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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)

#791
A nodal real-time video processing tool : put together pre-made "processing boxes" to generate interactive video. It runs on pretty much anything, uses a plugin architecture.

Say, plug a camera, and it will blend two videos streams using a silhouette detected on the camera, with various effects. It's very, very early, pre-alpha stuff, but it already was used for a demo by a customer.

GitHub pestacle, be warned, it's undocumented and larval stage

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

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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.

You might be interested in "Namma Yatri". It's a fairly successful open source ride hailing app from India.

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

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I'm working on a wearable device with a camera+ultrasonic sensor which is capable of accurate hand pose estimation, which will then result in sign language recognition mainly (extending to gesture recognition and HCI applications). The device should be able to integrate into a smartwatch. I'm only at the 'will it work?' stage, working on the algorithms for recognising ASL words through synthetic data. Would appreciat…

very cool, hard and exciting problem! How are you handling the stability of the ultrasound sensor relative to the hand? Usually that's the shakiest/blurriest part.

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

#795
An app that syncs a timeline containing posts with whatever you’re watching (TV Series, Movies, etc).

The discussions and content displayed will be relevant to whatever is currently playing on your TV at the specific time.

Have a rough app built and my potential initial target audiences identified. The integrations aren’t TOO technically challenging and should be feasible.

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

#796

My son loves collecting pokemon cards and trading with his friends at school. We talked a lot about Pokemon on Friday and it got me into a nostalgic mood... Side Note: Pokemon has done a great job staying relevant for 3 decades. So... I made a python script with gpt-vision where he can manage his collection and uncover the value of each one. He just snaps a photo and boop, there's the returned valuation. He's now got…

Valuation can sometimes depend on things like whether it's still in the package, and wear and tear. It would be interesting to try to estimate that, have you tried?

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

#797
From my last comment in August 2024 [1], I have made progress!

The project I'm developing is called Your Commonbase, a self organizing scrapbook built around Personal Library Science.

The big updates are:

1. From Fleeting Note to Connected Note with The Entry/Comment Model - An entry has its own marginalia (comments), which are also embedded as first class data. These comments allow your search model to improve over time, and create surprising clusters. See this video to see an example of the Entry/Comment model in a d3 graph [2]. All the connections are created automatically! Entries go from "fleeting entries" inbox (not linked or commented on) to "main entries" which spread and connect ideas from across the space.

2. Using yCb as a creator - I created a Google Docs extension and have been using it to create Zettelkasten's for my blogs. On average each blog references 12 or more books. This is a real use case of a PKM system outside doing it for the love of the game [3].

There's so much more including mobile upload, [[links]], audio upload, and more, but you can explore the Notion page in [2] to see the features I've added.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347206

[2] - https://bramses.notion.site/Your-Commonbase-BETA-10b034182dd...

[3] - (blog: https://www.bramadams.dev/issue-59-are-inboxes-evil/ | zettelkasten: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-eW-hfRxHEMXE70JO7_PC3Lf...)

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

#799

Burned out with the job hunt after a rough year so I'm building out a remote job listing site... because I'm searching for a job. I figured I will build something that scrapes top sites I visit and normalizes job postings and company profiles, to which I can subscribe/save/apply/archive listings, get jobs matched to my resume etc. Just a nice little CRUD app. I figure it's better to launch something then go job hunti…

Great stuff! What tech stack did you decide on? Also what sort of jobs are you gunning for?

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

#800
I’m building https://chattysun.com

We make it easy for any website to take advantage of the latest LLMs for sales and support function. Been reaching out to freelance clients and finding many of them want this type of feature so we can provide it to them easily, sometimes with little to no customization.

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