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ForgoJS: a 4KB React alternative that gets rid of framework specific DOM access techniques and state management. For example: let people use closures for managing component state rather than something new like hooks.

Here's a preview: https://github.com/forgojs/forgo

I'll do a Show HN once it's ready.

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My current side project is a 1D led strip arduino game where you spin a dial to match the color of a rainbow as it comes toward you. It’s basically doomscrolling through a rainbow, which is pretty soothing.

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A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

For a number of bay area devs I suspect this might have the opposite psychological effect. A $50 price tag might put some people off until they realize it's only 15-20 minutes of work.

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A mobile app for free running gait analysis for reducing injury risk and improving running efficiency. The app uses a user provided video, estimates the runner's position in 3D space, and analyzes the gait over the video duration to identify potential gait abnormalities and areas for improvement. Things it will (hopefully) detect/measure: - Gait asymmetry - Basic running stats (speed, vertical oscillation, stride len…

Add a feature to blur someones face immediately. You'll get better traction if there are no faces in your dataset. You can use the code from what was done to the summer riots pictures.

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I have to hire a lot of people for my job, and I think preparing good interview questions for myself and my hiring panel and comparing the quality of answers across all candidates sucks and there’s no good software solution out there (there are TONS of good recruiting tools and candidate management tools but the actual tool to help ask good questions and log all the answers doesn’t seem to exist). I want to pair this with a well maintained database of good interview questions per type of role rather than googling random blog posts of top ten questions.

If you are a hiring manager, I want to talk to you!

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I'm working on a language optimized for solving programming challenges as quickly as possible. That is, I'm not optimizing for execution time , I'm optimizing for time between reading the problem statement and having a working solution . As far as I'm aware, there aren't any existing languages in this space. There are plenty of "code golf" languages, which optimize for shortest finished program , but that's slightly…

> I should have instant visual feedback showing me how the input is affected by this change

Like LightTable? Might want to check that out if you're not already aware of it. I don't know if it's gone anywhere in recent years or has inspired any similar features in other editors.

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post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

I want this but with a squeeze grip that shocks you for N ms for each dollar that you are about to spend. If you can’t hold down the grip and bear the shock, then you’re not allowed to run the charge.

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I’m working on a restaurant delivery cooperative: https://radish.coop . It’s basically like the other delivery platforms, except that it is owned by its users (so restaurants, employees and consumers) which vote on its direction and partake in its proceeds. I’m a restaurant owner/programmer who felt that things could be done more equitably and feared that the continued dominance of the current crop of platforms would…

This is a great idea. I hope you can win many restaurants to join this endeavor.
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