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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…

Thank you for creating this.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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November is my last working month! I'm giving entrepreneurship a try to solve a huge problem: phone overuse. It's been busy: - Reading books, currently "The Mom Test" - Looking for a startup community and being disappointed with what my city has to offer - Deciding between VC vs. bootstrapping, and taking a firmer stance to try the latter first. This includes rejecting ODF. - Talking with like-minded people. I now ha…

Check out these guys: https://www.instagram.com/theoffline_club/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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https://pastmaps.com I'm building Pastmaps - striving to eventually be the world's largest online collection of old maps, aerials, and photos all packaged into a public historical research platform that's as easy to use as Google Maps. This has been a labor of love now for about a year, but I still have a huge mountain to climb to realize the full vision. Give it a try and give me your harsh criticisms - that's the g…

Just be careful in countries like Japan where old maps sometimes are used illegally to discriminate based on caste (tracing ancestry of workers/candidates to discriminate against ones coming from certain historically lower caste areas of towns and cities). You might catch negative attention if your tool makes it easy to reference these maps

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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A flat-file (micro)CMS written in Rust, the basic idea would be to make it as easy as possible for content creators to have a web presence without dealing with the nitty-gritty details, and similarly for web designers to be able make themes while treating the CMS itself as a black box mostly.

Grav CMS was inspiration for this project along with various SSG.

But truthfully I wanted to play more with Rust and come up with a solution for making and extending personal websites easily. A page is made up of blocks which are stored and configured in a KDL file, minijinja is used for templating and for writing the page content itself I'm thinking about Djot because it might make it easier to integrate a WYSIWYG editor in the admin area if I aim for Djot instead of Markdown or similar. Also HTMX because I've used it for a simple use-case once and I thoroughly enjoyed it, now I want to see how much I can push it.

Is this the intersection between buzzword-driven development and hype-driven development? Probably, but if all goes well a month or two from now I'll post a Show HN and go into more details. The plan is to open-source the core so that people can easily self-host it themselves if they want to and do local development. In the long-term the plan probably is to offer SaaS-style hosting for the CMS as is the custom.

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