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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Just released my MVP for my ‘Airbnb for Musicians’: https://noisycamp.com

I don’t have that many studios yet, but my goal is to make it super easy for musicians to find and book practice and recording spaces.

I built the website using Scala, Vuejs, PostgreSQL, running on top or Heroku and BunnyCDN. The code is Open source: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/noisycamp.com !

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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/mo…

Do you support the seasonal / annualized quarterly estimated payments tax form? I used that for many years for fluctuating freelance income, but I’ve not seen an app that supports it.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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My app: http://hanami.run/

It's an email forwarding service. You point your domain to us, and we will forward email to your domain to your personal email. We also support webhook so you can do creative thing with email workflow.

Still need lot of work on backend to improve spam filtering and add privacy/tos pages, fix typo/grammaer. fix small UI/UX weirdness here and there.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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About a month ago, I began developing Diggy [0]. It started as a simple Python notebook to explore small datasets, visualize results so can share them with my friends. Its initial purpose was to create a Python playground that I can run entirely in my browser without relying on server-side code. Zero setup, just type some Python code in the browser and instantly see results.

I don't feel joy when I work with Jupyter-like environments. They are powerful, but feel complex especially for exploratory programming and for those of us who enjoy playing with ideas. That being said, Diggy is not for large-scale applications where you need Docker containers, cloud providers, integration with enterprise platforms, big data. It’s for those who like learning, coding, sharing and making it for fun.

Diggy is a tactile and visual notebook:

* It’s reactive. You don’t have to remember which blocks to run if you change a variable. A notebook will be automatically updated. There’s no hidden state, a notebook is always up-to-date.

* You don’t need to install anything on your computer. You don’t need to create an account to run Python code. It’s as simple as clicking a link.

* Web-native, runs completely in the browser pushing boundaries of edge computing.

It was hugely inspired by Observable & Repl project. Overall, it’s a small attempt to move towards tools that bring joy to programming.

Under the hood it runs Pyodide [1], and I’m planning to add extra languages at some point.

[0] https://diggyhq.com

[1] https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I posted this in the Side Projects discussion about a week ago, but I'll post again here.

Pulselyre: A touch-screen synthesizer app for live music production - https://www.pulselyre.com

The concept is to create 'instruments' in the editor (2nd screenshot) by building a pipeline/graph of basic modules that create and transform audio based on user X/Y touch coordinates. Then, lay several instruments out on screen and use your fingers to loop sequences of notes live on stage. The demo video ( https://youtu.be/Qk85IrgXRj0 ) shows how that part works (I'm not a musician).

I showed it on some music production forums and to friends who dabble... but I had made a terrible mistake from the beginning. Since my audio engine was custom, I didn't have compatibility with existing VST plugins. No producer would use a synth app that didn't support their favorite plugins, and no plugin developers would switch to a new system that had no users (my engine was also extensible). I looked into adding support, but VST's architecture is too different from my mine... One suggestion was to remove the audio engine entirely and just make the app a MIDI front-end/sequencer for other synths. This is something I might do in the future, though the limitations of the MIDI protocol would mean removing a lot of functionality. I'll probably open-source the project some day, but I need to clean up some things in the code first.

I created a custom UI manager for the app and decided to split that off into a separate open-source Windows UI framework. I still work on it and have used it for other small utility apps: https://tinyurl.com/upbeatui

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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AnyFab: free, browser-based CAD and prototyping.

https://anyfab-5d0d2.web.app

The idea is that you can design parts and order prototypes all in one place. It's only working for 3D printing so far.

This version is using jsketcher as the drawing engine until we have finished the custom one. The webapp is hosted on Firebase and the ordering backend/price estimation uses Rust and Rocket.

Sign up here if you want to see the beta when it's ready: http://beta.anyfab.io

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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…

That's a great idea
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