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Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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If you're taking suggestions, I have a frequent need to do basic arithmetic on fractions and not many "app" calculators do that well or at all.

Buy a handheld calculator. Many scientifics since the mid 80s handle compound fractions via the "a b/c" key.

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

#72
You could ride the AI hype by turning these calculators into something LLMs can represent, then having them build them declaratively, then have another model test and rate the calculators repeatedly providing feedback... and 6 months later have the best calculator ever: the HP-12c

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

#73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a basic math calculator: https://www.calcverse.live/calculators/basic Do let me know if you want to see any changes in it.

Ah! Sure is. I missed the sidebar when I looked through. Overall this is very nice. I typically use omnicalculator, this is a nice fresh look compared to that tool.

Thanks! If you need a new calculator, need to report a bug or any improvements I can make, you can reach out on the contact form on the site too: https://www.calcverse.live/contact

I aim to fulfil requests within 24 hrs on an average.

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

#74

Some comments, based purely on https://www.calcverse.live/calculators/bmi . • Keyboard accessibility is suffering, because the buttons aren’t associated with a form. Most notably, pressing Enter when one of the text boxes is selected doesn’t do anything. You should put everything inside a element, and then if you’re using , decide whether it’s type=button or type=submit. • A tad more subjective, but actual radio butt…

Thank you so much for the detailed feedback! I'll take some time to go through these points and fix the issues, and will revert back here asap.

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

#75

A suggestion for your speed converter: different sports use different units which your converter could support as well. A few examples: Running usually measures pace in minutes per kilometer or mile. That will be extra fun for you since it wouldn't be 4.33333 min/km but would be written as sth like 4:20 min/km. Swimming uses min/100m or sec/100m. Rowing uses min/500m. If you add these then I'd be using this a lot!

Thanks for the great feedback! I've added pace units to the speed convertor, do check it out and let me know if you need any changes. You can send all requests at the contact form on the site too: https://www.calcverse.live/contact

Will aim to implement it within 24 hrs. Thanks again!

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

#77
That's a nice, clean website. Well done!

I create calculators in support of the guides I write for immigrants.[0] They are a great way to turn 10 pages of text into a simple form with a clear output. I'm a big fan of them, especially when you add advice to the output.

A bit of advice + opinions:

- The fields look grayed out and disabled. Using a traditional white background would make more sense.

- You should explain what the calculator does, why it matters, and how to interpret the output. This confers some SEO benefits, too.

- The age calculator would be easier to find as a difference-between-two-dates calculators. It would be cool to have a reverse "X days ago" calculator. I use both often, and most of the top options suck.

- Set some maximum line widths. It helps readability.

[0]: https://allaboutberlin.com/tools

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

#78

A tiny bit of feedback, for you about unit conversion. I don't want to convert 47383974 seconds to hours, I want to know that it's 1 year, 6 months, 0 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes, and 18 seconds. I don't want to know that 7492837 inches. that's 624,403.0833 feet, but what I really want is for it to say 118 miles, 454 yards, 1 foot, and 1 inch!

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Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

#79

Good work. I for a second thought they are physical ones.

Thanks! Yup, its natural to think of that at first, that would be even more fun :)

BTW I have always been thinking about making some native apps in the spirit of Borland Sidekick -- a lot of small, native apps that a programmer can use, or a business man can use.
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