I've been working on Relay [0] - a plugin for Obsidian that makes it real-time collaborative.
It uses yjs CRDTs to sync markdown docs and the directory tree. You can share folders (instead of the whole vault with Obsidian Sync) and I'm close to finishing files/images/attachments support. So far users have been really happy with it. There are a lot of students using it to collaborate on class projects, and few small companies who buy into the Obsidian file-over-app philosophy. The plugin code is also open source [1].
Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#902I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…
Amazing! My son also colored a lot but he'd pick only a few pages out of every coloring book so I got the idea to find some online; one-page things to print but the ones I found at the time claimed to be "coloring book pages" but were actually more black-lines-on-white-background actual artwork. Much too complex for simple coloring. Your site would have been the find of the decade!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#903Still building with metal in my free time. This months project is an 8ft tall corner plant stand. Picked up some really unique looking boards from seconduse I need to sand and stain but still working on the shelf itself.
Also started tiling my guest bathroom and tiling the ceiling of the shower. First tile project I’ve attempted.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#904I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Super App for premed, medical, and dental students. We offer an all-in-one feature set called the Smart Suite with dozens of Smart features, and it has tens of thousands of questions, quizzes, clinical cases, and other educational content.
Best of all, we're hyper-personalized for the institution you study at, making us the first to do this in history. I get to lead a team of 175+ doctors and top tier medical/dental students.
I also am the first full-stack technologist who also is a medical doctor in the history of Pakistan, a country of 250+ million people, and have been featured on national TV and media platforms.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#905I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…
nice site though some of those are def heavy on the ink/toner with the black backgrounds!!! :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#906I'm working on helping my wife get her print-on-demand Shopify store off the ground. She designs the products herself, but ran into challenges with SEO. So, I built a custom app that connects to her Shopify store via API, using GPT-4o-mini to handle SEO optimizations—things like generating descriptions, titles, alt text, SEO-friendly URLs, and more, all based on the product images. There were also issues syncing with…
You should consider turning this into a Shopify app.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#907F*ck it, I'm not gonna sugar coat it. I was supposed to be working on a project called Tagbox... but it feels like it's never gonna see the light of day. I hope I'm wrong though, I still want this to succeed, for once in my life, I want to actually succeed on at least one thing. I want to contribute some good thing to the society. First, what is it? It's a bookmarking app alternative to Pocket or Raindrop.io. Yeah, y…
Seems like you are discovering the truism that the last 10% of a project takes as much time as the first 90% of the project. In my experience, it is always a slog to ship a product. What you are feeling is normal and the experience of many developers. You should plan for this part of the project and figure out ways to motivate yourself to ship something.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#908Currently, other than my day job, I am obsessed with making sense of the "shape of stories". Mapping embeddings and see how they move through a sequence. Started of with [1] which showed that there might be some strength to the idea. Applied it for chunking [2] and web site analysis[3] and got pretty good results. Just started trying out experiments on video [4] and surprised that the structure seems to hold for imag…
Using this for semantic chunking feels like a great idea. Did you continue investigating that (after the second newsletter)?
Yes. We have integrated this into our RAG pipeline. Looking for a benchmark which we can try. Have been using this to give feedback to my marketing team on our blog posts.
Also, as I mentioned, now, trying out experiments in the video domain with some pretty cool results. Will post the details this week.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#909I'm working on a 3D infinite canvas of text, focusing on code. Runs on iPhone, iPad, macOS so they can all act as separate viewports into a space. You can point the app at a repository, download a copy locally, instantly render the entire repository into space in less than a second in most cases, and then fly around and search for text. I just got an optimization working for larger files and it's kinda fun how much e…
You should add another use to it which is exploring live in-memory object graphs of applications. Make some adapter library to allow getting those objects from apps that want to use and then you can fly through the data being processed. For debugging, exploration and education. I'm using a basic version of this idea for debugging: https://github.com/Quiark/overlog
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#910I am working on my Clojure book, trying to figure out what will be in its second edition https://clojure-book.gitlab.io/