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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Post by abj »

A lot of times with side projects I wished I had gotten feedback early on, before I spent a lot of time on an inefficient direction. I wonder if people wait too long to publish something before it is fully polished, then realized that the polishing wasn't needed.

I'm interested to see things that people would have never published otherwise. I know a lot of my projects never make it to a published phase, but I still would have been interested in knowing the general reception. Please drop your projects here!

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Post by verdverm »

We've started working on a tool to use CUE to create a single config space across TF, Helm, and other tools in the devops space. We no longer want the pain of HCL or templated Yaml.

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/cuelm (working name)

Our hypothesis is that a unified config space across our industry will bring many benefits.

Our open questions are largely around whether we

(1) replace / alternative

(2) just a skin, still same reconciliation loop from the tools

(3) replace, but support existing modules & charts

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#4

Post by reidjs »

Haven’t done much with it yet, but I was thinking of making some kind of surf/extreme sport social network or something. Or maybe an app to schedule carpools to go snowboard and whatnot. Haven’t put a ton of work into the idea yet

Very open to feedback and ideas. Contact in my bio. Thanks HN!

https://www.hazysurf.com/

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Post by dheera »

* ROSboard -- visualize ROS topics in the web browser -- https://github.com/dheera/rosboard

Lots of things that could be done with this but a lot of robotics teams and projects got laid in the past year and it doesn't have as many users as it once did. There is also Foxglove which is a full-blown funded startup working on something similar and the more progress they make, the less motivation I have to make my FOSS project better, as a one-person team.

* Air quality monitor -- https://dheera.net/projects/airmonitor/

Unfinished due to the PM2.5 sensor in it (PMSA003I) always reporting 0 and Adafruit not caring.

* BotParty -- telepresence robots -- https://dheera.net/projects/botparty/

Unfinished since COVID isolation ended and telepresence parties aren't needed anymore

* Luxo -- jumping Pixar lamp -- https://dheera.net/projects/luxo/

Unfinished due to lack of time but it does scoot and jump.

* Digital 4x5 camera back -- https://dheera.net/projects/4x5/

Unfinished due to issues with CRA optimization on the microlens array on the Pi HQ camera and unavailability of a real HQ camera with an actually large (e.g. 35mm) sensor.

* E-ink picture frame -- https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/

Pending to be done: (a) Get rid of the unsightly USB power wire, use a battery or super-capacitor and a thin strip of solar panel on top of the frame, and ESP32 deep sleep mode and have it update once every hour or so. (b) Update it to use a diffusion model in the cloud for image generation (c) Add a microphone and a mode where you can yell a prompt at it and it draws it

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Post by verdverm »

j-rom wrote: post #2

I built Carve, a site that lets users schedule Google Calendar meetings with 1-click. There are a bunch of features I want to add but I want to make sure that this is a real problem first. Link: https://carvemeetings.com/

I currently use Calendly and will try Google's new built-in offering[1].

What features would you add that set Carve apart?

[1] https://workspace.google.com/resources/appointment-schedulin...

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Post by hooande »

reidjs wrote: post #4

Haven’t done much with it yet, but I was thinking of making some kind of surf/extreme sport social network or something. Or maybe an app to schedule carpools to go snowboard and whatnot. Haven’t put a ton of work into the idea yet Very open to feedback and ideas. Contact in my bio. Thanks HN! https://www.hazysurf.com/

This idea seems like it's 100% about distribution. If I owned an extreme sports rental shop, I would have an incentive to get more people to go out and participate in the activities. If the app was well made, reputable and secure I would consider putting up a sign in my store or whatnot.

People that run equipment rental stores probably have a facebook group or professional association. If you can befriend someone influential in one of those, it might be a good place to get started.

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#10

Post by hbcondo714 »

I've been building Revenut, a web + mobile app (PWA) written in React Native + Typescript that does simple revenue forecasting for a SaaS that uses Stripe.

Stripe's mobile app and others kinda do this already but some of their numbers can be inaccurate (as detailed in the repo's readme) so that made me open-source + solve an issue my own SaaS has with Stripe:

https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-app

As mentioned in the challenge section, getting data from Stripe is slow so I've been reluctant to put this app in front of others even though it is fully functional.

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