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Ask HN: What are you currently building?
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#62Building a "how bloated is this website?" service / browser extension.
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#63I started http://percht.com recently. I'm tired of searching multiple sites to find the lowest price for what I want. Percht aggregates top retailers and finds the same products across them using neural networks. You can also get price alerts and filter products by specifications.
It's still early so i only have cameras listed, and things may break. I'm adding tvs next. Let me know if you have any requests.
Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?
#64I'm playing around with some of the various ways that dot/graphviz-like functionality is workable (for some level of "workable") on javascript. Currently fiddling with dagre-d3 and angular.
Would be very curious to see what you come up with if you're willing to flick me an e-mail when it's done (see profile).
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#65A tool to guide you when optimizing a piece of Sql. It will rerun it and tell your if your results have changed from the original Sql.
It will give you tips on what to change and let you time your query and see other resource info.
Anyone interested in being a beta tester?
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#66What did I start? An autonomous lawn mower. My goal is to get it done for under $1,000 USD using mostly snap-together hardware. My timeline is to have it mowing via RC by the end of January (shipping to New Zealand takes a while, especially when you're on a budget), while I'd like it to be capable of safely mowing autonomously by July or so - though I'm optimistic that it'll reach good-enough stage by March. I'll pub…
Awesome. What fail safes do you have?
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#67I've been having a great time the last few weeks working on a niche product database website for flashlights. Since my new operations engineering job has me moving away from doing web development full time, it's been a nice break and a good way to stay sharp on the application development side of things.
Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?
#68Realday. "A tool that helps you plan your real day"[1]
I got frustrated with GTD a long time ago. I was super frustrated that my todo apps would eventually be full of useless information. I loved the ideas of some bloggers to basically just pick a few tasks for the day and do them. I thought: "Why not mix the calendar events and tasks in such a way that you have software that actually encourages you to focus only on the tasks you have time for?" Hence, you have your "real day" as opposed to the day you thought you'd finish 20 huge tasks and end up with none attempted.
realday.co (Had MVP up like a few years ago but scraped in favor of current Golang/ReactJS version I'm building now)
1: Work in progress
Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?
#69On Dec 30th, I built http://bucket52.com, a simple app which asks the question "what did you do in the last week that was memorable/remarkable?"
The idea being that even if we do great things and are very active in different areas of our life, we actually end up doing the same thing again and again. If we track the things we do, and look for something that was different and special, will that entice us to do more diverse and interesting things, and get outside of our comfort zone?
It's very MVP, just seeing where it goes at the moment, but so far, it seems people like the idea.
I also built it in Meteor, which I only tried for the first time on Dec. 30th, and I have to say, for prototyping something basic like this, it's been really great. Some of the poor quality of the site (like slow load time) is probably due to my inexperience with Meteor.
Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?
#70I've been writing a wrapper around PostgreSQLs jsonb column type to make a somewhat mongo-a-like json document store: http://bedquiltdb.github.io
Not sure if it would actually be useful to anyone in the real world, but I've learned a lot about writing PostgreSQL extensions and such.