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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#642I'm working on https://nuenki.app/ , a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc. Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far fr…
Are you adding safari support? It's fairly trivial technically as there is a convertor template for xcode to chrome extension -> safari extension.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#643I'm working on a to-do list and time management application that I prefer to keep secret for now. If anyone here is using an app like this, I would love to know what you would like to improve. And if you're not using an app like this, I would love to know why not?
Well, we can share, but wait - we decided to keep it as secret for now... Oh and not to be seen as rude - check CS50 @harvard uni - there's one exercise you can check.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#644Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really good job! Just a note your pricing comparison table looks a bit shady. I think you should give either your per year cost compared to the others, or put the document cost on the others. But the way you've done it makes it look like you are tricking people into thinking yours is cheaper. That's just the vibe I'm getting from it. I think that's what you want the takeaway to be there, so I'd suggest updating that…
The others don't do a document cost, so it does make it much harder to compare. The others just have a document limit, eg Docusign has a 100 document limit per user. Docusign has a really high cost per user (I don't charge for users, only for sends). So it is harder to compare apples with apples – at the end of the day GoodSign is just that simple. $1.50 per send, unlimited users : ) I choose 6 – because that's about…
I'd agree with @idk1, the pricing comparison is, basically, unusable.
Goodsign compares to Docusign at $45/mo * 6 users for $3,240/year, compared to $1.50 for Goodsign. Hard to imagine a team of 6 that send one document per year.
If I go to Docusign, they list a $15/mo price (Monthly) per user for 5 documents. Or a price of $3/envelope, which compares favorably to Goodsign. The $45/mo price seems to be for unlimited documents, so that'd be a breakeven of 30 documents per user per month. BUT, Docusign offers significant discounts for paying yearly (hard to imagine a team of 6 that would use a service for just a month), which adjusts the pricing to $2/document for the 5 document plan and breakeven of 17 documents on the unlimited plan.
I went to the pricing page to try to get an idea of whether I should suggest my company look at switching to Goodsign, and the page didn't help at all. The pricing page suggests that we're spending around a quarter million dollars a month on Docusign, which I know isn't the case, but without knowing how many documents we send for signing, which I don't know even an order of magnitude off hand, I can't get any idea what sort of ballpark we'd be looking at.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#645(Throwaway to preserve my main account anonymity)
I made a tiny and open source musical instruments that allows you to make some cool chord progression with a fully configurable synthesis engine. Its still being developed but the website is here [1].
You also have a (quite low quality I'm sorry about that) video demo [2].
For the cool sound it can make, here is a small audio recording [3].
[1]: https://minichord.com [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-6qkhU_WoA [3]: https://minichord.com/ressources/audio_demo.mp3
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#646I'm going to be a dad next year, so I've been thinking about how to baby-proof areas of my house while allowing my cat freedom of navigation. My wife is an English teacher, so I've been building little educational games for her to try in the classroom. My latest attempt is a proof-reading game https://frogs.cool Currently I'm using wikipedia articles but I'm working on adding a variety of age appropriate texts in dif…
On the topic of cat freedom... I had the opposite problem. A few years ago, for a while I had to separate our two cats so they wouldn't fight while we weren't home (long story, but we couldn't let them fight each other like most cats will do for fun, due to some medical reasons).
It was basically impossible. I wanted to set it up so one cat could be downstairs, and the other upstairs, so one wouldn't feel like they were being "punished", by being closed in a bedroom and only having that small area to roam in.
I built a "gate" for the top of our stairwell, the height of the railing, out of carboard and some pet-safe window screen material. First one of the cats managed to wriggle under it, so I reinforced it and gave it a "skirt". Then the other cat climbed up the screen mesh, and I found her just sitting there, perched on top of it.
Eventually I managed to make it sturdy enough. But then one of the cats realized he could jump over it.
I mostly gave up after that, and focused on training him not to fight with his little sister.
So this is a long winded way of saying: your cat might not really be bothered by things like baby gates. Might actually view them as a fun challenge to be (fairly easily) overcome. Unless of course your cat is older and/or has mobility issues.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#647During my 8 years of professional SWE career (mostly startups), I've never worked in a company that did not suffer data breach / was hacked. It was always dumb stuff like admin:admin or deploying vulnerable things and forgetting on them. After last one, I was done, left my job and started building Recon Wave [0]. I want to build tooling that will monitor your infra for you and find vulnerable / misconfigured / forgot…
Very nice, I read one of your blog posts [0] and was pretty surprised, great read! Good luck on your journey.
[0] https://reconwave.com/blog/post/storing-private-keys-in-txt-...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#648I built an English-speaking website that helps immigrants settle in Berlin.[0] It has been my full time job for a while. Most English speakers know about it, but it's nearly invisible to Germans, who would also benefit from the content and tools I have worked on. I'm currently adding an automated AI translation feature to my custom static site generator, so that I can translate the website to multiple languages and r…
I recently moved to Germany (not to Berlin, but seems like most of the content is still relevant) and your website was extremely helpful - thank you for working on it.
What were your motivations for moving here?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#649my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop! the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease, sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)
Ah, my wife and I have always wanted to do the same. We would like to make it a bookshop for dog charity. Hope we get there some day as well. Keep up the good work!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#650I'm trying to make it easier to run clubs, associations & organizations with a platform called embolt.app[1].
We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.
It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.