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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #176

Still a long way to go, but trying to make it easier (and cheaper!) to research public companies / stocks - with both quantitative and qualitative data. https://docoh.com/

Ohhh myyyy goddddd!!!!

What a FANTASTIC site you are building. Beautiful design and usefulness.

Have you posted to r/investing? Quite an active community.

Congratulations.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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1. API to extract and store metadata about an uploaded PDF (images, relevant field locations, signature boxes, etc.)

2. Tool that shows an image of each field to the user and allows them to enter human readable prompts (title, description, input style).

3. A PWA that uses the prompts to help an end user complete the form, collects signatures, etc.

4. Add the ability to link/upload some tabular data and tie fields from the data source to fields on a PDF.

5. Communications—email a unique short link to somebody to request they complete a form, pre-filled with data.

6. Build an example web site that consumes 1-4 and shows off e.g. completing a legal contract. Notifications when a form is completed.

7. Multi-party forms

8. Start figuring out how to charge people and who to sell to, build more niche wrappers around the product, stand up an auth/billing service, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm working on a way to re-use your Selenium page objects for load testing.

Thesis: The reason, instead of automating browsers, that we collectively started making HTTP-level load scripts and investing expensive labor hours in "correlation" was because hardware was really expensive.

Around Y2K, A single server might cost 500 a month in hardware and rack costs. Now a 72 core machine can be rented for an hour for under a dollar.

So I'm making a real-browser load testing service that lets you use the same integration test code you already maintain. Fewer tools, fewer specialties, CI/CD ready.

https://browserup.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #176

Still a long way to go, but trying to make it easier (and cheaper!) to research public companies / stocks - with both quantitative and qualitative data. https://docoh.com/

One further thing, not sure how easy it would be to do, but it would be very interesting to see (graph and/or table) a history of different financial ratios - e.g. what is the historical P/E of the business etc...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#236

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

Is 130k realistic for someone with less than 2 years of not just experience but total exposure? I'm not aware of any market supporting that sort of value proposition; that's one hell of a book...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#237

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

Nice nice! Would love to test out, my brother-in-law is starting to learn js now, he could use your material as well. He has zero background in coding and just reached out to me to teach something.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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An Android client to control mpv (media player) remotely. It is actually both the server (written in python) and client.

I started it because I didn't want to get up to control the movie playing on my laptop, and it has turned into a fun experiment in UX and network security.

https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#239

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

Nice nice! Would love to test out, my brother-in-law is starting to learn js now, he could use your material as well. He has zero background in coding and just reached out to me to teach something.

Btw, have you ever seen freecodecamp and OSS (on Github)? They have really good content for reference.

edit: OSS link - https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #60

I'm currently participating in Frontier Development Lab Europe ( https://fdleurope.org/ ), an 8 week research accelerator with the European Space Agency, Oxford University and a number of tech organisations. The idea is to bring together space scientists (domain experts) and machine learning researchers to try and make a meaningful contribution to the field in a very short period of time. It's a lot of fun, and a rea…

This is really interesting.

A bunch of people I know are involved in the Australian space industry and a separate bunch are involved in machine learning research.

Here in Adelaide we have the new Space Agency and the SmartSat CRC and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and the new Australian MIT Lab and the new startup hub in the same compound (a former hospital) so I'm really hoping we see similar programs.

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