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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by vinaypai »

demyinn wrote: post #242
vinaypai wrote: post #227

https://millionballs.app It's a web app to help you improve your real-life pool (billiards) game. You can practice shots and learn to visualize the angles. Eventually, I want to go way beyond basic shotmaking and teach patterns, but it's already useful in it's current state at least to beginners and intermediate players. I've posted about it before but I've made a lot more progress since then, including making it mob…

Super cool project! I love billiards! Is there a way to implement adjusting your angle while in the "aiming" state? I noticed that the only way to adjust your aim was to stand and move the angle then you could try aiming again. Or is this the intention for visualization? Really like it over all :)

It's very much intentional. Beginners often try to adjust their aim while down, usually with poor results. Instructors will universally teach you to aim while standing, and get up and reset if things don't feel right when you get down.

I've taken lessons with several instructors including a former world #1 player ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Immonen). He would make me get up and try again if I made the tiniest aim adjustment when down.

The "aiming" state is in fact when you're standing.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by vinaypai »

Folcon wrote: post #267
demyinn wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Super cool project! I love billiards! Is there a way to implement adjusting your angle while in the "aiming" state? I noticed that the only way to adjust your aim was to stand and move the angle then you could try aiming again. Or is this the intention for visualization? Really like it over all :)

It is the point of the sim it seems, pushing you to get used to aiming while standing.

Exactly this!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by wc_nomad »

https://github.com/imcnaugh/InterviewNoteHelper

A small electron app that let me take notes while interviewing candidates and save the notes in a format. I used the rating system of chess moves (!!, !, !?, ?!, ?, ??) to mark down notable points of the interview and what i though of them. It even has a little keyboard i build with an ardunio to enter in the ratings subtly.

It was a fun project, I learned quite a bit about electron and software for embedded systems. But the hiring freezes hit and it took a bit of motivation from me as well.

Someday when things are better Ill boot it back up. and maybe even use it for interviews again.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by vinaypai »

Folcon wrote: post #271
vinaypai wrote: post #227

https://millionballs.app It's a web app to help you improve your real-life pool (billiards) game. You can practice shots and learn to visualize the angles. Eventually, I want to go way beyond basic shotmaking and teach patterns, but it's already useful in it's current state at least to beginners and intermediate players. I've posted about it before but I've made a lot more progress since then, including making it mob…

I do think the arrow keys make it a little easier to aim, would some drag to aim moving left/right and releasing the mouse to go down give a bit more reasonable feeling of the experience? I'm just aware that when you're playing you don't feel like you're moving in very fixed increments left/right when aiming, which using the keyboard seems to produce as an experience.

You don't actually move in fixed increments with the arrow keys. You start moving, initially at a slow speed then faster as you keep it pressed up to a certain maximum speed.

You'll only get the same results if you have exactly the same timing every time you tap the key.

That said, I've been prioritizing the touchscreen controls because that's where a majority of traffic comes from. I don't want to neglect desktop users entirely though!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by jerlendds »

djbusby wrote: post #316
jerlendds wrote: post #168

OSINTBuddy - https://github.com/jerlendds/osintbuddy - https://osintbuddy.com Node graphs, OSINT data mining, and plugins. Connect unstructured and public data for transformative insights. My long-term goal is to turn this project into a viable alternative of Maltego/Palantir type software. Currently my roadmap looks something like: - Refactor and clean up the code base all over to make it easier to onboard potential…

I think Accounts and RBAC should be done early. Adding these things later has been hard IME.

I completely agree, I have auth/accounts implemented but there's a few data models I need to update yet before that's fully integrated with the application and I can push those changes. I didn't list the roadmap tasks in any particular order but I appreciate the tips

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by waltbosz »

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…

Ant related anecdote (dare I say ant-cdote): The other day I was reading in my courtyard and kept seeing ants walking back and forth carrying these huge black balls which turned out to be other live ants. I followed an empty handed ant for a while but lost him in a patch of ivy. I think they were engaged in a behavior called social carrying https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Social_Carrying .

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by jerlendds »

cookiengineer wrote: post #250
jerlendds wrote: post #168

OSINTBuddy - https://github.com/jerlendds/osintbuddy - https://osintbuddy.com Node graphs, OSINT data mining, and plugins. Connect unstructured and public data for transformative insights. My long-term goal is to turn this project into a viable alternative of Maltego/Palantir type software. Currently my roadmap looks something like: - Refactor and clean up the code base all over to make it easier to onboard potential…

Do you know Aleph from the OCCRP? That's an open search engine for legal documents which tries to trace internationally operating crime syndicates, and it's used by a lot of international newspaper agencies. [1] https://github.com/alephdata

First time coming across this, looks very cool! Definitely some ideas there that I'd like to implement for osintbuddy. Another project I'm going to be taking some ideas from is: https://github.com/ail-project/ail-framework - a modular framework to analyse potential information leaks

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by SpaghettiCthulu »

SushiHippie wrote: post #172
_def wrote: post #152

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> Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google. Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!

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

Is that new? I definitely didn't have to pay when I published an extension around november last year.
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