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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…

Very valuable for me, too (dad of 3). Thanks for curating!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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I'm working on Blazed.deals, a THC/CBD product search engine and price tracker. It scans the prices of cannabis stores and ranks products by mg/$. It has a bunch of categories and filters so people can find the perfect product for their preferences.

https://blazed.deals

I started it last month and have had a few thousand users so far. I have some cool growth hacking ideas I'm looking forward to working on coming up.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Jira Align sucks as a planning tool. But my company insists on using it for product planning. I got fed up with it recently and decided to create my own planning tools using python and REST API (which sucks too btw). My short term goal is to automate all the syncs I have to do from my personal notes to jira align, eventually who knows where this goes.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Building a pneumatic long-range candy dispersal device (candypult) to launch Halloween candy from my garage door to the street. As is the case for many of us around here, I get bored of making digital tools and want to build something in meatspace. I'm trying to use as much material I already own as possible, so building out of leftover metal framing and old decking.

Trick-or-treating at a door is so last decade; trying to catch a Snickers hurtling towards you in the darkness is the future.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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post #72

A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with…

Is there a version for adults? Something that keeps you from getting pulled down engagement bait rabbit holes would be great. I don’t want it to be overly focused on children’s education though.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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I continue to work on BoltAI ( https://boltai.com ) It’s a native macOS AI chat client. I started it last year and didn’t think much about data synchronization. I didn’t want to store user’s data server side for better user privacy. So I decided to store all chats in a local SQLite database. It works well but unfortunately without a sync engine, users won’t be able to continue the chat from a different machine. I’m w…

I bought BoltAI and I’m using it on two machines almost every day. It’s a great little client!

I do have one small complaint: since macOS 15 (I think) I can’t seem to be able to turn off auto-spelling globally, only per chat.

Minor nitpick to a fantastic app otherwise.

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