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

#713

I'm working on pivots.fyi ( https://pivots.fyi/ ). It tracks 1000+ startups that have been founded in the last 3 years and showcases how their product, mission, team size, founders, etc. evolve week over week. It is interesting to see how quickly early stage startups pivot. Looking for feedback/suggestions about how I can make this more useful.

What does status mean in your pages case? I saw e.g. Fileforge go inactive, but their website looks pretty active. How do you determine the status?

They are currently listed as inactive in the YC directory. I guess the status section works for accelerators like YC that provide status updates.

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

#714
I want to create my first PCB in the upcoming month.

Some months ago, I've build a digital clock, based on the somewhat famous 8x8 LED matrix modules and a 3D-printed enclosure.

While doing everything on a breadboard was fine for a quantity of 1, I thought about building some more and gifting them to friends. For that, a custom PCB to place the ESP on, and screw it into the housing would be nice.

So... I'll need to learn to create a simple PCB with KiCad and then have it produced with one of the online services.

Wish me luck! :-D

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

#715

Working on https://www.brief.news - a completely personalized daily newsletter on the topics you're interested in. We've just launched the ability to add custom topics, so you can create a newsletter on anything now!

This looks cool. Would be willing to pay for it if there was a RSS option.

Working on it, shoot me an email (joe at domain) would love to get your feedback on the format / contents!

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

#716
I’m building a roomscale immersive gaming platform.

Walls and floor projection, markerless motion capture, full-body arcade-style gameplay.

Cinematic, hilarious, innovative, beautiful, addictive games.

No goggles, no controllers. https://thirdwavearcade.com

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

#717
im building uxie: a pdf reader app with note taking, annotations, collaboration, ai features (chat, flashcards generation w. ai-feedbacks), tts, ocr,etc

promise this isn't just one of those chatwithpdf clones. its fully open source and free, and constantly shipping. (built a line-by-line highlighting tts just today https://x.com/vishnuu122/status/1840509664876020154)

more features coming soon.

would love for y'all to try it out and give feedbacks :)

https://uxie.vercel.app https://github.com/zeus-12/uxie https://uxie.vercel.app/feedback

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

#718
I'm working on a language learning web app (very cool to see several others here too) which gasp does not use AI! It mixes the form of a book and experience of an app, and provides small guides to the basics of languages. Currently only Vietnamese and Esperanto: https://yakk.app

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

#719
A friend and I started building an open source project for the Supabase hackathon last week.

It's a web security audit reporting web app. The idea is to centralize the entire auditing process inside Markdown based reports, à la Jupyter Notebooks. Then, any discovery actions like subdomain enum, path fuzzing, etc. would run by demand on edge functions.

We'll also be adding support for prompting generative models to help writing reports, suggest procedures and create dictionaries based on current findings.

The project is Apache-2.0 licensed, and can be found here: https://github.com/supaudit/supaudit. Please, note that the report UI is unfinished as of the date of this comment.

Constructive feedback is more than welcome c:

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

#720
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I'm going to be a dad next year, so I've been thinking about how to baby-proof areas of my house while allowing my cat freedom of navigation. My wife is an English teacher, so I've been building little educational games for her to try in the classroom. My latest attempt is a proof-reading game https://frogs.cool Currently I'm using wikipedia articles but I'm working on adding a variety of age appropriate texts in dif…

On the topic of cat freedom... I had the opposite problem. A few years ago, for a while I had to separate our two cats so they wouldn't fight while we weren't home (long story, but we couldn't let them fight each other like most cats will do for fun, due to some medical reasons). It was basically impossible. I wanted to set it up so one cat could be downstairs, and the other upstairs, so one wouldn't feel like they w…

Yeah, my cat is getting older and a total wimp at jumping over things. So I will have to figure out a way. Of course this is all an excuse to build an elaborate ramp or tunnel system.

On preventing cats from climbing things, apparently attaching a rolling bar at the top is very effective: https://catrollers.com

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