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

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by deegles » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:16 PM UTC

Problem: too many bot and voice app platforms are emerging and writing apps/skills/actions for each one won't scale.

Project: I'm developing an SDK for building conversational apps that has pluggable "frontends" for different platforms. It's based around the AI concept of "frames" to organize your code and an MVC-style template renderer for building responses.

Challenges right now are learning more about Typescript and NPM modules, refactoring, writing tests, and getting it documented for release.

I also would like to build a business around it (already doing consulting building Alexa skills), but I'm not sure if it would be better to keep it closed source or dual license. Any advice?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by yakshaving_jgt » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:17 PM UTC

Problem: Finding newly-registered companies (to market services to them) in the UK is hard. The government releases an updated registry of all four million UK companies once every month, but they come in a huge five-part spreadsheet. It's difficult and painful to sort and filter through this data.

Project: I constantly poll the UK government's databases for newly-registered companies. I also geocode each company's registered office address. I can send you details of the newest UK companies by email every day (or week, or month), and you can choose to only see companies of a certain type (hospitality, technology, etc.), and/or companies in a certain area (within 10 miles of London, etc.). You can also log in to the dashboard and view historical company data at any time if you prefer.

Built with Haskell, Elm, Redis, and PostgreSQL, if you're interested :)

https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kennycarruthers » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:18 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #87

kennycarruthers wrote: post #79

In light of today's Apple Mac Pro announcements, I'll chime in... Problem: Building macOS desktop applications as an indie-developer. Project: Fileloupe for Mac and Videoloupe for Mac Fileloupe is a lightweight media browser that I actually announced on Hacker News a few years back. Videoloupe was just released and is a video player/editor in the spirit of the older QuickTime Pro 7. I work on both of these full-time…

I have to say the file size for File Loupe is impressive - only 5MB for all that functionality. PS Is it written in Swift or ObjC?

Both are 100% Objective-C. No plans to make the switch anytime soon. I'm comfortable with Objective-C and understand it reasonably well.

Applications can be pretty small when they're 100% native and include almost no artwork or auxiliary assets.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by franksup2 » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:18 PM UTC

Project: Building an ML model (in an iOS app) that detect different fitness movements, count the reps and indicate if the user used a proper form.

It's mostly a fun side project I am building to improve my ML knowledge.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by cknight » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:20 PM UTC

Problem: Despite there being plenty of articles and discussion posts online, I've not found a way of easily tracking how a given corporation is conducting itself ethically.

Project: I started Suitocracy with a friend so we can log events as they're reported in the media, and also get peoples' thoughts. We're essentially trying to capture it in one place so we can see how companies improve (or not) over time.

https://suitocracy.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by wnm » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:21 PM UTC

I'm working on https://programmercv.com, a résumé builder with superpowers:
- import from linkedin, xing or stackoverflow - multiple résumé versions - track your job applications - export to any format you need (doc, pdf, html, xml, json) - publish on Github Pages - No lock in: build on open source tools

(most features are still work in progress)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jacquesm » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:22 PM UTC

nl wrote: post #18

Defining, detecting and ultimately stopping fake news.

That sounds very interesting. Tea?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by germinalphrase » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:22 PM UTC

Problem: in aggregate, k12 teachers spend enormous amounts of time creating (redundant) curriculum content which in turn limits how effectively they can personalize this curriculum for each student.

Project: starting with assessment - intending to move into lesson planning and performance - our project allows teachers to curate assessment elements from a collaborative library (on the subject area/school level initially) rather than creating them from scratch. This saves teachers time up front while also opening additional opportunities for iterative improvement of those resources and personalization for students.

This is a young project, currently in the design/MVP stage of development.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jasonlfunk » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:24 PM UTC

I'm currently building an React Native app for my http://ForeignNumbers.com application. I have experience with React but React Native is a pretty different beast.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by shanecleveland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 3:24 PM UTC

Weekly Google Search Console email reports: https://clickpost.io

I was usually only looking at my data if I thought there was a problem, and then it wasn't always obvious to me what to look for. With this, I have already found some proactive ways to improve individual site performance.

There's a lot I can improve on and add to it. I would love some feedback!