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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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!
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
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
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!
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.
> 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.
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!
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/
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):
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?
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.
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!
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)
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.)
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.
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
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.
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 (:
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.
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.
Included: JS and Python package /microservice / serverless projects; Serverless Benthos; LaTeX paper; zsh and neovim config.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 !
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.comThe 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 :)
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.
- 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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 :)
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://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);
}
.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 ____umodqi3While 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...
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
Currently there are multiple major bugs with damage.
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)
Needs polishing and an application form for folks seeking help.
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.
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.
My first project of 2021. Just paste a blogpost link and it will build a thumbnail for you.
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.
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?
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
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.
I use it to quickly put an image of a thing in slack.
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.
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 .
VR Keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiva93bf_0
VR Whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-hECpf-BY
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.
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
- 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
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.
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.
Still early, here's a few animations I made while playing with the tool: https://imgur.com/a/3ww4ql1
Inspiration: http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...
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!
-- 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
---
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.
NSFW (female breasts shown)
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.
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...
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.
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.
to compliment htmx, a language that embeds well in HTML, inspired by HyperTalk
Demo (desktop only): https://timdaub.github.io/videogame/ Code: https://github.com/TimDaub/videogame
I wanted a C++ hierarchical state machine library didn't require massive compile times like boost msm.
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.
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.
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
Was released with 30% of features, but seems that people love it as-is. So updates went and getting more and more features.
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
"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.
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!
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)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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://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.
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 :)
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.
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!
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
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.
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
privacy policy here: https://posting.app/privacy
- 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
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.
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
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
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.
- 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.
minimal universal syntax
alternatives to JSON, XML, and S-expressions slowly baking on top
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
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.
- 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.
Main tech: Rails and Leaflet.js
https://railsmap.tuckerchapman.com/
edit: I would love some feature suggestions if anybody has any
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.
[1] https://riffpod.io [2] https://twitter.com/proquokid/status/1347713280953999361?s=1...
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.
[0] http://www.planmixplay.com [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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://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 :-)
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.
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
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
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
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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?
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.
Currently implemented in Nim.
https://gitlab.com/jivank/sambalshare/-/tree/prologue-switch
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?).
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.
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 (:
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 :)
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...
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.
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.
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):
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :-)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, ...)
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
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/
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Basically the point is just to make it a bit easier to use the flashcard program and nothing else.
I have some other plans to apply the API to other text around code (PRs and changelogs). Feedback on the idea very welcome.
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.
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!
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.)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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).
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.
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 :)
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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)
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.
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
https://github.com/AbdullahRehmat/SoundSearch
It's very much work in progress and pretty much designed for my use case only...
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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... :)
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.
Sign up here if you want to see the beta when it's ready: http://beta.anyfab.io
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 :/
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).
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!
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!
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.
https://github.com/mlang/freedots https://github.com/mlang/bmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjfKDJm_xmI
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
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.
If you sign up now, you basically getting all features for free and without restrictions!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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/
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
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.
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
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!
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://github.com/backnotprop/fast-style-transfer-coreml
https://medium.com/hackernoon/diy-prisma-fast-style-transfer...
Here's an example graph containing docker image build times: https://thisgraph.com/buckets/242dc353-562d-4520-b82d-5f3525...
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!
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...
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://kevinmitchell.io/blog/mitchine-%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3...
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/godothnreader/src/master/
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.
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...
https://presentador.dev: Opinionated presentation framework based on MarkDown.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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.
Three issues left.
Solid unit-testing coverage, moderate-system testing.
Probably the largest PyParsing to date.
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 =( )
https://rrjoson.hashnode.dev/weekly-engineering-competency-r...
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.
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.
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.
> Zero Conf public domain registrar
Currently implemented using IPFS, but I plan rewriting it in top of another half baked project if mine:
> public-key addressed TCP tunnel broker
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Subtle WebGL texture artifacts and browser-game microstutters drive me crazy. Any help with that would be much appreciated!
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.
WIP documentation: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/sbk/READMEv2.html
Looking for long term contributors, especially for documentation and code auditing.
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.
The agent hasn't learned anything yet. I just finished setting up the environment, adding the ball and goal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dud : DVC :: Flask : Django
[1]: https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/tour/
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe a bit more than half-baked but still there's still much to work on.
Should be done in a week or two.
Frontpage https://maelt.co
Profile page https://maelt.co/anda
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.
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.
it's super bare-bones, and the golang side of things could have been much better, but it kind of works.
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.
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 !
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.
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).
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
Three minor issues left. Two cleanup issues remaining.
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.
Edit: Any suggestions/feedback most welcome. Thanks
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.
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!
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.
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.
Ranking for restaurants is based on an algorithm of engagement and current popularity.
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.
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.
https://hackaday.io/project/19547-electromagnetic-linear-ser...
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.
It automatically adds hosts and services reporting to it through NSCA.
Also, no ads or tracking.
Works well for some things, but needs improvement, especially for technical or specific queries.
It shows which DJ's are playing at which nightclubs.
Since Covid started it has been quite empty, hence API/Svelte replacement.
Send rap audio bites as memes to friends. Demo: http://rapbits.com/video/ad.mp4
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?
Telegram bot to notify me about new comments. Hosted on a free Heroku dyno and will definitely fail under load, but works for me.
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.
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!!
Still prototyping and will launch Kickstarter soon.
Demo Video: https://youtu.be/Z3DgxwjSTfg
Open source: http://github.com/brokalys
Currently wrapping up solid blocks (instead of empty glyphs) and merging with another "donor" font.
It's a work in progress DBMS implementation inspired from Google's LevelDB written in Rust.
End goal is to create a distributed DBMS.
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)
It's a site to curate the best links for given topics.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
https://github.com/wheybags/wcp
Getting close now but not ready for real use. io_uring is awesome.
Export web animations as mp4 videos from any public URL. API or trough UI. Actually it can be any website, not just animation.
Here you can access it as a PWA https://techfriday.gomano.de
Visual editor for Shopify apps. Click, modify, save! Would love any feedback.
I began doing some breathing exercises and after a while started building this collection of 3D animated breathing techniques.
A session manager for tmux. Not that fancy like tmuxinator or tmuxp, but pretty decent.
Site to learn traditional music. The cost of creating high quality original content is really high :/
Actually live and working, but looking for an iOS Developer/vinyl fan to take it to the next level!
Could have just used nntp but nntpchan already did that.
It works, and I use it, but I never finished the self service aspect. MEAN stack + Twilio.
Like github + git, but only works on single files. Looking for feedback on user friendylness and usefulness.
simple bitcoin price comparison tool with various brokers, p2p and classic exchanges.
It's few yeras old now, but still half baked. I will rewrite it, make better UX.
Youtube and Vimeo tagging.
Certainly not ready yet but the basics work. Includes a feedback form to gather more input.
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
Was building up a library of outage reports/post mortems.
Its still under dev mode and wont support a production load, but feel free to play :)
A solution for my OCD of keeping those 58 tabs in my browser open for two months now.
Still fixing up the mobile app
HTTPS://smallsms.app
Share snippets of python -- let the public decide if it's bad or not.
A self hosted music streaming server that's simple enough for my mom to use
Game studios that don't crunch, and are hiring.
Activities organised in Paris for now
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.
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://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun
http://phoenixbureau.github.io/ReGPGP/
Misc crazy notes with broken links, yay! https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXTnUTHEtJ8ZBAdEVP8VkNhzEv...
I never launched: worklark.com
"Stop Starting and Start Finishing"
(but honestly I'm happier the other way)
Silly genre generator
Thinking of building something in the Education space for Kids.
Any Ideas would be welcome.
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.
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.
Now that Trump is banned from everywhere, I guess I won't have fresh content anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
One day I will finish making all the levels. Currently at 45/50 + testing and refinement.
Does that count?
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.
Needs: GDPR, Data-Lawyer-Stuff
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.
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
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.
An open-source platform for online video.
(Looking for ReactJS and/or Python help! https://veems.tv/discord)