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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I 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 :)

I use so it should have a helpful arrow in some browsers. Need to find the right mix, will try cursor, but that impacts selection.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://github.com/nature-lang/nature The programming language project will be the next golang or rust. It has not yet released an official version.

i wonder, what list of things need to be done for creating a new lang? do you guys have reference for creating new lang? it is interesting for me

I've been following this excellent book: https://craftinginterpreters.com/

Also read this:

https://belkadan.com/blog/2016/05/So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Compil...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://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.

We do take XML feeds from Resales.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#666

https://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.

Negating a selection criterion ('no swimming pool').

Thank you for the input. Would you care expanding on why you would find it useful?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://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?

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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #298

https://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?

So, it would be too expensive. I would rather just come back to it and improve it and actually make monies.

It's not like I'm going to shut it down! I've never shut down a project (for better or worse?) :)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#669

https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/ A weird and cumbersome web based synthesizer. In the examples below, double click on a node to trigger a signal in the circuit and produce sound. Here is a "song" that a friend made with it: https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?2.9.C4.m.1.15,6.9.... And here is "Happy Birthday": https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?3.1.G3.m.1.24,4.1....

I made this graph, and it started to kill my browser :D Do you know why? https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?3.3.E3.m.2.1.3.1.1...

I think because you have a feedback loop that creates exponential signals. It's hard to tell because the UI is bad, but that's my guess.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/ A weird and cumbersome web based synthesizer. In the examples below, double click on a node to trigger a signal in the circuit and produce sound. Here is a "song" that a friend made with it: https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?2.9.C4.m.1.15,6.9.... And here is "Happy Birthday": https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?3.1.G3.m.1.24,4.1....

This looks like midinous! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727420/Midinous/

Yes! A friend pointed that out to me. I hadn't heard of Midinous but it seems like a much more sophisticated version of my idea.
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