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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by RickS »

At home: Experimental tools that connect max/msp(ableton) and arduino (LED control).

Think highly general max patches that automatically export realtime audio, midi, and automation data to a central hub, with a GUI that allows you to assign that data to visual properties that are then sent to a neat LED setup I've built. Akin to the mod table in a synthesizer like serum/thor, but with all of ableton's data on one side, and a light show on the other.

I started building this in react out of familiarity, and because I really want the visual feedback, but this has introduced 100ms+ of round trip latency, which is enough to break the effect. It has to go max -> JS runtime within max -> socket.io listener -> react app -> listener -> arduino, which is goofy as hell. Trying to figure out a lighter, faster stack for this without having to learn both a new language and domain in tandem.

I'd love examples of projects in this space, if anyone has favorites.

At work: A GUI/IDE/DSL for cross platform design system management, to service one of the largest design systems in the world.

We (Adobe) are about to start hiring an additional technologist to work on this. Potentially relevant experience: typescript, cross-platform UI dev, building version control systems, graph DBs?, visual programming (scratch, nodebased, etc), anything related to IDE dev or expansive config management tooling. That's off the top of my head, don't take the list too seriously. My email is psteele@, feel free to drop a line and I'll hang onto your info, but won't promise anything beyond a "we'll see in a bit". I'm not the hiring manager, just the primary IC.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dceddia »

I'm making a video editor that removes silence from videos. After creating a bunch of code screencasts, I've found most of my editing time is spent manually cutting out chunks of silence, and it's always felt like a job the computer should be doing.

So I'm making a native Mac app to do it for me. It's in private beta right now, and feedback has been good so far!

I'm hoping to hoping to get it launched in the next few weeks. Aiming for a minimal useful feature set initially – recording the screen, removing silence, and exporting (either an edited video, or the timeline of cuts, to enable editing in Resolve/Premiere/ScreenFlow), and I'll build up from there.

https://getrecut.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tjkrusinski »

mseo wrote: post #86

https://clips.fm - A tool that converts podcast audio to shareable & social media ready videos. The video creation and the transcoding is all done in the browser, so it was quite a technical challenge. It's far from perfect, but it works and it's improving every day.

Are you using the ffmpeg wasm thingy?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by corytheboyd »

A near real-time peer-to-peer piano keyboard visualizer for remote music lessons. Peer 1 plays their keyboard, and the midi data is sent to Peer 2 where a keyboard animates and sound optionally plays.

Project name is Midishare.

Got the idea after starting piano lessons about 5 months ago. It’s all over zoom, which works surprisingly well for music lessons on its own, but it’s difficult rigging a camera to show the remote person what you’re doing on the keyboard, as well as getting the sound to come through (if you don’t have a nice audio interface). There is still the issue of communicating finger position, not quite sure how to solve that one yet, or if it really even warrants a technical solution (again, you also have zoom to just communicate verbally, works okay for fingering)

The keyboard I use to animate playback is a 3D model which communicates the flow of playback surprisingly well, it’s at least a pretty cool accomplishment on its own!

I’ll launch it with a Show HN one of these days, within a month or two is the goal!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by krmmalik »

I'm working on building an app via smart contracts that helps people do Qirad. Qirad is finance without collateral or equity stake. It was instrumental in helping to create a flourishing economy during the Italian Renaissance but has since been forgotten.

I'm a non-coder that's currently learning DAML and React.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by danaliv »

I designed and built an airport weather sensor network. Output is available here: https://davidsen.aero/awas/kgbr/

(Still working on vis, sky condition, and present weather.)

As you can see by some missing data on the graphs, it’s not always available. But the sensors are carefully selected to perform to FAA standards. It’s been really fun putting together a high-precision, distributed system (packet radio data links) that can withstand the outdoors.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by flixic »

"Obsessively private messaging app", that will be available at silent.app. In many ways a LOT more secure (and much less user friendly, alas) than Signal. I expect that maybe 3 people in the world will need that. If you're interested, reach out to me, I have a private alpha available.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by skulk »

enjeyw wrote: post #51

An aggregator ala reddit/hackernews/twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery. One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that: - how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting. - However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than "frontpage" content - This means…

This is the most interesting take on realigning (micro?)blogging incentives I've ever seen. I hope it gets its chance with millions of users, even if it has incorrigible issues like our current standard.
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