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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by knicholes »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #649
knicholes wrote: post #424

I've been trying to sell the idea of AI-assisted breast augmentation visualization. I call it breastimate. So far no plastic surgeons will meet with me to validate the idea. It's image to image translation using SPADE from before augmentation to after augmentation. NSFW (female breasts shown) https://spark.adobe.com/page/zZlziYu47YiwR/

1. Are you sharing this website with them? 2. How well do your AI after photos compare to the real ones? Cool project!

1. Yeah, I call and get the receptionist. I tell them about the software and get their interest (which is always seemingly high). They give me the email address of their plastic surgeon. I email the surgeon with a link to this page while explaining to them that I'm creating this software but want to validate the idea before putting more time into it. Nobody responds to my emails. 2. The photos are right there in the link, but if you're not able to view them, to me it usually generates pictures that are close to indistinguishable from actual photos. The breasts look like breasts (unless I'm cramming five on them onto one chest and make them shaped oddly... lol)

I just need more pictures. I also need to apply a different image-to-image translation where I put "static" over JUST the segmented breasts, so as to not remove tattoos, freckles, etc. I've seen an awesome paper that does this called OASIS, but they've not released code. I want the synthesized picture to be as close as the original as possible (with the obvious exception of larger breasts).

Still I need to build the actual pipeline instead of running the images through my segmentation network and my SPADE network AND I need to maybe programmatically increase the segmented "breast" category to be larger and maybe place the nipple in a more desirable location.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by dingsbumps »

bradgessler wrote: post #611

https://www.thingybase.com/ It’s a home inventory app! I’ve been working on this and using it for almost two years now in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and raising 2 kids. I’ve embraced the “half-baked” aspect of shipping a project like this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations. It’s just been so much fun building and using it. If you use it, don’t worry about me abandoning…

I'd love to make labels like this for the boxes in my storage unit (and then be able to look up the contents from home). Your site clearly explains the product, it's very compelling for me!

I couldn't find anywhere on the site though: can I export the data and self-host? If I were to invest time cataloging my data this way, I'd want to be sure I had a backup plan just in case the service went down one day

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by Irongirl1 »

advanced__pizza wrote: post #645

I'm building a service for developers who want to help out small businesses or non-profits [0]. I'm still at the ideation stage, gauging interest, but would love to hear everyones thoughts! The backend is a simple Python/Flask/Postgres app [1] but holding off on building it out until there is more demand. Spun off a GCP Flask starter template from this repo useful for folks wanting to deploy python apps to GCP/App En…

I submitted my email address and got a prompt to confirm, but no confirmation email came through. Is this what you meant by "not built out." I am sure it is clear to others but I'm so non-techie I could be retro. I could definitely use the help though. I have a bunch of file folders on my laptop that represent a fair few side projects...but I can't build my way out of a paper bag. I need an executioner. Someone who can just execute the basics all day so I run traffic through them and test to see if anyone else finds the idea worthy. I would love a simple, one sheet build guide that tells me what APIs to string together in what order...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by woutr_be »

gwph wrote: post #158
woutr_be wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting approach to generate a static website. Is this completely free? Or do you end up paying for the Lambda task?

Average latency for the Lambda over the last week is 4.84s and it runs with 128mb of memory. Running every two minutes, that comes to ~25,000 invocations and ~15,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month. The AWS Lambda free usage tier includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month so the Lambda is definitely free. The website is tiny (homepage < 20kb excluding the thumbnails whic…

Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking about how I would do it, but always ended up reverting to Netlify. Good to have some different approaches.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by spicysheep »

Self driving toy car that uses deep learning and comes with a web app for data collection (driving with a PS3 controller), data cleaning, model training, and model deployment: https://github.com/RyanZotti/Self-Driving-Car

I’ve been working on this for 5 years, and it has hundreds of GitHub stars, but it will probably always be half baked. I also haven’t had a chance to commit code in awhile

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by fromaj »

I had an idea for a library that follows log files and triggers some events that can be defined through python code. I used it for one task at work and gave up on figuring out how to structure it since.

The idea is that it allows you to verify and test logging, which is an odd concept but helps ensure that things are predictable and consistent.

https://github.com/arvind-iyer/logan/

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by Jommi »

WoodenChair wrote: post #355
dbosch wrote: post #188

Less than half baked, Kong (temp name) is the Goodread for movies. During lockdown, I decided to watch more movies, including classics. I noticed my friends were doing the same and I wanted to know what they were watching, and which film they were interested in... Very early. Lots of buggy features. Sorry. http://www.getkong.xyz

I signed up. Does nothing like this already exist?

Letterboxd

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by jrpt »

Super Source (supso.org)

Open source software is used by practically all businesses, yet maintainers are overwhelmed and under-appreciated. Donations barely make any money.

The solution? Don't give it away for free! Fork your own project and release the next version under a paid license with Super Source. (You can still make it free for non-profits and individuals) Larger businesses pay more money.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by krishnanunnir »

I am working on this www.ezhuth.in.

This is a website I am building as a social media for my vernacular language(Malayalam), my main reasoning being

1. Facebook has a lot of Malayalam discussions and literature but they are lost past a few days, and it is very difficult to rediscover this content.

Basically we are losing out on quality content once Facebook has decided it is not viable to show a post algorithmically.

2. For vernacular languages niche content has largely been reduced to Youtube, but still there are no platforms for discussion on these topics.

3. his might sound generic but we often hear about stories of kids chancing on content on the internet and developing a passion for a subject, what are the chances this can happen if you are not English speaking?

We can learn from China on this, even though it is a population that is largely shielded from the rest of the world, their adoption of native langauge on the internet have allowed for proliferation of all kinds content to everyone.

4. Localisation is the future. Being able to use our own language has allowed a lot of people to explode on the scene and make a living - ask tiktokers.

I am not yet done with the features, but a priority for me now is to do translations to Malayalam and get audience coming.

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