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

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

#481
I'm currently working on https://brickranker.com/

It's basically a website for tracking the value of LEGO sets and minifigures. For example see https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures/star-wars for a list of the most valuable LEGO Star Wars minifigures.

You can also catalogue your own collection and track it's value at https://brickranker.com/collections

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

#482
I'm working on a framework to convert code into video, with a focus on helping creators and software educators. Ultimate goal is that you could automate nearly any educational coding video you could think of. Stretch goal is to fine tune an AI so that a step by step video could be generated from a blog post, book chapter, etc.

https://codevideo.io

also see fframes https://fframes.studio/ - not mine but similar "declarative code to video" framework

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

#484

I've been working on a kind of strategy game called Fall of an Empire ( https://fallofanempiregame.com ), it's a bit like a mix between Crusader Kings, Total War, Mount and Blade type games (just the overworld, not the battles), but rather than expanding you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing. It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems - you've got combat, resource management, settlement de…

Good for you! Graphics and audio (music, sfx) are such a huge part of game dev that every time I attempt to get in, I walk away shortly afterwards

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

#485
Im working on MLJAR Studio, new Python editor perfect for beginners. It has set of interactive code recipes with Graphical Interface. You can create scripts with it. Additionally, it automatically install and import missing packages. It is a kind a new way for visual programming. Most of recupes are ML and AI focused. You can read more on https://mljar.com/docs

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

#487
Been working on a small temperature and humidity sensor using cheap components and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Using https://gokrazy.org/ to turn it in to a little appliance.

I've gotten quite carried away with a web interface and custom on-disk (on-sd card?) storage format based on Facebook's Gorilla paper.

I've realised that where it'll be deployed it will only have access to a public guest WiFi, so a remote server hosting the dashboard makes sense. So now it sends the compressed time-series over a TCP connection to a server component, hoping to bypass WiFi captive portals. Might need to use UDP to make it look like DNS or perhaps NTP. I haven't tested it on-site yet.

It has been a very fun and rewarding project so far. Looking forward to deploying it and getting remote updates working if I can get it to work with Tailscale on the guest WiFi. If anyone has any tips on circumventing captive portals and sending really small amounts of data through, I'd love to hear it!

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

#488

I'm working on a web app that helps you discover books, movies, TV shows, video games, and songs that you'll like. The app makes it super easy to describe what you're looking for and then gives you a unique set of 10 suggestions on each run. It's the first solo project I've done in many years and I'm having a great time learning. I've also been able to get some great recommendations for myself and it's fun to use! ht…

This is a huge gap we have these days. Everything out there is incentivized to suggest the most selling stuff rather than unique and interesting stuff.
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