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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by apsurd »

killjoywashere wrote: post #320
tootie wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work in tech for public media and am it's almost disheartening to know what kind of resources other publications have. We have people spread across everything at once. Do you work for the technology department or for the editorial department?

I've been following the NYTimes tech development from a distance for almost 20 years. A couple of things I've picked up: 1) it helps to be the biggest 2) it helps to have rabid boosters with reputational stakes themselves, like Edward Tufte. 3) the tech group maintains the framework, but each section owns their own section layouts. 4) the tech group made a big splash ... eh, sometime between 2005 and 2009 if I recall…

Makes me think of Mike Bostock who created d3 for New York Times. Amazing stuff and definitely made me smarter to work my way through how it works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bostock

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by philsnow »

akkartik wrote: post #219
feiss wrote: post #117

My oldest daughter will turn 8 this year. These days I'm planning which would be best computer/software/OS for her (if any), but nothing in the market fits my requirements as a father. There is so much noise, distraction and overall bullshit in today's computers that I don't think it is healthy or appropriate for her. So I'm planning to make a custom (software) solution. A small set of focused, minimal, productive an…

Coming from a similar use case, I'm all in on LÖVE ( https://love2d.org ) You can see some of the things I built with it at http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

Are you talking about helping your kid(s) learn to program / learn to work with graphics-y things using LOVE?

Last I looked at LOVE, the community was really into using immature names for everything like SECS, LUBE, COCK, AnAl, HUMP, Polygamy, Swingers, Quickie, etc, which makes vanilla, Prude-y McPuritan me look elsewhere for such things.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by imroot »

I'm working on bringing Speech to Text and some contextualization for Police/Fire/EMS Scanner projects.

I host P25 monitoring appliances that I've built and have hosted in a few different cities (that I have apartments at) and want to know if there's a fire/police/EMS call near my house without having to listen to the scanner 24/7.

I basically just want to know if it's safe to walk my dog or if I should wait 15-20 mins.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by paweladamczuk »

Trying to make an academic article dashboard for personal use.

Something that would let me select a couple of academic journals and display latest papers published in them, along with abstracts.

I can't even find a free API to reliably get abstracts. After spending an hour reading the docs and failing to understand the monetization model, I refuse to use Elsevier's APIs.

I will probably use Crossref's API and just not display abstracts at all. I will put links to publisher's site and to Sci-Hub in the dashboard items.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by brassattax »

imroot wrote: post #333

I'm working on bringing Speech to Text and some contextualization for Police/Fire/EMS Scanner projects. I host P25 monitoring appliances that I've built and have hosted in a few different cities (that I have apartments at) and want to know if there's a fire/police/EMS call near my house without having to listen to the scanner 24/7. I basically just want to know if it's safe to walk my dog or if I should wait 15-20 mi…

Love this. I have often thought about doing the same thing, but using the audio feeds from broadcastify perhaps.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by thebigman433 »

Im currently trying to finish my Raspberry Pi powered RC car, that uses a Pi on the car and as the remote, with Remote GPIO to connect them. Currently stuck on a bug where the Pis connect but the controlled Pi doesnt execute the commands it gets.. Otherwise its all wrapped up, including a custom PCB on the car for controlling the two motors and steering servo.

Once this is done, Im going to start work on a custom model BART train+track. Goal is to have it running with a live third rail, and then long term add some code for controlling the train coming into "stations"

Also get a job at a tech company in the fall...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by ToJans »

cambaceres wrote: post #308

Since the start of the summer I have been building a SaaS for companies doing inspections and maintenance on separators, a certain kind of device for cleaning water used in gas stations, restaurants, garages etc. I have been dreaming of living on my own product since I started as a developer 10 years ago and tried a lot of different ideas out but it just wasn't happening. When I found out that my girlfriend was pregn…

Very nice. Having walked down this path: get the signature under the contract or an advance before you build "one more feature".

In my experience "one more feature" is usually a very polite way to say "no", and it can be a sign that you haven't identified the proper solution to their "hair-on-fire" problem yet.

(I've built the exact features prospects requested, and after showing the built feature I usually got another excuse, i.e. "I would also need feature y first", or "not right now", "no budget ATM",... )

If you nail the hair-on-fire problem people should be considering how to finance it or start asking "by when can we use it".

Having been a developer first, I also hugely underestimated the importance of a proper ICP, value proposition etc. Your messaging might be a big part of the reason that people are saying no or yes on the spot.

May everything work in your favor in 2023!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by cambaceres »

ToJans wrote: post #339
cambaceres wrote: post #308

Since the start of the summer I have been building a SaaS for companies doing inspections and maintenance on separators, a certain kind of device for cleaning water used in gas stations, restaurants, garages etc. I have been dreaming of living on my own product since I started as a developer 10 years ago and tried a lot of different ideas out but it just wasn't happening. When I found out that my girlfriend was pregn…

Very nice. Having walked down this path: get the signature under the contract or an advance before you build "one more feature". In my experience "one more feature" is usually a very polite way to say "no", and it can be a sign that you haven't identified the proper solution to their "hair-on-fire" problem yet. (I've built the exact features prospects requested, and after showing the built feature I usually got anoth…

Thanks a lot for your advice, I will discuss it with my partner ASAP. Good luck to you too:)
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