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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by seanwilson » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

Here's a fairly polished single player time-based word game I've been working on (works on mobile and desktop):

https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid

Looking at adding a global high score table (nobody is using the quick feature I added to share your score on Twitter), it might need more hints on what the orange tiles do for your scoring (I'm hoping players naturally work this out), I might tweak the rules more to encourage more strategy, the sound effects aren't great, music might help, it should be an offline PWA, and I'll maybe try to monetise it for mobile.

Feedback welcome! :) Was it obvious how to play? Too easy or hard? Does the scoring system encourage you to play words strategically?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by susam » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

joflicu wrote: post #109

susam wrote: post #101

http://mathb.in/ It has been in its half-baked state since 2012 when I wrote it in a single night so that I could share solutions to mathematics puzzles my friends and I used to challenge each other with. Somehow the use of this tool spread from my friends to their friends and colleagues, then schools and universities, and then to IRC channels that involve mathematical discussions.

Nice! It would be nice to see some of the puzzles that were shared using this tool.

Here you go:

I wrote this tool all throughout a Saturday night 9 years ago and shared it with my friends on the next morning. The first URL (post 13) shows the first puzzle that was shared with the tool. The fourth URL (post 39) was the first post by someone I did not know. That's when I realized that people beyond my immediate friends' circle have begun using it now.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by DataCrayon » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

I early-released access to an API for generating interactive chord diagrams. Can be used via Python package, Rust crate, or HTTP API.

https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/

It's been/being used by people from many different sectors which is great to see. It's making enough to pay for 2 coffees a month, or at least to cover the server it's hosted on. If I didn't enjoy working on it, I'd factor in my time!

It started as a quick way to generate a d3-chord diagram and has slowly grown since then.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by bitwize » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

https://github.com/bitwize/nullawesome

NullAwesome, an unfinished Android game I've been working on, off and on, in my spare time, since a while ago. Basically a "run, jump, and hack" puzzle platformer where you have to use the environment to evade or overcome enemies and expose the evil corporation in a 90s-esque cyberpunk setting.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by montenegrohugo » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

mikkergp wrote: post #100

montenegrohugo wrote: post #12

https://www.namehunt.dev/ I've always struggled with finding domain names for new projects (all the good ones are taken!) that I decided to do something about it. The suggestion engine isn't really fully working yet, but the idea is to input a desired word/name/set of keywords and see a list of available domain names. Kind of following the "build what you yourself would use" philosophy. P.S.: Love the idea of having…

Keep working on it. I don't need it right now, but I could definitely see something like this be interesting, the only solution I can think of right now is just searching for different things in a traditional registrar and that's been a frustrating process. Good luck! Biggest challenge is well. One coming up with good recommendations, but two getting it into my head when I need it. I don't know if traditional adverti…

Thanks for the encouragement! Glad you think it could be useful.

Agreed, getting a userbase/people who know about my product is probably the biggest challenge (frankly, I think it almost always is), but I'll give it my best shot. If it fails then, well, at least it will still be useful for myself :)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by ramoz » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

everling wrote: post #78

https://cinetrii.com analyses reviews to infer possible inspirations behind a film. There are a bunch of things that could be improved with the text processing applied here. The wrong movie title is resolved occasionally, like failing to distinguish between an original and a remake, or a book. Sometimes the wrong part of an article is parsed, resulting in wrong connections. But I think it works overall, for the right…

Could you apply this to tweets? e.g., take user1 tweet, analyze who they follow & current trends, some recursion, find root influencers like:

user1 -> follows user2, tweeted similar -> userN, tweetN -> network and time-map of influence & themes, etc

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by matt_f » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

jnskender wrote: post #92

https://www.debt-dash.io Plug in some basic information about your debt accounts. Choose your payoff order and how much extra you can pay towards debt each month. I provide a month by month guide on how your payments will snowball until your debt-free. I’m the only user currently and I have a lot of work to do on branding/homepage before I share it with others but it fits the bill of unfinished but slightly useful.

This is a really good thing.

I know a lot of the people who are overwhelmed by debt don't have the spare mental or emotional space to deal with something else equally overwhelming, which is visualizing their path out of it.

Should be higher on the list.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by gwph » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

woutr_be wrote: post #74

gwph wrote: post #26

https://lofichess.com I wanted a trimmed down interface for following live chess streams. To keep the website updated I run an AWS Lambda every two minutes that does the following: 1. Pulls active streams from the Twitch API. 2. Uses the Go templates library to repackage the response as static HTML. 3. Uploads the static HTML to S3, where it is served behind CloudFront.

Interesting approach to generate a static website. Is this completely free? Or do you end up paying for the Lambda task?

Average latency for the Lambda over the last week is 4.84s and it runs with 128mb of memory. Running every two minutes, that comes to ~25,000 invocations and ~15,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month. The AWS Lambda free usage tier includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month so the Lambda is definitely free.

The website is tiny (homepage < 20kb excluding the thumbnails which are hosted by Twitch), so I'm also inside the free tier on S3 and CloudFront. I paid $12 upfront for the domain registration.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by chony » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

I built this project to automatically overlay baseball pitch motion and trajectory.

https://github.com/chonyy/ML-auto-baseball-pitching-overlay

It's ready for a quick demo. However, there are stiil some little improvements have to make. And I'll build an web app on top of it for people to use it online.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by etimberg » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

https://github.com/etimberg/pycircuitbreaker/

A python implementation of the circuit breaker pattern. Not a new concept, but I did innovate in how the breaker decides to open.

I realized that with a normal breaker, if you set the threshold to 5, but 4/5 requests failed (say due to a backend service being partially down) the breaker would never open. To solve this, you can set the breaker to use the net error count so that the breaker would behave as such:

Req Num | Req Status | Breaker Status

1 | Fail | Closed

2 | Fail | Closed

3 | Fail | Closed

4 | Fail | Closed

5 | Pass | Closed

6 | Fail | Closed

7 | Fail | Open