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Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by maliker »

_peeley wrote: post #667

I'm still in the super early stages of working on a collaborative sketch/whiteboarding web app. The idea is to have a site wherein users can sketch a diagram/write out some notes, with other users able to view in real-time or save and view later a la Google Docs. Had the idea a few weeks ago, but with most universities converting to online lectures and many businesses working from home it seems like there's a definit…

Take a look at jamboard.google.com? It's very bare bones, so what's missing might give you some feature ideas.

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Post by qpiox »

I work at a University, where face-2-face lectures have stopped and the premises are closed for students, but teaching will continue to go online.

I teach programming courses, but I have always organized them around projects with real f2f communication and intensive critique of the work that is being done. This will have a heavy impact now, as none of the online tools (commercial such as Zoom, Webex, Kaldura, and open source Jitsi, BigBlueButton) can really help.

Most such technology is designed for online meetings of "disconnected" collaborators, and not as a real substitute for close collaborators where the whole body language takes part in the communication.

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Post by BilalBudhani »

I'm working on a simplified Ghost hosting service.

To give you some background, I've been running multiple Ghost blogging platforms for quite sometime and have successfully automated a lot of the heavy lifting involved in hosting. I realised a lot of people around me are now using Ghost for their blogs too and they might not need the expensive hosting out there. So I'm working to provide an option to address this niche.

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Post by smcameron »

Still working on my multiplayer LAN spaceship bridge simulator game called Space Nerds in Space[1], possibly the worst genre of game to be working on with coronavirus on the loose, since it involves inviting people over to touch your keyboards.

[1] https://spacenerdsinspace.com

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Post by oliv__ »

Working on a simple journaling app (web & mobile) that I initially made for myself. Super minimal but it works and it fills my own need.

I was thinking I'd start charging for it when it has more features (hashtags, search, pictures) but right now you can sign up for free to try it out (ignore the current copy).

It's online at: https://days.app

[EDIT] since people seem to be visiting the half baked landing page, here's a screenshot of what it looks like inside: https://i.imgur.com/ZkWtgi5.png (sorry this is my actual journal lol)

And on mobile: https://i.imgur.com/XgWXuBt.png

(I know there are a million projects on here already but if you find this and try it, let me know what you like/dislike! Cheers)

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Post by rickspencer3 »

I ordered an infrared temperature sensor. My idea is to build a prototype of a low cost device that a merchant can use to show to customers that their staff is healthy, or at least does not have a fever. The idea is that when a staff member handles something, they quickly get their temperature taken, which prints out a sticker with their id, the time, and the temperature, and then they affix that to whatever they were handling. So, when the customer is handed their package, there is some evidence that the staff is not sick.

An added feature could be a back end that alerts if a staff member begins to show signs of a fever.

Currently, there seems to be a shortage of low cost infrared temperature sensors. I'd also love to find a very small and low cost printer that supports this. So far, I have found some label makers that could work.

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