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I'm working on a native programmable tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app.

You can select a text on any app and hit the configured shortcut to activate tooltip.

I program this tooltip to speed up several of my workflows like opening a JIRA ticket , opening a file in IntelliJ from a stacktrace, and show humand-readable time from seconds from epoch.

The tooltip has been very helpful to me, and it might be useful to you.

Check it out: https://github.com/tanin47/tip

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#412
I'm currently on a post-university gap year and making a couple of iOS apps, having been doing so for the past few years.

The first app [1] is pretty niche but a technically interesting challenge nonetheless; it's a fast auto-checkout bot to be used on Supreme [2]. There's other apps just like it but they all seemed to cost upwards of $50, so mine's available for around $10.

[1] https://autocart.page

[2] https://supremenewyork.com

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#413
I'm working on customers' projects mostly. One personal project I'm excited about - I'm writing a childrens book about space. I plan for it to teach very young kids concepts like "space isn't just about going high, it's about going _fast_", and possibly why many rockets have two stages. Would love to hear some other concepts it should teach!

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#414
I am working on building a student accelerator. The first version is available here https://horizontech.dev

Everything is completely remote. Meetings through zoom. Messages through WhatsApp and Slack. Project Management using trello. Code in github and gitlab. Video with the help of loom

We have open-sourced our code https://github.com/HorizonTechnologies/website

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I got a really old and broken inflatable dinghy off Craigslist about 2 months ago for $30, and am rebuilding/restoring it. Right now, I'm about 16 individual Hypalon patches and 2/3 a quart of internal sealant in, with one tube finally sealed and the other most of the way. Once that's done (in an garage test, anyway), I'll bring it to a local stream to if it floats. If it does, moving on to building a floor out of pl…

That's really exciting! Marine projects can be a lot of fun. The feeling of being out on the water on a craft that you built/repaired yourself is really great, and makes all the hard work worth it.

What size/model is the boat? Depending on your interests, you could even explore a more powerful electric motor and try to get it up on plane. There are lots of people out there building powerful DIY electric drivetrains (eg. https://efoil.builders/ for e-foils). Have fun!

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#416

I've just finished off (within the last hour) my version of Asteroids, which I started with enthusiasm two or three years back, then did very little after getting the basics of the game working: https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/ Now I've finally added all the stuff I wanted to (black holes, satellites, power-ups) so it's time to pick up another project I started a long time ago and haven't really done much on: my ve…

Nice work.

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#417
I’m building a platform to try to support better, privacy-focused email marketing.

I see two challenges to current email marketing:

1) It’s tricky for senders to build an audience in a very crowded space - mind-share is coming at a premium.

2) Recipients are having to deal with more and more noise in their inboxes.

My solution is a topic-based email platform that lets recipients choose areas of interest which senders can then pay to broadcast to.

I am trying to make this possible in a totally private way - so senders will never see recipients’ email addresses or any demographic data; they will only be able to target groups of people (think FB ads).

On top of this, I see an opportunity to pass the financial gains onto recipients, so every message you read earns you money.

And to take it one step further, I want to promote ethical business by donating proceeds to the Golden Lion Tamarin fund to help preserve some of the world’s most endangered species and forests.

If any of this is appeals, I would love it if you’d sign up to the waitlist. I’m trying to gauge interest before I invest too much into it:

https://goldtamarin.com

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#418
earlier this year I was working on a project called emojirama.io for building interactive stories with emoji. I started it as a way to learn and practice lots of different things: Vuex patterns, PWA, Quasar Framework, Django Rest Framework, Social Authentication, path-finding algorithms, web sockets with Django channels and other random things. I took a break from working on this recently but hopefully will revisit it soon.

It is currently deployed on https://emojirama.io and all of the code is on GitLab here: https://gitlab.com/emojirama/game

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