https://highlightra.com
A simple lightweight privacy friendly alternative to Intercom.
User onboarding is the name of the game.
Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#652https://github.com/did-1
https://writer.did-1.com/
DID is novel decentralized social media infrastructure that empowers users to own and distribute their content. Think of it like a decentralized Twitter where the data is entirely in the user's hands and where everyone is free to post content and subscribe to new posts. It could be also be compared to decentralized global RSS feed.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#653Trying to build the world's largest encyclopedia of magazines, fanzines, journals and newsletters. Most of the world's magazines are dead and buried, languishing as copyright orphans with no known owner. Yet, they contain far more knowledge than probably all the books combined? We should probably think about training the next LLM on all the world's magazines as well as all the books. It is less than half-baked. I ask…
I love this one! It has occurred to me that while there is a wealth of information online, there is perhaps even more information in print that takes a staggering amount of work to digitize and organize sensibly. It's very interesting to come across someone actively working on a project like this.
An idea I had recently that's vaguely related is that it would be really cool to try to put together a massive product information catalog/database. Maybe it could be maintained similar to Wikipedia in terms of editing/review/adding new content - the idea being that it should be as objective, unbiased, and complete as possible. The impetus for this thought was of course that I hate advertising and on some level think it shouldn't even exist, so I was thinking of what an alternative might look like.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#654https://millionballs.app It's a web app to help you improve your real-life pool (billiards) game. You can practice shots and learn to visualize the angles. Eventually, I want to go way beyond basic shotmaking and teach patterns, but it's already useful in it's current state at least to beginners and intermediate players. I've posted about it before but I've made a lot more progress since then, including making it mob…
This is cool! It felt really satisfying finally getting shots after trying a couple times. Makes me want to play billiards again, it's been a while now :)
Glad to hear that! I love pool because it's so easy to pick up the basics and have fun, but there is always more to learn.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#655I ha operating system design which I had not even made up a name yet. (It involves proxy capabilities, hypertext file system, multiple locking, programs that the user can program to work together, message passing, structured data, Extended TRON Code, and many other ideas.) But, I would hope to make the discussion about it, to improve and to design some of the details (such as ABI, system calls, file formats, etc; I w…
> I would propose some (I wrote some ideas so far), anyone (myself and others) could propose and criticize them, etc) The best way to make this happen is to post somethind
Yes (and I did post some on here in the past), although better would be on Usenet, or on my own NNTP server if I add a newsgroup for such a discussion.
I had written a list of some keysyms possibly might be used in the GUI system (the IME and other things may convert key codes into a sequence of keysyms). I had also written a list of some ideas about what kinds of structures may be available in the common file format. I also wrote some things about the default window manager, and about the window "indicators" (which ones are present depends on the program, but allows control over e.g. audio volume, network access, etc, independently for each program while the programs are running). I also have ideas about network transparency, synchronization, emulation, command-line, and others. It is a combination of command-line and GUI and you can use both together (most existing systems don't really work them as very well together as they could be). And, I have the idea of what things will be avoided by this system (USB, UEFI, telemetry, Unicode, bad-for-advanced-users, too many worthless fancy animations, Digital-Restrictions-Management, etc). However, these things are not currently published (and some are also not on the computer; I wrote some of them on a paper).
(Much of it is implemented in terms of proxy capabilities, which is perhaps the most important feature, but the other features are also important.)
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#656I'm developing a visual tool aimed at improving the way we organize notes. At https://www.cmaps.io/ platform, each page is represented by a node on a graph, allowing related notes to be interconnected. The platform is nearing completion, and I would greatly appreciate any feedback.
Some examples:
Todo List: https://www.cmaps.io/maps/a1b7892b-cae7-4c30-aa20-f77117c8e0...
Class Notes: https://www.cmaps.io/maps/c844078f-6d8d-44ff-ba94-def1a2cd4e...
Star Wars Family Tree: https://www.cmaps.io/maps/4a3808c4-876c-4ba4-9b0a-8637e69fb4...
Context: I'm diving deep into my master's now and realized a bunch of stuff I'm learning kinda connects back to my bachelor's. Bummer is, I've lost most of my old notes. That's how cmaps.io popped into my mind! Think of it as a rad spot to dump all your notes and see them connect in a cool visual way.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#657https://watch.ly Basically web analytics but using websockets so we can track time spent on each page. Then there is a daily email report which is helpful for monitoring launching new products. I never got any paying customers so I switched to other stuff. Marketing is hard. Someday I'll go back to it. I use it though and it works, but the interactive reporting is half baked. I'm also working on https://sidewaysdata.…
Thoughts on open-sourcing watch.ly?
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#658None of the projects are really half-assed.
Mine is an async-first Shopify api sdk. Now this is truly half-assed: https://github.com/muddi900/shopipy
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#659I 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.…
On desktop I was confused for a second, not realizing you can click the headlines -> you can use "cursor: pointer;" in the CSS to avoid that :)
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#660https://www.sunnynests.com/ Niche real estate portal for foreigners looking to buy a property in Spain. I’ve built it in Ruby on Rails and hosting on Heroku. Running free trials for realtors in case anyone’s interested :-) But I would mostly appreciate feedback about what you are missing from existing real estate portals.
Interesting project. Do you use the resales API at all? I have a client in the Marbella area who could be interested if you do.