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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#12
https://www.namehunt.dev/

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

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

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

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

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#14
I wouldn't even call it half baked yet, more like a tenth, but I'm working on a total conversion (with a few engine changes) to the DOS Rise of the Triad. You can see one example here: https://twitter.com/mysterydip/status/1345112757050486785?s=... I am changing all textures, adding some new ones, repurposing enemies and weapons, all new maps and features.

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

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#16
Public Transportation app: https://mappi.invisen.com/

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

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

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#17
https://startupgroundwork.com/

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

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#18
https://github.com/jl6/hdrfs

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

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

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

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#20
Working on Tax/Person ID validation.

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

which I plan on embedding in this React static site.

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

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

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

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