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

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Post by rationalist »

ragebol wrote: post #175
rationalist wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Cool, thanks for sharing! Don't forget maybe having some pads underneath for any falls :-)

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

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Post by ragebol »

rationalist wrote: post #201
ragebol wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Cool, thanks for sharing! Don't forget maybe having some pads underneath for any falls :-)

Yeah, that table is going to be quite the natural selection filter I suppose. Crash pad is on the way.

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

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Post by cui »

shaoner wrote: post #93

I'm building a rss client with an extra layer to have user comments/threads. This lets you create your own feed of articles entirely but with a social aspect. I want it open source and free, just building an app that I'd like to use myself.

I built the exact same thing 2 years ago, and then figured out that Inoreader actually already had it in their product. They are disabled by default, probably because this feature is not popular at all.

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

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Post by noreplica »

I’m building websites designed to feel as hand-coded as possible! A random assortment of games, digital instruments, off-kilter tools, technical experiments, and more. Complete with a homepage that’s literally handmade ~ featuring tons of hand drawn GIFs! It’s a good place to waste some time :)

https://barcoloudly.com/

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

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Post by pawelkomarnicki »

DaBarrington wrote: post #185
pawelkomarnicki wrote: post #183

I have realized that playing board games with other people makes my mental health better and started work on a community platform and at some point physical space to connect: https://GamesAgainstLoneliness.org Also working on a journaling app but it’s still in the works.

Do you worry people might avoid your site/shop due to stigma around loneliness? I am curious is people might end up being embarrassed to be around because they would get designated as "lonely". If you find that people are slow to sign up, you could potentially do some A/B testing and advertise the same idea with a name that is related but feels like it has a more "positive" twist to it?(Could be called "Ludo League"…

I’m not particularly worried about any stigma or anything. So far most people understand that it’s not “yet another another gaming club” but a community/place that is also for this particular purpose. Worst case scenario I can rebrand it later into something else.

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

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Post by bbyford »

pawelkomarnicki wrote: post #183

I have realized that playing board games with other people makes my mental health better and started work on a community platform and at some point physical space to connect: https://GamesAgainstLoneliness.org Also working on a journaling app but it’s still in the works.

love the website, but sounds like the community mostly needs places to actually go be together, feel like maybe the website and members thing could have happened after maybe?

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

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Post by jfil »

anVlad11 wrote: post #47

I'm going with my fourth (or fifth) attempt to create a digital twin of my apartment in a game engine. This time it's in Godot and i want to add more interactive stuff in the virutal version, rather than just redraw the rooms with some lights synced with Home Assistant.

This is really cool

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

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Post by jfil »

nicbou wrote: post #156

I'm making more and more art. I'm meeting friends, and we sit together and doodle and paint. I've made so much progress in a few months simply by practicing more, experimenting more, and allowing myself to waste paper and make mistakes. A few friends have framed my art. It's nice to do something away from the screen, without any goals besides having fun.

Very wholesome! I find that using cheap paper, and basic supplies from the dollar store really gets rid of hesitation when making art. After all, you're definitely not "trying seriously" when you use low-end supplies...

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

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Post by paulmooreparks »

InfraScaler wrote: post #199
paulmooreparks wrote: post #39

I'm building my own cloud (I actually typed claude instead of cloud there... wow). There's no IaaS or PaaS; it's much simpler. I wanted my own way of connecting to machines and the TCP services on those machines without having to install Tailscale (not allowed on a locked-down corporate PC) or pay for Azure or AWS or GCP or even Hetzner or Linode. I've got 10gbps fibre and a huge workstation at home, and I've got lot…

You are rebuilding tailscale but requiring a centralised hub. I did the same in 2016 (pre-tailscale?) https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013451/https://wormhole.... I am not sure WireGuard existed at the time, and I used SoftEther and based it all on doing outbound tunnels to TCP/443* to avoid firewall blocks in corporate networks. You could explore full P2P by leveraging UDP hole punching: https://cloudnetworking.p…

Thanks! Yes, Tela already does UDP hole-punching. I made Tela because I wasn't allowed to install Tailscale on my new corporate laptop, and no other available solution seemed to tick the right boxes. It started as a simple way to RDP to my home workstation, but then I realised that if I could do that, I could finally pull my ad-hoc home cloud into one tool. The hub model is very much by design, for organisational purposes. The hole-punching feature gives me the P2P speed (and even STUN, if available). An upcoming version will allow hub-to-hub topologies.

It should have occurred to me that tela is also Spanish, since about every third word I hear in a Tagalog sentence seems to be of Spanish origin.

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