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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ioddly »

fibers wrote: post #2

I 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.…

I once scraped a large forum off Yuku, the HTML was easily the most bizarre I've ever seen (i.e. multiple different HTML formats for posts on the same page for no apparent reason).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ryen »

DanHulton wrote: post #4

I 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.

Very similar idea to Multi User Dungeon (MUD) RPG games back in the day. Was that your inspiration? If you're not familiar with those you should check out their history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by starshadowx2 »

rapfaria wrote: post #5

A 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

Why/how will yours be better than all the others?

ex. http://aftercredits.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by dglass »

http://tracket.com - It's google news + the internet archive. You can go back in time and see what the top breaking headlines were on a given day. I've been running it since July 2016 so there's nothing before that, unfortunately.

http://ripplescan.com - A website to visually explore the Ripple XRP network, lookup accounts, and transactions, and subscribe to XRP news in your inbox every day.

https://exponentialbackoff.substack.com - A newsletter where I write about the soft skills side of software engineering that I've learned throughout my career. Hopefully it's helpful to some younger engineers that are just starting out in their careers.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by alexwebb2 »

I'm working on a voice-driven rapid prototyping tool for web development.

The goal is to be able to say things like "give me a header element at the top - height 250, width 100%", and it'll inject it immediately.

Combined with mouseover inspection and positional guidance (e.g. moving the mouse to a particular spot and saying "put a folder icon here").

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by DanHulton »

ryen wrote: post #12
DanHulton wrote: post #4

I 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.

Very similar idea to Multi User Dungeon (MUD) RPG games back in the day. Was that your inspiration? If you're not familiar with those you should check out their history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

Absolutely something I took inspiration from, though the primary inspiration was more along the lines of Legend of the Red Dragon, a BBS Door game that hit the height of it's popularity back when MUDs hit the height of theirs.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by jmtame »

I just redesigned what an offer letter looks like. [1] I think it's cool for a few different reasons: (1) most people don't truly understand the value behind an offer from a startup. Equity for example is tricky for newcomers. (2) Most companies don't share this information unless you push them on it. I wish more companies would be transparent about it, and I think doing this will help.

Here's a demo: https://coinbase.onsites.co/o/aurora-h

I also redesigned the onsite experience. Demo here as well: https://airbnb.onsites.co/joe-zadeh

[1] As with many things in design, I think I should attribute the source of inspiration, which is Carta. They wrote about a new offer letter format back in 2016. I'm basically taking their Apple Keynote slides and moving them to the web.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by franciscop »

I am working on server.js: https://serverjs.io/. It is cool because:

- You install it with `npm install server` and use modern ES6+ including async/await very naturally.

- Node.js is the most popular "framework, library or tool" [1], but getting started with most of the current Node.js server frameworks has a really steep learning curve.

- Plugins are coming! They will be a really easy way to extend server in ways that middleware cannot by adding some lifecycle calls.

Feedback is welcome!

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-f...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by theodorton »

chrisa wrote: post #6

Sketch 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)

Have you looked at airbnb's sketch/react tools?
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