implementing double-entry accounting for the 10,000th time in human history on our ERP/MES product.
Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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#292I've been working on an iOS app called snapmail: lets you take any photo on your phone, filter / sticker it, and send it as a 4x6 postcard anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99. Fun way to stay in touch with friends & fam. One of a few no-account-needed, single use iOS apps I've been working on. TestFlight for now - try it out here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wKY4eYV8
This is sick and super unique. Gave it a shot, I’ll be curious how the print quality is.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#293I just started working full time on my mortgage loan officer SaaS tool again. I had started building it when I worked for a mortgage company in 2017 because I was annoyed at having to enter the same data on 6 websites 20-30 times a week. Ended up getting some paying customers but somewhat unconsciously avoiding selling too many, a personality defect I have since seen.
If you know a mortgage loan officer, tell them to email tyler at lightningestimates dot com and mention HN. I'm just trying to fix an industry problem at a reasonable price.
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#294I quit my job last year as a CIO and have been working on my own consultancy focused on using strategic foresight to help develop better strategies.
I built a bunch of consultant led tools (Jupyter notebooks mostly) using LLMs to help with this, and saw how customers reacted to what they could do. So I decided a few months ago to bundle them together into a SaaS app.
I’m just about to release the beta of https://www.portage.so to my waitlist in the next couple of weeks.
The main use case is using a virtual whiteboard (ReactFlow) to string together a series of nodes that do a different task through the strategy development process. For example, you can generate scenarios, then analyse the impacts, then create courses of action in response to potential disruptions and so on.
I do a fortnightly dev diary as well, the latest one shows off creating the final output: https://youtu.be/nD_FhWkREhE?si=JK60fVlT7wmmONW3
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#295I'm working on a Tournament Manager for Pickleball at http://pickleballtourneypro.pages.dev because the current incumbent is very difficult for non-technical people (aka volunteers) to use, and super expensive (10-15% of tournament revenue).
Lot of fun ideas, and hopefully will get used by a large variety of volunteers.
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#296I wrote a musical (or otherwise) pitch guessing game inspired by my partner's love for minimalist, but engaging, games like Wordle.
Still tweaking it, and it could use some better instructions. But the thread's here now so why not.
If you see confetti, you answered correctly. Otherwise the points are added or subtracted in a "hot or cold" fashion based on your answer's distance from the actual pitch.
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#297I'd like to work on my writing skills. Some mix of nerdiness and personal Journaling. https://dynomight.net/ is a website that I'm quite inspired by, as it's a interesting mix of personal commentary ( https://dynomight.net/advice/ ) and deep data dives into e.g. homelessness and seed oils. My main barriers are 1) writing discipline and 2) some obsessive need to link/cite every claim I make. This results in me taking…
Over-researching is probably better than under-researching. To reduce time spent researching, try imposing a deadline. The difficulty will be sticking to it, since nobody but yourself will be breathing down your neck.
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#298We’re working on our contract management system for dev and design agencies. Been in beta for a couple months, working as always on that elusive product-market fit.
Besides that our team is always working on cool stuff for our clients. Lots of interesting work these days “in” AI, plenty of cool stuff going on in health tech.
Got something cool you need devs for? Always happy to talk shop — wyatt at apsis dot io.
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#299Reproducing this cheap optogenetic rig to control e. coli gene expression using light.
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#300Created this website for a local rubble removal business. https://legendsfreight.co.za I’d love to get feedback on what can be done to improve the website to feature prominantly for local search when people need rubble removal near them.
Not an SEO expert but I've found that adding your business to Google Maps will get you many more eyeballs.