Over the last 6 months, I've been building a lightweight automation product called plainflow.com
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Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#2I spent 3 months scraping 6 million pages from an extremely old political web forum (I think their backend was written in perl and hasn't been updated since 2001 and the response times for these pages were extremely high) in an effort to learn NLP stuff with a working database. Its cool because you get to see how old Boomers digested huge events during 9/11 up until now and the slow decline of web forums as a medium. The pain is trying to parse the actual pages since the dev never learned how to liberally use div tags like we do now.
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#3I've spent the last few years building a product to help every user and business own their data. It solves Identity, Language, and Hosting, with customizable UIs.
It's cool because it can change the way we all communicate; instead of interacting with 3rd parties, you always interact with your AI that handles everything for you.
Just coming out of stealth, launch posts and whatnot coming soon :)
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#4I spent the last two years of my spare time putting together an RPG in Slack: https://www.chatandslash.com/
I think it's cool because it's almost definitely the most complex Slack bot out there (though I admit that's an arbitrary metric), but it's for sure the most advanced game on the platform.
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#5A website that shows if there's a scene after credits for movies in theaters. So long for all that people standing on the stairs because a scene just started.
Simple stuff, some scraping
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#6Sketch to React Native: https://github.com/nanohop/sketch-to-react-native
It takes designs for mobile apps (from Sketch files), and tries to convert those into React Native components. It's still early days, but it's a promising start.
It's cool because if I can get it working fully, it can replace a large chunk of my consulting projects (taking designs and converting them to the initial code)
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#7I'm building https://timeguard.io, which is an iOS app that acts like HN's "noprocrast" setting but for the entire internet.
You pick distracting sites/apps to block, and then you choose when to pause the block and access them. I've found that little extra bit of friction in checking FB/HN/Twitter is enough to keep me far more concentrated and present throughout the day. Would love feedback from other HN users!
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#8I'm still working on intercooler.js:
It's cool because REST/HATEOAS is the original and unique software architecture of the web, and building client/server apps in Javascript/JSON throws that architecture out:
http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html
http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#9I'm working fulltime on a tool called TimeShark (https://timeshark.io). It generates invoices based off color coded events from your Google Calendar.
It's cool because I as well as many others got tired of spending time...logging time. A lot of us live inside our Calendars so why not build on top of that behavior?
Very much in listening and feedback mode right. If TimeShark is interesting to you, please reach out (contact details in my profile).
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#10Im working on https://outsidelist.com and http://hollabackapp.com.
Outside list is cool because it (hopefully) encourages people to travel and get outside more.
Hollaback is cool because it's sort of an "about" page as a service, and lets people know you made the thing they're looking at, not a team, not a company, you.