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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by hallman76 »

kurttheviking wrote: post #380

my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop! the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease, sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)

I'm pretty sure that the owners of Belmont Books in Belmont, MA also opened their store out of a love of bookstores & the community surrounding it. Best of luck to you! https://www.belmontbooks.com/ (no affiliation)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by wenbin »

Still working on ListenNotes.com and PodcastAPI.com —it’s been a 7-year journey so far.

When I was younger, I admired those who could build 12 startups in 12 months. Now, I have more respect for the ones who stick with the same project for years (or even decades) :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by 101008 »

kurttheviking wrote: post #380

my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop! the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease, sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)

I hope you succeed. This would be a dream of mine, have a cozy bookshop, with maybe a cafe, or something like that. The world deserves more bookstores, they are beautiful and each one is unique. Honestly, I wish you the best and, as someone who would love to live it through but possibly won't, I'd love if you start a weekly newsletter telling what you are doing/learning in the process!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by dh1011 »

I am working on "Subscription Manager," a simple single-page web application that allows users to manage their recurring payments. It provides a summary of your expenses, including weekly, monthly, and yearly totals for all your current subscriptions. Additionally, it features notifications through NTFY to notify when a subscription is dued for payment.

Here is the Github repo of this project: https://github.com/dh1011/subscription-manager

This is a self-hosted open-source project, licensed under the MIT license.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by kurttheviking »

101008 wrote: post #413
kurttheviking wrote: post #380

my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop! the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease, sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)

I hope you succeed. This would be a dream of mine, have a cozy bookshop, with maybe a cafe, or something like that. The world deserves more bookstores, they are beautiful and each one is unique. Honestly, I wish you the best and, as someone who would love to live it through but possibly won't, I'd love if you start a weekly newsletter telling what you are doing/learning in the process!

yeah, it was the same for us. really one day we woke up, talked about it, and agreed, why not. worst case, i'll work a few more years than i had originally planned or whatever. best cast, we have delivered a valuable service to the community and can work on it for many years. my wife will be full time and it's very much her dream too. i hadn't thought of the newsletter but that's such a good idea...stay tuned, i might dm you.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by shiroiushi »

kurttheviking wrote: post #380

my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop! the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease, sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)

>sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves

I've heard that IKEA "Billy" bookshelves are very popular, including among people who heavily customize them into creations that look nothing like the original.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by jamilton »

ianthehenry wrote: post #204

https://bauble.studio/ is a programmatic 3D art playground that I've been working on for a while now, and I'm pretty excited about it! It's based around signed distance functions, which are a way to represent 3D shapes as, well, functions, and you can do a lot of like weird mathematical distortions and operations that give you cool new shapes. Like average two shapes together, or take the modulo of space to infinitel…

FYI, the default file errors out!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by tracerbulletx »

I'm writing an open source and light Notepad like text editor front end for local or Anthropic LLMs to have a little more control over my experience with them. It persists tabs with local storage unless you create an account then you can save and sync docs and do vector search on them. https://modelpad.app/ https://github.com/SteveCastle/modelpad

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by vanjajaja1 »

Alex-Programs wrote: post #133

I'm working on https://nuenki.app/ , a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc. Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far fr…

awesome! i am also exploring “low effort language learning” space and making an app. would be interested in bouncing some ideas, got a social handle to share?
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