Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by rikkipitt » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

scriptdevil wrote: post #167

rikkipitt wrote: post #40

I'm working on pacing emails to a more manageable, calmer schedule. I'm doing it with essentially a UI-less system which is a rather fun way to produce an app. It simply requires a user to update their email of the website that emails them too frequently with a paced.email alias. E.g. johndoe.shopify@daily.paced.email johndoe.stripe@weekly.paced.email johndoe.github@monthly.paced.email At the end of each period, a si…

I haven't used this. But i see the utility. Wouldn't having an admin UI to map ids to periodicity be better than using a hard coded subdomain? That way one can prevent bad actors from switching pace when they come to know of this site. I could also up or lower pace for an id while not having to go through the hassle of changing my mail id.. Also, doing that would let you sell the solution for use with custom domains.…

These are some great suggestions. I'm starting to think about how I could use custom domains etc. I need to figure out the next steps for the app and what people would be prepared to pay for such a tool. Ideally, I'd like to keep everything simple when it comes to pricing and not have functionality based tiers. Not sure yet.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by rikkipitt » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:27 PM UTC

patrickthebold wrote: post #228

rikkipitt wrote: post #40

I'm working on pacing emails to a more manageable, calmer schedule. I'm doing it with essentially a UI-less system which is a rather fun way to produce an app. It simply requires a user to update their email of the website that emails them too frequently with a paced.email alias. E.g. johndoe.shopify@daily.paced.email johndoe.stripe@weekly.paced.email johndoe.github@monthly.paced.email At the end of each period, a si…

I like how this is done, I'd suggest forwarding to another existing email address, for example: johndoe_AT_gmail.com@weekly.paced.email Then you don't even need a website.

I think there's a balancing act between making it memorable enough and simple enough. Great suggestion though, noted! Hacker News is incredible. A spectacular hive mind for mulling potential ideas over.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by rikkipitt » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

thewarpaint wrote: post #89

rikkipitt wrote: post #40

I'm working on pacing emails to a more manageable, calmer schedule. I'm doing it with essentially a UI-less system which is a rather fun way to produce an app. It simply requires a user to update their email of the website that emails them too frequently with a paced.email alias. E.g. johndoe.shopify@daily.paced.email johndoe.stripe@weekly.paced.email johndoe.github@monthly.paced.email At the end of each period, a si…

Great idea. My suggestion: why not use the Gmail-style johndoe+spotify@ suffix? Just because people would be more used to it. That way johndoe@ also would work.

Thanks thewarpaint. Good point. Having read the below counterpoints though, I'm not quite sure now! I'll look into it.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by coderholic » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

aliclark wrote: post #563

coderholic wrote: post #88

Creating the worlds best IP address and domain name APIs and data sets, at https://ipinfo.io and https://host.io . We've solved scaling and reliability (we handle 20 billion API requests a month), and we're now focusing almost all our efforts on our data quality, and new data products (like VPN detection). We're bootstrapped, profitable, and we've got some big customers (like apple, and t-mobile), and despite being a…

Why/how is this better than existing IP solutions (e.g. https://www.maxmind.com/en/home or https://www.digitalelement.com/ )?

Here are some reasons why someone might choose to use us:

- We're super developer friendly - you don't even need an access token to make up to 1,000 requests per day. We have a clean / simple JSON response, and official SDKs for most popular libraries

- We have a quick, reliable API. We obsess over latency and availability, and handle over 20 billion API requests a month. (here's a technical overview of how we reduced rDNS lookups by 50x: https://blog.ipinfo.io/reducing-ipinfo-io-api-latency-50x-by...)

- We obsess over data quality. We have a data team that's constantly striving to make our data and accuracy even better than it already is.

- We're innovating. We've launched and are working on exciting new data sets and products in the IP and domain data space (VPN detection, the host.io domain API, and more).

- We care about our customers. We have people working on customer support and customer success. If you run into an issue or need help, we'll be there to answer your questions.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by bpizzi » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

jlevers wrote: post #552

bpizzi wrote: post #371

We're (team of 2) rewriting an old enterprise ERP system made of ~1M of C89 non-portable loc, tens of thousands of handwritten PLSQL loc, thousands of business rules carefully abstracted in sql data, tens of complex screen designed and scripted on a no-name RAD software that was the current fad back in the days, and some companion pieces in VB6 because, you known, 'C89, not anybody can do it'. That's fun . The new sy…

That sounds super interesting. You should absolutely write a book...or, if not that, a blog. I'd read it.

/me gathering momentum...

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by kayge » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

Trying to get hired in infosec with 10+ years of web dev experience, and failing miserably even though there is a "desperate need" for more people from all backgrounds to enter the field :)

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by jobseeker990 » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:39 PM UTC

skwb wrote: post #589

mrfusion wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does deep learning come in?

We use heatmap localization to identify the cardiac landmarks that define the viewing planes.

Is there are way to get involved in something like that? It sounds so fascinating.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by belzebalex » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:40 PM UTC

sgtnoodle wrote: post #271

lww515 wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mind if I contact you and ask you questions about this? I’m interested.

Sure, or just ask them here if you think they would be of general interest.

I'm looking for an internship in July-August. I've built a lot of model planes younger and what you're doing seems amazing! Is there any way we could talk further?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by koheripbal » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:40 PM UTC

cedricium wrote: post #142

I'm tackling the issue of managing Reddit saves. Across all platforms (not just Reddit), people including myself like to save/bookmark interesting content in the hopes of getting some use out of it later. The problem arises when you start accumulating too much content and forget to ever check that stuff out. I'm working on a solution to help resurface Redditors' saved things using personalized newsletters. I'm callin…

> I'm calling it Unearth...

Why not call it Digg?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by joshgachnang » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:44 PM UTC

tmaly wrote: post #588

joshgachnang wrote: post #439

A meal planning app for weight loss. I lost 50 pounds using calorie counting a few years ago. The thing that frustrated me most was trying to come up with meal plans every week. It's quite tedious to constantly find new recipes if you get bored with eating the same meals over and over. The weeks I planned ahead of time, I lost weight quickly. When I didn't plan I would stop losing weight, sometimes for months. So I'm…

I love this idea! I need a version that would also incorporate batch cooking so that I save time on cooking and make it easier to reach.

Oh yeah, that's pretty soon on my feature list! Something like "you're going to need to cook these nights, these nights are leftovers" and give you options to choose those and bias results towards eating the same thing every week day, etc to support things like Meal Prep Sunday.

So many of the other tools are just unrealistic for how I cook, which is cook like 4-5 times a week max and never for breakfast or lunch (unless it's ahead of time).