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

Hello! This year I've been working on building an integrated registration and live timing platform [0] for my local organizers in CA, but it is spreading. Very fun/rewarding project. I hope to launch my own cellular-based timing hardware this year which will integrate into the timing platform (right now I've reverse engineered and now support 5 different chronometers, I never knew cross platform serial port comms was such a PITA). Getting cellular based timers synchronized should be fun, although I'll probably opt for some super simple solution, we'll see...

Also continuing to build FastComments [1] and hoping to continue to grow that.

[0] https://sidewaysdata.com

[1] https://fastcomments.com

I'm scratching an itch. I'm a huge fan of system monitoring and alerting when they go down. It allows the engineers in charge of the production systems to sleep well knowing that things are working.

There's a gap for email monitoring. How many times did you have to awkwardly explain why the notification emails in your app stopped sending a month ago? Or that time when the weekly summary report did no go out on Friday, and on Monday you were chewed out by the boss? Or when Jerry went on vacation and neglected to send the weekly marketing campaign email.With

[I'm building https://wasitsent.com - you get an alert when your emails *stop* sending. It's like an uptime monitor for email sending. If something breaks your email sending process, we'll let you know.

If you would like to see such a service, or have feedback (positive AND negative) about it, please let me know. If you heard of other companies offering something like this, I'd love to know as well.

Hey! I'm working on Getgud.io, an AI-powered game analytics and anti-cheat platform. Our goal is to provide complete observability into player behavior, detect cheaters and griefers, and help game developers improve player retention.

Some key features we're working on: - AI-powered analysis of in-match player actions to detect anomalies - Customizable rules engine for automated responses to toxic behavior - Visual replay system for reviewing flagged matches

Check out our website at https://www.getgud.io and watch our detection video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhTpfEzh1M to see Getgud.io in action.

We support server-side integration for popular platforms like Unreal Engine and Unity. For integration guides and SDK references, visit our docs at https://github.com/getgud-io/getgud-docs.

Happy to chat more about game analytics and cheat detection if anyone's interested!

Right now I'm working on withdrawing money from cs.money and Steam balance.

It's been sitting there for years, and I finally found health, time, and dedication to withdraw it.

On cs.money I had $35k and on Steam balance I had $12k.

The only way to get money from cs.money trade mode is to buy skins and sell them somewhere else.

On Steam, on the other hand, I buy Steam Decks via Steam balance and sell them locally.

I have sold 3 in the last 2 days.

Last 2 days I've been taking a short break from coding a bot for cs.money to recover some health back (I have RSI).

A long time ago I built a Nagios script for verifying email end to end. It would trigger a test email to be sent from the app to a known mailbox and measure the time to receipt in that mailbox. Simple but extremely effective, and several times it caught a failing in the mail stack somewhere.

It also got used to validate enquires@/hello@/contact forms were delivering, especially to set small business owners minds at rest.