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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by danielvaughn »

I've been working on a domain-specific language for UI designers, called Matry.

The language is:

  - platform agnostic
  - component oriented
  - designed to feel intuitive to non-technical users
I've been at the drawing board for a long time, stuck in syntax design. So I don't have a working prototype. But I do have a landing page and some documentation:

https://matry.design/

https://github.com/matry/documentation

My philosophy is this: over the last decade or so, the design world has been attempting to get closer to developers and collaborate more closely. While there's a lot of excitement and energy from the design side to solve this problem, I don't see as much enthusiasm from the dev side. So what I'm trying to do is carve out a space in the software development toolchain specifically for designers - an approach I'm calling "design inclusion".

The real question is how to do this. Most attempts from the design side fall under two categories - making design tooling more programmatic (aka Figma), and introducing no-code or low-code tools. I think both of these fall short in various ways; it wouldn't be practical to list those reasons here. If this gap is going to be bridged, I think the solution has to come from engineers. We have to define an interface for design contribution, and over the years that I've spent thinking about this problem, I've come to the conclusion that a formal language is by far the most versatile and efficient way to create that bridge.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by codeapprove »

catlover76 wrote: post #291
codeapprove wrote: post #35

Is it too developed if it’s in private alpha? Anyway … I’ve been working on CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) for a while because I think code review is the biggest shortcoming of GitHub. The idea is to make a code review tool for power users. Just like you have an editor that makes you productive at writing and reading code, you should have a review app that makes you and your team productive at reviewing it.…

Looks cool. With it being in "private alpha", if I drop it in a Slack for an open source project with which I am involved, and the maintainer/leader wants to try it, will he be able to sign up?

Good question, and yes! I'll get a text message as soon as they ask to sign up and I'll have them in the alpha by the end of the day. Anyone who is already in the alpha can invite unlimited teammates.

It's probably ready for public beta ...

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by HAL9OOO »

alpakha wrote: post #93

https://mapofthebest.com I love food and I love travel. Naturally I decided to compile a list of all the best restaurants in the world. Still very much a work-in-progress but would love to get feedback.

Wow also had a similar idea! How are you getting the google review aggregate if you don't mind me asking? Even simply plotting Michelin restaurants seems like such a good idea in retrospect. I wanted to do something similar with famous food bloggers, maybe you can consider adding that to your list. Something like all of Mark Wein's recs on a map, with a link back to the original youtube video. Automatically adding data from different sources is the hard part I couldn't get over, especially since some of the videos don't have a location in the text.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by codeapprove »

bobwaycott wrote: post #227
codeapprove wrote: post #35

Is it too developed if it’s in private alpha? Anyway … I’ve been working on CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) for a while because I think code review is the biggest shortcoming of GitHub. The idea is to make a code review tool for power users. Just like you have an editor that makes you productive at writing and reading code, you should have a review app that makes you and your team productive at reviewing it.…

This is really, really cool. Great landing page—solid design, effectively sells me on the features and benefits. Would love to see it in action —either some video or a way to try it on a private repo. Even if I can’t actually submit a PR review. :)

Thanks for the feedback! I definitely need to get over hating the sound of my own voice and record a demo video.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by yencabulator »

noeontheend wrote: post #258

I'm nearing the 0.1 release of Burro, a new typesetting language intended specifically for text-heavy documents. (If you've used the mom macro set for groff, it will seem very familiar to you. I like to describe Burro as a spiritual successor to mom.) The goal is to eventually have all the power of TeX with a much more pleasant syntax (after all, a typesetting language should be easy to type!). The goal of the 0.1 re…

I wanted to make sure you're aware of https://github.com/typst/typst -- Typst is a great clean formatting language that's worthy of taking on TeX!

Typst might be powerful enough that Burro's "explicit layout" desire could be implemented as a library in it.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by liviucoman10 »

Over the first part of this year I built a small CLI tool to help me keep track of and execute bash scripts, commands, aliases, etc. It's not what I'd call "done yet" but not "just started it" either.

https://bashvault.app/

Depending on what feedback/success I have with it, I plan on adding support for more shells, operating systems, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by farmeroy »

BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #179
farmeroy wrote: post #31

I started working on a musical web app ( https://synth-app.vercel.app/ ) using Tone.js that allows people to easily create grooves and melodies. It is functional, but I'm having some issues with the beat being irregular with certain numbers of beats (not sure if it is purely the AMOUNT of synthesizer objects I'm creating or if it is just a problem with odd beat numbers). I also have plans to add a feature to save and…

Looks nice! I made one of these, but with drum machine samples instead, back when elements were the new shiny thing. You might want to look into adding a DynamicsCompressorNode near the end of your web audio stack; it should help with the clipping issues you're getting whenever there's polyphony going on.

Thanks! Yes, the sine waves really build on each other and have unpredictable volumes. I'll try the DynamicsCompressorNode out

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by psychomugs »

I've been working on a redesign of a small robot platform I designed in grad school ( https://github.com/psychomugs/r0b0 ). We designed the robot as a small robot construction kit for other researchers and roboticists, and is basically a floating head under a fabric exterior. My last research project used the robot as a tabletop motion-controlled telepresence device accessible through a no-downloads mobile browser.

I never had the time to polish the platform so I did a ground-up hardware and software refactor. The hardware was redesigned as an homage to popular snap-fit robot model kits, with runner layouts and instructions ( https://github.com/psychomugs/r0b0/blob/main/docs/assets/bls... ).

I've tried to generalize the software as an `aconnect` for non-robot-specific hardware devices. The software powers this digital back I designed for my >50-year old Leica M2 ( https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/leica-mpi-a-pi-zero-retrofi... ) and enables quick prototyping of physical IO, e.g. using a MIDI keyboard to control motors or a gaming joystick to control a mouse.

It's mostly a passion project to refine the platform into something more usable than how it was left, but I'm open to suggestions or beta testers!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by sailorganymede »

I am working on a note taking tool which is like Notion and Apple Notes had a baby. As an engineer, I gotta take a lot of notes for my own personal use. I found apps like Notion way too overkill and expensive, Obsidian required way too much time to set up to get it to be useful and Apple Notes was a bit too simple. So a half way between the both would be incredibly productive for me!

Got the database stuff all set up - now need to get the commands to work...

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by bobwaycott »

codeapprove wrote: post #314
bobwaycott wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really, really cool. Great landing page—solid design, effectively sells me on the features and benefits. Would love to see it in action —either some video or a way to try it on a private repo. Even if I can’t actually submit a PR review. :)

Thanks for the feedback! I definitely need to get over hating the sound of my own voice and record a demo video.

You could try to use an AI text-to-speech to get a different voice? I wouldn’t judge based on voice (or the lack of it), but I also understand hating the sound of your own voice when recorded. ;)

Maybe even just short gifs/videos that show features in action alongside where you currently have some images?

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