A no-code video game builder: Example made in 3 hours
https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004...
I'm making AI more fun to talk with. The new updates just keep making it blander and blander. What I want to do is inject more personality into bots. It's not natural, it's dramatized.
Quillbot makes it sound better for essays and presentation. I want to do the opposite and make it sound elliptical, turn a rant into a jab, that kind of thing. You don't say, "You're an idiot," you say, "Thanks, I thought I was the dumbest person in the room."
I'm creating a infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the company etc), languages used, security issues. There's time-travel, think Gource for all software in your company, and maybe the most fun: a GeoGuessr for code. Select e.g. the repos for your team, you get a snippet and have to guess where it is. The plan is for LLMs + tree-sitter to analyze all the code and show relations to other systems, databases etc.
I had the idea 2 years ago, but starting building in earnest 2 months ago. Spending all my time on it now, minus 3 or 4 days per week of earning money. Currently looking for a GTM/sales-oriented cofounder in NL.
We use IcePanel for a similar functionality but like all diagramming solutions it suffers if you don’t constantly feed it. If you can solve that problem you’re definitely on to something.
I think I have a solution for that but can't spill all the beans ;) I love IcePanel btw, awesome product and awesome team.
Definitely want this kind of thing.
Thanks! If you or other interested people in this thread are in a position to pay for it, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you!
Cool idea :)
Working on letting users upload their own transparent fashion images to a web app that let's you use your camera to apply the world to characters clothing. I made it for an exhibition in Kyoto and it was a lot of fun. Hoping to expand on it a bit more.
An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm building a prototype with SwiftUI and SwiftData and I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C. Compared to my previous experience writing and publishing an iphone app, everything now feels much worse with Swift's ridiculous compile times and non-descriptive compile errors.
I'm working on a SaaS that will detect publicly shared AWS resources. Not by evaluating policies but by actually testing the availability. Some examples: can a KMS key be used from a 3rd party AWS account, are there any object in an S3 truly exposed publicly, and similar. The motivation is to find truly critical issues in AWS account setup by addressing the first priority items - public exposure.
Another project that is currently only happening in my head - I am thinking about security operations teams that I think often do the same things in different companies. Namely there is a lot of tinkering with detections and alerting, often for the same services. I think this could be cost optimized by being offered as a SaaS.
Radar-based device for measuring athlete sprint & agility tests.
A lot of professional sports clubs, S&C coaches, etc.. use timing gates for measuring sprints, but those are a pain to set up, only capture split times, and are expensive. I think radar (+ optional video overlay) provides a far superior solution.
In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on Micro (https://github.com/micro), I started a new project called Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west.
+1
I recently made a little tool for people interested in running local LLMs to figure out if their hardware is able to run an LLM in GPU memory.
can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?
I've recently been looking into running local LLMs for fun on my laptop (without any GPU) and this is the one thing I've never been able to find consistent information on. This is so helpful, thank you so much! Going to try and run Llama 3.2 3B FP8 soon.
Very nice! Way more complete than the other tools I've seen to estimate running LLMs on GPUs :)
I've been working on an iOS app that aggregates cinema showtimes across chains and independent theaters in the UK.
I moved to London some years back, and was pleasantly surprised by the vibrant cinema scene, that seems to be in a steep decline in so many places. On any day of the week, one can find independent films, old and new classics, Q&A's with filmmakers etc. playing in one of the many theaters across the city. Staying on top of it all is a chore though, and I found myself missing out on screenings regularly, because I didn't check that one cinema's website on time.
This is also my first time building and releasing an independent app. The journey from research, backend development and learning SwiftUI has been a trip. Released on TestFlight a couple of weeks ago.
cool idea! good luck with your app!
I’m currently developing a link-in-bio tool that requires no cookies, no trackers, and no signups—a true “privacy-first” approach. I’m building it with lovable, which has really helped me overcome the fine-tuning and bug-fixing procrastination that used to slow down my projects.
After spending a lot of time in an acquired startup and becoming more specialized in my role, I realized I needed to switch back to “build mode.” It’s been a rewarding exercise to try generating some organic traffic (no-ads by design) and a much needed escape from excel sheets.
Wondering if being still on a third level domain is messing up my SEO efforts.
I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera.
I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings.
I have a doorbell camera, and by analysing the footage using OpenCV and some code, I can track how fast people drive if you see how fast they move between two known points.
Average speed: 46 km/h :(
What about placing a fake speed camera? It might just get the job done
Is that legal in your country? In mine (Netherlands) there are way too many people with doorbell camera aimed right at the street even though it's illegal to record a public space like that. Most folks are ignorant about it though, or think that surely the internet-connected gadget sold by some anonymous corporation won't be abused....
For private use you can film in public places in the Netherlands no?
Not sure where you are, but 30kmh sounds Dutch. Filming the public road from your private residence is illegal.
In practice, no one cares. Cops will even ask you nicely for footage if something went down in your street.
Anyway, best of luck with your project.
It's a complex discussion in the Netherlands in which the data protection agency (AP) has a very strict view (they claim it's not allowed) while for example the associated press sees it very different.
There is a key difference between recording vs publishing. There are more restrictions on publishing and an objective assessment needs to be made between the interests of the person in the footage and the general public or publisher.
I would argue that recording the road to collect speed data, not keeping the recording longer than needed and not for example recording license plates, would pass in the Netherlands. Since you're making an assessment between different interests and the is limited privacy impact. Of course assuming this is happening on a public road and not someone's property.
Publishing the recordings instead of just the average speed data would be a very different story, especially if the cars or drivers can be identified.
I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the government to intervene.
Government is already intervening, you think people are going at only 46 kmh because of goodwill?
Ooh how edgy.
Said someone living in a comfortable country with a stable government.
You can’t seriously believe this right?
Man, please share a tutorial
I'm interested in this. A modern version of community watch.
Continued working with my team to grow my granddaughter who at 15 months handles a spoon and fork to feed herself at each meal; drinks from a cup without assistance; can clean her face and understand everything she is told or asked (though sometimes with a devious smile makes what an adult might consider a poor choice.... She is testing her boundaries like she is supposed to do). I have learned how to and produced 6 different embroidery patterns on various pieces of infant clothing. I combined multiple web based directions to create a Wi-Fi enabled USB (from a raspberry pi W 2) to enable a link from my computer to my embroidery machine. I made cookies and shared them with others creating a lot of joy I'm visiting with my grandson in another state, modeling good parenting and offering help where I can.
Huh? Is this an AI comment?
No, this is what Actual Life looks like once you get past 30.
GP inserted single new lines instead of double ones.
An absolute word salad. Dead internet theory
"being a grand dad"
is his answer. and he colored it. it's not that deep so as to upset you. darklake just practicing his creative writing.
I've been working on language for a little over a year now. There's no documentation at all, just some examples if you can figure out how to run them. I thought building a compiler would take less time than it has, but it's been feeling like a good investment in my future of making things. It's a project I can just keep moving with forever.
Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow.
Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people (crucial that they know how to connect back).
Made a little web app that helped me communicate: https://azriel.im/tears/
(I could just point to the number when I couldn't talk/listen)
Thanks for the link, I think this is helpful and the tips resonate with me.
As I get older, the desires that "work" are very frequently the same ones as I had when I was a child.
I've working on Colanode, an open-source & local-first Slack and Notion alternative that you can self host. You can use Colanode for real-time chat, as a knowledge center, project management or file storage. As a local-first application, Colanode offers full offline support, allowing you to work even when you’re not connected to the internet or the server is not available. You can host it in any environment (with minimal dependencies), giving you full ownership and control over your data.
I’ve been improving the developer experience of the extremely janky Java Spring app that powers the most popular open source real time transit app, OneBusAway.
Last month I added Dockerfiles and a docker-compose.yml file to the project to make building and locally running it a breeze. Earlier today, I finally had a chance to figure out and document how to debug the app, which should greatly improve quality of life for anyone trying to fix bugs or add features to the backend. https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules...
I'm tinkering with the USB HID specification for power devices for all the wrong reasons.
Historically, UPSes had various proprietary communication protocols over serial ports. Nowadays they usually have a USB port, but I have a bunch of very old APC UPSes with just the serial port and/or the expansion card slot (which is usually just another serial link plus power on a edge connector).
A normal person would just use NUT or apcupsd over serial and call it a day. A bored person would write a USB HID power device stack and serial protocol acquisitors to give these UPSes USB ports. An insane person would add projectors from the USB HID power device stack to serial protocols so that they could use whatever communication card they want on any UPS they have (for example, a CyberPower RM205 card plugged into an APC Smart-UPS).
Why? Because apparently I'm insane and I needed a break from working on delinking executables back into object files, another heretical project I've worked on for the past couple years.
I've just started and I don't know if I'll finish that, but it's something I need to work on to exorcise that particular nagging thought out of my head.
A C-based graphics engine/raycasting engine to make 90's games like Wolfenstein3D (1992) - but on a never-before seen scale.
The scale is RNG worlds like Minecraft. I've never seen that before with a Raycaster.
Here is my progress so far (I've had a month break)
https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster/blob/ma...
Not for profit, just for fun and exploration
Wow, this is really cool. Do you take inspiration from or have you looked at the original Wolfenstein3D code?
I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities.
The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.
I recently spoke with a Lemmy developer who gave me some advice on making it easy for anyone to host. I was struggling with the mess of supporting both docker and VM hosting. He told me that Lemmy uses ansible provisioning to install docker compose on the target VM so that the effort can be focused on docker support, so that's what I've been homing in on for the last few weeks.
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
Excellent!!! I have been wanting this for a long time
I’ve deleted all my social media apps (including YOU - LinkedIn).
I’m trying to really see and feel what’s actually missing in my life and trying to build it. Right now I just want to see what my friends are up to in a non-curated way.
Well done, LinkedIn is a cesspool. Ironically the only thing I am using right now is Twitter, since a lot of interesting people are still on there. There's a lot of negative but balance as well. For every MAGA or ESR's comments, I balance it out with Miguel de Icaza's views on Gaza, etc.
I'm working on RailsBilling - it's a Ruby gem for fast Stripe subscriptions integrations. It allows you to implement subscriptions in your app in hours, instead of months.
You see, Stripe is very powerful, but also very complex. Coding a straightforward subscriptions implementation will take you a couple weeks at best.
That is without handling all those edge cases like: prevent starting a paid subscription without a billing card on file (yes, you read that right)!
The gem is ready, I'm currently working on getting the website up. If you're working with Rails and need a solution for subscriptions get in touch at hacker.news@railsbilling.com - I'd love to chat!
A simple, non tech method to increase agreement in online arguments.
I’ve gotten to some degree of a protocol, surprisingly.
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I had made this LLM prompt (about a year ago?) wildly useful in helping me think.
It’s helped with everything from realizing you have burnout, relationship issues, arguments with family members, Mondays
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Cdq3drl87-two-guides-3
I made another version, which showed its “thinking”.
I quit my job last December to start an AI x AdTech startup which didn't work out: we discovered a similar piece of tech was about to get released by Google AdX. So now it's back to finding ideas, I'm sure there are niche problems that can be addressed using AI agents, one idea we have is developing an AI agent enabling content creators to better connect with their community.
I have been working full-time for about 15 months on a product to store real-world entity-relations in a graph (using AI/ML for extraction). The idea is to extract entities and relations deterministically from text (using AI/ML for clues about type and position of entities in text).
It is very much a work in progress with lots of commented out code which are just experiments.
Nice project! I built something extremely similar with a friend in 2022! Back when we only had the GPT-3 API. I built an ontological graph and relation extractor, mental model analysis engine, bunch of stuff, on top of an Elastic DB being filled with live incoming ephemeral data across the web, including messages, comments, posts, articles and more.
I would really love for you to reach out via the email in my bio so we can talk ontology!
This sounds lovely. This product has not reached to the point where ontology matters, that is still far away.
I am just going for the low hanging fruits - very basic stuff like location, person, event, activity, date (a few more things) and relations between them. One of the limitations is that I want to do deterministic extraction with suggestions from AI/ML, so there is much code to be written. I will email you, thanks a lot!
hey Sumit!
Great seeing you here on and good luck!
Hey you, sorry I could not guess you from your username. Thanks a lot.
I’m working on two main things right now.
1. I have a cloud platform for the movie industry (although in reality a lot of different industries use it for different things) that allows you to share files and get feedback from your team that I’ve been rewriting in Rust. Didn’t necessarily intend that but I started replacing Apache with Rust and liked it enough that I kept on replacing stuff.
https://www.kollaborate.tv (current version on cloud is not the Rust version, but on-prem is)
2. I work with another company that uses a really rudimentary way of time-tracking employees. So I’m working on a system to use their device MAC addresses to count their hours when they’re connected to work Wi-Fi. I was surprised that such a thing appears to not exist. I’m still working on it so it’s not anywhere public right now.
I'm working on Botnet of Ares [0], an incremental hacking game where you exploit millions of devices in order to evolve a superintelligent AI.
This looks cool, will be following along! Were you inspired at all by Endgame: Singularity?
A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes for UI/web design. :)
https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
> Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together.
> Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors.
> See which color pairs contrast as you edit so you can create a palette with built-in WCAG accessibility. This way you can plan in advance which foreground colors (for headings, body text, form fields and so on) should contrast on which background colors, so you can avoid running into surprise low contrast issues later when designing.
Responding to some feedback I got: I need to add better UI feedback for this, but you can drag whole hue/saturation/lightness curves if you click/drag between points on the curves.
Feel free to message me if you've got any tricky or tedious problems to do with creating color palettes that extra tooling like this might help with! I have more feature ideas but I want to understand more what others need.
I'm planning to write some articles for giving a more intuitive sense about WCAG color contrast rules and picking accessible colors too. From working with designers, I find many give up here because it takes a while to get your head around and it's often not obvious how to fix designs with failing contrast.
I'm building an interactive, web-based Python tutorial site intended to help with learning basic syntax. Originally it was for my kids who wanted to learn to code, but... might be useful to others.
The content needs some work, but I'm pretty happy with the framework / UX. I would love to get any feedback from folks who check it out!
(The first section is just multi-guess questions as part of the introductory content. Try any other section to get the full in-browser-code-execution experience, which uses client-side Pyodide under the hood.)
I've just published my first novel for adults, The Dark Sorcerer's Intern, my bid to bring back fun and comedy to a fantasy genre that has spent years in a grimdark rut.
The relevance to hackers is that unlike most fantasy where spells are cast with hand motions, magic words, or spell ingredients, there's actually an explanation for why that works and makes sense.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sorcerers-Intern-Humorous-Fantas...
I've been building Tailcolors lately, a TailwindCSS color palette: https://tailcolors.com
Just recently actually I published a Chrome extension for it too, so you can access and copy all the Tailwind CSS colors directly from an extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tailcolors-tailwind...
Building self-ask NPCs and other game systems (crafting, harvesting, quests, automation) in a large open-world RPG that uses the latest generative AI tech to enable new kinds of game mechanics that weren't possible even just a few years ago.
Also, thinking about building a catio for my cat.
I continue to spend most of my free energy learning Finnish. Only a few more years and I should be able to finally focus on my career again :')
Two new projects of note this month, one specific to Finnish language learners, and one that is probably useful for language learners in general:
* https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - A Finnish pocket dictionary with a TUI interface. This is the first nontrivial thing I've built in Go, by which I meant I had to implement and tweak a randomly pruning trie by hand to get the performance characteristics I wanted (it wasn't actually that bad). I chose Go mostly because of the fantastic cross-compilation story.
* https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/audio2anki - This Python program wraps around `yt-dlp` and `whisper` to create Anki decks for listening practice. This should work for any (monolingual) video in any language. There are many such projects on GitHub, I'm aware, but it was surprisingly hard to find any that actually wrapped around Whisper instead of needing an SRT, VTT, etc file to come from somewhere else. In that sense mine is a "one command" solution - just provide the YouTube link and go. It does not provide a translation for those subtitles yet; in keeping with the all-in-one approach, I'm thinking I might wrap around LLaMa 3 to let the user specify that we should also --translate-to {en,es,eo, etc} if desired. For now my reading skills are advanced enough that I don't need that.
Are you relocating permanently to Finland? Do you have a blog post of your experience there?
My ADD brain keeps jumping around between various projects. Some highlights:
- Last month I demonstrated the ability to build Nintendo 64 ROMs with Zig¹, making some headway on Zig-native APIs for interfacing with the N64's memory-mapped hardware. Taking a break for a moment; will probably resume when Zig 0.14 drops (within a couple months IIRC). Next planned milestone will be to implement interrupt handlers.
- Gradually migrating my code repos from Git to Fossil (with plans to continue to mirror to Git). Experimenting with bidirectional syncs in order to preserve the ability to handle merge/pull requests from the various Git repo hosts on which I syndicate my repos. The above Zig64 project will probably be the first real guinea pig.
- Migrating my personal website away from Jekyll has been an ongoing project (going on almost a year now) with multiple parallel efforts: using Fossil's wiki features², using Scroll, and (most recently) using Typst's newly-announced HTML export feature. All three approaches have their pros and cons.
- I've been tinkering with my PowerBook G4; recently swapped in an SSD (using an mSATA→PATA enclosure) and installed the latest OpenBSD (with all partitions except for '/' encrypted; working on documenting that process and the associated kinks - and possibly turning said documentation into installer and initscript patches so that hardware platforms like macppc that lack support for encrypting '/' can still enjoy not-quite-full-disk encryption). Next on the list is rebuilding the battery.
- That PowerBook is also the only working machine I have that has an optical drive, so as soon as it was consistently booting right, I took the opportunity to back up the stack of burned CDs/DVDs I'd accumulated throughout my lifetime.
- I have a bunch of my dad's old photos and schoolwork and such that I've been meaning to digitize and organize.
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Noodling away on game called Nitronauts in my spare time—just released the demo!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539310/Nitronauts_Demo/
It’s built on a custom C++ engine (using SDL2) and uses WebRTC for networking, so a browser version is coming very soon. It’s a 2-6 player couch/online party game with Bomberman-like mechanics, plus wacky items and power-ups across nine stages.
I'm building tools for my own community on WhatsApp, from a simple bot to summarize texts and give some simple statistics to full on subscriptions through WhatsApp itself.
Yes, I'm aware I relying on WhatsApp and that it is a risk.
This is cool! What types of stats? Can you give more detail on the types of tools?
Building a wheeled robot with arms to help automate household chores - https://x.com/ajhai/status/1891933005729747096
I have been working with LLMs and VLMs to automate browser based workflows among other things for the last couple of years. Given how good the vision models have gotten lately, the perception problem is solved to level where it opens up a lot of possibilities. Manipulation is not generally solved yet but there is a lot of activity in the field and there are promising approaches to solve (OpenVLA, π0). Given these, I'm trying to build an affordable robot that can help around with household chores using language and vision models. Idea is to ship capable enough hardware that can do a few things really well with the currently available models and keep upgrading the AI stack as manipulation models get better over time.
I am making a simple tool to make playlists on spotify with AI... still there is a lot to be done like making the flow a lot more conversational, integrating with YouTube, replicating the same thing there, then writing a frontend (planning on using ShadCN for that); https://github.com/anshumankmr/sporky
I've been building https://canine.sh for the past year, which is an open source Render / Fly / Heroku, etc.
It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.
It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams.
The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.
I'm working on http://unwrangle.com solo, it's Ecommerce APIs for people building AI and BI apps for ecommerce stuff, it supports querying search results, product info and customer reviews from over 15 major e-commerce marketplaces
Cool! How are you getting your data? Public API?
Working on oryx: TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux The next enhancement is to add tcpdump like filters. Github: https://github.com/pythops/oryx
I was laid off a month ago so my biggest project right now is finding work.
Working on creating likely-correct software with formal and semi-formal methods for rapid iteration.
Done the first demo: https://www.osequi.com/studies/list/list.html, now focusing on "diagrams as code": https://tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/
Working with clients I realized that many companies lack basic monitoring and observability. E-commerce shops go down and no one notices. DBs do thousands of useless queries per minute. Emails stop sending silently.
I’m building a tool to make monitoring setup a no-brainer. I’m talking about basic website monitoring setup in 5-seconds — literally.
The problem is not a lack of tools. The existing tools are not even that complicated, but they still require too much thinking to set up.
A no-frills X toolkit. Think Athena, add things like dialogs, file picker and make it completely vectored. No antialiasing, top goal is small size and fast execution. Can display vector and bitmap fonts, only external dependency is xcb. I just recently got my first digital storage oscilloscope and begun writing a companion software for it, as I couldn't find anything usable. This is one of the offshoots of that, the other being a somewhat Postscript-like language for scripting the thing.
Once I get this done, I get back to the actual project of a 2.11-BSD based handheld computing appliance.
Also there is this thing called "day job".
In my country (Malaysia), most banks only export bank and credit card statements as PDFs, with no standard format for displaying the data. Since most of my transactions are cashless, I want a way to track my spending habits. I don't want to manually key in each transaction, so apps that require that won’t work for me.
Right now, I'm building a bank statement PDF converter to track my past spending. I’m about halfway there, with a semi-automated way to categorize transactions too. So far, it’s working great!
Do the banks offer email notifications for transactions? That could be another approach if you automate pulling info from the emails
Reading literature (academic and otherwise) on parsers, writing blog posts about what I learn, trying to implement the things I learnt. I've written about basic finite automata (for regular expressions), LL, LR (including the difference between SLR, LALR, and LR(1)), detoured into some optimisations for LR from the 80's, then generalised LR (RNGLR in particular). I'm now implementing these things, RNGLR is not easy to implement despite having understood it well enough conceptually to write a blog about it (https://blog.jeffsmits.net/generalised-lr-parsing/). I've read far more than I've written about, trying to keep that straight in my head as well / planning the next... probably year of writing ^^'
While looking for a job, I encountered the trouble that is called ATS. Nobody sees your resume if it is not 'approved' by an automated system. So I decided to build a tool to optimize my generic resume for a vacancy, ATS and company culture.
Although n=1, I do have the feeling it works ( but that could also be the IKEA coginive dissonance)
My family uses multiple messenger apps - WhatsApp, Slack, Discord etc. I get so many messages on these everyday. I am also member of multiple WhatsApp groups and slack channels. Needless to say, I miss out on a lot (actually every) important message in groups and channels and sometimes DMs. I am working on ML solution to summarize the messages and info in these messengers for people whenever they access my service. The idea is to reduce the amount of info from 100:1 and give extremely succinct data without losing any important info.
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED?
This sounds an awful like Siri Intelligence.
And sorry to say it's a pretty underwhelming experience.
Last weekend I made a program that tells you how to look better. AI of course. It was inspired by r/howtolooksmax
I am maintaining the internet on the github. Take a look.
[0] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
I use it for various projects, like simple search
[1] https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=emulation
Out of my frustration with resume builders, I decided to build one that has no login, no signup, and no payment.
Just create/upload your resume, update it, choose the template and colour and download.
I'm working on a website that anybody can update by calling into the phone number in the url. https://715-999-7483.com/
You have some interesting ideas. Definitely a fan
I am working on HN wrapper which summarize topic discussions and outline main themes of it
Recently added Similar Topics feature which uses Scikit-learn's TF-IDF vectors
I've been inspired to build my own browser mmo game after seeing hordes.io, which is made by a single person. Launched a prototype with, for now, only basic movement over at http://everwilds.io. Instead of working in a silo I've decided to develop in public and launched as soon as possible to slowly gather an audience. So far the Everwilds.io Discord server already gained 1 member ;) I'll share the link incase others want to follow the development: https://discord.gg/HWZSpkvz
Which tools are u using?
VSCode, TypeScript, Three.js. But I am about to remove Three.js and use WebGPU instead, I don't like the 800kb+ size of Three.js. Also will do some experimenting with C++ and WebAssembly and see how that goes.
I’m working on a code generation agent that lives and operates inside of GitHub instead of being tied to your IDE so that PMs and others can generate PRs.
I'm still working on development of a native Windows application for data analysis of SQLite databases. It's geared towards non-technical (or only slightly technical) users and allows queries to be easily made without knowing SQL. Additionally, it easily lets the user quickly create charts from the queried data (bar, column, histogram, line, pie, scatter). Development is nearly complete and hoping to put in the hands of testers within the next couple of weeks. Also trying to decide on name for the product so that I can start development of website for it.
Firefly is a typed full stack programming language:
- object capabilities
- implicit async/await
- immutable collections
It's small and (hopefully) fun, and quite usable already. If you try it out, please share your thoughts!
Recently finished rewriting the code for my personal blog: https://bryanhogan.com/
Have also been working on making a customizable self-tracking app for my thesis.
And learning Korean, working on an app to learn words faster: https://game.tolearnkorean.com/
I was on a hackathon this weekend and we made a tool for product owners - a bot that joins calls, listens, creates and refines Linear tasks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8K7yWjdyJQ
We didn't win :(
I’m building an AI-first startup for Latin America, kind of like TaskRabbit but simpler and more aligned with how people actually hire help here. We use WhatsApp for quick updates like ‘Provider is on the way,’ and we focus on getting verified professionals to people’s homes—without getting in the way of payments or how they handle the job.
To fund it, I’m building agentic workflows and automations for insurance, finance, and real estate companies. It’s a way to keep things moving while I get the startup off the ground.
I’m working on a cross-platform fast multithreaded HTTP / FTP downloader that will download much more quickly than other clients like FileZilla, hash check files, perform follow up operations (like extracting RARs or deleting files on the remote,) and have a nice graphical UI that runs in the browser and allows local/remote/cloud control. It’s early (started last week) so there’s not much done yet, but if you’re interested, would love a star or watch: https://github.com/lukevp/Speedful
Finishing the feeder "hack" to my pick and place machine [1] so that I can begin full retail production in house of the V2 Smoothieboard CNC controller [2].
As well as finishing shipping the remaining boards to the kickstarter backers (many years late, but significantly better).
Been a long struggle overall...learned a lifetime's worth during the last couple years. Every single day has been spent doing something new it seems. Looking forward to what the next broken machine will teach me :)
[1] https://youtu.be/Vk53VsXkh9o?si=SU45-DkkjwZi6orp [2] https://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieboard2 https://github.com/Smoothieware/SmoothieV2
Building two things ATM - first is an interactive fiction engine (almost done) and game with it (halfway there). Just wrapped pre-production on music and art, going into the studio to record final tracks later in the year. Launching end of the year hopefully.
I'm also building an application and training materials to help people with annual strategy. I've spent 20 years in marketing and ops putting up with people doing it badly so this is an attempt to help people running businesses actually come up with a strategy likely to result in something valuable.
I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs to it too.
I'm also building a customer support app when I'm taking a break from Gorby. The idea is to make it easier to organize and quickly find/copy useful replies, discounts, screenshots etc. It's similar in concept to text expander apps, but those never worked great for me, I either forget the triggers or don't bother storing things I don't use daily. You could probably use Notion for this too, but to me it's too clunky and slow.
Gorby looks interesting. Any future potential for operating on local markdown files?
Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/) which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and then when done writing and editing convert it back into markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that are available for both. I think Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar.
I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been thinking of making it possible to save and read local files. If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be happy to give you a free license code :)
I've been dabbling with local ML projects, and trying to get them to run with ROCm on my Radeon 7900 XTX card. All the solutions to run for example Llama.cpp or Automatic1111 are a bit hacky, so I made a repo where I document how to run them in containers.
https://github.com/Krisseck/ROCm-Docker-Scripts
Needs more documentation and more projects, but all contributions are welcome!
I have been working in my spare time on Japanese vocabulary learning app and just yesterday finally convinced myself to publish the sources: https://github.com/d3nzil/gaku
Be warned it's in early stages, difficult to use and code is big ball of mud. But the basic functionality works, so maybe it will be already useful for someone. And I have been using it and working on it consistently, so hopefully it'll only get better.
A cross-platform clipboard manager / search-and-filter tool / launcher built with Flutter that has a simple Python plugin interface.
Plugins can be used to add new "result actions" and new sources of entries to filter and select. Eg. recent Jira tickets, email inbox, shell history, Notion pages, etc. The result actions are a way to easily perform common transformations on selected entries (eg. wrap in triple backticks, find and parse json, trim whitespace, ...) or kickoff some script with a selected entry as an argument.
Project started as a result of having to do a lot of work using Ubuntu and sorely missing Alfred and all the workflows I'd built with it. I wanted something for which I could build workflows once and have those workflows available on whatever system I'm on. Plus to be able to build some plugins that would be usable by coworkers regardless of what operating system they're using and with minimal runtime resource usage. There are some existing cross-platform solutions which could serve this purpose, like Cerebro, Ueli, Script Kit, some others.., but I wanted something lighter weight than is possible with an Electron app. Granted the current state of Epte is that it's built with Flutter + Go + Python so the final distributable and runtime memory usage are higher than is ideal.
Basic Windows support is almost there but there doesn't seem to be a great solution to switching to existing windows of an application instead of just re-launching it. The tool isn't intended to be as good or better than any given OS's built-in launcher so I'll probably just leave that as-is and upload the current state of the Windows build.
We’re building a new git collaboration platform on top of atproto! Here’s a sneak preview (best viewed on desktop for now; the UI is mostly WIP): https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core
It’s going to be fully decentralised from day 1—we borrowed the PDS model from Bluesky to allow users to run their own “knots” to self-host their git repositories.
https://www.tldraw.com/s/v2_c_E1XeFuW0tGbDxqnhDiLRT?d=v-286....
That's super nice. Can I eventually replace my centralized forge ?
Yes! This architecture allows you to host your git repos on your own server, while allowing contributions from others with a unified identity (unlike say, Gitea or GitLab, where you’d have to make yet another account).
We need to get away from GitHub! Look forward to seeing this grow
Was looking for an iOS app to always see my age in days on the lock screen. Didn‘t find one, so I first created a shortcut which would change my lock screen background image each night and overlay the number of days on it.
This didn’t feel integrated enough and could fail if the phone was off, so I started looking into Swift and created my first app [1] with added features like contact import and notifications for other people‘s ages in days.
It‘s still very much a work in progress but the core functionality of the lock screen widget is something I use almost every day to quickly get the current number and use it for notes etc. I just like having an incrementing unique-to-me number to reference stuff.
[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/days-of-life-milestones/id6738...
nice job , I think I can do something like that on with my linux desktop. Great idea , it can give a sense of how many days how many hours I have lived on this earth and maybe even by a average time , show how much time is left (yes it won't be predictable , but I also don't want to procastinate thinking there is a tomorrow , I think I like steve jobs quote in the manner that he said live your life as if its the last hour or something like that.
Thanks! Yes, was also thinking of adding a menu bar item to macOS to have it always visible.
Taking a sabbatical and spending more time on an open source XMPP web client that I started 10 years ago already.
The website is a bit old, but lots of exciting changes are happening under the hood and I finally have the time to make big architectural and performance improvements.
I've been working on The Road to Next [0] for almost a year. In the end, it's more than just a course on Next.js. It's a deep dive into full-stack development, covering key third-party integrations that empower you to build your own products.
Oh hell yeah, your Road to React was exactly what the doctor ordered when I first waded my way into the full stack ocean years ago. I'm excited to see how this progresses!
OnlineOrNot as always, coming up to 4 years in operation (https://onlineornot.com)
Currently working on adding webhook notifications for status pages.
Some of your screenshots are cut off on mobile (iPhone/safari/portrait)
Hey thanks for letting me know!
I'm still working on Shepherd, a book discovery platform aimed at feeding readers' curiosity. Later this year, I am developing a tool to bring your to-be-read pile to life in some cool ways and improve the accuracy of our topic/genre system (plus adding themes, tropes, and moods).
Our reader's fav reads of 2024: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published
I am working on a departure board [1] for your home or business. Currently only for Swiss Public transport but the plan is to support more countries. Next goal is to update the website which needs work.
The hardware is based around a ESP32. The server that gathers and prepares the data is running on Symfony php. The app to configure the device is written in vue and is using capacitor by ionic. More technical details are here: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...
Continuing to work on https://minifeed.net/ for the second year.
It’s a curated directory of personal blogs and a blog search engine. I started to build a simple RSS-reader for myself, just wanted a HN-like list of links. Slowly it grew, and now it has full-text search across tens of thousands of blog posts from 700+ blogs (adding new ones every day), related blogs and posts recommendations, lists, link blogs. Now I’m working on adding email newsletters, curated collections, and text-to-speech generation.
An editor for Clinical Quality Language (CQL) with syntax highlighting and parsing.
I'm building an app to help small-to-medium businesses track and manage their subscription spending
I've been working on a webapp to scrape links users enter from Zillow/Apartments.com/Trulia/etc to build tables of listings you are interested in. It can show your commute time to work or queries for amenities nearby like "Trader Joe's".
Continuing bootstrapping my software+service company Alzo (https://alzo.archi/), an Elixir modular monolith.
The first clients are here and I am working on "darker tech" now, a single codebase injecting their data in both MS Office and Adobe's software suites. That's quite a change from Elixir.
Also working on the reverse feature, reading/writing MS Office files inside Alzo. For that, I'm writing a Java app behaving as an Erlang node, connected to my main app via Erlang distribution, to leverage existing rich Java libraries for office tech.
Building the best hardware product design firm in SF (www.iancollmceachern.com) and also building an injection molding and 3d printing company based right here in SF (www.goldengatemolders.com)
I'm working to make private hosting easier. I've been running a software development agency in Melbourne for 10+ years and have been building this platform in the background to help automate and standardise the hosting needs for our clients.
We're now getting ready to launch a web portal for others to manage their own private hosting in a simpler way. The product also includes a directory of off-the-shelf applications which can be launched in a few clicks (eg. Deepseek chatbot).
If you're interested in being part of our closed-Beta in March, reach out! (e: james at below domain)
I am working on the second version of WhatDinner [0]. Initially marketed it as 'Tinder to decide what to eat’ and focussed on couples and families, but then only a fraction use it in family mode. So, now I am changing the concept and helping users generally decide what to eat (documenting it here [1])
I'm working on a second brain LLM, kinda super human power to live forever
Optimizing our rendering algorithms for Apple Vision Pro. Trying to render a 300-million atom cell model at 90fps stereo. It's trivial on a 4090, it's pretty hard on a ~30W mobile GPU (W correct??). I'm thinking about a bunch of immersive mesoscale biology stuff next.
Curious—Do you have a best Metal project to learn from? Foveated rendering and temporal reprojection important here I imagine.
Still working on https://mockoon.com, an open-source API mocking desktop tool, after 7 years. My focus is now on the cloud version which is key to guarantee a future where the tool is still actively maintained and independent (read: free from high growth/high profits pressure).
Working on a self-hosted OSS AI Server with support for LLM APIs (OpenRouter/OpenAi/Anthropic/Google/etc), Ollama endpoints, ComfyUI and FFmpeg agents. It supports Synchronous, Queued and Reply to Web Callback APIs for each API Feature with typed APIs integrations for C#,TypeScript,JS,Python,Dart,PHP,Java,Kotlin,Swift,F# and VB.NET clients.
Tangentially, I am glad to see this thread again, I was worried the idea was scrapped since I hadn't seen it in the last few months. For whatever it counts for, I like this idea and hope to see it continue.
secrets management that's easier to use than whatever you currently do.
just started it this week (won a bunch of things at a hackathon with it)
this is going to be free (there's a different product for enterprise this will feed into - but this is going to always be free). join the discord for announcements.
A reactive notebook that can handle side effects. I've had to go back to the drawing board, but making good progress. The latest is work on the core reactive and effect system and not yet integrated back into the notebook, but will get there. I've been logging my progress so far:
https://interjectedfuture.com/tag/lab-notes/
Subscribe to follow along if you're interested.
https://screenmemory.app is my current project as of a year or so. Records your screen continuously and lets you look back at it through a GUI. I use it myself to recap days or weeks at work, mostly.
This is nice, quite expensive tho.
Anything like this for Linux ?
Not sure to be honest, I know a lot of these tools popped up and swiftly disappeared. It wouldn't surprise me if there is a Linux version still alive though, try searching for "Rewind.ai alternative Linux".
I am working on a reverse-engineered SDK for Stream Deck devices, called DeckSurf:
The SDK is open-source and on GitHub:
https://github.com/dend/decksurf-sdk
It's a hobby project, but one that I love working on because it unlocks some _really_ great hardware to be open to do anything I want it to be rather than be constrained by out-of-the-box client software that asks me to sign in with an account to get an extension installed.
Trying to scratch my own itch by creating (yet another) todo list site. It's more for me than anyone else. I typically use a simple text file to track my tasks in a day but I wanted something just a little bit more. Still minimal but maybe 1 - 2 steps above editing a file.
Donezo: https://donezo.pages.dev/
I'm building a tool for uni students to study more effectively and have less stress for their exams. This is done with the study techniques retrieval practice(practising remembering to make recall easier, spaced repetition(schedule reviews for long term memorization, concrete examples. Most of this is done with ai generated flashcards and simple ai explanations. This week I will finish the exam generation feature. http://www.mimair.com
I’ve been mostly struggling with really bad creative burnout.
I pushed myself to do a couple of game jams cuz I thought it would make the burnout go away, but it’s basically only made it worse.
It’s the first time in my life where i haven’t had a billion ideas in my brain and im not sure what to do with myself. Been trying to listen to history podcasts and read manga to inspire myself again but it’s not working…
Personality protocol for a chatbots platform. How to share personalities among different layers and components. At the end of the day is customization and parametrization of LLM instructions, however an interesting topic to explore.
I am actually pleased to have an answer to this. I'm working on IronCalc, an open source spreadsheet engine:
https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc
I have been doing this as a side project for over a year now. It's progress is slower than I would like but there we go!
An open-source, non-profit Digital Dopamine Detox platform - https://algodetox.com/
I built this small website to retrieve personalized quotes/poems and questions also some habit tracking https://www.checkindaily.ai/
Also I have built a chrome plugin that can filter twitter by feeding your feed to gemini returning only tweets that match a criteria (E.g. no politics, only Ai or something more elaborate).
Still working on RunGen.AI – a platform to deploy any LLM or Image model from HuggingFace by just pasting a link.
Still a lot of work to do, but solves a real pain I had while building my previous side project
working on cursor for desktop. why rely on AI agent that’s self-contained when it’s limited, can’t access the browser, can’t open apps or click around.
i simply want mine to be able to fill in forms in preview with a passport image as context. also to be able to do recurring tasks as if i was the desktop user. e.g., i’m going to bed keep working on this spreadsheet.
it’s working and built but very slow and buggy atm. uses multimodal LLMS and OCR but lots more optimizations needed. need to make it a lot faster. can demo it and need help if anyone is interested.
"90s black metal Pokémon" aka a first person roguelike dungeon crawler with monster collection elements. C++ with no engine :)
Embedded Lisp for app scripting:
Typed Relational Database access:
I'm working on bluesky social analytics tool for businesses and marketers. https://www.graphtracks.com. Feedback is welcome.
I started to learn how to play the drums. I have a e-drum set and I’m building this website where I can put my scores and connect my drums, so it can tell me how on time I’m playing.
Almost like a guitar hero thing but with just a metronome
It requires WebMidi to be enabled:
I'm working full time on growing my app https://lookaway.app. I've been working on it for more than a year now and it's been growing organically since.
A platform for technical founders to accelerate their journey to PMF http://buildrappo.com/founders
Geolede - An interactive world news map.
Magnetron.ai – Instantly Create Lead Magnets
I have been working on this tool to create lead magnets. Magnetron researches the web for your topic and creates a well crafted ebook as your lead magnet.
You can try it here (https://magnetron.ai)
(This is still WIP)
We’re building bleeding edge visual AI infrastructure at VLM Run (https://vlm.run).
We’re also hiring for multiple roles if anyone’s interested in founding roles (ML Systems, DevRel): https://vlm-run.notion.site/vlm-run-hiring-25q1
I wanted a minimal tool to easily track, organize, and reflect on my reading—so I built one: https://bookstates.app. I'm familiar with StoryGraph, but aimed for something even simpler. (and with a sprinkle of AI)
Almost finished a short story I started writing when I read something on HN. It is about life expectancy.
Edit: Three from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
A parser combinator library. I'm writing a tool that will do static analysis of SQL (in a very limited fashion, it's a build tool and not a static analyzer, but I need to understand dependency relationships between statements). I started out using `nom`, but found it imperfectly matched to my needs (underpowered in areas I desired and overpowered in areas I didn't need for my project). `nom 8` came out with some interesting simplifications, but it happened to break my code in a way that would be awkward to fix. So I bit the bullet and started writing my own library.
My library is specialized for parsing text. That had enabled some cool capabilities.
It comes with a `Span` primitive, which tracks where in a file a token came from, for implementing error messages. A `Span` can be the input or the output of a parser. At the front end a `Span` is an entire file, and as you slice and dice it, it tracks the metadata of where it came from.
Along with the standard `Sequence` (combining parsers in a set order) and `Choice` operations (branching between many parsers) that parser combinators are built around, I have come up two operations that are very handy. I suspect that others have made them before, they are both patterns I used in `nom`. (I've also only skimmed the original paper, they could be in there and I didn't see them.)
One of them is called `Compose`. As an alternative to a `Sequence`, instead of a group of parsers consuming the input in order, the first parser consumes the input, and the subsequent parsers consume the return of the previous parser. This is useful for instance when implementing escapable strings; the first parser grabs the entire string, the second one transforms escape sequences. (There is a mechanism for transforming the content of a `Span` while retaining it's metadata.)
The other is called `Fuse`. This is a small twist on `Sequence`, where after matching the parsers in order, the result is all concatenated together into a single token. This is useful for a "pattern matching" primitive, where you want to find a series of tokens in order, but you don't want to split them into different tokens, you want them all together.
It's been a wild ride, there's been a lot of thorny issues. I often think I should've just stuck with `nom 7` instead of shaving this yak. But I've learned a whole lot about writing especially abstract/DSL-yy Rust by combining tuples, traits, and declarative macros. There are also other programming language projects I'd like to pursue, and it will be nice to have a tailor fit tool for parsing text.
Special thanks to dtolnay's `paste,` the real MVP.
I did something like this some time ago [0] and still using it in prod - feel free to get inspiration in case you find it useful.
>A parser combinator library.
Cool. I got interested in this subject recently. Have been checking out some text articles and videos about it. Unfortunately there is not much info available (and some of it is advanced stuff), or at least I couldn't find much, so far.
I am working on a library, which is not exactly a parser combinator one, but borrows some of those ideas, for use in other projects.
>One of them is called `Compose`.
About the escapable strings example: can you not just rescan the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full string?
> Unfortunately there is not much info available [.]
Parser combinators are a bit hard to get into, the most helpful resource for me was `nom`'s "Choosing a Combinator" document [1], which is dense but gives you an overview of all the Lego bricks which you can then start imagining how to fit together.
I've not really read it, but there's also the original paper on the subject [2] (as linked to by the `parsec` documentation [3]) which describes the nuts and bolts theory behind it.
> [Can] you not just rescan the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full string?
Absolutely, this is just a convenience around that pattern that allows you to express that like:
let string = quoted_string.then(escaped(json_string_escapes)).parse(&input)?;
And also more generally for any parsers `foo`, `bar`, and `baz` as:
let quux = (foo, bar, baz).map().parse(&input)?;
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140528151730/http://legacy.cs....
Thanks for the reply. I will check out those links.
I'm working on adding floats to the RCL configuration language (https://rcl-lang.org/) to finally deliver on the json superset promise. Blog post coming soon!
django-simple-deploy, a tool for making your initial Django deployment easier across a variety of platforms. It's plugin-based, so it should cover a growing set of platforms and deployment approaches. I just made the 1.0 release this month.
Trying to keep a computational epidemiology research group going in the teeth of the CDC, NSF and NIH being absolutely gutted.
A tool to interact with news using ML and AI. Kinda like an rss reader but with less focus on organizing news at the feed level.
https://volt.fm - Spotify Stats & Music Discovery
Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.
I am building a game called The kill every mosquito Project (tkemp) inspired on The Kill everyone Project (tkep) from around 2006-2007. Mostly as an experiment to learn some new tools, unsure if it will ever be released.
A cloud agnostic platform to run your compute workloads across cloud providers. Currently supports Vultr and DigitalOcean. More cloud providers coming soon. Will also release support for on-prem.
Daestro - https://daestro.com
Working on my mobile semi-idle MMORPG for parents like myself. With the artstyle of 1980s/syntwave/cassette-futurism. Just finished the website over the weekend: https://afterglow-game.com/
A merge conflict resolution tool for git/github. It is very alpha at the moment (https://codeinput.com) but my timeline is to go live on the next 3 months. Feel free to reach out if this of interest.
Interface addon for Linux-based NW series Walkmans
I vouched for Geolede (made by a green username) but it still needs more vouching. It looks interesting IMO.
Working on hal9.ai -- Long term, a Roblox for AI; short term, a Python customizable ChatGPT that is enterprise ready. Think of ChatGPT without the LLM and support for writing your own RAG.
I’m working on not being bothered by the fact that everyone else is working on something
An LLM assistant app for engaging with your journal. Insights, prompts (for humans), research leads, etc.
I'd be curious to hear more. I presume you're using some kind of semantic search? Any other kinds of semantic technology? What kinds of insights into your journaling has it offered you/users?
The work thus far has mostly been on a seamless mobile UI, & to make engaging with the LLM like less of a chat and more like browsing an interesting dynamic wiki about your own life. But also, yes, a highlight for me re: having your journal in context can be to search and find commonalities, patterns.
I would say the insights frontier models have given me, at a high level, match some of those offered by professionals in a theraputic context--which is one reason I'd be curious to make an affordable/accessible app. Although I tread lightly into depersonalizing such a human area with techno utopian naivete...
I suppose "the Internet will interpret censorship as damage and route around it" was utopian naivete that got us pretty far, and "the LLM understands me and can help me understand myself" might be naivete it's useful to disprove/explore the truth of. I think utopianism is important even if it's Sisiphean, it's good to have a north star even if it can't be reached.
Sounds very cool. Good luck with it!
a self organizing scrapbook! focused on zero stress for storage, searching, synthesizing and sharing a personal library
(and some philosophy on the subject :))
That sounds interesting, I might give it a try. Do you plan to allow plugins for domain-specific development ?
thank you, i appreciate it! yes, the software is api first, and much of it’s utility comes from working in other environments like google docs, ios shortcuts, etc..
in essence, the core of the project is a vector database that works for end users who want no fuss quick capture, semantic and fts search, the ability to create new relationships with marginalia.
im not trying to replace tools like obsidian or notion, i think ycb works better with them doing what they do best! i also plan to make the stack self hostable in the near future :)
Super simple business idea validator using AI.
cool idea! i'm a bit curious about the Idea Viability Score. What does it mean?
Thank you :) The Idea Viability Score is a metric that evaluates an idea's likelihood of success based on four key factors: *Market Demand, Competition, User Need, and Feasibility*. It helps assess the market potential, feasibility, and competitive landscape of an idea.
Currently integrating hardwares on card chip scripting application on C++. I hope I can start blogging on it soon. Easily the most interesting thing I have been involved in.
Im making an orthodox file manager with vim-ish interactions. In rust with iced-rs.
Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical.
Is the style/CSS custom made or is it a library/framework?
I'd also like to know, I love the look.
Merging data from spreadsheets with db, with schema mismatches nightmare...
Another movie recommendation web app. Long ago, I used Jinni, and I liked their labelling method a lot, categorising movies by mood, plot type, character types, etc. Then, Jinni was sold, disappeared and I wanted to create something similar. The Christmas days off I had the time and I started making it.
I made a small and light CRUD web thing in FastAPI to organize my personal library. Mostly it focuses on physical books, but handles ebooks too. I published it as FOSS and some people requested features, so I expanded it a little. It's nothing fancy: https://github.com/seanboyce/ubiblio
...absolutely no one requested an RISC V port, but I did that too for laughs. Neat to see the whole thing run on a system the size of a postage stamp.
Not sure what to do with it next. Will probably just let it be what it is, and fix any bugs that people report. Maybe move on to a new little weekend project.
Past two years, i've been working on sales platform for digital content creators where they can sell digital content(files), online courses or memberships to access content. I'll be going online next month, hopefully. Right now I am refactoring front-end into production design. Front-end eats always the most time, and i still have things to do in relation to servers/infra and testing. It took this long because i manage the finances(i do not use stripe or any other 3rd party service) and it uses event sourcing, which has large overhead. But i am almost there. Hope to go online next month, beta-test in production for Q2 with small amount of users, and come Q3 go into full production.
Still working on https://nocommandline.com which started out as a GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator.
I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map.
I’m also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need dev_appserver.py
[2] https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windo...
I'm building a full event sourcing framework for the IDE to help software creators (myself included) create educational software courses and lessons 100x faster! Hoping to launch the full product by summer:
Key Transparency for the Fediverse (so that we can build E2EE for DMs atop it)
https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...