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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I made https://others.com as an attempt to make a space for meaningful connection and conversation on the internet. Turns out the hard part is getting enough people in there!

I'm working on a website that I might try to turn into a community. Thought this comment on HN was useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444650 I'm starting with a niche, then try to go wider.

Incredibly helpful, thank you!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I think it's a little bit beyond "half" baked, but I built a thing I call Logsuck last year: https://github.com/jackbister/logsuck The idea is to have a free Splunk alternative which you can set up with just one binary. I use Splunk at work and love it, but it just doesn't seem like a product for solo developers (I can't even find a pricing page on splunk.com), and the primary free alternative, the ELK stack, seems a…

I've been looking into making something like that myself. My beef with current platforms is that they are good for extracting metrics and routing logs to their correct team (by service/deployment/...) but not so much for analysis.

When there's a problem in my system, I want to bring up multiple views, manually annotate, highlight the new debug log statements I just added, mark events as good/bad from complicated rules, etc.

None of the current systems (except maybe Grafana+Loki) really do this, they focus on ahead-of-time ingestion rules and tags. I would love a desktop or web tool that can do that, working from a log file that I can easily extract from my log platform.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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http://bbwroller.com/frens

Web viewer for exploring variations of pepe and other cartoon frogs. Attempts at removing duplicates was done with perceptural hashing as dimensionality reduction and clustering using dbscan.

Dataset of 100,000 frog images is available by torrent on the homepage.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I've been working for some time on a capture the flag web game called Rock Paper Scissor Battle!, which is basically a simplified version of Stratego, but the pieces are rock, paper and scissor instead of numbers). Its open source on my Github: https://github.com/daniel-bytes/rps-scala, the backend is Scala and Redis and the frontend React + Typescript. I have a live version of it up at http://rock-paper-scissor-battle.com/, although I have a feeling any real level of traffic will topple over my $5/mo Heroku dyno. Also don't mind the goofy font landing page. :)

I'm overall happy with the backend code, except for the "AI", which can use some real work and research. Right now just some basic semi-random rules that make it pretty easy to beat.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Created a shell utility in Go, called go-live. The idea is that you start it in a directory, and then those files are immediately hosted on the network.

The core idea is to be as lightweight and performant as possible, and to do one thing only and well - Unix style.

https://github.com/antsankov/go-live

Looking for contributors and feedback on it.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I am building standardized and modular mass-distributed DNA toolkits.

Two blog posts for context: https://blog.libredna.org/post/cheapdna/ https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/

Website offering version 1: https://www.sporenetlabs.com/

I pretty much figured out (after quite a few years) how to distribute DNA for 100x-200x cheaper. Right now, I’m building DNA toolkits for engineering every different organism (it’s expensive, but I’m doing it in collaboration with other companies). All open source, too.

Imagine if you could get a toolkit to engineer literally any life form for less than $100. It’d be super cool!

The “money maker” here is that my DNA foundry can build DNA together from my toolkits quicker and cheaper than anyone else, which is attractive for new companies who want to engineer stuff using my toolkits.

It’s a work in progress, but I’m actively working on it, and I’m ramen profitable from my B2B part. Good times ahead!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://github.com/Tade0/emergency-poncho

This is a HTTP mock server for reproducing issues on the front-end using a recorded HTTP archive(*.har file).

The gimmick is that for a given endpoint it stores all the responses and serves them in a round-robin sequence.

This way you can simulate situations where e.g. a request has been retried after the JWT expired, or something special happens when an item is added to a list, and the list is refreshed afterwards - basically every case in which you need backend state.

It works... sometimes. Each new project I'm in uncovers new issues.

That being said with the test team giving me both videos and *.har files of the bug reproduction I was able to solve a few long standing bugs in one legacy system.

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