I'm working on an open-source event tracking infrastructure based on AWS (think Heap or Mixpanel but all infrastructure is in your AWS account and you own the data). It's incredible how much can be done just by combining AWS services.
Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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#142I learned how to weld (MIG) and built a giant mushroom to house a mannequin I dubbed "the mushroom man" over about 100 hours in the last 4 weeks. I covered the outside with thick foam panels cut to size, cementing them in place with copious amounts of spray foam. I shaved the outside to a nice shape with a sawzall and the inside I covered in chicken-fenced, then attached a painters tarp to that (so it could be painte…
That's incredible - do you have any photos of this anywhere?
I learned to weld awhile back, but haven't pulled the trigger on purchasing all the stuff I need.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#143Finishing a web map widget suitable for geo-data visualization.
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#144Working on an alternative to character.ai, they recently updated their UI and a lot of the fan favorite features are gone.
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#145I'm building android app for Teenage Engineering OP-1 (original) backups
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#146Still researching trust. It's the deepest philosophical rabbit hole I've ever fallen down, but am now coming up for air.
from a someone'S slide from the 1970s: "Knowledge of origin creates trust. Knowledge of capabilities creates trust." I'd add "a mental model of someone's motives creates trust".
Both of these! And spot on with (mutual) motive analysis to come up
with an "alignment" matrix.
I was inspired some time ago by Stella Rimington's writing (ex MI5 chief) that "identity" is actually a very poor basis for trust and authentication. It's unnerving watching the whole zero-trust show organise itself around notions of strong identity (as opposed to role and earned trust), which might turn out to be a rather silly thing to do.
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#147I’m working on marketing https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/ We’ve experimented with various approaches to promotion, including HN, KDP, Amazon Ads, and most recently Reddit Ads. It's been interesting to see which strategies resonate with the audience, but we're still figuring out the best way to get it in front of the right people. And marketing is really hard!
Any resources you'd recommend to learn marketing (esp. comming from a software background)? Asking for software friend who's having trouble marketing his software business. (Also good luck with your book!)
I found An Entire MBA in 1 Course really helpful. It actually goes through core business principles, covering everything from marketing and strategy to finance.
https://www.udemy.com/course/an-entire-mba-in-1-courseaward-...
It looks like marketing within large companies is vastly different from marketing for smaller initiatives.
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#148I’m working on a generic way of getting human input within any automated workflow.
The forms can be dynamically generated within the workflow, and then call back with the response.
The docs still need some work and I plan on adding some video demos, but here it is so far.
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#149Building Serverless VPN, among the most recent work is an open source iOS app: https://UpVPN.app/ios
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#150Working on an alternative to character.ai, they recently updated their UI and a lot of the fan favorite features are gone. https://makebelieve.lol
Would suggest better AI model images on the homepage
Flux models look far better than these older stable diffusion ones