I have been working on a time killer mobile-first geometric game with a novel gameplay.
There are vertical light rays, and optics transforming them are falling from the sky. The goal is to get rid of all the darkness.
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#152An 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…
This sounds very similar to the books manually curated using Ilya Frank's Reading Method: http://english.franklang.ru/index.php/ilya-frank-s-reading-m...
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#153I'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…
You absolutely can. I recommend selling it as subscription service at launch, with a free demo. Less calculations/simpler workflows. If it allows to save $hundreds, people will be happy to pay $tens. A lot of "lifehack" websites accept paid content, you even have a chance of getting free advertising.
Why isn't your product global from the start?
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#154https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation
If you’ve ever tried to make a mathematical animation (think 3Blue1Brown), it’s a real pain. I was using manim for awhile to make animations for my YT channel, but the whole iteration process felt very slow and repetitive. So I thought I would recreate manim over the weekend, except with a GUI and real-time feedback. It’s been a year and a half and I’m hoping this weekend will be done soon so I can move on and start making videos again.
So far, it does a lot, but it still needs a lot of polish and refinement. The readme gives some gifs and a better idea of the feature set right now.
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#155I 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…
What if your business model does not play out? Are you going to start charging fees?
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#156My own personal mint that supports all of my personal data, finances, yes Apple Savings, nutrition, projections, with offline/multi device sync.
The goal was to avoid aggregators like plaid while avoiding manual entry.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
In reading about your 4x5 camera back, I think the plastic lens mount might be obstructing the light going to the sensor, the angles inside such a wide format system are fairly large. If possible, I'd suggest removing it. As far as I can tell, there's no lens array on the sensor[1][2], just a normal Bayer filter. You could get a calibration frame by removing the lens with the sensor centered, and a black frame by put…
Thanks! > I think the plastic lens mount might be obstructing the light going to the sensor It's actually a low-profile, 3D printed thing housing a glass UV/IR cut filter. The housing is flush with the glass filter unlike the stock Pi HQ camera lens holder. Removing the UV/IR cut results in full-spectrum photos that manifest the same color shift problem which is characteristic of CRA optimization (where they delibera…
Well, if you want to try something different, here's a modified camera that removes the microlens array along with color filters to make the sensor monochrome.[1]
[1] https://maxmax.com/maincamerapage/uvcameras/raspberry-pi-hq-...
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#158I'm working on Knowii [0], an Open Source (AGPL) Knowledge Management platform for communities. In the first version, communities will be able to curate/capture/share collections of useful/interesting resources. A browser extension will make it easy to capture information/links.
Later on, we'll add job boards, ways to share summaries/notes, news, vote, tag, explore through user profiles, etc.
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#159I'm working on Knowii [0], an Open Source (AGPL) Knowledge Management platform for communities. In the first version, communities will be able to curate/capture/share collections of useful/interesting resources. A browser extension will make it easy to capture information/links. Later on, we'll add job boards, ways to share summaries/notes, news, vote, tag, explore through user profiles, etc. [0] https://github.com/k…
That summary mostly makes me think of a wiki; How are you trying to differentiate from the existing FOSS ones?
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#160I'm creating a 2D ant colony simulation that runs 24/7 in your browser. It's supposed to feel like a pet and you're supposed to want to keep it alive and check in on it as tunnels are dug, ants are born, food is found, etc.
You, the proud owner of some new ants, must keep them alive. For the MVP, you'll just get a ration of food each day when you show up, but there's a catch. To unlock the food, you need to arrive at a self-designated time each day, you can't miss your time window, and you'll need to participate in a breathing exercise. Black screen, white text, breathe in/out, repeat for a minute, etc. You emerge calmer than before, get your food, feed your ants, watch them thrive, and get on with your day.
Long-term, I'd like to continually increase the complexity of the simulation to make it more engaging, disguise the self-care offerings behind game lore/mechanics, and provide more self-care offerings such as journaling or guided meditation.
The goal is to get people who like using technology a lot to unintentionally dedicate a few minutes each day to checking in on themselves. They get into it thinking they're caring for some wannabe-Tamagotchi ants, but they stick with it because they're on a seven day self-care streak, feel good about that, and don't want to let their ants down. It's similar to https://finchcare.com/ but less on-the-nose about feelings and more for those who'd appreciate a RimWorld / Dwarf Fortress simulation aesthetic.
This is my first attempt at anything like a ~game and I have very little to show in way of functionality, but I've been enjoying teaching myself Rust/Bevy and writing with an ECS-first mindset. Trying to use these tools has slowed down development several magnitudes compared to throwing TypeScript at the wall, and I haven't seen significant benefits yet, but I'm hoping that long-term the low-level control and fast-growing game engine will pay dividends.
Anyway, here's a few ants which dig dirt and make some sand piles. I know it's not much :)
I'm hoping to get people checking back on their ants for seven straight days by spicing up the visuals a little bit, adding a queen, nesting, egg laying, hunger, death, and then a top-down view for food discovery / pheromone trails.