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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#571
https://halecraft.org/mindspace

Code: https://github.com/canadaduane/mindspace

I love mind mapping as a tool for exploring ideas, feelings, and connections. But I needed it to be fast, and get out of the way--no fiddling with dragging lines or worrying about DAGs vs cycles. The intro video on GitHub has a good overview.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#572
https://beets.studio/

https://github.com/brandongregoryscott/beets

I started building this audio workstation web app using Tone.js, Supabase and Evergreen, Segment’s design system over two years ago. “Digital audio workstation” may be an overkill descriptor, but it has sample sequencing functionality, which is what I was aiming for (similar workflows to the SP404 or PO 33 K.O. samplers).

I haven’t ever really promoted it and I’ve slowed down the feature work on it, but it was a lot of fun to build, and I learned a lot - I was an early adopter of Supabase, which the entire backend is hosted with.

Maybe it can serve as inspiration for someone else’s passion project - it’s all open source!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#574
https://www.gobreadvan.com/

Close to throwing in the towel on this one… I built a e-commerce website from scratch in my spare time (like an hour per night, after work, dead tired). Fan of auto racing and wanted to try my hand at retail. Made a few “retro” auto racing items to see if I could sell something. Produced some socks and sublimated some coffee mugs in the garage. No effort into marketing, which I learned is the most important part. Not one sale. Nuxt.js, Node, Postgres. Learned a lot which made me better at my real job

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#575

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.

Love it. This whole thread is just total and utter madness. Everyone here has the most esoteric projects I would never have imagined. p.s. the regular pen drawing sound on your app has the background noise in it as far as I can tell. Have you tried it with noise removal? It might make it better, it also might make it less charming, I don't know!

It does, but finding appropriately licensed foley samples that also sound ok in a loop is more challenging than I would have expected. Plus, my sound editing skills are minimal

My biggest beef with the sounds, tbh, is that I need to master them all to about the same volume. I think the drawing sound is a bit quiet, or maybe my button clicks and stamp sounds are loud.

Or maybe I should break down and get a microphone and find the sound I am thinking of

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#576

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.

TIL Kid Pix was developed by Broderbund

Broderbund was knocking it out of the park in the '80s and '90s

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#578
https://tatask.com

Tatask is an infinitely nestable task management system designed to help break down complex projects into simple, actionable steps.

Task lists don't convey enough information but task trees help with hierarchy and compartmentalisation.

It's still an early stages project as it's only on the web at the moment, but I'm building a native iOS app now and there are many more improvements to come.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#579

gitPlay: I am working on a desktop application to learn about the structure and evolution of a software project from its git history. Helpful for developers and PMs in onboarding new members, seeing how a project evolved and decision making. As a mentor/engineering leader, I have always resorted to recording videos about how a project is structured, what decisions led to the current status and thought process behind…

Awesome idea, good luck and here’s a vote of confidence

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#580
I was let go from Google in January, I started work on an iPad app: a visual schedule for neuro-atypical children to help them with tasks:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kokua-steps/id6450752938

I shipped a rough v 1.0 a couple months ago, it has had FOUR downloads total .

If you have a kid with autism or ADHD it may help you.

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