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W nutrition planning app that focuses on looking at an entire week, instead of daily goals. It's based on a spreadsheet-system I've been using for a while: the idea is that you can have a pizza night and eat a little bit more on Friday by recovering from the extra calories throughout the rest of the week.

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Had a tough year and found coding very therapeutic (not my day job - so go easy!). The results:

https://www.sheetmonitor.com/ - Time-based-analysis on aggregated google sheet data. You can point it at a google sheet and define what data you want to track. It then grabs aggregate data from the sheet at regular intervals so you can see how the sheet is changing over time. Its something thats not possible to do within the sheets themselves for a lot of circumstances. Nodejs, sheets api & a time series DB.

https://dafr.ink/ - Simple Goal orientated project tracking. Wanted to create a tool that was really really fast, sharable without anyone having to login, but with optional lazy authentication. Svelte & cloudflare functions.

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"When will I run out of money?" https://whenwillirunoutofmoney.com/

Due to changing jobs recently I created this site as a fun side project, as other sites I found involved sending your financial data to someone else's server. But I'm not really happy with the introductory text, nor did any friend I showed it to find the "help" link which was disappointing. Would love some feedback or advice!

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I created ContainerSSH[1] in 2020 which is an SSH server that drops you in a container instead of launching a shell directly. (It's not a containerized SSH, it talks to the Docker/Kubernetes API.) It has since become a CNCF Sandbox project The main use case is creating jump servers and remote dev environments, but it can also be used as a honeypot due to its audit log features that allow you to reconstruct the SSH interaction accurately. We did a few demos where we showed the SSH interactions on a honeypot in real time on a web interface. The authentication and dynamic configuration of containers is done via webhooks.

A now-comaintainer from CERN also contributed X11 and port forwarding support to it and is now continuing the development of the project. Since I switched industries and am nowhere near containers anymore, the project could really use a few contributors.

A few feature ideas we had but never implemented:

- Web-based terminal that directly interacts with ContainerSSH via websockets.

- File manager using the same.

- Better audit logging for SFTP interactions, allowing for filename-based search.

- Web interface for viewing audit logs.

There are a few talks/videos available online:

- ContainerSSH in one minute [2]

- Building a science lab with ContainerSSH (CERN usecase, Red Hat Research Day EU 2022) [3]

- Build your own honeypot with ContainerSSH (DevConf CZ 2021) [4]

[1]: https://containerssh.io

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9OrnPi2IM

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7M7japaa1o

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJpsx7HpkU

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

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I have been working on a web app that makes tutorials for elderly people who struggle with technology. Something as simple as "turn off the wifi and turn on data" can be a struggle for a lot of people.

My plan is to make tools for making tutorials customized exactly to the users phone / desktop screen. So if an icon is on bottom right, the tutorial should mirror the same.

I have sporadically worked on it for the few months. The only issue is whether I am dumbing down the app way too much.

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

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"When will I run out of money?" https://whenwillirunoutofmoney.com/ Due to changing jobs recently I created this site as a fun side project, as other sites I found involved sending your financial data to someone else's server. But I'm not really happy with the introductory text, nor did any friend I showed it to find the "help" link which was disappointing. Would love some feedback or advice!

I love the idea of a 'sheet' where you can add financial data and have it figure out what it needs to calculate.

I would love to see this have the ability to draw simple graphs to show how your situation will look, or allow for things like interest rates on deposits, or the ability to see how your income might look like in X years with an Y% average increase, etc.

PS: Also check: https://soulver.app/ for inspiration

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

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I have been tinkering with this word game for something like 6 years. It is intended for mobile, though it works adequately on desktop. It is a virtually endless word-finding game that can be played solo or taking turns with a friend. I still need to add some game modes and more interaction, but the bones are there: https://wordwhile.com/ Be gentle, it's running on a budget server.

This is great! What I‘d like to see is a progression, for example stage 1 with a big 8x8 grid which shrinks based on some metric. The game end once you cant form any new words. Smth along these lines wouls be cool!

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

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post #216

"When will I run out of money?" https://whenwillirunoutofmoney.com/ Due to changing jobs recently I created this site as a fun side project, as other sites I found involved sending your financial data to someone else's server. But I'm not really happy with the introductory text, nor did any friend I showed it to find the "help" link which was disappointing. Would love some feedback or advice!

I love the idea of a 'sheet' where you can add financial data and have it figure out what it needs to calculate. I would love to see this have the ability to draw simple graphs to show how your situation will look, or allow for things like interest rates on deposits, or the ability to see how your income might look like in X years with an Y% average increase, etc. PS: Also check: https://soulver.app/ for inspiration

> I would love to see this have the ability to draw simple graphs to show how your situation will look

That's a great idea. One tool I had been previously using (server based, then started to require payment so I stopped using it) had a graph. I found that while it was cool initially in the end I just looked at "do I have enough money to make it to date X", so I figured I'd skip implementing a graph. But maybe I should consider it, it certainly helps to visualise the situation.

> or allow for things like interest rates on deposits, or the ability to see how your income might look like in X years with an Y% average increase, etc.

Thanks for the suggestion, I thought of that too, wouldn't be hard to do...

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#219

I have been working on a time killer mobile-first geometric game with a novel gameplay. There are vertical light rays, and optics transforming them are falling from the sky. The goal is to get rid of all the darkness. Preview: https://twitter.com/klntsky/status/1687853518395240448 APK: https://github.com/klntsky/SunKey/releases

Looks trippy, but the animations/colors need a bit of work. The Twitter video made my eyes hurt.

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I have been working on a web app that makes tutorials for elderly people who struggle with technology. Something as simple as "turn off the wifi and turn on data" can be a struggle for a lot of people. My plan is to make tools for making tutorials customized exactly to the users phone / desktop screen. So if an icon is on bottom right, the tutorial should mirror the same. I have sporadically worked on it for the few…

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