I am building the roots of an open source app for decentralized intelligence. Think git but for intelligence. Building it for myself since I'm becoming forgetful.
Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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#462Bluetooth low engery "wall of sheep" toy app https://gist.github.com/skittleson/705624a8f6967187096091cbd...
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#463Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill! It works with 90% of the bikes/motor brands on the market, so I assumed that some people here might be interested, if they got a non-functional batteries but they still want to use their e-bike? We believe that everybody should have control about stuff they own, and we should fight against planned…
I thought the reason the packs are sealed is to stop amateurs from swapping in cells of differing voltages, which short each other out and cause sparking/fire hazards. There's a reason li-ion battery charging is current-limited, they have no internal resistance.
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#464I'm working on an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Forms (because Google is creepy).
It has all the same features plus many more: advanced conditional branching, webhooks, thorough design customisation, better question types (e.g. address autocomplete), etc.
I've bootstrapped it into a (very) small startup. The idea is to maintain an ethics- and privacy-driven form builder that people don't have to trust, since nobody can see your responses. It also makes GDPR way easier for you!
You can try it for free: https://palform.app
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#465I'm working on https://reciperium.com which is a website to host recipes, with the twist that uses a specialised language for recipes, and you can fork recipes from other users and adapt them to your liking.
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#466I have this creative writing website where writing friends can write branching fiction novels together. Sorta like choose-your-own-adventure, but more literary - third person past tense, actual characters and narrative arcs. Configurable number of choices at the bottom of every chapter, and as you're reading, if the choice label doesn't link to a chapter yet, you can write it. It's been floating around since 1996 or…
You may be afraid to launch such a long labor of love to the rest of the world and that may be keeping your learning and progress down.
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#467I’m working on Polynomial (https://polynomial.so), which is a small dashboard for key business metrics. It has open source integrations to most popular systems and has Google sheets export in case you want to do something with the data.
As a founder, I really needed a simple place to centralize all those business metrics. Couldn’t find anything that suited my needs (everything was way overkill) and so I ended up building Polynomial.
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#468I wanted to record more of my life, but I found that the act of noting it down was too cumbersome. Looking to minimize friction, I created a Telegram bot that saves all messages you send it into a Google Spreadsheet.
Hashtags can be used to split the text into sheets and columns, if so desired. Besides jotting down quick thoughts, this is very handy for short-form journaling such as tracking expenses, workouts, mood, period, weight, diet, etc., with the added bonus of easy charting and summarization from within the spreadsheet. It also supports pictures and other attachments that are uploaded automatically to Google Drive and linked into the spreadsheet.
Feel free to check it out, all feedback is appreciated: https://t.me/gsheet_notes_bot
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#469I’m working on a macos virtual microphone app that lets you take a real microphone input and apply audio processing effects on it like raising the gain, reverb, etc, then using that as your microphone in other apps, like for video calls
Comes from my own desire for something like that. Right now I’m using a hacked together solution using blackhole and a random vst. It was a pain to set up initially, trying to make it easier for other people.
I know there’s loopback but it costs too much for what i need and has a lot of extra features i don’t care about, plus i’d still need to bring my own vst to it
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#470I’ve been working on a project to make SaaS (and really any software) pricing and packaging easier. Think things like plans, entitlements, dimensions, metering, subscription migrations, onboarding, and experimentation, all completely independent from billing and payment processing solutions. We can integrate with things like Stripe where we’ll mirror products, customers, and subscriptions, but it’s totally optional.
We’re 100% bootstrapped by way of a previous acquisition and just very-soft launched after talking to a lot of folks at companies of all sizes. Seems like most people end up cobbling this stuff together with various levels of sophistication, which is basically what we did a few times over at previous companies with varying levels of success.
You can check out our solution at https://planship.io.