Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

Generate React code from any design system with a simple text prompt. Trying to figure out if the code output is more useful or if the design "inspiration" is more useful. Would appreciate any feedback!

I don't know if I'll ever get around to adding any new features, but it's complete in that it works and does basically everything the old UI did.

I also have Free Hero Mesh, which is good enough to be used now although it lacks installers, and the puzzle catalog service, etc; and is meant only on GNU/Linux; so you would have to compile and set it up by yourself, although hopefully people who are able to port it, and other help with it. (Also a few features are missing; e.g. currently font sizes are limited to 8x8, and there is no music (although sound effects are implemented).)

demo video: https://youtu.be/6ZOVIec4jWg?si=IyqsDHE6FXAbx8UT

It's a search engine / social network prototype I've been working on.

My idea was to use a social network as the backbone of a search engine.

My thinking was that the majority of the internet doesn't need to be indexed, so why not just use the portion of the web that is offered up by users? If this sounds stupid, I would offer Hacker News as a working example of this model.

My other motivation was that the majority of platforms operate on a popular vote strategy, as a result, content that appeals to our lesser nature tends to do very well. YouTube, for example, could not support the development of content as ambitious as Avatar.

Content on Zohing is ranked using a "recursive voting" strategy. It attempts to find accounts that have been deemed by other users to be "high quality" and weight their interactions more.

Put simply: On the spectrum of Avatar to TLC I want creators to aim for Avatar. I am try to create a platform whose underlying game incentivizes the creation of difficult, high effort content instead of reality TV and cable news.

Zohing was created to function as a mobile web app. Getting it to work smoothly on iOS safari was a real challenge. I had to do some ugly hacks to get 2 way infinite scrolling to work. For version 2 I am going to go with a more conservative approach.

If you want to know how the recursive vote algorithm works or have any other questions you can email me at: surgeon@zohing.com

Why mRuby? Well this is the first step of a larger dumb project where I'd have pure Ruby as Linux init/userland and boot straight to it (like these old Amstrad or whatever booted straight to BASIC), then maybe even write a toy kernel in Ruby and drop Linux as well.

I have little time to work in it so it's snail pace but I'm getting near the "I can use this shell" minimal featureset (basically basic input, exec, redir, and pipes) line. That's my "fail fast" part, and iteratively implement features as pain shows me that I really need this or that day to day by using it as my default shell.