Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#91

Post by jeremylevy » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:19 PM UTC

Automating cloud architecture creation.

I'm building a "catalog" of architectures that you could use to create a complete cloud architecture on your AWS, GCP or Azure account in less than one minute.

So, for example, you could create a docker-based architecture with CI/CD, auto-scaling, zero downtime deployment, SSL, load-balancing, high availability and MongoDB in less than one minute in your own AWS account.

It's like Terraform with the user-friendliness of Heroku.

It's very hard because every providers have different APIs and concepts so you have to start from scratch for each.

I love working on it because cloud-computing may have so much impact in some organizations like biotech startups or NGOs.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#92

Post by danielovichdk » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:19 PM UTC

closeparen wrote: post #58

How do I satisfy the needs of non-technical middle managers in engineering to appear as if they understand and control their shops, while minimizing damage to those shops?

It's an impossible task. Without direct access to their brains and being able to alter those, you are at a lost cause.

Middle Manager Syndrome would be great for machine learning to cure. I hope you come out with your nerves intact

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#93

Post by unixhero » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:19 PM UTC

shostack wrote: post #3

Not sure if this is weird so much as an area of business that not a lot of people think actively about, but get bit by. THE PROBLEM How do you automate and aggregate context across business departments for various forms of activity, and then map that to marketing analytics in a way that gives relevant and sufficient insights beyond just channel or user data? How do you more fully answer the question of "what happened…

Salesforce solves this.

They do need worthy competitors, so go for it!

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#94

Post by hazeii » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:20 PM UTC

How to measure pedal (and/or crank) angle on a moving bicycle to 0.05 degree. Anyone?

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#95

Post by erezsh » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:21 PM UTC

I'm trying to replace SQL by building a language that compiles to SQL. It has first-class functions, nicer syntax, better type-system, introspection, and other things you would expect from a modern language. But in the end, you still get SQL's performance, and the ability to use it with dozens of database engines.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#96

Post by unixhero » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:21 PM UTC

ta17711771 wrote: post #7

Keeping a working Wireguard configuration with 4 peers, for both VPN-through-house, and remote LAN access.

I need to get to setting up wireguard as well. Honest to god 'homelabbing.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#97

Post by unixhero » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:21 PM UTC

econcon wrote: post #13

Trying to create Discourse like E-commerce app that will make it easy for people to sell anything It will have all features that WooCommerce have but much stable and easily customisable.

Who is the typical customer? Gamers?

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#98

Post by eitland » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

erezsh wrote: post #95

I'm trying to replace SQL by building a language that compiles to SQL. It has first-class functions, nicer syntax, better type-system, introspection, and other things you would expect from a modern language. But in the end, you still get SQL's performance, and the ability to use it with dozens of database engines.

You mean you work on LINQ?

Only half joking here.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#99

Post by ahnberg » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:23 PM UTC

jeremylevy wrote: post #91

Automating cloud architecture creation. I'm building a "catalog" of architectures that you could use to create a complete cloud architecture on your AWS, GCP or Azure account in less than one minute. So, for example, you could create a docker-based architecture with CI/CD, auto-scaling, zero downtime deployment, SSL, load-balancing, high availability and MongoDB in less than one minute in your own AWS account. It's l…

Do you have something published yet? Code, articles or anything? Sounds very interesting!

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

#100

Post by closed » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 9:23 PM UTC

erezsh wrote: post #95

I'm trying to replace SQL by building a language that compiles to SQL. It has first-class functions, nicer syntax, better type-system, introspection, and other things you would expect from a modern language. But in the end, you still get SQL's performance, and the ability to use it with dozens of database engines.

Have you seen the R library dplyr? It is a weirdly powerful data analysis tool, that can also produce SQL queries!