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

I've been making an RGB LED version of the game 2048: https://hackaday.io/project/197115-tiny2048. It's only a little side project but I've been having fun doing it!

Nice thread! A lot of interesting projects. Fingers crossed for all of them

On my side, I'm working on https://flatcal.com that aims at simplifying sharing multiple calendars from different sources as one ical link. Like combining work, freelance, and personal calendars to display my busy time for easier scheduling etc. I'm finishing handling time zones which are messy as each provider has its own approach, but manageable. Expect it soon :) A have a huge list of usages for it so not short on ideas right now. But first things first, I need to focus on releasing the basics now. I'm having way to much fun with this one

A companion that you chat with to keep track of your health symptoms. I was inspired by seeing family members go to their doctors appointments and not knowing the important symptoms to report in their short appointments.

Right now, it's Ruth, a companion you can WhatsApp with. She will take your history and record your symptoms, then you can ask her to summarise it before your appointment.

Try out the prototype on WhatsApp: +1 (516) 734-6593

(It's not HIPAA compliant and shares data with LLM providers currently, so best to use a fake patient profile if you're interested)

Dude, this is amazing. It deserves its own HN post!

I'm working in the final features for an office productivity suite with deep AI integration. I think the current slapping of a chat window on software is pretty tame, if not lame. So, in addition to that chat window that replies with conversational chat, I've got over a dozen integrated into software tools LLMs that when you ask them things, their output is programmatic and either modifies the data of what you're working on, or or performs some type of modification to the software tool in use. The tools include a complete word processor, where the AI knows the word processor's API and can directly manipulate the document in the word processor, likewise for a spreadsheet, and there is a "prompt engineer" interface where one can clone, modify, and create new LLM Agents that have deep access to the APIs of the tools, the data in the tools, and the wider application framework.

This has been in development for 3 years, and I've got an immigration law firm using it, with about 1/3rd of the LLM agents being immigration law specialist agents of some type.

I'm just wrapping up transforming the system from being immigration law specific to being generic, capable of operating in any industry. I previously made a "do it yourself: build your own home solar energy system" as a proof of concept that this framework could be modified in such a way, which I put online for a few months and then took down, having proved what I wanted.

I've got multiple creative writing 'bots: legal, technical documentation, creative writing, and code authoring. I've got multiple spreadsheet 'bots: create any standard spreadsheet form on demand, reverse engineer and explain complex spreadsheets, and co-author spreadsheets interactively with the human user, guiding them through the understanding of the spreadsheet being built. I've got foreign language translation agents that allow people without a common language to speak to one another through the voice transcription interfaces.

And the users are never copying and pasting LLM outputs from one place to another, that integration is built in to the business logic of the software: ask a chatbot to write a document, the output does directly to the word processor and the document is created, likewise for spreadsheets, likewise for talking to the "projectBot" and asking "what's the state of this project?" and a detailed report is generated.

I've also been making the app itself multi-lingual, and multi-skinned so it can be refaced for different cultures, demographics, and industries. I've been calling it "AI CMS" but that is meaningless to far too many. I'm considering calling it "Midom Office AI" because that sounds like "my dumb AI" and I'm generally sarcastic, considering an anti-gushing sarcastic marketing angle on the software. Rather than everyone's else's over praising, I'll have just some confident smuck referencing how he's got an entire team of AI experts helping him, enabling him to be calm and cool in the face of all the deadline pressures, he sips lemonade while his AI team works for him, and not him for it. We'll see what my "marketingBot" says...