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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#531

Hi Everyone! We started building https://kbee.app at the beginning of December after our frustration with other help center/wiki tools. Every wiki/help center tool seems bent on forcing users to learn a new authoring/text editor experience in order to publish new articles. Many times, folks are creating drafts in Google Docs first and then copying it over. We figured, why not cut out the subpar text editors and just…

Seems a lot like https://youneedawiki.com/ Best of luck!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#532
I'm making an open source Chess game, mostly to learn Unity: https://github.com/herval/OpenSourceChess

Publishing binaries on itch as it evolves too: https://herval.itch.io/open-source-chess

I'm forcing myself to work one hour a day on it (at least two Pomodoros) no matter what, which is a nice change of pace to my day job (in management), and really adds up over time. I gave up on starting games many times in the past, because it always felt so overwhelming to start from a blank page, and I'm already starting to build up the understanding to tackle on some actually more original game next :-)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#533

Static SMS microblog, https://phasedust.com Been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, fast and snappy, doesn’t demand or abuse attention. Some things I’m still thinking about: image scaling and optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).

That's how Twitter started back in 2006. Also, you reminded me Posterous [0], which ironically has been acquired by the very same Twitter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

Thanks for that link! I remember hearing of Posterous, but I don't think I ever tried it out so that was an interesting read.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#534

Voxelmetaverse, a voxel game platform based on voxel.js Live demo: http://voxel.github.io/voxelmetaverse/ Source code: https://github.com/voxel/voxelmetaverse I had big ideas for it but didn't get too far, after several years of working on it. Just published a retrospective today: https://medium.com/@deathcap1/6-years-after-6-months-of-voxe... - it could be developed much, much further.

The StackGL port was much higher-performance for me than the Three.JS one.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#535

A birdfeeder, a security camera, and this python script: https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/red_yellow_... I want to record visits to my birdfeeder but not all the visits. 99% of the visitors are sparrows, which, no offense to any sparrows reading this, are dull colored. I want to capture the cardinals, bright red birds. The python script monitors the video stream and starts recording when the image get…

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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#537
I am building SaaS Starter Kit: https://saasstarterkit.app

It is a simple starter kit that includes:

  • Subscriptions & Payments via Stripe
  • Invoices
  • Multiple payment methods
  • TailwindCSS & FontAwesome integration
  • Dashboard layout
  • Settings page
  • Test coverage
  • Docker & Docker Compose setup
  • Kubernetes & Helm
  • GitLab CI/CD
Thanks to these, one can go from unzipping the source to automated live deployments in less than 15 mins, including fully functioning payments. I aim to improve it further with more functionality out of the box, as well as additional API endpoints.

I am currently exploring early access options, therefore I have applied up to 75% discount. I would love to get some feedback, so, feel free to hit me up with questions or suggestions!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#538

Static SMS microblog, https://phasedust.com Been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, fast and snappy, doesn’t demand or abuse attention. Some things I’m still thinking about: image scaling and optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).

This is really great. Would love to be able to host it as a section on my own site. Re: images, what have you tried so far? I’ve been using guetzli to get them nice and small.

Thank you for the kind words! I guess it might depend on how your site is put together, but I bet you could whip up something like this for it pretty easy. I had meant for this to be a weekend project, but I had it mostly done before supper on Saturday, so... ;)

I figured I might use ImageMagick to scale the images and maybe jpegoptim afterwards. Thanks for the tip on guetzli, I'll check it out!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#539

Just released my MVP for my ‘Airbnb for Musicians’: https://noisycamp.com I don’t have that many studios yet, but my goal is to make it super easy for musicians to find and book practice and recording spaces. I built the website using Scala, Vuejs, PostgreSQL, running on top or Heroku and BunnyCDN. The code is Open source: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/noisycamp.com !

this is a great idea, and execution is looking good! I'd not call it half baked at all :-)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#540

I am building SaaS Starter Kit: https://saasstarterkit.app It is a simple starter kit that includes: • Subscriptions & Payments via Stripe • Invoices • Multiple payment methods • TailwindCSS & FontAwesome integration • Dashboard layout • Settings page • Test coverage • Docker & Docker Compose setup • Kubernetes & Helm • GitLab CI/CD Thanks to these, one can go from unzipping the source to automated live deployments i…

This looks really cool and what you’ve got so far looks pretty useful to people. I think the next step is offering options on the programming language and frameworks. For example, React front end with node back end.
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