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Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by jerp »

helldritch wrote: post #6

I'm currently working on a progressive web application for support workers in care homes. I've seen through first hand experience how much paperwork there is in this setting (daily outcome charts, medicine administration records, abnormal behaviour records, dietary and fluid intake, etc) and how many clerical errors there are. I've also seen first hand the key-document-dependency there can be around service user file…

Hi this sounds really interesting - I'm currently doing a PWA for a completely different industry and use case (enterprise sales), but I'd love to compare notes sometime - especially on ios & ipados side.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by la_fayette »

askytb wrote: post #69
la_fayette wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neutal nets can definitely identify cats and also tell if it is a black or white cat. But identifing a specific cat might be difficult...

Not really, human face recognition is quite accurate and humans all look identical in comparison to the diversity of cats and dogs

... ok what approach would you use for that? Let's say you use yolo to detect th bounding box of the cat, but how do you want to identify the cat, based on your sample images?

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by rabidrat »

goshx wrote: post #98
Dumblydorr wrote: post #71

I don't want you to take this personally, but your post seems very low effort. How can we devote time to helping you if you only put 10 seconds into making this post without reviewing it? For one, writing skills are important. You will have a hard time selling your project to anyone on its merits if you write incomplete sentences with lackluster English. Second, you haven't taken the time to list out what your streng…

I love how your points make sense and seem reasonable at the same time that they were completely irrelevant to attract the right audience and feedback from the community. A foreigner does not need a perfect English (or English at all) to create and sell a product in their countries. Please keep in mind this is an international community. Foreigners should not be discouraged because of a broken English.

This is not a "foreigner" or "broken English" problem. I agree with the parent that this was a low-effort post. No details were included, neither emotional nor technical nor interests.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by imhoguy »

arvidkahl wrote: post #57

The best products happen at the intersection of an existing niche you are some level of expert in already and a technology that has not yet been adopted in that niche. I've found one approach work very well with my mentees: - Figure out which "special interest groups" you are part of beyond software engineering. That can be "aquarium owner", "coffee lover", "morning person", "diligent grandson" — the less technical,…

Is it only me here who experienced such paradox:

I love tech side-projects but often I don't want to introduce more tech in my non-tech hobbies and activites as they are remedy for too much screen time. E.g. my gardening hobby highest tech is $25 weekly schedule watering valve and I feel very good about it.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by tehlike »

ozim wrote: post #88
tehlike wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry. When I said vms, I meant video surveillance for residential use :)

Maybe just buy synology NAS? Some cheap network cameras, there are even ones working via wifi. Not sure how good survilence station is for your needs but I could quite easily connect 2 cameras and have it running without paying more than device price and hard drive.

The most decent I found was camect. I am considering buying it.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by FailMore »

closeparen wrote: post #87

Consider building completely ridiculous, useless things. It removes any mental pressures towards commercialization/viability and shifts the activity from more like work to more like art, which can open up space to flex the skills you want to flex.

This. Have fun and create.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by tmbsundar »

sandreas wrote: post #84

Well in my opinion you should create something that helps yourself (!) - not others. Think of your all day life - some things you do pretty often and try to find a project, that really would help you. If there already is a great open source project for your purpose (and probably there is), you could try to get part of it... improve things... read code (which is a good way to get a better skillset!). Targeting a bette…

>> - A tool to improve scanned document images and create a pdf

Would you mind sharing the approach you used or the product page if it is public?

Incidentally, I was trying today to get two images combined into a single image and convert that into a single PDF. Tried with paint.net, MS Paint 3D etc., It was messy and the resultant PDF was also huge. Finally, gave up and manually pasted the images into a word doc and exported them as a single PDF.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by snazz »

clarry wrote: post #73
snazz wrote: post #23

Do something challenging but not too challenging. It should be hard enough that you can learn something without being so hard that you give up. Some classic computer science project ideas: - Build a path tracer. Physically-based rendering is a topic with lots of information on the Internet. It requires some math, but at least it's fun math :) - Write an operating system kernel. It doesn't have to work on real hardwar…

> a nanopass compiler Got any good resources on this that aren't focused on the Nanopass Framework?

No, I don't, unfortunately. I haven't tried writing this kind of compiler myself, although I would like to at some point.
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