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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by drunkpotato »

jedberg wrote: post #216
enjeyw wrote: post #51

An aggregator ala reddit/hackernews/twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery. One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that: - how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting. - However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than "frontpage" content - This means…

On reddit, we created a bellwether award. It was basically for the person who was most accurate at upvoting things that got popular and downvoting the things that did not. The people who won the award the most were the ones that upvoted all the memes and blogspam. My point of this is not to discourage you, but to warn you that the way you've described your platform, the most "profitable" thing to do is not upvote goo…

That is fascinating! I love these stories of people optimizing/gaming the system in ways you maybe didn't account for or didn't predict.

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Post by gmemstr »

Rewriting my storage application from Go to Rust, since it offers some better ergonomics for what I want it to do - Ideally I want to merge a bunch of different file and object storage providers together into one API/web interface: https://github.com/gmemstr/sliproad/tree/3.0-rust-rewrite

Also working on reading more books :)

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Post by ChadB »

https://www.dispoteca.com/

I just launched the marketing site on Monday. I'm 38 with a spouse and two small children. I've been a CTO of two SMBs over the last few years and needed to build something of my own. It's the craziest thing I've ever done.

The industry is end-of-life IT assets. It's a big industry with a lot of steak dinners that you can make a decent living at by grinding. I was introduced by a buddy of mine who's managed to build a good no-tech business in the niche.

My thesis is that there's opportunity around "platforming" the service with integrations and automation. Compliance and convenience are big drivers for customers, so traditional marketplaces have failed to take off.

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Post by inferense »

There’s an abstract and not well defined problem of: “how do we design our life”? There are many tools which intend to help us with planning, executing, reflecting.. however none of them solve this problem holistically. They’re often specialized in 1 area (i.e. todo) and offer painful user interfaces which forces many of us to go back to pen & paper.

https://acreom.com/ is a powerful text editor for life organization. We are building an intelligent all-in-one tool with lightweight design that will tackle the problem of how do we "design" our life holistically.

The landing page is in progress, so we're currently aggregating sign-ups here: https://forms.gle/HMTw4xa5ppABzCFRA and would be happy to share when it’s ready :)

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Post by osdev »

I’m working on a Kotlin Framework, more like a collection of small, modular libraries that can be used for both server side and android. https://www.slatekit.com My goal is a simpler, lighter, modern version of Spring framework (for Java) , but for Kotlin for both server and android. Also, looking into making it cloud provider agnostic.

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Post by wagslane »

I'm building Qvault in my spare time. It has a few goals:

* Provide an inexpensive alternative to CS degrees

* Gamify the education process

* Keep the curriculum linear and simple

* Fill in CS knowledge gaps for bootcampers and self-taught devs

* Interactive - coding, not video based

https://Qvault.io

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tlochtefeld »

I am working on developing a platform that generates stock sentiment indicators from popular sub-Reddit pages. Goal is to have the program scrape through sub-reddit threads, detect stock tickers, and based on surrounding text, generate a sentiment rating. I would then compare these sentiment ratings to recent price/stock volume shifts to see if I can identify potential momentum trades before they happen.

I am honestly not sure if there will be any correlation to stock price movements and sentiment ratings generated from my platform, but thought it was an interesting idea and intrigued to see if there are any trends.

I am also relatively new to programming, so if anyone in here finds this interesting and wants to help, would be more than happy to collaborate.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by gurleen_s »

I'm a CS major that does broadcast engineering for my university's athletics program. Sports are not a major focus at my school, so our TV budget is relatively small. That makes most good graphics playout software out of our reach ($5-10k+).

I found a framework called NodeCG [0] that let us build graphics that are essentially just web pages with transparent background (sent over the network to our video switcher). The problem is that is rather bloated in my opinion. What I want is to essentially have a WebSocket server that acts as a key-value store, that accepts connections from data-collecting scripts (scoreboard, stats XML, etc) and forwards that to my graphics pages. Then, using Alpine (we use Vue right now), all I have to do is define which data goes where, rather than needing a callback for each k/v pair.

Hopefully, on top of that, I can build a WYSIWYG builder for the non-technical folks in our studio. Given that all of our pages have a fixed 1080p size, does anyone know of a good way to build this sort of thing?

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