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

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With everyone working from home, One of the challenges right now is how to connect to your remote applications securely.

I set up a secure way to connect to my application and you can demo that at https://viggy28.dev/book

Also wrote about how to set up here: https://viggy28.dev/article/how-to-secure-your-remote-applic...

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

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https://host.io - an API to get domain name metadata (scraped web content, backlinks, redirects, dns data, ranking information and more). See https://host.io/google.com for an example. We've been building out the infrastructure for a while (scrape all domains monthly, resolve all domains, progress the data etc), but have only recently launched the API (see htttps://host.io/docs). We'll soon be releasing a Top 10M Ran…

That's interesting, especially this, I think:

> Shared IP Address

> There are 68,258 domains hosted on 216.58.217.36 (AS15169 Google LLC) including google.com. Here's a sample: [...]

You wrote:

> scrape all domains monthly, resolve all domains

what does "all domains" mean? All domains worldwide? Or some sub set?

As mentioned, I think your project sounds interesting — still I'm wondering, how did you verify there's an interest for what you're building? (I'd think/guess there is, just wondering if/how you verified this, or knew beforehand)

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

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I'm working on a web app to track bike fit: http://app.mybike.fit

I like to tinker with my fit to dial things in, but there are so many potential dimensions to tweak that it's easy to "get lost."

Long-term I envision it as version control for bike fit where you can make a change, test it, add some notes, and then decide whether or not to commit the change to your new baseline fit.

At this point, though, I've only implemented the input forms and a historical record.

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

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I'm working on Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ It's been out for about 1.2 years now and we're really starting to nail some important features. JUST about to post a new release now. COVID19 is having us pivot a bit in that we're going to experiment with collaborative group reading in the hopes that students can work more efficiently with their colleagues without having to leave home. The core idea is to have a fully-…

Love the github-style activity tracker. It seems like such a small thing, but it's been a huge help in keeping myself in the habit of making regular progress.

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

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I’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. https://postbear.io 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 :)

pretty interesting. How does the shopify integration work?

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After noticing that the growing number of people at my day job seemed to be using our internal jargon differently, I decided to write a team glossary using confluence. The experience left me wanting. No crosslinking of terms, no enforcement of structure/format. Ugly/outdated styling. I thought there had to be a better way, but I couldn't find one so I built Jargonaut ( https://www.jargonaut.net ). It helps you build…

There's a typo in the first entry of the demo glossary: "acroynms" should be "acronyms".

I ran ispell and didn't see any other typos, though ispell is far from perfect.

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

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This or That, simple surveying over SMS.

The main idea was to make it super simple to survey random people about anything. Right now you ask a question along with submitting two images and the app posts a survey to 50 random users on MTurk.

Would like to expand features down the line to expand number of survey respondents and adding filtering etc.

Site: https://thisorthat.ai

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

#480
I am working on search tool for images.

It detects faces, objects, tags, extracts metadata and provides search interface and API. So you can for example find image with "cat and dog near river with some person" I want to build enterprise level image search :)

Google Images, for example, uses in most cases alt text and surrounding content. Google Photos is limited to personal collections.

I have finished prototype and now trying to convert it to startup

Demo https://app.khumbu.im/search/5dff72e66483e25b40e0222e info https://khumbu.im

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