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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?

#91
https://token.beteleported.com - It's a cryptocurrency token for a VR marketplace. Store 360 degree videos and photos on the blockchain, for 50 years, just $1. It's cool because you never have to worry about losing or deleting your memories. Customers can meet with professionals virtually, without having to travel anywhere. Professionals can bill their clients, with the cryptocurrency token.

It's also an interactive map, to view published 360 photos and videos, called moments. Use the token for storing moments, viewing moments, giving tips to moment creators, and paying for professional services in VR.

https://get3dtours.com - a SaaS product that makes it super easy to add virtual tour experiences to any site.

https://vrinrealestate.com - a comparison site of existing VR virtual tour products.

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

#92

Im making an aggregate site for youtube mixes - house, lofi, ect. https://ytradio.xyz/ It started with only live streams (24/7 youtube music channels) I enjoy lofi youtube mixes when coding, and theres a lot of them. Currently im adding functionality for users to curate the mixes I think its cool bc its kind of like a shared youtube playlist for a particular niche, with nice ui, and soon with curation

I made something similar to this for iOS: http://sweetervibes.com/

However, because of Apple's new strict rules on what it considers user aggregated content, privacy, and etc. It's been stuck on beta for a while. I originally wanted to create a YouTube aggregator (like yours) however, I'm almost certain Apple will reject it.

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

#93
No link, as this is a scratch my own itch thing for now, but I'm working on a personal 'hub' web app that is part UX/UI experiment, and part a way to integrate various tools I've created over the years to ease various pain points in my life.

Some of this has to do with solving the problem of the deluge of information I consume, through psychological 'intervention' as well as some way to store all this stuff and make it easy to filter and find the useful bits.

Some of it is journalling-related, and vaguely in the Quantified Self area.

A significant portion is about finding ways to actually use this amazing, powerful computer that I have in my pocket for things that actually, quantifiably, provably improve my life (and hopefully, eventually, that of others). This is mostly in the direction of autism-related issues, anxiety, maintaining social connections, and so on. Applying the (relatively) well-supported lessons from psychology to the bafflingly advanced technology that is part of my daily life, and that of most people around me.

Mostly it's a vanity project though, that I can currently afford indulging in. I figure that after years of working and making money off building stuff I don't care about much, it's time to let my more creative side express itself in ways that might prove useful somehow. I'm not an painter, or a musician, or a poet, but I can code, I love to code (when it's on my own terms), and I'm still amazed that for less than five bucks I can have a server running that does whatever I want it to do, and as a 'full-stack developer', that's quite a lot!

Part of me wants to work on things that are more directly beneficial to others, but 1) I have enough 'runway' to do that too, eventually, and 2) I've grown weary of always trying to make sure that what I do is 'useful' by some measure that doesn't quite feel like it originates from within. Many of the best things I've done started out as scratches to personal itches, so perhaps it's okay to 'indulge' for now.

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

#94
https://pagedraw.io/ — keeps me from ever having to write HTML and CSS for web apps again. Enables solo developers to do more by letting us design UIs in a visual tool and not have to re-code them later. Enables developers on teams import their designer's Sketch or Figma files into code, skipping the tiresome designer-developer handoff full of tediously re-doing their design in JSX/CSS.

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

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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.…

Have you hosted it anywhere, that might be an interesting read.

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

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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://coinbas…

nice work! Is this available as a service? or you planning to opensource it?

Thanks! It's available as a service to use at onsites.co.

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

#97
On some level I feel this question is just here to advertise the poster's project.

I think it would have been better if they had put their project in the comments like everyone else instead of giving themselves more visibility by putting it in the main question.

They may not have intended it this way - but it's possible.

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

#99
Needed a way to keep track of TV shows I watch and when see when episodes air. All existing sites I found were so messy and bloated with stuff I don't really care about.

Wanted to have a list of new episodes and a heads up about the next few days whats coming up so https://boldshows.com was born.

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

#100

On some level I feel this question is just here to advertise the poster's project. I think it would have been better if they had put their project in the comments like everyone else instead of giving themselves more visibility by putting it in the main question. They may not have intended it this way - but it's possible.

Funnily enough I overlooked the short text until you mentioned it.
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