I'm working on a to-do list and time management application that I prefer to keep secret for now. If anyone here is using an app like this, I would love to know what you would like to improve. And if you're not using an app like this, I would love to know why not?
Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#572I’m working on a collaborative reading app called Rdrs. You can upload a ebook, create a reading group, invite others and your reading position, comments and highlights are synced live with the group. You can also read privately, and as its web-based is available on any device.
I’m still in active development so there may be bugs or crashes, but I’d be very interested in your feedback.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#573I’m working on a collaborative reading app called Rdrs. You can upload a ebook, create a reading group, invite others and your reading position, comments and highlights are synced live with the group. You can also read privately, and as its web-based is available on any device. I’m still in active development so there may be bugs or crashes, but I’d be very interested in your feedback. https://www.rdrs.app
This a really cool idea. I've just started a book club with my room mates and we'd be keen to give this a try, especially if we can leave notes/thoughts for one another as we go through
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#574Numpy data file (.npy) and ZIP file support for MicroPython. https://github.com/jonnor/micropython-npyfile
https://github.com/jonnor/micropython-zipfile
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#575I'm working on my dungeon planning tool for tabletop games.
Currently I'm implementing the export of a player map that can be partially revealed.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#576I wish I was working on something. How is it that I can’t think of anything? My mind goes blank. Maybe it’s a side effect of being burnt out from my job.
It's a huge space, so I wouldn't say it's easy. Also several ideas will just not be interesting to you at first, and many others will only be revealed as uninteresting after a while (ie you hit a problem you aren't interested in solving).
One idea might be to learn something new, if you don't have a project. Think about a textbook or a class, or online texts, or just some interesting popsci at the local bookstore/library for example. any might work depending on your style.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#577OneJS, JavaScript for Unity. Currently working on bringing "Jupyter Notebook" directly into the Unity Editor. https://onejs.com
That's pretty awesome, wasn't expecting typescript support too, and thought it would just be bound to the Unity/C# API but you've added support for rendering modern React into Unity as well. If this was made for Godot I'd pay you.
Tyty! To be honest, Godot and UE have been very tempting. I'm just too deep into Unity at this point. Even I'm surprised that their years of fiascos didn't shake me off. But it looks like things are getting better over there.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#578I’m solidly reinventing the wheel by building my own cut-down version of Ghost, cut with a minimal platform such as Blot, Bear, Mataroa, etc; using classless HTML as the source (rather than mobiledoc).
Aim is for a static-site development/writing experience but with a dynamic app to allow for email subscriptions, payments, etc.
Not building it as a business, just to meet my own needs.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#579My last job had an internal tool for deploying all, or a reduced set of, their platform into a kube namespace. We called them One Time Environments and used them for testing and development. They were fantastic, really fast to spin up, and pretty cheap to run as they were on our own hardware. I've never found anything similar that doesn't cost an absolute bomb of money.
Now I've moved to an early startup and I'm really missing the tool. So I've started putting together my own with a few improvements.
This one can support multiple infrastructure types such as ECS, K8S, and anything else you could write an agent for. It's also going to do the same for zero trust auth, starting with tailscale.
Once we've got it up and running we're going to open source it. Could be a few more months though.
Building it using elixir, phoenix, and live view as that's my background.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#580I'm working on my dungeon planning tool for tabletop games. Currently I'm implementing the export of a player map that can be partially revealed. https://github.com/H4kor/dungeon-planner
I hope you're supporting the VTT format rather than introducing yet another "standard" format.
If the VTT format is lacking, then please work to get that format extended so we have a better format rather than fragmenting yet another format.
As someone who owns a few different dungeon drafting tools, it's a real pain when different formats don't work well together. Lighting seems to be the biggest issue where drafting in one editor and importing in another will lose lighting settings.