Working on book summaries product - https://brieflane.com
Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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#102A little stable of websites.
www.fpgajobs.com
www.firmwarejobs.com
www.reportCardcomments.com
www.primeribcalculator.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#103I spent a week building a website that is a repository of timeless content. It generally consists of old magazine articles (though not exclusively) that you can pick up at any time and will bring value to your life. I notice most of what we consume on daily basis is ephemeral and not all that valuable outside of the moment, whereas ever-present content is always valuable. The unique angle here is that each article in…
From that I’m guessing you don’t want to open it to random HN folk, but if you ever do, it sounds a great resource and something I’d love to participate in.
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#104Prompting GPT to do rich text editing. Instead of replacing the entire document or selection, we want it to create diffs or operations for the minimal amount of edits as possible. This helps preserve intent better when merging the doc later on with OT/CRDTs. (Of course, you could also ask GPT to semantically merge docs for you haha). So far, it's been harder than plain text or spreadsheets which have an easier positi…
wow could you please share more of this work? I've been wondering how to make a diff tool / simple text editor for academic writing
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#105Building some prototypes of games with Godot. Mostly enjoying it.
A few gripes with the GDScript language though. Might switch back to C#.
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#106Still researching trust. It's the deepest philosophical rabbit hole I've ever fallen down, but am now coming up for air.
from a someone'S slide from the 1970s:
"Knowledge of origin creates trust. Knowledge of capabilities creates trust."
I'd add "a mental model of someone's motives creates trust".
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#107I'm working on software that isn't source-available (as of now, anyway).
I've written an app that is aimed at a specific demographic (so I'm not linking to it), and I'm developing an improved backend admin app.
This involves mostly Swift, using UIKit, to produce an app that will run on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS. The backend is PHP, and doesn't need much work.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#108I’ve been building a copilot for an underserved language, and paused that in March with a little time since spent making a full language service: something where you can parse and resolve methods and types, and generally query for useful info. Perhaps it’s the root of a LSP server in future.
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#109I built a service that lets you bolt an oauth/oidc provider onto your app with a single callback. https://github.com/poundifdef/connectivly
It lets you use whatever you’re already doing for auth, and lets you become an oauth provider, or issue tokens instead of people passing API keys, on top of that.
The more interesting aspect of that you could use it to bolt on an entire app store or ecosystem on top of your existing product or api.
(ping me if you want to look at this more seriously from a business perspective!)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#110I’m working on marketing https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/ We’ve experimented with various approaches to promotion, including HN, KDP, Amazon Ads, and most recently Reddit Ads. It's been interesting to see which strategies resonate with the audience, but we're still figuring out the best way to get it in front of the right people. And marketing is really hard!
What is the unique value proposition of this book? How does it stand apart from the numerous amount of other books on the same topic?
Marketing is hard when there isn't a clear brand. Branding is hard when you don't have a very simple and clear differentiator to promote.