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Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by RpFLCL »

An open-source website for creators that allows them to follow and interact with each other's personal sites. The theory being that it can be useful to build tools that allow people to create their own ad-hoc social "networks" instead of building yet another central platform.

I envision it like this: You log into your own domain to post content, this is shared with your followers (and available to anonymous visitors), then from your site's dashboard you can see and interact with the latest posts on your peer's websites. The hopeful result being distributed networks of creators. Instead of policies coming from one company in one country, creator's sites would be governed by their host in their preferred locale.

I've been thinking about this for a while and just started working in earnest this weekend. I've been spitballing it among my artist-friend circles with positive feedback. It does require commitment to invest the time and money to setup their own website, though I suppose it's possible for different services to exist that automate and federate hosting for them. Personally I've maintained my own gallery for years and I practice POSSE[1] but there's always that nagging reminder that the "elsewhere" has different motivations than just sharing my content.

[1] Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere: https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by medymed »

Resident physician in NYC, not yet called as backup on the front lines. From comfort of home at this point refreshing my knowledge of ventilator settings. Also in spare moments have been considering similarities and differences between operating scheduling algorithms like multilevel feedback queues etc and heuristics used in crisis management, especially when there are both technical tasks like patient emergencies and managerial tasks like organizing staff and equipment going on at once. In a similar vein, comparing which process loads cause failures of scheduling algorithms, and which set of process loads would cause failure in various processing units of the hospital, some of which may be more obvious than others.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by rangasamy »

mebr wrote: post #665

A website builder that is 10x easier to use than the competition. Why? There are too many small businesses without a website. The upfront cost is too high to see if a website benefits their business. Wix and Squarespace and such are way too complex to use for an average small business owner(or say their kid). Most customers of these websites hire a 3rd party to develop their website. That costs more and takes longer.…

Link?

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by asfarley »

charleshmartin wrote: post #657

I'm developing the weightwatcher tool for deep neural networks into a full fledged product http://github.com/CalculatedContent/WeightWatcher The weightwatcher lets you detect potential problems in a trained neural network https://calculatedcontent.com/2020/02/16/weightwatcher-empir...

Nice, I can definitely see the value of this. Might try it out myself.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by KajMagnus »

coderholic wrote: post #185

https://host.io - an API to get domain name metadata (scraped web content, backlinks, redirects, dns data, ranking information and more). See https://host.io/google.com for an example. We've been building out the infrastructure for a while (scrape all domains monthly, resolve all domains, progress the data etc), but have only recently launched the API (see htttps://host.io/docs). We'll soon be releasing a Top 10M Ran…

> If you've got any interesting use cases

What are some cases you know about this far?

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by asfarley »

liquidify wrote: post #604

I'm making an algebraic filter that looks a lot like grep. Doing it in c++. the python one lets you go through a log file and filter the lines out based on statements like... You can currently use it to say "give me all lines that contain "substrA" and "substrB" but not "substrC" or "substrD"." This current python implementation can only do AND for requirements, and OR for negative requirements. But, I realized that…

Sounds useful. I have repeatedly hit this limitation of regex filtering.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by paraschopra »

rafael859 wrote: post #332

I am working on a Firefox extension for search aggregation. It currently works with DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others. The idea is that for 80% of my searches I can find the answer on Wikipedia or Stack Overflow, removing the need for a general search engine such as DuckDuckGo or Google, and thus hopefully avoiding blogspam and tracking to some extent. Extraction works through XPath, and I am…

Please release the code. I’d been looking for something like this. I’m starting to trust HN and Reddit results a lot more than google results.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by bobblywobbles »

mebr wrote: post #665

A website builder that is 10x easier to use than the competition. Why? There are too many small businesses without a website. The upfront cost is too high to see if a website benefits their business. Wix and Squarespace and such are way too complex to use for an average small business owner(or say their kid). Most customers of these websites hire a 3rd party to develop their website. That costs more and takes longer.…

Do you have a website? Please share it with us!
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