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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by mpduda »

Working on Pulselyre, a touch-focused Windows app for producing electronic music live. It doesn't output audio on its own, but it lets you configure various virtual "instruments" on screen that can send MIDI note and control messages to other MIDI devices or VSTs configured to receive MIDI messages. You can record notes and events for each instrument and then loop them over a configured number of beats. Also has some other features to make creating music easier, like saving/loading note sequences, an arpeggiator, receiving input from external MIDI controllers/keyboards, and some other stuff. I've been meaning to record a demo video, but I'm not actually very good at playing or making music myself, so I haven't come up with anything presentable yet. I'm also not really married to the name, but it works for now...

https://www.pulselyre.com

It's built using C# and WPF, and a related project I work on is an open source MVVM framework called UpbeatUI for making WPF apps that behave vaguely like mobile apps. It's for apps that have a main bottom layer and modal popups that float above and can be closed by clicking/touching the background. Pulselyre uses UpbeatUI, and I actually originally extracted UpbeatUI from a much older version of Pulselyre.

https://github.com/Pulselyre/UpbeatUI

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by thangalin »

https://keenwrite.com/

Finished a feature to convert Markdown's fenced divs nested within blockquotes into the following XHTML:

    

     ...
In my novel (see profile), there are stories within the story as well as simultaneous actions. I wanted to typeset simultaneous events set within a sub-story. Using Markdown, a natural way to do this would be:

    > ::: simul
    > Simultaneous section 1.
    > :::
    >
    > ::: simul
    > Simultaneous section 2.
    > :::
Sample output:

https://i.ibb.co/R90vZpD/simultaneous.png

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by mooreds »

I'm working on a side hustle to help technical consultants build newsletters. Makes me sad when I see a great technical answer on a slack that I know will help far fewer people than it could.

So this weekend, I'm building some processes and marketing materials and doing some outreach.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by serial_dev »

I'm a Flutter developer starting to be a bit disappointed in the tech (and the community) and sceptical if it can really produce great apps, so I'm thinking about switching to something new in the coming years.

I decided to build a multiplatform app with SwiftUI to test out the waters. So far, learning SwiftUI and building an app is somehow both easier and harder than expected, but I'm glad to see something new.

I'm planning to write a series of apps in the next 6 months, so that I build confidence shipping apps with SwiftUI and maybe find a smaller contract with it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by bbx »

For the past year, I've been working on a CSS Masterclass: https://cssmasterclass.io/

It's going to have online text courses with interactive examples and coding exercises, but I'm also in the process of adding video tutorials. These videos will be of 2 types: ones where I teach you the theory, and ones where we actually build a project from scratch.

I feel like CSS has always been something that was made to look harder than it actually is. In its essence, the syntax is very simple, and the vocabulary is quite basic. There are only a few things you need to know to be able to code an attractive and flexible responsive web page. For comparison, I find programming backends much more difficult.

Even though I've been working on this project for almost a year, I decided that next month will be the day I finally launch it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by the__alchemist »

I'm working on a plasmid (vector) editor called PlasCAD, for molecular biology. I'm doing it mainly as a learning project, and trying to fill in the gaps where I found limitations in existing software. As of last week, it's in a state where the main features are there. I'm going to now focus on polish, and adding specialty features. Would appreciate any and all feedback!

It lets you view and edit plasmid sequences, features, and primers, and has some tools like automatic primer creation for cloning, primer QC, protein sequence viewing, and interop with common file formats.

https://github.com/David-OConnor/plascad

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by deathmonger5000 »

I’m working on a tool called Together Gift It. Together Gift It makes managing group gift events like Christmas easier. I’m making it because my family was sending an insane amount of group texts during the holidays, and it was getting ridiculous. My favorite one was when someone included the gift recipient in the group text about what gift we were getting for the recipient.

Together Gift It solves the problem just the way you’d think: with AI.

Just kidding. It solves the problem by keeping everything in one place. No more group texts! You can have private or shared gift lists, and there are some AI features like gift idea collaboration and product search. But the AI stuff is still a work in progress.

I’m grateful for any constructive feedback.

https://www.togethergiftit.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by allenu »

I'm working on Minders [1], a journaling/notes app. I've been using it for a little over a year for daily journaling and keeping track of interesting links or ideas. It works like a Twitter feed of just your thoughts.

It's been fun to work on as I can throw in whatever neat ideas I want since I'm not trying to fit it into a neat category. For instance, I was experimenting with a multi-column browsing experience after I saw a post here [2] for inspiration. The UI could work like TweetDeck but for your notes. Not 100% sure yet if it works, but I'll be doing more prototyping.

Right now I'm revamping the sync system and other runtime parts as I'm realizing that once you start amassing lots of posts, it gets bogged down a bit. I probably could've architected some of it a bit better at the start, but I tend to try to release stuff as early as I can to force myself to ship and to see what people think.

1. https://minders.ussherpress.com/ 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263203

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