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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by flutas »

scottmcdot wrote: post #50
flutas wrote: post #48

Working on a tool to help consumers find products / watch for price drops that match their budget for a very specific industry. Think camelcamelcamel with price charts (and other aspects of the products) tracked over time and Google Shopping so you can compare the same product among stores. Hoping to get the MVP out this month, been tracking data heavily since ~last September and currently have ~150k data points acro…

You should check out pricehipster.com. It was really good until companies started making it difficult to maintain a data feed.

Looks interesting and almost the exact same idea, just a different industry.

I am worried about the data feed aspects, the stores aren't exactly going to enjoy this, since they are the ones making the majority of the profit in this situation (my brother works at a manufacturer on the other side of this, so I know roughly the margins involved).

I understand it though, who would enjoy something like this coming out when your price for a product can go from $45 to $9 in a day and you're still making profit off of it... ex of actual data: https://i.imgur.com/jYUDriD.jpg

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by hawski »

majewsky wrote: post #46

Not at a stage where I can talk about it in detail, but I'm building a custom filesystem in FUSE. I just got the first basic getattr() working today. :)

Last year I was thinking about a FUSE filesystem that would help keep downloads directory more organized. But I think that maybe using fanotify or inotify could work better for it. Probably there exist something like it.

Other FS I had in mind that could be tied to the first idea is a naive online deduplication layer. This could help keeping Yocto build directories size under control.

Other idea (that would be useless for Yocto but useful for private files) is to add redundancy in terms of par2 files being created online.

I know that most of those ideas could be better served by more sophisticated filesystems, but I think on one side you can't always choose the filesystem you can use and on the other hand for archiving purposes the simplest things could be the best.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by Rodeoclash »

I have an open source video player for esports coaches that allows them to view video synced to all members of their team:

https://www.vodon.gg/

This year I'm going to move it from being an Electron app to online (and a PWA). I'm also going to introduce the ability to stream video from live matches (also capture it for later playback) as well as capture the events from the games themselves and connect that with some kind of data analysis tooling so you can ask questions like "What % of headshots were landed in the pistol round of my last three CS:GO matches".

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by Msurrow »

I’m building a hostingplatform for fully managed Wordpress sites. By managed I mean both the WP install, but also plugins, themes and other customizations.

I have a customer who does marketing, SoMe, SEO and all that (as a small business for other small to medium businesses) but it turns out she spends a lot of time dealing with tech issues from WP sites (plugin update errors, other tech issues the hosting provider doesnt handle etc).

I’ve been a SW dev for 10+ years now and know very little about WP. But it has always seemed crazy to me how everyone in the “WP space” seems to be making changes directly in prod o_O. I know WP is mostly configuration management, but Im going to build a platform for hosting based on methods and best practices from “my world” (docker, blue/green deploy, multiple environments (eg for test), automated tests, etc).

WP wasnt exactly intended to be run this way but I want to build it as both a personal challenge, and to prove - at least to myself, that the current Leeroy Jenkins in Prod approach has a better alternative, and ofc because I have a customer willing to pay for the service. And to be able to provide GDPR compliant by design (WP) hosting (EU based).

Im using Hetzner Cloud for the servers.

Today I got a blue/green deploy setup working with docker-compose, nginx and wordpress images, in which WP updates are installed just by updating the docker image version, and the switch betweem active instance (blue/green) is a simple cmd.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by jashkenas »

Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these:

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie...

But I'm a believer in asking for help in order to cast a wider net. If you happen to stumble across an obscure-yet-newsworthy dataset, or have a strong feeling about a particular guest essayist that we should be approaching, or can't stop thinking about an argument that's itching you — pitches and tips are always welcome: [my hn username]@nytimes.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by szastamasta »

I plan to work on an idea I’ve been thinking about for 2 years already.

It’s a mix of Intercom and Bugsnag, but made for technical people. For indie-hackers and small dev-houses where developers themselves have to support users and are not affraid of code and stack traces. Especially for mobile apps.

All these customer support tools are web only and focused mostly on marketing and sales. But my experience from my failed startup is that it works really well to get in touch with your users when you’re an indie hacker. Or to bugfix while on live chat with the user who can reproduce a bug.

Also I don’t know why, but all these support tools except Intercom have really bad ux and are slow and buggy. They also neglect mobile apps, all is web only. Or maybe I’ missing some real gem on the field…

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by Rodeoclash »

jjp wrote: post #19

I'm going to be working on a personal itch problem. I first spotted the problem about 20 years ago. I solved it as a brute force manual screen scrape 15 and 10 years ago. I tried to solve it programatically 5 years ago, learnt lots but ultimately went round in circles on scaling an approach. I'm now excited to be playing with Arquero [1] and Uber H3 [2] and hopefully I'll scratch the itch and release something! [1] h…

The first thing I thought of when reading the code for h3 was "I wonder if you could use this to build a Fallout-esque hex layouts for games".

I wonder if the lat/lng to hexes would work well for screen coordinates and the zooming aspect could introduce some interesting UI elements. Purely speculative though, I should probably read the docs in more detail.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by jriot »

Beginning two long endeavors this year. 1. Becoming UltraStrong. A concept I made-up to test myself. Compete and not zero any events in an open strongman event on a Saturday, then complete a 50 miler (ultra marathon) on a Sunday. I did ultras in my 20s and competed in two strongman competitions last year.

2. Reading and writing an essay on all the books in my library; roughly 300 books.

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