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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by asenna »

For the photographers here, I'm currently in the initial research phase but building a dead-simple service which lets you dump your finished images into a folder - this gets rendered beautifully on a public URL which you can share with friends / family or clients (Kinda like SmugMug - but I hate that they only let you have your portfolio for 30 days for free and it gets deleted after that).

A second part of this (for a cost) planned for later is - you can dump a much larger, unprocessed collection of your images and someone in the backend will manually cull your images, and make quick edits before making it live on the site. This is mainly for people who usually skip editing or prefer if someone else do it quickly / cheaply for them.

Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions, would really appreciate it!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by chrisrickard »

It's reasonably unexciting but I am writing an article about "What I wish I had known before starting my custom software development agency"...

I know, I know - those titles are kinda lame - but it captures it pretty well, as the piece is about a younger me (8 years ago) being visited by an older, wider, and slightly fatter me, and imparting some key learnings about the world of client services, and more generally running a custom software business.

It's for my new blog/newsletter/website Dev to Agency (https://www.devtoagency.com) where I am trying to help full-stack developers that may wish the start a software agency get started, and hopefully teach them a few things.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lukeplato »

NickyDiamondz wrote: post #552

I developed a VST plugin that allows users to collaborate remotely using any DAW, it's called BeatConnect. The main value of this is that everyone can use their own setup and instruments and still participate in the creative process together. I've been working on this for a year and have been doing open beta for about a month, people seem really into it which is awesome! 4+ people can make music at the same time, the…

Looks great, I was thinking about building the same thing earlier this year but couldn't find the time, so I'm glad this exists. Will you allow users to collaborate with strangers?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Areading314 »

nemo1618 wrote: post #300

I'm working on a language optimized for solving programming challenges as quickly as possible. That is, I'm not optimizing for execution time , I'm optimizing for time between reading the problem statement and having a working solution . As far as I'm aware, there aren't any existing languages in this space. There are plenty of "code golf" languages, which optimize for shortest finished program , but that's slightly…

I'm also very interested in this problem. Have you explored other paradigms to specify the program outside of text?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by alfg »

I work mostly around multimedia, so a few video-related tools I've been working on lately:

1. FFmpeg command generator: https://alfg.github.io/ffmpeg-commander/

2. Web-based MP4 File Inspector: https://github.com/alfg/mp4-inspector

3. Web-based FFProbe: https://github.com/alfg/ffprobe-wasm

4. Rust MP4 library: https://github.com/alfg/mp4-rust

Also, trying to get a bit more familiar with Rust and Web Assembly.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by linklonk »

nickysielicki wrote: post #211
enjeyw wrote: post #51

An aggregator ala reddit/hackernews/twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery. One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that: - how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting. - However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than "frontpage" content - This means…

I've had a recurring thought where you supplant upvotes with something like an ELO system. Basically, my thought is that I know I can follow something like the reddiquette, or the HN rules. I'm certainly not perfect, but I don't downvote when I disagree, and I don't upvote when I agree, and I try to not make unsubstantive comments. Reddit and HN maybe used to follow this when they were very small, but as sites grow t…

How about this scheme:

- when you upvote an item, everyone else who upvoted the item before you earns some amount of your trust

- the more of your trust someone has earned - the more weight their other upvoted items get for you

- each time they upvote, they put some amount of your trust on that item; so if you stop liking their recommendations the amount of your trust they have will go down over time

- when you downvote an item, you take away your trust from people who upvoted it; they've shown that they are not good curators of content for you, so their upvotes will have less weight for you

In this system you end up paying attention to people who have proven to you to be good curators of content. It optimizes for high signal to noise ratio, where what is signal and what is noise if up to you to decide with your upvotes. We don't have to all agree on what is globally "upvoteworthy".

There is no global reputation system (which can be gamed). Instead, there is a peer-to-peer trust system.

If you are interested in a system like that, then I would like to invite you to my hobby project that works exactly this way. Register with a temporary account (no email required) at https://linklonk.com/register and use code 'hn'.

It is early days and we don't have many users yet. To supplement real users LinkLonk supports RSS feeds as sources of information. Each feed behaves much like a user - the more you upvote content from it, the higher ranked its other entries will be for you. I hope you will find it useful and I'm looking to hear your feedback.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dhbradshaw »

A place where authors can post their rough drafts privately for beta readers and collect analytics on reading behavior in order to see what sections of the draft are slower and faster reads and where they lose readers.

I'm having fun from the coding / architecture side by making it in Rust with Actix web backed by Sled. Trying to keep the time between request and response under a millisecond not including transit.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kevas »

I have 3 side projects that I’m splitting my time between.

- a browser extension that will reverse engineer a site’s APIs by analyzing network traffic and then compiling them into standardized specifications.

- API based financial derivative calculations that will calculate more than just the BSM.

- Just another financial market / economic analytics platform.

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