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Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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A model that gives hackernews feed a two-layer ontologic classification of articles. The first layer is the type of medium (ie. ebook, blog post, research paper, question, ...) and the second is the category content itself (ie. health, programming, ...)

Sounds interesting. I am working for something similar. Can you give some way to contact you.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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post #37

Which is the cheapest way to serve Json to customers with a budget under usd10 a month, a Json size of aprox 50KB and aprox 1 million reqs/day

That's ten requests per second, with some caching I am assuming. How abou a digital ocean droplet for $5/month?

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

#53

I am working on "Free Hero Mesh" project (but it is not written in Python or Java). It is a puzzle game engine, and is FOSS. Things that I can use help with are including (but not necessarily limited to): - Promotion of project - Testing - Bug reports and feature requests - If you are interested to make something with this - Porting and distributions - Patches to the code, if necessary - Maybe someone has idea to imp…

Currently, I am the only person on this project. If others might also join with this project, then this might help, too.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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post #37

Which is the cheapest way to serve Json to customers with a budget under usd10 a month, a Json size of aprox 50KB and aprox 1 million reqs/day

That's ten requests per second, with some caching I am assuming. How abou a digital ocean droplet for $5/month?

That's what I proposed but there's a new designer that wants to use shiny tech. I'm just an advisor for a nonprofit, they ask me because I do it for free basically.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

#56

I wrote a dynamodb querying, SQL and Cypher database in Python. The code is very small and simple HTTPS://GitHub.com/samsquire/hash-db It supports distributed joins over SQL. I plan to add multimodel specifically GraphQL and document storage. I also wrote a multithreaded user space M:N scheduler in Rust, C and Java. It multiplexes N lightweight threads over M kernel threads like Golang goroutines. I also wrote an eve…

That’s super cool! Earlier this week I was getting frustrated with NetworkX and started wondering: “what’s the easiest way I run proper graph queries on this in-memory dataset?” This seems like a reasonable option, will add it to my list to try out.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

#57
post #28

http://random-character.com It generates characters from tropes, weighted by the popularity of those tropes. Which was a nice experiment, but it's probably not the future direction. This is something with a lot of iteration. Procedurally generated stories and backgrounds. Letting users input a character and using the tool to shape the character around it. Relationship graphs to other characters. AI will be in use, bu…

I really like this idea! I feel like you could have the character mapping and input be geared towards writers for a story documentation tool as a UI and framework for the generated content would be in what a writer would need. Then offer as much or as little generator access as the user wants. For that generated content, I do a lot of character creation in a completely different context than writing/D&D, and I would…

Oh you popped on the Discord yesterday. Sorry about that, Discord is a poor replacement for the old anon chat rooms, lol.

Thanks for the feedback. I might just pivot straight into that. I was dragging my feet on it because I didn't get much people interested in that, but only because my only communication medium is the survey.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netlify free tier + Cloudflare CDN (if requests are cacheable). https://www.netlify.com/pricing/ https://www.cloudflare.com/plans

Thanks. Something I missed is that the JSON is gonna be updated every 1 minute. I've never tried netlify or vercel, I've been told that the 1 min updates are a problem in platforms like that. I'm an nginx kind of guy but I'm helping an org that has no budget whatsoever and I'm exploring options.

Yes, netlify typically does deployment by pushing to a git repo or uploading a zip, the update latency could take several seconds to a few minutes.

Another option is to use something like Firebase:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting

The free tier gives you 2M cloud functions per month, then $0.40 for each additional million cloud function invocations:

https://firebase.google.com/pricing

Update latency is a few hundred milliseconds which should be sufficient if you are sending updates every minute:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37930219/is-firebases-la...

Just be aware that if your JSON payload is large, then you might consume all the egress bandwidth and it might end up costing more than you expect.

There are also alternative platforms which provide similar functionality (I have not used either of these though, so YMMV):

https://backendless.com/pricing/backendless-cloud/#compariso...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/...

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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post #56

I wrote a dynamodb querying, SQL and Cypher database in Python. The code is very small and simple HTTPS://GitHub.com/samsquire/hash-db It supports distributed joins over SQL. I plan to add multimodel specifically GraphQL and document storage. I also wrote a multithreaded user space M:N scheduler in Rust, C and Java. It multiplexes N lightweight threads over M kernel threads like Golang goroutines. I also wrote an eve…

That’s super cool! Earlier this week I was getting frustrated with NetworkX and started wondering: “what’s the easiest way I run proper graph queries on this in-memory dataset?” This seems like a reasonable option, will add it to my list to try out.

I warn you the code isn't ready for serious usage. It's more of a proof of prototype to show that these technical problems can be solved very simply.

So I doubt it would handle a challenging query! It only supports the bare essentials.

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