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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by ficklepickle » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:42 PM UTC

wilsonfiifi wrote: post #518

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Add a blog, pay a writer because SEO gobbledygook will rot your brain (I believe they use ahrefs to get keywords), add JSON-LD structured data. Cultivate back links, maybe post in forums where people are already discussing this.

There is not much good technical SEO info out there for developers to find. It is frustrating for someone used to being able to find documentation/best practices easily.

This is stuff that I have picked up working with SEO people. Not guaranteed to be 100% accurate but hopefully it helps.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by joshmn » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:42 PM UTC

I made an open-source Rails engine to offload marketing campaigns: https://caffeinate.email. I haven't tweeted about it yet so I guess I would call it half-baked since nobody else has really touched it and I don't know all that I missed.

We use it at work. We were using a combination of Outreach.io, Salesforce, Iterable, and our own awful in-house solution when I realized how bad it was needed. Then I needed it for one of my side projects, so I hacked something together and it works. But who knows how well.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by primitivesuave » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:42 PM UTC

I'm working on a free reminder/analytics service for keeping your resolutions this year: https://resolution.fail

The idea is to get a periodic email questionnaire that lets you easily record metrics about a resolution and see progress over time. I'm still in the process of adding charts and an analytics view to the service, so you can visually see your progress in each email.

I built the entire thing during my December holiday. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by mikkergp » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC

peller wrote: post #138

mikkergp wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used padrino for a while, because it advertised itself as half-way between sinatra and rails. I liked it, but I don't think the framework ever had enough support to be able to rely on it, and since it's not well known I wouldn't pick it again in an environment where someone else had to code on it. http://padrinorb.com/

Yea, I definitely need to put more effort into promotion and getting more active users. I'm not familiar with padrino, but at least for Flask Unchained, it's literally Flask under the hood - so my project is less a new framework but more of an improved way to use a highly popular existing framework. I'm hopeful this distinction can help with adoption.

Yeah Padrino is similar, it’s sinatra under the hood.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by egberts1 » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:45 PM UTC

For parsing Bind9 named configuration file, I have built using PyParsing for this. It is 99% completed. MIT license.

Three minor issues left. Two cleanup issues remaining.

https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by realbarack » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

A toy for speaking with a synthetic personality and generating synthetic audio: https://uberduck.ai/

It's more like 10% baked, but it sort of works. It's much better with GPT-3 but hasn't yet been submitted to OpenAI for approval, so that part is private. My priorities are improving the synthetic voices, adding additional dialog scenarios, and adding multiplayer mode either natively on the site or through bots that can be added to Discord voice channels.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by crazypython » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:50 PM UTC

A massively multiplayer game with a fresh start every time, that's easy to learn and easy to start having fun, doesn't guilt you into playing (healthy long-term relationship with the player), and has lots of replay value: http://vnav.io

Currently there are multiple major bugs with damage.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by bluedevil2k » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:50 PM UTC

jnskender wrote: post #92

https://www.debt-dash.io Plug in some basic information about your debt accounts. Choose your payoff order and how much extra you can pay towards debt each month. I provide a month by month guide on how your payments will snowball until your debt-free. I’m the only user currently and I have a lot of work to do on branding/homepage before I share it with others but it fits the bill of unfinished but slightly useful.

You should recommend the payoff order based on their interest rates. Also, for completeness as a financial tool, they should be able to plug in savings like retirement savings. A student loan of 8% sounds bad and some people think they should pay it off above all else, but really a 401k where the employer matches 50% of the first 6% you contribute should be the primary focus for the person, since the 50% return is sooo much higher than the 8% interest rate.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by kubbity » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:50 PM UTC

lytedev wrote: post #200

It's an app for churches (or any live performance) to display and manage lyrics. http://alpha.lyricscreen.com:6754/ I'm missing accounts and some of the more frilly features, like different fonts and backgrounds. All the info is shared and HN could probably crash it. It's all synced live, so it's very loosely collaborative. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Interesting! Can you share the code/run on-premise server? I'm interested for a different (language) church.

I started to try GitHub pages to share lyrics, but failed to add all songs I planned.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by karakanb » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 8:50 PM UTC

bluedevil2k wrote: post #540

karakanb wrote: post #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 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.

Thanks! I have been thinking starting with a Vue-powered frontend along with the same backend including the API, so that people can have both of the options, simple server-side templating or an API with an SPA.

Thanks for the suggestion again!