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

#141
https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

This is what I wish Dropbox was, a simple layer that make interacting with your FTP server easy so nobody has to own your data. The end game is both to be feature complete with Dropbox and be able to change every aspect of the application through plugin so everyone can get out what they want from it. To do that, I’m making the core a sort of framework to build file manager like application.

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

#142
A websocket API for storing and querying GeoJSON features, it exposes a lot of PostGIS functionality. I built it originally for a client project as part of a data collection app and then wondered if it might useful for others as a service. Thoughts? I worry that it’s likely too niche.

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

#143
Have been working on a project which allows you to check if any of your source code has been copied from major online projects (over 70 billion lines of code) and report back if duplicates have been found. You can control the length of the run (so 15 lines means a match or 7 lines) and make the line matching fuzzy.

The idea being to provide compliance checks such as licensing and such, although I guess it would allow for checking for potential source code leaks as well and as a plagiarism detector.

It works by running a program over your source code which produces line by line hashes, with the result uploaded and then scanned over. The result is a report indicating what percentage of code was identified as copied both on a project and on an individual file level, with the identified source and its location. As such if nothing is leaked there is no ability to reconstruct the source code as it is a hash.

It works over 200+ languages, and while working over line by line currently can be expanded out to work in different ways.

Looking for interested parties to try it out (see my bio for contact) in addition to the current ones I have. Even if its just you wanting to kick the tires.

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

#144
post #142

A websocket API for storing and querying GeoJSON features, it exposes a lot of PostGIS functionality. I built it originally for a client project as part of a data collection app and then wondered if it might useful for others as a service. Thoughts? I worry that it’s likely too niche.

Mapping is definitely not low or no coding enough.

Mapbox has some nice tools but building up the datasources that can feed into it are another barrier.

Happy to learn more

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

#145
https://leftwardsplanning.com/

I'm building a planning methodology for tech teams to use once they know what they want to build in an iteration. This is meant to be the missing near-term tactical planning framework, not yet another long-term-roadmap concept.

Happy to help facilitate planning too with anyone who wants to try it in their team but isn't sure how to start.

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

#146

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 Kindl…

That sounds cool, I had a similar idea a while ago but it was a browser extension. I only pulled out keywords from news articles with spacy and then ran them through deepl, I was trying to make automated flashcards to help learn to read articles in your target language.

Have you tried llama2? Running that yourself might be cheaper, you could also maybe crowd source translation fixes eventually somehow.

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

#147

For about a year I've been going through the process of gathering all of the television listing pages from the New York Times, processing them to extract the films that played each day, matched the films to their IMDB links, and parsing the VCR codes to get the time/channel as well. Now I'm creating a little frontend to view and analyze the data as well as curate bits that didn't match properly. At the moment I'm mos…

The place to put the program metadata is Wikidata, and to share and curate the schedules you could start a new wikibase e.g. here: https://www.wikibase.cloud/

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

#148

I have been tinkering with this word game for something like 6 years. It is intended for mobile, though it works adequately on desktop. It is a virtually endless word-finding game that can be played solo or taking turns with a friend. I still need to add some game modes and more interaction, but the bones are there: https://wordwhile.com/ Be gentle, it's running on a budget server.

I like it.

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

#149
been working on https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar for a couple months, but nervous to "launch" it because i feel like it hasn't had a significant "wow" moment yet. basically the idea is to 5x the amount of chat output for every unit of human input, to get variety + familiarity with the wide range of chat models out there. its moved from a "smol menubar app" towards its own "ai chat browser". i wonder if i should put int he work to make it a full "ai browser" before i launch it.

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

#150

Is it too developed if it’s in private alpha? Anyway … I’ve been working on CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) for a while because I think code review is the biggest shortcoming of GitHub. The idea is to make a code review tool for power users. Just like you have an editor that makes you productive at writing and reading code, you should have a review app that makes you and your team productive at reviewing it.…

We use BitBucket at work, so I won't try it out in real-life conditions, but I agree that there seems to be a niche there. The default code review experience is very poor!
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