Ask HN: Show me your half baked project • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by gavmor » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 7:47 PM UTC

Friend and I built https://druthers.app, and we use it all the time to solve our own interpersonal disputes, as well as with family and friends. It hasn't got any quality-of-life chrome or meta-features such as logins, or bookmarks. We were reluctant, even, to add the sharing button, since obviously a person is already well-equipped to share a browser tab! (I kid! Of course users cannot be presumed to know the power of the device in their hands.)

It's fun, and works great for our purposes. Nothing can compete with it, in my book. Unfortunately, we haven't found a customer worth pleasing and, since we are well-pleased ourselves, we haven't found a reason to approach full-baked.

Edit: for demonstration purposes, "Who is the greatest band of all time?" https://druthers.app/#/de7ef4ea-35e6-4d0f-9b10-2945129eba2e

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by mj-rodriguez » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 7:50 PM UTC

Built https://www.decisionnote.com/to help teams make and track decisions with AI assistance.

AI provides key decision considerations and recommends the best option while your team benefits from real-time polling, pro/con analysis, and decision archiving.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by 9dev » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 8:26 PM UTC

I am working on a self-hosted SSH certificate authority server, which makes using ssh certs accessible to anyone, abstracting most of the ceremony away, but without compromising on security.

This is something like Teleport, but open source and easy to host yourself, with clear extension points and a heavy focus on ergonomics.

I have lots of ideas around this, but it’s hard to pour all the time into a side project for me right now :(

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by dorkrawk » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 9:07 PM UTC

https://github.com/dorkrawk/postwave I have a little blogging engine that I wrote to scratch my own itch called Postwave. You write everything as flat files but you can interact with everything dynamically through a client library. It works for what I want to use it for.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by robertlagrant » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 9:09 PM UTC

adrianmsmith wrote: post #33

sharemywin wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it takes a long time to load. I gave up

Thanks, yeah that’s not the first time I’ve heard that. On my computer, and I think on most people’s computers, it loads instantly. But on others it basically crashes the tab, like it goes into an infinite loop or something. A bit difficult to test without adding debugging tools, apparently Sentry is a good one?, which would definitely conflict with the privacy-first approach. I’ll have to ask more friends, maybe one…

Sentry would be a good bet, yes.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by abrahamepton » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 9:10 PM UTC

http://flow.epton.org - inspired by note taking in high school debate (“flowing”), the idea is to better represent a debate by breaking it up into topics and exchanges and visualizing it to make it easy to consume and evaluate.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by plantain » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 9:10 PM UTC

http://satview.skysight.io/ - global, realtime, full resolution satellite viewer.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 9:11 PM UTC

adrianmsmith wrote: post #14

https://whenwillirunoutofmoney.com/ I thought it’d be cool to have a small textual language where you could describe “this payment goes out every quarter” and “this one goes out monthly from date X to Y” and so on. As a freelancer it can be difficult to know how much cash you have available given taxes go out at weird times, and it’s useful to simulate “let’s delete this row where the customer pays” to stress test yo…

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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by nmwnmw » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 9:13 PM UTC

Also check out https://www.halfbakery.com/.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by mik3y » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 9:14 PM UTC

Berrypatch: https://github.com/berrypatch/berrypatch

The pitch: Want to run stuff on Raspberry Pi, but dread having to remember how to set it all up again when the sdcard fails? Try this homebrew-like interface for common stuff.

Backed by docker + docker-compose + a template system. Not really a package manager but has similar qualities. You can see supported apps at [1].

I've been using it for a couple years to keep by ADS-B system running, but it's half-baked since it never reached any adoption = limited set of packages.

[1] https://github.com/berrypatch/berryfarm/tree/master/apps