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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by ralphstodomingo »

prakhar897 wrote: post #391

Problem: There are lots of forums like r/AppIdeas, r/ideas, indiehackers, hackernews etc where people post their ideas/products/landing-pages for feedback. They sparsely get any feedback as the other people on these forums are also looking for feedback, but not willing to "give" feedback. Solution: Created a Discord Server where you need to give 3 feedbacks to request 1. This way it encourages people to participate i…

I am dubious about the actual value of feedback given just to trade. You want feedback coming from people looking to actually use and/or pay, not from people who also have something to sell of their own.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by captn3m0 »

indweller wrote: post #629
captn3m0 wrote: post #628

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?

I mention it in the about page, it’s based on a recent Indian news shorts app called Beatroot (“be true”).

I haven’t looked at other regions, but there’s already some good plain text news websites for US/UK - https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/

I don’t wanna add a summary, or in general host older news - the more news there is to read, the more time you’ll spend. I don’t want that. It’s like a newspaper, if something important enough happened this week that you missed - the news will still be reporting on it.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by WildGreenLeave »

quantisan wrote: post #620
WildGreenLeave wrote: post #616

https://twinflights.com I love to travel and often times I have to go to somewhere. This search allows me to plan additional stops in between my origin and destination. As an example, if I want to fly from Amsterdam to New York you can take a direct flight, or add a stop somewhere and add that destination as another stop. So maybe you could visit London for a few days, or Washington or maybe Bermuda. Another one I am…

twinflights is something I could use. Is it possible to select number of stop overs on each direction? e.g. often I like to wander on way out from home. But then on way back I just want to get home ASAP. In terms of the UX, a table view is a bit daunting while I'm starting with an exploration mindset, perhaps start the user with a map instead? Also FYI, I randomly clicked on Book a flight. It led me to Kiwi but the p…

Thank you for your reply!

> twinflights is something I could use. Is it possible to select number of stop overs on each direction? e.g. often I like to wander on way out from home. But then on way back I just want to get home ASAP.

This is something I've been working on because often times I also want this. The first step was adding one-way flights, the next step is making this configurable!

> In terms of the UX, a table view is a bit daunting while I'm starting with an exploration mindset, perhaps start the user with a map instead?

The 'table' view is the search result correct? Adding a map would actually sound very nice. It would give you the perfect overview of all of your options including price.

> Also FYI, I randomly clicked on Book a flight. It led me to Kiwi but the price went up from 158 to 198. I tried a few other buttons and the price stayed the same.

I am building this on top of Tequila (the Kiwi API) and their rate limit is quite generous, but still not enough to do real time searches. Every day I am scraping all flights put them into a database (MySQL and Neo4J) so that I can search for the cheapest alternative flights given between point A and B. Because of this the prices might sometimes be a bit outdated, but that also works both ways. I am working on trying to optimise this though.

I appreciate your comments, thank you very much!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by akoboldfrying »

defaultcompany wrote: post #18

Here's a couple... This project I made a while ago and never took it further: https://github.com/weinberg/concurrencyRunner . Concurreny Runner allows you to debug multiple running processes simultaneously, with breakpoints set to allow specific interleaved execution paths to be explored. This allows you to trigger concurrency scenarios which are typically very difficult to analyze because they rely on random timing.…

Your first link sounded interesting, but it 404s for me -- is it a private repo perhaps?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by akoboldfrying »

joerick wrote: post #618

When I was a boy I found an app on MacOS 8 called Graphical Calculator. You could type in nonsensical maths like 'sin(x+tan(y))' and it would draw beautiful pictures. 20 years later I get the same kick out of GL shaders. I built this website to play with them. https://tinyshader.com/rq

Nice! And very snappy, even on my phone.

You probably know https://www.shadertoy.com/ already, but if not, prepare to have your mind blown. Many shaders there use Signed Distance Fields to draw intricate 3D geometry within the fragment shader. If you find that interesting, check out Inigo Quilez's excellent tutorial series: https://iquilezles.org/articles/raymarchingdf/

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by tetek »

https://visuel.world

https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/photo-notes-visuel/id644681288...

I don’t like typing so I’m experimenting with camera, and screenshot organizing for productivity.

It’s my weekend project, but I’m trying to update at least once a month. So far works for me for collecting gift ideas or stuff I see in real life and want to check online later.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by tambourine_man »

gavmor wrote: post #236
tambourine_man wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems interesting, but doesn't work in Safari latest. I get a blank screen.

A blank screen, or a "loading skeleton"? The app is peer-to-peer, so if none of the recent visitors have hit refresh to become the host the data will no longer be accessible. Terrible UX for you, but forever $0 hosting costs for me.

"loading skeleton" in Safari, working site in Chrome, all else equal.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by airwarmedd »

anon1253 wrote: post #13

https://github.com/vortext/esther Esther is my personal project to develop a diary app that talks back. Basically. Along the way I learned how to htmx, llama.cpp via JNA and practical experience with LLMs. I suffer from type-1 bipolar disorder with psychoses and normal life just ain't gonna happen. So unemployed, single, #nolife ... I decided to build a chat bot for myself. It's not finished the RAG stuff still needs…

this sounds cool. is it like audio version of hey pi?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by samsilent »

captn3m0 wrote: post #628

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 excellent to use! Can you add news specific to states - like Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, etc.? And also specific cities, like New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Trivandrum, etc.
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