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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by 90-00-09 »

kukkeliskuu wrote: post #286
90-00-09 wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an interesting take. A couple of observations: - Small groups of people who know each other IRL are very sensitive to breakups. When a couple breaks up, it frequently splits their friend group into 2 camps that "follow" one of the partners (strange behavior in my view but certainly observable and prevalent, especially in the US). Dealing with this complexity is going to be a challenging task. - Small groups o…

The idea is to connect a little big larger groups that you have in mind, people that have something in common. Something like "single dog owners in Finland", "single people in Finland who like to hike", who have existing communities, for exmplae in Facebook. Such groups seem to have 1-10K members. I think the sweet spot is communities with so many members that simple Facebook introduction threads are no longer feasib…

Ah cool. Yes, that makes sense!

Would you allow people browse the list of existing communities and join them, or are individual communities invite only?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by catapart »

https://www.midi-speaker.com

My first synthesizer. Web components using Web audio and Web midi apis, but no library dependencies. It's built to be extensible, and able to create new synth instruments by providing a bunch of source elements (like audio or video tags use, with custom properties), but those features aren't deployed yet. So just a regular old synthesizer that works in any browser (no midi in Firefox, though), for the time being!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by kukkeliskuu »

kukkeliskuu wrote: post #286
90-00-09 wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an interesting take. A couple of observations: - Small groups of people who know each other IRL are very sensitive to breakups. When a couple breaks up, it frequently splits their friend group into 2 camps that "follow" one of the partners (strange behavior in my view but certainly observable and prevalent, especially in the US). Dealing with this complexity is going to be a challenging task. - Small groups o…

The idea is to connect a little big larger groups that you have in mind, people that have something in common. Something like "single dog owners in Finland", "single people in Finland who like to hike", who have existing communities, for exmplae in Facebook. Such groups seem to have 1-10K members. I think the sweet spot is communities with so many members that simple Facebook introduction threads are no longer feasib…

The group administrator can decide whether the group is public, i.e. visible in listings or not. I have done a small pilot, and that was invite only, with the link in the Facebook group.

If anybody is interested in working with this, help would be very welcome. The platform is based on python/django with a little bit of Javascript sprinkled on top.

While there are some small coding things needed to do to scale it up, the biggest help would be to work with somebody who would be interested in promoting the site to potential beta users (i.e. groups), for example the communities they are personally involved in.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by Aeolun »

FrenchyJiby wrote: post #287

I'm building Mass Driver[1], a tool to automate PR creation across many (many) repos, building a library of reusable changes via "patchdriver" plugins. The repos can be fed as list on CLI, via file, or via a "source" type plugin (allows github search or custom API calls), the PR creation works via a "Forge" plugin. Resulting PR list can be fetched to review status: > Of 113 given PRs, 73 merged, 30 closed not merged,…

I’m not sure what I’d use this for?

Is it for when I need to enable Github Advanced Security on all 2537 repos in my org (by adding a workflow file)?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by Aeolun »

jackbewley wrote: post #239

Changelog monitor tool I made for myself that I’m slowly making available. I keep an eye on a number of project changelogs and needed to be notified when they update. Since they’re in various places, and don’t all have releases so I can’t use GitHub’s release notifications, I built a simple tool to consume from anywhere with an url and send me a diff. Slowly adding features on top of that. https://1changelog.com/ I’d…

Hmm, I need something sort of like this but to monitor the changelogs of all my dependencies on Github. Want to see the changes in those dependencies between one release of my software and the next.

Don’t build it, because I don’t need it enough to pay for it (or get my boss to pay for it).

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by winrid »

https://watch.ly

Basically web analytics but using websockets so we can track time spent on each page. Then there is a daily email report which is helpful for monitoring launching new products.

I never got any paying customers so I switched to other stuff. Marketing is hard. Someday I'll go back to it. I use it though and it works, but the interactive reporting is half baked.

I'm also working on https://sidewaysdata.com - Motorsports registration and timing. New design will be up soon (done by actual designer, not me lol)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by simonsarris »

I'm making an interactive garden designer to help plan a (mostly rose) garden in my front lawn that will be visible to the town.

https://garden.simonsarris.com/

It all works (double click to place plants, undo/redo, copying, etc etc), but it needs more items. And saving and loading does not work yet. Actually, since this is HN, you could write

    go.Diagram.fromDiv(myDiagramDiv).model.toJson()
To save and share. But I need to implement some server saving because normal people do not adore JSON as much as we all do.

Some examples of what I'm thinking so far to give an idea of what loading might look like: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1705056223333151053

I have considered making a more public version of this that anyone can use for their own garden, but that would take more non-trivial work.

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