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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by max10541 »

I'm quitting my full-time job this month (already gave my notice) to start a startup with my brother. We're trying to make cheap-but-performant prosthetic hands using 3D printers and Arduino, focusing on the north-west of Syria. To shed some light, it's estimated that around *50 THOUSAND* people suffer from minor or major imputations due to the ongoing war, and most of them need some form of prosthetics. Some estimates even upwards *80 THOUSAND*![1]

Now, I know most of the technical stuff we need, and my brother knows all the medical details (he's a physical therapist), but neither of us have built a startup before.

We have a plan on mind, but I would love to chat with anyone with experience building similar startups (a mix of software and hardware), or really anyone who's interested in this project.

We also plan on starting a crowdfunding campaign soon this month.

[1](https://www.ri.org/providing-life-changing-prosthetics-for-s...)

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Post by tdekok »

erezsh wrote: post #162

I'm building Total Recall ( https://github.com/erezsh/TotalRecall/ ), a keyboard-first browser extension for bookmarks that's fast and useful. It lets you search through your bookmarks using a local full-text search, with support for tags and extra notes. I'm doing it in my spare time, which is scarce, so I'd love another pair of hands to help me make it super duper great. (it's already great but it's just normal gre…

This looks great! I'll give the extension a try. I have been dying to find a reasonable bookmarking tool, but everything I've tried doesn't stick in my habit pattern. What are the types of improvements that you are looking to add?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by gtsop »

imagineerschool wrote: post #168

Developer DAO is spinning up some large-scale public goods projects and we need good thinking and devs from across the world to help us grow up right. Would you like to see a global tech workers union or guild? Or a maintainers fund to support all the FLOSS projects the world depends on? It's super early days, the possibility space is wide open! Come join the conversation :)

More info on this please?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by edmundsauto »

I'm building a sports analytics platform, where users can write code against a hosted sports database, add commentary, and publish to build a sports data science portfolio. All published articles include the code, and any reader can fork someone else's work to do their own work building off others.

If anyone wants to learn sports analytics, I'm looking for beta users. (Also open to adding non-sports datasets if someone wants a hosted dataset with built in publishing for e.g. SEC filings, crypto prices, etc.)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by pcthrowaway »

tdekken wrote: post #164

I am a former principal software engineer at a MAMAA company turned independent educational researcher. My primary interest is in deliberate practice and how to use spaced repetition (i.e., Anki) to develop expertise. I have three primary areas that I am working on and would love to find serious collaborators: 1) I am building high-quality content for math, English language arts, chess, etc. (see [0] for a good expla…

> MAMAA

took me a second, but I guess it's Microsoft Apple Meta Amazon Alphabet now

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by blparker »

bigdict wrote: post #109

I'm studying mathematics. Now on chapter 11 in Spivak's Calculus. Interested in learning stats, differential geometry, classical mechanics, relativity, and quantum after. Would be interested in discussing math ideas, proofs, problems. Happy to learn/teach if you are close but above/below where I am at right now.

I’m also self studying mathematics on the path to a “DIY statistics degree” (currently revisiting Calculus as well). I imagine there is a fair bit of overlap between what you’re doing. Would be interested in hearing more about how you’re handling your education journey.

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Post by pvinis »

gtsop wrote: post #173
imagineerschool wrote: post #168

Developer DAO is spinning up some large-scale public goods projects and we need good thinking and devs from across the world to help us grow up right. Would you like to see a global tech workers union or guild? Or a maintainers fund to support all the FLOSS projects the world depends on? It's super early days, the possibility space is wide open! Come join the conversation :)

More info on this please?

seems closed for now.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by collabtwy532 »

Great idea for a thread! I have two interests for a collaboration.

Interest 1) Study buddies to exchange domain knowledge between web App Design and Hardware Engineering.

Basic idea: We teach each other stuff from our area of expertise. While you one learn a lot these days from books and Youtube and online tutorials, there is no substitute to asking an expert and getting unblocked quickly.

Me: Electrical Engineer who has years of experience designing consumer and aerospace electronics. I am on a journey to learn more about Web App development and what it takes to build a successful SaaS app in 2022. Some tech that I am looking to learn the basics of : HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node, React, Django, WebAssembly.

You: You know your way around full stack web development, and you are looking to learn about hardware engineering. Posts like below resonate with you. I would like to be study buddies with an individual like that :) My email is in the about section.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24743894

- https://blog.athrunen.dev/learning-hardware-programming-as-a...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037791

- https://contextualelectronics.com/course-types/

Interest 2) Offline first collaboration tools in the electronic CAD tool space.

CRDT technology has been growing fast recently. I am interested in applying the principles of offline-first software and CRDTs to new tools in the electronic CAD tool space (think: tools used to design circuit boards). If any devs are looking to get their hands dirty with applying CRDTs to real world problems, would love to chat. Thinking of contributing to open source tooling in the electronic CAD tool space. I also think there is a market to support an open-core SaaS here.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by outside1234 »

kukabynd wrote: post #153
outside1234 wrote: post #95

I am interested in collaborating on a project to make building local first software a simple reality for developers along the “seven ideals” that Martin Kleppmann lays out (see https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/local-first.pdf ). There has been a number of attempts in this space, but none with a simple developer experience, and I’d like to experiment around fixing that. If anyone is already is already working in th…

Interesting. I’m a potential user. What do you have in mind that would make it a “simple reality”? I totally agree that it’s a mess right now. The hardest part for me was/is the sync and data consistency between syncs and modifications in-between sessions. I’ve used both OT and CRDT and the tooling isn’t simple.

I am thinking from a development perspective something like an easy set of React Hooks that essentially allow you to utilize CRDTs etc. without having to know much more about them than the operations available (add, delete, etc.)

From a user perspective, I am thinking that getting support for a local first approach is as simple as installing a Dropbox style service locally that enables storage and syncing across your devices. Applications written in a local first style would automatically then take advantage of this.

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