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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by qudat »

https://listifi.app/

Sharable lists. Always public lists optimized to quickly create, share, and explore lists. I’m currently working on adding more social features. Right now I support allowing users to star lists, vote on list items, and add comments.

Some ideas I have are: allow users to suggest list items, public editing of lists, and figuring out ways to make it fun to add lists to the listifi platform.

I welcome all feedback!

Examples:

- https://listifi.app/u/erock/knowledge-management-apps

- https://listifi.app/u/erock/xmas-movie-list

- https://listifi.app/u/neurosnap/gender-neutral-baby-names

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Seb-C »

This time I decided to go with an IT-unrelated project and I started writing a SF novel in English.

Not being a native speaker, I expected the language to be my main difficulty, but turns out it isn't. I am learning a lot about how to write an interesting story, enrich my writing and making it more pleasant (notably the famous "show, don't tell").

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by gegtik »

jkarni wrote: post #447

A browser extension for creating unions/campaigns, that can collectively decide whether to e.g. boycott a website. If they so decide, all members of that union will, when visiting the page during the time-period of the boycott, see a message explaining the reasons for the boycott instead of the site. (Or the union can decide to display a banner with a message at the bottom of the page, if a full boycott is too strong…

cool idea!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by cmcconomy »

I signed up for an IPTV account only to find it's got on the order of 15k channels which makes for a playlist file that chokes modest parsers.

What I wanted was to write an app that serves as sort of a proxy, caches the huge upstream file, and trims it to size as desired.

I chose this as an opportunity to try to teach myself Django - an ugly but functional app can be found here https://github.com/cmcconomy/iptv-filter

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by qudat »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

I’ve been thinking about productivity apps a lot lately as I’m building something that resembles todo productivity apps.

I’ve started compiling a list of knowledge management apps.

https://listifi.app/u/erock/knowledge-management-apps

There are a lot of them out there, some with diehard fans, but they never quite fit everyone’s use-cases. The popular ones now like obsidian.md, roam research, etc. are all leveraging a graph database.

The market is super saturated and I wonder how much of them are fads. Productivity apps are fun to work on because the developer's can actually use the app without any network effects.

Good luck to you!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by biztos »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

I did some brainstorming years ago on a similar idea, and the one part of it I would like to see implemented some day is tracking progress towards goals.

Trivial examples would be weight loss (or gain) to a goal weight bracket; or budgeting and building a retirement fund.

More complex one might be a career change, say going from programmer to lawyer, which involves lots of things over several years.

I think I had some decent ideas about measuring fuzzy progress but didn’t get very far with connectedness. For instance you have reading goals and a goal to read before bed (not on screen) and you want to get that law degree, so reading Book X might be working on all three, but each has a different kind of progress.

Anyway I agree it’s worth (someone) doing this and I wish you luck with it!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jianzong »

I am working on an iOS personal finance App that helps you to track assets and expense effortlessly:

https://www.percento.app

Unlike other Apps, Percento encourages you to only track significant money updates of your daily life, minimizing your time spent on tracking money. Features:

- Support multi-currency

- No login needed

- iCloud Sync

- Stock and currency rate sync

I've earned some active users for the past few months, who love the App very much. I haven't marketed the App enough so the audience is still small for English language countries. Can you tell me how you feel about my App?

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