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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by prvak »

jcun4128 wrote: post #193
prvak wrote: post #47

I wrote a meal scheduler - https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler . It tracks ingredients we have at home, it has a database of recipes, it knows where we can buy ingredients online (for delivery). It schedules meals for my shared household. I can give it a request like: "next week I want to cook 4 vegetarian meals with 3 portions, and 1 vegan meal for 8 people for big shared dinner, and I want It thinks for…

This is cool I have a similar thought in mind as well as far as having specific meals/ingredients to buy and suggest at random with cost for next grocery run. Looked at the repo, any screenshots of the UI/interface?

I don't have any on hand, but it's extremely bare bones. Plain HTML, no CSS, no JavaScript. Also I don't have a permanently running server yet, I just boot it up with a sqlite db in Git when i need to use it. Might respond later with screenshots if i remember when its more convenient for me.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by prvak »

octostone wrote: post #348
prvak wrote: post #47

I wrote a meal scheduler - https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler . It tracks ingredients we have at home, it has a database of recipes, it knows where we can buy ingredients online (for delivery). It schedules meals for my shared household. I can give it a request like: "next week I want to cook 4 vegetarian meals with 3 portions, and 1 vegan meal for 8 people for big shared dinner, and I want It thinks for…

This would be fantastic for households with multiple dietary constraints.

Yeah, that's our thing. Big rationalist/EA apartment with many vegans and vegetarians and one meat eater.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by mzl »

prvak wrote: post #460
mzl wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds like a fun application, both the usage and the implementation. I wonder if you have any interesting example data-files that could be used with the model, preferable both something small and something larger? Would be fun to test the model locally to see how it behaves. Notes: I'm assuming here that https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler/-/blob/master... is the model used.

Unfortunately the model is wildly unoptimized. You can extract small minizinc inputs by `blaze test //plan:wrapper_test` which tests the model on simple use cases, the temporary files will go to `--test_tmpdir`. I don't have a big minizinc input on hand. In our database it takes about 2 minutes to plan for a weeks meals. The model is probably wildly inefficient and optimizing it is one thing on the long term bug list…

Cool, I'll try that out later on.

If you have the time, extracting a large sample would be nice. Real-world usage is always more interesting than academic examples. Something that takes around 2 minutes feels like a sweet-spot for optimization as well, long enough to matter but not long enough to be annoying to experiment with.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by ayewo »

octostone wrote: post #340
ayewo wrote: post #106

A little nervous sharing this, since it is a work-in-progress, but here goes nothing :) I'm currently learning about sales and marketing and think I can share my modest knowledge on the topic in a way that is fairly systematic. One of the draws of programming for me—and I believe this is true for a lot of developers—is that software development is fairly a systematic discipline to get into, unlike sales or marketing,…

Hey, I’m also very interested in this! Just an FYI, IME using hello@domain or any similar role-based or impersonal email from an unproven domain OR while using a service that lumps you in with a bunch of other accounts will make it really hard to end up in a primary email inbox. Most of the time you’ll get diverted to promotions (Gmail) or spam (a bunch of others).

Thanks for the feedback, octostone! I'll keep this in mind and definitely fix it, if I do move to another ESP.

A bit of context: I set up the landing page with some basic copy two days ago (February 1). I saw this Ask HN on the front page yesterday (February 2) when it was about 7 hours old, so I made several edits to the copy to make the message clearer, before sharing the link here.

So, I was plenty surprised by the number of subscribers‡ I got from this comment alone. Thank you to everyone who subscribed to be a reviewer!

‡If anyone is curious about my numbers, yesterday, I got 17 subscribers, currently at 20 subscribers!

In the spirit of transparency, these are my current numbers for https://guide.ayewo.com/:

  - 164 Visitors
  - 20 Subscribers
  - 12.2% Conversion Rate

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by ayewo »

serjester wrote: post #408
ayewo wrote: post #106

A little nervous sharing this, since it is a work-in-progress, but here goes nothing :) I'm currently learning about sales and marketing and think I can share my modest knowledge on the topic in a way that is fairly systematic. One of the draws of programming for me—and I believe this is true for a lot of developers—is that software development is fairly a systematic discipline to get into, unlike sales or marketing,…

To play devils advocate why should someone learn marketing and and sales from someone that doesn't have real world experience? The noise to signal ratio is already so high in the field. Good luck regardless.

> To play devils advocate why should someone learn marketing and and sales from someone that doesn't have real world experience? The noise to signal ratio is already so high in the field.

The same way you can't become a programmer, if all you have is knowledge gained from reading a book on the topic; you have to put in the work by learning from your mistakes in a programming environment.

My goal with the guide is to help a technical audience gain a basic, but clear understanding of the concepts that constitute sales & marketing that they can build upon. The guide is not promising readers that they'll become a highly-sought after sales person or marketer, overnight.

> Good luck regardless.

Thanks

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by huhtenberg »

testmasterflex wrote: post #44

https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.

This is a very niche product. It also solves a quirky issue, so finding people who'd be willing to actually pay for it is going to be a very big challenge. Also, and to be blunt, it is not terribly slick looking, so the $99 sticker doesn't seem to be well-justified.

Basically, your target audience are people (1) with this particular issue, (2) motivated enough to do something about it, (3) willing to pay the price and (4) liking the design/aesthetics. I realize that this is a "don't care if this succeeds" thread, but I'd still encourage you to not get your hopes high for the KS campaign.

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