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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#601
I'm building https://trackey.io/ to help product folks get accurate feedback at the right moment from the right users.

It is a little bit more than half-baked but it's not being an easy journey to find our first recurrent customers, so that's why we're selling 50 Annual Deals for now.

If you've been thinking on building a product with the right features for your users, I'd would love to help you with it! :)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#602

I've built and alpha released a booking management system for a local business that delivers construction materials. The setup involves the operators that record bookings via phone calls into the booking system. Then they have the drivers perform deliveries for those bookings, which they track through the mobile apps that are powered by the booking system. I also built a quote calculator, which is an extension of the…

Would love to find out more about this.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#603

Podcast Content Intelligence - https://siev.io/ I've been working on building a content intelligence dataset on podcast data. Using new LLMs I'm able to transcribe, speaker detect, and topic extract anything in the podcast space (or audio in general) and produce a detailed structured dataset from what people are talking about. The website is jank as hell atm, but I think the resulting transcripts are pretty interesti…

Nice work!

Would be great to see not only the episode title but also the podcast name when you click on a topic.

The site is kinda fast though, I enjoy that!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#604
Festival mesh network for finding friends without service. Just added the mesh aspect to it. Before it was only 1 to 1. It needs a ton of people on it at the festival for it to work though so we’re getting some bad feedback unfortunately.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pointgo/id1638564798

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#605

https://draw.horse This is a drawing toy that takes some inspiration from kidpix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix ). It makes amusing (to me anyhow) noises, has some goofy brushes and stamps. You can't save your pictures or print them out, and I haven't gotten around to figuring out some happy medium of using canvas and doing a flood fill.

Love it. This whole thread is just total and utter madness. Everyone here has the most esoteric projects I would never have imagined. p.s. the regular pen drawing sound on your app has the background noise in it as far as I can tell. Have you tried it with noise removal? It might make it better, it also might make it less charming, I don't know!

I would at least consider changing the sound. Found the current one particularily grating.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#606

https://postcardbot.com A simple sms based chat bot for generating and mailing postcards from photos you’ve taken yourself. I took the sms approach because I’m exhausted from always needing to install an app for everything. Most things don’t need apps. This interface is unique and kinda fun to use. Also, it took me just a weekend to whip up so I’m quite fond of it .

Talk about a great weekend outcome. The "can I see a sample post card?" is particularly powerful, and may deserve to be more prominent on your landing page. Like a left hand side text message chain/right hand side outcome of the postcard. Even an example of an actual printed one on a desk or in someone's hand could be nice.

Question - your privacy policy is fairly robust. Curious how you tackled this. Hire an attorney, skill set of yours, outsourced firm that does this for a nearly fixed price?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#607
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-tab-a... I built this for personal use, but maybe someone else also finds it useful. It's a Firefox add-on that arranges YouTube video tabs based on the runtime of the video. I often hoard many YouTube tabs and at some point I want to either watch the shortest ones or play something lengthy so I can do household chores while listening to the video. This makes fin…

Blocked at the same step with my extension: linkedin noise remover.

https://github.com/deejayy/linkedin-noise-remover

If somebody is already a certified chrome extension publisher, feel free to upload it :)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#608

https://www.oncer.io/ Encrypted messages without history - for when you want to send an api key or password or the like and don't want it sitting in the recipients WhatsApp/Signal history, for example, or going over non-encrypted channels like email or Slack. And you don't want to set up a complicated encryption messaging thing. There are similar services already: e.g. onetimesecret, burnernote - but I wanted somethi…

This reminds me of Firefox Send.

I did appreciate Firefox send - quite interested to hear how it might be brought back as part of Thunderbird! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt_2xiNjQBo

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#609

https://www.oncer.io/ Encrypted messages without history - for when you want to send an api key or password or the like and don't want it sitting in the recipients WhatsApp/Signal history, for example, or going over non-encrypted channels like email or Slack. And you don't want to set up a complicated encryption messaging thing. There are similar services already: e.g. onetimesecret, burnernote - but I wanted somethi…

sounds a lot like privatebin.info . it also does the encryption client side. my workplace even selfhost it for our internal usage

Thanks for this! Taking a look. Hope to see self-hosted Oncer.io in the wild one day too :)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#610
https://github.com/pushfoo/Fontknife

tl;dr: a CLI bitmap font converter, slicer, and rasterizer

I would love suggestions and help with:

* The awful command line flags: which of the following sound(s) best?

  - Something FFmpeg style: repeatable optional args are applied to the previous source / output
  - Keep it as 1 input + 1 output 
  - Prioritize library use
    
* Should I keep Octo[1] code generation in this project or separate it out?

* General refactoring:

  - The current caching layer should probably be deleted
  - Replace PIL's font support with other BSD or MIT style libs

1. Octo, a CHIP-8 assembler: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo

P.S. Octojam 10 runs until 12:00 AM PST on November 1st! See the following if you're interested! https://itch.io/jam/octojam-10

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