cloud server in realtime over the internet.

Questions – is this crazy? Would game makers ever be interested in adopting a third party SDK for their music needs? What if that music had to be streamed over the wire (not baked into their console/mobile client builds)? Is the prospect of game player input influencing the sounds/music they're listening to compelling, or not really?

nodematic5• 6 years ago

Cool. Interesting concept. While I'm not in the video game space, it seems to me like there could be value for a particular niche.

osetinsky5• 6 years ago

thanks nodematic, appreciate the input

tomaszs• 6 years ago

Fantasy card game to learn PHP, Javascript, C#, Python and Java. Decks are already for sale but I still have A LOT to do on the website to describe them nicer and better: https://summonthejson.com/

nodematic5• 6 years ago

I'm building a simulator for analyzing and designing software delivery/ops/devops systems. The idea is to have prebuilt models for tools like GitHub and Jenkins, as well as models for human processes like approvals. The user can then easily build no-code simulations of end-to-end software release processes, and get quantitative insights from running those simulations. The app will eventually use discrete event simulation and advanced analysis (graphical), but currently its just some basic placeholder "function modeling". https://softwaredeliverysimulator.com/

jaredandrews• 6 years ago

At the beginning of the Pandemic I wanted to get more familiar with React Native, so I made the motorcycle maintenance tracker app that I always wanted. I finished it in April and have been using it myself since then. I finally released it over the summer: https://pirsig.app

It's definitely half-baked because its missing a lot of features. But it works perfectly for my use case which is all I really wanted.

pjnz2• 6 years ago

Hacn: https://github.com/pj/hacn. It’s kind of like a React “monad” in F#/Fable using computation expressions. Control flow is a bit different, basically operations/effects can trigger re-execution of subsequent steps. Right now its alpha quality and any feedback is welcome.

eden_hazard• 6 years ago

https://github.com/ahussain1/medicine-app I started this in April and never finished it. I wanted to start a WebMD for people in Bangladesh as people there don't speak English. It's a country of 180m and there's more people throughout the world. I think it has potential but I need help with app development :L

pjnz2• 6 years ago

Hacn: https://github.com/pj/hacn. It’s kind of like a React “monad” written in F#/Fable using computation expressions. Sort of like async, but control flow is a bit different, basically "Promises" can trigger re-execution of subsequent steps in the function. Right now its alpha quality and any feedback is welcome.

pionerkotik• 6 years ago

I am currently building a (open-source) hiking and mountaineering equipment management web app.

An early prototype is at https://www.zaino.io . It's a bit rough around the edges (does not work on mobiles, not a lot of features, some UX issues probably) but core functionality should work.

Code, docs, issues are at https://github.com/igor-krupenja/zaino

minitoar• 6 years ago

Built a level monitor for my 5k gallon water storage tank. Used a raspberry pi zero w & ultrasonic range finder. Tweeted about it some: https://twitter.com/minitoar/status/1343654848907018240

bochoh• 6 years ago

Built a sms api to ease friction in getting sms into your application for MVPs etc. had low traction so never finished planned functionality

HTTPS://smallsms.app

jp10162• 6 years ago

Its not really half baked but was stuck in a loop of adding new features on top , while starting the project , i was pumped up to build it.

it is like google keep, but for storing and sharing code snippets, most of the ui is inspired from google keep and i have added more features on top of that, i named it codekeep (google keep for code snippets) i can summarize codekeep as , Codekeep lets you organize your code snippets by assigning labels or grouping into folders. generate code screenshots, share and discover reusable snippets.

you can check it out on https://codekeep.io, i also built several templates for taking codescreenshots as well, by generating codescreenshots you can share it on social media, and link it on codekeep , so that they can click / copy the snippets, without you having to take codescreenshot on one site, put snippet in gist.

let me know your thoughts

brewingcode2• 6 years ago

This is really cool! I like gist but it lacks some features.

jp10162• 6 years ago

thanks brewingcode :-) do you have any suggestions for improving or any nice features that you would like to see

sidwyn• 6 years ago

https://apps.shopify.com/easy-theme-editor

Visual editor for Shopify apps. Click, modify, save! Would love any feedback.

fuzzylearner2• 6 years ago

An app for recreational and commercial drone flyers. Built the Android and iOS app but missing some features for users to create their own collections. Proud of it though - https://dronetrails.app/

daenz2• 6 years ago

A "survival wiki." I built it for myself. It's mediawiki on a raspberry pi zero, AC/DC powered, with an e-ink display. It connects automatically to a known wifi network and displays the connection details. When the wifi network goes down however, it automatically switches to access-point mode, allowing you to connect directly to it through your phone or other wifi client device.

There's still some quirks to work out, but it works well. I store personal knowledge on it and I don't have to worry about rebooting my primary computer (and taking down the wiki), or a power outage preventing me from accessing my information.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CTYjKq0DLYVV7LBktW-bQrxZv2F...

entropie• 6 years ago

Very interesting. Any code?

daenz2• 6 years ago

Thanks, nothing public yet but I am getting inspired to share what I have. It is really nothing more than some systemd units, /etc configurations, and a dockerfile. I will try to put something together though.

p3p3• 6 years ago

I'm writing this app that is supposed to be a deep learning based calories counter, but so far I've only managed to recognize foods and attempt to classify them by categories. Here's the link on google play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guayaba.fo...

raphaelj3• 6 years ago

Just released my MVP for my ‘Airbnb for Musicians’: https://noisycamp.com

I don’t have that many studios yet, but my goal is to make it super easy for musicians to find and book practice and recording spaces.

I built the website using Scala, Vuejs, PostgreSQL, running on top or Heroku and BunnyCDN. The code is Open source: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/noisycamp.com !

herval2• 6 years ago

this is a great idea, and execution is looking good! I'd not call it half baked at all :-)

raphaelj3• 6 years ago

It's half baked in the sense that I only have a few studios yet. Barely usable for a few groups of people then :P.

kureikain• 6 years ago

My app: http://hanami.run/

It's an email forwarding service. You point your domain to us, and we will forward email to your domain to your personal email. We also support webhook so you can do creative thing with email workflow.

Still need lot of work on backend to improve spam filtering and add privacy/tos pages, fix typo/grammaer. fix small UI/UX weirdness here and there.

oneearedrabbit2• 6 years ago

About a month ago, I began developing Diggy [0]. It started as a simple Python notebook to explore small datasets, visualize results so can share them with my friends. Its initial purpose was to create a Python playground that I can run entirely in my browser without relying on server-side code. Zero setup, just type some Python code in the browser and instantly see results.

I don't feel joy when I work with Jupyter-like environments. They are powerful, but feel complex especially for exploratory programming and for those of us who enjoy playing with ideas. That being said, Diggy is not for large-scale applications where you need Docker containers, cloud providers, integration with enterprise platforms, big data. It’s for those who like learning, coding, sharing and making it for fun.

Diggy is a tactile and visual notebook:

* It’s reactive. You don’t have to remember which blocks to run if you change a variable. A notebook will be automatically updated. There’s no hidden state, a notebook is always up-to-date.

* You don’t need to install anything on your computer. You don’t need to create an account to run Python code. It’s as simple as clicking a link.

* Web-native, runs completely in the browser pushing boundaries of edge computing.

It was hugely inspired by Observable & Repl project. Overall, it’s a small attempt to move towards tools that bring joy to programming.

Under the hood it runs Pyodide [1], and I’m planning to add extra languages at some point.

[0] https://diggyhq.com

[1] https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide

rpnzl• 6 years ago

Well written post mortems can be full of interesting and useful information. I wanted to aggregate them and make them searchable by tech, company, etc. Not near half-baked yet (don’t have well defined tags or anything), just chipping away when I can.

https://postmortemr.com/

yetihehe• 6 years ago

Electromagnetic linear servo actuator. Not finished due to limited time, maybe I'll finish it this year.

https://hackaday.io/project/19547-electromagnetic-linear-ser...

tekdude• 6 years ago

I posted this in the Side Projects discussion about a week ago, but I'll post again here.

Pulselyre: A touch-screen synthesizer app for live music production - https://www.pulselyre.com

The concept is to create 'instruments' in the editor (2nd screenshot) by building a pipeline/graph of basic modules that create and transform audio based on user X/Y touch coordinates. Then, lay several instruments out on screen and use your fingers to loop sequences of notes live on stage. The demo video ( https://youtu.be/Qk85IrgXRj0 ) shows how that part works (I'm not a musician).

I showed it on some music production forums and to friends who dabble... but I had made a terrible mistake from the beginning. Since my audio engine was custom, I didn't have compatibility with existing VST plugins. No producer would use a synth app that didn't support their favorite plugins, and no plugin developers would switch to a new system that had no users (my engine was also extensible). I looked into adding support, but VST's architecture is too different from my mine... One suggestion was to remove the audio engine entirely and just make the app a MIDI front-end/sequencer for other synths. This is something I might do in the future, though the limitations of the MIDI protocol would mean removing a lot of functionality. I'll probably open-source the project some day, but I need to clean up some things in the code first.

I created a custom UI manager for the app and decided to split that off into a separate open-source Windows UI framework. I still work on it and have used it for other small utility apps: https://tinyurl.com/upbeatui

zipf• 6 years ago

AnyFab: free, browser-based CAD and prototyping.

https://anyfab-5d0d2.web.app

The idea is that you can design parts and order prototypes all in one place. It's only working for 3D printing so far.

This version is using jsketcher as the drawing engine until we have finished the custom one. The webapp is hosted on Firebase and the ordering backend/price estimation uses Rust and Rocket.

slk500• 6 years ago

I'm making a community annotated music video database tagged by subject matter. In ex. music videos with chess https://culturevein.com/tags/chess , video games https://culturevein.com/tags/video-game etc. There are over 600 tags https://culturevein.com/tags . It's open source.

egeozcan2• 6 years ago

I've made a half-baked newline separated JSON tailer for my small use case: https://github.com/egeozcan/json-tail

it's super bare-bones, and the golang side of things could have been much better, but it kind of works.

clintonb• 6 years ago

https://getfriendlyreminder.com/

lukadante32• 6 years ago

It's a pipeline engine for Kubernetes[1]. The idea is to build a tool that can be flexible enough for CI/CD, but also used for other things such as for example data processing.

The pipelines are just designed as serial and parallel execution of pods with no fancy features (i.e. loops or conditions) and the idea is to let other tools generate more complex pipelines using code.

Responsibility of triggering the pipelines is decoupled to standalone controllers such as github-screener[2] which enables triggering of pipelines used for CI/CD.

The project currently builds itself, but the docs are a bit outdated and there's quite a lot progress to be made.

[1] https://github.com/kuberik/engine

[2] https://github.com/kuberik/github-screener

[3] https://kuberik.io

tofflos2• 6 years ago

Looks promising. How does it compare to Tekton?

lukadante32• 6 years ago

My goal is try to make it simpler than other tools such as tekton by having less of its own DSL. For example, steps are mostly pure Job spec, instead of defining its own subset of features.

I think it's also more easily extensible than others if you want to trigger your pipeline in a different way. Sensors such as github-screener have a really simple event producing architecture.

One thing specific to github-screener is that it's focused on pull mechanism instead of relying on public webhooks like most of the other tools do. So you can easily host your private CI/CD without exposing a public endpoint.

(Edit) The reason I focused on having less of its own DSL because I ultimately saw how limiting it can be to have one. and it often end up as essentially a full featured language which is not reusable outside of the tool.

wolfgang000• 6 years ago

I'm a cloud book reader/organizer, basically a clone of google play books but instead of uploading the books to the page the books are fetch from your own google drive account.

I haven't chosen a name or domain

Not ready yet but very close to completion, maybe in next weeks I will be releasing it.

Stack: Elixir/Vue.js

https://gitlab.com/wolfgang000/cloud-books

t0mislav• 6 years ago

https://random.country/

It's few yeras old now, but still half baked. I will rewrite it, make better UX.

kirchhoff• 6 years ago

Cool site - I run a similar one. Would be interested in discussing something with you - my email is in my profile.

ben509• 6 years ago

https://tenet-lang.org/

Tt's a generic data language with functions that compiles to other languages. I'm reworking how I do the tree transforms at the moment (since that's what most of the compiler does at they're a PITA) and hopefully will push out a thing that does something before long.

RazorX• 6 years ago

Production ready skeleton projects for bootstrapping new projects. I've used this approach professionally for over 7 years, but never marketed much past my current team.

Included: JS and Python package /microservice / serverless projects; Serverless Benthos; LaTeX paper; zsh and neovim config.

https://github.com/makenew/

Reasons why this approach is successful

1. Most project generators don't provide a simple way to keep boilerplate updated. These projects leverage git merge and git diff which is designed for the task. So keeping all the generated projects updated as tools evolve is actually possible.

2. Fork friendly: you can fork and customize these repos to create your own personalized skeleton project, and still merge updates from the original.

3. These projects give you a working CI deployment.

4. The projects themselves are REAL working examples which are deployed / published.

5. Isolated boilerplate so any issues with tooling can be verified, tested, and upgraded independently.

verdverm3• 6 years ago

Low-code for Developers https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

firstbatu• 6 years ago

http://battleship.rocks

Its still under dev mode and wont support a production load, but feel free to play :)

zomgep• 6 years ago

I just launched an app to facilitate Chinese reading using pinyin. The concept is that you can simulate reading Chinese textbook passages, except with any text you choose, so it is more contextually relevant and interesting to learn.

https://duguo-app.com

Right now, it only offers pinyin as a phonetic guide -- I'm looking to add zhuyin next. Also, the front-end is pretty basic. Open to any suggestions and feedback on the project!

bdefore4• 6 years ago

HotasDB (https://www.hotasdb.com)

Last April, being holed up in the lockdown made me rediscover the fascinating world of flight simulators, and was encouraged enough that I bought a throttle and joystick and quickly ran into a massive barrier to entry: understanding and setting up the controls to fly the damn things.

Two popular offerings in this space (IL-2 and DCS) have inadequate defaults and tedious and complicated control mappers. It's very hard currently to know if you'll enjoy flying if your initial experience is being forced to assign a spreadsheet of controls when you don't know what value any input has. It's exacerbated if you do this in VR because you can't see what you're holding and the games often don't indicate to you if your actions have any effect. There are public config files, but they are often incompatible because they are out of date or mapped to equipment you don't have.

I set out to make a browser-based tool that:

- Presented a more welcoming visualization for making assignments

- Cross-controller sensible defaults for these two games

- Let you import, export and share with others

I feel happy that I've reached these goals but I have yet to get much attention for it. Admittedly it does not quite yet reduce much of the burden on new players.

Ultimately the development time-cost of supporting the fractal of combinations of joysticks and config formats was higher than I expected (and I expected it to be very high). I reached out to the game developers and accessory manufacturers for funding and had some interest but nothing came through. My day job and a relocation bled the hours away that I'd have available to keep moving on it, so it's very slow going now but I hope to keep plugging along.

Short-term upcoming milestones:

- MS Flight Simulator support (where the heck do they store their configs?)

- Printable PDF's of where controls are on your joystick

- Custom controllers and Joystick Gremlin support

Long term milestones:

- Building a community of user submitted profiles

- An Electron app to...

- Copy your profiles into wherever a game expects them to be

- Provide pop-up notifications as you take actions that describe what's occurring (particularly in VR I would think this would be valuable)

The project is React-based with a lambda-based 'backend' and runs on a free Netlify tier. I'd be open to bringing in help if someone's passionate about it.

era86• 6 years ago

The MyFitnessPal desktop application sucks big time. In my attempt to create a better alternative, I found that their value doesn't come in the form of good UX or performance, but their food database. And it's huge.

I didn't want to pay for PostgreSQL on Heroku, so I just dropped the database, but the application is still deployed.

So, here's my useless calorie tracker NomTracker: https://nomtracker.herokuapp.com/

jacobrussell2• 6 years ago

Paint by Pixel: creates a custom paint-by-numbers grid based on an image you upload and colors you already have.

The "download template" button doesn't work right now, but it just replaces the colors from the "preview" image with numbers and a white background that you print and color in. Similar to a paint by numbers craft.

Right now I'm working on the backend before making the frontend minimally-less-ugly.

It resizes the image, then uses k-means quantization (scikit-learn) to map the pixel colors to the color set you choose. Right now the options are a few crayola marker packs. Would love to add something where you can upload your own colors, or provide my own markers.

The idea is that you can create a simple custom paint by numbers craft and get started right away using stuff you already have. I have a few other ideas, but trying to make a product cheaper than some existing custom paint by numbers kits.

Would love thoughts or feedback on the idea.

https://d3gmwd8ku7h7jh.cloudfront.net/

brewingcode2• 6 years ago

I couldn't get it work on mobile.. I selected and image and hit preview and nothing happened.

jacobrussell2• 6 years ago

Hmm.. do you know the size of the image? Also, there’s no loading wheel so it might take a second depending on the size of the image. Just tried on mobile with a 1.8mb image and the preview popped up.

hydroxideOH-• 6 years ago

https://duotonic.co

Connect your Spotify account and listen synchronously with someone, either by sending them a link or by joining a queue to be randomly paired up.

I basically had no idea what I was doing while developing both the react app and the the node back end so it's a little buggy.

mbb70• 6 years ago

A simple Swiss Style Tournament manager for pairing small Magic the Gathering matches.

The core pairing problem is a weighted bipartite graph matching algo which I took off the shelf after straining with the math for too long.

Built for fun and for a friend a few years ago before wizards of the coast had their own app.

https://hera2.xyz

jibbers• 6 years ago

This is about as half-baked of a project as I've made, being a designer and all. I'm not happy with the apps available today for playing and organizing music/audiobooks/podcasts/etc. because they all focus on streaming and not folks like me who prefer to manage their own files. I was inspired to design my dream apps, and that's exactly what I did. I call it half-baked because these are little more than screenshots, as I haven't learned how to code iOS apps.

https://dillonbrown.me/mobile-audio-ui.html

jhoh• 6 years ago

https://sbhn.netlify.app/

Slightly Better Hacker News (SBHN). It's an alternative HN web-client that I built and use as my default HN version nowadays. It features some layout improvements over the original and has a dark theme.

It is not yet feature complete (missing login, routing is broken in some rare cases) but I plan on improving it on my next "lazy" weekend and get a nice domain for it. I'm also going to publish the source code on GitHub.

failedsides• 6 years ago

Probably doesn't even count as a project, but I mentioned this in the failed side projects thread recently and someone seemed to like the idea!

You can browse books curated by prizes their authors have won ie. books written by Turing Award winners or Fields Medal winners. Anyways, I got encouraged a bit last time and I'm thinking about trying to expand the website a bit, so far I didn't get very far.

https://categorybooks.com

bejako• 6 years ago

https://masksonaplane.com/

A weekly email newsletter with updates on corona travel restrictions and options. I have the content ideas down... just haven't done anything about monetizing it yet.

pr0pm• 6 years ago

Half baked stuff here, web scrapping the details of spotify playlist from a given link and downloading it from youtube using youtube-dl. No API keys involved for the user. Issue I'm being lazy to debug is it's just extracting top 30 songs.

https://github.com/pr0PM/mymusic-dl/

peterlk• 6 years ago

https://musicianship.studio

I built it a while ago, and don't have the heart to shut it down. It's basically meant to be musical flash cards. If it got some more traction, I could probably afford to spend time actually polishing it off.

tofflos2• 6 years ago

Interesting. I've been wanting to brush up on my piano for a while and will give this a shot. :)

Bubblgames• 6 years ago

Merge by bubbl (in app stores):

https://bubbl.games/merge.html

My first game that I made with unity in 2019 and got away from it but there are still many features to write and lots to fix with the website as I just hacked everything together.

Looking for any feedback people are willing to give.

Free to play on the web.

ctrager5• 6 years ago

A birdfeeder, a security camera, and this python script: https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/red_yellow_...

I want to record visits to my birdfeeder but not all the visits. 99% of the visitors are sparrows, which, no offense to any sparrows reading this, are dull colored. I want to capture the cardinals, bright red birds. The python script monitors the video stream and starts recording when the image gets suddenly redder. But it's configurable to also react to blue (bluejays) and yellow (goldfinches).

This is barely baked, just a script.

A video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vUjYrTwJkPVUlWIYQ6_qA9t1tqi...

bdefore4• 6 years ago

Sparrow here. You will be hearing from my avian attorney.

In earnest, nice work! I recently bought what looks like the same feeder and have pondered making something similar. What camera are you using for it?

Note that you are sharing your user/pass and server address on the local server, although with a 10.x.x.x target I expect that's behind your router.

ctrager5• 6 years ago

Amcrest IP2M-841B. This works the best of the three I've tried.

The other two:

The cheap Wyze cameras which special software that gives access to the RTSP stream, but the stream is so jerky it creates too many false alarms to be useful. If you just want to have a cheap security camear, though, these Wyze cameras are fun.

I've also tried using a Reolink camera with Neolink to get at the RTSP stream, but it wasn't super stable. Missing frames. I wonder if that's because my laptops are old and slow. I don't know.

I've also tried using a Raspberry Pi with a camear. Get the camera that you can focus. Here's a video I got with the that combo https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rMmap4fWgj8iTAYCo5eNaTDMLlO... Using this script: https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/hummingbird...

mssundaram• 6 years ago

That's really neat! What is the hardware set up - how does it interface with the camera?

ctrager5• 6 years ago

See my comment above. The cameras are on my WIFI network. They provide a URL you connect to and that gives you a stream. My python stream connects to that stream so I can watch my birdfeeder by looking at my laptop stream. FYI, VLC also knows how to be a RTSP client.

enraged_camel• 6 years ago

Someone actually linked me a Kickstarter of this very concept the other day:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mybirdbuddy/bird-buddy-...

ctrager5• 6 years ago

OMG, they've raised $4 million dollars??!! Clearly I'm not as clever at monetizing my ideas.

gadders2• 6 years ago

I think Sparrows are classed as LBJ ( or LBB): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_brown_bird

lancer• 6 years ago

https://exportoutlookmacmail.com/

I started this Mac App project in early 2017 that uses AppleScript to export/archive mail messages from Microsoft Outlook for Mac. I was looking for beta users right as my family abruptly moved to a new city. I haven't made time to touch it since. It essentially went from close-to-baked to mothballed. I'll share it here with the caveat that it does not actually work at the moment due to an AppleScript-related error. If there's enough interest in the idea, I'll find time to look into that!

adamrmcd• 6 years ago

I just signed up for your beta. I receive about 500 emails a day in Outlook for Mac, and every few months I have to rebuild my entire inbox due to search/filter anomalies. Need a way to purge past months/years while maintaining accessibility.

Unless I'm missing something, the only way to do this is to move messages to a local mailbox, but it's still locked to Outlook.

raphaelj3• 6 years ago

During the spring, I released an open source Bluetooth tracing app for Covid-19: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer

The app is fully working, and supports most of the privacy protection that one could find in the most advanced apps.

It's also my first app built using Xamarin.

aparks5173• 6 years ago

Static SMS microblog, https://phasedust.com

Been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, fast and snappy, doesn’t demand or abuse attention.

Some things I’m still thinking about: image scaling and optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).

nabeards6• 6 years ago

This is really great. Would love to be able to host it as a section on my own site. Re: images, what have you tried so far? I’ve been using guetzli to get them nice and small.

aparks5173• 6 years ago

Thank you for the kind words! I guess it might depend on how your site is put together, but I bet you could whip up something like this for it pretty easy. I had meant for this to be a weekend project, but I had it mostly done before supper on Saturday, so... ;)

I figured I might use ImageMagick to scale the images and maybe jpegoptim afterwards. Thanks for the tip on guetzli, I'll check it out!

oneearedrabbit2• 6 years ago

That's how Twitter started back in 2006. Also, you reminded me Posterous [0], which ironically has been acquired by the very same Twitter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

aparks5173• 6 years ago

Thanks for that link! I remember hearing of Posterous, but I don't think I ever tried it out so that was an interesting read.

krcz• 6 years ago

Zygote [1], started as bunch of ideas about programming languages, now it is in exploration/design phase, might end up becoming a new programming language.

Main goals: idiomatic translation (transpilation into readable code, with both imperative and functional targets possible, e.g. translating map-filter-reduce chain into a loop), restricted homoiconic syntax (with typed macros), advanced language concepts (dependent types, contracts, verification, effect systems) implemented as macros.

Target uses: GPU/heterogenous programming, neural networks model definitions, cryptography; everywhere where control is needed over how abstractions are translated into the low level code.

[1] https://github.com/krcz/zygote

pacefitness• 6 years ago

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pace-workout-planner/id1478030...

I am a big fan of cross-functional fitness, and I learned a lot through a PT, but I struggled to find an exercise logging application that embraced complex exercise groupings beyond supersets, and could track my progress too.

So I've been building an iOS app in my spare time.

It's a little rough around the edges, and the progress pages are undergoing much needed TLC, but you can put together pretty decent workouts with it.

firloop• 6 years ago

Working on a private journaling app for iOS that opens ~instantly and feels like a private blog or Twitter page. Content is saved to your iCloud Drive and is totally private.

It’s still a bit buggy and the UI needs a bit of polish, but I’ve been using it for the past year and it’s been helpful for thought and introspection.

there’s a beta here: https://posting.app

Layvier• 6 years ago

http://sci-map.org/

The idea's to build a collaborative graph-based learning map to learn seamlessly and optimally whatever's your learning goal. It's open source, non profit and I'm looking for contributors ! The tech stack is Neo4j/Node.js/TypeScript/GraphQl on the backend, React/Typescript/Chakra UI/Apollo client on the frontend. I would also need help on the design. My Twitter: @olivier_ramier, email: olivier@sci-map.org. Hit me up if you're interested !

cookiengineer• 6 years ago

This is definitely stealth [1] for me.

Peer-to-peer networking works (without TLS for peer-to-peer yet), cache and tabs/history works, UI interaction works (since a couple weeks ago).

Beacons and Echoes don't work, Parsers still don't work for CSS and HTML, filtering doesn't work again; and worked before... lots of things that need fixing.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

gr1zzlybe4r• 6 years ago

https://chaynring.herokuapp.com/

Made this app after having tons of people ask me during lockdowns about a "good bike" to buy. Idea is that Chaynring is the community driven backend to sites like CL, FB Marketplace, Ebay, etc. that gives localized prices of bike sales.

Still trying to figure out the incentives to make users post, but I feel like there's some potential here.

jtwaleson2• 6 years ago

My game to teach my kids programming: https://game.stackybird.com

croisillon• 6 years ago

would you like some help with translation (into french)? let me know

jtwaleson2• 6 years ago

Wow, thanks! Mostly looking for feedback/first impressions now. Texts will still change a lot for the next couple of weeks.

WoodenChair3• 6 years ago

I've been working on an IBC PC 5150 emulator.

It's written in pretty poor C++: https://github.com/davecom/DK86PC

It's at the point where it gets through booting the BIOS and gets to the IBM Casette BASIC (I haven't made much progress on the floppy disk controller to boot DOS). But then all keys get recognized as apostrophes: https://twitter.com/davekopec/status/1345925743902130176

If someone wants to help me finish it, I'd be happy for the help. Right now most of the 8086 (8088 technically but no difference at this point) is done, memory works, CGA has text mode support, and a basic implementation of most of the essential support chips is done (PIC, PIT, etc.). It's an Xcode project but the only dependencies are SDL and SDL_TTF so it can easily be ported to other platforms.

I've run some automated CPU tests and the CPU is reasonably good, but like I said still missing some instructions (DIV for example). I wrote it all by hand, only looking at other emulators when I got really stuck for a particular specific item.

zoba• 6 years ago

I have posted before but if folks want help getting their projects across the finish line, I can (personally) help! I help as an accountability coach.

https://coding-pal.com/

aimor• 6 years ago

https://news.deepfart.space/

Sick of uncurated clickbait and Google News, I wanted a site where people could rewrite their own better headlines. Users would vote on multiple ones for each story. Now it's just a list of links (including clickbait). Feel free to add one.

empressplay• 6 years ago

https://turtlespaces.org

turtleSpaces is a 3D version of the Logo programming language. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux but _really_ needs to run in a web browser, which we are working on! It also doesn't have good collision detection (yet) and it needs serious optimisation. But you can make some cool stuff with it!

xtracto• 6 years ago

A multiplayer 9/12/15 tile domino game http://dominoparty.tk/hackernews Also a multiplayer Scrabble(tm) like http://palabrixparty.tk/hackernews2

I made this around March early in the pandemic to play with my family who live far away. It is absolutely unfinished and open sourced https://gitlab.com/obaqueiro2/dominoparty

krapp2• 6 years ago

I probably shouldn't show this because it's still kind of hot garbage but here is the Hacker News client I'm working on in the C# version of Godot[0]. Maybe the embarrassment of exposure will spur me on to actually finish it...

[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/godothnreader/src/master/

paulryanrogers4• 6 years ago

Why Godot? (I've only ever used it for game prototypes.)

krapp2• 6 years ago

A few threads popped up on HN a while ago about using Godot for application development and I just wanted to see how feasible it was. I like the basic idea, game frameworks are basically application frameworks already in theory.

dewey• 6 years ago

Lastcast.fm (https://lastcast.fm/) is a half baked project that‘s supposed to be the Last.fm for podcasts helping you with discovery. You can automatically „scrobble“ (track) your podcasts and get statistics about your listening habits. You can also track things manually and put them into lists / follow friends and see what they are listening to and discover new shows.

paulryanrogers4• 6 years ago

My be wise to rename to avoid trademark disputes. Otherwise a great idea!

I use gpodder.net for now but would prefer something more reliable and easier to use.

simonhamp• 6 years ago

I hit 35 a couple of weeks ago, so technically my life can probably be considered a half-baked project.

Does that count?

jozi9• 6 years ago

REST API monitoring and testing (yeah I know cert is expired:)

http://apilope.com

kostarelo2• 6 years ago

https://www.taskeera.com/: Monitoring background and async jobs from start to finish. Half of the infrastructure and coding is done but I didn't find a big audience so I'm in the process of just open sourcing it.

https://presentador.dev: Opinionated presentation framework based on MarkDown.

nabeards6• 6 years ago

Taskeera looks very interesting and is something I need. FYI: you link to a Twitter account at the bottom, but that account has been suspended.

kostarelo2• 6 years ago

Oh brilliant! Please do get in touch, I would love to tell you more of how it works and hear more about your case. Thanks.

ttymck• 6 years ago

https://badpython.com

Share snippets of python -- let the public decide if it's bad or not.

w_t_payne• 6 years ago

https://github.com/wtpayne/xact - Model Based Systems/Software Engineering tool with support for machine learning and synthetic data.

npilk2• 6 years ago

https://subscrippedoff.com/

I'm fed up with the widespread adoption of subscription models by consumer companies - I think they tend to pray on people who don't track their usage or forget they signed up.

This was one idea for helping people understand exactly how much they're really spending on subscriptions. Unfortunately I think it's a little long-winded, but part of that is just because so many services now use a subscription model.

lifeisstillgood2• 6 years ago

What about watching a persons bank account via Openbanking etc then you can easily (!) determine which ones are subscriptions ?

npilk2• 6 years ago

Hadn’t thought of that! Interesting idea.

wiradikusuma• 6 years ago

Android app to keep track of things -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.every From the name (Every.ID), it aims to be the one app to keep track of everything you collect: domain names, postage stamps, games, etc.

I personally use it to keep track of my domain names, people I want to keep tabs of (sort of like mini CRM), software subscriptions, and lifetime deals purchased from AppSumo.

It's far from finished. Feel free to suggest features in https://app.productstash.io/everyid -- the completed ones are in https://app.productstash.io/everyid#completed

rubymamis• 6 years ago

A personal assistant for the desktop computer called Deus. Cross-platforn and open source here: https://github.com/nuttyartist/deus, https://awesomenessnotes.wixsite.com/website-5 (didn't update it for a long time)

Code is in C++ using Qt. Uses Porcupine for wake-up-word detection and Google API's for speech-to-text and text-to-speech.

It can play music, move your windows, you can shout google searches at it, tell it open Gmail, take screenshots, etc.

After launching it I found people didn't find it useful, including myself, after some time. Still, I open sourced it in case somebody will find it interesting. I loved developing the NLP engine part using tree structure to load the database and travel on it to find the most suitable command based on the user input.

Moved on to the next idea (:

terriblepodcast• 6 years ago

Someday I will summarize HN daily in an audio format to save others some time...

https://terrible.productions/#podcast

andriesvh• 6 years ago

https://proofing.io

Youtube and Vimeo tagging.

Certainly not ready yet but the basics work. Includes a feedback form to gather more input.

c0nrad• 6 years ago

I built a little tool to turn the dial on my thermostat. It's called the Thermoshat.

https://blog.c0nrad.io/posts/thermoshat/

geocrasher• 6 years ago

Okay, the name gave me a giggle. Then I clicked the link. Then the picture of the device gave me a giggle. Then the tagline gave me a good laugh.

Well played sir. Well played!

dbecks• 6 years ago

HiFutureSelf (http://hifutureself.com) - Send Reminders to your future self

abhiyerra• 6 years ago

https://YieldPayroll.com is a way to do payroll for hours tracked with Harvest Time Tracker. I built it to calculate what I owe subcontractors easily since I use Harvest for everything else. I built it last week so it is rough.

mvolfik• 6 years ago

https://eyp-calls.tk https://github.com/mvolfik/eyp-calls if anyone wants to look. Simple scraping + results presentation, utilizing Cloudflare workers + python Scrapy, actually pretty interesting imo. (It probably won't be useful to you, this is a tool just for members of a specific organization.

CogitoCogito• 6 years ago

This is _extremely_ half-baked. In fact, it's never meant for anyone's use but mine I just have it on github to use as an easy backup.

https://github.com/ApproximateIdentity/vocab

Basically what I have is a open office spreadsheet that I add Czech words to and specify things like noun/adj/etc., gender, english/czech spelling, and more and then I have a tiny bit of code to generate flashcards for the Anki program to import.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Basically the point is just to make it a bit easier to use the flashcard program and nothing else.

chickenmonkey• 6 years ago

https://github.com/meethari/todo_react

I'm in the process of learning the MERN stack for full stack development. What I have here is a todo list app where you can perform CRUD actions on the todo list (add todos, delete them, update the done state).

The front end is in React and the back end is an Express API that talks to a Mongo instance.

Next actions include - Making this a full fledged product by throwing in login functionality, authentication, ability to create multiple lists - Honing my HTML/CSS skills to build components for the above purposes - Deploying this to Heroku

oxinabox• 6 years ago

Arborist.jl https://github.com/oxinabox/Arborist.jl/

It implements one of the more advanced tricks in JuliaLang. Which is the concept behind Cassette.jl (https://github.com/jrevels/Cassette.jl) and IRTools.jl (https://github.com/MikeInnes/IRTools.jl). which is this notion of a recursive source code tranformation. This is the thing where you tranform code (kind of like a macro but not lexically scoped), including tranforming all function calls to also tranform their code. It's super powerful

For example Zygote.jl (https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl) implements reverse mode automatic differentiation, by defining a function that is a generated transformation of the function being differentiated. MagneticReadHead.jl (https://github.com/oxinabox/MagneticReadHead.jl/) implements a debugger by defining a function that has been transformed to include debugger interupts. This stuff also has a bunch of use for probabalistic programming languages etc.

The thing is Cassette and IRTools implement this at the lowered code level. It runs on the SSA-form IR. This IR was never really designed for the user to write it. Though IRTools does a noble attempt to make it nice.

Arborist instead runs at the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) level. Just like macros. This is designed to be written and manipulated by users. Users do that all the time by writing macros.

I haven't touched it in a while (apparently 2 years). Largely because AFAICT it's not useful outside of pedagogical purposes.

AST is not actually that nice for any program tranforms i want to do, since there are so many ways to write the same thing. E.g. different kinds of loops and branches, where as in SSA form IR they all look the same. Probably could be made to work, but i just don't really have a usecase that I can't do easier on IR. (probably people who haven't been deep into IR on the other hand would think of some)

There are a bunch of edge cases where it crashes still, for things that are not allowed to appear in generated code. It wouldn't be too hard to make it work though, not really. Particularly since we now have tools like https://github.com/SciML/RuntimeGeneratedFunctions.jl https://github.com/JuliaStaging/GeneralizedGenerated.jl

ARehmat• 6 years ago

Currently building a search engine that allows you to search within a select list of websites. The idea is to allow users to search for content in sites that may not have the best search on indexing features. I started this as there are few websites that I use that have ancient indexing. How am I meant to know which year/month the article that I'm trying to find was published in??

https://github.com/AbdullahRehmat/SoundSearch

It's very much work in progress and pretty much designed for my use case only...

tziki• 6 years ago

https://connectednotes.net (github: https://github.com/tsiki/connectednotes)

It's essentially Zettelkasten based note taking + flashcards + FOSS. More tchnically it's a PWA to make notes accessible anywhere, and the storage layer is currently Google Drive (although I want to make the storage layer easily swappable to eg. local hard drive).

It's a bit beyond half-baked but I'm currently trying to crush most annoying bugs for the alpha release and there's plenty of those, so it's not exactly baked either.

hamdouni• 6 years ago

https://barim.surge.sh - yet another HN reader. Mostly done to learn SvelteJS.

I use it every day and twick it as needed but still half baked as it lacks a lot of features to be a complete reader (no login, no contribution, ...)

js4ever• 6 years ago

Here is my half baked real-time server monitoring system: https://github.com/elestio/ws-monitoring

It's a web UI + websocket backend, very small, 10kb vanilla frontend and 300 LOC for the backend.

My goal is not to compete with netdata or other big tools but serve my own needs using really few resources

iliekcomputers• 6 years ago

My project is funnel: https://funnel.fyi

I'm trying to build something that helps people organise their job search better with better stats and insights. Right now, we have a kanban board for all your job applications and a sankey diagram for state changes.

fasouto• 6 years ago

https://wheelcarnival.com/ has been on my TODO list for almost a year.

I created it to learn Vue, initially I used Gridsome but then I decide to use Nuxt. I also moved it from Netlify to Firebase to add storing+auth, so people can create custom wheels.

It's getting a decent amount of visits so it will be wise to finish it, but it's not fun anymore and my day job takes a lot of energy.

cdaringe• 6 years ago

I made https://dvd.js.org?names=sushi,tacos,pizza as a silly thing for stuff like this last year too

headgasket• 6 years ago

https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable

Bringing postgres triggers and notifies to mysql.

I'm half-backing a linked mautic and davical service based on this, to automate analytics, marketing and messaging to your self-hosted contacts. end goal is de-googlify mail contacts and analytics.

djleni• 6 years ago

https://genre.rocks

Silly genre generator

jstanley2• 6 years ago

I'm trying to learn FPGA by making a really tiny CPU: https://github.com/jes/jescpu

An 8-bit CPU, and 8-bit address space. This means there are only 256 bytes of memory available.
There are no register operands, no immediate mode operands, and no indirect addressing. All operands are direct addresses. In particular this means that to use pointers you need self-modifying code (i.e. rewrite the address of the instruction to match the address that your pointer points to).

It works right now, but only if I run the CPU at 1/8th of the clock speed of the memory (see slowclock.v). I understand that it takes an extra cycle for reads from memory to get the signals back to the CPU, but don't yet understand why it takes 8 cycles.

Eventually I would like to expand it to support 16 bit addresses, put it in a fancy box with some actual IO devices, and possibly even implement it with logic gates instead of an FPGA.

fwsgonzo• 6 years ago

I really wish I had the time to do this. I'll make sure to remember this for later!

appleflaxen• 6 years ago

can you explain the pseudocode for opcode 6? I don't understan why mem[b] isn't present.

jstanley2• 6 years ago

Oops! That's because it said "mem[a] |= mem[b]", but a "|" ends the table cell in Markdown. Fixed now, thanks.

arendtio• 6 years ago

new-hacker-tab.com

Motivation: I wanted to have a new-tab page for my browser that show things that are actually useful for me like a few links, a weather forecast, best-HN and a notepad to dump some information.

So I built a website, which lets you edit its own code https://new-hacker-tab.com

How-To: In the bottom-right side is a button which opens an editor, to edit the page. The result is stored in the localStorage of the browser. I use that page every day and have different versions for work and spare time. If you messed up, just delete the localStorage of that domain.

Half-Baked: I would like to add sharing features, so when I have built a very nice widget/page, others can use it too, but so far the import/export functionality is all there is.

variblex• 6 years ago

I have an encryption utility that can work across IMs but I need another android developer to finish the project

ravishah• 6 years ago

Reddit is awesome and houses some of the best content I've read, but there's a problem.

In some subreddits like Writing prompts, ELI5, etc... we care more about the upvotes/score of comments than the comment's parent post.

This is a problem because the best comments (explanations, stories, jokes, etc...) are not always in the highest-rated post. Sometimes comments are higher rated than the parent post. This extremely challenging when the Top filter in Reddit is sorting by post's upvotes and not the comment's upvotes.

Here top posts from Reddit are ranked by the comment's upvotes/score (5th column), using data before 2019 (Forgotten content and also avoiding up-vote gamification.)

https://topredditcomments.com/

thunkshift1• 6 years ago

Cool project. How us the score calculated?

fallenatreus• 6 years ago

Awesome, what's the data source? are you using some kind of API or just scraping?

friebetill• 6 years ago

A spaced repetition flashcard app with the main focus on creating flashcards together. Sharing is still missing, but we are starting to work on it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.space.spac... or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/space-spaced-repetition/id1546....

I'm still a student and started programming the app with a friend because I wanted to learn physics with my classmates. But the other apps Anki, Brainscape and Quizlet have a pretty bad UX to create flashcards collaboratively, so I started working on it.

thisistheend123• 6 years ago

I am making an India based news aggregator like Google News.

Development is slow as I work on it only on Sundays.

Lots of bugs and broken links.

And the let's encrypt certificate also just expired. Need to get it on auto-renew.

It's Python and Go based.

https://www.huakya.com

Edit: Any suggestions/feedback most welcome. Thanks

hundredeir• 6 years ago

https://github.com/hundredeir/NoSQL

It's a work in progress DBMS implementation inspired from Google's LevelDB written in Rust.

End goal is to create a distributed DBMS.

kevlar1818• 6 years ago

Dud[1] is a tool for storing, versioning, and reproducing large files alongside source code. Planning a more "formal" release in Q1.

Dud : DVC :: Flask : Django

[1] https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/tour/

kumarsw4• 6 years ago

Cool! I'm excited to see more interest in this space after Boar development appears to have been abandoned, and no one is willing to take on converting it into Python 3.x. I have a similar project also in Go (see DupVer elsewhere in this thread) though it is based on a centralized repo.

oshea64bit• 6 years ago

I've been building a small relational database (https://github.com/shoyo/jin) with the goal being fast, easy to read, and (eventually) Postgres protocol-compliant.

What I've built so far are the lowest level components of the disk manager and buffer manager, and I'm currently implementing the system catalog for table creation/updates. I start work in April, so I'll be focused on this for the next few months!

testmasterflex• 6 years ago

Bathroom privacy device: https://Loodio.com

Still prototyping and will launch Kickstarter soon.

Demo Video: https://youtu.be/Z3DgxwjSTfg

scottrogowski• 6 years ago

Two to share:

https://fastmap.io: A drop in replacement for map that makes your Python instantly scalable in the cloud

https://ffer.io: A comprehensive stock valuation ratio powered by machine learning (and just happens to use fastmap)

pizza• 6 years ago

That fastmap.io looks pretty neat

durkie• 6 years ago

fastmap looks really cool and like it has the potential to be "it just works" magical

hankchinaski• 6 years ago

ffer.io is pretty neat

AtroxDev• 6 years ago

project: postcard.zone (https://postcard.zone), its a simple way to send a postcard to any address of your liking with fully customizable front and back of the postcard itself.

A long time on my todo list to make more out of it. It works as-is but I'm not happy with the current editor and some other things. Still, it gets some use on occasion which is nice :)

bradbeattie• 6 years ago

I got hooked on building tools to assist in collective decision making. A decade back I built pyvotecore and https://modernballots.com to help folks run elections with fancier systems (e.g. SchulzeSTV). Years later, I built https://boardgamemenu.com to help reduce choice paralysis with boardgame selection (consensus). A few after that was https://sortmatch.ca to assist in Glicko tournaments.

Most recently, I built https://deckofnames.com to help new parents decide on a name they'd both like. I built it for myself, but figured others might find it useful. So it's a bit rough around the edges, but does the job pretty well, I think.

Part of the fun of implementing it was hunting down name statistics from various regional governments to compile a list of "which names are popular in which regions in which years". I really wish that kind of thing were standardized around the world, but that's life.

ducaale• 6 years ago

I am working on ht[0], a drop-in replacement for HTTPie[1] written in Rust.

Since I am not planning on writing an extensive documentation for ht, I wanted to port 99% of HTTPie's features so its docs applies to ht as well. So far I have been able to port around 60-70% of HTTPie's features.

[0] https://github.com/ducaale/ht

[1] https://httpie.org/

skytreader• 6 years ago

Erdem (https://github.com/skytreader/erdem) is a small "media-center" webapp that I've been building. I'm also using this as an opportunity to learn React.

Over the years I've amassed a collection of video files with filenames similar but not exactly like, "Lionel Messi vs Miroslav Klose".

The actual data set is dirtier, can't be regexed, etc. A key property of my data set is that a name features in the filename of different files.

I made this to easily answer the question "Hey, I want to watch a video about Messi. I wonder what I have?"

So, being the computer scientist I am, I thought it'd be interesting to index the filenames. Hence, the indexer whose code I experiment with a lot; dirtier than usual, very "academic" style.

Then I realized all I need is a search function (which I have implemented already!). Life works. Maybe I'll keep with the indexer idea but just for something to play with.

P.S., I have words to say about React but this isn't the thread for it I guess. Been a frustrating experience so far. But well, that's why I used it in such a rough hack in the first place.

LukasReschke• 6 years ago

I've been working on an open-source Identity Access Management solution in the past few months: https://gatekeeper.page/en/

Gatekeeper aims to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to have their own on-premise IAM solution that supports all relevant protocols and standards and is secure by default (by offering automated updates and using memory-safe languages etc.).

Features include, for example, LDAP, OpenID Connect, SCIM, and Gatekeeper as an identity-aware reverse proxy. (with fully managed ACME certificate management)

The tech stack is ASP.NET Core + Postgres on the backend. The frontend is written in C# and uses Blazor to run using Web Assembly. If someone is interested in taking a look, we are working on a hopefully helpful Developer Documentation (https://docs.gatekeeper.page/developer/)

The code on GitHub: https://github.com/GetGatekeeper/Server

didizaja3• 6 years ago

Code Reading Club: https://codereading.club

The idea of this project is to make a small, cozy kind of “book club for code” that enables club members to study and discuss the architecture/structure of open source code. I wanted it to be both a way to study others’ work as a means of developing more intuition about how to structure software, as well as a creative exploration and discussion of code as art.

I know the UI is quite poor right now, and the information about the time of the first session needs to be updated. I’ve pivoted to working on another project (a CLI reader for HN that lets you navigate with a UI like that generated by pager utilities such as “more”) while I flesh out the idea for this one more, as I’m not sure if I can reconcile the two aims for the club I cited above. I have to think more carefully about what I want it to be, and who I want to reach/how I want to reach them.

I really like the idea of doing this, but I just don’t have the mental/emotional bandwidth for it at the moment, which is why I’m working on other, more solitary projects instead. I think it’s important to have discipline and “grind” through things at times, but when I’m doing something in my free time for my own enjoyment and already feel a bit burned out from my other existing roles/responsibilities, I prefer not to add to it by actively building something that might create even more expectations from others. Instead, I try to get back to my first passion, which is just the joy of building programs bit by bit and understanding every piece of what I do in a gradual, methodical fashion.

A related idea I’ve had is making a YouTube channel where I do a similar thing to Code Reading Club, but just break down different applications on my own, bit by bit. I’d include architecture diagrams, doodles, and source code snippets. I imagine it being something like MaiZure’s Decoded: GNU coreutils project[0].

[0] https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/

Freeboots• 6 years ago

I like this idea. As a still learning developer I have occasionally stumbled across code reviews on youtube, and they've been enlightening. I rarely find them on purpose (If anyone knows or runs a channel that does this i would sub).

Reading source code with some guidance from more experienced developers sounds similarly useful.

didizaja3• 6 years ago

Yeah, I think it could be quite useful as well!

I will make sure I post a Show HN once the project is in a more polished state.

KraftKacke• 6 years ago

I like the idea a lot.

I've been thinking about something similar: An explanation/notes "wiki" for exemplary open source repository snapshots. With the goal to document everything you can see in a repo so beginners can understand and catch up with structure, conventions and understand algorithms and common problems IRL. Imperfections and errors are part of the game and need to be explained as well, and because of that infrequent snapshots are sufficient.

Something to overcome tutorial hell and lower the threshold for participation in FOSS projects.

didizaja3• 6 years ago

Wow, that sounds extremely useful! I haven't contributed to any FOSS projects in a meaningful way (yet), but I imagine that lots of potential contributors spend an inordinate amount of time trying to familiarize themselves with structure, conventions, and how everything fits together. Having all of that information in one, well-documented place could definitely help with getting up to speed/creating a mental model for the project faster.

On a semi-related front, I'm also interested in lowering the threshold for participation in FOSS projects, but I approached things from the lens of helping potential contributors better grok/intuit the social/organizational structure of a project. To that end, I made small badges that projects can add to their READMEs to indicate, to a rough approximation, what "type" of project they are[0]. The project types are described in a really interesting book called Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software[1] by Nadia Eghbal.

[0] https://project-types.github.io/ [1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578675862/

koonsolo2• 6 years ago

RPG Playground (https://rpgplayground.com), the easiest way to make and share RPG games. No coding required.

Been developing this for many years already, but this year I hope to go to some state where I could rival RPG Maker and all the likes.

sjbrown2• 6 years ago

That looks amazing! What's the tech stack? Code available?

koonsolo2• 6 years ago

I started out in ActionScript3, but years ago converted to Haxe with the Kha library.

Backend used to be node.js with MongoDB, but now it's all WordPress.

jamesrwhite• 6 years ago

Over the past year I've been working on Check Sheet in my spare time which is an add-on for Google Sheets. It lets you define rules or "checks" for your spreadsheet and will then send you a notification when they match via Email, Slack or Teams. Google used to have a similar thing built in directly but decided to remove it, there still seems to be demand for such a thing so I've been working on something that adds that functionality back.

The add-on runs primarily in Google's Apps Script environment which is essentially like Lambda/Cloud Functions although it's been around for way longer. In terms of the tech stack the frontend is a fairly simple Vue app and the backend is written in TypeScript. Apps Script is quite restrictive in terms of some of the quotas and limitations they apply so over time I've moved some of the logic and data out into Firestore and Cloud Functions.

You can install it for free on the marketplace: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/check_sheet_not...

petr251020182• 6 years ago

Contentwok: https://contentwok.com/

The idea is to make creating & publishing content a bit simpler. The possibilities in the space are endless, but I started with an "automatic image finder". The way this works is that you just copy-paste your article/text or just provide an URL to already existing one and the tool will automatically recommend images that you can use in the article based on the context (currently from Unsplash).

Some screenshots how it looks so that you don't have to sign up: https://twitter.com/stribny/status/1341490526609149953

vmirz• 6 years ago

A stock and options trading tracker for Robinhood with a social component.

ios: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tradebase-for-robinhood/id1021...

android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epilix.tra...

I started this project many years ago, but I still consider it "half baked" because it not nearly what I think it should be. Turns out, building reliable and accurate finance tools is not easy.

The idea originally came from when my friends and I would exchange details on holding, returns, winners, losers, etc. If you're an active investor and have friends who are too, chances are you've asked the same questions.

enos_feedler• 6 years ago

Neat idea I will check it out. It seems like a lot of potential in the trading + social space.

sjbrown2• 6 years ago

Togetherness Table https://www.1kfa.com/table

Open source SVG/HTML/CSS/JavaScript (no frameworks) project for playing Tabletop RPGs (D&D et al) online.

It started out as just a dice-roller, but since it's so easy to nest whatever SVG thingamagic you like into it, it's been expanded to do card decks, tokens, and a thing I'm calling "Dynamic Trays".

Dynamic Trays do the gruntwork of RPG calculations. Sums, tabulations, even "exploding dice".

There's still a lot to do, every time I add a feature I think of two possible new ones. I've got to say, SVG is *really* nice. I think many developers would have the first instinct to do this in an HTML Canvas tag, but SVG does so much heavy lifting for you.

tomaspollak• 6 years ago

Two projects:

- Archetype[0] - Offline code editor for Chrome OS (Pending: Theming, customization, etc)

- Muki[1] - Web based chiptune & MIDI player (Pending: Rebranding, bigger catalog, personal playlists, recommendations)

- [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archetype-an-offli... - [1] https://muki.io

ISNIT• 6 years ago

SES Templates: https://sestemplates.com/ I built it over a weekend to scratch an itch. It's useful, it works, but needs some sales/marketing effort.

benoror• 6 years ago

BaseQL: https://www.baseql.com/

A single GraphQL access point to all your cloud Data.

The idea is to use existing relational data stored in the cloud to rapidly create a GraphQL API that is production ready.

We support Airtable for now, and we're developing GSheets.

Technical docs & examples: https://docs.baseql.com/usage/querying

JohnDotAwesome• 6 years ago

I built an app around the HTML invoice template I had been using for years. https://www.cannonvoice.com/

I used this project as a training ground for a ton of different ideas and technologies. From server rendered react to typescript and design systems to how the hell kubernetes works. I went from dokku, to lando, to trying to figure out Consul and Hashicorp stuff to managed K8s on digital ocean. I decided to try to only write SQL and create my own typesafe patterns with TypeScript. It didn’t work out all that great but it wasn’t all that bad either.

This is half baked because I had so many more plans for a product no one asked for. Definitely one of the best learning experiences I had. I started with a monorepo of modules and realized that was a stupid idea for an app. I developed some strong opinions along the way. Oh I reimplemented email auth for the nth time but this time I used postgres’s built-in crypto functions. Man I like this implementation

kumarsw4• 6 years ago

DupVer https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver is a deduplicating version control system for large binary files. It's designed to keep state in a repository on the local machine separate from the working directory so it plays nice with cloud synchronization software.

I started it after constant headaches involving Git LFS and the corporate proxy. It's based around the Restic chunker library, with inspiration from both the Duplicacy backup software and Boar, another binary version control system for large binary files.

kierangill• 6 years ago

App for chores and roommates.

https://imgur.com/a/lQsrDZj

I'm only showing a few pics because I took the backend down. Simple premise is that you can weight chores with points. When someone completes a chore (clean the dishes, mop the floor), they get rewarded those points.

The point is to provide transparency into who's doing what around the house.

arnaudl_• 6 years ago

My nagios as a service that I've been using on a few personal projects: https://github.com/arnaudl/nagios-docker

It automatically adds hosts and services reporting to it through NSCA.

tuangeek• 6 years ago

Projects:

https://rapidapi.com/apigeek/api/transcribe - An API to transcribe any audio/video file using deep-learning. Still working on documentation.

https://contect.io - An idea validation service using market research data, keywords, A/B landing pages with a fake checkout to help indie hackers validate their idea. Working on applying for Strip checkout.

ay• 6 years ago

Two very half baked projects:

1) https://github.com/ayourtch/tbpatch

read the unified diff and apply to files that may have whitespace changes compared to original. The aim is to experiment with structured source control. The first immediate use is to be able to more easily cherry-pick code changes between branches in a big project.

2) https://github.com/ayourtch/flex-sftp-server

an experiment in making an SFTP server that is not tied to openssh, to implement more flexibility like more granular access control, different storage backend etc.

philipcdavis• 6 years ago

Resources for designers to learn declarative UI frameworks.

1. https://react.design

2. https://swiftui.design/guide

jlizzle30• 6 years ago

Suitro: Asana style project management tool for recruiters.

https://suitro.com/

joaomacp• 6 years ago

Reinforcement learning goalkeeper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t-W0U-WC6IikniINjeRjE8Zuskx...

The agent hasn't learned anything yet. I just finished setting up the environment, adding the ball and goal.

knicholes3• 6 years ago

I've been trying to sell the idea of AI-assisted breast augmentation visualization. I call it breastimate. So far no plastic surgeons will meet with me to validate the idea. It's image to image translation using SPADE from before augmentation to after augmentation.

NSFW (female breasts shown)

https://spark.adobe.com/page/zZlziYu47YiwR/

nunja• 6 years ago

The failed model screenshot have some Total Recall vibes!

dr_kiszonka2• 6 years ago

1. Are you sharing this website with them?

2. How well do your AI after photos compare to the real ones?

Cool project!

knicholes3• 6 years ago

1. Yeah, I call and get the receptionist. I tell them about the software and get their interest (which is always seemingly high). They give me the email address of their plastic surgeon. I email the surgeon with a link to this page while explaining to them that I'm creating this software but want to validate the idea before putting more time into it. Nobody responds to my emails. 2. The photos are right there in the link, but if you're not able to view them, to me it usually generates pictures that are close to indistinguishable from actual photos. The breasts look like breasts (unless I'm cramming five on them onto one chest and make them shaped oddly... lol)

I just need more pictures. I also need to apply a different image-to-image translation where I put "static" over JUST the segmented breasts, so as to not remove tattoos, freckles, etc. I've seen an awesome paper that does this called OASIS, but they've not released code. I want the synthesized picture to be as close as the original as possible (with the obvious exception of larger breasts).

Still I need to build the actual pipeline instead of running the images through my segmentation network and my SPADE network AND I need to maybe programmatically increase the segmented "breast" category to be larger and maybe place the nipple in a more desirable location.

dannygarcia• 6 years ago

After spending a month of nights and weekends building this I'm not sure whether to scrap it or continue working on it - possibly monetizing advanced features:

https://allocator.app/

barko2• 6 years ago

Up For X: https://upforxapp.com/

I wanted to learn React Native and decided to build something simple and whimsical that I could see myself using.

The app lets you set a status about what activity you want to do and see what your friends have set; ideally simplifying the first step in making plans with friends.

It's still missing push notifications and some other key features, but I've gotten the basic functionality of adding friends and seeing and setting statuses up and running.

ipsum2• 6 years ago

Reminds me of Google's "who's down for" app: https://www.greenbot.com/article/2999629/whos-down-is-google...

barko2• 6 years ago

Huh, I'm surprised I never saw this. Thanks for the link

zelon88• 6 years ago

https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud3

I've been picking away at making my own commercial grade cloud platform from scratch for over 6 years now. This is the third version which I hope to make a lot of progress on this winter.

seriousmofo• 6 years ago

Hey All. This summer I created a "virtual yoga class aggregator". Automated web scraping every night, MySQL db, a dotnet api, and a svelte UI.

https://allthe.yoga/

I think it needs some design work, and probably needs to list prices. Next stage would be to start tackling a way to avoid users having to register at every studio, business partnerships, etc.

LeegleechN• 6 years ago

Working on guitar learning software, similar to Rocksmith or Yousician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_2JruqYPQ

kstenerud• 6 years ago

Concise Encoding: https://concise-encoding.org

The friendly data format for human and machine. Think JSON, but with 1:1 compatible twin binary and text formats and rich type support.

* Edit text, transmit binary. Humans love text. Machines love binary. With Concise Encoding, conversion is 1:1 and seamless.

* Rich type support. Boolean, integer, float, string, bytes, time, URI, UUID, list, map, markup, metadata, comments, etc.

* Plug and play. No schema needed. No special syntax files. No code generation. Just import and go.

The specifications are pretty much ready for version 1.0 release now, but I'm holding off until I have the reference implementation done (about 90% complete at https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding). After that I'll start on the schema specification. Once that's done, I have a low-level communication protocol that will use this format under the hood.

I could use help in the following areas:

* Looking over the specifications and pointing out anything that looks weird or off or might cause problems.

* Help with the schema specification.

* Implementations in other languages.

kumarsw4• 6 years ago

Somewhat OT, but one of my pet crazy ideas is a Forth-like data file format based on a stack. I've never thought about it enough to say if it's completely stupid or not.

iujjkfjdkkdkf2• 6 years ago

Could you elaborate a bit? Would the file be a set of instructions that generates the data (this is how postscript works), or something else?

mcint• 6 years ago

You might post on the IETF JSON and CBOR lists for feedback, help, and additional use-cases and considerations. They're a focal point for likeminded people, including implementors and users who have experience with common usage issues, upgradability, implementation simplicity, and other concerns related to human and machine-readable data interchange formats.

cbor@ietf.org https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/cbor/

json@ietf.org https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/json/

crazypython5• 6 years ago

My game plans to build an encoding for JSON that has schema that shows structure, name, and type. So, we would transmit a schema ID that maps to an in-memory schema. Do you have any plans for something like this? If so, we could work together.

Yhippa• 6 years ago

A "responsive" version of HN: https://github.com/yhippa/responsive-hn

The site works pretty well right now but I wanted to use this as a way to get better with front-end development and playing with stuff like Firebase.

To see it in all it's half-baked glory go here: http://yhippa.github.io/responsive-hn/. I think once I got a bare minimum of stuff to load I stopped working on it.

antihero• 6 years ago

Ten years ago I tried to bring encrypted comms to the masses and make an alternative to twitter and Facebook events using serveride and eventually browser based crypto.

https://github.com/radiosilence/wire

It was ripped apart (quite rightly in some cases) so I gave up.

I guess now that we can have have unaudited binaries running on our phones and devices to provide this to the masses we are much safer.

jonstaab• 6 years ago

I built a PWA for disc golf speedruns: https://www.anhyzer.io/

I'm really quite pleased with it and I use it often, but there's only one course listed (the one I play on), and there's no feature for letting users contribute data for courses. Also, I use a database with public access, so if you know what you're doing you can hack the scoreboard.

If you're interested or want to add a course I'd accept PRs: https://github.com/staab/disc-golf

epakai• 6 years ago

I wrote handbrake runner. It takes a plaintext (glib) keyfile and runs HandBrakeCLI repeatedly to encode video. I use it for my dvd/bd collection. It has a support script (hbscan.py) to build keyfile templates from handbrake's scan of dvd titles.

https://github.com/epakai/hbr

epilys• 6 years ago

My terminal mail client. Work has been slow but steady

https://meli.delivery

https://github.com/meli/meli

jcuenod• 6 years ago

I've been building https://parabible.com for a few years now (code is at https://github.com/parabible/). It's a tool for doing biblical research using the original languages. It provides the usual morphological tagging and parallel versions (with Greek/Hebrew, including the LXX but I'm not interested in just pumping it with rubbish data that a lot of bible sites like doing—I'm doing a PhD, I know what data is valuable).

The real value proposition is the way that searching works. I have the BHS (the standard Hebrew edition) tagged with parsing and syntax and, critically, searches respect syntax. That means you don't have to search for words within n words of each other or within the same verse; you can search for words in the same clause. Finding Hebrew idioms is a lot easier like this.

My research is in the Old Testament so this is only true of Hebrew right now but I'm doing a lot of work rewriting the backend which will make it easier to import new translations and search any of the tagged data.

I am quite proud of the UI. It's React with MS's Fluent UI components, though, and I feel like it's a bit sluggish (but my server is also slow).

But hey, I use it as my primary interface for working with the Hebrew so it serves my purposes. I also made some tutorial videos to onboard intrepid users (there's a button in the toolbar to take you there), which I feel like makes it a "real" project, now :)

saeranv• 6 years ago

Pincam: A simple pinhole camera library in Python/Numpy/GeoPandas. Pincam allows you to easily manipulate, analyze and plot 3D images with GeoPandas.

https://github.com/saeranv/pincam

It's dead useful (for the kind of work I do) - but I'm stuck on whether it's worthwhile to finish it up with a proper raycaster to more accurately resolve depth order of the geometries. Currently I've managed to implement ~70% of pincam's features with Pytorch3D's camera and mesh library, and while it doesn't provide clean graphics like Pincam, it gets the job donE.

pzagor2• 6 years ago

https://urlrec.com/

Export web animations as mp4 videos from any public URL. API or trough UI. Actually it can be any website, not just animation.

dgellow• 6 years ago

A stupid game where you have to guess what parts of Trump's tweets are in FULL CAPS: https://www.trumpscreaming.site

Now that Trump is banned from everywhere, I guess I won't have fresh content anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jonas_kgomo• 6 years ago

affordance is a platform for scaling side projects with an expert ecosystem. https://affordance.app

deathcap• 6 years ago

Voxelmetaverse, a voxel game platform based on voxel.js

Live demo: http://voxel.github.io/voxelmetaverse/

Source code: https://github.com/voxel/voxelmetaverse

I had big ideas for it but didn't get too far, after several years of working on it. Just published a retrospective today: https://medium.com/@deathcap1/6-years-after-6-months-of-voxe... - it could be developed much, much further.

Hydraulix989• 6 years ago

The StackGL port was much higher-performance for me than the Three.JS one.

gnyman• 6 years ago

https://noscript.it/

A little hack I made to view websites with JavaScript disabled, mainly useful on iOS where there is no real noscript extension.

Useful to share links with JavaScript disabled. And as added bonus it bypasses a few paywalls or article-per-month limitations.

Still has bugs and issues with detecting when a site blocks rendering in iframes.

jermd2• 6 years ago

Tuna programming language: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang

The intended use case is rapid development of microservices. I’m excited about it because you can describe reliable and secure apps concisely:

https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang/tree/main/demos/...

Tuna presents a single system image abstraction so developers don’t need to concern themselves with scalability.

It’s all open source and I welcome contributors/feedback!

superzamp2• 6 years ago

Tuna's global state is persisted in a database, rather than held in memory.

Very interesting. In addition to micro-services, this could drastically ease the pain of developing workflow orchestration systems.

How do you plan to handle code updates in the context of global state?

jermd2• 6 years ago

You're right there are other use cases besides microservices. For me, the other exciting application is to use Tuna in an analytics tool. The beauty would be that you don't have to use any query language to analyze large datasets.

With regards to orchestration, I hope to add primitives for events, batch processing, and things like that.

Make sure I understand your question correctly: You're asking how updates will work so: -old deployments don't see the next version's types coming out of global state -new deployments only see valid types.

I believe the compiler can do a lot of heavy lifting for updates while still remaining flexible. The compiler could take in two tuna files and type check across versions. For example, imagine two version of the same application. In v0 we store Foo. In v1 we store Bar.

A couple options open up: - We can deploy v1 but a transformation from Foo to Bar must be executed across all stored data. This would need to be performed while v0 is down. - We can deploy a type safe version of v0 and v1 that handle the union Foo or Bar. Then, we can teardown the type safe version of v0. v1 should be the only deployment that migrates foos to bars. The benefits of this approach is that you have non disruptive upgrades.

whatgoodisaroad• 6 years ago

A little language for dimensional analysis programming: https://github.com/whatgoodisaroad/doggerel

Rather than static types, primitive values have static dimensions and (in lieu of objects) complex values are built up into unordered vectors. The core idea being that if the language makes it easy to spin up descriptive purpose-built dimensions, vectors are the only data structure we need!

It started out as a straightforward attempt to program with units and conversions, but slowly generalized to this vector concept. The next steps are about building a static dimension language (like a type language) to slice-and-dice vectors with projections.

68020• 6 years ago

A Personal Configuration Manager. An OS 'WP killer' that pushes web designs (apps/blogs/etc) via ssh to target servers. Allows for an independent way of managing your web assets and designing beautiful web sites for your self or others.

Akcium2• 6 years ago

https://pingr.io - uptime (soon performance) monitoring service

I'm looking for help regarding: - New features which you miss in such services - Pricing model (https://www.producthunt.com/discussions/how-to-choose-correc...)

It's already working, though might be buggy a little.

Thinking of switching to B2B, instead of B2C

miyuru• 6 years ago

Just had a look and your site looks great.

some feedback.

1. I saw in the change log that you support IPv6, make it more prominent in the front page as well. (maybe add IPv6 support to pingr.io as well)

2. Your pricing is what I was looking for, per request and per location. but the fixed charge thing is what holding me back. maybe a prepaid option would be better. eg: a person adds $10 credit to the account and uses it at pay as you go pricing.

Akcium2• 6 years ago

Oh thank your for your feedback

Regarding pricing, this is what I'm struggling with. The reason for fixed pricing is to cover commission + if I got a lot of users with like "$0.01/mo" usage, then it'd be hard to support all of them, it's literally free option.

I thought about prepaid, I don't remember exactly why I declined that option. I think I liked the digital ocean model, though they don't have fixed dollar.

Hmm

shepik• 6 years ago

https://potapp.co/#/doc/new/readme

Notes&todo app. You write everything like it's a document, and then view/change todo items on a kanbad-like board.

I would love to hear some feedback.

tibu• 6 years ago

I like this idea. Writing a memo and adding tasks while writing, maybe assigning to some people. The only drawback is that there are already so many todo apps. However it could be a good idea if it could work together with some Todo apps like Todoist.

oneto018• 6 years ago

I have started to write a simple 2d game engine for react Js based on box2d and pixi Js long back. I didn't progress beyond creating a proof of concept demo

https://github.com/nagarajanSnapwiz/react-2d-game

jhoutromundo• 6 years ago

I building an alternative to Heroku for NodeJS projects with a small stack. It is focused on deliver apps faster. It also have a temporary container for testing purposes that requires no login.

https://albumin.io

jansan2• 6 years ago

Heroku is far too expensive for database usage. That should be your selling point.

throwaway743• 6 years ago

Biden Unleashed https://twitch.tv/biden_unleashed

Voice/lexicon cloned, 3D, mocapped Joe Biden w/ interactive Twitch chat.

Built it after joking with a friend about Joe Biden's "gaffes", how his platform doesn't generate much enthusiasm, and that an alternate more risque Joe Biden could bring excitement to the people.

It's goofy, has some bugs, is in bad taste, but the account ended up qualifying for the Twitch Affiliate program which was neat. Also, I just think it's a funny project and my goal was to create it for those who share a similar sense of humor and could get a laugh out of it. I've been downvoted to hell and people have messaged with everything but the kitchen sink, from being called a transphobe, sexist, trumptard, bernie bro, the whole gamut. Thing is I'm none of these (maybe a bernie supporter... not bro. Support the policies, then the individual) and just wanted to make something absurd, funny, and fun for friends and others who share the same sense of humor.

The setup is a bit complicated, but it's what my budget allows for. One linux machine w/ a GTX 1060 monitors for incoming chats, when one is received it generates a text and TTS reply, then adds the username and text/audio files to the queue. The second machine handles the streaming, playing of pre-generated audio files, and monitors the queue for usernames to display in the stream and chat responses to play/display.

I've got a long list of other ideas for technical and content improvements, but they're taking the backburner for the time being while I work on learning/building more with React and search for work.

AlwaysRock• 6 years ago

Reachoutt.com

It's an app that texts you reminders to reach out to friends/family/contacts you create on a regular basis. You set up the frequency of the reminders. There are a few API's that send along idea that to talk to them about as well.

It doesnt really work in production right now because it uses ruby cronish jobs that don't work correctly on heroku servers. Just need more time to spend on it.

tomgs2• 6 years ago

I use https://www.monicahq.com/ mostly for this. Interesting, tracking.

zzo38computer• 6 years ago

I have my own software projects, mainly written in C, which I have made significant progress writing it, but seem to be missing some important parts. Fossil repositories are available and discussion is available on NNTP.

- Free Hero Mesh - a puzzle game engine, for grid based games such as Sokoban, Hero Hearts, etc. - The behaviour of the game seems to work perfectly as far as I can tell, but the level editor doesn't work, audio doesn't work, destruction animations don't work, there are no examples provided, etc.

- TeXnicard - a program for making card sets for card games using special cards, such as Magic: the Gathering, and making up your own card games. - Many features work, but the package manager and version control system are incomplete, and the typesetting engine could also be improved, and there are no rendering templates provided. Also, the Separations Output Format used for rendering probably isn't implemented anywhere else as far as I can tell.

- sqlnetnews - a simple NNTP server software with SQLite. - Peering with other NNTP servers is not currently implemented, nor is authentication, nor the email/web interface.

If you are interested, please mention it; maybe you are able to help with them, because I would want help with some things, I think.

binwiederhier• 6 years ago

I've been working on pcopy (https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy) a lot lately.

It's a tool to copy/paste across machines. It can be used from the web UI, via a CLI or without a client by using curl.

It's written in Go, and a lot of fun. I'd love some feedback and/or code review.

It's used like this:

- Copy: echo hi | pcp

- Paste (on any machine): ppaste > hi.txt

Live demo: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#demo

Videos: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#videos

cosbgn• 6 years ago

Zero.sh a tool to build admin dashboards

mfbx9da42• 6 years ago

An observable tree data structure which could form the basis of a state management library in typescript https://github.com/mfbx9da4/observable-state-tree

sudoit2• 6 years ago

I love this, but I need something like this for Swift. I’ll probably review how you pulled this off

mfbx9da42• 6 years ago

Thanks :-)

winrid2• 6 years ago

In 2019 I started https://watch.ly/

It works, and I use it, but I never finished the self service aspect. MEAN stack + Twilio.

VoxelBoy• 6 years ago

MobileUO: https://github.com/voxelboy/mobileuo/

I ported Ultima Online to Android and iOS devices. It's a really old MMO at this point but still has a niche following. New community shards are still popping up and some of them (such as UO Outlands) have high populations.

I opened up a Patreon for the project in hopes that the community and the shard owners would support me enough to keep working on it but I never got past 100 euros per month in pledges. The app does have a stable userbase of around 1000 users though.

Even though it wasn't a financial success by any measure, I'm really proud to have brought my childhood favourite game to new platforms.

cpufry• 6 years ago

wow neat. ipy pvp on touch screen would be hell omg. very cool!

woozymans• 6 years ago

I’ve been building a curated collection of local restaurants for people to order delivery or takeaway from during the pandemic lockdown - https://woozymans.com

Ranking for restaurants is based on an algorithm of engagement and current popularity.

winrid2• 6 years ago

I'm doing the book Data Science From Scratch, but doing the exercises in C++ instead of Python, just to get familiar with the language.

https://github.com/winrid/data-science-from-scratch-cpp

rvin• 6 years ago

Hey all! Built out a passion project app to help podcasters find new listeners.

Each podcaster is given a channel with a public facing website for their podcast. To give prospective listeners a taste of an episode, post an audio clip with a key moment (has to be less than 5 minutes long). We take these clips and serve them in a feed of posts for listeners.

Example Website: https://jointidbit.com/c/startupadvice

App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tidbit-snackable-audio/id14656...

Thanks everyone!

ms123• 6 years ago

I’ve been working on a “virtual pub” - an internet message board where people can talk about what’s on their mind with strangers. It’s fully open source (code in golang). Works on web and Gemini: https://midnight.pub

sudoit2• 6 years ago

I’ve been working on https://liveapp.cc It allows for iOS apps to be deployed outside of the App Store by streaming apps through an App Clip. Apple has approved my app, but I’m expecting they’d ban it if I allowed users to host their apps for something more than beta testing

raudaschl• 6 years ago

Amazon Hunt.

A solution for tracking the number of sales of different products on amazon and how much merchants are making.

Never got the nerve to actually sell it and not sure if I will do anything with it. http://www.amzhunt.com/

lawrjone• 6 years ago

Postgres change-capture device that supports high-throughput and low-latency capture to a variety of sinks (at first release, just Google BigQuery):

https://github.com/lawrencejones/pgsink

I know there's debezium and Netflix's dblog, but this project aims to be much simpler.

Forget about kafka and any other dependency: just point it at Postgres, and your data will be pushed into BigQuery. And for people with highly-performance-sensitive databases, the read workload has been designed with Postgres efficiency in mind.

I'm hoping pgsink could be a gateway drug to get small companies up and running with a data warehouse. If your datastore of choice is Postgres, it's a huge help to replicate everything into an analytics datastore. A similar tool has helped my company extract expensive work out of our primary database, which is super useful for scaling (nevermind the business-intelligence and data-engineering uses!).

The project is 90% there, about 10hrs and some testing away from being useable. Once there, I'll be hitting up some start-up friends and seeing if they want to give it a whirl.

chadwittman• 6 years ago

I'd call it 2/3rds baked; but doing nba + tech questions w/ friends via 30 second takes. Would love a couple of thoughts / feedback on playing around with it. A lot of features, but still refining core experience dramatically: https://trypersona.com/feed (check out on mobile)

throwawayHN9876• 6 years ago

after realising how frustrating is to work with third party recruiters and companies that do no share clear salary ranges,

i built https://golang.cafe for myself. golang cafe is a golang job board with no recruiters and clear salary ranges.

i also don't like sites that use excessive javascripts, ads, and other crap and bloatware. golang cafe will try to remain analytics free and bloat free.

i have managed to get a salary explorer https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developer-Salary-Remote

a list of companies actively hiring and using go in production https://golang.cafe/Companies-Using-Golang

also experimental a bunch of go devs open to work https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developers

[edit] ps. it is also open source https://github.com/golang-cafe/golang.cafe

rathboma• 6 years ago

https://beekeeperstudio.io - cross platform database manager. Fully open source.

It's been doing well but still has a long way to go to have all the features we want.

Open source is great for side projects that aren't fully finished!

lucas03• 6 years ago

https://www.digrin.com/

It's a stock portfolio manager focused on dividends.

I have been thinking about financial independence and financial literacy for years. How so many of us were never taught about the impact of credit card loans and inflation on our financial situation. So as I've read more about how a brand new car is the worst thing you can do with your money, I dug deeper into how money can make money. As I started investing right after university, I thought the web would be a better way to track dividends automatically, instead of manual google spreadsheets. So this is my project I work on weekends mostly, trying to visualize dividend stocks and what passive income I can expect. It's always half baked project because there are so many exchanges and stocks that all have their own problems and it's hard to automate from free data sources. I really like building the project I use myself! Hopefully, it will last!

wwilim• 6 years ago

I made a serverless website that gathers and displays tweets with variants of the phrase "latest research" (in Polish). My goal was mostly to see how the phrase is used to add credibility to complete bull. I also tried to deploy an English version, but the volume of tweets was so large I gave up for now. I will probably continue working on it at some point, mainly because I want to try out Lambda Layers.

http://www.najnowsze-badania.com

thebeardisred• 6 years ago

I was tired of the limited/awkward search structure of trying to find parts for surface mount device (SMD) assembly for printed circuit boards (PCBs), a process generally referred to as PCBA.

Thus, I slapped together Google Apps Script utility which runs via a ~cron job~ time based trigger and keeps the _same URL_ updated with the daily updates to the JLCPCB inventory (a subset of LCSC). Check it out here via the "easy to remember" link: https://brianredbeard.com/jlcpcb-parts

*edit: that also reminds me, leave a comment if there are specific filter views which you think would be useful. I've been adding a few here and there so that everyone can benefit.

DenseComet• 6 years ago

100% going to use this. Was trying to pick out SMD parts from the JLCPCB inventory just a couple weeks ago, and it was definitely a giant pain. This looks great!

networkimprov• 6 years ago

Building a legitimate email replacement, "mnm":

https://mnmnotmail.org

https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail

Not production-ready, but well past half-baked. I began publicizing it this month.

Legitimate, i.e. n-identity, decentralized, store-and-forward, simple protocol, open source. Contributors welcome!

#banSMTP

sibit• 6 years ago

A VTT I'm building/using with some friends for our weekly D&D 5E sessions. https://freetabletop.app/

djbeadle• 6 years ago

This looks really cool, I've been annoyed at how Roll 20 tries to do everything and isn't super intuitive.

yc-kraln• 6 years ago

Here's my not-quite-complete Telegram bot to help you track your eating/exercise habits. Log in with Telegram, the rest happens in the app.

https://gesundheit.ai/dashboard/

sli• 6 years ago

https://gitlab.com/docmenthol/autotable

It's a datatable written in Elm. I wrote it early on while I was learning, so I'm certain there is a lot I could update about it. Even still, it does its job pretty well. Sorting, filtering, editing, and reordering columns are all there. The way it's constructed allows new features to be built on top of it without any need to learn a table (or component) API. Just interact with the table state directly, the types make it pretty easy.

One major problem is that columns are obnoxious to define. It's just a giant record type. And in general I'm just not happy with the code. I'll likely revisit this project again soon and rewrite some key parts.

iM8t• 6 years ago

Real-estate tracker and analysis for my home country (Latvia)

https://map.brokalys.com

Open source: http://github.com/brokalys

kalvisk• 6 years ago

Nice! Keep up the good work! :)

mamcx2• 6 years ago

I'm working in a relational language (https://tablam.org) that hopefully will be a great way to massage data and have in-built support for "linq/sql"-like queries across all the data sources (from site):

    -- A column, aka: Vectors...
    let qty := [10.5, 4.0, 3.0] 
    -- Like APL/kdb+ operations apply to more than scalars
    prices * 16.0 

    -- The ? (query) operator allow to do SQL-like queries to anything
    let doubled := qty ?select #0 * 2.0 

    let products := open("products.csv")
    -- like files!
    for p in products ?where #price > 0.0 do
        print(p)
    end
    --so, we can do joins between anything:
    for p in cross(products, qty) ?limit 10 do
       print(p.products.price * p.qty)
    end

I already have a crude working prototype, but need help (hands or funding) to move forward!

---

My long-term goal is to provide an alternative to Access/Excel/FoxPro with a full suite of decoupled components (language + rdbms components + interactive data repl + form builder) to capture the spirit of what this kind of tools allow but with a more solid foundation.

a_alakkad2• 6 years ago

Journal Prompts, get constant prompts delivered to your inbox, to help you make the journaling habit stick!

https://sendfox.com/journal-prompts

I'm still in validation step, wanted to know if people are interested in such service before I jump in to development.

Honestly I just wanted to dive into development and dealing with code, but if I want a proper product I need to validate it first and I need to deal with people and make them top priority rather than my personal interest in coding :)

foopod• 6 years ago

I signed up, this is really interesting.

I have been working on a journalling pwa (https://zenjournal.org/ - I need to change the name). The daily template is configurable, but it has been a week and I am already bored of my default template.

a_alakkad2• 6 years ago

Thanks!

Wish you all the best in your app, I think a touch of css would change it drastically (I'm sure it's on your list)

Nihilartikel• 6 years ago

I've had an in-browser animated meme editor in the freezer for a few years now:

https://www.ultime.me/

The idea came when I wanted to make a simple animated meme, but found it exceedingly frustrating to caption a simple animated gif with nice text options (like outlines). Over time, it's grown to have full keyframe animation for all text and image/video clip attributes, so it is actually pretty capable short of using a desktop video editing/fx package.

That said, the UX is bad and I should feel bad :) . I made the deliberate choice up front to focus on the underlying data model and internal APIs rather than polishing the UI - as such, it is very much an engineer interface. It would be more usable with some demo videos or call-to-action helpers for new users, but really the UX just needs reworked. Especially around animation/keyframing.

On the bright side, the clean data model and content addressable assets leave the path clear to add things like collaborative multi-user meme editing, git like meme-forking(and diffing?), and so forth.

Started it about 3 years ago when I had a period of mostly free time to play. It's been idle for a long time due to starting a family and getting consulting momentum, but I'm intending to make the time this year to polish the UX to the point of general usability and experiment with promotion/monetization. Failing that, I'll probably just open source it and write a couple of blog posts about the internals.

It is more or less a static web app, with no server side function short of some optional stats collection. It's written in Clojurescript/Clojure and uses https://github.com/tonsky/rum as a React wrapper and https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/ to import most animation formats and export gifs/webm fully in browser (I don't want to pay real server costs to encode animation).

spirodonfl• 6 years ago

I've got a couple.

https://spv.spirofloropoulos.com Send positive vibes into the world!

https://spirofloropoulos.com/machikoro/ Web based hotseat version of machi Koro. Multi-player might work. I don't even remember, haha. You can do local hotseat though.

Both use no frameworks. Yes one is a subdomain and another a subfolder. I haven't got around to fixing it.

jivank• 6 years ago

I am working on a self-hosted web application designed for NAS and devices like Raspberry Pi to serve files/media with a Netflix-style view.

Currently implemented in Nim.

https://gitlab.com/jivank/sambalshare/-/tree/prologue-switch

sarora272• 6 years ago

Hi Everyone!

We started building https://kbee.app at the beginning of December after our frustration with other help center/wiki tools.

Every wiki/help center tool seems bent on forcing users to learn a new authoring/text editor experience in order to publish new articles. Many times, folks are creating drafts in Google Docs first and then copying it over. We figured, why not cut out the subpar text editors and just publish to a wiki straight from Docs?

It's definitely not ready for prime-time but we're at a point where we're actively looking for feedback!

bberenberg• 6 years ago

Seems a lot like https://youneedawiki.com/ Best of luck!

oriettaxx3• 6 years ago

uhh, too expensive

dalanmiller• 6 years ago

https://tenugui.market

Lxr• 6 years ago

I’m working on https://www.dragondictionary.com, a Chinese-English dictionary aimed at Chinese learners. I am building it because there’s no good desktop alternative to Pleco at the moment.

AstroNoise58• 6 years ago

A very simple web application (aimed at being self-hosted) to collect videos for watching them (repeatedly) later: https://github.com/tomszilagyi/copycat

It invokes youtube-dl under the hood, but the user can add videos (to be downloaded) via the browser. It is quite usable as is, but pretty slim on features. Maybe someone here wants to take it further.

wilsonfiifi3• 6 years ago

I bought a paid of Wahl Senior hair clippers from the US and I figured all I'd need was a step down transformer (240v to 110v) for it to work and boy was I mistaken! Apparently you need to also take into account the frequency of the current.

To cut the long story short, all my early search for a solution was leading me to overpriced "kits" on ebay and the likes. All you have to do is type "frequency 60hz clippers" to understand what I'm talking about. The solution, which is cheap and simple is to buy a $18 power adapter with a $20 inverter from Amazon.

I figured I'd make that information available online for anyone facing that same problem. So I just put together a site [0] with some amazon affiliate links. I haven't done any SEO or marketing yet. Me being a backend dev, this is a nice little learning project.

  [0] https://www.freedomclippers.com

ficklepickle2• 6 years ago

Add a blog, pay a writer because SEO gobbledygook will rot your brain (I believe they use ahrefs to get keywords), add JSON-LD structured data. Cultivate back links, maybe post in forums where people are already discussing this.

There is not much good technical SEO info out there for developers to find. It is frustrating for someone used to being able to find documentation/best practices easily.

This is stuff that I have picked up working with SEO people. Not guaranteed to be 100% accurate but hopefully it helps.

wilsonfiifi3• 6 years ago

Thanks. I've set my mind on learning as much as I can beforehand so I don't get bamboozled when I start delegating. But I agree that SEO appears to be a black art, to me at least!

yurishimo• 6 years ago

Curious if you know the potential efficiency loss of converting back and forth from AC to DC and back to AC again? I assume a lot of energy is wasted in heat? Do clippers use so much energy that it may be cheaper in a short time to simply buy new clippers? $40 for conversion hardware already, it's only a few more bucks to get a decent set of clippers that match your new country's grid.

wilsonfiifi3• 6 years ago

Great questions!

I didn’t study power electronics so I’m not in a position to confidently answer your first question however I’m sure if you do an online search you’ll find additional information addressing it. I found an article [0] that goes a bit more into depth, have a gander and see if it’s of any help.

For some odd reason, the popular hair clipper manufacturers, who are based in the USA/Canada, have a smaller selection of professional devices that they produce for the global market. So if you’re a barber in the UK for instance, you either have to wait for them to introduce a global variant of your desired clippers or you buy the cordless version if available. That’s why the conversion kit is a godsend if you find yourself in that situation.

  [0] https://www.kccscientific.com/50hz-60hz-guide-frequency-converter-power/

snshn• 6 years ago

Mostly baked: https://github.com/Y2Z/invisible-ink

Currently wrapping up solid blocks (instead of empty glyphs) and merging with another "donor" font.

andreygrehov• 6 years ago

https://www.bithub.com/ - Instant Cryptocurrency Exchange

cloogshicer• 6 years ago

https://nocrunchgames.com/

Game studios that don't crunch, and are hiring.

smashah• 6 years ago

Project Eagle

https://egl.chat

Find my friends alternative but on WhatsApp.

Why is it half baked? It's so stupid, I built everything but got stuck on the hero image screenshot. Smh. I'll get it back up and running tonight and work on a screenshot (would appreciate help on the screenshot).

sandrot• 6 years ago

- My first Godot game, which isn‘t downloadable yet but lots of fun to work on. https://sandrot.itch.io/starboard

- Sound Bath iOS app for ambient relaxing sounds. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1534808677

- Bread Book iOS app for saving recipes that use baker percentages. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bread-book/id1519534917

- capybara-chrome is a Capybara driver for headless Chrome using the remote debugging protocol. Works pretty well but could use some TLC. https://github.com/sandro/capybara-chrome

- Rewriting my website using a 2 file architecture: 1) Go (web) executable and 2) SQLite db. All html pages and assets are stored in the database. https://turriate.com/articles/my-own-static-site-generator

chaosharmonic• 6 years ago

Here's a workout tracker for rhythm games that I threw together as a personal project -- https://step-step-recollection.bhmt.dev/

It's really only a demo, since I primarily built it to have a MERN-stack site for my portfolio and to track my own cardio during the plague, rather than ever really intending it to be as a service. It actually also turned out to be less useful on the tracking, because I found myself falling down rabbit holes about building a usable tool for tracking cardio -- as opposed to consistently doing the cardio I wanted to track, or bothering to keep the API stable enough to track it when I did. (Up until then, most of my experiences with Express and MongoDB in particular had been in existing codebases, so for the first few iterations I was more concerned with getting everything configured and deployed.)

Other sticking points, since in this case "usable" was defined as being able to visibly log data from real gameplay sessions, included setting up basic JWT auth (enough for myself and a demo account), and the trial-and-error calamity that was sanitizing ~1300 game files from my song library in order to scrape metadata from them and import it into my db. Additionally it's been through several attempts to refresh the visual design, just since that's not really a personal strong suit.

Aside from this leading to the same problem as XKCD's automation strip[0], it also became a whole side adventure into another project I had been putting off -- streamlining this and all of my other deployments -- because when I tried to share an early iteration, the host I was testing for this (Vercel) had been flagged by LinkedIn's spam filters. Getting around this involved finally deploying the whole thing to a custom domain and setting up the appropriate routing, which meant moving several projects off GitHub Pages. Vercel, it turned out, also had a hard limitation on custom domains, with theirs being that the only apparent way to use one was to register it through them. I eventually ended up moving all of them to Netlify, setting up dedicated subdomains for each (so that I also didn't have to worry about managing things like the multiple view layers used across different projects) and deploy branches (for storing any config files, etc. that are specific to a host) while I was at it.

By the time I actually solved all of these, I was also caught up in a mouse hunt in the space where I work/sleep/DDR instead.

I do intend to pick it back up at some point, once I'm fully convinced I won't need to keep deep-cleaning my pad. In all, though, it's arguably been more productive for the various side effects than it was for its actual purpose. One particularly fun one, at least, was the excuse it gave me to toy with Deno - which I used to handle converting and sanitizing my game files, scraping their data, and seeding my database with them. The built-in fetch client is particularly useful here, but truthfully I was also just happy not having to touch Babel again for this.

If anyone's interested in toying with it, here's the Github link for the API code.[1] Add -react to the end for the UI or -scripts for the various Deno tools.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1319/

[1] https://github.com/chaosharmonic/step-step-recollection

ficklepickle2• 6 years ago

I'm building an unauthorized web interface for a car share service I use. They discontinued theirs in favour of their terrible mobile apps. I just finished the API client in TypeScript, now I'm on to the UI.

I RE'd the API calls using an android emulator and mitmproxy. It has been a ton of fun. If ur in Vancouver and use evo, you may be interested. If you work for vulog, look away!

https://github.com/jeremy21212121/evo-client-nuxt

PStamatiou• 6 years ago

Over the last 9 months I've been learning Swift/SwiftUI and have been building a simple, well-designed (at least that's my goal) app for tracking your stock holdings. Ideal for casual investors that may use multiple brokers or already track their investments in a spreadsheet and want a better way to keep tabs on their holdings that's not some some clunky broker app/site.

I've been maintaining a thread of my progress on it on Twitter (Scroll up) https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1346273355306037250

Have a few more things to build but here's my landing page for now: https://stocketa.com

Given the cost of market data APIs (and other services I use) this will likely be a monthly subscription product.

zuhayeer• 6 years ago

https://rapbits.com/ios

Send rap audio bites as memes to friends. Demo: http://rapbits.com/video/ad.mp4

herval2• 6 years ago

I'm making an open source Chess game, mostly to learn Unity: https://github.com/herval/OpenSourceChess

Publishing binaries on itch as it evolves too: https://herval.itch.io/open-source-chess

I'm forcing myself to work one hour a day on it (at least two Pomodoros) no matter what, which is a nice change of pace to my day job (in management), and really adds up over time. I gave up on starting games many times in the past, because it always felt so overwhelming to start from a blank page, and I'm already starting to build up the understanding to tackle on some actually more original game next :-)

gabereiser• 6 years ago

I’ve been working on a docker swarm front-end/management container: https://www.github.com/gabereiser/hive

I still dabble on my 3d engine: https://www.github.com/reactor3d/reactor

Nothing really special and nothing I would call “the next big thing” so...

karakanb2• 6 years ago

I am building SaaS Starter Kit: https://saasstarterkit.app

It is a simple starter kit that includes:

  • Subscriptions & Payments via Stripe
  • Invoices
  • Multiple payment methods
  • TailwindCSS & FontAwesome integration
  • Dashboard layout
  • Settings page
  • Test coverage
  • Docker & Docker Compose setup
  • Kubernetes & Helm
  • GitLab CI/CD

Thanks to these, one can go from unzipping the source to automated live deployments in less than 15 mins, including fully functioning payments. I aim to improve it further with more functionality out of the box, as well as additional API endpoints.

I am currently exploring early access options, therefore I have applied up to 75% discount. I would love to get some feedback, so, feel free to hit me up with questions or suggestions!

bluedevil2k2• 6 years ago

This looks really cool and what you’ve got so far looks pretty useful to people. I think the next step is offering options on the programming language and frameworks. For example, React front end with node back end.

karakanb2• 6 years ago

Thanks! I have been thinking starting with a Vue-powered frontend along with the same backend including the API, so that people can have both of the options, simple server-side templating or an API with an SPA.

Thanks for the suggestion again!

joshmn• 6 years ago

I made an open-source Rails engine to offload marketing campaigns: https://caffeinate.email. I haven't tweeted about it yet so I guess I would call it half-baked since nobody else has really touched it and I don't know all that I missed.

We use it at work. We were using a combination of Outreach.io, Salesforce, Iterable, and our own awful in-house solution when I realized how bad it was needed. Then I needed it for one of my side projects, so I hacked something together and it works. But who knows how well.

oriettaxx3• 6 years ago

since you did it for yourself it is sure something useful, but the webpage do not give me enough info about it: I am very curious, and would like to know more: if you have time can you add here some more info, maybe examples? (btw: I love RoR)

primitivesuave2• 6 years ago

I'm working on a free reminder/analytics service for keeping your resolutions this year: https://resolution.fail

The idea is to get a periodic email questionnaire that lets you easily record metrics about a resolution and see progress over time. I'm still in the process of adding charts and an analytics view to the service, so you can visually see your progress in each email.

I built the entire thing during my December holiday. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

egberts12• 6 years ago

For parsing Bind9 named configuration file, I have built using PyParsing for this. It is 99% completed. MIT license.

Three minor issues left. Two cleanup issues remaining.

https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues

realbarack• 6 years ago

A toy for speaking with a synthetic personality and generating synthetic audio: https://uberduck.ai/

It's more like 10% baked, but it sort of works. It's much better with GPT-3 but hasn't yet been submitted to OpenAI for approval, so that part is private. My priorities are improving the synthetic voices, adding additional dialog scenarios, and adding multiplayer mode either natively on the site or through bots that can be added to Discord voice channels.

crazypython5• 6 years ago

A massively multiplayer game with a fresh start every time, that's easy to learn and easy to start having fun, doesn't guilt you into playing (healthy long-term relationship with the player), and has lots of replay value: http://vnav.io

Currently there are multiple major bugs with damage.

kper2• 6 years ago

Wow, this is really fun

crazypython5• 6 years ago

Thanks! We just fixed a major bug where you would sometimes take far, far more damage than was correct, especially with bots.

primitivesuave2• 6 years ago

This is an awesome game!

mod• 6 years ago

I really like this. Wish it had a little bit of a tutorial. In about 10 lives I haven't figured out what all the shapes/colors do, or how to use them, or why I'm getting almost insta-killed by guys who I seemingly can't hurt (maybe the damage bug).

Either way, very cool!

crazypython5• 6 years ago

Thanks for the words. We fixed that bug! We also increased the size of the arena so the density of people shooting at you is less.

vlod• 6 years ago

Love to know the tech behind this. Please share!

crazypython5• 6 years ago

It's made with a custom-built high-performance immediate-mode Canvas2D rendering engine. It's written in a high-performance dialect of JavaScript, we've benchmarked most lines to know the fastest way to write it. The server is built in Node.js. We may open-source it (under GPLv3) later, but it is a difficult decision, as it makes it easier to make competitors.

egberts12• 6 years ago

For parsing ISC Bind9 DNS (named.conf) configuration file in Python3, I have built using PyParsing for this. It is 99% code completed. MIT license. Designed for Bind9 version 9.0 to 9.17.2.

Three issues left.

Solid unit-testing coverage, moderate-system testing.

Probably the largest PyParsing to date.

https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues

mjac2• 6 years ago

I built Running Level https://runninglevel.com/ recently along the same lines as my other site Strength Level https://strengthlevel.com/ but have only done a soft launch. Gyms are closed here in the UK so a lot of us are out running instead.

Running Level has running standards for your age/gender over many distances like 10k/marathon/mile. The calculator on the homepage helps you rate your running performance against other people your age/gender, predicts race performance and recommends some training times.

I was hoping to do a Show HN or Product Hunt but marketing has never been my strong suit. Hope someone likes it!

jschulenklopper2• 6 years ago

Very nice; I like the simplicity of Running Level (with less options than Strength Level). Where do you get the reference level data from (for running)?

mjac2• 6 years ago

Thank you for the encouragement! Did you find any areas to improve?

The seed standards reference data is mainly from publicly available race data in CSV form and common running formulas used in the industry (e.g. Effective VO2 Max / VDOT). There are plenty of online calculators and literature (mostly based on Jack Daniels' Formula). However this is just a baseline and it'll be based on its own data set in the future (e.g. survey input).

Some links: Brian Mac - https://www.brianmac.co.uk/vo2max.htm Age grade tables - https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-Grade-Tables Jack Daniels' Running Formula - https://runsmartproject.com/calculator/ (and related book)

dmje2• 6 years ago

Like it, nice and simple and useful too :-)

kper2• 6 years ago

My own webassembly engine.

https://github.com/kper/funky

ekzy• 6 years ago

2 years ago I created a guitar chords website to solve a problem I have with finding songs to play on my guitar/ukulele. You can login with your Spotify account and get some suggestions based on your listening history, and also import Spotify playlists.

I wanted to create a website that is lightweight, more accessible and less invasive for the user. Existing chords/tabs websites can be a real pain to use. The design and the UX of my app is a bit clunky, but it's fast and works and without JS. I have not really touched it since but I kept it online because some people use it (including me). I'm getting around 5-10k unique visitors per months, I think mostly from google searches.

I also worked on a feature that generates printable songbooks that people can order but I am concerned about copyright and legal issues, any comment on that would be welcome. I've implemented it already but activated just for me, and I ordered a few books already... (all the pdf generation, payment and shipping workflow works).

I'd love to get some design help or some fresh ideas for the project.

https://www.lyrink.com

snakeboy• 6 years ago

Hey this looks awesome ! I've been getting into guitar this year during confinement (apologies to my equally-confined neighbors), but Ultimate-guitar is so bloated it barely loads on my shitty wifi. This is exactly what I need.

Thanks :)

pul• 6 years ago

A DNS web client that doesn't suck: https://www.nslookup.io

The main functionality is now pretty much complete, but is in dire need of a visual redesign. It also lacks parsing of many record types and email configuration in TXT records. Additional landing pages for specific DNS record types are also still to come.

simplyinfinity• 6 years ago

This is awesome, i frequently use similar tools, but this is far cleaner than the rest! Instantly went to my bookmarks!

Folcon4• 6 years ago

Been spending the last 2 years or so working on putting together a data processing and exploration tool.

Primarily allowing for the importing of csv files, though handle excel files to a degree (need to improve that). The data exploration side basically allows the user to put together a stack of transformations which then get applied to the data which the user can then view the result of. The data processing side allows you to select a single transformation and it applies it directly to the data and then let's you download it.

The current version runs entirely client side in a js browser context.

Not sure if anyone finds any of that interesting :)...

I'm a little limited by the fact that UI isn't quite my forte.

I'm on my phone at the moment so I'll add some more details when I get on my desktop.

EDIT: -----------------------------------------

So a bit more detail, it's a bit of a long story to be honest, I was working on it with a friend of mine, him non-technical, myself technical, we were looking at it as a bootstrapped company, got a reasonable amount of consulting work from it, but not really figured out a space where there was enough repeat interest where I could really build out a nice specific solution and pursue product-market fit.

The goal was to provide non-technical people (who could at least use Excel), access to no-code machine learning solutions and data transformations. We realised that there was a lot of things that people like my non-tech friend wanted to be able to do, but just couldn't use any of the existing tooling to do.

Over the last year we basically stopped working on it, but at the same time, I put a fair bit of dev work into it and I'm sort of trying to work out whether there's something there, or if it's a "sunk cost". I'm sort of fine if it is? I just really want to know.

The tooling's not perfect, a bit too much building to solve the problem our clients had at the time which didn't make for a great cohesive product, but the thought process was get enough repeat stuff in that we can start focusing on a particular direction.

Now I'm sort of toying with putting some time in to cleaning up the code and trying to see if I can make something of it, but I'm not sure if I'm kidding myself to be honest.

I've also been wondering if I should go the whole hog and just make it an offline tool with some online functionality. Porting it would be relatively trivial at this point, it's written in Clojurescript so I could easily do an Electron thing or a native Clojure version that's downloadable while still maintaining it in it's current form without that much of a problem.

This question has been a bit of a fortuitous circumstance really because I was thinking of doing a proper writeup of the tool as a blog post and then seeing whether anyone had any decent suggestions, but I'd been putting it off a bit because I'm still not quite sure what I could say =)... So in the end this has been sort of a forcing function, so that's at least something =)...

So without further ado, the tools:

- [Data Processor](https://tools.guanxi.ai/)

- [Data Explorer](https://guanxi-upload.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/data-exp...)

Data Explorer is CSV only, it was built really early on first and I've not really gone back and unified them.

I can do an overview as well of the tools as well if anyone's interested?

i2shar• 6 years ago

Heard of Trifacta? Something similar?

Folcon4• 6 years ago

Similar, not as polished obviously. Also not in the cloud, the loaded data stays within the browser, all the transformations happen in browser. Primarily because I'd prefer more people to have that option. Not sure if anyone cares though...

jimmy2020• 6 years ago

Hello Everyone.

I’ve been working on a project called DFlex: https://github.com/jalal246/dflex that contains multiple packages all written in Pure JavaScript to manipulate DOM elements in a completely new way depends on creating a DOM registry.

The ultimate result is moving every element from destination to target with CSS animation. This means all possible operations should be done in 60fps.

It is also extendable. In most existing solutions the more elements you are trying to manipulate the more lagging you get. Here, no matter how many elements you are dealing with it’s always going to interpret each movement to CSS transform without asking the browser to get the node for each request. It is not restricted to any frameworks I have examples for React and Vue with some explanations inside each package. And maybe add more later. It includes:

  • DOM Generator DOM relations generator algorithm.
  • DOM Store Traverse through the DOM tree using element id.
  • Drag & Drop Lightweight Solution for a Drag & Drop App based on enhanced store algorithm.
  • Draggable High-performance draggable elements.
  • Unit test & end to end test
  • Packages are decoupled and work separately. Each package has it own universe including test and playground

There's a lot to add and improve with new packages. I am looking for contributors who like to get involved in open source. So, if you are interested, open an issue, or pull request. I need your support. Thank you!

secfirstmd2• 6 years ago

Umbrella - a free open source app to help people learn about digital and physical security. From how to use Signal for safe communication to how to deal with a kidnapping. Multiple languages and widely used by journalists, activists, aid workers, traveling business people and those any one living in high risk countries.

More info: https://www.secfirst.org

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715310

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...

Web (Beta): https://umbrella.secfirst.org

frequentnapper• 6 years ago

how is this half-baked, not ready for prime-time?

secfirstmd2• 6 years ago

Well we've built the tech but need a lot more work pushing it out. Also to make it easier for people to build their own custom versions. It mentioned in the piece about looking for help and we always are! :)

mattlondon• 6 years ago

http://byexample.xyz

Ran out of time to make more content, but I still add something every now and then when I learn something new. I think the plan was lots of useful copy-pasteable snippets (inspired by the gobyexample site) and then some ads.

For the curious, it is a Jekyll site (ported from Hugo) served from GitHub. Source on github. Workflow is super nice - edit markdown and run locally (if you want to preview - you don't need to if you dont want) and just push to GitHub and the changes are live within a minute or two - GitHub pages is an awesome service for this sort of thing.

samiralajmovic• 6 years ago

Building an editor to create, view and edit vim color themes in your browser. Half-baked app architecture with a self-built redux and event emitter and code structure, gets the job done though.

https://pintovim.dev/

https://github.com/alajmo/pinto

Also building mani, a tool that helps you manage multiple repositories. It's helpful when you are working with microservices or multi-project system and libraries and want a central place for pulling all repositories and running commands over the different projects. You specify projects and commands in a yaml config and then run the commands over all or a subset of the projects.

https://github.com/alajmo/mani

pavel_lishin• 6 years ago

I don't have a link, because this is a Discord-based project, but it's a scheduler for D&D games.

A DM issues a command in a channel, which generates a link for them to use; the link takes them to my website, where they choose their available dates and times. Once they're done, a message is sent back to the Discord channel with the possible play dates, and potential players vote by reacting to the message with the emojis which represent the available dates.

The DM can "lock" the votes and choose the date by reacting with another emoji on a "summary" message.

It works, but the match-the-emoji-with-the-date interface is annoying, since you have to keep track of which emoji means what. I'm going to eventually rewrite it to send multiple messages, one per date, but I got stuck when trying to add React to the project (for no good fucking reason.)

beenieman20212• 6 years ago

https://pillr.io Pillr - automated property management

beenieman20212• 6 years ago

https://pillr.io - Pillr. automated property management for the landlord.

66d8kk2• 6 years ago

I'm building a privacy-first fitness / health tracker.

I managed to lose a lot of weight during lockdown with the help of fitbit but using a Google service to handover my most personal of data doesn't sit right with me (it served a purpose).

So I've started to build what I need from a tracker.

Where I'm heading generally: - Platform / API access (so you OWN your data) - Client-side encryption - No tracking / knowledge - Weight, Calories, Diet, Run - Import GPS from Garmin etc.. graph/store/play

_cringe_ but what do I have to lose

(best viewed on mobiles for now - haven't considered a desktop yet)

https://endotherm.app

lanewinfield• 6 years ago

I made a pullchain that immediately ends your video call to avoid awkwardness.

https://twitter.com/lanewinfield/status/1339257875034566656

It was hacked together in an afternoon and def not ready for prime time, but it got quite a bit more interaction than originally thought. Also, perhaps its greatest form (like many things I've made) might be as half-baked.

Now the question is: do I make more? My instinct says no because of how hard hardware is, especially as a joke...

Either way, at very least, the interaction definitely defends the "don't worry, be crappy" hypothesis.

andrewflnr• 6 years ago

If you make more, it would be even more hilarious if they were pull-up handles on your chair like for an ejection seat.

rzzzt2• 6 years ago

I'm voting for those supersized plush Enter keys.

smaddox• 6 years ago

https://sneakysnake.io/

Browser-based endless arcade multiplayer snake game with mobile support.

For some reason, it always seems to run smoother on mobile than on desktop. Browsers make it basically impossible to get a smooth frame rate :-/

It's been on the back burner for a while. I need to finish adding a way to choose your name.

JimWestergren• 6 years ago

https://thespacewar.com/

The Space War is a a card game I have been working on as a side project since summer 2018. Similar but in my opinion better than Hearthstone and Magic.

Can be played online for free in the browser here https://play.thespacewar.com/

Need help with Node development, sound effects and playtesters.

golergka• 6 years ago

https://github.com/golergka/hn-comment-bot

Telegram bot to notify me about new comments. Hosted on a free Heroku dyno and will definitely fail under load, but works for me.

bionade24• 6 years ago

https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd

A CI/CD with webinterface for Archlinux packages which optional AUR push support if builds succeed. It's based on Django and works with Docker/Podman. I originally made it for my own AUR packages (> 300), I needed accessible build logs if I want to collab, which the common builders didn't provide. I made the project public and it's crazy for me as an open source beginner to see how many people like this. The basic features are complete, but things like multiarch are getting added soon.

rkp8000• 6 years ago

https://github.com/rkp8000/hypothesize

In grad school I made a browser-based app to integrate note-taking and reference management as seamlessly as possible, having been disappointed with existing software. Basically, it's kind of wiki-like, except links open in place by default so you don't lose your place jumping between pages.

I got it working well enough to use for the entirety of my PhD but don't really use it anymore just because it's still fairly clunky in certain ways.

I have zero time to continue working on it, but I do still kind of like the idea and would be thrilled if someone else picked it up!

k__• 6 years ago

Started a new project this year after taking part in the future founder course of startup school.

I want to build a SaaS product for asynchronous communication for remote companies.

"Twitter for companies" or "Slack for microblogging".

Don't know where the journey will take me, but as a remote worker for 6 years that doesn't like these omnipresent chats, I wanted to build an alternative.

Nothing to show for right now, since I just got started.

https://dev.to/fllstck/building-a-saas-product-eba

mourner• 6 years ago

I have a ton of unfinished open source projects, but here's a recent small one I believe can take off:

https://github.com/mourner/tinyjam — a bare-bones, zero-configuration static site generator that deliberately has no features, an experiment in radical simplicity.

Essentially a tiny, elegant glue between EJS templates and Markdown with freeform structure (enabling incremental adoption) and convenient defaults, written in under 120 lines of JavaScript.

I also made a modern EJS implementation specifically for this: https://github.com/mourner/yeahjs And planning to implement a strict, minimal subset of YAML to switch over to: https://github.com/mourner/yeahml

Will be happy to hear any feedback :)

wes-k• 6 years ago

Creating a data driven 2d vector drawing app. Essentially, a no code d3.

Still early, here's a few animations I made while playing with the tool: https://imgur.com/a/3ww4ql1

Inspiration: http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...

m463• 6 years ago

Good time to haul out the old quote...

"Stop Starting and Start Finishing"

(but honestly I'm happier the other way)

errozero• 6 years ago

A web based DAW type app for music production with instrument modules, piano roll etc.

https://errozero-metronic-studio-718699.netlify.app/

Click on the button with the piano icon at the top to test out the piano roll. You can play notes with the typing keyboard.

I got much further than this previously but decided to throw a lot of the code away and start again. I spent a load of time building a custom UI library before starting with things like draggable windows, linked scroll containers, dropdown menus etc.

jsncbt• 6 years ago

Hipcharts.com is an app I’ve wanted to build for a longtime that allows you to create and share your favourite albums of the year.

nergal• 6 years ago

Well, my whole github page is filled with these. Some are actually usable though :) https://github.com/lallassu

richardanaya• 6 years ago

A Web Assembly interpreter written in Rust. That works but has bugs and has no mass testing. It has one really badass feature, the ability to stop at any point.

https://github.com/richardanaya/watson

inferense• 6 years ago

https://acreom.com/ is a powerful text editor for life organisation. Currently, there are many tools specialised in 1 area (todo, cal, notes etc) with terrible user interfaces. We want to create an intelligent all-in-one tool with lightweight design that will tackle the problem of how do we "design" our life holistically.

The landing page is in progress, so we're currently aggregating sign-ups here: https://forms.gle/HMTw4xa5ppABzCFRA We'd be delighted to share once its fully baked :)

nickthemagicman• 6 years ago

This looks like it's got a lot of great potential.

I use Trello right now and one thing it's sorely missing is dependencies.

Like this to do depends on this other to do.

there's mods and all but it's pretty clumsy and I wish it was baked in.

Just something to think about.

evphn• 6 years ago

https://breathing.tips

I began doing some breathing exercises and after a while started building this collection of 3D animated breathing techniques.

LegendaryR3D• 6 years ago

https://sharehub.live

Indian social media platform I have been working on over the past several weeks. Still a long way to go, and a lot might change in the near future based on user feedback. Give it a try!!

ultra_nick• 6 years ago

https://datingchances.com/

A virtual dating coach and learning community for practicing your social skills.

I focused too much on non-core features and ran out of motivation.

embit• 6 years ago

I made https://hope.embit.ca to pay tribute to all our frontline workers. Half-baked as done in an afternoon and then not spent any time on it.

mfi• 6 years ago

https://github.com/maxvfischer/Arthur An AI art installation I built from scratch using a GAN network, Samsung The Frame, a button and a PIR-sensor (including, code, images and tutorial). The main draft is almost done, but quite some polishing to do.

https://github.com/maxvfischer/shibusa An automatic Zen Garden drawing infinite patterns in sand. Using stepper motors, inverse kinematics and a Raspberry Pi Zero W (including, code, images and tutorial). I'm almost done building the robot, but still have quite some implementation to do. Also, the guide is far from done, I've mostly uploaded images so far.

https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-arcade A full-size Arcade Machine I built from scratch (including, code, images and tutorial). I don't know where you draw the life of "half baked". It's done, but there's a lot of improvements that can be done.

jellevdv• 6 years ago

My price tracker for AliWatcher: https://aliwatcher.com/ Full of bugs, prices are not updated nearly enough, but decided to put it live anyway while I start working on it

ithkuil2• 6 years ago

https://github.com/mkmik/zerozone

Zero Conf public domain registrar

Currently implemented using IPFS, but I plan rewriting it in top of another half baked project if mine:

https://github.com/mkmik/udig

public-key addressed TCP tunnel broker

kassner• 6 years ago

https://ytemail.com/

I like e-mails, and I was pretty sad when YouTube removed the e-mail notifications for channel uploads, so I decided to build my own. It's pretty unpolished, but it has the MVP (sends e-mails, opt-in per channel and very basic billing management).

This is my first ever project that takes any payments and I have only one paying customer so far, but I don't really expect to make any money out of it. Feedback will be highly welcomed at contact@domainname.

bradgessler5• 6 years ago

https://www.thingybase.com/

It’s a home inventory app!

I’ve been working on this and using it for almost two years now in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and raising 2 kids.

I’ve embraced the “half-baked” aspect of shipping a project like this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations. It’s just been so much fun building and using it.

If you use it, don’t worry about me abandoning it. It’s improved my life so much that I’m going to be constantly improving it and keeping it around. Working in an iOS turbo app for it next, and I’d like to build lending and expirations into it too. It’s going to be awesome.

Share your feedback with me if you use it!

pmx• 6 years ago

I actually really love the illustrations!

bradgessler5• 6 years ago

Thanks! Me too, and I say that because they’re my 4 year old daughter’s style of stick figures: egg bodies with arms and legs sticking out.

lsferreira42• 6 years ago

Is it open source?

bradgessler5• 6 years ago

It’s not open source.

dingsbumps• 6 years ago

I'd love to make labels like this for the boxes in my storage unit (and then be able to look up the contents from home). Your site clearly explains the product, it's very compelling for me!

I couldn't find anywhere on the site though: can I export the data and self-host? If I were to invest time cataloging my data this way, I'd want to be sure I had a backup plan just in case the service went down one day

bradgessler5• 6 years ago

There’s a CSV export for backups that you can find from the Dashboard.

copo• 6 years ago

just fyi your thermal laser printers link on the about page is broken. I didn't have a hard time finding the page but still wanted to bring it to your attention.

bradgessler5• 6 years ago

I'll take a look, thanks!

jimnotgym• 6 years ago

I have started a blog about gardening! It is something I was writing for myself.

https://watchingplantsgrow.com/

I never get to code at work any more so I decided to write a static site generator in Python using Jinja2 templates and markdown. Front end is Bootstrap. Hosted on Netlify. It really fits in this thread since I have probably spent a day on it and have not even rendered all of the blogs I have written, or added images yet.

ithkuil2• 6 years ago

https://knot8.io

Alternative approach to yaml templating for k8s manifests.

It includes a structural 3-way merge algorithm that allows you to temporarily "fork" the manifests by just exiting some fields in-place, knowing that synchronizing upstream is way more predictable than what you could achieve with a general purpose textual merge like git.

dreaming_sun• 6 years ago

I made a simple number puzzle game with React - https://alexanderstewart.github.io/circles-web/

I released it under the MIT licence. Here’s the code - https://github.com/AlexanderStewart/circles-web

Feel free to build off it and release your own version!

brendan0powers2• 6 years ago

I've been fiddling around with building UI's that use hand tracking in VR. Given the lack of physical feedback and the low fidelity of today's tracking methods, it turns out to be quite challenging. It feels really good when it works though.

VR Keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiva93bf_0

VR Whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-hECpf-BY

toroskilly• 6 years ago

Any chance you could get the vr cameras to recognize a physical keyboard (not necessarily plugged in) and map the virtual keyboard over the top? Obviously it relies on the user sitting at a desk. But it would provide physical feedback.

brendan0powers2• 6 years ago

This is doable. I'm using the Quest, so you don't have access to the camera images, but you can do a calibration phase where you figure out how a user's hands map to keys. I'm not sure the hand tracking is accurate enough for non-touch typers though. There's some work being done for Bluetooth keyboard support when you're sitting at a desk.

hawski• 6 years ago

Half-baked as in eating it can cause gastric problems, not as in 50% done?

https://github.com/hadrianw/werf a graphical mouse driven text editor inspired by Plan 9's acme. It can open quite big files, you can WIMP around a bit, but README is just wishful thinking, it can't even save files. Written in C with cairo and fontconfig. Currently for a few years I'm in process of rewriting text buffer, I have something nice, but did not test it enough and did not integrate it. Now I'm thinking of a rewrite in Zig to learn it and also make it easier to test. But that's my wishful thinking again.

https://github.com/hadrianw/tomatoaster a ChromeOS like Linux distribution based on Void Linux build system, AB partition scheme, building squashfs image without root privileges. Currently I did a nice and almost proper script to handle it and do not need to patch as match to build an image, that runs, but is not entirely useful. Need to clean-up the script and commit. Mostly bash, bunch of patches and config files and a bit of C.

https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra a search engine, that will not index pages with ads (all results would be uBlock-Origin clean), that is not yet even a proper pipeline to check whether a page does contain ads or not, no crawler yet at all. I want to go through Common Crawl archives first. I did something in Go first (https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra-legacy), but now I'm rewriting it in Rust, because of awesome lol_html crate, that will make filtering fast and easy. Currently writing code to filter URLs with Rabin-Karp and a bit of loops. It created an e-mail thread years ago with people wanting to help, but I've been too slow.

I don't want much help to code things, I would appreciate however a bit of pointers on a couple of things regarding Rust and watchdogs (to recognize a partition as unbootable and reset the system to the previous partition).

darcys22• 6 years ago

GoDBLedger https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger

Its the core of my open source accounting system. Its slightly further along than half baked because it is pretty much feature complete for what i want core to do, but that just means you can do double entry bookkeeping on the command line. Currently building a web interface to interact with it which hopefully will attract non technical users

acj• 6 years ago

A command line tool for visualizing high-resolution ping latency to hosts on your network: https://github.com/acj/ping-heatmap

It began as a crude answer to "why is this so slow" and slowly turned into a fun data viz project. Needs a better name :)

amingilani• 6 years ago

A free, low feature application tracking software to businesses to post vacancies to.

I never launched: worklark.com

mysterymath2• 6 years ago

I'm porting LLVM/Clang to the 6502. Notoriously difficult project, attempted dozens of times by as many folks.

https://github.com/mysterymath/clang6502

My take generates pretty darn good assembly for the cases it handles, but it's absurdly incomplete. Still, a huge amount of risk factors have already been addressed, and there's only a few big known unknowns left.

Example input:

  void print_int(char x) {
    if (x < 10) {
      x += '0';
      asm volatile ("JSR\t$FFD2" : "+a"(x));
      return;
    }
    print_int(x / 10);
    print_int(x % 10);
  }

Example output:

  .code
  .global print__int                      ; -- Begin function print_int
  print__int:                             ; @print_int
  ; %bb.0:                                ; %entry
    CMP #10
    BMI LBB0__2
  ; %bb.1:                                ; %if.end.preheader
    LDX #10
    PHA                                     ; 1-byte Folded Spill
    JSR ____udivqi3
    JSR print__int
    PLA                                     ; 1-byte Folded Reload
    LDX #10
    JSR ____umodqi3
  LBB0__2:                                ; %if.then
    CLC
    ADC #48
    ;APP
    JSR $FFD2
    ;NO_APP
    RTS
                                        ; -- End function
  .global ____udivqi3
  .global ____umodqi3

rzzzt2• 6 years ago

OMF:2097 profile picture spotted! Loved the game as a child.

Will the compiler support 65C02 instructions?

mysterymath2• 6 years ago

Shouldn't be too hard to add later, since they're mostly just swizzles onto the existing instructions, and LLVM already has good support for registering slightly different versions of a target (subtargeting).

For now, I'm targeting the plain-jane MOS chip, since it's the buggiest and least capable, and thus the most difficult.

delf• 6 years ago

This has not been updated in a year or so as I am working on a Svelte-based replacement:

https://www.nightlife.fm

It shows which DJ's are playing at which nightclubs.

Since Covid started it has been quite empty, hence API/Svelte replacement.

Sukram21• 6 years ago

I’ve been working on this Google Slides productivity add-on as a side project: https://powerpack.21solutions.de/

The idea is to spend less time tweaking your Google Slides - PowerPack makes positioning & alignment easier, finding licensed images & icons, and checking the consistency of the presentation. Inspired by similar add-ons for PowerPoint, like think-cell and empower slides.

Quite hard to find the time besides a demanding full-time job, but it’s slowly getting better and better... :)

chrsstrm2• 6 years ago

I built a service called Rotary Rider [0], which allowed you to order an Uber using just your voice. No need for a smartphone or the Uber app, you could call in using any touch-tone enabled voice line (that you had registered) and speak your current address and the address of your destination and we would present ride options and prices. Choose an option to book and then we would call you back when the driver was minutes away.

The idea was primarily about accessibility - removing the requirements of needing a smartphone and app opens rideshare up to everyone. It was also a great backup option for those times when you need a ride but your phone doesn't have a good data connection.

The system was finished and I was literally double-checking everything and preparing for a test ride (I even bought a Nokia feature phone to prove I wasn't using the Uber app) when Uber cut off access to their API (for everyone, not just me). I had always planned to integrate Lyft as well, but getting shut down on Uber really took the wind out my sails and the project died. I obviously still have all the code and if someone here works for Lyft and wants to see what ordering a ride without an app looks like, I could probably be persuaded to pick it back up.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200804021958/https://rotaryrid...

d_watt• 6 years ago

A purely in browser SQL editor and runner for education purposes, and to be able to quickly upload csvs for querying with SQL: https://editor-omega.vercel.app

Very rough currently, but press the "Chinook" button to get a demo sqlite database loaded in for usage. Or, upload a .csv and reload the page (bugs!). All data is stored in indexdb, nothing leaves the browser. cmd + enter to run the sql.

Tech note: Uses WASM sqlite + Monaco (vscode) engine. This may eventually become a electon app instead to allow other DB drivers + better sql auto completion.

zakokor• 6 years ago

I built a web to basically temporarily save information that I found on the Internet and avoid keeping the links open on my cell phone to remember them, and I thought that it could be valuable for others to find that information curated in the form of link lists ... surely there was already something it would help me but I decided to build it to release it as open source and that could be improved by the community. Repo: https://github.com/zakokor/pegao My public bookmark: https://pegao.co/@zakokor

strzibny2• 6 years ago

https://deploymentfromscratch.com/

Book on web application deployment, VERY close to pre-release.

Previews:

https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview_november_...

https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview2_november...

Hit me up on Twitter (https://twitter.com/strzibnyj) if you are interested in beta reading it and help me out to polish it.

Thanks!

g1ntas• 6 years ago

Boilerplate generator tool. It’s a single binary (compared to most JS based solutions e.g. Yeoman), and also it supports scripting within template files, which allows to handle some edge cases (in my experience most common problem with such tools).

https://github.com/g1ntas/accio

I didn’t want to separate scripts from templates, because of context switching, so I implemented custom markup language, to make code and template live together in single file. I am actually quite proud of the end result.

However, there’re still quite some features missing, and I am taking a break now to focus on other projects.

miccah• 6 years ago

I have two:

An android app to remotely control mpv: https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app

An interactive CLI for sending parameterized HTTP requests: https://github.com/mcastorina/repost

russellthehippo• 6 years ago

brain-plasma: a fast Python dictionary interface to the Plasma shared memory object store (pyarrow project)

https://github.com/russellromney/brain-plasma

I had a speed problem repeatedly loading large dataframes into memory for a Dash project - threads can’t share object updates and Redis gets slow with large objects. So I built brain-plasma. It lets you keep objects in memory, but separate from service memory - no need to read data into memory over and over. Fast access and arbitrary namespaces. It’s not perfect but it works well.

advanced__pizza• 6 years ago

I'm building a service for developers who want to help out small businesses or non-profits [0]. I'm still at the ideation stage, gauging interest, but would love to hear everyones thoughts!

The backend is a simple Python/Flask/Postgres app [1] but holding off on building it out until there is more demand. Spun off a GCP Flask starter template from this repo useful for folks wanting to deploy python apps to GCP/App Engine [2]. Thanks for looking.

[0] https://www.hackforgood.dev/signup [1] https://github.com/ckahle33/hackforgood [2] https://github.com/ckahle33/gcp-flask-template

Irongirl1• 6 years ago

I submitted my email address and got a prompt to confirm, but no confirmation email came through. Is this what you meant by "not built out." I am sure it is clear to others but I'm so non-techie I could be retro. I could definitely use the help though. I have a bunch of file folders on my laptop that represent a fair few side projects...but I can't build my way out of a paper bag. I need an executioner. Someone who can just execute the basics all day so I run traffic through them and test to see if anyone else finds the idea worthy. I would love a simple, one sheet build guide that tells me what APIs to string together in what order...

wanttocommentt• 6 years ago

awesome idea, but I think you should add some more skills to the list.

Gazoo101• 6 years ago

A bit late to the party, but I'm building PlanMixPlay. An audio/video DJ/VJ software that sits somewhere between a performance and a production environment. Thanks for reading!

[0] http://www.planmixplay.com [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0

cameronehrlich• 6 years ago

Presenting my half-baked Faxing app “Fax It”, built to take on Big Fax:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fax-it/id1458261691

Jefro118• 6 years ago

https://qualex.dev (landing page pushed yesterday). A tool to improve commit messages.

I have some other plans to apply the API to other text around code (PRs and changelogs). Feedback on the idea very welcome.

solarmist3• 6 years ago

I like this.

dgavey• 6 years ago

I've been working on https://dedolist.com/ on and off since summer. I wanted a one stop place to find and be able to use open data from around the web. I even have an open API (no authentication required currently) for each data source. I have basically done no marketing at all for it. Mostly just wanted an excuse to play with some new technologies (Netlify and Eleventy in this case).

Not sure how much I want to continue adding data sources or supporting it, but it doesn't really cost me much keeping it online currently.

jscottmiller• 6 years ago

I’ve been building a set of web based tools for making little multiplayer (and single player) games.

https://www.miniboss.gg

All the tools, including programming, art, and sound are baked in. I’m reworking the editor now and hope to have a proper release this year.

faebi• 6 years ago

http://www.nochrichte.ch/ A hackernews for swiss news with a touch of RSS feeds. I had no users, adwords didn‘t work so I disabled most half implemented stuff. Now it‘s just a swiss news rss.

the__alchemist• 6 years ago

I built a search engine designed to balance against clickbait, SEO abuse etc. https://www.pageref.org/.

Also, no ads or tracking.

Works well for some things, but needs improvement, especially for technical or specific queries.

chrsstrm2• 6 years ago

I built a small voice communication portal I'm calling Rally Call [0] that will be submitted to the Digital Ocean/Dev hackathon tomorrow [1]. Rally Call is intended to be a backup group communication portal that can be used in emergencies and situations where use of cell phones is lost. It is essentially a group voicemail-box that runs on Twilio. If you and your group had the foresight to sign up for an account, you could use Rally Call to let others in your group know your status ("Hey everyone, I'm OK. I made it out and am staying at a friend's house") or to organize ("Let's all group up and meet at uncle John's house in two days."). You dial in from any touch tone phone and enter your Crew's Account PIN to access the account where you can listen to or record messages for the group. Only one Crew member needs to register for an account and can share the dial-in number and account PIN with anyone they want in their Crew.

While the project's intent is a backup comm system for emergencies, it could obviously be used for any number of purposes. I still have a couple things to button up before submitting, but it's mostly done and should be a solid MVP by this time tomorrow.

[0] https://github.com/chrsstrm/rallycall [1] - https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-digitalocean-app-platf...

nabeards6• 6 years ago

This is really great. I had thought of building something similar a few years ago, just never got around to it. Great work!

kfarr2• 6 years ago

I'm working on detailed 3d visualizations of streets using WebXR (A-Frame and three.js). Still "half baked" :)

Repo: https://kfarr.github.io/3dstreet/ Example use case: https://17thpreso.glitch.me/ Traffic signals WIP: https://aframe-ped-signals.glitch.me/

Would love to collaborate esp. with those interested in learning 3d web dev, urban planning, etc.

sneeuwpopsneeuw• 6 years ago

Nice demo. I noticed some small things you could improve for when you are going to do a real demo. The shader of white houses the first link do not look right on my machine https://imgur.com/uo6ajXj.png It looks a it like z-fighting and a bit like a shader error. the error is on both firefox and chromium, I only get some .drawMode has been removed. errors in the console. The second link took 20 seconds to load and was downloading 10mb, mostly slow images. Maybe you can lazyload those.

kfarr2• 6 years ago

Correct all around. Lots of room for optimization.

svjatoslav• 6 years ago

I would like to create tool to analyze, interact and compute with arbitrary dimensional data. Shall greatly extend human capabilities.

General overview: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/ Ideas for computation: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/ 3D engine demos: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/

Because it is done on my little free time, it might be ready somewhere in the next 50 years or so.

jmarquis2• 6 years ago

I've been working on a super simple Goodreads alternative off and on for the past year or two since I frankly can't stand the Goodreads UI. There's not much to it yet other than personal library management, but it's good enough that I already use it myself to track books I've read or want to read.

https://rooseve.lt

thismodernlife2• 6 years ago

Nice. I like GoodReads but it’s slow and unloved.

Have you seen http://www.librarything.com/

jmarquis2• 6 years ago

I have! Although to be honest I haven't given either of them a very fair shot since the UI and complexity are a pretty quick turn-off for me personally. It's hard to compete with the established community of either site though — maybe I'll figure out a way to integrate with one or both of them eventually so people have the option of keeping things in sync between Roosevelt and elsewhere.

Another nice-looking solution I've been trying out is Readng: https://beta.readng.co

thismodernlife2• 6 years ago

https://blogline.co

I wrote this during the first lockdown mainly because I wanted to write some fresh code in the evenings, but also because I was dissatisfied with Wordpress, Tumblr, Posthaven and static sites, having tried all of them over the years for my blogs.

A blog app is literally every web framework tutorial so it’s a bit embarrassing to show (“is that the best idea you’ve got?!”) but the funny thing is, I actually really love using it and it makes me want to write more, and I am writing more on my blogs! Which is the point of a writing/blogging app after all. It should encourage you to write, not get in the way with themes, CSS, hosting and all that entails.

You can only sign up with an invite code because I haven’t fully decided whether to subject the world to YABA (yet another blog app). I was going to add billing support first as I don’t want to support free customers, but I might see what the reception is here first ;-)

I have a bunch of ideas that will keep the basic writing/publishing concept but make it more of a hub for reading too.

piccolbo• 6 years ago

What are the shortcomings of Wordpress, Tumblr etc and how did you address them? Thanks

AlexDenisov• 6 years ago

Not really half-baked, but not ready for the prime time either:

Mull[0] is a tool for mutation testing of C and C++ projects. The goal of mutation testing is to show the gaps in the semantic coverage

[0] https://github.com/mull-project/mull

glamp• 6 years ago

I’ve been working on a site/app that displays river flows. This is something that is important for fly fishing (helps determine which flies to use, where to fish, etc.)

My goal is to keep the OPEX as low as possible and not charge for it or run ads. Currently running using a combo of Vercel and GitHub Actions for $0 / month.

https://riverreports.com

donbrae• 6 years ago

https://www.jazzkeys.fyi: a toolkit for jazz piano players. Landing page live; working on content in the background.

dmje2• 6 years ago

Loving it, will sign up :-)

l2silver• 6 years ago

It's a kids activities website for parents and caregivers.

https://goodplans.app

I would say I'm close to shutting it down after not getting any real traction over the break. I think I've had about 3-400 unique users, all parents, and I've got a low bounce rate, but no real repeat users.

solarmist3• 6 years ago

I saw your comment and that made me want to take a look. This is my first impression.

I clicked on it and got dropped into a screen with a blank text field and a double ended slider.

I have no idea what I'm supposed to do at this point. So I left.

I have no idea if it is interesting, good, or bad, but I'm not going to waste any time with it unless I get a strong feeling that it will be worth it for me.

To me this feels like I stumbled onto someone's prototype of something (I think), but there's no description or instructions or anything to give the user context or tell them what they can or can't do with it or why they might want to.

solarmist3• 6 years ago

I went back and clicked on one of the sliders and was presented with a button and a new tab.

That at least gives me some indication of something to do.

But it wasn't until I actually clicked the button that I got anything that might resemble content.

That's also when the walk-thru pop up appeared.

Don't make the user have guess.

Also, very unexpectedly I actually felt intimidated by such a blank screen being presented to me. It felt like being dropped into MS Word or an IDE for the first time. It wasn't until I had stuff on the screen I could interact with that the (slight) anxiety went way.

cole_cornford• 6 years ago

https://www.colecornford.com/flashcards/

I wrote this because I felt a lot of the online content for studying security content doesnt have great assessment options or an okay UX. Often they are awesome lists or too far into a specific niche. So wanted make a more general one thats quick and easy.

The reason it is halfbaked is because I need to spend a lot more time on writing more questions AND refining/streamlining ones I have written already. My feedback I've receives so far has been that more focus should go into ensuring the questions are well written.

Happy to hear feedback and hope you like my little piece.

wheybags• 6 years ago

Unix cp, but with a proper progress bar, and much faster:

https://github.com/wheybags/wcp

Getting close now but not ready for real use. io_uring is awesome.

andersthue• 6 years ago

Working on a tree planting, earth saving, bio link tool :), have a few signups but need to rewrite the edit flow and a thousand other things on my todo.

Frontpage https://maelt.co

Profile page https://maelt.co/anda

basicallydan• 6 years ago

Hi! I have a public Trello board [0] with a list of projects I'm working on, or ideas I have, which from time to time people comment on!

Currently I'm doing a version of Conway's Game of Life in Solidity for the Ethereum network. Spoiler: it's not going to be affordable to actually use it on the network!

0: https://trello.com/b/v4dV9CQS/1-dans-side-project-ideas

rpastuszak2• 6 years ago

https://ulysses.sonnet.io -- It's a "text input" tool I built to develop a daily writing habit and reduce stress. It makes editing text really hard so you can focus on writing first: https://sonnet.io/posts/ulysses/

So far I'm doing 800-1000 words per day on average so I'm pretty happy with it! My fluency has improved drastically.

TODO:

- I need to change the name because Ulysses is a well known writing app. (I think I'll go for homer.sonnet.io--Homer was blind, I did like the stream of consciousness aspect as it describes the UX well...) - privacy-aware analytics (or a button you can tap if you enjoy the app). I have no idea how many people are using the app at the moment. - package as a Vercel app/docker image (so you can host your own instance easily)

I'm also working on a small indie game called Mannerbomb. It's the opposite of Bomberman--you're a bomb trying to exit the level before exploding.

tonyjstark• 6 years ago

Ulysses is really beautiful, no distractions and just a natural flow. As a name, maybe Ensō?

rpastuszak2• 6 years ago

Hm, that's a good idea, and it fits so well with the goal of the app, cheers!

subpar• 6 years ago

I made a thing the other weekend that returns a "canonical" image for whatever you put in the subdomain, for example: https://welcome.gif.so/ or https://goat.jpg.so/

I use it to quickly put an image of a thing in slack.

davchana• 6 years ago

Nice usage of domains. Isn't each of .so domain like $80/year? or $60

ronvoluted• 6 years ago

Tailor - Chrome Extension that give you direct access to style DevTools with your own fully custom vanilla CSS.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tailor/cigchnpekef...

When I say fully custom, I mean it: https://twitter.com/ronvoluted/status/1344629519638937602

The idea came from the fact that when you zoom into DevTools, the entire thing gets enlarged including Panel tabs, setting icons, etc. It would be great if you could just zoom the source code under Elements or the input under Console. Well now you can!

It's obviously out there for people to use already but it's half-baked because I want to improve the UI+UX, and I suppose this counts as DX too haha.

nelsonenzo• 6 years ago

Https://github.com/nelsonenzo/Tolocal - self hosted ngrok automated with terraform and wrapped in an nodejs cli to make it easy to configure and run (without knowing much about terraform)

thepra• 6 years ago

https://collanon.app collaboration tool based on threads with temporal anti bias anonymity in mind. Good also in business scenarios.

r0s• 6 years ago

https://testfromthetop.com/ I did a soft launch for my idea Test from the Top last year.

After talking to so many engineers in my industry at conferences etc. I heard over and over their frustration with management; Ignoring or understanding the value of software testing. That reflected my own experience and so I decided to launch a set of management training videos.

It's half-baked because I'm currently trying to understand what will actually sell, and get some feedback from customers. Mainly focusing on hiring guides and domain jargon currently.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/test-from-the-top

I want to be the person engineers tell their boss about to learn software testing from a high-level.

I'm about to hire a social media manager to try to drive more traffic via blog posts. I have a ton of content developed already, getting geared up to hit it hard in 2021!

oliv__2• 6 years ago

https://beamhire.co, an easy way to create a beautiful careers page for your company.

Still private for now since it's not 100% complete, but the landing page explains the basic, I'm curious to see if anyone would be interested in this service!

mud_dauber• 6 years ago

"The Commish".

Think Monopoly for sports nerds, but with a broadcasting angle for the business crowd.

Users start as fans & graduate to being athletes, team owners, coaches, commishes (league owners), referees (owning the rulebook for a sport), landlords (owning venues), etc.

Or, users graduate to being broadcasters, content providers (eg, owning a gamefilm), sponsors/advertisers, and station owners (TV, radio, ...).

Finally, users can become demographers. This means you can predict, for a given audience, their willingness to attend a game, buy merch, or "fan" a team or athlete.

The idea is to offer a rolling, continuous slate of seasons in which users compete for properties.

I've built some simple protos using RubyOnRails. The biggest challenge is settling on a set of rules/interactions between of the personas shown above.

spiffytech• 6 years ago

https://impermalink.spiffy.tech - Save Links for Later. Optimized for a triage-save-read-trash loop.

I'm a long-time Instapaper/Pocket/Wallabag user. I love scanning my RSS feeds, saving links into those apps, and clicking 'mark all as read'. Then, when I have some downtime, I pore over all the interesting articles/videos I saved. I always have something interesting to read, and I can read it with focus, not doomscrolling and hoping to luck into something good.

But Instapaper et al. aren't built for the way I use them. I put a link in, read it, and delete it. No tagging, no archiving. I usually don't even want text extraction. I just want to read something interesting, then I'm done with it. I can bookmark the link in my browser if I really want to.

Also, I want to open HN/Reddit/YouTube links in their native mobile apps. Instapaper/Wallabag make that clumsy, Pocket makes it almost impossible. These apps also have bugs with sync, but I don't care about offline access, so why am I paying the cost for buggy offline sync I don't use?

Impermalink is designed to streamline my workflow. You can share to it from other apps[0]. When you click a link to open it, it's marked for deletion and will disappear the next time you click another link. You can rescue a link from the recycle bin if you want to come back to it later. Links are grouped by domain, so it's easy to lump all those YouTube videos under a collapsed header so you can focus on other content. Links are just links - your browser will open them however it's normally configured to, including opening them in native apps on mobile.

The app's condition is "rough and ready". It works enough that I use it every day and really enjoy it. The UX has obvious areas for improvement. The home page has no content. Svelte has bugs that double-render some of the content sometimes. But it's there, and it works.

Give it a try, let me know what you think, impermalink@spiffy.tech

[0] Install the app to your home screen with Chrome on Android. Yes, Chrome, not anything else, not even Chrome derivatives. I haven't tried on iOS yet. You can use the app in any browser you want, but only Chrome on Android knows how to share links to web apps.

https://impermalink.spiffy.tech

https://github.com/spiffytech/impermalink

LadyCailin• 6 years ago

MethodScript[0] is a programming language I’ve been working on for a decade or so. It’s can be run on the command line, but it started as and is mostly useful as a programming language for Minecraft server admins, through a bukkit plugin named CommandHelper.

It has a lot to desire as a general purpose programming language, and it’s clearly a work in progress, with bugs aplenty I’m sure, but I’m proud of what’s there so far, and it’s got a niche but devoted following in the domain it’s currently in.

Would love for more devs to join as contributors!

[0] https://methodscript.com

holler• 6 years ago

I'm working on a new open public discussion site called Sqwok - https://sqwok.im

The idea sprouted from using Slack & Reddit and wanting to combine the two and create a new place for live discussion that's accessible to a general audience. It's small so far but has a growing community of awesome people.

In my mind it's still half-baked as there's a lot more work to do to fully bring it to life.

Uses a lot of python, websockets, ember.js

(recently did a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672)

davidsojevic2• 6 years ago

I wanted to play around with websockets last year, so I started out by building out a prototype multiuser whiteboard in a few hours one weekend. From that, I decided it'd be cool to turn it into a game, so I built out a drawing/guessing game from there and got it up on a domain I'd been sitting on for a while (https://www.multiplayer.com.au/)

It's got some mild polish on it now, but there's still a lot of scenarios where disconnects/reconnects or generally unexpected behaviour can break the current game room. One of my goals this year is to address all the remaining bugs, add some more UI polish, then look into working on bots to seed a single game room because right now if you land on the game and no one else playing, you're met with a "please wait for another player to join" screen. This essentially means that it's BYO friends for the most part right now.

Later in the year when the current game has been fully-baked, I'm sure I'll come up with some other random idea to try and it'll end up as another half-baked game to put up there.

oliv__2• 6 years ago

Playing it right now, this isn't nearly half-baked, it's amazing and super fun!

davidsojevic2• 6 years ago

Thanks! It's definitely playable, but there's still a lot of room for improvement and a few pesky bugs that you definitely notice the longer you play.

For example, only shortly after I posted here and all the current players had guessed correctly except for one person, then that person left, the game waited the extra 60 seconds for the round to time out instead of immediately because everyone left had answered it.

Then there's things like the scoring system, game-generated hints, and all that little stuff that needs definite improvement... they mostly work at the moment, but they're, well... crap haha

ls65536• 6 years ago

I created SailNavSim, a real-time sailing navigation simulator using real-world weather/ocean data where you can also set up races and play with/against others online: https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/

Some months ago, I had also shared it as a Show HN post [0], and I am thankful for the feedback received then, but I will be the first to say it's still not really ready for "prime time" despite continuous improvements since. Mostly I've been focusing a lot on the simulation and back-end side of things, but I do think it could benefit from a more modern UI (maybe someday).

Nonetheless, we have a small community of virtual sailors who regularly participate in races, and I could not be more grateful for all their feedback and help with this project so far!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661326

domano• 6 years ago

My Flutter Hacker News Reader i hacked together for a tech talk (and want to finish).

Here you can access it as a PWA https://techfriday.gomano.de

chrisrickard2• 6 years ago

I started out as a software engineer, but have spent the 8 years building and running a custom software development agency, which was acquired last year by a larger company.

I am now looking to help developers who want to start a software agency themselves, so have created Dev to Agency where I am writing about the lessons and insights I learned.

https://www.devtoagency.com

bugBunny• 6 years ago

I tried to dm you, but you disabled dm on twitter. Somehow we have almost same path, running an agency at the moment with 9 ppl :-)

chrisrickard2• 6 years ago

Oh really, weird.. Do you follow me? whats your twitter I will reach out.

qilisiang• 6 years ago

I am currently working on my screenshot API SaaS. This project running on VM (like EC2) as opposed to most similar SaaS running in AWS lambda. I going to move to dedicated server for better performance. The project is working but I still need improve marketing site, multiple regions support, CDN caching, migrate to dedicated servers, billing, etc.

If you sign up now, you basically getting all features for free and without restrictions!

https://www.24browser.com/

isubasinghe• 6 years ago

I'm working on a search engine in Rust which is unique because it can offer search in O(n), various sacrifices have been made in order to accommodate for this.

I also want to support metadata filtering etc. but having some trouble with storing and indexing JSON through rocksDB. I've made some progress but not really there yet.

princemaple• 6 years ago

A platform for people to build real-time multiplayer games / multi-user apps with ease.

Developers write JS code to only handle the rendering and interaction. Separate game code written in a DSL will be parsed and run on the server. A SDK is provided to help the client side communicate with the game / app server.

A dirty PONG demo at https://dev.byog.live/games/pong

Very early SDK at https://github.com/byog-live/byog-sdk

The PONG demo with more organized code at https://github.com/byog-live/byog-example-pong

A playground was under development to help devs understand the platform and this is where I burnt out https://play.byog.live/

It's been a few months since I last worked on it. Sigh.

hgarg• 6 years ago

Recently got access to OpenAI.

Thinking of building something in the Education space for Kids.

Any Ideas would be welcome.

spicysheep• 6 years ago

Self driving toy car that uses deep learning and comes with a web app for data collection (driving with a PS3 controller), data cleaning, model training, and model deployment: https://github.com/RyanZotti/Self-Driving-Car

I’ve been working on this for 5 years, and it has hundreds of GitHub stars, but it will probably always be half baked. I also haven’t had a chance to commit code in awhile

fromaj• 6 years ago

I had an idea for a library that follows log files and triggers some events that can be defined through python code. I used it for one task at work and gave up on figuring out how to structure it since.

The idea is that it allows you to verify and test logging, which is an odd concept but helps ensure that things are predictable and consistent.

https://github.com/arvind-iyer/logan/

jrpt• 6 years ago

Super Source (supso.org)

Open source software is used by practically all businesses, yet maintainers are overwhelmed and under-appreciated. Donations barely make any money.

The solution? Don't give it away for free! Fork your own project and release the next version under a paid license with Super Source. (You can still make it free for non-profits and individuals) Larger businesses pay more money.

krishnanunnir• 6 years ago

I am working on this www.ezhuth.in.

This is a website I am building as a social media for my vernacular language(Malayalam), my main reasoning being

1. Facebook has a lot of Malayalam discussions and literature but they are lost past a few days, and it is very difficult to rediscover this content.

Basically we are losing out on quality content once Facebook has decided it is not viable to show a post algorithmically.

2. For vernacular languages niche content has largely been reduced to Youtube, but still there are no platforms for discussion on these topics.

3. his might sound generic but we often hear about stories of kids chancing on content on the internet and developing a passion for a subject, what are the chances this can happen if you are not English speaking?

We can learn from China on this, even though it is a population that is largely shielded from the rest of the world, their adoption of native langauge on the internet have allowed for proliferation of all kinds content to everyone.

4. Localisation is the future. Being able to use our own language has allowed a lot of people to explode on the scene and make a living - ask tiktokers.

I am not yet done with the features, but a priority for me now is to do translations to Malayalam and get audience coming.

blubeard• 6 years ago

Long time reader, first time poster. I'm nervous posting; but anyway I wanted to share my reading platform: https://tutee.io/books

In short I wanted to create a platform that allows kids and adults to enjoy reading regardless if the content is fiction or non-fiction. However, I didn't want just another material design site, I wanted to make it add a retro aspect to it. It's using MDB, a heavily hacked RPGUI (http://ronenness.github.io/RPGUI/), old school fonts (previously posted on HN https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/), and using OctoberCMS as the backend.

There's so much content in the wild web but reading it can make your eyes strain (especially on large / wide monitors). Reading pages should be easy on the eyes, making it reading more enjoyable.

In addition, the concept is to take content and split the content into smaller chunks. For fiction I want to import books from (https://www.gutenberg.org/).

For a full book example, I took Frankenstein https://tutee.io/pages/frankenstein/1

For a full short story, I took H.G Well's A dream of Armageddon: https://tutee.io/pages/dream-armageddon/1

Finally for e-learning, I have some AWS notes: https://tutee.io/pages/cloud-computing/1

Another thing that helps is the Summary section that will help you remember or refresh where you left off. Note: the summary notes are made up...just filling it in beyond Lipsum.

In the end I would love to make it social where users can create their own content such as short stories, full books, or even notes. Perhaps even the agility to collaborate or write material together, "check out books" (like going to the library) except you can contribute your own material in the book you just checked out.

I would love some help in developing this further and taking it to the next level. For those readers out there, I can use some help on content to put up there as well as summary notes as I don't have time to read everything I post. If you have a book from GutenBerg you want imported please let me know (assuming you can provide summary on each chapter) as my current time is dedicated on developing the site.

That's it , I hope you enjoy it. I'll take any feedback or suggestions I can get.

aidangrimshaw• 6 years ago

Open source federal income tax calculator / filer

https://ustaxes.org/w2employerinfo

https://github.com/thegrims/UsTaxes

vinhnx• 6 years ago

I've been working on a minimal calendar app on my spare time. I only use Calendar for everything note, so having an app for me is both satisfying and something I wanting to build for a long time. I will release the app on the app store soon.

https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site/

Zealotux• 6 years ago

https://bonfiretabletop.com A virtual tabletop for RPGs, because I was just not satisfied with the current offering.

It's very not supposed to be available to a lot of people right now, there are a lot of bugs and it's still light-years away from what I want. But hey, you can register an account and play a few sessions, I see it more like an advanced POC than a MVP, which I'm currently working on. Feel free to join our Discord server to chat about it!

jadavies• 6 years ago

A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is released under a GPL licence - https://github.com/john-davies/mapter

Problems / improvements are

* Improved Editor with features like search/replace and undo. At the moment the GTKSourceView component looks a likely candidate.

* A method of moving or swapping the contents of cells without a lot of cutting & pasting ( drag & drop? )

* There's also an annoying bug with the tree control drag & drop that I need to fix

I'm currently using it to try and write a novel. I'm about 35% of the way through and it works surprisingly well.

marcospoerl• 6 years ago

https://crowdfunded.fyi I want to support the creator community. The idea behind Crowdfunded is to provide data on past crowdfunding campaigns as a foundation for product research. You can use the data to understand customer demand, discover successful product categories, see what competitors are launching, and find promising product ideas. Or do some general research on crowdfunding.

kzerby• 6 years ago

http://my-handicapped-pet.io/ Intended to be _no less_ the free and simple Data Analysis platform for all. But because I'm lazy ass, it's like a high school lab project.

mbar84• 6 years ago

https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/sbk

WIP documentation: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/sbk/READMEv2.html

Looking for long term contributors, especially for documentation and code auditing.

asgekar• 6 years ago

We have a Android Keyboard, a working application. However, we know it needs more work and some more killer features. In that sense it's half-baked.

Lipee Keyboard ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.svayu.lipi ) is a keyboard for Indic scripts and languages that uses gestures to speed up typing by 100%. I am also my own prime user, typing various texts (messages, social media, etc.) in Indic scripts, so I can also vouch of its utility myself.

A video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgW9V4YOHGQ

The first novelty is that it solely focuses on people who do NOT read/write English, but know their own mother tongue and script well. So, a native Kannada user (of Kannada script) or Bhojpuri person (of Devnagari script) are our prime targets.

The second novelty is that almost all Indic scripts add an extra line/symbol next to consonants, called "maatras" to create sound out of a consonant. Each sound has a unique maatra, for any consonant. We use gestures to add such a maatra to all consonants, which speeds up the keyboard typing hugely.

We know we can add more features and killer technologies to make typing in Indic scripts very smooth and fast.

We need more tech talent and support to make this happen, and I hope to on-board a CXO or a senior free-lancer for rapid development.

Do up-vote if you like this project, and spread the word!

Thanks!

elisescu• 6 years ago

A very simple tool for sharing a terminal session over the Internet. It doesn't require anything for the remote person to join the session.

https://github.com/elisescu/tty-share

wildfyre• 6 years ago

Clubhouse App Growth Tool...

https://joinmyclub.co/

morenoh149• 6 years ago

A social network for nyc for finding activity partners https://littlive.com

Still fixing up the mobile app

r0ck3r008• 6 years ago

Hey HN, this is a project started abut 2 months ago as an assignment to myself so that I can finally learn Go. Its an implementation of Kademlia DHT protocol in form of a Go lib. I eventually want to make it useful for the community but right now its largely untested. https://github.com/r0ck3r008/kademgo

danskeren• 6 years ago

https://ask.moe

Ask.Moe is a European non-profit, free and open-source software, privacy-focused search engine. The initial plan is to build various categories, such as Podcast, Flight, Food, Shop, Math, etc. This approach will allow us to provide higher quality results compared to a general-purpose search engine, and it can hopefully allow us to slowly grow until we figure out how to handle the costs of Bing's API.

We just launched a Domain category (https://ask.moe/domain), which consist of a domain name finder that makes it easy to find great domains like FireFox, MailChimp, TaskRabbit, etc. by combining two words, searching through hundreds of domains in seconds.

relaunched• 6 years ago

iprompted.com - dead simple task reminders that others schedule for you w/ a feedback loop

I never was able to crack into a niche / use case for an addressable market.

If anyone wants to help, let me know. Email in contacts.

BrandoElFollito• 6 years ago

My first real public project: a way to handle some smart plugs on a LAN (https://github.com/wsw70/meross-local-mqtt).

The project itself is not that interesting for the majority of pepole. What was nice for me was this kind of thrill to push something for everyone to share.

I put more attention into the details, description, etc. A very fulfilling learning experience.

This is going to help me release the 10 or so other projects I was keeping private but was ashamed to publish. I just need to find some time to polish them.

desertraven2• 6 years ago

I’m looking to phase out my phone wherever possible, so when I’m out and about I would like to use my notebook to replace some phone functions (notes, non-urgent messages, adding to a list, setting a reminder, new contact, etc). The issue is, once I write in my notebook, I tend to never reread what I’ve written.

Enter Typoglyph. I assign blocks of text a glyph or symbol (#, <, ~, etc). I can then map these symbols to any command using the text as input.

At the end of each day I simply snap a picture of my notebook pages and all the queued actions in my notebook are executed.

Unfortunately I’m using Google Cloud OCR, as it’s the most accurate at detecting handwriting (that I’ve found). It also doesn’t allow for custom glyphs.

drusepth• 6 years ago

This sounds super cool.

A few questions, if you don't mind:

1) Do you have any examples of the kinds of "actions" you execute (and what you would write to execute them)? Is the text also in some kind of strict DSL (e.g. @ firstname lastname number to add a contact?)

2) How do reminders work? I'd assume only at-least-next-day ones work well if you only execute/set them at EOD. Do you use them more to remind you of daily things in the morning, or do you have your phone ping you throughout the day as specific-time reminders kick in?

3. Are you planning on releasing this as an app? Planning on adding any support for people adding their own glyphs/actions? (I ask because I've been tempted to do something similar, but moreso for worldbuilding -- where I jot down character/location ideas and OCR them into notebook.ai later or similar). Does it work on any notebook, or do you need a special one to anchor for OCR accuracy?

desertraven2• 6 years ago

Hi there, thanks for the interest!

Edit: new line characters don’t seem to work on HN. So the commands might not make much sense.

1. A couple of examples I’ve been using for development:

# Joe Smith 314 395 112

% why is the sky blue?

+¥:3 Carrots Avocado Tomato Spaghetti

$Joe Smith Long time no talk Hi Joe, it’s been a while. How are the kids?

# - create contact % - research (will open browser with this search term when getting home) + - add to list ¥ - shopping : - denotes length of list. The above will ignore spaghetti. $ - send email

Regarding the separators, I’ve obviously been using new line for the different arguments, but could use anything. More so I was trying to make it so you could annotate any page from the past in glyphs. Just annotate a few glyphs on an existing page (or whiteboard) and it’d run operations.

I’ve tried lots of systems, but there’s always pros and cons. Open to suggestions!

2. More so I’d use them to remind me of dates or set wake up alarm. Reminders throughout the day doesn’t really help me (plus the phone isn’t with me). But there’s no reason you couldn’t do all of the options you mentioned.

3. I did a proof of concept as a desktop app. I’d just upload pictures I took to cloud, and pull down. Because desktop is much more powerful for the user, I could write custom scripts and run them from the notebook. But an app would be a good idea for those who don’t mind the hit in flexibility.

DEFINITELY have support for custom glyphs. Because I’m using Google OCR I don’t currently have support for custom glyphs (a little shape or squiggle), hence the glyphs are just symbol characters. But yes they can be created and assigned actions.

I’ve been using it on any old book. Just make sure the lighting is ok. Of course it’s not always perfect, but it’s close enough if you take effort to write clearly.

timqian• 6 years ago

https://feeds.pub A social RSS reader

PhilosAccnting• 6 years ago

I built a map that tried capturing all the programming languages. It's about 700-1000 of them.

https://github.com/PhilosAccounting/langmap

My reasoning is that there's plenty of looking forward, but lots of rework from not observing history. The map is an ambitious attempt to capture everything. It's amazing how arcane some stuff gets in 40 short years!

I'm also rather discouraged about how much work it's taking given my present technical acumen, so anyone is free to hijack all my data and make something better than I can.

gadders2• 6 years ago

https://www.outagereports.net/

Was building up a library of outage reports/post mortems.

pseudoselector• 6 years ago

This is a little past half-baked... https://mindfulmanager.io

It's a productivity app I've been building for the last couple months that allows you to manage your focus, organize your projects, keep a daily journal, and work in timed sessions. There are a lot of additional features that I will be releasing soon as well :)

This is actually the first time I've told anyone about it, as I still have a lot of refinement to do, but I'm looking forward to early feedback!

I made a 20% off discount code for this thread - just enter HN20 at check out if you're interested! Also, if you can't afford it, just hit me up and I'll hook you up ;)

Super excited! Happy coding everybody!

geekster777• 6 years ago

Not even at the development stage yet, but I want an app version of the "X days since the last accident" sign to use for accountability. I want my phone to tell me "7 days since you last called your parents", "4 days since you last did the dishes", "3 hours since you just took a moment for yourself". These would be silent yet persistent notifications that I'd see anytime I check my phone. Easy to dismiss/reset to 0. I want to feel accountable before the task turns into something I'm ashamed of like "147 days since you called your grandma".

I imagine you'd set thresholds for each event, and the notifications would have a simple reset button. But other than that, you'd never really open the app. If you do something on your own, it'll feel good to dismiss the item like crossing it off the todo list.

I assume this would be real easy to make, but learning anything app related always feels like a monolithic task. I'd ironically love a "It's been 4 days since you looked up Android documentation" to help keep me on track with this project (:

krenel• 6 years ago

I strongly suggest you the Loop Habit Tracker [1][2]. Simple yet powerful app. You configure your habits and associate a frequency, and once done they disappear from the list. You can set up reminders/alarms as well.

The only "tip" I would suggest to you is to open the app once a day. For that, I created a daily habit of "checking my habits". A little bit meta, but it holds myself accountable.

Some of my tracked habits: calling mom/grandma, reading, use Anki, gratitude journal, exercice, drink 1.5L or water a day, meditate, breathing exercices, no screen time after 20:00, etc.

Of course, not meant to disencourage you from doing your own app, just to show how I scratch my very same itch. May the code be with you ;)

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha...

[2] It's an OpenSource project! https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits

lcall• 6 years ago

http://onemodel.org A text-mode personal organizer with internal structure and plans to capture/manage/share/integrate arbitrary knowledge for & by humankind, something like AGPL + wikipedia or evernote + local control + structured/effective/efficient sharing + computability more than with just piles of words as the fundamental layer. Currently in scala+postgresql, aiming for rust and maybe sqlite.

Self-explanatory site I hope; I use it daily and am making very slow progress (health limits currently). But maybe it is just for my own benefit. Hard to say :)

NiagaraThistle• 6 years ago

I've got a couple in various stages (shiny item syndrom maybe ?)

https://ZeroToCentury.com - basically enter in your name, optional email, start date, fitness level, cycling level, and miles / km, and it creates a riding schedule for you to build up to riding a century (100 miles) over the course of about 50 days (depending on riding and fitness levels). It was a quick throw away app that i built to keep myself accountable during the summer / fall to get out and ride my bike. I rode a lot but was not consistent nor did i hit my century...i did lose 20 pounds which i've subsequently gained back since october though :(

https://Eurotripr.com - planned to be a site to showcase itineraries to allow users to plan trips to Europe (COVID obviously threw a wrench in this one), but it's been a goal of mine for over a decade to build something like this that helps people plan trips to Europe and build a community around European Travelers. I recently saw what Pieter Levels did with NomadList and figured it was finally time to get off my A$$ and build the thing...but COVID, life, 9-5, procrastination habit got in the way again

http://craigcampbell.io - Test site for Soccer Skills Training App (its behind a login but free and i won't contact anyone who registers to check it out, i'll probably just delete you) - built this for a local soccer club when COVID first hit to allow coaches to upload training videos (self made or from Youtube/vimeo) and have players compete in app by practicing new skills

http://craigcampbell.io/books.php - My personal reading list - i built this out this month and entered all the books i have in my ever growing 'want to read' pile / library.

https://Solomaker.life - blog site to discuss my journey to try to get out of the 9-5 and build an actual useful project i can monetize. The goal WAS to document my journey daily, but life and procrastination destroy me :/

hershyb_• 6 years ago

I wanted to build a location based discussion application. I thought during covid, people who were talking to others in the same area it could be really helpful for people feeling lonely so I built an app called Jest. It's still in beta, but I would love it if anyone could try it out and send feedback :) https://testflight.apple.com/join/NPwgYK3H

pidtuner• 6 years ago

A tool I made to use myself, but also colleagues that were asking me all the time to help them with the task of tuning their PID algorithms. https://pidtuner.com

smhanov• 6 years ago

https://languagenow.app

I created an HTML app to help you learn Mandarin or German. It's flashcards for vocabulary and writing. I was very excited about it a couple of years ago but then I stopped and now I'm the only one using it.

It's written in go and postgresql and Vue, and right now its just running inside of a "screen" session in a terminal on Linode.

larrydag• 6 years ago

Boardgame Recommendation Engine based on collections from boardgamegeek.com. Needs more work. Built it off of the R Shiny platform.

https://larrydag.shinyapps.io/boardgame_reco/

kmclean• 6 years ago

This is so true but my biggest struggle. Everything I have just shipped before I thought it was ready did really well, yet I still struggle to do it. I built my own static site generator, which I use for my own blog: https://github.com/kiramclean/morphy

I need to at least add documentation, and obviously there's a million other things I think I need before I tell anyone else about it.

agent00shoe• 6 years ago

I built a tool to help realtors easily create slideshows from still photos without any technical knowledge.

It hasn't really gotten a lot of traction and there are probably other markets where this might be useful, but I've been so busy with other stuff lately.

https://www.vidboto.com/

czue• 6 years ago

I tried to make an analytics tool for Github repository contributions, but never got it "good enough" to do much with. It also times out a lot on API calls which makes it a pretty poor UX.

https://repostory.app/

seogasparini• 6 years ago

I made a lorem ipsum generator for landscaping words called "Landscape Ipsum" and I'm pretty sure no one besides me will ever have a practical use for it. Okay even I didn't need it.

http://www.landscapeipsum.com/

rphillips• 6 years ago

I made a tool to take my Kindle highlights and import them into a SQLite database wrapped in a Datasette website.

https://github.com/rphillips/datasette-kindle-highlights

amorriscode• 6 years ago

https://postage.care/

I build a tool for residents at care homes to find pen pals around the world.

I didn't try to get care homes on board so the project basically died upon launch. Sometimes I think about trying to go for it or make it just a general pen pal service instead...

caviv• 6 years ago

A friend of mine she is a professional beach volley ball player. She said there is not enough information on the internet about Women Beach Volleyball. No leagues or players information, so I have started working on https://wwbv.org for Women Beach Volleyball data, players, games, tours, etc'. I never finished though.

jurajpal• 6 years ago

http://returnofthenewsletter.com/

For @martinsrna and I, newsletters became the go-to source for learning from domain experts like Packy McCormick who writes Not Boring, Lenny Rachitsky, or Stratechery’s Ben Thompson.

But we think there should be a better reading and learning experience that also helps with the newsletter fatigue so we started working on a newsletter reader as a side project.

We spent the past few weeks validating the idea, spoke with over 20 potential users to better understand the problem and have a clickable prototype in Figma.

Right now, we’re looking for someone who could help us build the first MVP. If you’re looking to get involved with a side project and any of this resonates with you, we'd love to chat!

mhulse• 6 years ago

A macOS Node.js module/app that generates a random Google Street View desktop wallpaper.

https://github.com/mhulse/kludgy

Note: I have not ran this code for some months now, but last time I ran it, it worked OK.

I had a lot of fun building it and reverse-engineering the Google street view API was a good challenge. Overall, it was quite a bit of work.

https://github.com/mhulse/kludgy/wiki/History

(This is my first post here, but I read this on Hacker news newsletter and thought I'd share.)

piniyini• 6 years ago

A little late but I would like to chime in with mine

https://emailalerts.net

rrjoson• 6 years ago

I started posting a weekly review series of my notes as I try to progress my skills based on CircleCI's engineering competency matrix. Would love to get any feedback/ideas on how I can improve this

https://rrjoson.hashnode.dev/weekly-engineering-competency-r...

robalicious• 6 years ago

I built a quiz that loads when Google Analytics is loading (I've spent a lot of time waiting) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buffer-buddy/ehngg... Added a payment system to buy more trivia but no one used it and the Google Chrome payments system is about to be decommissioned. Plan on making all content free but barely bothered lol

radotzki• 6 years ago

A funny multiplayer trivia game: https://bullshit.wtf/

adamjlev• 6 years ago

Youtube video zapper: https://zapper.video/

Do you miss zapping through channels like back in the day, and ending up on a random documentary about ants in the amazon rainforest, zap again, you're in the middle of a Spice Girls music video?

The channels are generated by aggregating lists of finely tuned youtube search results, and some randomness.

I haven't touched the code in a few months but it works well enough, let me know what you think and also let me know which channels you would like added. Thx!

mrdobelina• 6 years ago

https://www.discofm.co

Actually live and working, but looking for an iOS Developer/vinyl fan to take it to the next level!

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