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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#381
Random Drop Selector

https://www.droprandom.app/

https://github.com/yhippa/cod-wz-2-drop-randomizer

I had so many fun ideas for this but once I got the basics down I stopped working on it further.

Edit: this might be one of my favorite HN posts. So many cool projects here that are actually interesting to me.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#382
https://simpledbapp.com

My attempt of ms access for the web. It is version 0.8, then I hit caveats and limitations of using blazor, so i am in the process of rewriting it on asp.net core 7 mvc

tables, forms and reports are defined in xml, it has basic querying facilities and account and security management. It uses Lua for backend scripting. It allows for full app development in the browser. database is sqlite, but i made an orm that is database vendor agnostic just in case

Created an app for simple course management which is working fine, including certificate generator.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#384

https://smol.party A while back I really needed a way to invite some friends to a party and thought about how nice it was when we all used Facebook Events. So I made Facebook Events minus the Facebook (or any account). You can make an event, send the link to your friends, and they can RSVP. The whole thing is a two-table django app where the only js is for launching confetti. Edit permissions work via a session cooki…

Just tried it out. There are things I would change but it's really awesome. I actually like this more than Partiful because I didn't have to think.

I would way rather get these over Evites or Eventbrites.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#387

I've posted before, but https://beatyourbookie.app/ is what I've been working on for a while. The website is for tracking betting lines and finding arbitrage and +EV bets across sports betting sites. I've been hooked on the idea that there are inefficiencies in sports betting markets that can be taken advantage of, especially in betting on live events and so this started as me just collecting minute by minute odds da…

Love the site and the idea, but struggling to understand the criteria needed for a +EV bet. Would one site need to have a positive moneyline bet on team A, then another site have a positive moneyline bet on team B... assuming team A & B are playing each other?

I typed out half of a real long message and then realized this could probably explain it better than I can

https://www.techopedia.com/gambling-guides/what-does-ev-mean...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#389
I started a command line tool to manage your references called Zoia a little while back. I found Zotero to be a bit cumbersome for what I wanted so I decided to write something of my own. I got it to a semi-working state with some basic functionality, then got busy with other things. But I still like the idea and would like to flesh it out if I ever get the time.

https://github.com/joe-antognini/zoia

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#390
Can we include projects with no intention to finish or support long term or frankly even share to an audience other than myself until now for some reason?

If so, I made this little app to help me quickly learn ukulele song chords nearly a decade ago: https://ukey.vercel.app/

Code: https://github.com/namuol/ukey

The idea was to translate generic guitar tabs into visual chord diagrams for ukulele simply by copy-pasting note notation. Technically it could be adapted for other fretted instruments with a few lines, because it actually generates the chords mathematically with the help of the excellent Teoria library.

This sometimes leads to questionable finger positions, but you can tap any chord diagram to see if there are alternative fingerings, which makes it easy to find the most comfortable way to transition between chords.

On a similar note, you can transpose the song until you find a key that avoids the most difficult chords.

At one point I considered automating this process by creating a simple heuristic to determine the “difficulty” of a chord fingering, but I decided this was too subjective and varies a lot depending on the adjacent chords and frequency of switching finger positions.

Needless to say, I never really learned to play ukulele…

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