This has not been updated in a year or so as I am working on a Svelte-based replacement:
It shows which DJ's are playing at which nightclubs.
Since Covid started it has been quite empty, hence API/Svelte replacement.
Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#632I’ve been working on this Google Slides productivity add-on as a side project: https://powerpack.21solutions.de/
The idea is to spend less time tweaking your Google Slides - PowerPack makes positioning & alignment easier, finding licensed images & icons, and checking the consistency of the presentation. Inspired by similar add-ons for PowerPoint, like think-cell and empower slides.
Quite hard to find the time besides a demanding full-time job, but it’s slowly getting better and better... :)
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#633I built a service called Rotary Rider [0], which allowed you to order an Uber using just your voice. No need for a smartphone or the Uber app, you could call in using any touch-tone enabled voice line (that you had registered) and speak your current address and the address of your destination and we would present ride options and prices. Choose an option to book and then we would call you back when the driver was minutes away.
The idea was primarily about accessibility - removing the requirements of needing a smartphone and app opens rideshare up to everyone. It was also a great backup option for those times when you need a ride but your phone doesn't have a good data connection.
The system was finished and I was literally double-checking everything and preparing for a test ride (I even bought a Nokia feature phone to prove I wasn't using the Uber app) when Uber cut off access to their API (for everyone, not just me). I had always planned to integrate Lyft as well, but getting shut down on Uber really took the wind out my sails and the project died. I obviously still have all the code and if someone here works for Lyft and wants to see what ordering a ride without an app looks like, I could probably be persuaded to pick it back up.
[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20200804021958/https://rotaryrid...
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#634A purely in browser SQL editor and runner for education purposes, and to be able to quickly upload csvs for querying with SQL: https://editor-omega.vercel.app
Very rough currently, but press the "Chinook" button to get a demo sqlite database loaded in for usage. Or, upload a .csv and reload the page (bugs!). All data is stored in indexdb, nothing leaves the browser. cmd + enter to run the sql.
Tech note: Uses WASM sqlite + Monaco (vscode) engine. This may eventually become a electon app instead to allow other DB drivers + better sql auto completion.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#635The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa (Please don't be too harsh as it's still a draft but any opinion, criticism or help would be welcome)
Looks great, starred.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#636I built a web to basically temporarily save information that I found on the Internet and avoid keeping the links open on my cell phone to remember them, and I thought that it could be valuable for others to find that information curated in the form of link lists ... surely there was already something it would help me but I decided to build it to release it as open source and that could be improved by the community.
Repo: https://github.com/zakokor/pegao
My public bookmark: https://pegao.co/@zakokor
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#637https://deploymentfromscratch.com/
Book on web application deployment, VERY close to pre-release.
Previews:
https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview_november_...
https://deploymentfromscratch.com/previews/preview2_november...
Hit me up on Twitter (https://twitter.com/strzibnyj) if you are interested in beta reading it and help me out to polish it.
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#638Code Reading Club: https://codereading.club The idea of this project is to make a small, cozy kind of “book club for code” that enables club members to study and discuss the architecture/structure of open source code. I wanted it to be both a way to study others’ work as a means of developing more intuition about how to structure software, as well as a creative exploration and discussion of code as art. I know the UI…
I like the idea a lot. I've been thinking about something similar: An explanation/notes "wiki" for exemplary open source repository snapshots. With the goal to document everything you can see in a repo so beginners can understand and catch up with structure, conventions and understand algorithms and common problems IRL. Imperfections and errors are part of the game and need to be explained as well, and because of tha…
Wow, that sounds extremely useful! I haven't contributed to any FOSS projects in a meaningful way (yet), but I imagine that lots of potential contributors spend an inordinate amount of time trying to familiarize themselves with structure, conventions, and how everything fits together. Having all of that information in one, well-documented place could definitely help with getting up to speed/creating a mental model for the project faster.
On a semi-related front, I'm also interested in lowering the threshold for participation in FOSS projects, but I approached things from the lens of helping potential contributors better grok/intuit the social/organizational structure of a project. To that end, I made small badges that projects can add to their READMEs to indicate, to a rough approximation, what "type" of project they are[0]. The project types are described in a really interesting book called Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software[1] by Nadia Eghbal.
[0]: https://project-types.github.io/ [1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578675862/
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#639https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all state…
Is this the MacOS equivalent of KDE's activities? https://blog.hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-...
I remember trying to compare these before (but not what I ended up thinking), so maybe it's better if I just explain what it does:
When you change your "context", all of your open apps and their windows (on all spaces, on all screens) are closed. The apps and their windows from the context you are switching to open – their positions and working state recalled from when you were last in this context.
You can only be in one context at a time; Think of it as a workspace or project manager in an IDE, but on the OS-level.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#640I wouldn't even call it half baked yet, more like a tenth, but I'm working on a total conversion (with a few engine changes) to the DOS Rise of the Triad. You can see one example here: https://twitter.com/mysterydip/status/1345112757050486785?s=... I am changing all textures, adding some new ones, repurposing enemies and weapons, all new maps and features. I think the engine really had some clever potential that didn…
Interesting! Why for ROTT and not use an engine like Doom if you're replacing all assets anyway?
I actually prefer the block layout of levels instead of the line segment geometry, just makes more sense in my head. Also I like the underdog, I want to show people the engine was more advanced than "wolfenstein with higher walls". So many things have been done with DOOM, I think it's interesting to explore the other engines of the time.