Working on Booklet (https://booklet.community), which is my attempt at replacing noisy chat products like Slack and Discord with a calm, real-time, high-polish forum.
Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#42After two years of teaching Haskell to highschoolers, I will complete my notes and release them as a proper web book. While working on content I also wrote (in Haskell ofc) a compiler for custom markup (something like Pandoc). The book will defiantly not go deep as some other books, but I hope it will be the best resource on Serbian for starting with Haskell.
Also, now when I have my dream tool for publishing, I am thinking of my next web book project (probably on Complex Analysis).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#43My aim is to finish up Concise Encoding [1] and get v1 released before summer. It's an ad-hoc data format with the following design goals:
* Security (tightly specified, safe defaults, consistent implementations, future-proof).
* Native type support, so you don't need to string encode things (I mean c'mon, it's the 21st century).
* Easy to use (no special files or build steps).
* Efficient for humans, efficient for machines.
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#44For work: flexible artificial muscle actuators for use in prosthetics. For personal use: a workout app that automatically plays high energy music during a workout set and downbeat music while resting between sets. The right music really helps me workout more effectively.
Would love to hear more about the work item... (and interval training with matched music is a great idea!)
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#45I launched Assetbots (https://www.assetbots.com/) last year and went through a lot of ups and downs transitioning into the "people give me money" phase of the SaaS journey.
This year I plan to go all-in on scaling customer acquisition and getting the business out of infancy and into the next level of growth.
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#46Not at a stage where I can talk about it in detail, but I'm building a custom filesystem in FUSE. I just got the first basic getattr() working today. :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#47Everything I am working on is mostly physical or mental health related this year. My only career specific goal is to keep the job I have throughout the recession, continue doing personal labs and exercises of anything new and interesting that may come out in the future.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#48Working on a tool to help consumers find products / watch for price drops that match their budget for a very specific industry.
Think camelcamelcamel with price charts (and other aspects of the products) tracked over time and Google Shopping so you can compare the same product among stores.
Hoping to get the MVP out this month, been tracking data heavily since ~last September and currently have ~150k data points across about 37k products in 32 stores.
Biggest problem I'm having right now is matching up products across stores, since each store can name their products differently, some like to add random text to the titles "NEW!!!!", and data points don't always match up due to the batch based aspect of the products. I have a very basic matching system working, enough to extract (some of) the needed metadata from products and roughly match the products.
Current version is good enough for the MVP launch, mostly just working on cleanup / UI work right now before it goes out.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#49I'm going to build & launch a new project every week - https://www.radihuq.com/52
Very interesting! I would like to follow what you do through the year, maybe in one of those weeks you could work on an RSS feed for the page ;-)
Haha good idea :) in the meantime feel free to follow along on Twitter (link in bio)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#50Working on a tool to help consumers find products / watch for price drops that match their budget for a very specific industry. Think camelcamelcamel with price charts (and other aspects of the products) tracked over time and Google Shopping so you can compare the same product among stores. Hoping to get the MVP out this month, been tracking data heavily since ~last September and currently have ~150k data points acro…
You should check out pricehipster.com. It was really good until companies started making it difficult to maintain a data feed.