Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by e12e » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:54 AM UTC

drusepth wrote: post #36

Project: I'm hard at work on a "smart" worldbuilding tool[1] for authors, game designers, and roleplayers to flesh out detailed worlds in a structured, semantic way. [1] https://www.notebook.ai I'm still deciding on the best ways to crunch world data to benefit all users feature-wise (and what other worldbuilding features to expand into), but I'm working on an infographic of common tropes seen across genres now (did…

For anyone else not familiar enough with the term to get the reference without some googling, that's: "Young Adult", as in media and fiction targeted at young-ish readers/viewers. (eg: the Maze Runner)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by abhpan27 » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:54 AM UTC

A file downloader for Mac, like IDM for Windows. First version out. https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/idownloader-fast-and-elegant...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by feistypharit » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:54 AM UTC

I'm working on an automatic chicken coop door. Using a linear actuator and ESP8266. A mix of Arduino c and HTML/JS for the interface. Playing with flexbox, svelte, webpack, and fontello.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by cjr » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:54 AM UTC

I'm currently working on a website screenshot API. It also converts webpages to PDF.

You can check it out at https://urlbox.io.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by aswerty » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:57 AM UTC

ncantelmo wrote: post #29

Problem: The process of getting thoughts from your head into an organized, written draft form isn't as fast or accessible as it could be. Project: I'm building a conversational UI / bot ( https://writing.ai ) that helps people write faster. The basic idea is that it asks you a series of questions about a topic, asks follow-up questions for more detail as needed, and when it's done outputs a completed draft. You're st…

Sounds interesting. Is it more for creative writing or more business oriented?

I'm signed up in any case.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by NicoJuicy » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:59 AM UTC

mherrmann wrote: post #26

A cross-platform dual-pane file manager [1]. It made the front page and top 10 on Product Hunt last month. I'm busy implementing feature requests and figuring out a way to grow it sustainably. [1]: https://fman.io

Ps. Search everything on Windows searches through NTFS. Which is insanely fast ( thought it could be usefull)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by drusepth » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:00 AM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #13

While working with clients and partners at Alaris Prime, my co-founder and I realized a big under-served market. These are projects that are too large for UpWorks, Freelancer, Gigster, Guru, Project4Hire but too low for IDEO, Leo Burnett, Razorfish, and other digital agencies of the world. When we work with our customers we make sure that their projects get done. Even with the involvement of other partners, we make s…

FWIW, the product by Upwork Global Inc (formerly Elance-oDesk) is now "Upwork", not "UpWorks". May want to adjust that if this is part of a pitch elsewhere. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by drusepth » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:01 AM UTC

e12e wrote: post #41

drusepth wrote: post #36

Project: I'm hard at work on a "smart" worldbuilding tool[1] for authors, game designers, and roleplayers to flesh out detailed worlds in a structured, semantic way. [1] https://www.notebook.ai I'm still deciding on the best ways to crunch world data to benefit all users feature-wise (and what other worldbuilding features to expand into), but I'm working on an infographic of common tropes seen across genres now (did…

For anyone else not familiar enough with the term to get the reference without some googling, that's: "Young Adult", as in media and fiction targeted at young-ish readers/viewers. (eg: the Maze Runner)

Oh right, thanks for the clarification. Spending a morning neck-deep in jargon makes you feel like everyone is familiar with everything already!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by onuryilmaz » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:05 AM UTC

Key/Value as a Service: Cloud Key/Value Store with REST API

https://keyvalue.xyz

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by e12e » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:06 AM UTC

jmstfv wrote: post #7

Project: A website containing programming projects accompanied by explanations, unit tests and etc.. (a la tutorials) to help beginners to get off the ground quickly. Audience: It is aimed at learners who already know the syntax of a language, but are unsure/unable to start a project of their own. More info: I have written more about it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/62r1wr/i_...

This looks like a nice fill-in between "How I start":

http://howistart.org/

and the aosa-book "500-lines or less":

http://aosabook.org/en/500L/introduction.html

(and maybe with a hint of rosettacode in the mix: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code )

I'd love to see some collaborative projects like this - idiomatic/recommended setups of editing/debug/release, as well as approach to coding.

I notice that Python is still absent from the "How I start"-series - something like https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject might form part of a starting point (also the Flask "flaskr" tutorial sets up a bare-bones python package, but needs minor adjustments for windows, as I've noticed using it for a small course on web programming - I'll have to find the time to file an issue and patch).

The great thing about such projects being open to contribution, is that aside from the bike-shedding, one of the best ways to get a correct answer to a problem quickly, is to post the wrong answer on the Internet.