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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Flux-Mithril The Flux overview video seemed convincing. It's a web app architecture that lets you ask "How did my app get into this state?" and always have a straightforward path to an answer. It turns out Mithril fits the architecture as well or better than React does, and for me mobile-friendliness is important so I really like Mithril's size. My Hello World Flux-Mithril app's source is at https://github.com/brlewi…

Nice LoTR reference :)

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#162
BedquiltDB (https://bedquiltdb.github.io)

A JSON document store built on PostgreSQL's jsonb columns.

These days I have client libraries done for Python, Clojure and NodeJS, so I've been focusing on getting deb packages ready and gearing up for a 1.0 release.

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Rddt.tv - http://rddt.tv Reddit.tv was an app to watch videos posted to reddit but shut down back in January. Haven't been able to find a replacement that I liked, so I built my own. Made the videos full-screen by default and added extra stuff like support for Soundcloud embeds (so you could listen to music subreddits), a directory of video-posting subreddits, multireddits, keyboard shortcuts.

Neat, now I can browse /r/listentothis and discover new music easily! Thanks for sharing this, I'll be using it today. :) UX idea: I'd make the subreddit list alphanumerical. I had to look through it a few times to find the subreddit I wanted. Another UX idea: If a video/soundcloud fails to load, is it possible to detect that the tab isn't playing audio (say after 10-15 seconds) and skip to the next item in the list?

Awesome, thanks for the feedback!

The subreddit list definitely needs some attention. The aim was to bucket them into categories, so I either need to flesh that out or sort them.

Skipping media that doesn't load is doable. Some content won't play or advance automatically because a lack of an api to control the api (gifs, Liveleak, Basecamp, iTunes, spotify) but I didn't automatically filter them out because a lot of it is good content. Probably a good option to add to a settings page.

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Currently, a lot of woodworking. It's awesome because it keeps my mind free from more stressful things. :)

Our property is getting full of small (10'x10'ish) sheds, greenhouses, and the like. It's so soothing to be able to just make and follow a plan and have concrete solutions to straight forward answers.

That being said, building the old-fashioned pole barn (36'x54') using logs, sawmill, and kiln to make the lumber, almost killed me. There needs to be some sort of limit to everything.

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Speech recognition and search API: https://app.loverino.com/ Highest quality engine out there. Personalized radio: https://loverino.com/beta/ everyone should have their own radio channel that they listen to.

Do you use any open source tools for the speech recognition?

We trained our own models. We have ASR PhD students on our team.

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#169
Pindigo - Social score-tracking for pinball players.

We're building an app to provide the first non-forum social network for pinball players.

- Score logging w/ image uploads

- Machine look-up w/ links to third-party resources

- Likes, comments, and following

- Score timelines, analytics, and leaderboards.

- Oauth integration of the world's leading pinball forum, Pinside

- Plenty of stuff in the works!

After 5 months of development, we're starting our v2.0.0 closed beta next week! http://www.pindigoapp.com

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#170
PositiveEV - Using the latest and greatest in analytics, machine learning, and game simulation techniques to predict sports teams' performance. Hard work with big payoffs, reach out to me if you are interested and think you have something to contribute.
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