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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tchock23 »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

I’ve been searching for something just like this and haven’t found ‘the one’ yet.

Something that goes from goals to milestones mapped to specific days and times on those days (I’ve learned that todo lists not mapped to calendars are far less productive).

Amazing Marvin comes close when you customize it a certain way, and their recent ‘Goals’ feature is well implemented, but it’s not ‘purpose driven’ to do what you’re describing.

Would be interested in following your journey on this if there is an email list you’ve created to subscribe to...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by antoniuschan99 »

I produce WiFi Environmental Sensors for Gardens and Spaces.

The Sensors Monitor Temperature & Humidity allowing You to Monitor your Space Anywhere in the World. If Values Deviate, you will get a Notification through our App. Each Sensor is also shareable so Friends/Family/Staff can Monitor as well. The Sensors are Battery Powered which allows for versatility placing it in various Spaces.

More info at https://www.kokonaut.com or https://www.instagram.com/kokonautinc

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tchock23 »

ChadB wrote: post #285

https://www.dispoteca.com/ I just launched the marketing site on Monday. I'm 38 with a spouse and two small children. I've been a CTO of two SMBs over the last few years and needed to build something of my own. It's the craziest thing I've ever done. The industry is end-of-life IT assets. It's a big industry with a lot of steak dinners that you can make a decent living at by grinding. I was introduced by a buddy of m…

Looks great. Can I make a small headline suggestion that might boost your conversion?

Consider saying ‘Sell your used computer...’ Using the word ‘your’ in a headline has been shown to improve conversions. I also think it would just read easier in the context of this page.

Best of luck!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by nlh »

I finally sent out the first 3 issues of a weekly(ish) newsletter I've been mulling over in the back of my mind for the past few years.

I'm calling it "The Weekend Nerdiary" and it's basically a best-of-the-internet-this-week aimed at hackers/makers like, well, me. Mix of code stuff + general tech + gaming + design. Goal is to be a fun, light read on a Sunday morning over coffee.

The idea, which is by no means original, is that I already spend several hours a day browsing HN, reddit, reading others' newsletters, twitter, etc., and I figured I ought to channel that into something productive. I'm doing it anyway, so wy not, right? Might as well curate the stuff that I'd normally forward a few friends when I chuckle.

It's been hard to remember that not everyone reads the same stuff that I do. So I'll curate a bunch of things and worry that "everyone's already seen this stuff", but no, actually, that's not true at all.

So far everyone I've sent it to loves it and has asked for more (and sent in suggestions), so I guess I've got that going for me.

(If anyone is interested, feel free to sign up at https://nlh.me. This is early and I haven't put the archive / sample issues up yet, but I will in due time. No offense taken if you sign up and change your mind ;)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jcun4128 »

twiclo wrote: post #56

Me and a friend have been working on a game that I describe as "Factorio but for programming". Essentially you're an AI who's mission is to mine every resource from a planet. To keep things efficient you start out small and have limited processing power. You're only able to run an assembly like language that we've developed. As you get more resources you can research new things like functions, variables, type argumen…

Paperclips

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Post by miguelrochefort »

I'm building a platform to program robots. The twist is that I'm the robot.

For the past 2 years, I've been collecting all of the data I could about myself. My system connects to about 50 different data sources, trackers, and environmental sensors. Think of it as 100% automated activity tracking.

Now that I have the data, I'm working on goal setting. It's both about implicit goals (physiological goals, local laws, contracts) and explicit goals ("I want to lose 20 pounds"). Future visualization/projection + direct manipulation seems like good formal approach to goal setting. Natural language also seems promising, and could be integrated to smart speakers and journaling apps to ease adoption.

The following challenge will be to automatically break down goals into a series of steps. I suspect that Control Theory will be useful, but I haven't seriously researched the subject yet. It's my biggest unknown.

Lastly, the system will need to give me instructions. I've been giving myself instructions for the past year using time blocking and Google Calendar. It's extremely powerful. My calendar will ontinue to be my main source of instructions, except that the system will populate it automatically. Eventually, AR, environmental cues (changing scene, glowing LEDs, subtle chimes), and wearables will become more ergonomic and seamless sources of instructions. I am already experimenting with the PineTime.

By the end of the decade, you'll be able to program yourself.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tchock23 »

jason_zig wrote: post #574

Thanks for asking! I'm working on an on-site polling tool called Zigpoll ( https://www.zigpoll.com ). It's an easy way to collect user feedback about your product or platform and can be triggered at any point during the user journey. I also built and maintain JQBX ( https://www.jqbx.fm ) which is a turntable.fm-like website except it hooks into Spotify.

Website looks nice, and the survey experience is well done. Is it doing well so far?

Feedback tools are an incredibly crowded market (I’ve built a few myself, though in a different part of this industry).

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Post by miguelrochefort »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

All of us building this should get together.

My approach is to program myself with Python. Think dynamic time-blocking on steroids.

Let's all meet there: https://matrix.to/#/#gtd:matrix.org

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