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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)

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Post by poochkoishi728 »

knoblauch wrote: post #303

I'm working on an app to help anyone experience their first lucid dream :) Very exciting project. It started as a dream journal app many years ago when I was a student, and will now soon have a full interactive step-by-step guide with practical tools to achieve your first lucid dream. It's android only, but I've started working on an iOS version and am thinking of raising some money or doing some crowdfunding to acce…

For the site on desktop Firefox, it seems you are very proud of the slider-frame, but we probably don't need to know the UI component identity :)

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

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Post by danschuller »

I have been trawling through the Wizardry 1 decompiled pascal source code for the Apple II. Uncovering neat little bits like:

  PROCEDURE PAUSE1;   (* P010011 *)

  BEGIN
   FOR LLBASE04 := 0 TO TIMEDLAY DO
     BEGIN
     END;
  END;
The perks of having standard hardware and a compiler that doesn't optimise away empty loops.

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

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Post by simplecto »

I've been unwinding my side-projects into their component parts and publishing them as their own python packages. Some examples:

1. https://github.com/simplecto/django-reference-implementation -- My personal production-ready Django boilerplate. "There are many like it, but this one is mine"

2. https://github.com/simplecto/sitemap_grabber -- A python library to recursively crawl every sitemap.xml for a website. Also handles robots.txt and other well-knowns.

3. https://github.com/heysamtexas/django-oauth2-capture -- A Django app to capture OAuth2 tokens for non-authentication purposes, enabling your application to act on behalf of users across external platforms like GitHub, LinkedIn, and X (Twitter)

I'm also taking popular and helpful software and wrapping them in RESTful apis as part of a larger api project I call the JOAT (Jack Of All Trades).

4. https://github.com/heysamtexas/REST-headless-browser -- Playwright headless browser wrapped in a FastAPI REST application, running inside a docker container

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

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Post by koliber »

wasitsent.com

I realized that many new startups routinely run into email sending issues in their apps and services. Most don't notice the issues and they linger longer than necessary. I experienced this myself in my career.

What is necessary is end-to-end monitoring of emails. wasitsent.com does that. It's like an uptime monitor for emails. You add the monitoring email address to your emails (as a bcc: recipient, for example) and configure the monitoring schedule. When your email is not received, wasitsent.com raises an alarm.

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

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Post by curious_mind »

vldmrs wrote: 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…

Awesome!! I love the images for the card on the home page, very pleasing.. I would try with my daughter who loves Unicorns and Princesses.

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

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Post by woile »

taulien wrote: post #292
woile wrote: 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 se…

Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciated.

Regarding the comments, I'd really like to implement activitypub on reciperium. To add the ability to follow users and comment on recipes. And to be able to comment and follow from the fediverse. It's a good opportunity for me to explore the protocol.

What do you mean by combining ingredients? You can currently link to other recipes. So if you make a sauce, that can be a recipe on its own, and it can be linked from another recipe. See this for example: https://www.reciperium.com/rodriguezflors/roti

> My gut feeling, for attracting users, would be to just optimize the recipes to be found by people via search engines

That's a good idea, I'm optimizing a bit the search engine now. I've been also thinking of writing a blog

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

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Post by pavlovsen »

pavlovsen wrote: post #275

As I got laid off 2 weeks ago, I finally have the time to work on one of my side projects: Breathing Tips - a free web app to practice breathing exercises. Tech stack: Ruby on Rails 7.2, sqlite3, BabylonJS for the 3D visuals, hosting on hetzner for 4$ and deployed with kamal 2 https://breathing.tips

If you’re not into PWAs but would like to get some breathing practice in your daily life, you can also subscribe to the YouTube channel where I plan to share mostly shorts of the same exercises

https://youtube.com/@breathingtips

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

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Post by Aeolun »

RHab wrote: post #171

A llm backend fantasy game. It uses structured output and supports Openai, Anthropic and LM Studio. Gemini support is ending, at the moment it is not working reliable. https://github.com/HabermannR/Fantasy-Tribe-Game

That’s a fun idea. I may try this one.

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

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Post by n1c »

davidatbu wrote: post #114

An "offline-first" client web app for Github. I don't want to have to wait seconds to load up an issue, and then wait seconds (or keep another tab open) to go back to the list of issues/PRs, ...etc. I want everything to feel instant, with optimistic updates, and a backend sync process that doesn't require me to refresh the page to see new updates. (Small note: I'm doing it in full-stack Rust, including web frontend,…

I've also had this idea in the back of my mind. A few weeks I ago downloaded the official Github client without really thinking, on the assumption that obviously that's what it would do. Only to be sorely disappointed.

Good luck, I look forward to this existing!

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