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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 am working on an "All-in-one Client Management" Software that allows our company to track everything about our clients in one place which includes: Onboarding, Registration, Subscriptions/Billing, Emails/Communications, Helpdesk, Projects etc. This will solve an internal problem we have at our SAAS company. Not sure about the "cool" factor but it surely will make our lives easier.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#3I'm working on a personal organization app - basically integrating a to do list, habit tracker, and notes app into one. I think it's cool because it's useful to me and a "scratch your own itch" app.
If you're curious it's at https://www.nominal.net
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#4I'm creating an interactive presentation on Git for my company who has been using SVN since the dawn of time. Many might consider this a boring project but it also happens to be a wide sought out skill. Very few really dive in to becoming power users of Git which is why I think it's a cool project for me. Teaching any topic to someone else almost always resolves in a considerable skill enhancement for the teacher.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#5I'm working on a personal organization app - basically integrating a to do list, habit tracker, and notes app into one. I think it's cool because it's useful to me and a "scratch your own itch" app. If you're curious it's at https://www.nominal.net
I'm sure your app is quite more user friendly and inviting ;) but I thought I would share this one. It's kind of cool to mess around with if you're a command line nut.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#6I'm creating an interactive presentation on Git for my company who has been using SVN since the dawn of time. Many might consider this a boring project but it also happens to be a wide sought out skill. Very few really dive in to becoming power users of Git which is why I think it's a cool project for me. Teaching any topic to someone else almost always resolves in a considerable skill enhancement for the teacher.
This is a nice presentation that helped solidify some concepts for me: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-Tale-of-Three-Trees
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#7I’m making a permissively licensed json/whatever encoding you’d like English dictionary by parsing Wiktionary. There’s a beta demo type thing at https://www.mostaccioli.club if you’re interested.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#8I’m tinkering with combining liquid cooling with waste heat electricity generation as a way to cut down on datacenter energy use. I think it’s cool because datacenters consume 1-2% of all electricity generated worldwide, and roughly half of that goes to air conditioning. If it’s viable, it might make a measurable dent in CO2 emissions.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#9I’m working on a skin for developer laptops so that you can apply those sweet conference and startup stickers. No more risking your resale value, or even physically risking damage to your expensive MacBook.
I want the skins to be identical to the original laptop material so that they are practically invisible. So for the MacBooks, a silver aluminium sticker (or space grey etc.)
I’ve done a proof of concept and it worked brilliantly (in the process of writing this up) and its allowed me to display my old ‘laptop’ as a keepsake, whilst being able to sell the laptop on in almost perfect condition.
I’m thinking of going down the crowdfunding route, as a way of proving there is a market, as well as helping to fund someone of the equipment needed.
Edit: Added they’d be a near identical match to the original laptop, rather than just a plain ‘sticker’
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#10I’m working on a skin for developer laptops so that you can apply those sweet conference and startup stickers. No more risking your resale value, or even physically risking damage to your expensive MacBook. I want the skins to be identical to the original laptop material so that they are practically invisible. So for the MacBooks, a silver aluminium sticker (or space grey etc.) I’ve done a proof of concept and it wor…
I don't really understand, how is this different than any of the other laptop skins on the market? Couldn't I just get a blank one from alibaba or whatever and use that?