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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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I wrote a podcast generator based on AI related papers that ingest the podcast dialogues, voices, tag, assemble audio et publish RSS automatically. I was inspired by the PDF ingestion of OpenAI and the quality of the TTS.

It is named https://paperbrief.net

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Hey this sounds pretty cool! If this is public would you mind sharing a link?

Not the OP, but I've actually made something like that to help people figure out where to live in London based on the criteria they care about -- here it is https://findmyarea.co.uk/?search_type=areas Would be great to see similar tools for other cities!

This is amazing! I am curious what algorithm is behind the scenes?

And how easy would it be to make this work for any city?

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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I sell apps for a living - I have a few iOS apps and a macOS app. Each of them uses a different way of billing (app store, revenuecat, lemonsqueezy etc), which makes it a PITA to check the total revenue (which I need to do everyday because I am so obsessed with it). So, I recently converted my old phone into a 24/7 live sales dashboard[1] which consolidates the revenue from each service. It resembles a retro device i…

I have the same problem and wished there was a service to aggregate this

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

#154

Making a fake AirPrint printer. I have a Brother printer that has two printer trays, one manual tray (that takes variable sized paper) and a A4 tray. However, when printing from iOS, it doesn't have the full print preset dialog and it is impossible to print from the manual tray, nor is there a way to tell it I want print A6. Of course I insist being able to print A6 whenever, wherever I want with AirPrint and accept…

This is some amazing yak shavings. Noted for future reference. I guess a github link is too much to ask? :-)

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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I've built a first version of Logdy[1] over the weekend. Since then I have been developing it and it's getting traction and attention. Logdy is a real-time logs browser that is meant to replace viewing logs in a terminal during development stage. I was tired of browsing and searching through infinite stream of non-searchable json whereas having such a great tool as DataDog on production. I've felt that development pr…

This is awesome! I can't wait to try it out, really nice work.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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I made https://gpupricecompare.com to compare GPU prices from eBay over the weekend and it was an interesting project because it seemed relatively simple upfront, but dealing with titles was a bit tricky. The only solution (I found at least) was to pull in some NLP packages to filter out and match GPUs, get the relevant models, etc. Was a great exercise for some non-LLM NLP.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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I had access to a Windows server VM at a previous job that was commissioned for a piece of work. The actual work was then stopped, but the IT folks never decommissioned the VM so I had a nice little server on the local network to play around with. It didn't have Internet access so I was somewhat limited in what I could do with it. I ended up building a hacky internal IIS/PHP web app (I guess these days one would call…

Cool project and thanks for sharing the isotope library, I'll be using that in my next project :)

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

#159

I am just starting out trying to learn iOS development and last weekend I made a small tally/counter app. All it does is adds or subtracts 1, but dammit if I'm not excited about it.

Well done! Keep at it slowly slowly
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