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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)

#291
I'm working on coffeeplaces. Whenever I got to a new town, I like to taste the coffee there. For example, at my native place, filter coffee is popular. So I am making a website where people can add coffeeplaces that they've enjoyed and other people can see it.

I'm still in the initial building - ideation phase, so nothing to show.

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

#292
post #207

I'm still working on https://reciperium.com where people can write recipes with a custom language and create forks of other recipes and modify them. I'm currently working on supporting images on the recipes. I'm proud of having launched on producthunt and now trying to figure out how to attract more users

It's nice! A few notes: I think, the ability to read the comments of others, who have already cooked a recipe, would be great! Additionally, it would be great to have the possibility to group ingredients, since many times you start with creating two ore three independent mixtures, that you only combine in the end.

My gut feeling, for attracting users, would be to just optimize the recipes to be found by people via search engines. It's great, that you are currently adding images. This is, I think, pretty important for deciding, if I want to cook something or not.

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

#296
I’m starting a company in my hometown to help the local area with electronic waste. We offer commissioned sales, repair, refurbish, and any other straightforward computer-based tasks.

I’ve been leaning on my career as an infrastructure or DevOps or whatever engineer you wish to call it.

I’m creating our backend to automatically pay people their commission when an item sells. It also helps us navigate our (currently modest) warehouse to find items to be dispatched.

I also can’t tell you how long I’ve spent getting some old label printers working.

I’ve not felt so engaged in such a long time.

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

#298
TL;DR: https://xkcd.com/974/ "The General Problem"

I've been not quite building that basic CRUD app I promised my friend, because:

- A. I've ended up obsessing about the general problem of how to compose an old-skool CRUD web stack, in Clojure [1]

- B. He hasn't given me any deadline. Lol.

- C. He won't read this comment because he doesn't read HN :p :)

[1] Plenty of options exist; biff, kit, duct, caveman... but when one gets that itch --- you know it --- it cannot remain un-scratched! Like so: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...

Flights of fancy are not far behind either... https://www.evalapply.org/posts/mycelium-clj/

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

#299
I am working on Openkoda, an open-source platform for insurance applications based on pre-built templates and generative AI to accelerate the implementation of new insurance products and distribution channels.

Why?

The insurance sector is probably the slowest to adopt innovation in finance, lagging far behind banking. E-commerce is on the opposite end of the spectrum.

https://openkoda.com

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

#300
post #223

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…

Great job, that’s a nice simple idea that has value for lots people.
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