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

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

#411

I'm working on waltrack.net, a price tracker for Walmart.com (US only). The goal was to create a camelcamelcamel for Walmart, but affiliate is too uncertain, so I'm building a b2b offering for 3rd party sellers now. https://waltrack.net

Aren't you afraid of them trying to come after you? I'm from the EU and had a similar idea for a local retailer. However, legally it's such a grey zone that I decided not to continue.

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

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Every application that I've worked on has had blind spots, or forgotten lands of code. Things like “how often do people actually use this feature?” …or… “does this code still run every night?”. I made something to track those things easily. https://flexlogs.com And since it's Monday… I've been working on a little project to be less overwhelmed and get more done each week. It's a super simple productivity idea that st…

At first I thought you made a website that gives me an empty Markdown file. But I am glad I downloaded it its actually a pretty nice template.

What are you personally doing with the yearly goals in that file. Are you copy and pasting them from last week, or are you typing them down everytime to re-iterate them (and possibly even modify) ?

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

#416
Building a nodeless Kubernetes service; no servers/worker nodes, pods are scheduled transparently as micro VMs (planning to make this flexible, so Fly Machines, Cloud Run, Cloudflare Workers, what have you). Optionally, you can bring on your own worker nodes if you want to!

Still super WIP, and the landing page hasn't been updated yet but here's a quick little early access form! https://tally.so/r/me2Q8E

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

#417
My daughter loves creating things — art, books, videos etc. She's shown an interest in learning to code, but she's only six, and I don't want learning to code to be a chore. So I've built visual scripting into her favourite game!

Overcooked is a co-op series that fundamentally requires the control of multiple characters to progress. I've kept multiplayer as an option, since teamwork is an important part of the game. However, I've replaced the 2nd player with a bot that you program to assist you.

It's still experimental at this stage. However, I've experience leading EdTech engineering departments and my wife is a teacher at my daughter's school. If my daughter's peers show interest I'll go ahead and build a course around this for primary school aged children.

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

#418
Currently, other than my day job, I am obsessed with making sense of the "shape of stories". Mapping embeddings and see how they move through a sequence.

Started of with [1] which showed that there might be some strength to the idea.

Applied it for chunking [2] and web site analysis[3] and got pretty good results.

Just started trying out experiments on video [4] and surprised that the structure seems to hold for image embeddings as well.

I have no clue if this has any value, but it is fun to go down this rabbit hole :)

[1]https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/the-shape-of-stories-...

[2]https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/a-new-chunking-approa...

[3]https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/using-semantic-chunki...

[4]https://x.com/nutanc/status/1849661242027409723

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

#419
I launched https://www.emailremind.me/, which is a simple website to send yourself email reminders in the future.

The tech stack I used:

- Remix

- v0 for UI code gen

- Resend

- Neon for DB

- Exograph for API

- Clerk for Authentication

- Cloudflare Pages + Workers + Domains

- Cody wrote ~ 1/3rd of my code

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