https://draw.horse This is a drawing toy that takes some inspiration from kidpix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix ). It makes amusing (to me anyhow) noises, has some goofy brushes and stamps. You can't save your pictures or print them out, and I haven't gotten around to figuring out some happy medium of using canvas and doing a flood fill.
Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#552https://postcardbot.com A simple sms based chat bot for generating and mailing postcards from photos you’ve taken yourself. I took the sms approach because I’m exhausted from always needing to install an app for everything. Most things don’t need apps. This interface is unique and kinda fun to use. Also, it took me just a weekend to whip up so I’m quite fond of it .
That's actually really cool! Seems like a nice handy little service, you could make a contact in your phone for it and then remember about it some random time later and be able to use it, no problem. I love little tools like this. For those curious, you just text the picture to +1 (408) 688-5985, respond to its questions about message, name, and address, then it sends you a Stripe link to pay $3.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#553See https://www.hotelexistence.ca/bicycledashcam/ for version 5, which was just blind spot monitoring. I've also played around with license plate recognition and depth mapping.
Primarily, for me, this is a just a fun exercise.
Looking at exploring: - Recognize the license plates of the cars around you. From a picture, it would look at the plates on all the cars, and then associate a plate number with the picture - Record the speed of the cars around you - Record the proximity of the cars around you - A driver readable display, ie: “Driver ABCD1234, your current speed is 45”. Like a mobile Toronto Watch Your Speed program sign. Would a driver allow a cyclist more space if they were aware their actions are being logged? - Log this data on a remote server - Share this data, with a group. Perhaps associate “near miss” data from many cyclists, and identify troublesome areas, or troublesome cars.
Offtopic: this is a cool project, not mine, that crowdsources car passing distance https://www.openbikesensor.org/en/
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#554I wrote it to try to help figure out when to leave for the airport (or wherever) and that whole backwards time math routine. I envisioned some maps integration but this is where progress stopped. I use it occasionally.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#555https://www.get2sostation.com/test
The latter link renders test buttons with sample addresses.
Basically I solved for my own problem: I live outside of Boston but with family logistics I could be using any one of 5 Commuter Rail stations for my commute to downtown. I needed an easy way to search, visualize, and plan the return timing.
Half baked: I'd love to extend it to North Station too. There's some UX I'd like to resolve. I lean on PositionStack which does not have a great up-time record. Otherwise I enjoyed using the MBTA v3 API, a fun project.
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#556I just wanted a simple, clean interface where I can store my charts & trade setups for future reference without the bells and whistles of say a Tradingview or Thinkorswim etc.
I couldn't find anything that worked the way I wanted it to, and so I built this. Only me and a handful of users so far. I love using it.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#557https://ant.care/ https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants I'm making a digital ant farm. SimAnt + Tamagotchi that runs in real-time. Written in Rust/WASM/Bevy The goal is to give people cute ants that do cute ant things 24/7, ask people to look after their ants and feed them once-per-day, and then deny the ability to provide ant care unless users engage in a breathwork/meditation exercise. I would love help. I'm very muc…
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#558Podcast Content Intelligence - https://siev.io/ I've been working on building a content intelligence dataset on podcast data. Using new LLMs I'm able to transcribe, speaker detect, and topic extract anything in the podcast space (or audio in general) and produce a detailed structured dataset from what people are talking about. The website is jank as hell atm, but I think the resulting transcripts are pretty interesti…
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#559https://www.chartkb.com/ I just wanted a simple, clean interface where I can store my charts & trade setups for future reference without the bells and whistles of say a Tradingview or Thinkorswim etc. I couldn't find anything that worked the way I wanted it to, and so I built this. Only me and a handful of users so far. I love using it.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#560I have had an idea of writing Jira tasks in markdown, and then pushing them to the server via CLI. The main principle is to use Markdown levels for hierarchy, e.g:
# Epic name
## User story 1
## User story 2
### Sub task to user story 2
Maybe I will get on it again, but parsing Markdown is no-fan.