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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Upward Accounts https://apps.apple.com/us/app/upward-accounts/id1494340479 We help U.S. freelancers save on taxes by: * auto-deducting business expenses * making it easy to invest in self-employment retirement accounts * letting them know what they owe in taxes and when Having worked on side gigs in the past, freelance taxes have been a huge pain for me and others I know. First bank account is free for 30 days, $5/mo…

I'd be interested to try this but use Android.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://www.taskeera.com/: Monitoring background and async jobs from start to finish. Half of the infrastructure and coding is done but I didn't find a big audience so I'm in the process of just open sourcing it.

https://presentador.dev: Opinionated presentation framework based on MarkDown.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I early-released access to an API for generating interactive chord diagrams. Can be used via Python package, Rust crate, or HTTP API. https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/ It's been/being used by people from many different sectors which is great to see. It's making enough to pay for 2 coffees a month, or at least to cover the server it's hosted on. If I didn't enjoy working on it, I'd factor in my time! It s…

Two coffees! The dream. :D

Don't know whether to laugh or cry! At least I can say we're talking two venti coffees from Starbucks...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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A niche cloud that only runs public auditable source code, built on top of ObservableHQ so the user has the power to read and fork the serverside implementation if they wish https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/serverside-cells The idea is if we shine a light on server side implementation, and give more power to the end user to see what is happening, we can build trust. Personally I want an AI to hoover up my data…

Like smart contracts? I also see relevance with compliance-heavy stacks, maybe integrating something like https://github.com/usnistgov/OSCAL

No just javascript. Crypto and protocols are one way of solving this issue, but I wanted something any developer could adopt. So there are no "proof" of security, but you can always inspect the source code, so services no longer behave like a market-for-lemons. It adds a buying signal. Which although not watertight, does change the market dynamics I think for the better.

Thanks for the links, it could well be relevant.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://subscrippedoff.com/

I'm fed up with the widespread adoption of subscription models by consumer companies - I think they tend to pray on people who don't track their usage or forget they signed up.

This was one idea for helping people understand exactly how much they're really spending on subscriptions. Unfortunately I think it's a little long-winded, but part of that is just because so many services now use a subscription model.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Android app to keep track of things -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.every From the name (Every.ID), it aims to be the one app to keep track of everything you collect: domain names, postage stamps, games, etc.

I personally use it to keep track of my domain names, people I want to keep tabs of (sort of like mini CRM), software subscriptions, and lifetime deals purchased from AppSumo.

It's far from finished. Feel free to suggest features in https://app.productstash.io/everyid -- the completed ones are in https://app.productstash.io/everyid#completed

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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A personal assistant for the desktop computer called Deus. Cross-platforn and open source here: https://github.com/nuttyartist/deus, https://awesomenessnotes.wixsite.com/website-5 (didn't update it for a long time)

Code is in C++ using Qt. Uses Porcupine for wake-up-word detection and Google API's for speech-to-text and text-to-speech.

It can play music, move your windows, you can shout google searches at it, tell it open Gmail, take screenshots, etc.

After launching it I found people didn't find it useful, including myself, after some time. Still, I open sourced it in case somebody will find it interesting. I loved developing the NLP engine part using tree structure to load the database and travel on it to find the most suitable command based on the user input.

Moved on to the next idea (:

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