Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by wyozi » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 8:57 PM UTC

Turns out working on many, many projects at the same time is actually a way to cope with a quarantine.

I've built a flight planning tool for complex itineraries https://flightnotebook.com/ (bad timing, I know)

Historical job vacancy tracking website https://careerspulse.com/

And topping it off with releasing a full-text search query builder for Postgres + Rails to github (https://github.com/wyozi/pg-searchable)

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by acwan93 » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 8:57 PM UTC

Our company just switched to WFH when we previously didn't have any tools. I guess this is a project on its own: moving the company operations from all on-premise and physically present to all remote.

Some tools we've adopted and I'm learning about as we go: Grasshopper (for VoIP call forwarding), MS Teams (we dabbled with Slack, but ended up using Teams because of our VS subscription), Zoom (for demos), and Stripe/PayPal (to accept one-time payments online from our clients).

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by fwsgonzo » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 8:58 PM UTC

I just finished the 32-bit parts of a RISC-V emulator, and I have been doing performance optimizations. Just hit a wall and can't make it any faster, but I'm happy with the speeds now so it's all good.

Now I have this really stupid idea to replace my Lua scripts in a game engine with RISC-V binaries. So, if it's stupid and it works... I've already measured it to be wildly faster than Lua, but Lua has a convenient interface.

The emulator can be serialized to memory and restored elsewhere / later, but I have no idea what good that will do.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by duxup » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 8:59 PM UTC

Playing with firebase / react and just making an allowance tracking app for myself / kids.

Nothing amazing, but I'm a noob so it is fun.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by jives » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 8:59 PM UTC

I'm working on the programmable outliner I've always wanted.

* User-defined node types * Node properties * Customizable node display & styling * Programmable hooks for various events * Links between nodes * Dynamic "query" nodes

Starting with a web interface.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by postgrescompare » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 8:59 PM UTC

A schema comparison tool for PostgreSQL. Evenings and weekends for the last little https://www.postgrescompare.com

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by j_z_reeves » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:00 PM UTC

Working on creating a SaaS app to help and facilitate customer demos. It's not impressive but I have never shipped an actual app or tried monetizing something, so I'll start with this.

Along with creating the app, I'm learning how to design it with figma.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by postgrescompare » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:00 PM UTC

A schema comparison tool for PostgreSQL. Evenings and weekends for a while now https://www.postgrescompare.com

Soon to include data comparison.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by jives » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:00 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #127

For the past couple of years, I've been working on an IDE for music called ngrid ( http://ngrid.io ). I hope to finish it soon.

You had me at "Blazing fast piano roll interface" :)

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by geff82 » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:00 PM UTC

We (wife and I) decided 2 weeks ago to go into producing learning materials, paper based and computer based, for several topics. Me appreciate making money, but have a better feeling when trying to make the world better by educating people. We will produce several smaller projects in 3 languages: German, Persian, English. We do not plan to "take over the world" with what we do, we just want to do something useful. Next week we will have the first release of an exercise book for grammar (parts of it were written some time ago, but never refined).