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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by carbonboarder »

https://PropScout.io - Investment Property Deals via Email

My business partner and I spent so much time analyzing hundreds of properties to understand if the numbers work for investment properties. We then built a workflow that sends regular emails with a table with all the numbers calculated for us, based on rent estimates.

We’ve onboarded a couple of people so far and are onboarding more investors and agents next week.

We also added a red flag analyzer using LLMs for each property which we hope to expand into hard to reach data (government records) as well as the data we pull from public sites.

Feel free to DM me or sign up on our website and we’ll reach out. We’re iterating a lot and value your feedback!

Thanks

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by nicbou »

I built an English-speaking website that helps immigrants settle in Berlin.[0] It has been my full time job for a while. Most English speakers know about it, but it's nearly invisible to Germans, who would also benefit from the content and tools I have worked on.

I'm currently adding an automated AI translation feature to my custom static site generator, so that I can translate the website to multiple languages and reach more people. I'm trying to make the process as seamless and automated as possible, because I'm running this website solo, and there are only so many hours in a day.

It's a surprisingly tricky endeavour! As usual, the first 80% are easy. It's getting the last 20% right that requires a lot of work. There are so many small hurdles. For instance, translating the URL structure and translating the URLs within the content, getting the translations to be accurate, getting the SEO right, translating the templates and the JS tools I've built, keeping the costs low.

[0] https://allaboutberlin.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by josters »

theptrk wrote: post #401

The "me database" tracking my gps for physical location, urls visited, etc.. This way I can search through all my physical and computer activity to answer questions like: how many times did I go to the gym last year? or how many leetcode questions did I do this month? Wrote a summary here ( https://theptrk.com/2024/09/27/me-database-master-plan/ )

I also played with this idea of a Memex [1] a few times already, but I always struggle with the actual usefulness of the data. Most of the time, the greatest fun for me is setting up the systems and seeing it all come together in a single database, but I tend to fall behind as soon as it is manual work to keep something updated.

For location, I found that the easiest and most privacy-friendly way of doing this without wrecking the battery of my main phone was to get a cheap used Android phone with dual GPS (a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G) on which I have PhoneTrack [2] installed and then pipe the GPS points to a PostGIS database on my local network [3] when I am home.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex [2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.eneiluj.nextcloud.phonet... [3]: https://github.com/gitc23/phonetrack-server

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by idk1 »

sponno wrote: post #522

I got so upset with Docusign being too expensive and unfair, that I quit my last startup to build a new one. I built a complete platform over the past 3 years, that doesn't require a subscription and you only pay for what you send. Give it a go if you need to send a document that needs to be signed. https://goodsign.io

Really good job! Just a note your pricing comparison table looks a bit shady. I think you should give either your per year cost compared to the others, or put the document cost on the others. But the way you've done it makes it look like you are tricking people into thinking yours is cheaper. That's just the vibe I'm getting from it. I think that's what you want the takeaway to be there, so I'd suggest updating that slightly.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by chantepierre »

Working on Alzo ( https://alzo.archi ), a half-SAAS, half-service business giving knowledge management + call for offers / layout automation to french, mid-sized architecture agencies.

It's kind of niche but I'm doing more and more automation on my side, to efficiently build custom one-off layout editors for my clients. Some have surprisingly specific wants (for example : "multi-player live google-slides like editor, but constrained to brand guidelines and layout systems with block-level pick and place across all documents").

I am having lots of fun with that and am trying to move from one-off bespoke systems to a common base + client-specific code.

Edit : it's 90% Elixir and designed to run both on-prem or as a managed service.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by tomthe »

ianthehenry wrote: post #204

https://bauble.studio/ is a programmatic 3D art playground that I've been working on for a while now, and I'm pretty excited about it! It's based around signed distance functions, which are a way to represent 3D shapes as, well, functions, and you can do a lot of like weird mathematical distortions and operations that give you cool new shapes. Like average two shapes together, or take the modulo of space to infinitel…

Thank you, I really like the default tutorial how one can play with it. Is it possible to visualize data with this?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by idk1 »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #163

Building algorithmic trading models. So far results continue to be good with every model outperforming the market on both absolute and risk-adjusted basis since going live. Since launching https://grizzlybulls.com in January 2022: Model | Return | Max drawdown ------------------- S&P 500 (benchmark) | 21.51% | -27.56% VIX TA Macro MP Extreme | 64.21% | -16.48% VIX TA Macro Advanced| 59.13% | -19.12% VIX TA Advanced |…

How would I even go about starting investing using this? Let's say I have a trading212 account or similar? Where do you even start? Do you have a "how to get started page" assuming someone knows little about investing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by eps »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #163

Building algorithmic trading models. So far results continue to be good with every model outperforming the market on both absolute and risk-adjusted basis since going live. Since launching https://grizzlybulls.com in January 2022: Model | Return | Max drawdown ------------------- S&P 500 (benchmark) | 21.51% | -27.56% VIX TA Macro MP Extreme | 64.21% | -16.48% VIX TA Macro Advanced| 59.13% | -19.12% VIX TA Advanced |…

Do they work in non-bull regimes?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by h4kor »

xnorswap wrote: post #580
h4kor wrote: post #575

I'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…

I'm working on print outs only, as I don't use digital maps.
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