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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)?

#881

I've been building a web extension for an Inuit language (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ). Most Inuit in Canada speak Inuktitut, which is a language with long words and two different writing systems: the latin alphabet, and syllabics. Syllabics are specially adapted for Inuktitut and well-loved by the Inuit, but unfortunately can be a pain to input on a computer, so often times the more cumbersome latin alphabet is used in casual w…

It looks like a great language to work with.

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

#882

I built a simple teleprompter web app to help record talking head videos with the front camera of my MacBook this week. Link: https://camprompter.app The insight is that if you read text from a tiny enough box right below the front camera on the MacBook, it appears as if you're talking to the camera. Boom! Easy Eye Contact With Camera. I scrunched up the Notion app and placed it as well as I could in the safe area to…

Oh, wonderfully simple, might use it for recording voiceovers. Might be useful to add some kind of syntax for pauses, like a blank line between paragraphs.

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

#884
I am building a TCG card management app as a way to keep my machine learning skills sharp and to learn iOS development.

Pretty standard CRUD flows + plenty of opportunity to get comfy with iterating and deploying software on iOS.

This app will basically be the playground for me to work on: - Frontend / UX - Computer vision (scan in cards w/ Camera) - recommender systems (what cards are good suggestions to add to this deck?) - Clustering (what decks are similar to this deck?)

Websites like TappedOut and Archidekt are great products, but as someone who plays casually and doesn't do much to keep up with releases I find assembling fun Commander decks from singles to be quite a time investment, and I'd like to see if I can focus in on that UX specifically for myself.

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

#885
Although I am currently 16 and the summer vacation is coming to an end, I have made big progress during these few weeks. My mission was to build an app with the help of the Flutter framework, and I have succeeded!

The app's website is vid-note.com, if you would like to check it out. The value of the app is that one no longer has to watch endless videos but can find exactly what one needs about a certain topic within the notes that we offer. What is good to know is that most of the notes are centered around business and self-improvement for the reason that we, the founders, are interested in these topics. We understand that many would advise us to let an LLM write the notes, but for this project, we have decided to sway away from the flawed results that LLMs bring with them.

This is the first venture my business partner and I have decided to pursue, and we look forward to finding out if we must pivot or preserve. For those wondering, the app has been approved for external testing on the App Store, but we have decided not to make the jump yet, simply because we still have to handcraft a few notes ;). We predict that a release on the Play Store will soon follow. Cheers.

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

#888
A bluetooth and USB-C modification kit for the iPod Classic: https://moonlit.market/

I left my home country for Portugal when I was 18, and was refurbishing iPods for money while living in a hostel. In my free time, I developed a Bluetooth kit, a crude first version which required hours of hand-soldering soldering, CNC milling, etc. to manufacture. While selling these I used the money to prototype and manufacture the second revision.

That's the version you can purchase today, which can now be assembled in about five minutes. This has allowed me to scale the business, and now we're a few employees big, shipping worldwide. A few grey hairs have appeared at 22 but finally I can relax a little.

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

#890

Compared to the majority of what I read below, I'm a rank amateur and have no right to post. I'll do it anyway, as I need to learn to own where I'm at and have a backbone. :) I'm learning the Zola static site generator and using to to build my blog at https://jeff-mitchell.dev . The focus is my mis-adventures learning the Rust language. I've found it a challenge to get off my feet with Zola, but I'm slowly figuring t…

Hey, you're doing great - keep going!
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