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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by kassner »

_def wrote: post #214
kassner wrote: post #39

I have a few: https://www.ytemail.com/ - e-mail notifications for YouTube uploads. I was in the 0.01% that used and liked e-mails, and built this after Google killed the e-mails. If you want to use, please get in touch, I'm happy to onboard free users if the amount of notifications you'll get isn't big. https://github.com/kassner/whattocook - Recipe chooser, but it works the other way around you'd expect. In a househ…

That's really funny, I have very similar story with a personal finance tool that I wrote for myself and "maintain" since 7 years or something and thought about writing a blog post like you. Thanks for sharing!

Please do write, I love reading write ups from when people solve their own itching!

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Post by etewiah »

mike128 wrote: post #665
etewiah wrote: post #660

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What is the best way to reach you? Or you can drop me a line: ed at homestocompare.com

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Post by Morloc »

https://federicocappelli.com/torrenthound.html

A Mac app for searching torrents across multiple platforms that I developed for personal use, for now supports 1337x.to, The Pirate Bay and Kick Ass Torrents. The idea was to expand the sources and features list if anyone is interested.

Any requests and feedback is welcome: https://github.com/federicocappelli/TorrentHound/issues

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Post by gavmor »

zestyping wrote: post #592
gavmor wrote: post #41

Friend and I built https://druthers.app , and we use it all the time to solve our own interpersonal disputes, as well as with family and friends. It hasn't got any quality-of-life chrome or meta-features such as logins, or bookmarks. We were reluctant, even, to add the sharing button, since obviously a person is already well-equipped to share a browser tab! (I kid! Of course users cannot be presumed to know the power…

I'm confused. I can create a poll with a question and options, and then... ? If I share the link, it just lets more people edit the same poll. How does anyone vote?

> If I share the link, it just lets more people edit the same poll

We've overloaded poll editing UI and the voting UI, so re-ordering items in the poll is how they vote. It's semantically gross, but it's ergonomically friendlier.

Everyone can edit the poll to allow for "crowdsourcing."

> How does anyone vote?

Everyone asks this. It's not you, it's me. ;)

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Post by gavmor »

tambourine_man wrote: post #638
gavmor wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A blank screen, or a "loading skeleton"? The app is peer-to-peer, so if none of the recent visitors have hit refresh to become the host the data will no longer be accessible. Terrible UX for you, but forever $0 hosting costs for me.

"loading skeleton" in Safari, working site in Chrome, all else equal.

Ah, I appreciate that you checked a second browser!

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Post by mtrees_io »

thanzex wrote: post #86
mtrees_io wrote: post #21

MTREES: MODULAR TRANSNATIONAL ROBUST EXTREME ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM (best on iPad) https://mtrees.io

I want to say that graphically I like what i see, but having scrolled around your website and downloaded the ebook, i still have no idea what i'm looking at. I searched on youtube to ee if anyone made a video explaining it, but i'm back at square 1

sorry OP for highjacking this thread but ChatGPT is helping me invent stuff and it is relevant

I am still working on it. Invention game. Doing a beta test with some D&D players at a table top bar. You really have to read the Big Book I am making to understand it and yes I am making an overview video but I want to find a few colleges or classes first to practice. Its sort of a joke, me and my friends just come up with funny inventions. Sort of like the old SCP text game if you remember that. eBook kind of sucks. There's a poetry book that is integrated into the Big Book and it tells a story. https://mtrees.io/video-small.mp4 and https://mtrees.io/MTREES-PROMO-2.4.pdf

Still very much in Master Beta phase!

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Post by traviswingo »

kleinishere wrote: post #606
traviswingo wrote: post #311

https://postcardbot.com A simple sms based chat bot for generating and mailing postcards from photos you’ve taken yourself. I took the sms approach because I’m exhausted from always needing to install an app for everything. Most things don’t need apps. This interface is unique and kinda fun to use. Also, it took me just a weekend to whip up so I’m quite fond of it .

Talk about a great weekend outcome. The "can I see a sample post card?" is particularly powerful, and may deserve to be more prominent on your landing page. Like a left hand side text message chain/right hand side outcome of the postcard. Even an example of an actual printed one on a desk or in someone's hand could be nice. Question - your privacy policy is fairly robust. Curious how you tackled this. Hire an attorne…

Yeah I agree the landing page should contain a clearer input-output example for new users. I’m just lazy :).

On the topic of lazy, the privacy policy was generated using some random free privacy policy generator (I forgot which one).

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

MiddleEndian wrote: post #526

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/color-blind-m... I made this so I could share pictures of maps with my color blind friend. You right click on a picture of a map, select color-blind map fixer and it re-colors the map. I made it in about a day, it needs some work to handle edges (especially because many pictures of labeled maps are jpegs with artifacts instead of pngs for some reason) and it's slower tha…

)-: This is why I don't use certain authenticators that assume one-and-only-one is safe. I guess people who make them either have stuff they don't mind losing access to permanently, or don't know the first part of the Backup Mantra: one is none; two is one.

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Post by matt_chad »

A free expense manager for digital nomads living in countries with an outdoor dining culture and cash transactions. Written in my free time with a friend in Elixir and React (PWA). Features: - voice commands to add expenses - budgets - smart category search - multiple currencies

https://gougou.cash/

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