I am working on https://calculator2go.com/?utm_source=hackernews - it is very basic. Nothing technical. I would add tool as I feel need. It is a hands-on approach for me to learn marketing, copywriting, etc.
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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#62Not sure it's as early as you are looking for, I've been at it for 10 months, but https://grugnotes.com is my take on a simpler roam/obsidian/yet another notetaking app. Casual ambition to make it a saas business. But of late, just building without too much polishing, trying to get it to a point I can use it effectively in my small business. Always so much more to making something real than you ever imagine.
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#63> wait too long to publish something before it is fully polished
what is your idea / project?
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#64For about a year I've been going through the process of gathering all of the television listing pages from the New York Times, processing them to extract the films that played each day, matched the films to their IMDB links, and parsing the VCR codes to get the time/channel as well. Now I'm creating a little frontend to view and analyze the data as well as curate bits that didn't match properly.
At the moment I'm mostly just planning on sharing it with my brother, but who knows. I generally think I'll eventually share the data somewhere possibly on a website. I can't commercialise it if I understand the New York Times license properly since I scraped the Timesmachine for the listing pages.
Regardless, it's been super fun, and the data is very cool. Like 21 thousand unique films. At the moment I'm mostly trying to decide if I want to continue adding bits, like seeing all the listings a specific actor was in ... Mostly to test the hypothesis purported by PCU that there is always a Michael Caine or Gene Hackman film on television (I'm joking obviously there isn't although it is closer than you'd think). At the moment you can view an individual date or all of the listings for a specific film.
To me this is starting to feel almost like a Wikipedia thing or internet archive. This is, in a way, a specific ground truth of when television programs played in the New York area. I just have no idea who or what would be interested in it.
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#65Going to be piloting in hyper-local form first (one deanery in one diocese), but I'm working on a sort of Nextdoor-meets-Public-Square for Catholics. First just a list of all local Catholic events with subscribe-able tags for target audiences, but then also a directory of local businesses run by parishioners. Maaaaaybe eventually message-board-type features, but that's far enough in the future to ignore for now. No i…
1) can it recognize handwriting?
2) can it identify where a child made a mistake when ‘showing their work’ aka error analysis?
A tool that guides a kid to their mistakes would probably be more useful than on that solves a problem on their behalf.
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#66I'm building a publicly-accessible Matrix app [0] for anyone looking to self-host a discord + discussions alternative. More and more communities are moving to closed-off apps hidden behind auth, and not being indexed by search engines. This is quite unfortunate, and I'm hoping that Shpong can (soon) be a viable alternative that respects the open web. Shpong instances federate with each other, and I'm working on addin…
I've seen Shpong referenced in couple of articles that made it to the HN front page. There were some interesting ideas there; keen to see how it goes.
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#67Bitgrid[1][2] is a continuation of an idea I've been carrying around since the 1980s, and tweaking from time to time. If I can maintain focus long enough, I intend to learn RTL, VHDL or Verilog well enough to get it entered in one of the Google open source chip shuttles. I think this approach to computing if applied to neural networks may offer a cheap way to get far more compute, perhaps exaflop performance out of a…
Are you sure this can run backprop?
There are many ways you could do backprop... if you want to probe the values straight from the middle of the grid, you could do that. You could poke new values right into the middle of things (by using configuration/random access mode), but everything else is going to pause while doing so. Or you could ripple in new weights along with data.
To me, this feels like starting from where Turing stood and inventing a new type of computer. The sky is the limit.
Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#68Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
#69https://www.bestlms.co
Working on this while working my main role. This is the missing piece I needed for my previous startup so been working to complete the suite.
Would love to connect with any lending/finance guys about this.
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#70I’ve been recording voice notes to work through problems on walks for about a year and I love it.
There are other transcription apps out there, but they are all focused on b2b, so I have been making one for individuals.
https://www.glowvoicenotes.com/
It’s still pretty early days(first version should be available in about a week) but I would love to find anyone out there interested in using voice as part of their work flow, there are a few different directions it could go in terms of features.