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

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

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Post by Max-Ganz-II »

Replacement system tables for Amazon Redshift.

Thinking a free and paid version.

Free is everything, but runs on the existing system tables; so it's slow, and so a six day history only.

Paid has a system table archiving mechanism, so you have before-and-after when something goes wrong, and where the tables are in Redshift proper, not the leader node, it's fast.

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

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Post by anty »

I'm integrating daily steps walked into my workout/nutrition tracking app EverBeat for Android. I've noticed that this is an important metric for many people interested in losing some weight.

I estimate burned calories on the minute-to-minute level for all activities, which is a fun challenge.

For the steps to calories conversion, I require time and distance walked. Unfortunately it's surprisingly difficult to get some kind of distance information from Android. Google Fit API provides this data, but will be killed soon. The RecordingAPI will hopefully provide this in the future, but not yet...

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

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Post by seky »

I have a. suite of tolls for developers:

https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode and vice-versa conversion),

https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML and need to clean it up),

https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so well-formed HTML and need to fix it),

https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple tool to HTML encode (escape) a text),

https://www.urlenc.com/ (a simple tool to URL encode (escape) a text),

https://www.gguid.com/ (a customizable GUID generator),

https://www.64baser.com/ (a Base64 and vice-versa encoder),

https://www.hexator.com/ (a Hex and vice-versa encoder),

https://www.cescaper.com/ (a C and C++ string escaper and unescaper) https://www.htmlinstant.com/ (a simple HTML editor).

https://www.notationer.com/ (a tool to switch across (code) notations, like camelCase, PascalCase, snake-case).

Frontend is mostly in React/Next.js (Some older projects have frontend still in the old ASP.NET MVC and Ajax :-)). Where the backend is needed, it is written in .Net/C# and running on Azure.

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

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Post by Scotrix »

I’m working on a few things:

- Micro SaaS https://yasl.at, link shortening with custom meta data for link previews on messengers/social media, see my blog post for more details: https://yasl.at/dKpNnZ

- A web game called Wizencraft (https://wizencraft.com) which is a logic puzzle to guess the right order of items as quickly as possible which lets you compete with other players, solve daily challenges in groups and let’s you grind thousands of items, it's a very early alpha and I'm building it in public very iteratively and not polished at first, see more details here: https://yasl.at/XnoDtY

- And last but not least I started to build a not yet published simple dashboard for analytics where I can plugin my self-hosted database very easily. You can just write SQL queries for MongoDB, Clickhouse, Postgresql in a single YAML which defines the query and how a chart looks like on the dashboard.

The idea came from the fact that using other dashboard/analytic tools always is a hassle, existing analytics dashboards I used for products are not easy to copy, replicate or adjust and it's mostly doable solely via clicking in a complex frontend instead of defining it simply via a configuration and the available offerings are charging large.

I'm planning to have the chart definition editable via web interface and is stored locally as files which can be versioned and managed by git and can connected to the web interface with a simple docker container (this brings the analytics dashboard to the product source code itself and can be easily copied/adjusted again for new products). Happy to share more and once the first version of the dashboard is ready to use (in the coming weeks...).

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Would love your thoughts on all of this and especially the analytics dashboard. Did you you face similar issues/problems with existing solutions (or if i can stop and actually use an existing solution which does what I'd like to have).

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

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Post by _dain_ »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #440

I've mentioned my project a few times around HN, but might as well reiterate :) I took some time off from work to teach myself Rust and to build a WASM colony simulation game. You've got a colony of ants, they're in a cold, foggy crater, and you help them grow and survive. The simulation runs 24/7, like a Tamagotchi, but a bit more complex, like a simplified RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. I am hoping to design game play…

thanks ants.

thants.

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

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Post by elmigranto »

iOS app to discover dog-friendly places in Amsterdam.

https://www.instagram.com/doggable.app/

We have over a 100 places now, and are getting ready for closed beta in September. You can sign up by emailing hello@doggable.app or DM-ing us on Instagram @doggable.app.

The app is developed live over at Twitch.

https://twitch.tv/elmigranto

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