I am working on a way to better track and gain transparency into your Firebase costs. The goal is prevent you from getting a surprise bill at the end of the month. I’ve started out with a daily and month end reports of your usage and costs. I’ve even been able to give cost metrics that aren’t in the Firebase console. Eventually will have a dashboard so you can dive into your historical costs and setup custom alert that are more fine grained than what google allows.
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#942I've been working on a personal knowledge base called mmap.it. It's like spotlight for all of your workflows and code snippets. Basically combines a markdown editor with full text search and all functionality is made accessible through global shortcuts so you can look up information without context switching. It's free with plans to be open sourced in the next day or so. You can check it out here ( https://mmap.it )
I built something similar at my last job to keep me sane. It was incredibly beneficial. I'm rebuilding a different version now and wondering what you're using for search?
Do you have any additional metadata fields like "tags" or "categories" that can also be searched?
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#943Meta: This thread is fun to read, it's cool to skim through such a large variety of ideas and projects. I wouldn't mind seeing it as a monthly thing like the "Who is hiring?" posts. There'd probably be some overlap with Show HN, but I personally wouldn't mind if it's just once a month.
I was going to write a snarky comment like: "This is what, Show HN is for..."
But then I realised this thread is different. This is for projects that are In Development, and people are more likely to post things that aren't finished, so I think that's a great idea!
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#944I am still working on my business which was started during the GFC back in 2008. My business isn't important, but what is important is what you do over the next coming months. During the GFC, I was a contract programmer and was let go in November. In Australia I figured nobody was going to hire in December, January is basically a write off, and could possibly find work in February. Now I had 3 months up my sleeve. I…
Why not share what you're actually working on? Seems like more "Inspirational Startup Quotes"
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#945I am building an end-to-end text-to-video product that converts text/blog news into TV-like news using multiple AI techs including GANs, Transformers, variational autoencoders, motion graphics, kubernetes, among other techs. It has taken me some months, but I have CI/CD in place, some traction in twitter, and subscribed users on our home page. I have bootstrapped the product so far. I'm the solo dev, designer, and cr…
Very interesting, I'm impressed with what you've made so far.
I'm sceptical that people will want to watch an AI deliver news, but it's becoming more popular.
Just search "Reddit AMA" on Youtube, you'll find 100's of channels that have Text to Speech videos of Reddit content.
Good luck with the development of this!
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#946It gave me quite some room to work on a new website I've been working on: https://space-search.io I call it a search engine for space objects. It's a personal initiative with the aim to do something meaningful around space situational awareness and space debris. The tool aggregates datasets around objects tracked in space and then makes it searchable and visualised with webgl / react overlays. It's a good learning ex…
That's incredible! Amazing UI and interactivity!
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#947I had a need for an API middleman, recording and replaying API messages between an application and provider APIs, without setting up a local proxy. So I decided to built something myself instead of another product. As with many side projects, I'm using it to learn new skills and brush up old ones. With working from home and schools closed, I don't have much extra time, but the restructured day does mean I have pocket…
Did you end up building it? I would be interested to see your solution. Also "Api Middleman" would be a great name!
I asked this [1] a few months ago and have wanted to this for a long time now. I was thinking of it kind of like a caching proxy layer for 3rd party API's, to mainly get around rate-limiting.
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#948I'm creating a Rails/Django equivalent in TypeScript called Huncwot [1]. The project draws inspiration from Self [2] and aims to combine a framework, an editor and infrastructure into a unified programming environment. In other words, I'm on a quest for the Holy Grail of Programming. ;) [1]: https://github.com/huncwotjs/huncwot [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774
Brilliant concept. I'm not sure the VSCode integration will entice a lot of people (vendor lock-in), but the whole structure and little helpers (like "Data-driven Handler Abstractions") are pretty awesome.
I'm now watching this space!
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#949My roommate and I despise LinkedIn, and all the soul draining "thought leadership" that comes along with it. We also found that it's absurdly easy, and absurdly funny, to poke fun at the mish-mash of content marketing, thought leadership, and broetry that makes up 90% of our LinkedIn feeds. So we've been working on a "satirical social network," part fake LinkedIn, part The Onion, part something else, and right now we…
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#950I'm working on a browser based, client side, GIF screen capture tool. Give it a try: https://gifcap.dev/
Incredible, I had no idea a website could screen capture all my monitors or other Chrome tabs... seems like a security vulnerability, but this is amazing still!