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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by FailMore »

cybarDOTlive wrote: post #433
FailMore wrote: post #392

I'm building https://www.taaalk.co/ , it's a social network for conversations. The site went down a few months ago, but now it's back up. The first new Taaalk I'm having is with another engineer, and we're trying to publicly solve a technical chanllenge - how to repopulate the Taaalk database from archive.org download. https://www.taaalk.co/t/repopulating-the-taaalk-database-fro... I love Taaalk so much. I love all t…

This is really cool! Love the minimal design. Also I'm a fan of this as a form of article / content generation. Where an article is created by a team, as a collaborative effort, organized and started by an editor of some sort. Think of how many interesting conversations happen in walled gardens like slack, telegram, discord. Very thoughtful and in-depth sharing from users that would most likely be valuable for others…

Thank you so much for the kind words. I couldn't agree more.

I really think some of the best features happen when you start a conversation - so if you are inclined, please try: https://taaalk.co/start-conversation

Additionally, is it clear from the UI that if you follow a Taaalk you will get email updates for every added conversation "blob"?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by spongeb00b »

sgb_QQ wrote: post #516

https://savingtool.co.uk It's specific to a UK audience but I made a tool that, at least in my mind, is better than the existing tax calculators for UK workers, and goes a bit further with letting the user forecast potential wealth building, using a very popular approach (index funds using ISA wrappers).

> You are probably in a position to retire earlier than age 86!

Woohoo!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by MaxikCZ »

blunte wrote: post #167
rlayton2 wrote: post #145

I have a small game that I made to experiment with some tech. https://donotplaythisgame.click/ In short, you accrue points while you aren't playing it, but you have to log into actually get the points (similar to "the game", which you just lost). You get your global ranking only after logging in though.

There's a concept here to refine... I've thought about something that's perhaps related. One problem with a lot of modern (online/shared) games is the sense of missing out when you're not playing, or the sense of competition which demands focused attention. Both of those tend to upset life balance. I have pondered influence based games, somewhat like turn-based, where you aren't able to micromanage play but instead s…

I have been pondering the same concept for years. The problem seems to be: A) Making AI that is able to plan for goals set by players and achieve them is not just "not mainstream", its actually unique when its used. Even the algorithms like GOAP (Goal Oriented Action Planning) is very limited (eg cant really chain goals, one goal at a time,...), and while better algorithms have been proposed (UDGOAP - Utility Driven GOAP), they havent been implemented in any game yet. B) This type of game is not proven, so noone is gonna invest big bucks. And implementing completely new and untested mechanics and core loops will likely burn more cash as you iterate for usable outcome.

Theres a wishing for games of the future, tho

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Post by williamtrask »

dimitar wrote: post #429

There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…

Thank you

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Post by greggman3 »

https://jsgist.org

It's like jsfiddle but your code is stored in github gists. It's entirely open source and except for the oauth handshake to log in it's entirely a static website.

I don't really care if anyone else uses it but I used it a ton. Of course I worry that github will take it down or I'll hit some other limit but it was fun to build and your gists won't be lost.

Also https://jsbenchit.org which similarly, uses gists and is open source, and, again I don't really care if anyone but me uses it but I do use it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by chilling »

I've been working on mobbler[1] an analog music creation and real time visual performance just for the sake of learning JavaScript and finally understand the math behind audio creation.

I thought that it might be fun for others as a great learning opportunity but I haven't managed to go through the scope of my own friends.

[1] https://mobbler.js.org

[code] https://github.com/Megaemce/mobbler/

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by rohanagrwl »

Building a social network for music sharing and discovery- https://incentify.club

Despite the fact that in my head this product could eventually have a roadmap that disrupts the music industry, for now, even if it only helps me and my friends avoid the sucky process of sharing music links back and forth on WhatsApp, i'll be happy enough

It's all a figment of your imagination anyway

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by rohanagrwl »

Building a social network for music sharing and discovery- https://incentify.club

Despite an ambitious roadmap to change how the music industry works, even if this just helps me and my friends share music without having to hop through multiple links on Whatsapp/DM, I'll be happy enough

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by eivarv »

https://cleave.app

Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading all open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level; Alternatively as "tab-groups", but encompassing multiple apps.

I started working on it because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources; Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

In the meantime, I've used various browser extensions to save and restore open tabs.

I find it interesting (particularly from an HCI-perspective) that there hasn't been more research into the concept on an OS-level, as I can think of many times maintaining a set of application states for continued or re-use makes sense.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by rlayton2 »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #270
rlayton2 wrote: post #145

I have a small game that I made to experiment with some tech. https://donotplaythisgame.click/ In short, you accrue points while you aren't playing it, but you have to log into actually get the points (similar to "the game", which you just lost). You get your global ranking only after logging in though.

Do you want a high global ranking? Or low? I was ranked 5 after logging in for my first time.

It's newly up so you were tied fifth!also go for the best ranking which is closest to 1
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