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

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Post by mceachen »

I'm working on PhotoStructure. After 20 years of taking photos and videos, and suffering through numerous cloud-based photo startups that end up folding in a year or two, multiple crashed servers, and having my smartphone camera feed the adtech beast, I decided I needed something that:

* ran on hardware that I owned (or rented in the cloud)

* had robust de-duplication [1]

* didn't require expensive or proprietary hardware

* ran cross-platform, so libraries can be created, updated, and used on different computers [2]

* uses a web-based UI, so I can see and share my library from any mobile or desktop browser

I'm giving access to the beta in exchange for feedback. I will release another batch of invites when the next release goes live. I've been releasing about every month, but this last version got a case of featuritis[3] and has taken a while to stabilize. If you signed up recently, expect an email next week; sorry for the delay!

If you want to read more: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/

[1] https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-dedupe/

[2] https://photostructure.com/faq/library/

[3] https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/

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

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Post by jcims »

rawoke083600 wrote: post #719

I'm working on a "Maintenance Solution" (MainTech) for the mostly the fast-food & restaurant industry. Places running it already in some parts of the world includes KFC, Pizza-Hut, Paul Bakery etc.. This is helping them to manage, track, assign any maintenance issue they might have as well as well as a big push for "Preventative Maintenance (daily, weekly) for their shops and store assets". Think of it as JIRA for th…

I did some work for Wendy's corporate a while back, and it's absolutely crazy how quickly maintenance/repair issues scale in costs. This sounds like a great niche!

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

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Post by op03 »

loufe wrote: post #368

I bought an old trench coat from a thrift store and outfitted it with 350 programmable LEDs , an Arduino to control them, and a 24 AA battery bank for a music festival last year, it was a hit. I'm currently working on adding another 150 LEDs, fixing the power system (I burnt out the Arduino after a couple hours), and looking into adding a microphone and learning some sound programming to make the suit change colours…

Check this out - might help with the implementation/ideas - https://halleyprofita.wordpress.com/portfolio-2/flutter/

http://correll.cs.colorado.edu/?p=2315

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

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Post by lpaone »

Researching and learning more about fuel cells, hydrogen, and the "hydrogen economy". Planning to start a company in this industry sometime in the next few years. I am trying to gain a better understanding of the market and current technology + limitations so that I can start working on solving the fundamental barriers to bringing my ideas to market.

Coming from a software background it is really fun to learn about something completely different and new!

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

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Post by boduma »

I’m working on ProgrammerBackpack. It’s my blog, started it 2 months ago and I write about Machine Learning and programming stuff, mostly tutorials. Recently I started doing a thing where I approach every subject in 2 parts, I call them “mini-series of 2”: one where I write about the theory, the math or the intuition behind a model and one where we play with implementation on a small dataset.

It’s fun and I love writing and I try my best to write as much as I can.

Here’s the blog in case anyone wants to see it:

https://programmerbackpack.com

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

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Post by moehm »

znpy wrote: post #40

I am learning some foundational skills that I've always lacked or that I find interesting. Things like ldap, DNS (I'm reading DNS&bind). I'm (finally) setting up a gitlab instance at home so that I can finally manage my (small) infra via gitlab-ci.

Any good resources on ldap you can recommend?

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

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Post by catchbepis22 »

Making a way to save web apps so they work totally offline without your browser knowing the difference. open source:

https://github.com/dosyago/22120

also a way to stream and record and replay a browser session remotely:

https://github.com/dosyago/RemoteView

apart from those two serialization projects, I'm also building a side project in stylegan to generate art, and a self reporting pandemic tracker, relevant to C19.

and a bunch of other open source stuff:

https://github.com/cris691/Portfolio

contributors welcome!

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

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Post by aliabd »

I'm working on http://trymaniac.com which is a set of tools to make documenting code easier and faster.

The basic idea is having the code itself drive the documentation. This means:

- Autocomplete that's powered by the codebase/previous docs. - Code tracking so documentation doesn't go stale. - Automatic updates when the changes are simple/minimal.

Would love to hear everyone's thoughts/feedback. Anything I'm missing?

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