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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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IMDB, but for online communities - https://www.ocdb.io I didn’t like the existing solutions, so I decided to create my own. In active development now. I’d say 60% is done.

Did you try letterboxd.com?

It looks like we have a misunderstanding here. I meant that I didn't like the existing solutions for online communities discovery, not that I don't like IMDB. However, thanks for the suggestion! I'm checking it right now, and perhaps I can find some features worth implementing in my project.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#522
I'm building a newsletter reader platform that will help you keep your 'I-want-to-keep-up-to-date' urge separate from your email inbox which I use more as a communicative todo list.

I've written very briefly about it here https://maxsommer.de/blog/building-nuzelettr-email/ and will continue to write more about it on my blog.

In case you are interested in getting aboard you may sign up for testing at https://nuzelettr.email/

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://Eurotripr.com - a website/web app to help people plan trips to Europe affordably and with Confidence. I've been working on it off and on for WAY too long. Technically it is live, but it is unfinished in many ways (functionality, features, data, performance, content, etc.). I'm super embarrassed by it and am at the point that there are so many things wrong/unfinished I just stare it it some days not even sure where to 'start' to get it closer to done. All I really want and have wanted for almost 2 decades is to help others travel to Europe as I did in my early 20s and catch that travel bug so they continue to do so on the 'cheap' like I have throughout their lives.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://pocketcoachtheapp.com/ - An Android / iOS app for tracking exercises and workouts with a focus on ease of use and gamifying aspects via experience / levels / achievements. It's very functional currently, however it's half backed in terms of UX and feature parity with other similar apps.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/color-blind-m...

I made this so I could share pictures of maps with my color blind friend. You right click on a picture of a map, select color-blind map fixer and it re-colors the map. I made it in about a day, it needs some work to handle edges (especially because many pictures of labeled maps are jpegs with artifacts instead of pngs for some reason) and it's slower than it should be.

At some point, Mozilla decided that in order to log in, I should use some sort of Google authenticator app for some reason. I dropped and broke the phone that app was installed on. So it's unlikely I will ever work on again to this or any other Firefox add-on sadly.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://besichtigung.app An app to make it easy to schedule flat visits, especially for shared flat visits. It allows to calendly-like schedule visits online/offline, add some comments and also rate the participats including asking custom questions

That's really cool! There certainly were times in the past when I'd wished something like this to be existant.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#529

I love this thread, thank you! Ampwall. Musician-owned, Public Benefit Co alternative to Bandcamp. (Eventually.) https://ampwall.com . Dogfooding it with my own band’s merch sales at https://woeunholy.ampwall.com . Digital audio will launch soon (2-3 weeks?) and we plan on starting our tests with outside bands/labels by end of year. I’ve been building this throughout the past year but the stuff that’s publicly availa…

Cool, dude. Have you decided on a fee structure? I know bandcamp takes 15% for digital and 10% for physical items, not including merchant fees.

Hey! We (my co-founder and I) haven’t decided but we’re experimenting and exploring. Right now it’s 5% plus payment processing (Stripe) fees but that will be reevaluated based on what we need to keep the lights on.

Bandcamp’s fees were one of the many motivations to do this and I have a lot to say about them. I think there’s probably an approach that’s better at controlling costs while also helps folks who sell keep more of their money.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#530

I left my last job and a toxic boss a few months back and decided the only viable future is to start my own thing again. But this time I was going to do it properly - lean customer development, speak to users before writing a line of code, etc. Instead, I became fascinated by the massive improvements in OCR and how they can be applied to digitising boring paper records. Decided to start out with the most boring probl…

> Might get some feedback

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