I’ve started to teach myself Swift and iOS development to prepare for a potential career change if unemployment happens. I need, however, an idea for an app. Any takers? The standard Apple app tutorial ideas are pretty horrendous.
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#432Right now, helping as a mentor for https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/
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#433Very research-y, but I am working on a pet idea of mine called "compact models" in Machine Learning. Essentially you take a model - say a decision tree of depth 20 - and "compact" it to a decision tree of size 10, without losing accuracy. The motivation is "interpretability": models are interpretable by humans if they are small. Another application would be low memory footprint models - but frankly, I haven't thought of this use case much. I have had some success with producing a model agnostic algorithm [1] (i.e. works for any model with some notion of size e.g. decision trees with size being the depth, linear models with size being the number of non-zero terms) - now I am exploring options to speed up the compaction process. The quarantine has given me some time to think about this.
[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.00003...
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#434I have been working on https://SEOTesting.com and released it on Friday. It’s a tool to help run SEO Tests to see whether your page and site changes are improving your rankings in Google. I’ve decided to make it free for the next 3(+) months while Corona Virus is going on as it’s one of the ways I can help so many people and businesses struggling with the impact.
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#435I'm working on my meme making app, Meta Meme https://metameme.app/ . It's a meme maker i've had out for a couple years, started as a side project, now generates mid four figures in revenue monthly, recurring. Also just released Token, a new dating app, match making for misfits. https://tokendating.app
What's the primary way that generates revenue? Ads? Super cool, I've been looking for a way to have some revenue generating side project.
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#436I've built the website quarantaenehelden.org with some friends. It's a platform to connect people from risk groups or those who are under quarantine with those who want to help out. It's been a pretty wild ride and we've grown a lot since our launch 7 days ago, but building our infra with react + firebase made it pretty smooth in terms of scaling. Come check it out at github.com/kenodressel/quarantine-hero
Great Idea! The website looks very good and is easy to use.
So far, no one is searching for help in my area.
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#437I’m working on a tool that allows you to build newsletters from external sources like static blog posts (Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll), Shopify products, Airtable data, and more.
Basically providing you with a browsable “gallery” of data items from which you can filter, select and customize in order to assemble your newsletter avoiding repetitive copy/paste and styling.
Feedback is welcome :)
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#438Letterbox, contact form as a service.
Needed one for several of my sites, so decided to build it.
Started it earlier this year as a side project and meant to focus on it now as I don't have a real client. But honestly finding it hard to be very focused on anything at the moment.
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#439I'm plugging away at my Dwarf Fortress like game in Rust. I stream here fairly regularly: https://www.twitch.tv/urouroniwa Of course, like everyone, I've mostly been writing a game engine and not a game :-) I actually started streaming in September and I've found that it's been an incredible stress reliever. Especially since I'm a remote programmer in rural Japan working for a company in the travel industry, I'm incredibly worried about how long I'll have a paying job. Working on this and chatting to the amazing people who show up to my stream has done wonders for keeping me up beat and forward looking.
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#440Our 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/P…
We also went fully remote, but since our operations are entirely cloud-based already, it was just a matter of setting up WireGuard for a few folks to access sensitive resources securely from home. That was a fun project, but not as much work as trying to get a virtual Catan or Cards Against Humanity game organized :)