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

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

#702
We've been building https://www.datafragment.com, a tool that can help you get prospects for your product. It lets you search the web's HTML code.

Some of our current users use it to find Wordpress websites with specific versions of Wordpress, others to find websites that use niche-market tools, ones that are not covered by incumbents such as Wappalyzer or BuiltWith. We're currently focused on the French market.

Curious to hear your thoughts, if you are looking for new ways to find prospects.

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

#703
I (along with a friend) am working on an Elixir-based built-in error reporting and tracking solution: https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker

I wrote a post explaining the reasons for building this when we already have multiple third-party SaaS providers: https://crbelaus.com/2024/07/31/built-in-elixir-error-report...

It boils down to simplicity. While error reporting is extremely valuable for most projects, it is absent from many. The most common reason is that this requires entering SaaS territory. Most solutions are provided by third-parties that require you to subscribe and pay for the privilege of tracking your errors. Cost is the main noticeable downside. Data protection (GDPR, HIPAA, etc) is another.

The Elixir community is providing great feedback and it was covered both in a YouTube video (https://youtu.be/TNmSVjGyZx0?si=yd6kOwa2ZpxUyFad) and a Podcast (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/215).

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

#704
Hi! This year I quit my corporate job to work full time on https://crucialexams.com/. This month I am working on expanding our new offerings at https://pmpready.com/ and https://vitalnursingexams.com/. Our platform provides a fun way for students to test their readiness for industry certification exams like the PMP, BCEN, CompTIA, AWS and more. Written in ASP.NET, MySQL as backend and good old Javascript/Bootstrap for the frontend. Nothing fancy, works great!

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

#706

Still working on https://exist.io , a platform for quantifying and tracking data about your life. We've been around for about a decade now and seen many competitors come and go — this niche is definitely not at the peak of the hype cycle any more. On the other hand, Apple Watches have normalised tracking body stats like activity (and sleep to a degree), and yet we think there's still so much more that can be done wit…

> but not with AI

Why not? Seems like the perfect use-case, which isn't true for a lot of other "AI" companies.

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

#707
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I’ve been building a personal finance app that runs fully in the browser (using the automerge crdt and sqlite) for over a year now at https://tender.run . Recently I’ve been taking more of being able to flexibly run sql against this data, and this past week I’ve been working with d3 to make fancy sankey graphs to show income/expense flows. Quick preview here: https://demo.tender.run/reports/sankey

Pretty interesting take on a finance app! I like the inbox and filters on transactions. I'm not sure I understand the benefit of storing it all in the browser though. Does the data just live in the browser? Does anything store on a server?

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

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Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill! It works with 90% of the bikes/motor brands on the market, so I assumed that some people here might be interested, if they got a non-functional batteries but they still want to use their e-bike? We believe that everybody should have control about stuff they own, and we should fight against planned…

This is a great idea. I'm actually researching DIY solutions to electrifying my boat (I was a USAF electrician, once upon a time) and the prepackaged battery solutions are so expensive and inflexible. (Granted, for marine use there are some extra considerations...)
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