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

#881
I'm working on a digital version of a board game. It's 2-4 players, turn based. Im using Rust (actix) on the backend for learning purposes; React, redux, immer on frontend. Communication via Server-Sent Events.

Im experimenting with redux-like contstructs, which reduce the boilerplatey stuff, for example:

    export function setStatePlain(state: State) {
        return {
            type: SET_STATE,
            payload: state,
        } as const;
    }
    
    export function setState(state: DeepPartial): Thunk {
        return (dispatch, getState) => {
            dispatch(setStatePlain(Object.assign({}, getState(), state)));
        };
    }
    
    export function someAction(data: Data): Thunk {
        ...
        dispatch(setState(immer.produce(getState(), state => {
            state.lobbyGames[result.data.uuid] = {
                ...result.data,
                adminId: state.playerId,
                players: [{
                    id: state.playerId,
                    name: state.playerName,
                    ready: false,
                }],
            };
            ...
        }
    })));

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

#883

I’m developing a simple iOS app to detect Ultra Processed Food (UPF). The ones that are in Apple Store now are either too complex or paid-only without a chance to test it for free. I believe people should be able to detect UPF and learn how to detect it even without the app (in a long term). I will launch it in 2 weeks max.

English language only, or language independent?

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

#884

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ Iterating on an accessible color palette creator, for custom Tailwind-style palettes of multiple swatches, where you can check your colors have sufficient WCAG/ACPA color contrast on a live UI mockup. You can export the colors for use with Tailwind, CSS, Figma, and Adobe. I started working on this because for design projects I was almost always getting handed brand style guides that w…

fwiw I was very confused with what I was supposed to do on this site and I run a few websites using Tailwind colors. I don't really get how the color selector on the right interacts with the mock previews on the left. It also wasn't obvious I'm supposed to hover over each element in the mock preview.

Thanks, that's helpful! The color selector on the far right is mostly there to let you change which color you're editing if you're not interested in the mockup preview on the far left, and to add new colors. You can mostly ignore it if you'd rather select colors by clicking on the mockup.

For what you're supposed to do, you're meant to drag the points or curves in the hue/saturation/lightness columns to customize the colors swatches to create your own custom palette. The mockup will update as you make changes and warn you if there's any accessibility contrast issues. You can click elements on the mockup to select colors to edit and check their color contrast.

Does that help at all? Any more hints on what part wasn't obvious and what would make it more obvious? I could hide the color selector by default maybe? Add better labels or hints?

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

#885
A text-to-speech (TTS) model. Most good TTS models are closed-source. I intend on making this one open-source.

All the decent open-source ones are fairly basic with limited fine tuning and no alignment (RLHF).

I plan on adding those things. Although I am not sure if there will be any demand for it. Plus, there's a decent chance meta will make llama 4 speech output making this one obsolete.

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

#886

Designing lenses with numerical optimization. It's surprising how much layers of an optical systems are akin to layers of a neural network during training. If you use rays as inputs and refractive surfaces as layers, you can pretty much use standard pytorch! I should write a blog post about it.

Please do! That sounds super interesting

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

#887
Right now, I’m working on a startup with my cofounder called Hypership – an all-in-one platform designed to cut through the chaos of modern web development. After years of building products, I’ve seen how tangled the ecosystem has become. It feels like every tiny feature is another SaaS subscription, with its own login, data silos, and integration headaches. Want error logging? That’s another $20. Need analytics? Another login. And don’t get me started on the documentation for half these tools.

Hypership is our attempt to fix that mess. We’re building a platform where you can deploy, manage, and track everything from one place. No more juggling 15 different tools just to keep your app running. The vision is simple: let devs focus on building great products, not wrangling disconnected micro-SaaS.

https://hypership.dev

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

#888
Today, kindergarten was closed and I had to take much of the day off to take care of my five-year old daughter. We asked Chat GPT to assume the role of a master board game designer and to lead us through the creation of a novel boardgame, with input from us. She came up with the setting - we are unicorns that need to rescue princes and princesses that have been captured in a scary forest full of monsters. Quickly, the LLM proposed a full list of rules and props to make. We then had fun for around two hours drawing various cards and markers.

The game was playable on the first try with only a few minor and very quick rule tweaks from me. Even I felt we went on a stressful quest in the forest. Honestly among the best games for this age group that I have ever played.

10/10 activity, will try again.

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

#889
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I'm making a VSCode extension that can record & replay interactions with the IDE: all scrolls, selections, and modifications synced to guiding video, audio, and visual aid tracks. The result is a much more interactive way to present code than screencasts or blogs. Because at any point we can pause a session and freely explore and experiment with the codebase. I put together a demo recently [1] and written much more a…

Really cool! I'm building something with a little bit of overlap. A personal data collection/archival platform with the goal of focusing on timestamping everything possible. Basically, I realized that when I have multiple pieces of data (e.g. a note, some commands, a screenshot), almost always this data is naturally connected by time and that's also how I want to query it. So: it's nice to be able to e.g. create wiki…

I'm gearing all my personal tooling stuff towards collecting a ton of data points—screenshots, logs, notes, todos—that I can then pare down over time to make them useful. I've got a similar setup with a central monolith that can handle anything I throw at it from stdout.

Lately, I've been focusing mainly on the collectors because I figure the state-of-the-art in any middleware I write is going to change quickly. I've been playing around with knowledge graphs for visualization and might consider using them as a data store for this kind of thing. I'm still thinking about it. My watchword has been minimalism when it comes to design—no added steps or latency to existing workflows.

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

#890

An app to collect memories easily. You capture vocal notes, which are transcribed & corrected with AI. As a father, I wanted to capture all the little moments of our day-to-day family life to later share with my grown-up children. However, I did not have the discipline to journal regularly. So, I made Memzy to capture them easily on the fly! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memzy-easy-journaling-with-ai/...

Had a similar idea focused on old pictures. Think of older family members going through a box of photos and explaining who, when, where, etc...
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