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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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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.

Sure! What would you like to know?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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HN Badges is still going. Check yours out. Hosting as a HTML/JS static app means I have had live for months without a thought! https://hnbadges.netlify.app/

lol not working! i guess algolia changed something

aaand working again guess it was temporary

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I left my last job and a toxic boss a few months back and decided the only viable future is to start my own thing again. But this time I was going to do it properly - lean customer development, speak to users before writing a line of code, etc. Instead, I became fascinated by the massive improvements in OCR and how they can be applied to digitising boring paper records. Decided to start out with the most boring probl…

What are you using for OCR?

Second this.

Im starting a project that could need OCR and I'm not sure if doing it with open cv for preprocessing + tesseract, or use something like Google document AI which seems very good in a small test I run.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I'm building Mass Driver[1], a tool to automate PR creation across many (many) repos, building a library of reusable changes via "patchdriver" plugins. The repos can be fed as list on CLI, via file, or via a "source" type plugin (allows github search or custom API calls), the PR creation works via a "Forge" plugin. Resulting PR list can be fetched to review status: > Of 113 given PRs, 73 merged, 30 closed not merged,…

This is a much better thought out version of a project I made by necessity last year using github actions. It was for batching PRs when maintaining related open source repos as they grew, I especially like the ability to run on a local repo- gh actions made that very difficult and I suffered as a result haha Thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Im working on building an alternative to postman and insomnia that doesn’t suck. In particular it will automatically generate OpenAPI specs from live endpoints/data, validate requests/responses against known specs, and generate contract tests on the fly. Everything will work locally WITHOUT a stupid “cloud sync” account. I’m only a few weeks in, but Insomnia’s complete f*ckup just days after I started really proved I…

Cloud sync is fine with me, but required cloud sync is so annoying when i download an app for local testing and it forces a login before i can even use it. Definitely interested

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://evy.app I am working on a free app to host, manage and share your hobbies or collections. I have an extensive collection of mechanichal keyboards, and I often struggle to find photos when talking about it, to keep track of pending orders and keeping a stock of stuff. So this is app comes from my own necessity :)

I have this exact issue and have ling considered some tagging based system for my images but never got around to it. Sounds cool!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I made a plain-text no frills news website for India: https://news.tatooine.club/

It shows news only from the last two days, there’s no infinite scrolling, no images, very little JavaScript, no ads, and no tracking.

It has trigger warnings, let’s you hide specific categories (like sports), and grays out read articles (unless they get an update).

It has slack-like highlight words to highlight news that you care about. I highlight news about Bangalore, or Google for eg.

I check it once or twice a day, and I get just enough news that I care about.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I made a plain-text no frills news website for India: https://news.tatooine.club/ It shows news only from the last two days, there’s no infinite scrolling, no images, very little JavaScript, no ads, and no tracking. It has trigger warnings, let’s you hide specific categories (like sports), and grays out read articles (unless they get an update). It has slack-like highlight words to highlight news that you care about.…

This is amazing! Can you extend this to a) allow choosing regions and b) provide some weekly digest kind of thing where the news items from the past week are summarized?

Also, what's your source of info btw?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://www.sunnynests.com/ Niche real estate portal for foreigners looking to buy a property in Spain. I’ve built it in Ruby on Rails and hosting on Heroku. Running free trials for realtors in case anyone’s interested :-) But I would mostly appreciate feedback about what you are missing from existing real estate portals.

Negating a selection criterion ('no swimming pool').
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