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Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by taejavu »

atishaykumar wrote: post #310
taejavu wrote: post #191

I've been putting together a no-nonsense free invoice generator, for people (like myself) that only occasionally send invoices. It's more-or-less a WYSIWYG editor, and the state is stored in the URL, so you don't have to worry about keeping track of where you stored your copy - if you've sent someone an email with the link, you've got a copy. This project was born out of the frustration of trying to generate an invoi…

Pls add support for changing currency and deductions (in India 10% TDS is supposed to be deducted on the amount (ie amount before tax is added) Overall it’s pretty good solution for occasional invoice generators.

Currency selection is on the roadmap but the need for deductions wasn't on my radar - thanks for the tip!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by taejavu »

Aspos wrote: post #206
taejavu wrote: post #191

I've been putting together a no-nonsense free invoice generator, for people (like myself) that only occasionally send invoices. It's more-or-less a WYSIWYG editor, and the state is stored in the URL, so you don't have to worry about keeping track of where you stored your copy - if you've sent someone an email with the link, you've got a copy. This project was born out of the frustration of trying to generate an invoi…

Awesome. Would suggest considering a built-in URL shortener.

I know the URLs are long compared to what people are used to. Part of the rationale for putting this out there in the current state is I'm curious if people in practise will share long URLs or not.

At some point I'd like to add shortlinks but at the moment everything is clientside, there's no persistence at all (beyond localStorage). I think that's a nice feature from a security perspective.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by n3cubed »

I made an RSS reader. I have an idea for an infinite canvas dashboard that I meant to use for various things other than RSS because I wanted something to put on my touchscreen portable monitor and projector.

I tried to make the dashboard experience really seamless and even used a physics engine in there. I think I did achieve this though, but I ended up spending more time on the UI than the dashboard contents. IMO infinite canvas UIs are not utilized enough.

Try it out and tell me what you think. Currently, it only shows what I put up there.

https://nitbit.dev/zoopboard

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by password4321 »

radeeyate wrote: post #319

Me and a friend of mine are designing a HAB (high altitude balloon) payload meant to go on Hack Club's Apex: https://apex.hackclub.com . It's designed to measure how altitude, temperature, and much more affect photosynthesis, and in turn, chlorophyll fluorescence in algae. We learned a while back that when you shine blue light on chlorophyll, it fluoresces red, and it's really quite a cool phenomena. We're designing…

Can you share more info on the LoRa hardware you've chosen and why?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by jprokay13 »

For a long time I used an app called Slowtube to practice guitar. I recently built my own version with features I always wanted like the ability to save sections of songs for future practice, search YouTube (instead of copying links), and provide cross device synchronization. I’m using it daily for practice now and after a bit of polish I plan to put it up on my website

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by taejavu »

nodesocket wrote: post #280
Aspos wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome. Would suggest considering a built-in URL shortener.

Ha, I was going to say is that url query string a sha256 or something.

Yeah it's compressed and encoded with `lz-string` but I know it's hideous - I'm curious if that will prove a practical problem for adoption, even if a technical crowd isn't fond of the choice. Surprisingly most messaging apps you paste urls into these days don't show the whole thing anyway - when you paste it'll transform the link into a small preview card with just the domain portion of the URL visible.
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