Ask HN: What did you build in 2019? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by CarrotCodes » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 4:33 PM UTC

bbstilson wrote: post #50

CarrotCodes wrote: post #13

Adopt Animals ( https://www.adoptanimals.io/ ) - a charitable passion project for free, independent, and ad/tracking-free animal rehoming listings in the UK. We're partnering with one shelter in Edinburgh (Scotland) to start, and built the website and a pair of apps to showcase animal listings. We've had a few success stories of people finding pets already, which is really motivating! If you know of a shelter in the…

I really like the design and, of course, the mission! Good luck!

Thank you!

For interest, we also just submitted our annual report to our regulator, if you'd like to read about the first year of our parent charity https://www.kale.charity/reports

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by gangstertim » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

jtap wrote: post #92

At the beginning half of this year I finished up an mvp of an idea that I had, took me a bit of time to build, where I could make it a bit easier for product managers to get analytics, and saas app feedback ( https://cruisedirector.io ). I was hoping to diversify my income a bit, but I've been pretty busy this year at my day job and haven't done any marketing or improvements. I have also redirected any potential cust…

Is the competition you're referring to Pendo?

Your site looks nice. What did you use to build it?

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by JoeCortopassi » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 4:41 PM UTC

In a similar vein, try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=21918450

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by badmon » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

Playlistor(https://playlistor.io) -- A simple Apple Music to Spotify playlist converter.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by richrichardsson » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

ovx99 wrote: post #99

richrichardsson wrote: post #82

Launched my audio plugins in July, averaged about $1k/month in sales (no idea if this is good or bad). https://bomshankamachin.es

Wow that's really good, where are most of your sales/traffic coming from? Do you market on kvr-audio or youtube or anything?

Slowly putting everything on kvr and have been very slack with the YouTube videos. I think mainly have been blessed by having our record label with same brand be the main driver for sales, and I've been asking well known artists in the psytrance scene to help with promotion (being my friends I give them freebies and ask without obligation to post something about them on their social media).

Probably don't have many sales outside that scene to be honest, so I'm hoping with time that will change.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by lmiller1990 » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 5:24 PM UTC

I released my first iOS app! Shirabe - a Japanese/English dictionary that combines spaced repetition, periodically reminding me of new words I leaned. Https://Shirabe.app for anyone interested :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by whammywon » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

richrichardsson wrote: post #98

whammywon wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's awesome! I've always thought the idea of programming VSTs/VSTIs was interesting. Can you link to any resources you used in learning to build them?

I used the JUCE framework, which is free for personal/GPL usage (or you can pay for a closed source license) and gives you cross platform. The examples are pretty good for getting the basics, there is also The Audio Programmer YouTube channel that has a lot of content (the only bad thing I would say about it is that some of the early videos sometimes use bad concepts as it seems this was a sort of a documentary serie…

Awesome. Congrats on your success, and thank you for your response!

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by ryanmercer » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

cvaidya1986 wrote: post #96

ryanmercer wrote: post #16

A relationship, and got engaged. Getting married in May... never thought that would happen! Does that count?

Congratulations!

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by CoffeePython » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:28 PM UTC

CarrotCodes wrote: post #101

bbstilson wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like the design and, of course, the mission! Good luck!

Thank you! For interest, we also just submitted our annual report to our regulator, if you'd like to read about the first year of our parent charity https://www.kale.charity/reports

How are the developers compensated? Are you all doing this for free? Love the project but interested in the practicalities behind it.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by he11ow » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

I built some NLP infrastructure, as part of a larger project I'm working on. Two bits I was fairly pleased with were

1. Something that takes a line-chart and turns into a word narrative of what the graph is describing. https://towardsdatascience.com/financial-storytelling-using-...

2. Sentiment-tagging (positive/negative) for financial news. Personally, I don't believe there's a lot of alpha to extract from this, because news usually lags market information. But A LOT of people believe differently, and this article shot up on relevant Google searches, way ahead of academic papers or other sources of authority. https://towardsdatascience.com/a-new-way-to-sentiment-tag-fi...