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

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

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Post by tyjkot »

costcopizza wrote: post #643
tyjkot wrote: post #516

In my 50k population town in Minnesota, I notice a lot of headlights, taillights, and turn signals are out. Our roads (outside of the Twin Cities) are often bumpy which causes vibration in the vehicles, leading to many bulbs failing. I drive a 21 year old Saab, and in my 2 years of owning it, I have replaced every single bulb in the exterior of the vehicle except a turn signal or two. I decided to create a mobile ser…

Neat! Do you pick up the bulbs as needed from an auto parts store? Or do you keep a supply on hand? I think you want to keep this as simple as possible, but I see headlight restoration (which can be done in 30min) and wiper blade replacement complementing this nicely.

No bulbs at auto stores are inflated far too high to be a profitable parts for me. I have to order through a supplier and keep supply on-hand, which is honestly fine and more profitable for me.

Hey thank you for that idea! I am going to be adding in headlight/taillight housing replacements as well, but I do like the idea of wiper blade replacement, I may keep that on the back-burner for some time until demand approaches.

However, the headlight restoration idea is a fantastic one. Definitely will add this to my list of primary services after launch.

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

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Post by hbak »

cbeach wrote: post #637
thomasfl wrote: post #458

For me the most important issue that needs to be solved right now is the increasing urban sprawl and the car dependent neighborhoods. It causes social isolation. Maintaining infrastructure like roads and electricity, is causing a strain on the economy for local municipalities. Not to mention the disastrous effect car based transportation has on the environment. I am a fullstack developer living in Norway. Last year I…

I never felt more isolated and lonelier than when I was in a dense urban environment and reliant on dirty, unreliable, often unsafe public transport to get around. If I ever blew my nose after travelling on the London Underground, the tissue would be black with brake dust and other pollutants from that awful environment. If I tried to cycle, I'd be stuck behind diesel busses for much of my journey, breathing in their…

Can def echo that sentiment in London, how do you avoid the commute? Work from home? Found a job outside of London? Job opportunity/pay inequality is often the biggest constraint for most people.

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

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Post by WideCharr »

As a software developer who later got into hardware design, I've always been pretty disappointed with the quality of HDL tools. You get a bit spoiled by the quality of compilers like gcc and clang, and then you run into ridiculously expensive closed-source SystemVerilog compilers that fall apart on valid and obvious code, can't be run in a build farm, and which report cryptic messages for errors. So I've been working on my own open source SystemVerilog compiler / frontend for a while now, and it's nearing 100% completion in terms of language support.

https://github.com/MikePopoloski/slang

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

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Post by ddxv »

I've been making https://AppGoblin.info for an overview of mobile app advertising ecosystem. I've been expanding it to include development tools and marketing companies as well.

My main, but longer, main project is building an MMP (mobile advertising attribution platform). It's really far from done, so if anyone is interested please reach out. I need help writing Android and iOS SDKs and with the analytic dashboard for the frontend.

Also, interested in starting a skyscraper construction blog if anyone is interested.

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

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Post by sovietswag »

stereosteve wrote: post #617

As a side project I'm working on a multitrack audio play along website. If you are learning bass you can mute the bass track. I used to play along to Jamey Aebersold CDs back in the day, and now on YouTube there are many Play Along videos... but I thought it would be fun to make one where you have more control. Here's the demo, feel free to upload a track if you have one handy! https://jamz.stereosteve.com/ The sourc…

Random tip... I noticed the volume sliders only take effect when you stop dragging the knob. You can use the 'oninput' event for the slider to set its value as the user moves it around. Something like:

volume_slider.oninput = function() { audio.volume = volume_slider.value; }

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

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Post by shelled »

- Trying to get over my procrastination and finally start (the standard way of) prepping for software dev (staff/etc) level interviews after having taken a considerable number of months as a gap

- An idea of a platform to connect sports venues to players. (In a way that is better and richer than the only/shitty option available in my geography. Why do I call that service shitty? They have been around for almost a decade or close to that by now and they are still shitty and unstable and barely useable). With a bit of differentiation - instead of individual and venue bookings (the service that offers right now) - connect venues and groups where payment is taken care of already (no running around collecting payments and worrying about no shows and ignoring them in future them/etc). We were reaching towards a demo kinda product but the friend on the backend side got bored of software and started focussing on stock trading where he is sadly doing spectrally bad

- Also did a bit of work on trying to connect users with the laundry list of (e)bicycles, e-scooters et cetera providers (i.e how there are common booking platforms for all airlines; or for buses; etc) so that they won't have to install all the apps until it finally reached our skulls that maybe those services are looking for a lock-in so they would never open up their APIs and we lacked perseverance and resources to force them to adhere to the Govt suggested broad inventory db mechanism in my country. Basically we started on it without any research.

The problem with me is - software engineering/coding (I have been told I am not bad at it though)/platforms/libraries/etc excite me fuck all. But problem solving does. I should not have been a software engineer really. So interviews get tricky. While I can (and have) clear interviews at early stage startups, the work-life balance they offer is horrendous, but MNC/etc ask for every thing I have never used and will never use, or anybody ever will (mostly), that means thorough prep. I am just ranting, ignore it.

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

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Post by taikon »

For me, the most important problem that needs to be solved right now is a way for people to access reliable health information.

I'm working on plumfin.com, which lets you ask questions to Canadian or U.S. board certified doctors. Theres no need for video chats or waiting for appointments, you can message a doctor anytime and you'll be alerted with a response.

https://plumfin.com

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