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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by asaddhamani »

I’ve been building an app that lets you convert rough notes into articles that match your writing style. The app is called PenPersona, here’s the landing page: https://beta.penpersona.com and here’s the app https://app.penpersona.com

The idea is to remove friction in the writing process. I’ve always wanted to be more regular with my writing, and I have a long list of topics I want to write about with notes on quite a few. I have content, converting those rough notes into blog posts is a time consuming process. I can get GPT to rewrite the notes but it’ll not preserve my writing style and will stand out as AI generated content even though it’s not.

PenPersona is able to look at samples of your writing, generate a “persona” from those samples, and then apply it to notes to convert them into articles matching the style from those samples.

While working on this I’ve seen many similar apps which gives me reassurance that it’s a real problem, but I’m not sure I want to enter a crowded market and the product feels more like a feature rather than a full product to me.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by vikp »

I'm writing a deep learning course called Zero to GPT - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/zero_to_gpt .

It teaches you everything you need to train an LLM, including the basics of deep learning and linear algebra. You learn the theory and the application. It includes written explanations, code, diagrams, and videos.

I believe that learning should be challenging enough to let the concepts sink in, so it's not a course you can just skim. It also isn't a "just type this, trust me" type of course - I think it's important to always know why you're doing something and how it works.

I've written 11 lessons, and I'm up to transformers - only a few more lessons to go. It's been fun to write, but balancing time spent training models with writing the course has been hard. Hopefully I will get to finish it soon.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by rnoorda »

A series of travel-based puzzles to solve as a way to explore a new city. Going to Edinburgh? You get a series of clues to solve, using landmarks in that city. It will take you to many of the areas a tourist would want to visit, but in a more engaging way than a list of things you 'must see.'

I'm trying to nail down the exact audience/tone. Is it for families with kids? How hard should the clues be? Should it be more lighthearted or immersive?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by stefanvdw1 »

https://eatfeed.app

If you are like me you have a list of links to recipes on different websites. Maintaining this becomes a hassles and makes it hard to plan your week.

This website scrapes the recipes and saves them in a database, ensuring you aren’t reliant on the original website anymore. Useful if they decide to delete the recipe or disappear altogether.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by janosdebugs »

roomsnewsletter wrote: post #16

I've been working on a new newsletter for the last month and a half called Rooms where I feature creative individuals homes as well as a brief interview regarding their thoughts on design: https://rooms.substack.com/ Would love any general feedback or ideas!

I know I'm not the target audience, but I can't figure out who it would be. Unless you're intensely interested in interior design,this is a topic one would get bored of relatively quickly.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by harrykeightley »

A little niche, but https://run-in.app is an online encounter manager for DnD 5e that I've been (slowly) building this year. I initially built it because I was dming a one-shot for some friends and got overwhelmed tracking the health and position of 6 enemies + the party on pen and paper.

I wasn't happy with the solutions I found to this online, and thought it'd be fun to try and build one myself.

The main features for creating and running an encounter are ready: 1. Adding any 5e SRD mob or a custom mob to battle maps 2. Dragging mobs around the battle map 3. Turn and health tracking 4. Status effect tracking

But there are a few bugs to iron out, and more features to come!

As a heads up, if you visit the site and get a cold start of the container, it might take a while to be properly interactive. This is, unsurprisingly, the first thing to fix on the roadmap.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by dhruvkb »

I'm working on pls (https://github.com/dhruvkb/pls/), a prettier and more powerful alternative to ls(1) that adds a lot of customisation and provides a very fluent command-line interface. It aims to be a superset of exa in terms of the features, while being more actively maintained and targeting a smaller subset of pro-users.

It works quite well and is very usable as a daily driver. I'm adding more features to it and making it available to install it via platform-native package managers.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by j45 »

boulos wrote: post #131

I had (have?) a side project to build a self-hostable Mint/PersonalCapital/whatever on top of ofxtools. The basic idea would be full control of your credentials, so you don't have to trust a third-party like Plaid or Yodlee. Self-hosted doesn't necessarily mean not supporting SaaS-ish behavior though, it's fairly easy to do "dump all my transactions to BigQuery in my own project". I feel like self-hostable asset and…

A UI that includes what you’re describing could work on phones directly, self hosted locally on device.

I think more ppl than I imagine people have taken their run at this problem for personal use, including me.

It would be interesting to see if it could simply a few things I am parsing manually.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by eternityforest »

Wow, what a great idea for a thread!

I'm trying to pare down my personal projects to just the really exciting ones, so I don't have much, butni think the most appropriate to the thread is https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices

It's mean to be a cross-framework library for creating device integrations, so you can, say, write a handler for RTL SDR weather stations, and use it in a simple script up to a mega framework.

I kind of dislike the way HASS and others handle automations where they have special purpose primitives for everything that needs lots of hand written code.

I just have config entries, they must be strings, and data points, they can be strings, numbers, bytes, or objects. You can put metadata on them. There's also a few other utilities like the ability to make subdevices, and the ability to request things from the host.

There are no special subclasses, a light bulb is just a device with a brightness point.

It currently runs my security system with object detection recording, QR decoding if desired, multiple regions, motion detection without decoding every frame, and subsecond latency streaming to the browser, a nice recordings browser that can view a recording while it's being made, etc.

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