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

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

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Post by fraboniface »

I'm developing Weavus (https://weavus.app) as a way to take my events away from facebook. It's a social app (mobile only for now) where events are the main element and the home screen shows your upcoming events. The philosophy is no feed, no ads, no addiction, just your real social life.

The idea is also to merge in a single app many needs of events, like group chats, photo albums, expenses splitting, and I'm planning to add more. I realized groups have similar needs to events, so I added them as well (think small private groups, not massive communities).

All of this is stil very early in development and it definitely needs some more work before a Show HN, but we've found it very useful for weekends and holidays already.

Consider it an open beta, so feel free to give it a try and give me your honest feedback :)

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

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Post by goldfeld »

So I have started creating a new keyboard layout based on Dvorak; but more a text generation and expansion engine, with snippets or abbreviations in vim.

Initially also on Emacs as a minor mode, the concept is to write in a shorthand of greek letters, mapped like to a Dvorak distribution, that stand there as a code, as variables or latent values, expanded upon a key combination to one of several languages: German, Hebrew or Yiddish. Text can stay code-mixed indefinitely. The greek letters are a preform, condensed by layers of translation and transliteration, a hybrid con, and the keyboard layout itself, dynamic and not static, is dual: for every greek letter in the layout correpsonds a hebrew letter or diphtong or diacritic mark etc. It is a merge and disambiguation of both Dvorak/Programmer Dvorak and Yiddish Klal.

I really don't know if it may seem useful to someone, but I've been itching writing a bit jargon in a system like this for some weeks.

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

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Post by gamerDude »

fraboniface wrote: post #871

I'm developing Weavus ( https://weavus.app ) as a way to take my events away from facebook. It's a social app (mobile only for now) where events are the main element and the home screen shows your upcoming events. The philosophy is no feed, no ads, no addiction, just your real social life. The idea is also to merge in a single app many needs of events, like group chats, photo albums, expenses splitting, and I'm plann…

Love the idea and I see multiple people working on what I hope can be the future of meetup.com. Good luck!

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

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Post by witslectric »

masto wrote: post #388

I have been making YouTube videos about a project I built a couple of years ago. It took a while to find the time and the right approach to documenting it, but I'm finally happy with the results. The first video is here: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks (the second is coming out tomorrow) And it's on GitHub here: https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee I also recently left the Big Tech world after 11 years at Google, so I'm…

You could sell these displays probably. I certainly wouldn't mind having and playing with one through python etc

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

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Post by Bnjoroge »

skp1995 wrote: post #676

We are working on https://aide.dev/ an editor forked from VSCode which allows you to utilize LLMs to speed up coding. Our approach is a bit different since unlike making a better copilot or a chat experience we are building workflows which encourage engineers to work alongside AI and not just offload tasks to AI.

v cool to see more alternatives to cursor popping up

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

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Post by witslectric »

the__alchemist wrote: post #117

I'm working on a plasmid (vector) editor called PlasCAD, for molecular biology. I'm doing it mainly as a learning project, and trying to fill in the gaps where I found limitations in existing software. As of last week, it's in a state where the main features are there. I'm going to now focus on polish, and adding specialty features. Would appreciate any and all feedback! It lets you view and edit plasmid sequences, f…

Looks useful and thanks to it I now know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferase is a thing

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

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Post by dindresto »

fraboniface wrote: post #871

I'm developing Weavus ( https://weavus.app ) as a way to take my events away from facebook. It's a social app (mobile only for now) where events are the main element and the home screen shows your upcoming events. The philosophy is no feed, no ads, no addiction, just your real social life. The idea is also to merge in a single app many needs of events, like group chats, photo albums, expenses splitting, and I'm plann…

Any plans to support ActivityPub?

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

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Post by harabat »

woile wrote: post #465

I'm working on https://reciperium.com which is a website to host recipes, with the twist that uses a specialised language for recipes, and you can fork recipes from other users and adapt them to your liking.

In case you haven't heard of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20170409015127/forkthecookbook.c...
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