Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024) • Hacker News Board

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

#111

Post by yunalesca » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:51 AM UTC

I built CryptoGain, an (currently) android app for cryptocurrency market tracking and analysis. Started it after getting frustrated with the limitations other apps put on technical analysis features behind premium tiers.

It offers:

- comprehensive technical analysis tools without artificial limits or cost

- customizable price alerts

- portfolio and watchlist management

- live market data across major exchanges

- available in 15+ languages

Currently serving a few thousand users and actively iterating based on feedback. The focus has been on making advanced trading tools accessible while maintaining a clean, intuitive interface.

Store link if anyone wants to check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptogain...

Would love feedback from the HN community, especially around what technical analysis features you find essential but are often paywalled in other apps.

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

#112

Post by josephg » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:52 AM UTC

aantix wrote: post #80

aantix wrote: post #72

A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with…

YouTube recommendations for kids shouldn't be driven by engagement (e.g. "oh, you watched 20 hours of MrBeast videos. You probably need another hour.") If my kid watches an hour of unboxing toy videos, I shouldn't have to try and disable 3,000 channels of toy unboxings in an effort for that topic to never surface again. The thumbs down button essentially has zero effect. https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-dislike-bu…

I’d go further and say nobody should be subjected to this stuff. Engagement is a euphemism for addiction. Self improving addiction machines are a horrible idea. They’re actively bad for people and society for a laundry list of reasons.

Anyone who works on this stuff should be ashamed of yourselves. You’re modern day cigarette companies.

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

#113

Post by examango » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:53 AM UTC

I'm developing a game, developing a game that I don't like to play myself. It's sad. If I had the money, I'd be working on a game I like to play.

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

#114

Post by davidatbu » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:54 AM UTC

An "offline-first" client web app for Github. I don't want to have to wait seconds to load up an issue, and then wait seconds (or keep another tab open) to go back to the list of issues/PRs, ...etc. I want everything to feel instant, with optimistic updates, and a backend sync process that doesn't require me to refresh the page to see new updates.

(Small note: I'm doing it in full-stack Rust, including web frontend, using leptos).

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

#115

Post by timenotwasted » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:55 AM UTC

aantix wrote: post #72

A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with…

As a parent with a couple of kids about to be the age of wanting to watch YT I'm very interested in this!

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

#116

Post by twoperkg » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:56 AM UTC

Continuing working on my project - TextSniper https://textsniper.app/ macOS application for text recognition

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

#117

Post by aantix » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:56 AM UTC

timenotwasted wrote: post #115

aantix wrote: post #72

A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with…

As a parent with a couple of kids about to be the age of wanting to watch YT I'm very interested in this!

Please email me, I need testers.

jim.jones1@gmail.com

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

#118

Post by frankdenbow » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:56 AM UTC

examango wrote: post #113

I'm developing a game, developing a game that I don't like to play myself. It's sad. If I had the money, I'd be working on a game I like to play.

what would you do with the money and how much would you need?

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

#119

Post by mtndew4brkfst » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:58 AM UTC

waprin wrote: post #100

dang wrote: post #3

This is an ongoing experiment that david927 has been helping with (thanks!). The two previous in the sequence were: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690087 - Sept 2024 (1041 comments) Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342017 - Aug 2024 (1424 comments) One thing I'd like to hone in on is that these threads a…

Why isn't it intended for promotion? I find this "anti-promotion" attitude to be doing a disservice to this HN community for a few reasons. Clearly, this whole website is funded and exists in part to promote YC's portfolio companies, as evidenced by "Launch HN" threads getting auto-front paged whereas "Show HN" plebians have to earn the upvotes from /new (which most agree required an exceptionally good post and a lot…

Grindset self-promo tactics being pervasively, overly represented in the content submissions and discussions here are the number one reason I take very long breaks from the site.

More genuine conversations are intensely welcome, so if that takes overt guard rails, so be it. If the only enthusiasm someone really wants to share is about their capitalist endeavors, count me out.

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

#120

Post by frankdenbow » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 3:59 AM UTC

memset wrote: post #107

An email client that just “does the right thing” in terms of showing new emails I care about. I don’t want to configure filters or adopt inbox zero. I want the computer to look at decades of email activity and just figure it out. Second, working on a single dashboard for attorneys to create and upload filings across different agencies and different states. Trying to improve accuracy and labor costs for mundane work l…

yea this is smart. It should be obvious who i communicate with or which emails have an urgency to them.