Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by RikNieu » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 6:37 AM UTC

I'm working on a weight loss(or gain) program based on my dietary experiments the last couple of months, where I lost 11kg/24lbs in a little over 3 months, without starving myself or eating weird, bad-tasting and expensive food.

I'm not sure I'll be able to crack the overly saturated health & fitness market, to be honest, but I'm using the project to learn about SEO and other marketing related things I usually try and avoid.

Currently it's only a landing page, but I'll be putting up articles pretty soon.

https://weighthackers.org

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by blobster » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 6:40 AM UTC

Working on https://subbed.org, a subreddit recommendation engine that shows related subreddits based on a variety of factors.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by bradgessler » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 6:46 AM UTC

I’m working on a home inventory system https://www.thingybase.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tadhunt » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 7:58 AM UTC

I'm working on two services / products:

https://minecraft-playdates.com - Safe online play for your kids: Control playtimes, durations, and who they play with. I just launched the MVP a couple of weeks ago (built over the last 6 months or so with help from my wife and son (the Minecraft player). This is my first foray into consumer SaaS.

My second project is https://golang-labs.com. This is much earlier stage, but the first product idea is a Golang module proxy designed to make builds repeatable, auditable, and put programmatic guiderails around which open source licenses are allowed. I've built the website, and prototyped enough of the product to know it can be built. I am primarily focused on customer discovery before committing. Please reach out (contact info in my profile) if this would be useful for you or your org.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by pettersj » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 8:15 AM UTC

ChadB wrote: post #285

https://www.dispoteca.com/ I just launched the marketing site on Monday. I'm 38 with a spouse and two small children. I've been a CTO of two SMBs over the last few years and needed to build something of my own. It's the craziest thing I've ever done. The industry is end-of-life IT assets. It's a big industry with a lot of steak dinners that you can make a decent living at by grinding. I was introduced by a buddy of m…

Looks great! Almost tempted to start this up here in Norway.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jwillmer » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 10:05 AM UTC

A inventory app with additional fields for manuals/pics. I have many small electronic parts from China that I need to keep track of the documentation and the stock. The documentation is particular hard to find online if you don't download it when buying.

The app is designed as a PWA and runs completely offline. Everything is stored in cache. You can connect a ChouchDB to sync across devices and have a backup.

Nothing to demo yet but I plan to host the app for free and take some small amount for the database connection if the user does not want to host/connect to their own.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kirso » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 10:33 AM UTC

A webapp that helps you to decrease your digital footprint in this world, considering how many services do not even offer to delete your profile yet its legally binding. One thing is to unsubscribe from newsletter, another one is to completely remove your data. In very easy terms, it sends cease and desist email to services, data brokers etc on your behalf.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jcubic » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 12:35 PM UTC

I'm working on my Scheme based lips interpreter in JavaScript. With great integration with JavaScript, literal regular expression, auto async/await (with option to quote the promise), self documented like ELisp. I'm working on compatibility with R7RS, recently implemented rest of the functions from R5RS. Big part of the standard library is written in Scheme (small LIPS core) and I'm also working right now on Rollup plugin that will allow to created one bundle for all the Scheme code is I no longer need to load them with Ajax.

What's missing are continuations and proper tail calls. And syntax-rules macros need to be heavy refactored (I need to add proper expansion time).

If you want to take a look make sure to check out 1.0 Beta version, that is completely different than what's suppose to be stable version.

Website: https://lips.js.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/jcubic/lips

The most up to date documentation is on the wiki: https://github.com/jcubic/lips/wiki/v1.0-draft

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by akg_67 » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 1:53 PM UTC

ChadB wrote: post #285

https://www.dispoteca.com/ I just launched the marketing site on Monday. I'm 38 with a spouse and two small children. I've been a CTO of two SMBs over the last few years and needed to build something of my own. It's the craziest thing I've ever done. The industry is end-of-life IT assets. It's a big industry with a lot of steak dinners that you can make a decent living at by grinding. I was introduced by a buddy of m…

Good luck with your project. Landing page looks good. It is a very competitive and fragmented market in US with lot of small regional players.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Jefro118 » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 4:05 PM UTC

https://qualex.dev - a tool for softly enforcing good commit messages. Should be finished with v1 in the next few days.