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

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

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Post by fy20 »

bityard wrote: post #662
tyjkot wrote: post #516

In my 50k population town in Minnesota, I notice a lot of headlights, taillights, and turn signals are out. Our roads (outside of the Twin Cities) are often bumpy which causes vibration in the vehicles, leading to many bulbs failing. I drive a 21 year old Saab, and in my 2 years of owning it, I have replaced every single bulb in the exterior of the vehicle except a turn signal or two. I decided to create a mobile ser…

Lots of cars make it easy to change out bulbs. But some cars are a massive pain to change certain bulbs, and/or require special tools. Do you exclude them? Or upcharge them? (E.g. the left headlight bulb on a Subaru Outback is an absolute nightmare.) Unless you are doing this purely as a public service, $10 seems VERY low. Many independent mechanics in my area charge a minimum of 1 hour of work for anything they do,…

> But some cars are a massive pain to change certain bulbs

This weekend I did this with my 18 year old Mitsubishi. It seems you need child sized hands to be able to change them. In the end I had to take off the bumper and remove the whole light housing to get access.

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

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Post by throwaway425933 »

When FAANG was all the rage, I had a hard time getting feedback on my coding skills. So, I made a website where candidates can post their code and experiences folks can give their feedback.

https://www.interviewblindspots.com/explore

You post the question, role description and your solution. Somebody will give you feedback. Still in beta, but do give it a try.

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

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Post by WesleyJohnson »

In the beginning stages of building a SAAS to help homeschool co-ops and collectives run their organizations. There are established players, but I feel like there is room in the market for new ideas and innovation. I also feel that more families will be turning to homeschooling in the future, increasing the demand for modern software solutions in this space.

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

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Post by pks016 »

bilater wrote: post #779

Currently focusing on making my main app the best YouTube productivity tool ever. https://www.you-tldr.com It initially was a simple youtube transcript + summarizer but I've added a bunch of more features. My goal is to make it the tool that lets a user go from video to insight in the shortest amount of time. Would love any feedback and ideas around this!

Tried it but couldn't see any results! Says "Subscriber Only Feature"

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

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Post by pks016 »

curious_mind wrote: post #325

I'm working on a handwritten exam paper correction web app. You upload a student's answer (in PDF) along with the marking scheme, and out comes the result with students marks, suggestions for improvement etc.

That would save half of my time haha

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

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Post by pks016 »

iamflimflam1 wrote: post #196

I’m working on my ESP32 based ZXSpectrum recreation. https://www.crowdsupply.com/cmg-research/esp32-rainbow Just finishing off a few bits of setup and the crowd funding should be live.

Really cool. I'm getting started with ESP32.

Couple of weeks back, got Pi zero working (work related)

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

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Post by ukuina »

takinola wrote: post #907
muhrizqiardi wrote: post #105

F*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.

It took a long time to train myself to ship at the 80% mark and simply walk away to let it germinate. Over time, you cultivate a garden of nearly-done projects that are all ripe for expansion or rewrite.

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

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Post by ppage »

escapecharacter wrote: post #794
ppage wrote: post #183

I'm working on a wearable device with a camera+ultrasonic sensor which is capable of accurate hand pose estimation, which will then result in sign language recognition mainly (extending to gesture recognition and HCI applications). The device should be able to integrate into a smartwatch. I'm only at the 'will it work?' stage, working on the algorithms for recognising ASL words through synthetic data. Would appreciat…

very cool, hard and exciting problem! How are you handling the stability of the ultrasound sensor relative to the hand? Usually that's the shakiest/blurriest part.

honestly, haven't thought about it yet. I was thinking of calibrating it with a fixed hand gesture or indicating the user to press their palm against a flat surface, but yeah come to think of it, it might not be frequent enough.
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