HACKER Q&A
📣 david927

What Are You Working On? (May 2024)


What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?


  👤 vg_head Accepted Answer ✓
I've just finished working on a dead simple OCR tool: https://txtfromimg.com

I know there are plenty of alternatives, but I personally benefit a lot more from a dead simple web page, that does everything locally. It also helps with burnout, I like building very simple, but useful things (at least for myself).

I also have plans for a more serious project though. For a long time now I've been writing down what I would want from a ShaderToy-like website but for SVGs. I feel like there's a lot of potential in making it easy to create and reuse amazing animations with very little code.

I've also seen a lot of people praise the React + SVG combo and I can see why. I'd personally love an environment that I could just spin up instantly, create paths interactively, then create some effects quickly, and then use them wherever I want.


👤 zimmski
Just announced an deep dive blog post with findings about an evaluation benchmark on software development quality. Here is a thread to the most important findings https://twitter.com/zimmskal/status/1786012661815124024 Blog post is on https://symflower.com/en/company/blog/2024/dev-quality-eval-...

What i am working next: is actually the next version of that eval. The assessments can be improved in lots of ways and there are much more cases coming.


👤 jamager
A language learning desktop application aimed at serious learners (especially at B1-C1 level)

No gamification, no silly chat bots. Built from first principles after learnings from writing https://thehardway.guide


👤 becausecurious
I am working on https://photorealisticultrasound.com/ - an automatic tool to convert 3D ultrasounds of babies into photo-like images. Currently I am focusing on rewriting the generation pipeline to dramatically improve quality, especially on obstructed ultrasounds.

👤 firedating
https://firedating.me/ - the first and only community of FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts looking for friends and/or romantic partner. This is my passion project - it is 100% free and there are even no ads.

👤 mtmail
Somebody was faster today "What Are You Building? Share Your Projects" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40236841