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

I'm working on a unique discovery app / recommender for books, tv, movies, video games, songs, youtube channels, newsletters and podcasts - and more categories soon!

Since my last update here, I've added more detailed personalized descriptions of recommendations (hit Describe to request), including a rating out of 10 for how well the item meets your preferences.

I've also added the ability to replace individual recommendations (this was the most requested new feature!). If you update your preferences, your replacements will use your updated preferences - pretty nice for fine tuning your results!

Try it: https://www.yogurrt.com/

As a personal project during my free time I'm currently working on adding more accessibility features, specifically screen reader compatibility, to my Terminal User Interface XMPP/Jabber client, Communiqué. Unfortunately, as far as I can see there's no actual way to make a TUI compatible with screen readers (reach out on the issue tracker, fedi, or xmpp, see link below if you know otherwise or have experience here, please, I'd love to pick your brain!), so my current plan is to re-write the UI with whatever TUI toolkit makes it easiest to also have a CLI/prompt mode that we can specifically design to be reader compatible.

https://codeberg.org/mellium/communique-tui/

An AI powered web scraper. Chrome extension. Uses interesting LLM capabilities in natural language (website of your choosing)->structured data. It’s working pretty well!

https://www.extracto.bot

Building connections and mini tools for my website builder and funnels to gain users organically through tooling that doesn't exist yet.

Sync contacts, products and orders with 3rd party processors like square, Stripe, others.

Also probably set up some basic AI hints like one click ad generator for Facebook, Instagram, or other ad platforms that will link to your Funnel.

Once complete I will either make lots of money or it was a huge waste of time. However, the learning experience is priceless.

Also Making an offline Fantasy draft tool to learn Elixir and Pheonix.

I'm finishing building a 120sqft shed in the back yard, learning Fusion 360, and hopefully getting my chronic sinusitis solved.

Poured a slab, designed, framed, used as much reclaimed lumber as I could, and sheathed a lean-to style shed. My first attempt at building a structure, and it's coming out nice. This is to replace the 64sqft 5' shed that a neighbors tree fell on earlier this year, but we really need the extra storage.

I got a Bambu P1S 3D printer for Father's Day to replace an old Ender 3 Pro, and it has just been a dream. TinkerCAD, while amazing and a very capable tool, I'm ready to move on to something else. I tried Plasticity, and it showed a lot of promise but I found it very frustrating, bumped against some missing documentation and ran out of free trial time. Tried FreeCAD 1.0RC/Ondsel, and it's a fantastic piece of software. Yesterday I decided to give Fusion 360 a try and it's just so much more refined. Started the Product Design Online tutorials on Youtube yesterday and the stuff you're building in the first 5 15 minute lessons are frankly amazing.