A scavenger hunt app for couples
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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#982Dance calendar (Django app, with some AlpineJS/HTMX). Approximately 80 admin pages + 20 end user views + 100 admin views. 2M page loads/month during the summertime. This is in production. For the dance calendar, support site with good first-line AI support based on FAQ answers. Ad management platform for the dance calendar. Sites like this have specific requirements for placing ads that are not well supported by AdSe…
Do you have a link to share of the app?
It is for Finnish traditional dances. The HTMX stuff is for registered/paid users only. The public pages are static and cached.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#983Dance calendar (Django app, with some AlpineJS/HTMX). Approximately 80 admin pages + 20 end user views + 100 admin views. 2M page loads/month during the summertime. This is in production. For the dance calendar, support site with good first-line AI support based on FAQ answers. Ad management platform for the dance calendar. Sites like this have specific requirements for placing ads that are not well supported by AdSe…
Do you have a link to share of the app?
Or do you mean one of the other apps? Send me a msg, they are not public.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#984Open source doorbell camera software running on Raspberry Pi Zero. Face recognition and motion detection already built-in, so I've set it up so that I get a message on element when someone is at the door and a video of any motion longer than 5 seconds. Not fully optimized yet.
Do you have a link to the software, got a raspberry lying around mind use it for that? Is it based on OpenCV?
I can't without doxxing myself sadly. The image vision detection is built into the SoC, no clue about the underlying library but it is programmable to a degree, so I assume it must be OpenCV
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#985Building Serverless VPN, among the most recent work is an open source iOS app: https://UpVPN.app/ios
The concept is certainly intriguing. However, there appears to be a slight incongruity between the term "Serverless VPN" and the visual elements displaying phrases like "Server Created" or "Connect quickly on available server capacity." This juxtaposition creates a somewhat amusing contrast.
Thank you for your thoughtful critique.
It’s a new idea bridging two existing concepts serverless and VPN.
While serverless is an implementation detail to reduce cost, it is also a core user experience when they click the switch to be on.
The section “Serverless! How?” that you referenced, aims to illustrate what a user will experience.
I consider it to be a minimal learning curve, just like all new technologies.
That said, how would you go about best communicating it?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#987I am working on InvitePlus.io, a tool to manage user access and help companies in onboarding. It will send invites to all software your team has been using with just an email. You can manage teams across multiple platforms (Github, Jira, Asana, etc). Also, you can revoke access with a single click.
Is it designed to supplement or replace a workflows application like servicenow?
No, ServiceNow is different. I am not thinking about AI right now just a simple automation tool which can save onboarding time
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#988I’m working on an Anki Addon that streamlines the hell out of the card generation process using LLMs. You can define a schema of prompts for your note type & fields, where each prompt can reference other fields, and use it to generate things like translations, example sentences, mnemonics, for tens of thousands of cards in batches or in the fly as they’re reviewed. These generated fields can reference other generated…
I'm not sure if you care, but one of my biggest issues with Anki is that in theory there should be high quality official vocabulary decks and if you want to make a custom deck, all you really should have to do is select the words you want in your deck.
One of the worst parts about learning vocabulary with Anki isn't with the spaced repetition but rather the mechanism that adds new cards to your pool of "learning" cards. You might be grinding 10 to 30 words per day, but the ones you actually need are so far spaced out that 90% of the time is being wasted with poor retention, because you don't know or care about the context those words are used in. This means learning a language is an X year slog that you must get through "all or nothing" instead of being milestone driven.
Anki needs to become vocabulary aware so that you learn words and concepts instead of cards. Then an LLM driven add-on could automatically filter down the base deck based on whether the word is relevant to the PDF or picture you provide.
Most language learning tools are crap because they don't adapt to your particular goals and needs. I have personally built something similar that takes a video and just cuts out the subtitles, a thumbnail/snapshot and the audio track to generate anki decks of a video file and since it only takes a month at most to get through the entire deck, most of the pain is actually in finding novel video files rather than using Anki.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#989I've been thinking a lot lately about the idea of "assets" and what makes an asset class investable or not. This lead me to build a few investment reports for alternative assets (think: wine, Pokemon cards, art, comic books, sneakers, etc.). The first two reports were Wine [1] and Pokemon Cards [2]. I'm currently working on the third edition, Fine Art. [1] https://www.altasset.report/001-wine/ [2] https://www.altasse…
Interesting, so what makes an asset class investable or not? For me I think its will there be a continuing market given that it requires adult participation. I think Pokemon will no long be as there is a need for attachment when young and kids these days have more alternatives.
Thanks for responding. I actually tried to build an economic framework to determine what makes an investable asset class. I came up with the following 4 major areas, with each having 2 sub-areas.
1. Stability = Portfolio Balance + Asset Durability
2. Liquidity = Marketplaces + Intermediaries
3. Transparency = Price Transparency + Regulators
4. Liability = Tax Treatment + Maintenance Costs
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#990Training folks from around the world to use pandas for data analysis and ML. Training folks on who to apply ML to their data. A course on using modern Python constructs and tooling. (uv, coding with AI, pytest, type annotations, etc). A book on interviewing for Python coding jobs. Planning next book on either catboost or duckdb. Ideas that I'm thinking about: how AI helps established programmers and new programmers.
You're being a bit shy, I'll help :) Matt Harrison wrote Effective Pandas, the guide to writing elegant pandas code and avoiding many common pitfalls. Keep up the good work https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Pandas-Patterns-Manipulatio...
Wow. Thanks paddy_m