Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://testfromthetop.com/ I did a soft launch for my idea Test from the Top last year.

After talking to so many engineers in my industry at conferences etc. I heard over and over their frustration with management; Ignoring or understanding the value of software testing. That reflected my own experience and so I decided to launch a set of management training videos.

It's half-baked because I'm currently trying to understand what will actually sell, and get some feedback from customers. Mainly focusing on hiring guides and domain jargon currently.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/test-from-the-top

I want to be the person engineers tell their boss about to learn software testing from a high-level.

I'm about to hire a social media manager to try to drive more traffic via blog posts. I have a ton of content developed already, getting geared up to hit it hard in 2021!

"The Commish".

Think Monopoly for sports nerds, but with a broadcasting angle for the business crowd.

Users start as fans & graduate to being athletes, team owners, coaches, commishes (league owners), referees (owning the rulebook for a sport), landlords (owning venues), etc.

Or, users graduate to being broadcasters, content providers (eg, owning a gamefilm), sponsors/advertisers, and station owners (TV, radio, ...).

Finally, users can become demographers. This means you can predict, for a given audience, their willingness to attend a game, buy merch, or "fan" a team or athlete.

The idea is to offer a rolling, continuous slate of seasons in which users compete for properties.

I've built some simple protos using RubyOnRails. The biggest challenge is settling on a set of rules/interactions between of the personas shown above.

https://impermalink.spiffy.tech - Save Links for Later. Optimized for a triage-save-read-trash loop.

I'm a long-time Instapaper/Pocket/Wallabag user. I love scanning my RSS feeds, saving links into those apps, and clicking 'mark all as read'. Then, when I have some downtime, I pore over all the interesting articles/videos I saved. I always have something interesting to read, and I can read it with focus, not doomscrolling and hoping to luck into something good.

But Instapaper et al. aren't built for the way I use them. I put a link in, read it, and delete it. No tagging, no archiving. I usually don't even want text extraction. I just want to read something interesting, then I'm done with it. I can bookmark the link in my browser if I really want to.

Also, I want to open HN/Reddit/YouTube links in their native mobile apps. Instapaper/Wallabag make that clumsy, Pocket makes it almost impossible. These apps also have bugs with sync, but I don't care about offline access, so why am I paying the cost for buggy offline sync I don't use?

Impermalink is designed to streamline my workflow. You can share to it from other apps[0]. When you click a link to open it, it's marked for deletion and will disappear the next time you click another link. You can rescue a link from the recycle bin if you want to come back to it later. Links are grouped by domain, so it's easy to lump all those YouTube videos under a collapsed header so you can focus on other content. Links are just links - your browser will open them however it's normally configured to, including opening them in native apps on mobile.

The app's condition is "rough and ready". It works enough that I use it every day and really enjoy it. The UX has obvious areas for improvement. The home page has no content. Svelte has bugs that double-render some of the content sometimes. But it's there, and it works.

Give it a try, let me know what you think, impermalink@spiffy.tech

[0] Install the app to your home screen with Chrome on Android. Yes, Chrome, not anything else, not even Chrome derivatives. I haven't tried on iOS yet. You can use the app in any browser you want, but only Chrome on Android knows how to share links to web apps.

https://impermalink.spiffy.tech

https://github.com/spiffytech/impermalink

we definitely plan on supporting Android once we achieve product/market fit on one platform - thanks for your input!

MethodScript[0] is a programming language I’ve been working on for a decade or so. It’s can be run on the command line, but it started as and is mostly useful as a programming language for Minecraft server admins, through a bukkit plugin named CommandHelper.

It has a lot to desire as a general purpose programming language, and it’s clearly a work in progress, with bugs aplenty I’m sure, but I’m proud of what’s there so far, and it’s got a niche but devoted following in the domain it’s currently in.

Would love for more devs to join as contributors!

[0] https://methodscript.com