madhavanmalolan

i dont think youd need 671b for something like this

this seems to be a command detection which 8b should be able to do just fine

I made most of it on react native. i don't have a mac or an iphone to build the ios version tbh.

it should be a simple config change tbh. would love to merge a pr for that. else, will try borrowing a mac & iphone over the weekend :)

I made this because I spend a lot of my time on a mobile phone at work. I switch between slack, email and telegram in my daily work.

Many times, i make commitments to people - like, i will get back or i will follow up. But then that just gets lost in all the noise. I forget where i made those commitments.

So, i built this simple tool where each time i make such a commitment, i can just take a screenshot and share it with this app. the app will create a todo which i can mark as done later.

super simple app. do give it a swing :)

the other thing i wanted to share is that i thought this was a trivial enough app for chat gpt to make. And that's why i signed up to build this at 1am. i thought i'll be in and out quickly. I got chat gpt to write the entire code.

But ...

It didn't work. I spent hours debugging. and the errors were so small that i didn't spot it at all!

particularly this one : I needed other apps to be able to share an image with this app. On the android manifest, i needed to set a configuration called "android.intent.action.SEND"

but chat gpt gave me the code which had "android.intent.android.intent.action.SEND"

I didn't spot it at all and went down several rabbitholes to figure out why the configuration isn't being set. I thought it was a compiler issue so i did several rounds of clean builds and decompiled the build to check the configurations.

It was a nightmare.

I gave up and went to sleep.

Today morning, i rewrote the app from scratch. It took me 30 minutes. I still used chat gpt, but only for very specific mundane/boilerplate code. Everything else i wrote myself.

I find these AI tools to be incredibly useful to code, but i they are not able to build e2e systems. Even if they build something that's 80% there and i have to write only the 20% that'd be great. but i fear that's not where the state of the art is. It significantly sets you behind if you get it to write large chunks of code.

Here's a 4min demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5eCYwsHRRs

I know, I know. Yet another NFT Marketplace?

If digital artists can have their own NFT Marketplace to sell digital paintings NFTs, hackers deserve the same.

This is a fun side project we built. We don't make money from this. We just want to make sure there is a neat way to reward the open source contributors.

Though this is a sideproject, I'm keen on making this successful. It's currently launched on a testnet. I wanted to have comments from the HN network to see how we can make this better before we launch more generally.

Here's my own resume made using openresume : https://openresume.dev/madhavanmalolan

What do you look for in a candidate at the screening stage?

A simple authentication mechanism that can be hosted by anyone, to enable "Login using Ethereum" - just like we use "Login with Google" around the web