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

I've been working on a mathematical puzzle-game, sort of like 2048, but with real mathematics.

Rules:

- Combine cells by dragging over them to create a adjacent path, that either multiply or add up to the last cell in the path, like 2*3=6 or 4+5=9. - Swipe in any direction to move the cells in that direction.

The game uses visual color-code to help the user to get an intuitive feel for which numbers can be multiplied together. Most people will get a sense of this without an explanation, but technically the color coding are the fractions of the number. For instance if the target cell is 12, it has two orange(2) and one green(3). In this case, one can look at cells close to the target that has those colors, instead of performing the calculation.

--- I've been working on this for about a year in my spare time. I think that the most important part that is missing now is a nicer UI, as well as to tweak the controls a bit.

I've had a ton of fun with this one, with various over engineered implementations (it's my personal project, so I can can do that if I want), and learned a ton.

Interesting highlights:

- Generating fun, varied and challenging boards. - Using bitmaps to create a custom but memory-space-effective representation of every action taken on a board.

As for a pricing model, I think it will be free, with a _Buy me a coffee_-button or similar.

https://gotally.fly.dev/

Here’s another project I worked on that I know will probably ruffle some feathers here. But to preface, I used it as way to learn Open AI function calls and - small concept of a zero to product launch full automation. This is a single page script that that generates an idea, creates an audience profile, then writes a book of short stories in a 5d array, looping over each level, then generates an image through midjourney through a hacked together api and creates a styled cover where there are a number of steps to ensure that aesthetically, the book cover is decent. It then uploads it to Amazon using puppeteer and uploads it to the woocommerce site as a new product.

https://github.com/mattrichmo/wisewriterv3

It’s my first complex app I’ve created that required multiple apis, and dealing with errors from multiple levels but I never actually uploaded a single book to Amazon so I can’t speak to the quality of the content. I was thinking if throwing this up on a website and letting people make a book for their child or something but I’d love the take the idea of zero-to-launch automation further. I’d love to go to bed and have a new well researched, highly desired product that actually serves a market need when I wake up sort of deal.

Awesome!

The pin count increase has improved the situation, but it's still noticeable. I'm using Vancouver/CA as the test if that helps.

An app for language learning by reading books in the target language. It takes the book (any epub book) in the target language add inserts translations:

—Arthur —dijo con tono cortante, ["Arthur," he said sharply.] y su voz sonó como el chasquido de una ratonera—, [and his voice sounded like the click of a mousetrap.]

All of the existing apps that I checked only display translation upon clicking a word (like in Kindle), but that 1) doesn't work well when you're only starting to learn; 2) takes too much from the reading experience, and becomes a chore. Also, most of them only allow a limited selection of books.

I'm using it myself for over a month now, and enjoy reading with it a lot. I feel almost no friction using it, it's the usual pleasure of reading a book with added exploration of a new language.

The problems:

Translating can be hard or / and expensive. Cheaper / free translations are often incorrect, and struggle with idioms. DeepL would cost > 20€ for a long book. ChatGPT hallucinates, and adds to the original. I'm using Google Translate for now and it's good enough for me, but I don't feel it's good enough to charge for. It often mixes genders (as opposed to ChatGPT which can deduct them from context I guess), and occasionally mistranslates.

Would you want to use such app even with the often erroneous automated translations?

Cellular automata apply the same rule across a grid, a bitgrid is an array of lookup tables, essentially stuffed between the cells of a static RAM. The RAM holds the values in the tables, and an latches maintain the state of each cell's inputs. Thus each cell in a bitgrid is individually programmable.

A provision needs to be added to be able to read and or write (override) inputs for debugging or other purposes, such as testing, updating constants, etc.

I agree that formalization is required. I've built an emulator, and hand coded some logic into it as a test, and can simulate a 1024x1024 grid at about 35 Hz on my desktop pc (half that on my laptop).

My near term goals are to be able to take an expression, run it through a set of tools to be written, and then feed it into the simulator, and run it.

I can guess at the energy required to change states, and thus get a rough estimate as to power usage/efficiency/speed, etc. If I get myself to the point where I've got a chip designed, I'm sure the EDA tools can give me far more accurate numbers.