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

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Post by bitshaker »

I’m working on a new training to help people have better social interactions, aka charisma.

Whether they use it to get ahead at work, enhance their relationship with a partner, relate to their kids, gain new friendships, sell something important, or just be able to be in their own company, that’s something that enhances everything they do.

I think it’s cool because it’s my small way of connecting a world that has been slowly drifting apart and is in need of coming together to solve huge divides and problems that are to come.

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

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Post by vtange »

graystevens wrote: post #9

I’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…

If the skin is that similar to the original silver color and texture of original Macbooks you might also see a market for giving non-Macbook laptops that Macbook color look.

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

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Post by jeffstephens »

I'm working on a service that texts you when one of your preloaded accounts sees a change in balance - for example, public transit or toll roads. I've got three services supported so far: https://balancebeamapp.com/

I think it's cool because I login to these accounts very infrequently and months later I have no idea what balance I'm carrying, whether I'll be able to board the bus in a city I'm visiting, etc. Also, the websites are usually not great to use especially on mobile.

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

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Post by KahlerRockwell »

joemanaco wrote: post #19

I’m working on Tiny Thor: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrNjyV5PhE It’s cool because it’s the game I always wanted to make since I was a teenager. What’s even cooler is that two heroes of my youth are doing it together with me: Henk Nieborg (Pixel Artist) and Chris Hülsbeck (Music).

Looks quality!

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

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Post by timdavila »

bitshaker wrote: post #21

I’m working on a new training to help people have better social interactions, aka charisma. Whether they use it to get ahead at work, enhance their relationship with a partner, relate to their kids, gain new friendships, sell something important, or just be able to be in their own company, that’s something that enhances everything they do. I think it’s cool because it’s my small way of connecting a world that has bee…

This is very cool! Kudos for giving back. I'm guessing this is an offline thing?

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

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Post by ioddly »

timdavila wrote: post #3

I'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 find it amusing how this seems to be a very common response to this sort of Ask HN question. If you want something right, you gotta do it yourself!

Here's mine: https://github.com/upvalue/meditations

It also supports habits and notes, but in mine the tasks and habits are combined. I'd like to go further like you have in combining the notes and task interfaces (right now it's basically two separate apps that happen to be in the same codebase + database).

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

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Post by Jemm »

rickbutton wrote: post #20

I'm working on a tiling window manager for Windows: https://workspacer.org/ In another life I worked in a mostly linux environment, and developed on linux, where I used xmonad as a window manager. Switching to windows for a new job several years ago made that super painful. I use workspacer every day at work, and sometimes at home, and it mostly works! It crashes sometimes, and super DOES NOT LIKE IT if you reattach…

Your site could really use a picture of the product in action.

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

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Post by rickbutton »

Jemm wrote: post #27
rickbutton wrote: post #20

I'm working on a tiling window manager for Windows: https://workspacer.org/ In another life I worked in a mostly linux environment, and developed on linux, where I used xmonad as a window manager. Switching to windows for a new job several years ago made that super painful. I use workspacer every day at work, and sometimes at home, and it mostly works! It crashes sometimes, and super DOES NOT LIKE IT if you reattach…

Your site could really use a picture of the product in action.

my plan is to add some GIFs of the window manager actually managing windows, but I haven't had any spare time in the last few weeks. maybe this weekend though!
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