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

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post #583

I built an English-speaking website that helps immigrants settle in Berlin.[0] It has been my full time job for a while. Most English speakers know about it, but it's nearly invisible to Germans, who would also benefit from the content and tools I have worked on. I'm currently adding an automated AI translation feature to my custom static site generator, so that I can translate the website to multiple languages and r…

damn this is so underrated! u should do one for munich too :)))

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

#722

I’m scraping a list of every single UK company that has raised funding in the last 3 years - with details of how much and when - after finding out the info is available but hidden in certain filings on the Companies House website. Let me know if you’d like a copy for free - should be done in the next week or two!

How did you find the hidden information?

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

#724
I am building a WASM based "grid editor". It's really just a way to build a UI for anything (desktop, mobile, web) by slicing up a grid and putting content in it. Then you can export the grid in an extremely portable format that can be reas anywhere (no, not json, even simpler) and use that grid data to implement your UI. The grid data contains the content or references to content which you can just apply on render.

visualgrideditor.app

Mad with Odin, compiled to WASM, vanilla JS and has Laravel integration. I just need to alpha test this more and see if there's anybody who wants to use it.

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

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post #366

A vscode extension that aims to be "vim for code' meaning that it has first class motions for programming concepts like functions, arguments, etc. quick demo: https://youtu.be/owuuFxDBQh4?si=tqYi-RqvFQa6kI8h

Just saw the video, looks cool. multi language support would also be awesome. Nice work. all the best.

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

#726
I'm working on yet another AI-powered app (shocking, I know). It's a basic command-line interface (CLI) flashcard tool that uses GPT-4 to grade answers and help you learn based on how far your response is from the correct answer. You can check it out here: [AnkiCLI](https://github.com/johnny1011/AnkiCLI). It's pretty barebones—just Python and the OpenAI API. Nothing groundbreaking. If anyone has thoughts on how to make this marginally less useless, I'm all ears.

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

#727

I'm building Nottawa ( https://nottawa.app/ ), a free and open source C++ live video and VJ app for macOS. The VJ space is pretty built up with expensive and professional level software (TouchDesigner, Resolume, etc.) - Nottawa is aimed at the non-technical, hobby artist who wants some cool, simple, and audioreactive visuals without hiring a pro. Long term vision is a community powered repository of presets which can…

Dude this is SICK! Well done, it must have taken a lot of determination to get here.

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

#728

Bookbinding class. Its really fun to make things with my hands!

I took a bookbinding class on a whim at university, and it's still a hobby I enjoy. I would love to have a dedicated space for all the big equipment one day, but it's easy to make notebooks with just a bone folder, awl, needle, and thread.

Yeah I'm liking how 'simple' it is if you don't want to get super involved. Plus I've got a small woodshop so I can build myself some tools to help the process.

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

#729

I'm working on https://nuenki.app/ , a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc. Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far fr…

Hebrew please :)

DeepL doesn't support Hebrew, but I just did some testing and my dev build can do it via Claude, albeit with higher latency.

I'm not sure what the quality is like though.

If you'd like I can contact you when I've added support for it. What's your email/discord?

Mine is alex@nuenki.app / alexc.j on Discord.

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