Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by gvido » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:26 PM UTC

I'm working for a browser-based app for electronic musicians to jam together online (not real-time, I think I found a compromise)

Funny how I didn't anticipate that the biggest obstacles to launching it will be my own mind, in the form of imposter syndrome and insecurity. That, and the lockdowns have been a bit rough. Almost there though, and a lot of lessons learned. I assume there's probably some more lessons in actually getting the first users coming up next, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there I guess :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by allthingstim » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

MeetInOne, a Mac app for Google Meet with lots of additional features (dark mode, picture-in-picture etc): https://apps.apple.com/de/app/meetinone-for-google-meet/id15...

Launched in December and currently at about ~75k downloads

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by stevenschmatz » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

gvido wrote: post #21

I'm working for a browser-based app for electronic musicians to jam together online (not real-time, I think I found a compromise) Funny how I didn't anticipate that the biggest obstacles to launching it will be my own mind, in the form of imposter syndrome and insecurity. That, and the lockdowns have been a bit rough. Almost there though, and a lot of lessons learned. I assume there's probably some more lessons in ac…

I’ve been wanting this for YEARS. Can I be a beta tester? :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by zeroxfe » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

https://pitchy.ninja -- An online vocal and ear trainer using real-time pitch detection.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kostarelo » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:28 PM UTC

https://www.taskeera.com/: Monitoring background and async jobs from start to finish. Half of the infrastructure and coding is done but I didn't find a big audience so I'm in the process of just open sourcing it.

https://presentador.dev: Opinionated presentation framework based on MarkDown.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by seism » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

gvido wrote: post #21

I'm working for a browser-based app for electronic musicians to jam together online (not real-time, I think I found a compromise) Funny how I didn't anticipate that the biggest obstacles to launching it will be my own mind, in the form of imposter syndrome and insecurity. That, and the lockdowns have been a bit rough. Almost there though, and a lot of lessons learned. I assume there's probably some more lessons in ac…

+1 to the idea, and the obstacles, which I deeply sympathise with. You've got a couple of potential users here already. Rock on!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by sideproject » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

I've been working on Newsy for the past ~8 months.

https://www.newsy.co

Problem - I had lots of domains I've bought over the years which I never used!

Solution - I created a tool to automatically turn these un-used domains into a Reddit-like content aggregator. I wanted it to be fully automated with lots of content + social features (voting, members, newsletters).

It's been super fun creating it and also sharing with people who are also using it.

Some examples

https://www.faithfulnews.com

https://www.getinfosec.news

https://www.heystartup.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dewey » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

I currently have two projects I'm working on.

- https://annoying.technology: A blog about...annoying technology

- https://lastcast.fm: A tool to automatically collect which podcasts you are listening to. It gives you statistics, a way to discover new podcasts and the possibility to see what your friends are listening to.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by immnn » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

I‘m working on a gaming deals website that scrapes all the deals from console shops (PlayStation, Switch, Xbox) and then tries to get the games rating from metacriric. The clue is, all the deals are ordered by score.

It’s German-only, but maybe your interested: https://www.konsolen-deals.de/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by derekp7 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

I have an open source snapshot backup system (https://www.snebu.com) that I've been improving over the years, and after adding public key encryption support I posted to HN and I actually made the front page for once (this was on a Sunday afternoon however).

Got some feedback, a couple more contributors sent in pull requests, and based on other feedback I decided to submit a package to Fedora (currently working through their review process). Will try for Debian next.

What I'd like to do after getting more traction is put together a cloud based service for either sending backups directly or replicating a local repository to the cloud. I think the best way to go here is to partner with an existing provider instead of starting from scratch.

One thing I need to do is work on my elevator pitch, as Snebu often gets compared to smaller single-host backup tools such as rsync-snapshot based ones, or Borg or Restic. Whereas it is more comparable to tools that are intended to back up multiple hosts (Amanda, Bacula), with granular access controls, per-host encryption keys (optional) with site-wide skeleton keys (again optional), and a robust data catalog.