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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by blubeard » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 8:27 AM UTC

Long time reader, first time poster. I'm nervous posting; but anyway I wanted to share my reading platform: https://tutee.io/books

In short I wanted to create a platform that allows kids and adults to enjoy reading regardless if the content is fiction or non-fiction. However, I didn't want just another material design site, I wanted to make it add a retro aspect to it. It's using MDB, a heavily hacked RPGUI (http://ronenness.github.io/RPGUI/), old school fonts (previously posted on HN https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/), and using OctoberCMS as the backend.

There's so much content in the wild web but reading it can make your eyes strain (especially on large / wide monitors). Reading pages should be easy on the eyes, making it reading more enjoyable.

In addition, the concept is to take content and split the content into smaller chunks. For fiction I want to import books from (https://www.gutenberg.org/).

For a full book example, I took Frankenstein https://tutee.io/pages/frankenstein/1

For a full short story, I took H.G Well's A dream of Armageddon: https://tutee.io/pages/dream-armageddon/1

Finally for e-learning, I have some AWS notes: https://tutee.io/pages/cloud-computing/1

Another thing that helps is the Summary section that will help you remember or refresh where you left off. Note: the summary notes are made up...just filling it in beyond Lipsum.

In the end I would love to make it social where users can create their own content such as short stories, full books, or even notes. Perhaps even the agility to collaborate or write material together, "check out books" (like going to the library) except you can contribute your own material in the book you just checked out.

I would love some help in developing this further and taking it to the next level. For those readers out there, I can use some help on content to put up there as well as summary notes as I don't have time to read everything I post. If you have a book from GutenBerg you want imported please let me know (assuming you can provide summary on each chapter) as my current time is dedicated on developing the site.

That's it , I hope you enjoy it. I'll take any feedback or suggestions I can get.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by kayyay » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 8:28 AM UTC

rzzzt wrote: post #653

andrewflnr wrote: post #630

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you make more, it would be even more hilarious if they were pull-up handles on your chair like for an ejection seat.

I'm voting for those supersized plush Enter keys.

You mean escape!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by aidangrimshaw » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 9:02 AM UTC

Open source federal income tax calculator / filer

https://ustaxes.org/w2employerinfo

https://github.com/thegrims/UsTaxes

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by vinhnx » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 9:10 AM UTC

I've been working on a minimal calendar app on my spare time. I only use Calendar for everything note, so having an app for me is both satisfying and something I wanting to build for a long time. I will release the app on the app store soon.

> https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site/

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by Zealotux » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 9:35 AM UTC

https://bonfiretabletop.com A virtual tabletop for RPGs, because I was just not satisfied with the current offering.

It's very not supposed to be available to a lot of people right now, there are a lot of bugs and it's still light-years away from what I want. But hey, you can register an account and play a few sessions, I see it more like an advanced POC than a MVP, which I'm currently working on. Feel free to join our Discord server to chat about it!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by jadavies » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 9:40 AM UTC

A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is released under a GPL licence - https://github.com/john-davies/mapter

Problems / improvements are

* Improved Editor with features like search/replace and undo. At the moment the GTKSourceView component looks a likely candidate.

* A method of moving or swapping the contents of cells without a lot of cutting & pasting ( drag & drop? )

* There's also an annoying bug with the tree control drag & drop that I need to fix

I'm currently using it to try and write a novel. I'm about 35% of the way through and it works surprisingly well.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by benkaiser » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 9:52 AM UTC

lytedev wrote: post #200

It's an app for churches (or any live performance) to display and manage lyrics. http://alpha.lyricscreen.com:6754/ I'm missing accounts and some of the more frilly features, like different fonts and backgrounds. All the info is shared and HN could probably crash it. It's all synced live, so it's very loosely collaborative. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Long time ago I was interested in the same thing, but focussed on the "animation" side of it and built some backgrounds to use behind a lyric screen.

Fader: https://kaiserapps.com/lab/fader Tunnel Fader: https://kaiserapps.com/lab/tunnelfader

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by marcospoerl » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:51 AM UTC

https://crowdfunded.fyi I want to support the creator community. The idea behind Crowdfunded is to provide data on past crowdfunding campaigns as a foundation for product research. You can use the data to understand customer demand, discover successful product categories, see what competitors are launching, and find promising product ideas. Or do some general research on crowdfunding.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by raphaelj » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 11:20 AM UTC

herval wrote: post #539

raphaelj wrote: post #261

Just released my MVP for my ‘Airbnb for Musicians’: https://noisycamp.com I don’t have that many studios yet, but my goal is to make it super easy for musicians to find and book practice and recording spaces. I built the website using Scala, Vuejs, PostgreSQL, running on top or Heroku and BunnyCDN. The code is Open source: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/noisycamp.com !

this is a great idea, and execution is looking good! I'd not call it half baked at all :-)

It's half baked in the sense that I only have a few studios yet. Barely usable for a few groups of people then :P.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by kzerby » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 12:26 PM UTC

http://my-handicapped-pet.io/ Intended to be _no less_ the free and simple Data Analysis platform for all. But because I'm lazy ass, it's like a high school lab project.