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Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
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#252It’s not a product per se, but I can already see it needing something purpose built in the future.
I’m hosting a 6 week cohort of makers and builders to meet virtually every week and share progress with a demo day at the end. It’s been really exciting to see the response of such a program. People are doing things from crocheting to programming.
It’s totally free and the point is to meet other people making things and to finish your own projects.
Here’s a blog post where I chat more about it: https://iml.bearblog.dev/lets-make-things-together
But I imagine there could be a whole CRM-like system that might need to be built to manage it if it gets any bigger.
Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
#253I've been working on a local-first personal finance/expense tracker called Tender: https://tender.run Tender runs as a PWA and uses the Automerge crdt and sqlite via wasm. The app more or less runs entirely in your browser (works offline!), though our server proxies connections to pull in plaid/splitwise data. Feature-wise, we're targeting folks who do want to manage their expenses but not have to do fine-grained bud…
Hey, so you may not be targeting this particular market but it is adjacent and something I would pay $5-10 a month for. Have you considered expanding this eventually into a Empower (formerly Personal Capital) competitor?
What I mainly use from them is:
- investment performance tracking across my various accounts.
- retirement planning/forecasting
- cash flow, expense, and income tracking overtime.
- warnings about upcoming credit card bills; amount is never right but I pay my statement in full so just a little thing saying “Hey this is going to hit your account on this date” is helpful for me.
- basic budgeting
Anyway a local first privacy respecting alternative I would definitely pay for. iPad support would be a must for me.
Just some unsolicited feedback. Best of luck
EDIT: forgot to mention the reason I am looking for alternatives. Empower bought Personal Capital and are getting much more aggressive in pushing their management services.
So, I figure it is only a matter of time before they either start selling my data or cut me off since I am not interested in anything they are selling. They have really nice iOS apps though.
Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
#254I'm working on SparkShell https://sparkshell.dev
It's a free online coding website targeted towards beginners learning Markdown and other frontend tools like HTML, htmx, alpine.js, etc. It has GitHub pages-like hosting and you get your own free sparkshell.sh subdomain for your projects (which can be on your domain while having the source private!). You can also easily install certain libraries and frameworks in a couple clicks without having to deal with package managers or any of the sort. It's meant to be a sort of Repair alternative, but free.
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#255I've been building algorithmic trading models for the last 4+ years. After trading them successfully with my own capital for more than a year, I launched https://grizzlybulls.com as an alternative to the traditional hedge fund monetization path. Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown: Model - Return - Max drawdown S&P 500 (benchmark)…
Is it correct to say you need a multiple of 50x the value of SPY to execute this strategy (if the minimum you can hedge with is 1x MES)?
Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
#256I’ve been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically, I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I make it in real life for them, then ship it to them. Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me! After almost a year of work…
I once met a freelance bespoke industrial adhesive maker. He takes orders from various factories for adhesives with specific properties, then uses his knowledge of chemistry + trial & error to make one that fits the specs provided.
Bespoke synthetic DNA is much cooler though.
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#257An Anki-clone.
> A free, open source, local-first, spaced repetition system that works offline, has p2p syncing, plugins, and first class support for collaboration. It's GitHub/Reddit for flashcards.
https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/
All the "hard" tech has been more or less built out... all that's left is drawing the rest of the owl >_>
Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
#258I've been working on a no-code/low-code serverless platform for building/running web applications: https://saasufy.com/
Some unique selling points are:
- Apps are defined as declarative HTML. It's possible to build complex apps using only HTML + CSS and no back end code.
- Supports the creation of complex filters/views via a simple UI, with indexing for fast lookups.
- Collections and records update in real time.
- Efficient; real time updates only reach users who are currently looking at the affected resources/views.
- Scalable; behind the scenes, both the database and pub/sub mechanism for delivering real time updates support sharding.
- Spam prevention with rate limiting and backpressure limits.
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#259You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire? Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry,…
I love the thought! Just a friendly warning - gift cards attract the fraud industry. This could result in a wide array of undesirable effects. Make sure you or someone on your team or someone you can call up and consult with knows the industry of gift card fraud really well. This will be very helpful in early planning and feasibility studies.
We have taken control of your computer. Now go buy 6 necklaces and call us back.
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#260A new terminal emulator [0] from scratch. It's native and cross-platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming progress on Twitch. If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1]. [0] https://terminal.click [1] https://warp.dev
Interesting.
I recently saw a video about a terminal emulator being developed in Zig by Mitchell Hashimoto.
Googled now and found the text of the talk, which links to the video.
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-pattern...