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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by numpad0 »

kelthan wrote: post #240
SushiHippie wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well TIL https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/ It's $5, but still...

This is mostly to deter malicious behavior because it makes it unprofitable for bad actors to publish malware by spamming the store with dumb apps that are only life-support systems for their little packages of joy. It's a high enough bar to trip up a lot of bad actors, but low enough that it's a simple annoyance for most of us. But yeah, reason 4,590,234,761 why people who misbehave make things more expensive/diffic…

Interesting $5 one time is high enough bar for Chrome extensions store, but $5/mo. is not for bots on certain blue social media. Not disputing facts, just... weird.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by qingcharles »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #176

https://ant.care/ https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants I'm making a digital ant farm. SimAnt + Tamagotchi that runs in real-time. Written in Rust/WASM/Bevy The goal is to give people cute ants that do cute ant things 24/7, ask people to look after their ants and feed them once-per-day, and then deny the ability to provide ant care unless users engage in a breathwork/meditation exercise. I would love help. I'm very muc…

Love the choice of URL :)

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jtU9BbReQk

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by randmeerkat »

astroalex wrote: post #173

https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/ A weird and cumbersome web based synthesizer. In the examples below, double click on a node to trigger a signal in the circuit and produce sound. Here is a "song" that a friend made with it: https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?2.9.C4.m.1.15,6.9.... And here is "Happy Birthday": https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?3.1.G3.m.1.24,4.1....

> Here is a "song" that a friend made…

This is great!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by DLarsen »

https://spendlight.com

My 13-year old son and I have been working on a behavior-oriented personal finance tool. I've kicked this idea around for years, and we had a chance to use it as our subject for a 12-week entrepreneurial program. I built a version of it for personal use years ago, but had fun looking at it through the lens of a more serious endeavor.

It's not feature complete, but the demo of the SMS-based journaling input works pretty well: https://spendlight.app/demo

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by qingcharles »

monknomo wrote: post #165

https://draw.horse This is a drawing toy that takes some inspiration from kidpix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix ). It makes amusing (to me anyhow) noises, has some goofy brushes and stamps. You can't save your pictures or print them out, and I haven't gotten around to figuring out some happy medium of using canvas and doing a flood fill.

Love it. This whole thread is just total and utter madness. Everyone here has the most esoteric projects I would never have imagined.

p.s. the regular pen drawing sound on your app has the background noise in it as far as I can tell. Have you tried it with noise removal? It might make it better, it also might make it less charming, I don't know!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by hvidal »

https://onlineinterview.io/

This is a bit more than half-baked. I created this project because I wanted a platform for code interviews with video chat that was free and didn't require creating an account. So I decided to build it and share it for free. I still have things to do (mostly internal tools and back-end stuff) and I will keep developing it based on user feedback.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by busymom0 »

My recently released site called Lime Reader.

I got a lot of feedback that the sign up process is too difficult for most users. The decentralization component also makes it a bit too complex.

I am working on simplifying it extremely and also making the site extremely minimalistic. Like almost not having a sign up process at all. Would also make the decentralization part a lot simpler. Might be unpopular but I am also removing a lot of existing feature to make it as minimal as possible.

https://limereader.com/

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by peteradio »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #330
peteradio wrote: post #321

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Yea I think that would be a good feature to have. If you are open to more feedback... add some bit of texture to the dirt and sand and maybe a sprite for the food, I guess this would be not too difficult but I don't know. That would help orient me. I also noticed workers kind of rotating around single pixels like they were stuck for quite a few cycles. Few more ideas: seeds that slowly grow into plants and maybe worm…

Of course I'm open to feedback, thank you for giving it. Yeah, the visuals are super bad, right? lol. It's easy for me to forget when I've looked at them for a while. I'll see what I can do to make them look a little nicer. I'm just hesitant about making them look good and then going a different direction with the game / changing the perspective and needing to throw stuff out. Yeah, so ants do have a chance to slip/f…

I didn't catch initially that the ants were confined to the edges underground, perhaps when underground they can walk the full 2d?
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