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

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

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Post by cellularmitosis »

mmclar wrote: post #695

I'm working on a self-hostable replacement for Google Timeline, which is being discontinued. It includes a web app to view my timeline and an Android app to send tracking pings to the server. It also includes an import function for exports of your Google Timeline data so that your historical data from that can be integrated as well. I'm planning on open-sourcing both the web app and the POC Android app early next mon…

In line with the self-hosting idea, I'm working on an iOS app which can be used as a native app, or can serve itself as a webapp on your local network (so that you can also use it from your laptop). There is no cloud, your phone is the server, your data stays with you at all times.

I'm kind of surprised no one seems to have explored this idea before (happy to be shown examples proving otherwise!)

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

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Post by flir »

SamWhited wrote: post #603
thomasfl wrote: post #458

For me the most important issue that needs to be solved right now is the increasing urban sprawl and the car dependent neighborhoods. It causes social isolation. Maintaining infrastructure like roads and electricity, is causing a strain on the economy for local municipalities. Not to mention the disastrous effect car based transportation has on the environment. I am a fullstack developer living in Norway. Last year I…

There's a quote from Bill McKibben's forward to "Creating Cohousing" by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett that I think about every time someone brings this up (it's about the U.S., but it applies to lots of other places and you may recognize your own countries development model here too, or not): "For fifty years, our economic mission in America, at its core, has been to build bigger houses farther apart from each…

That's a nice quote. Evocative.

Is it possible to support the goal of vibrant, interconnected communities, to understand all their advantages, but still want to live at least a quarter-mile away from the nearest human?

Asking for a friend...

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

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Post by vldmrs »

e3bc54b2 wrote: post #391
vldmrs wrote: post #223

I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…

Well done! My niece is going to love this! Is it possible to get all PDFs at once? Hopefully per section? That will really help to print all at once and get her a single book to go on for couple of weeks. I thought I could do `curl | grep | xargs curl`, but the site returns 520.

I'll think about it.

But I've noticed that if I print out some coloring books for my son, they stay on his desk for a long time and he rarely colors them.

But if I print him one coloring page, he almost always finishes it.

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

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Post by nkg »

I am working on a private transportation service. Think Uber, but in a small market. We have an aging population, poor public transportation and some of the bumpiest roads you can find in the West. It will fill a void.

Not my idea, though. Through our local geek community, I met this taxi driver who pitched his app idea. He convinced a few other drivers to pay a small fee to kickstart the project. Then he convinced me to help with the technical stuff, and I convinced a friend to tag along.

He is on the road looking for funding!

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

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Post by kfarr »

nkg wrote: post #724

I am working on a private transportation service. Think Uber, but in a small market. We have an aging population, poor public transportation and some of the bumpiest roads you can find in the West. It will fill a void. Not my idea, though. Through our local geek community, I met this taxi driver who pitched his app idea. He convinced a few other drivers to pay a small fee to kickstart the project. Then he convinced m…

I am intrigued by the concept of an open source Uber equivalent. I was involved early in a few rideshare app concepts before Uber came to market and it was surprisingly complicated. You have the technical challenges combined with being a "market maker" for both riders and drivers. It's possible but hard.

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

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Post by matcha-video »

I've been working on a free, in-browser "pre" video editor. Upload your clip, use a transcript interface to cut it down to the takes and salient bits you want to keep, then export your cuts to FCP or Resolve to complete your editing. This tool saves me about 25-30% of my editing time.

Uses transformers.js & WebGPU for running transcription, so it's pretty fast. It's still a bit rough around the edges, so I'm looking for feedback.

https://matcha.video

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

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Post by MurageKabui »

I've been working on an android app that lets you automate android the JavaScript way, it's made using Cordova. The tech stack is Vue, Sqlite, bootstrap and jQuery. The idea is that a user can create js scripts containing methods I have provided that programmatically interface with androids native features like sim card, Bluetooth, WiFi, battery, network, TTS, Flashlight, etc.. https://github.com/MurageKabui/PhoneDo

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

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Post by com2kid »

meheleventyone wrote: post #368
com2kid wrote: post #127

Putting the finishing touches on my LLM based town simulator. Once it's finished I'll have it simulate 4 hours in the town every 2 hours in reality. It is designed to solve the problem of "RPG hero just killed a dragon in front of the town and no one says anything about it." All the NPCs realistically react and talk about the Hero's exploits. Visitors to the site can vote on what quest the hero undertakes next. I'm r…

Having played with the demo a bit I think it's a couple of things: 1 - If you hadn't described your technical choices above I'd think this was just done using normal procedural text generation. Every NPC feels like it's giving the stock phrase they'll say when you run out of dialog options. 2 - There doesn't feel like there is a narrative, reasons to care about these NPCs, reasons to care about the Hero, or some sort…

> If you hadn't described your technical choices above I'd think this was just done using normal procedural text generation. Every NPC feels like it's giving the stock phrase they'll say when you run out of dialog options.

During one iteration of testing the NPCs decided to throw a party for the hero and they all congregated in the tavern. That was 100% awesome and if I can hit that type of WOW factor more often I think it'll all feel magical.

> There doesn't feel like there is a narrative, reasons to care about these NPCs, reasons to care about the Hero, or some sort of character development over time. If you want to engage people you need to get them to care about what's happening.

This is just a tech demo so I'm not sure how much I want to put into it. Especially since the end goal is to get a recognized and get a job!

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

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Post by AndrewVos »

AndrewVos wrote: post #709

A colouring app that is free and simple. I want it to avoid advertising or anything that makes apps nowadays irritating. https://color.vos.lol Try it out, it's free! If you don't have an iPhone, you might have success with the desktop version at: https://color.vos.lol/app

Also, my next app is a stacking game (it's very rough around the edges): https://stackable.vos.lol/app
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