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

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I am working on InvitePlus.io, a tool to manage user access and help companies in onboarding. It will send invites to all software your team has been using with just an email. You can manage teams across multiple platforms (Github, Jira, Asana, etc). Also, you can revoke access with a single click.

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

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Working on wasitsent.com. It's an uptime monitor that alerts you when your automated emails stop sending. Hoping to get a working version out this week. In the meantime if you want to get an early peek at how it works you can go to sandbox.wasitsent.com. The sandbox is ugly but functional. It goes down a lot and the data is periodically wiped because I use it for testing.

Interesting! Emails that stop sending can be caused by a technical glitch of some kind, or they can be the consequence of a block list. A sister project could be to assist users with this? A couple of years ago I built a journal system that sends me an email everyday; answers are then logged in a db. It worked flawlessly until last week. Although that domain is only used by me to send emails to me, it seems it was su…

A simple follow-up if someone finds this later: it turns out support for the two relevant black lists are super responsive and nice. The domain had been blacklisted in error; it was delisted immediately. It was surprising how fast and nice that went ;-)

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

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post #183

I'm currently working on a new blockchain technology called Roughchain. Earlier today, I shared the whitepaper in this HN thread [1], and I’ve already received some valuable feedback. The core architecture is split into two components: a timestamping signing service and a P2P gossip network. By decoupling the gossip network, I'm simulating its performance using a Monte Carlo approach. With a basic gossip protocol, th…

im doing something similar to your project, but on libp2p. it's okay so far.

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…

One of the first things I read on the site was about the "church tax"[0]. Very interesting.

> You declare your religion when you register your address. The church can also tax you if you were a member in another country. To stop paying the church tax, you must leave the church.

[0] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/start-a-business-in-german...

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

#827
I'm working on a cutting board as a wedding gift. The couple is Irish, and needed some design elements to suit. The edge will be three ribbons of darker wood (walnut, padauk, and walnut again) and the main cutting board area is light (ash).

The hard part is the corners. I'm trying to get some celtic knots going, but this requires extremely accurate sizing, otherwise nothing lines up. The strips of wood are either 3/8" x 1/2" or 1/16" x 1/2". You have to be very careful with clamping when gluing, otherwise everything is off.

Oh and it's end-grain, which just means so much more processing of everything.

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

#829
I’ve spent the last month writing about vanilla web development on https://plainvanillaweb.com/

I am working on blog posts about various topics, vanilla intersection loading, accessible web components, server-side rendering strategies, vanilla PWA, etc…

Always open to ideas and feedback.

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

#830

I'm working on a CI system with DSL instead of yaml configs. The general premise is that most sufficiently advanced yaml configs begin to look like code - e.g. in Github Actions one could look at external Actions and shared workflows as dynamic libraries; workflows as public functions; jobs and steps as internal ones. We have better languages than yaml-structure-as-a-code, and tools to help us write and test them qui…

Sounds a lot like https://dagger.io/ . Maybe you can take some inspiration from them
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