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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by esperent »

josephg wrote: post #102

I'm sick of having to decide between using cloud software and using local software. Cloud software so often needs subscriptions, and if the company dies I lose access to my data. Local software isn't collaborative. I don't want to email files around to myself, or think about versions. So I'm building a software platform for local first applications on top of CRDTs. Its called Replica, though we haven't talked much ab…

Your idea sounds awesome and I hope I'll hear more about it soon.

> I'm sick of having to decide between using cloud software and using local software

However, I want to point out there's an additional option that is becoming more and more accessible in recent years and that is self-hosting, either on a local server or a rented VPS. Most cloud based applications have several self hosted equivalents at various stages of development.

Check out this list:

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Possibly your project falls into the self hosted category in some way?

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Post by carabiner »

feiss wrote: post #117

My oldest daughter will turn 8 this year. These days I'm planning which would be best computer/software/OS for her (if any), but nothing in the market fits my requirements as a father. There is so much noise, distraction and overall bullshit in today's computers that I don't think it is healthy or appropriate for her. So I'm planning to make a custom (software) solution. A small set of focused, minimal, productive an…

Most important thing is that she spends a lot of time outside playing and interacting with other kids.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by brendoncarroll »

I'm working on INET256, an API for secure identity based networking. The reference implementation, mesh256 is a mesh network using a distributed routing algorithm. There is also diet256, which is a centrally coordinated network with direct connections using QUIC over The Internet.

https://github.com/inet256/inet256

https://github.com/inet256/diet256

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by retr0nerd »

I recently found out that I'm a direct descendant of 3 families of Mayflower passengers. I'd like to join the Mayflower Society, but the process of researching 8 generations of ancestors will take a bit of time.

I'm really looking forward to digging into my ancestry. I've already discovered some really cool stuff and I see it as problem solving, research and correlation, all of which I really enjoy.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by hardwaresofton »

diceduckmonk wrote: post #152
hardwaresofton wrote: post #108

I’m working on Nimbus Web Services[0], a managed service provider (think redis, object storage, etc) for Hetzner and later OVH and LeaseWeb. I’ve been chipping away at it for quite a while, but I’m finally in the position of standing up the production coasters and letting people on. The last 10% seems to always take 90% of the time! [0]: https://nimbusws.com

How do you differ from extending BIG3 cloud providers ?

Well I provide services primarily to a space they’re not in at all.

The cloud providers I target are more seen as “infrastructure providers“ and dont have managed services of their own (except OVH). Offering services on the big 3 providers is something I’ve thought about but is a ways down the road for me.

If you are referencing how the services differ I suspect mine will be worse in every way other than complexity, the big 3 cloud providers have a lot of engineering prowess to throw at any given problem —- Nimbus is more aimed at doing a better job than you could have done in less time (as a IaaS user who has to set up all their own infrastructure), and providing support.

It turns out there are a LOT of open source projects that are extremely good/stable, and mostly work once you set them up properly/ensure they can’t fail catastrophically. Nimbus does the work your sysadmin would do, then makes it available to you.

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Post by cddotdotslash »

I'm working on SourceShield (https://sourceshield.io) - a software supply chain security platform that's fully integrated into developer workflows/tooling (GitHub, AWS, etc.). I just started working on it a few weeks ago, so it's more of a set of tools/PoCs at this point. I'm focusing less on dependency security (which is quite a saturated market - think products like Snyk) and more on the other components of the supply chain: SCM, pipelines, build tooling, integrity validation, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by raphaelj »

kulor wrote: post #73
raphaelj wrote: post #9

I'm working on NoisyCamp ( https://noisycamp.com ), a platform that helps Musicians finding and booking spaces to rehearse. I mostly implemented all the features I wanted, and I'm now focusing on getting more studios on the platform. I'm still working part time, and as a software engineer, it's a little bit harder to get motivated doing sales things than it was when programming the web app.

This is excellent, you can see the love that's been put into this. Feels like something that will do really well, keep going.

Thanks. I really appreciate your feedback :).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by leighmcculloch »

Continuing to work on the soroban-sdk[1] and soroban wasm environment[2], but after spending last year completely immersed in Rust, which was exhilarating learning experience, I'm really hoping to find some ways to spend more time back developing in Go soon and hope to do more of that this year, but unclear on exact plan for that yet.

Also hoping to find some small uses cases for cutting my teeth on using Zig beyond the toying around I've done recently.

[1]: https://docs.rs/soroban-sdk

[2]: https://github.com/stellar/rs-soroban-env

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by sideproject »

I'm continuing with my domain parking tool Newsy

https://newsy.co

It's a modern take on domain parking (I know I know) that I'm using for my own ~50 domains.

I will most likely also be re-working on SideProjectors - a marketplace for buying and selling side projects.

https://www.sideprojectors.com

I am also about to launch HN+ (Create your own HN!)

https://hn.plus

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