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Ask HN: What Are You Working On?
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#2I am working on https://firedating.me - a dating site for FIRE (Financial Independence / Early Retirement) enthusiasts. One can also look for friends there. The stats are public: https://firedating.me/open
The site is 100% free and even ad-free. It is my hobby project and I just enjoy helping others, meeting interesting people and learning while developing it.
Looks like loneliness is widespread in the FIRE community especially during the current times, so there is a large demand for meeting like minded folks.
It took me at least 517 hours and 211$ so far, but I met a lot of people and learned so much. It definitely gets harder and harder to continue developing it on my own, since the code base and complexity grows. But I try to fight that and use more ready-made solutions.
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#3I've been developing a Chrome extension for learning foreign language vocabulary from sites you love - http://vocabboost.online/. Basically, it makes fill-in-the-blanks quiz out of any webpage. It is language agnostic (just relies on word separators), so it works with almost all languages. Users asked to support Japanese, so I use TinySegmenter for Japanese word separation. Recently I added a word bank feature to save interesting words and export them.
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#4I have started my own newsletter recently: https://www.shoto.io - I love reading about trends and so I thought I might as well write about them :)
Also, what I realized is: Writing a daily newsletter means shipping something every day. It's exhausting and rewarding at the same time.
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#5I’m working on a location-based feed. Posts are attached to user location.
If I arrive in a new place, I’d be able to get a “feel” for the place by browsing top posts for current location.
Also useful for annotating the environment. Eg. “Coffee van here on Sundays”, or “aggressive dog seen here”.
I don’t think there’s much demand for such a thing, but I like the idea of having a feed relevant only to my current location.
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#6I’m working on a location-based feed. Posts are attached to user location. If I arrive in a new place, I’d be able to get a “feel” for the place by browsing top posts for current location. Also useful for annotating the environment. Eg. “Coffee van here on Sundays”, or “aggressive dog seen here”. I don’t think there’s much demand for such a thing, but I like the idea of having a feed relevant only to my current locat…
doesn't twitter already recommend tweets based on location?
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#7I am working on https://firedating.me - a dating site for FIRE (Financial Independence / Early Retirement) enthusiasts. One can also look for friends there. The stats are public: https://firedating.me/open The site is 100% free and even ad-free. It is my hobby project and I just enjoy helping others, meeting interesting people and learning while developing it. Looks like loneliness is widespread in the FIRE community…
how would you monetize it if you were to do so?
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#8I’m working on a location-based feed. Posts are attached to user location. If I arrive in a new place, I’d be able to get a “feel” for the place by browsing top posts for current location. Also useful for annotating the environment. Eg. “Coffee van here on Sundays”, or “aggressive dog seen here”. I don’t think there’s much demand for such a thing, but I like the idea of having a feed relevant only to my current locat…
doesn't twitter already recommend tweets based on location?
I actually don’t have social media (a part from HN), so I’m not sure.
Does Twitter show all Tweets made in current area? And is it granular enough to allow annotation of the physical world? Eg. Viewing Tweets for a particular landmark in environment?
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#9I have started my own newsletter recently: https://www.shoto.io - I love reading about trends and so I thought I might as well write about them :) Also, what I realized is: Writing a daily newsletter means shipping something every day. It's exhausting and rewarding at the same time.
Hi, how do you find trends?
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#10Hi, still working on https://insightrend.com/ trend finder and keyword analysis. Check it out :)