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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#212
Upward Accounts https://apps.apple.com/us/app/upward-accounts/id1494340479

We help U.S. freelancers save on taxes by:

* auto-deducting business expenses

* making it easy to invest in self-employment retirement accounts

* letting them know what they owe in taxes and when

Having worked on side gigs in the past, freelance taxes have been a huge pain for me and others I know.

First bank account is free for 30 days, $5/month or $50/yr after that for multiple bank accounts (we integrate with Plaid).

Would love to hear what people think and how we can continue improving.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#214
https://www.cloudternal.com

It's like AirTable/Lists/etc but for big organizations.

So the focus is on a more useful permission system, handling lots of data, dead simple data entry for tech-phobic employees, and getting the information you need quickly (as opposed to spending time fiddling around with how data is displayed, this isn't an "app builder").

The intent is to replace the hundreds of untracked, out of sync, insecure Excel files being used as a database in most large orgs.

Cool tech note - people learn to use a graph database with Cloudternal, even if they never know what a graph is.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://snapshop.netlify.app A search engine of all products selling on Shopify. In the same state as it was few months ago. There's obvious way forward but i need to get a job first. Also related https://stroget.now.sh

Are you scrapping thousands of product pages and indexing the results? Would love more info

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#216
I am working on a tool called Playbook (https://useplaybook.app). Playbook is an application that allows anyone who presents product demos to tell a more complete, integrated story.

One of the primary features of many SaaS products is how they integrate smoothly with other platforms customers are already using, like Salesforce or Slack. However, in a demo environment, it can be difficult to show that workflow in a way that doesn't require flipping between persona accounts and taking precious time to generate the activity. Playbook hooks into a demoer's demo accounts and facilitates creating "plays", automated workflows between any number of SaaS apps that show off your product's integrations. It also supports working with multiple personas to create lifelike collaboration instantly.

There are still many kinks to work out but this is the first step in building Demo Engineering-as-a-service.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve got these features in the backlog! I’d love for you to play around and provide some feedback on current state! Everything is client side and reactive to your plan changes so it’s easy to quickly see how your changes effect your plan.

You should ask for term length and then calculate the minimum monthly payment, because I don't have to look up the minimum monthly payment. I notice that "mortgage" account type is missing. I always think that credit cards are tough for things like this because it's such a moving target, you'll probably have to integrate with the banks. Also I guess this is mostly around the snowball method (as you said it was) but m…

Great feedback. Truly appreciate your time and suggestions.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#219
I built football11challenge.com after spending a ridiculous amount of time solving this challenge on twitter: https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1250066001821130759

I wanted to extend on the initial premise by allowing users to define and share arbitrary constraints for a soccer starting 11 and automate verification of a squad given the set of constraints.

It needs a little bit of polish but overall I really learned a lot working on it. Typescript + React is wonderful combination. It was my first time working with Django and it was a pleasant experience.

Do play around with it and any feedback is welcome. Thanks!

Here's an example of a "challenge": https://football11challenge.com/challenge/601246266

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