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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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I built mirrored fables, an AI powered visual novel generator. Give it a try! https://www.mirroredfables.com/?proxyKey=hellohackernews source: https://github.com/mirroredfables/mirroredfables

Love to try but I've been stuck on [worker] Searching for music...

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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We’ve been building Design/UI development app with first class support for code generation (react + next) - https://www.kubi.design

It’s UI/UX is pretty similar to Figma (you can import from Figma). We do support integration of your own design system, that means that you can use actual code components in design canvas with all interactions and business logic. (Currently we have integrated Ant design and Mantine libraries)

We are looking for beta testers who want to speed up UI development or simply save money on FE development.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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https://www.webtospeech.app

It takes a URL and a voice selection, sends it off to Azure TTS speech service. The backend handles converting the HTML to SSML, it's really a one step solution to converting web pages to audio files that you can download, or stream on the platform.

I use it a lot for Hackernews articles at work, where I want to keep working, but there's an interesting article that I want to read.

The voices that come from Azure are reasonably good enough.

It's just an Astro app for the frontend, with a golang service behind it that parses the webpages and sends it off the azure. Also using supabase for authentication and database storage, although I'm using Cloudflare for it's R2 storage of audio.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

#125

Bitgrid[1][2] is a continuation of an idea I've been carrying around since the 1980s, and tweaking from time to time. If I can maintain focus long enough, I intend to learn RTL, VHDL or Verilog well enough to get it entered in one of the Google open source chip shuttles. I think this approach to computing if applied to neural networks may offer a cheap way to get far more compute, perhaps exaflop performance out of a…

Have you contrasted this with cellular automata? It seems like an advanced form of that type of construction. Could possibly benefit from some formalization.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

#126
I got tired of tracking the status of my job applications in spreadsheets and emails, and built Rolepad (https://rolepad.com) to help with that. The goal is to help applicants focus on their job process and not expand mental energy on the mechanics of tracking dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of job applications. It's got a few beta users and I've gotten positive feedback, but there are still a few things I need to add before its ready for primetime (aka Show HN).

The tool is free and helps you manage your job applications, pipeline status, interviews, emails, notes, etc. Notable features include the ability to leave detailed reviews of your job process (+ read others' reviews and get various per-company stats... this is new, went live yesterday - tracking more fine-grained data than Glassdoor and others), forwarding emails to save@rolepad.com so they can be tracked as notes within Rolepad, sharing your progress via Sankey charts, and more.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

#127
post #82

https://apiforllm.com/ I've been working on this on and off for a few weeks now. The idea is to let LLMs interact with the outside world using function calling. Eg- I built a simple version of chatgpt web browsing using function calling. There's a django site which is responsible for the auth, managing chats etc and then there's a flask site that's responsible for running functions in a gvisor sandbox. Users will be…

Hey, so I got pretty far into implementing open api specs for LLMs. To the point where you can point to an open api spec, ingest it, and then it’s available for GPT to select to satisfy user requests. I do this by minify the specs and building an index to feed it that it selects from using logit bias. Im at pause point on it while I figure out how to actually have GPT build the calls, but I think something like you h…

Before the function calling update[0] it was possible for the gpt models to use tools using specific prompts but it was unreliable. Have you tried using function calling to let the model build the calls?

[0] https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

#128
I've developed a niche app designed to assist individuals in the Dominican Republic and potentially others outside the US who purchase from platforms like Amazon US and eBay US in retrieving sales tax refunds. The way it operates is by accessing data from your Amazon purchase history and your courier or forwarding service. From this, it auto-generates an email to Amazon to reclaim the sales tax. Initially, I aimed to introduce a commission-based model from these refunds, but this aspect is still in the pipeline.

The tool did function for a short while, during which it successfuly reclaimed a few hundred dollars in refunds. However, it broke when a courier site introduced reCAPTCHA at their login and Amazon made UI changes to their order page. I'm now at a crossroads, contemplating whether the upkeep required to ensure the app keeps working is worth my while, given how niche the potential market is. I am not sure if I can make realistically make money from this. Would love to hear insights or suggestions.

For reference, you can check it out at https://taxrefunder.io, although the core functionality is down at the moment.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

#129
Breath focused meditation gear syncronized with pulse rate - today people breathe based on a count, like 4-7-8 is a popular pattern. 4 count inhale - 7 count hold - 8 count exhale. problem is the pattern doesnt account for metabolic level, so I plan to use pulse sensor to monitor pulse and breathing count will be in terms of pulses. This might create some feedback loop so not sure if it will work.

The gear I have is a cheap heartbeat/pulse monitor integrated with raspberry pi.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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post #91

https://persumi.com/ I spent 3-4 months working on it whilst having a day job. It's a writing/reading/listening platform, kinda like a mix of Medium/Substack/Wordpress/Twitter/Reddit... I wrote about the tech stack and how I built it here: https://persumi.com/c/persumi/u/fredwu/p/how-i-built-a-mostl... Still got a long way to go, especially to tweak the user onboarding side of things to explain much better on the con…

This is hard for me to grasp. It seems like an automated conversion tool that takes existing posts and then makes them audio. I see it as a tool since your whole landing page is basically an ad for a tool.

Yet you position this as a platform, but don't really show it. There is no sample content nor people to follow. I also don't see typical stuff like how long it will take to read (listen). No leader board. No examples of personas. Why a whole screen to explain the name?

If instead you kept it as a tool but positioned it like AI that first makes you a better writer, second adds emphasis to the speech to make listening interesting and adds music and intros and ads, third preps the file for other platforms.

Your tech stack writeup url is ugly and I would not want to listen to it without knowing some tool had trimmed 80%.

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