Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

Initial thoughts:

Would love to see a 'display title of folder' upon hovering on a thumbnail in compact view. I like compact view more than normal, but without displaying filenames I can't see what things are.

Would like a way to change the font display/size/formatting of the filename display somehow, but at least changing the preview sizes increases the font size of it (it was too small a font size by default for my monitor setup). Although now I'm getting bigger thumbnails by increasing preview size even if I only want the font size increased, but better than nothing.

Tabbed hubs with a top bar instead of using recent history on left?

I like how there's such a good variety of search tools.

Love the auto tagger. Would be cool to fiddle with how it works/sensitivity settings in terms of the threshhold for word frequency/whatever else is triggering tagging conditions. This could be incredibly useful for ppl with large libraries.

Since I have so many videos in one hub I'll probably end up wanting additional sorting/categorizing options. Thinking I'm going to have to do that with file system folder reorganization and then potentially doing 'show folders' enabled within Video Hub currently eh? (Or separate hubs for each category I suppose, maybe I'll end up doing that if this symlink stuff is too unwieldy).

On a related note, it would be cool to add in more autocategorization functionality like the autotagger, and bundle in sort of 'library organizer' functionality. A lot of people have tons and tons of videos that are really difficult to sort/categorize by hand. There's probably some sort of library management software out there but I haven't looked into it. If you know about the software Calibre it has all these ebook databases it crosschecks your files with and then auto-tags/auto-genres/ISBN classifies everything. Not sure if something like that exists for video files, but there's probably ways of detecting genre/patterns in the metadata and filename themselves I'd think.

Potentially but also maybe not, a minor bug/unintended functionality is clicking on a video to 'show similar videos to' plays the video in my default player. But maybe there's a toggle for single click > double click video playing that I'd ideally set it to double click because I don't always want to play a video if I just want to see what's related to it. Can't check the options panel right now cause I'm at video 9000 in the loading bar of the 27k total ;p. Another solution for this instead of single/double click would be if one can just click the text filename it'll show similar videos to without playing the video whereas clicking the thumbnail just once triggers the play video. Also that 'similar videos to' has really interesting potential, can see that also being very useful depending on what triggers a similar condition for large libraries as well.

Anyways, great software! Will recommend to others. Pleased to find it because it really does come in handy. Switching over from default Windows File Explorer to One Commander was also another great thing I did in the past few weeks that's going to improve my workflow like Video Hub will -- anybody who's on Windows should really checked out One Commander, I prefer it now to even directory opus.

I focus on the engineering, my partner focuses on anything design related, and our third trustee manages finances.

We do it because we’re passionate about it, and the legal structure gives us a lot of weight and ability to negotiate reduced rates with services we depend on. It also sets us up to pay other developers, if/when we decide there’s too much for us to do as a team. Folks might want to donate their time as well, but we will need to be mindful of properly compensating people for their time.

I am now working on Devolio (https://www.devol.io), a welcoming community for developers to share and discuss. I am really excited about letting users custom-design their profile and integrating with Github. I wrote about what I learned this year and how I got into programming at http://uzpg.me/2019/12/28/projects-and-learning-in-2019.html

It was a fun project that took a year to write. The programming bit went into developing a page for pre-orders and fulfillment using stripe and other tools. But suffice it to say, I liked writing a lot more.

The landing page: https://thecrux.rockentry.com/