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Although they’re no where near breaking even if I account for even 20% of my time, I’ll continue to work on them because I want to see them finished.
I’ve priced them as “early access books” where the price grows as the content does as a way to gain some kind of interest and support the work!
https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.
My parents just had the radio hooked up to the same circuit that was driving the bathroom lights. You enter the room, turn on the lights and there was instant audio. Makes sense to put this into a product.
It took me a while, but I've convinced my wife that farting is ok, and that you should only worry about subjecting others to lousy odours, and even that only when you are visiting someone or some place (indoors). Closing the door usually resolves this. The stigma is especially bothersome with a naturally shy toddler who wouldn't take a dump anywhere but home.
FWIW, music does not stop people walking into smelly toilets, but to each their own. :)
The product likely even makes sense, I just find the phenomena curious and sometimes infuriating (like with my toddler).
It's an endless project but learning itself is very satisfying. We, as a species, know a whole lot about the brain, just need to digest and synthesize tons of important and scattered findings into a coherent whole.
Cognition research is in early-science stage, akin to 17th century astronomy and physics, we have many excellent & systematic data collectors, but need more Keplers, Galilei & Newtons to develop theories based on all that massive data.
This past month I built a photojournal blog to host my street photography & assorted other shots from this crazy year.
I both wanted a place for my photos to be viewable in higher resolution than Instagram, as well as to establish an ongoing chronological log of my life as it unfolds - as some kind of crazy experiment I will probably soon regret.
I built this from scratch with Next.js and Typescript. Probably spent more time in Figma designing it than I spent programming! This was a fun excuse to learn Next.js though - amazing how far we’ve come since CRA.
I haven’t officially “launched” (promoted on other channels) yet, so I guess I’m soft-launching on HN right now :)
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My parents just had the radio hooked up to the same circuit that was driving the bathroom lights. You enter the room, turn on the lights and there was instant audio. Makes sense to put this into a product.
It's amazing how we are repeatedly going full circle: we managed to stigmatize a completely natural farting sound (you are in a bathroom so the smell is contained), and then come up with "solutions" to feel free to produce the same sounds. It took me a while, but I've convinced my wife that farting is ok, and that you should only worry about subjecting others to lousy odours, and even that only when you are visiting…
Another side effect was that you always knew when the bathroom was in use (aside from someone forgetting to turn the light off, which you now had radio playing to remind you off).
Dev to Agency ( https://devtoagency.com ) - I am writing on how developers can start and run their own custom software agencies. This is from my experience starting, running, and selling my agency over 8 years... I have never written before this, and not sure if it's something I will after this - but at this stage I need to "get it all out of my head". I don't foresee this being a forever project because ultimately I…
Tic-tac-toe against a monte carlo strategist on iOS. Wrote the gameplay code years ago - nothing sophisticated just Apple GameplayKit, pretty dumb strategist but every once in a while it gets lucky. Dusted it off and launched it in the App Store just for something to do during the lockdowns last year. I'm still adding to it because I'm using it as a platform to test some augmented reality gameplay and learn motion graphics that I am using in a new game I have in the works now.
Surprisingly it has been getting a tiny bit of traction without any marketing.
An app to note down the final scores from games with your friends to find out who has the most points at the end of the year. We play it with Doppelkopf (german card game) but it can be used with any kind of games where each player has a score in the end.