I'm working on a platform that connects consumer goods companies and independent sales representatives in an "Uberesque" business model.
Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#412http://explicable.ai/
It's a dead-simple data exploration and prediction micro-saas, but with a lot of nice pixels and state-of the art AI/ML algorithms. Most people think AI/ML is indistinguishable from magic (especially high-ranking decision makers). Let it look like magic!
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Currently in open alpha. I'd be quite thankful if you the reader want to provide feedback, or tell you need a feature, or tell if you feel you have a need for it (or know someone who does), and how much you would pay for it; at contact@explicable.ai or pro+hn@benoit.paris or here. Do not hesitate to ask me for a demo, or tell me you want to start buying the service ;)
Quite open to be sponsored/funded as well!
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How you interact with it:
1) Prepare your data in excel/csv according to guidelines, upload it
2) Explore it like in the demo and get insights. Get a report and a link that you can share.
3a) Redo a cycle to 1) if necessary
3b) If it's ok, you can upload new data for prediction
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#413I'm building a "learn language from content" app. The idea is to have a dictionary of all the words the user knows and then teach the words in collections by loading music lyrics, subtitles, photos of text etc.
Is there a way for me to subscribe to updates on this? I’d love that!
It's very early stage, so I expect I'll finish v1.0 in about half a year. I have to work on my Msc project as well. I'll post it on linkedin, so you can follow me there. https://www.linkedin.com/in/petr-kube%C5%A1-a9a48212a/
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#414Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's really disillusioning to see the top comment in a front-page HN-thread require payment to even be read completely. I can see that this isn't your personal design decision, but there is a literal paywall preventing you from communicating with me. This is absurd.
Sorry about that! I didn't think to put in gift links, and of course I should have. Here are (what should be) unpaywalled versions: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie...
Do you know what the rationale is for such long unlock codes in the URL?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#415Working on a new MLOps tool to manage files, data, pipelines, experiments and models.
I'm writing it in Rust. Using ECS instead of OOP. Going well so far.
It's open (and alpha.) https://github.com/iesahin/xvc
Documentation: https://docs.xvc.dev
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#416My own self-discipline, and being satisfied with my current lot in life.
Looking at the past few years, my project list has only grown, as I repeat the cycle of getting excited about a new idea, starting to work on it, reaching a snag and getting frustrated at the lack of progress, only to get excited about a new idea and repeat the cycle.
This year I intend to focus a little more about being generally disciplined about all the little daily things, and just being grateful for what I do have today.
My hope is that improved discipline will make sticking to one project easier, and being more content generally will help make the stakes of finishing projects feel less daunting.
And because I recognize this answer isn't totally in the spirit of the question -- I'm also working on building a personal blog site with Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView/Tailwind. I really like the programming model of these tools and how easy it is to build a scalable distributed app with Fly.io, and think building some mastery in these tools will be valuable in the long-run.
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#417I'm working on my second novel. I published one in French on Amazon last year which was well received.
This one I'm trying to write in English -- but the writing isn't the hard part; the hard part is finding out what to write. I have a general idea that I think is pretty good, original and relevant for our times. But the division into chapters and scenes is proving quite difficult.
I may have found a system though... Exciting times! ;-)
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#418I want to disrupt the toaster industry. For way too long I've been getting inconsistently toasted toast out of my toaster. My idea is to introduce cameras into the toaster that are used to recognize when the perfect amount of toasting has been applied. It is a way better approach than just using a timer. I have a few problems to solve...
There must be a strong correlation between the surface temperature of the bread, the time it stays at that temp, and the level of toasting?
Maybe an infrared thermostat that would report the surface temperature of the bread would work?
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#419I'm starting a 100% Worker Owned For-Profit residential Trash and Recycling Co-operative All profits go into the neighborhoods we serve and our bylaws are based on the US Constitution. No investors or different class shares. Management term limits, workers vote for CEO and a cooperative ombudsman (termed) for representation during yearly plan/budget proposal. The CEO proposes a yearly plan/budget to the collective of…
What part of the U.S. are you operating in?
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#420I want to build a digital / smart foosball table with features like * automated goal detection * trigger things like lighten up the field on specific events (e.g. a goal) * build a league backend / frontend and player management * allow players to "login" via NFC on the table itself There are a lot of ideas and questions right now. I pitched the idea to my employer to make it a continous "hackathon" for the employees…
Maybe with computer vision it could be a simple app on a phone and work for any table (after some calibration)?