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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by BrunoBernardino »

KurSix wrote: post #168
BrunoBernardino wrote: post #9

This seems a little bit of a duplicate of [1], but I can repeat my answer here as any views help! My wife and I continue to work on Uruky, a EU-based Kagi alternative [2]. Since last month we finally got our production API Key for EUSP/STAAN (it was certainly the slowest and most complicated search provider to adopt, so far), and that brought us to 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer. We alr…

Regarding the bots: since you're building a privacy-first product, you should look into a Proof-of-Work captcha (like Hashcash or mCaptcha). Just have the user's browser mine hashes for a couple of seconds before issuing the trial token. A normal human won't even notice it, but it'll burn so many CPU cycles for bot farms that abusing your API becomes economically unviable

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll look into it!

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by gyorgy »

tsdevstack — Infrastructure as Framework

An open-source TypeScript microservices framework I've been building solo for the 8 months. It generates and deploys an entire production-grade cloud infrastructure (VPC, gateway, WAF, observability, CI/CD) from a single config file. Multi-cloud across GCP, AWS, and Azure. Just shipped v0.2.0. Built it because I got tired of writing the same Terraform, gateway config, and CI/CD for every TypeScript project. The application code came together quickly, the infrastructure took weeks every time. Relevant to your "not AI" framing: the framework itself isn't an AI product, though it does include an MCP server so AI agents can manage the stack if you want them to.

https://github.com/tsdevstack https://tsdevstack.dev https://youtu.be/6MJ4PPPjxH8 https://dev.to/gyorgy/i-built-a-typescript-framework-that-ge...

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by ragebol »

rationalist wrote: post #131
ragebol wrote: post #54

Building a bouldering wall at home, for the kids. A bunch of square panels with a grid pattern to mount hold on, with the panels hanging on french cleats (with a locking system, #TODO) so the panels are easily removable so I can hang something like planters on the wall as well with the same french cleats. No AI, a bit of computers to draw things out in CAD, but otherwise just manual building stuff.

Pictures?

https://imgur.com/a/2TIye34 not much to see yet: square panels with a lot of M10 holes and edges (also the edges of the holes...) sealed. I just got the holds, bolts etc the other day. I sanded the panels & primed them for paint last night.

The larger panel is going to be a volume with a bit of a hang. Panels are all tough 18mm outdoor rated 'betonplex' with phenol? resin or the surfaces.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by exossho »

I'm building a YouTube for recipes. Basically it is YouTube clone, but improved to follow the actual recipe (ingredients, steps, etc.)

Was frustrated with discovering and following online recipes (blogs are fludded with SEO content, YouTube is not optimized for recipes).

So I gave it a try to build something I wanted.

https://www.cookcook.it

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by kreyenborgi »

geekysquirrel wrote: post #66

So great to see how much stuff there is going on outside of AI! I've been working (on and off for over a decade) on a way to manage my unwieldy photo and video collection. I experimented with so many tools before but ultimately nothing ticked all my boxes so I wrote my own. Admittedly lots of niche stuff like proper support for UTC time, stereo photos and partial dates and things like 100% offline face detection and…

Does it store thumbs separately from the photos? I see external usb was mentioned, can it support several (possibly disconnected) drives?

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by bawis »

exossho wrote: post #176

I'm building a YouTube for recipes. Basically it is YouTube clone, but improved to follow the actual recipe (ingredients, steps, etc.) Was frustrated with discovering and following online recipes (blogs are fludded with SEO content, YouTube is not optimized for recipes). So I gave it a try to build something I wanted. https://www.cookcook.it

What do you mean by "YT is not optimized for recipes"?
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