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 a7b3fa » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

I like to think about software that helps you think. Knowledge management, wikis, outliners, task managers, mind-mapping tools, and so on. There's a piece of software called TheBrain (https://thebrain.com/) which I really like; it does a great job of letting you make connections between different topics that are connected in your mind.

However, I prefer the usability of an outliner. So I'm making a web app that is basically TheBrain but visualized as an outliner instead of a mind-map.

There's a prototype available here if the concept sounds interesting to anyone else: https://thinktool.io/

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

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Post by parthi » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

Working on https://acrossapp.com for the past 3 weeks. Built a side project when everyone started WFH: https://hallway.chat

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

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Post by andriosr » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

Transforming the Ledger CLI in a REST API: ledgersight.com

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Post by jos- » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

Working on a search engine that responds with a conversation instead of a list of search results.

The conversation helps you to narrow down what you're looking for. I.e. a combination between a chatbot and a search engine.

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Post by dcposch » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

chdaniel wrote: post #130

I'm making a new tool for writers. With it, you'll be able to write your essays on "layers" The problem? Tweets are easier to read than long-form essays, as they require less time commitment. If the content is not good on a long-form article, you'll find out way too late. With this tool I'm developing: Layer 1 is the shortest version of your essay, the 1 min read — like a tweet. The idea boiled down to the shortest v…

This is great!

Two quick thoughts...

- Maybe limit the layers to 2 or 3. The example you've got in Invision has eight layers which gives me decision paralysis. Do I want the "7 minute read" or the "9 minute read"?

- Consider an onramp from Twitter. People have big audiences there, and linking out to Layered Ink might work better than those 50 tweet "tweet streams".

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Post by davidajackson » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

I'm working on CallStop, which is Superhuman for your phone number. Here's the app store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id145589...

The problem: spam calls. Most current solutions use blacklisting, which doesn't work well. CallStop uses whitelisting, and allows you to accept whitelist requests, pause filtering, or let groups use secret PIN "extensions" to reach you. You can revoke or edit these PINs at any time.

You can use CallStop to filter out 100% of spam on both cell phone numbers and landlines. CallStop has a free trial (30 days) and after that it's $6.99 per month. Right now, I have a paying user base and am working on scaling it.

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Post by rpavez » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

MattKelly wrote: post #188

https://www.coronawhatnow.com - a website focused on helping people and businesses impacted by coronavirus. Examples: -Food banks (individual sites or directories) -Financial aid -Elderly grocery shopping hours and delivery -Healthcare (shelter in place info, testing like Verily Baseline, etc) This info is currently scattered across the Internet and we're aggregating it in one place. It's hosted on Github using markd…

I wrote an automated tool to check TP inventory on Walmart.com and alert when inventory become available, I've been thinking on building an app for that but would need some help.

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Post by cube2222 » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

I'm working on an open source project - OctoSQL[1] - which allows you to query and join data from different datasources using SQL.

Be it MySQL, PostgreSQL, JSON, CSV or Excel.

It's now also being my Bachelor thesis.

Recently we've been working hard on getting event time supporting exactly-once streaming into OctoSQL. Which means we currently (on the streaming branch) support Kafka as a datasource. Run using on-disk state (which allows grouping big datasets and is still blazingly fast thanks to Badger which we use as our underlying storage).

Obviously with streaming SQL extensions, which allow you to view partial results even with standard datasources. We use a dataflow-like retraction model for that.

We should have a big release out soon, so stay tuned!

[1]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

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Post by eli » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

I’ve been working on a child’s toy built with a button/led grid and a raspberry pi. It’s loosely based on my memory of this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(console)

I’m using a Novaton Launchpad Mini for the buttons which is probably overkill but came already assembled and is easily controllable over MIDI.

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Post by thedoods » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

Working on a simple newsletters library https://tuepe.com So far collected more than 50.000 newsletters. Just adding the feature for competitors newsletter marketing activity tracking.