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

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

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Post by cyrillite »

anon012012 wrote: post #622

I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge. It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree. This is all generated on-the-fl…

This is a very fun idea and I’ve had similar thoughts, without yet turning my mind to execution. Bravo. Is there somewhere I can follow more of your work in the future?

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

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Post by m4tthumphrey »

jascha_eng wrote: post #553

Working on Kviklet: http://github.com/kviklet/kviklet My first job was in a FinTech and the way production access was managed scared me. This is my approach at streamlining the process. Basically a PR review flow for SQL queries, enforcing the 4-eyes principle so you never accidentally can do a Delete * form users, forgetting the where clause.

This is a very cool idea! I don’t work in a team big enough for this anymore but I would have loved this in previous roles!

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

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Post by herrherrmann »

bbx wrote: post #116

For the past year, I've been working on a CSS Masterclass: https://cssmasterclass.io/ It's going to have online text courses with interactive examples and coding exercises, but I'm also in the process of adding video tutorials. These videos will be of 2 types: ones where I teach you the theory, and ones where we actually build a project from scratch. I feel like CSS has always been something that was made to look har…

Sounds nice indeed! By the way: Ironically, I’ve found a few CSS issues on the landing page (input placeholder is cut off on mobile viewports) and your personal website (the blinking line is overlapping the opened menu on mobile). Hope it helps!

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

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Post by fernandohur »

https://synthql.dev: An alternative to PostgREST focused on the React-Node-PG stack. Main advantage right now is it gives you end to end type safety: you can write type-safe queries straight from your component that directly access your database.

Why SynthQL? My experience working for +10 years on enterprise SaaS is that a quite often you just want a database and a way to fetch data from it. Backends will quite often get in the way adding abstractions and layers upon layers of transformation between DB objects to domain objects to DTOs.

If you ever feel like you just want to talk to the database directly, give SynthQL a try :)

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

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Post by john_minsk »

anon012012 wrote: post #622

I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge. It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree. This is all generated on-the-fl…

This is super cool!

As a marketing spin for this - consider packaging it into Nvidia NIM format and make it generate 3D graph as 3D OpenUSD scene. From where I'm standing this route has a lot of potential.

Also if you never looked into it there is a project called wikidata. There each object contains a unique ID and hierarchy, which helps build semantic web. Exploring their data using your interface might be effective. (please check similar projects though as an idea seems straightforward and someone might have already done that for them)

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

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Post by butuzov »

oulipo wrote: post #430

Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill! It works with 90% of the bikes/motor brands on the market, so I assumed that some people here might be interested, if they got a non-functional batteries but they still want to use their e-bike? We believe that everybody should have control about stuff they own, and we should fight against planned…

this is amaizing...

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

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Post by nickgubbins »

Hey HN! I'm working on Voop - a b2b phone network, leveraging eSIM & web-based UI we're turning company mobile connectivity into a SaaS. Has been really fun as an engineer getting into the telco stack - networks, switches and traffic routing take me back to university - and commercially it's been fun negotiating with the mobile networks to get wholesale access. Launching later this year in the UK and US next year, can't wait to get it off the ground.

One early achievement was buying voop.com - a very nice man in Arizona had held it since the 90s, and despite being retracted on whois, i worked out how to contact him via his custom ssl certificate on the empty holding site parked at the root domain. After a few emails and follow ups to get a response, I bought it for a not-cheap-but-not-bank-breaking amount.

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

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Post by zbshqoa »

anon012012 wrote: post #622

I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge. It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree. This is all generated on-the-fl…

I like this project but I don't think I agree on the 3 branches that I see when I open the website.

Science is not a standalone category. In fact science is directly connected to mathematics which is directly connected to philosophy (through logic for example)

We might argue that also art is an extension of philosophy (e.g. finding objective or subjective beauty).

Probably Claude doesn't agree with this definition.

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

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Post by a6kme »

artiscode wrote: post #618

I am working on a SaaS for real estate agents. Customers get their own tenanted database and web front-end with some fancy front-end tools like geospatial searching to keep customers attracted to said customer's portfolio. I have a paying customer who's been using a 1.0 version for more than a decade now. I don't know whether I got lucky or there's a legitimate market for v2.0 out there. I am building it with boring…

You are probably not spending time yak shaving and over engineering which is time well spent in understanding the problem and building the business :)

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

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Post by profsummergig »

nlh wrote: post #60

I’m a tech nerd rare coin & currency dealer! I took my two hobbies and combined them into a real business and I’m having the time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here: https://www.rarity7.com/ About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff - hunting for inventory, buying collections/doing appraisals, going to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc. The other 50% I’m writing code a…

Am curious how you handle trust.

E.g. someone says the delivery didn't come through. Or that the coin is not authentic.

Those are some expensive coins! So was curious.

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