Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

Bookmarked. I like your Tkinter code, a lot cleaner than my typical mess. One suggestion: Add a PDF of your schematic for those of us who don't have the full tools installed.

I'm working on a Javascript SaaS Starter Kit. Every time I start a new SaaS app, there's mountains of boilerplate I have to write, and I always skip out on some of it to get to the business logic and regret it later.

I figured, if I'm doing that for myself every time, I can do it once more and do it RIGHT, and then sell that to others in the same boat.

https://nodewood.com/

Completely irrelevant to the world, but I'm finally breaking free of my ISP. I've been going to all sorts of accounts and pointing them to an e-mail address that isn't locked to an ISP. Then I will move my little personal web page, and transfer my home phone number to a prepaid cell phone.

This was triggered by realizing that with the whole family working from home (2x work, 1x college, 1x high school), our old slow ISP was going to be overwhelmed, so we signed up for new service.

Wanted to take some time off to write a book on fullstack development, so I have to build a book writing and publishing platform first. Obviously.

Working on https://papiary.com - I’m starting off with a reader, putting a few public domain books on it, free to read without login. Hoping to get some buzz by asking people to tweet me about which books they want on next. Will add a paid Pro Reader plan that lets you choose better fonts (very high quality expensive ones) adjust the typesetting and theme, sync across devices, PDF downloads etc.

For the authors, I’ll write the first few booklets on it and then open it out to others, but so far I’m thinking direct payments and subscriptions into your Gumroad / Stripe / Paddle account, no commission. Manage all your readers as a list of email addresses, so easy export to Mailchimp or import off external sales. Will also handle demand curve pricing if you want. Can write in simple Markdown or the gold standard AsciiDoc. Will charge money making authors based on headcount, maybe $5 per 100 paying readers.

Is it like readlang or different? Do you have anything online I can check out? email me if you want.

(Background: made a rails6 app for learning vietnamese and it looks similar. my main problem was to nail down the text to match the student’s level).