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I am working on a free app to host, manage and share your hobbies or collections.
I have an extensive collection of mechanichal keyboards, and I often struggle to find photos when talking about it, to keep track of pending orders and keeping a stock of stuff. So this is app comes from my own necessity :)
No really, I'm serious.
Like many older folks I have some mobility issues. Nothing that stops me from doing most things I need to do, but trying to bend over every couple of weeks for minutes at a time, and trying to get a good look in an awkward position to make sure I'm getting a reasonably straight cut to avoid ingrown nails is a challenge.
Of course there are all sorts of folks (like myself) who somehow manage, but there are a lot more who can't.
Yes there are things that claim to be solutions out there. A big one is a clipper attached to a long pole with a trigger to squeeze the clippers. If you already have mobility issues that ends up feeling more like a Rube Goldberg solution (I highly recommend trying it yourself sometime if you need proof it doesn't really work).
Yes, you can pay for a pedicure - but those are a little expensive if you go out for it, and very expensive if you pay for them to come in.
The robot itself would need to be able to manipulate two stainless steel plates to clip the nail but not the toe. I suspect a vacuum that has both Lidar and a Camera could be hacked into such a beast - though the programming would obviously be a challenge.
And yes, if you can price it under $1k I guarantee to buy the first one :-)
A poor man's VR: Using the front camera and tensorflow.js, the smartphone becomes a “window” into the real world. Video and image content appear as if they were seen through this window. To do this, the viewer’s position is determined using a neural network. The viewed content is then moved according to the viewer’s position. This makes it seem like the content is physically behind the smartphone and is viewed through the smartphone’s screen. This effect is especially useful for content captured using an ultra-wide lens.
https://github.com/vinc/geonde.com/
I've been looking into carbon aware computing recently and I wanted an API to get the carbon intensity of the electricity grid in Europe. Then I needed weather data so I reused a piece of code I built a decade ago to get forecasts from the GFS, and another one to get real time data from airports around the world. And finally I needed another API to get the latitude and longitude of a city so I reused yet another old piece of code I wrote a long time ago.
After a month of coding it looks like I got the beginning of an environmental platform for green computing. But it's definitely half baked. And there are good alternatives for each API that exists already.
I found a domain for it and made a landing page, and who knows, it might be useful to other people.
So unless you're part of RTC I can only share the blog and readme at the moment :-/
I wrote "Radia". It is inspired by Apache's Directory Listing feature, and can render markdown files. Instead of showing the content of directories, it can also show the content of a remote repository. It is not limited to one directory or repository, and will put everything under the same root.
I'm using it on my private page, g5t.de - which doesn’t have much content yet.
I started it just because I wanted to gain a deeper knowledge of the tech it is using (Blazor WASM) and I find building practical simple projects is great way of learning rather than building the traditional tutorial apps.
It might be useful to someone, who knows! Once I've tidied up the code I plan on sharing on GitHub.
Why does this feel like an attempt to steal an underdeveloped thought and run to market with it?
plus its half baked, most aren't going anywhere. if anything it's a good way to see what projects didn't work so you can skip them.
The setup involves the operators that record bookings via phone calls into the booking system. Then they have the drivers perform deliveries for those bookings, which they track through the mobile apps that are powered by the booking system. I also built a quote calculator, which is an extension of the booking system. Here is the tech stack I’ve setup for productivity and fast iteration.
Booking system:
- MySQL
- Laravel
- Tailwind
- React & InertiaJS
Quote calculator:
- Laravel Powered API (queries the booking system)
- Tailwind
- React
Mobile apps:
- Laravel Powered API
- Flutter (iOS and Android)
- Laravel Sanctum for API Auth
Infrastructure:
- Twilio for SMS notifications
- GitHub for source code hosting
- Mailgun for transactional emails
- CloudFlare for DDoS protection and caching
- Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications
- Laravel Forge for server maintenance and deployments
I later hired a young and very talented developer that is now helping me maintain and further build the booking system while I shifted my primary focus to the apps.
Professionally, I am a frontend developer but have also developed full stack (Laravel based) systems for smaller client projects.
I wish I could share screenshots and the links but sadly for anonimity reasons I cannot.
Happy to answer questions and also open to feedback!