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

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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…

I typed "man jumping on bed" and none of the results match the term, on any of the result pages. Whereas Google Images is very accurate.

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

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I’m working on a tool that allows developers to record and playback interactive, guided walkthroughs of a codebase, directly from their editor. It’s called CodeTour, and it’s currently available as a VS Code extension: https://aka.ms/codetour . I built it because I frequently find myself looking to onboard (or “reboard”) to a project, and not knowing exactly where to start. After speaking to a bunch of other develope…

This is pretty cool. Hope GitHub implements this idea!!

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

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I’m working on a tool that allows developers to record and playback interactive, guided walkthroughs of a codebase, directly from their editor. It’s called CodeTour, and it’s currently available as a VS Code extension: https://aka.ms/codetour . I built it because I frequently find myself looking to onboard (or “reboard”) to a project, and not knowing exactly where to start. After speaking to a bunch of other develope…

Love it. This is such a good idea.

The only limitation is that it's VS Code only. But, the JSON output means I could easily write a script to produce HTML that could be hosted for other devs to view.

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

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I am working on an application by which reader can read books as messages on their favourite messaging application such as Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp. Now a time people are spending a lot of their time on mobile phone and of which they spend 80 percent of their time on social media or messaging platform. They wanna read books but not able to get time for reading. So, we are creating a platform where users can select a book from our collection or upload a book and we will split the book into small twitter sized messages and then user can schedule the messages according to their availability ( no. of messages user wants to receive, In how many days they wanna complete the book ) and based on their schedule and our algorithm we will send them the text snippets. For Authors :- 1. It is very difficult for authors to do marketing for their book and as every year around 1 Lakh books publishes all over the world and of fiction books consist of a big section of this number. So, we are creating a platform where book authors by taking a little bit theme plot of their upcoming book and creates a small and interactive Facebook messenger based story which they can easily used for marketing and It will increase the sale of their upcoming book.

2. Now a days, people are more interested in interactive books where they can be also a part of the book and there are sounds, images but for authors creating a book on top of messaging application is not possible due to technical issues. So, To tackle this problem we are creating a Saas application where book authors can easily create an interactive book which going much into the technology.

More details about the application can be found here :

https://www.notion.so/Blinks-helping-authors-and-reader-4338...

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

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I'm working on a bulletin board for people to post and manage speed running bounties. Right now speed runners and fans post and publicise bounties, to explore bugs or beat times, ad-hoc on a variety of platforms. Hopefully people will find a central place to store and talk about these bounties useful. Its still in the prototyping stage but hope to roll it out during my current 2 week self-isolation!

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

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I am working on a file archive tool, written in go, to add random file access to .tar.gz of arbitrary size while maintaining compatibility as a valid .tar.gz.

The idea is to embed in gzip metadata the tar file index, and compress the gzip using small chunks of 1MB, whose offsets are also indexed in the metadata.

Since the indexes are written in metadata fields, it is invisible for normal linear decompression.

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

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I'm working on an app/website called GroceryFriends. GroceryFriends allows people in need to create a shopping list and post it so that other people who are feeling generous and/or have surplus can find people in their area in need of certain groceries and provide it for them. I've noticed a lot of at-risk people are putting their lives on the line (and potentially spreading the virus) just to go shopping at stores t…

Sounds interesting. Could you just add some screen shots to the readme?

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

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Yes, I am working on some stuff. Mainly, I am working on TeXnicard (fossil repository at [0]; if anyone is interested in it, I would like to have some help, please), although I might also set up a telnet service (possibly with some card games).

Some other things I might do (but currently am not because I am working on TeXnicard) include Free Hero Mesh (a puzzle game engine), and a media-independent poll/survey program I am writing.

[0] http://zzo38computer.org/fossil/texnicard.ui/

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