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Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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This is brilliant, I've wondered for some time if something like this was available, it's a great way of linking the online chess boom with tradition, particularly for those of us who don't like staring at screens. I wanted to build one myself, and it was only a complete lack of mechanical know how that stopped me. I don't fancy bullet chess on it tho...

There’s an online chess boom?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537774

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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I made a tool for visualizing text in 3D: https://nebulate.ai It runs a machine learning model in your browser to convert the text into points in a high dimensional space, and then it projects those points down to 3D. Right now you can tell it to visualize post titles or comments from any subreddit or tweets from any Twitter user. I find it especially interesting to explore the news with it since every article is nat…

What do you use for the browser ML? An existing framework (tf.js?) or DIY?

TFJS, yep!

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Thanks to the lockdown, I've finally wrapped up the long work on a Slack plugin that helps you find the location of coworkers and meeting rooms: https://www.slashmap.com/ . I used Go on the backend (rewritten from Node) and Vue on the frontend. How it works: first, you upload a picture of your office layout using the web UI and mark everyone's locations. Then if you send "/map @JohnDoe", the plugin will return a map…

This is super cool! Just out of curiosity, have you thought about automating the on boarding process at all? Something to streamline the process so that you don't need to manually mark each location? Or maybe even supporting multiple buildings?

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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I launched my first webapp https://taaalk.co . It's a platform for public text-based conversations. It's been great so far, I've gotten to know very interesting people and things through having discussions on it. (Anyone can make a Taaalk though.)

Curious to know how you went about getting new users on the platform!

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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I've built McPiper - simple Gitlab CI/CD pipeline monitor from macOS status bar.

When I work I usually have emails off, so no idea when the pipelines fail.

At the moment functionality is quite basic, but it solves the problem I had.

Also plan to add other CI/CD providers (Travis, Github actions, etc) in the next few versions.

It's my first macOS app, and I've managed to learn Swift + SwiftUI, so time well spent too.

https://www.mcpiper.app/

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Yeah anyone with young kids had far less time during lockdown, not more.

Sort of depends I think. We have a four year old and two year old twins. We've found we have a ton more time. Mostly because we were forced to actually slow down and be at home instead of always on the go.

We have approximately the same kid layout, just a few years further down the road (twins with an older sibling). Once kids are in school, the situation changes dramatically. School ends up consuming a big chunk of the "work" day, so keeping up with work takes up much of what used to be "family" time, net result is that there is far less free time now than there used to be.
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