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

#251
* Tool that creates Twitter (X?) / Instagram feeds to RSS so I don't have to deal with algorithms etc.

* A turn based game that is essentially "football manager for counter strike" where you control the whole team and their actions in "planning" and "execution" phases.

* I run a Slack community for the South African tech scene, constantly hovering between "I wish I could sell this and move on" and "I really should put in the effort to monetise / grow this".

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Have been working on a project which allows you to check if any of your source code has been copied from major online projects (over 70 billion lines of code) and report back if duplicates have been found. You can control the length of the run (so 15 lines means a match or 7 lines) and make the line matching fuzzy. The idea being to provide compliance checks such as licensing and such, although I guess it would allow…

I think there is a company that does this exact thing.

If you happen to know the name I’d love to hear it. I suspect I’m not searching for the right terms.

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

#253

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.

How in particular do you think colors should be improved?

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

#255
I was wondering how to organise a project, it is only to show minimal code to try things...

* So I was thinking to create branches from 0 to do some work on it.

* Other approach I was thiking is everything in master/main but different folders.

They are meant to be small scripts or structures so I don't see a big reason for having different repositories

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

#256

https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash This is what I wish Dropbox was, a simple layer that make interacting with your FTP server easy so nobody has to own your data. The end game is both to be feature complete with Dropbox and be able to change every aspect of the application through plugin so everyone can get out what they want from it. To do that, I’m making the core a sort of framework to build file manager…

https://imgur.com/a/i0pgsRx What about TBs transfers over Internet? People like to copy VMs.. Does it have any form of brute-force/DOS protection or a way to slap fail2ban for it? One of the reason I would replace our IIS FTP with this, it's constantly under attack and I'm too lazy to write another bruteforce protection script.

I would put this behind a VPN to keep it private. I have used this[0] Wireguard setup before, which takes the grunt work out of configuring everything.

[0] https://github.com/notthebee/ansible-easy-vpn

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

#257

An app for language learning by reading books in the target language. It takes the book (any epub book) in the target language add inserts translations: —Arthur —dijo con tono cortante, ["Arthur," he said sharply.] y su voz sonó como el chasquido de una ratonera—, [and his voice sounded like the click of a mousetrap.] All of the existing apps that I checked only display translation upon clicking a word (like in Kindl…

I'm interested in something like this. I would be even more interested in a curated list of books by language level. Maybe you can offer a couple of books per level and cache those translations, minimizing costs and giving users an easy way to get started reading in a new/intermediate language.

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

#258
I'm nearing the 0.1 release of Burro, a new typesetting language intended specifically for text-heavy documents. (If you've used the mom macro set for groff, it will seem very familiar to you. I like to describe Burro as a spiritual successor to mom.) The goal is to eventually have all the power of TeX with a much more pleasant syntax (after all, a typesetting language should be easy to type!).

The goal of the 0.1 release is to have a strong engine for setting English text, and I'm pretty much there. The main focus of 0.2 will be the macro system and beginning work on internationalization.

I started Burro in October 2018 and took a four year break (yay side projects!). I came back to it early this year and have been working on it pretty consistently ever since. It's exciting to have gotten this far!

Website: https://burro.sh

Source: https://git.sr.ht/~reesmichael1/burro

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

#259
I'm writing an NNTP server in Go. It's something I do when I have a spare hour or two in the evening - which is why I've been at it for 3 years when a decent Go coder, not me, could bang it out in 3 weeks. I'm doing it from the RFCs and hope to make it a full spec server not a toy one. Intending to put it on Github when done but wouldn't dare let anyone see it now as it is comically bad and incomplete.

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

#260
https://www.casinojoblist.com, which I hope is self-explanatory. Updated daily.

Problem is getting any kind of SEO success. The site is functional and designed to be as easy to use as possible, what it doesn't have are any articles, blogs, ads, pricing, or distractions (other than multiple casino-related themes, for a little bit of flair). What's good for users (I hope) seems to suppress any presence in search engines, however.

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