Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

521–530 of 1001 posts

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

#521

I designed an electronic board game, very similar to Settlers of Catan. There are some electronic Catan builds out there, but I found them really expensive -- e.g. opting for a smartwatch screen + microcontroller for every game tile (of which there are 19). Beautiful, yes -- but not my style. Instead, I went for 8-segment displays for numeric tile values, and RGB LEDs to display terrain types. It adds up to 342 LEDs…

This sounds really cool! Please post it to HN!

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

#522
I got so upset with Docusign being too expensive and unfair, that I quit my last startup to build a new one.

I built a complete platform over the past 3 years, that doesn't require a subscription and you only pay for what you send. Give it a go if you need to send a document that needs to be signed.

https://goodsign.io

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

#523

My kids' elementary school has a running club that I manage. In past years they pay a subscription to a company that's quite expensive to track laps. I decided to implement some software that's better and runs on an rpi. It's working very well, and the kids like it more because it has audio feedback on laps and time. Besides the cheap USB qr scanners there's no expenses either.

I don't need this app, but sounds look a cool project? Can you share more details? How does it tack laps?

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

#525
I have been working on some useful tools that I am adding to my personal website repo here: https://github.com/volumetric/vinit-website/tree/main/app

Till now, I have made the following tools: 1. Image Generator 2. Emoji Maker 3. OpenAPI Explorer (Explore 4000+ OpenAPI Spec Files in a nice GUI) 4. WIP - Cyber Sign - Digitally Document Signing Tool 5. WIP - Meme Generator - Make a Meme Image, GIF, Video, etc. with a text prompt

All the code is public and open source.

If you want to use the tools directly, you can check them on my website: https://www.vinitagrawal.com/

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

#529
Inspired by recent projects like Kamal and Sidekick which target VPS rather than k8s, I created a control plane that leverages Caddy, Cloudflare, Podman, and Hetzner to automate deploying apps.

The intent is to remove as many obstacles as possible for finishing my side projects and sharing them. Worst case scenario is it becomes another unfinished project but I’ve learned a lot along the way.

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

#530
Making a voxel game type thing where the entire game is defined by the server, the client is only a renderer, avoiding all specific game logic. Very much like Minetest in its goal I believe, just simpler. I've seen a few people say they miss minecraft beta 1.7.3 so I'm currently(just started) implementing something inspired by that as a proof of concept. Looking for people to collaborate with :)

Main repo: https://github.com/formulaicgame/fmc Contains the client and a library for implementing servers. Game implementation: https://github.com/formulaicgame/FMC-Beta

Post reply on HN