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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by peteforde »

quelsolaar wrote: post #76

Working on a fully automated UV unwrapper for 3D meshes. Its basically the process of flattening a 3D object down to a square. used mainly for texturing. http://www.ministryofflat.com

This looks really cool, but I don't understand when this process is required in an artistic pipeline. Do people who work in Maya/ZBrush have to export a texture map in order to paint in tools like Substance? Surely it's easier to work directly on a 3D object that can be rotated in space than an unwrapped map of cutout segments. Otherwise, how could you ever line anything up?

Don't get me wrong: I understand that the ultimate output of a 3D mesh reshaping and painting process is an obj + jpg + mapping file, as I've worked extensively with systems that output files like this: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/pete-swagger-walk-a55d807de1...

We did all of the image packing ourselves, but every tool I've used will output a map based on its own algorithm.

So, given that my process is admittedly very different than a character artist, where does the UV unwrapping stage come in for most artists? I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by codefined »

the_pwner224 wrote: post #68
codefined wrote: post #51

A simple file uploader - https://femto.pw/ We're upto 460TB of data being transferred, :)

How do you make / not lose money?

We don't make any money, but all the hardware is just making use of unspent resources. E.g. The storage is a GlusterFS cluster across all of my machines, encrypted and replicated three times in case anything goes wrong. The cpu usage and memory usage is negligible and bandwidth is free from my provider.

Until it gets to about 32TB of used storage it won't cost me anything, and at the current rate of growth that is going to take decades.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by arbuge »

I'm working on ReferDigital, an affiliate partner network with no monthly or startup fees, subscription tracking (monthly commissions for the life of the customer), and some other features currently in beta.

https://ReferDigital.com

My side-project is Classient.com, a class booking system / marketplace. My wife has been using it for several months now to teach a weekly class to kids in the neighborhood. A class could be simply watching kids and keeping them entertained (group baby-sitting) so no formal teaching experience is required:

https://Classient.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by keyncoffee »

PedroCandeias wrote: post #111

As a solution architect visiting clients in Europe and North America, I struggled to capture names and roles of people in meetings and workshops. That led to lots of awkwardness and missed opportunities. All meeting management apps I found assume participants always get calendar invites, which I found to just not be the case. So I wrote a small web app that uses qr codes to allow participants in meetings and workshop…

This is very cool. As a sales person, the ability to set an upfront agenda and make things interactive for prospects (within a first meeting especially) is important. I have ways of doing this today but I'm always open to testing new strategies and technologies.

I'm in the process of creating a few meetings in QuickIntro and keep hitting the error of "[object Object]" when trying to save or "Create meeting."

Any guidance on a fix?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by soneca »

ticmasta wrote: post #146
soneca wrote: post #120

A 1:1 meeting software: https://www.oneononemeeting.com It was a for-profit side-project, but since I moved to another country (following my wife's Masters) it became full-time. If you lead a team and have 1:1s, take a look :)

I'm in your target market and will take a look. What I really need is covered partially by 1:1's but I need some sort of CRM for my direct reports. I want dossiers that include the action plans out of our meetings plus more general stuff like work anniversaries, other dates and information all tied into a calendar with ideally alerts that give me a heads-up. Right now I use PerformYard, Outlook, random documents and…

I would love to exchange ideas in order to build the roadmap based on what you need because that's exactly the path I want to go with my product.

My idea is to create a tool that the manager uses, but also the team members use - and is actually more useful and actionable for the team members, helping them achieve their professional goals.

Currently, you can create "Long Term Goals" and "Short Term Commitments" for your team members. And they have their own account to check and edit their own Goals and Commitments.

What I am working on now is to create some sort of "Steps" to achieve a Goal and frequent "Status Updates" on how is it going. With it, email notifications - sent to the Team Members - so they report their status updates.

Future integration with Slack for those notifications is in the plan too.

EDIT: You (or anyone reading this) can contact me through the email on my profile

"Important dates" added to your calendar of choice would be neat.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by mrieck »

acutesoftware wrote: post #116
mrieck wrote: post #46

Working on a desktop version of my webdev tool SnipCSS: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma... The current version is a Chrome Extension that extracts every CSS rule needed to rebuild the DOM subtree of a selected element. Unlike other tools it never uses computed styles and uses the actual DevTools protocol to get the CSS. The current extension doesn't handle CSS specificity or inheritance c…

What made you decide to go with a desktop version of your software?

I'm hoping to make SnipCSS part of my workflow so a desktop version means I could have it more closely tied to an IDE. For example I could import code snippets, manage extracted Fonts/Images, or even analyze the existing project so it doesn't duplicate existing css rules.

Eventually it would be cool to automatically create React/Vue templates but that's getting ahead of myself. For now I'd be happy if it just extracts the correct styles 99% of the time. Currently it's 80% there, but the last 20% is always the hardest.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by anthony_doan »

splittingTimes wrote: post #50
anthony_doan wrote: post #8

Thesis. It's a proposed classifier algorithm that is suppose to be better than Random Forest and XGBoost for classifying high dimensional data. The data sets are cancer data (prostate and myeloma). Unfortunately it's not going to be publish because I'd like to graduate sooner and that the software does not meet certain criteria for the journal we were aiming for. The proposed algorithm uses two technique: 1. My fores…

Is there a public link to your thesis? Can your approach be used to do feature segmentation of 3D (triangle mesh) data?

> Is there a public link to your thesis?

Not until my advisor okay my paper. He wants to see it first.

> Can your approach be used to do feature segmentation of 3D (triangle mesh) data?

Sorry, I have no clue what this mean so I don't think this is my area of expertise nor can I answer this properly. I'm an master student for applied statistic, this seems to be a computer science machine learning question?

I can point toward papers regarding either GUIDE or CERP if you like.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by peteforde »

kaishiro wrote: post #45

I've been building out a product with two other developers for over a year now - and we're finally just a couple of weeks from launching. It's a drop in e-commerce system that allows people to start selling products on an existing site very quickly (a similar space as Snipcart). Now just building out the marketing and wondering if anyone will want to use it.

That sounds interesting. How would you compare it to something like ShopLocket? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtsDPgOkQ-0
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