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

#981
Hey all, I made Spotlight, a tool that helps you find interesting things from online sources like Reddit and Hacker News.

It's Open Source!

Try → https://spotlight.thisux.com/ Repo → https://github.com/THISUXHQ/spotlight Tweet → https://x.com/spikeysanju/status/1827537680084955396

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

#982

I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge. It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree. This is all generated on-the-fl…

Love this! Such an interesting UI choice. Would almost prefer new branches to appear further out to the right instead of overlapping existing words, and then auto-scroll me to the new spot to reduce clutter when browsing several tiers in.

The context sidebar is great! Maybe the first good "AI search engine" UX I've seen (most attempts copy Google look/feel which is more suited for web page results).

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

#983
I'm working on marketing my video course, that meant to help elderly people to use their android smartphones. TBH i struggle a lot, as i'm a software engineer not a markering person:-)

There are many out there, who are intimidated by trivial things, such as sending a text, or even scrolling or switching between apps (what is even an app?).

So this course is ready made just for our parents. Or just for the ones who have no patience or capacity to teach these things step by step to their loved ones.

8+ hours and 100 lessons: https://smartphonehowto.com

I hope it helps many of you!

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

#984
https://matcha.video is an in-browser transcription-based video editor. Remove silence and keep only the takes that you want with just a couple clicks. Export your edits to an XML format that you can bring into FCP or Davinci Resolve to finish. Free to use, data stays on your machine.

Note: this is a WIP, so if you have any experience working with .fcpxml, I'd love to hear from you!

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

#987

I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge. It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree. This is all generated on-the-fl…

What library are you using for the tree layout?

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

#988
Graph-based libraries for building ML/AI systems:

- Burr -- build AI applications/agents as state machines https://github.com/dagworks-inc/burr

- Hamilton -- build dataflows as DAGs: https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton

Looking for feedback -- we had some good initial traction on HN, and are looking for OS users/contributors/people who are building complimentary tooling!

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

#989
https://subatic.com/ A video sharing site. Why? To save cost. Each video chunk is stored in Cloudflare R2 which reduces our streaming cost by 99% (no joke). Read about the calculation here: https://subatic.com/story.

This project is also open source : https://github.com/orthdron/subatic

https://readry.com is my latest venture ever since I got into e-readers/kindle. I want to read everything on my kindle and as it turns out, there are no good ways to get anything else apart from "books" on the kindle.

With this I can get my newsletters, top subreddit posts, news, and more, all on kindle. maybe this will help me curb my smartphone addiction.

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