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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by curo »

ayewo wrote: post #106

A little nervous sharing this, since it is a work-in-progress, but here goes nothing :) I'm currently learning about sales and marketing and think I can share my modest knowledge on the topic in a way that is fairly systematic. One of the draws of programming for me—and I believe this is true for a lot of developers—is that software development is fairly a systematic discipline to get into, unlike sales or marketing,…

I've seen a couple marketing guides pitched at engineers, and I think there's more potential in this space for sure. The value prop is intriguing to me.

Quick feedback: if you want more early reviewers, perhaps put up an example post. That would answer a few things for someone like me: is the writing good, what level is the material (beginner or intermediate), can I walk about with at least one non-obvious insight.

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Post by Parapheen »

Mine is ULeague (https://www.uleague.ru). It's a platform for collegiate esports in Russia. We automate Dota tournaments and organize our own collegiate events.

It was and probably is a playground to learn coding and trying new technlogies: steam bots, rabbitmq, microservice architecture, svelte, typescript. A lot of fun and experience.

We even built a seperate platform for organizers to manage the tournaments. For now we use it ourselves. Pretty cool to host Dota games from the smartphone. Players just get instant invites to the in-game lobby. And after the match is finished the score, the bracket and the stats are updated automatically.

Not much time recently for new tournaments. But very cool to get positive feedback from the community.

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Post by CarVac »

Filmulator, my open-source raw photo editor.

https://filmulator.org/

It got a lot of attention last week, but I've been working on it since 2012, almost entirely for myself. It's impossible for me to know but I assume that until recently I had on the order of ten users at most…

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Post by ParanoidShroom »

XTC tablet reverse image search app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...

Since COVID people are using it less, but consumption is not all that low surprisingly. And yes it's not 100% compared to a chemical test I know. Same tech but better use than facial recognition.

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Post by FriedrichN »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #255
FriedrichN wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is 'privacy' code for 'being able to fart' in this context?

Farting is the least annoying of bodily sounds that happen in the bathroom.

Such as? I honestly want to know, because I've never experienced any sounds from others that were particularly annoying.

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Post by tr1ll10nb1ll »

Well mine is domecode.com now, made it open-source too, build it as a platform that I wanted to succeed initially but then realized with everything else in my life right now, the probability is very less so now it's just out there, has some users too but whatever.

Built it from what I imagined an ideal platform for developers to learn anything, code anything and be productive would look like, of course it didn't turn out to be that but rather 25% of what I imagined.

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Post by dunkelan »

A tool to help write almost anything faster.

ScribeGen (https://www.scribegen.com/) is built with GPT-3 and can help content marketers, blog writers, or just about anyone get working copy to edit from as fast as possible.

The launch has been fantastic so far, but even if it's less successful than I hope the experience working with GPT-3 and other language metrics has been eye opening.

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Post by irjustin »

zcbenz wrote: post #230
evnix wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few Screenshots would have been really nice

In the "Examples" section of README, you can find links to examples with screenshots.

Apologies if I sound overly harsh, but you've got to listen to the feedback.

2 people complained about the same thing, and you gave feedback that was "it's over here, but not where you think it is" that's a UX problem in a README.

I went to look at the README me, clicked Sample App (with Screen Shots) and there's no screen shots. I gave up.

Make the screen shot, at least one, front and center on the main README.

2 were nice enough to complain, but you've got to believe so many more people would be interested if they could just see it.

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Post by elpakal »

Applying CV to detect sensitive data in images, redacting on device https://gorp.app/

The extent to which healthcare providers have to go to send production screenshots of their apps paired with my itch to apply CV, done at a YC hackathon a while back

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