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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 gabriel_dev »

Simple and ultra low cost (sometimes free) loyalty program software for small business owners using Google and Apple Wallet. All the tech hassle taken away from them. Tailored to local markets with language support, formats and habits. For the client side FB, telegram or whatsapp sign up, no password, no nothing. Just get the card via qrcode and that's it. Comprised of a web app for the SMB's and their admin staff (basic tenant setup). Mobile app for the line staff (Android). Also adding staff check ins to automatically calculate monthy hours.

All this is based on previous work with real coffee shop business owners. So giving it a try as a SAAS service.

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

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Post by scrivna »

icdtea wrote: post #351

I'm working on a little mobile game which surrounds locating and collecting VW beetles 'spots'. I've been spending a lot of time in México over the last year and have been working on a photography project surrounding the VW Beetles (Vochos as they call them) you'll find all over the country. I'm inspired by the range of character of the Vochos and how they've become ingrained in the country's cultural landscape. I re…

How do you plan to stop this becoming an app used for locating nice cars to steal? It almost seems like doxxing

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

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Post by nikoslp »

Derived a SOTA method that finds the proven optimal solution to the multiperiod blending problem.

This is a problem that every refiner solvea to select raw msterials. They traditionally solve with local optimization methods (LPs) that rely on initial guesses and return suboptimal solutions.

For the same refinery we can find raw material acquisition solutions with 2-5% higher profits.

We made a cloud platform for it and hoping to change the landscape.

(https://www.prometheusenergy.ai/)

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

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Post by shiroiushi »

This isn't really very interesting or innovative compared to other comments here, but lately I've decided I want to build a home server to do a few tasks: Jellyfin server, photo server (probably using Immich which looks like a nice clone of Google Photos, where I'm almost out of space), automated device backups, etc., so I've been doing a lot of research into this. I've built computers in the past many times, but I got out of it a while ago so a lot of things have changed.

I looked into pre-built systems like Synology and QNAP, but they seem too proprietary and limited, and somewhat expensive for the hardware they have, so I decided to build my own, but trying to decide on all the HW and SW is a real task: btrfs vs ZFS, Intel vs AMD, RAID levels, etc.

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

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Post by rilek »

Hey all! I'm working on a context-aware CMS called trilly.

The idea is fairly simple: the client app requests content and passes the context (key-value pairs) along with it. In the trilly app, the content manager sets up different variants of the content for various context field combinations, and the one that matches is returned. Context can be anything, from user role or user location to more abstract things like A/B group or user behavior. It's just data.

I have a couple of ideas on how to extend this system - realtime LLM-generated variants, or more sophisticated context fields (date/number ranges, randomness, etc.).

For now, however, I'm exploring whether this idea would be useful for someone, so thanks for all the comments.

https://trilly.vercel.app/

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

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Post by nullderef »

zelo wrote: post #892

I'm working on android app that exposes camera stack trough http/websocket API. The idea is that phones have very nice cameras and lot of media processing power and such API could enable hackers to easily incorporate capable camera stack in to their projects without android development experience in any language they like. There are millions of working phones in the drawers battery backed, with plenty of computing po…

How is it different from DroidCam?

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

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Post by nullderef »

I've been thinking a lot about how to have healthier relationships with our phones. There are already dumbphones, but they're quite extreme and not everyone is willing to switch. So I wonder if there's anything else that could be done in between. Investigating and writing on my blog (https://nullderef.com) has been super fun so far.

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

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Post by openplatypus »

Extending Wide Angle Analytics. We are entering growth phase and getting more clients, which means more sophisticated features and needs.

The industry and the niche is cut throat with large number of disingenuous competitors. Beginnings were brutal but perseverance was worthy strategy.

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

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Post by eu »

ianmabie wrote: post #277

I've been working on an iOS app called snapmail: lets you take any photo on your phone, filter / sticker it, and send it as a 4x6 postcard anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99. Fun way to stay in touch with friends & fam. One of a few no-account-needed, single use iOS apps I've been working on. TestFlight for now - try it out here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wKY4eYV8

How about sending postcards overseas?
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