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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by remram »

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 sounds a bit complicated, and I would naively assume that some people would upvote low-quality content that is likely to reach the frontpage (which reinforce the cycle).

How about checking algorithmically how reliable users are, and weighting their votes that way? The manual redemption of correct-upvotes and acquisition of downvote-shares seems a bit much in my view.

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Post by abhaysaxena_hk »

https://www.homekasa.io/

This is our startup which aims to make the experience of buying, managing and living in a house easier for owner, investors and tenants. Consolidate all transactions, paperwork, reminders and legal advice in one place.

We are looking to provide a single UI for tenants, home owners, property managers, service providers and investors to manage their entire workflow and also communicate with each other.

- Tenants and landlords are able to communicate with each others - property owners and land lords can find all the forms needed and fill them in, screen tenants, and manage all the finances, insurance and other paperwork from one place - managed expenses associated with the property - check if it makes sense to refinance or not

The app is a React-redux front end with the backend in NestJS with Mongo as the data store. The website is in NextJS (it is being updated in the few weeks)

We have had a lot of fun building it so far and we feel that the potential is so huge.

We have also gotten some feedback from users outside North America so we'll expand to Europe, Turkey, India and South Africa soon.

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Post by jetrink »

I'm working on a utility to archive and organize old data that I want to keep forever, but I don't want cluttering up my local hard drives and Dropbox account. The initial goals of the project are:

* Design for cold data only. Stuff that is done changing and won't be accessed regularly if at all: completed projects, annual financial records, RAW image files organized by month, etc.

* Store items in flat collections, not in folder hierarchies. Store directories as compressed archives. I'm not a librarian and I find folder hierarchies difficult maintain.

* Store everything such that the data will still easily accessible even if the index is lost or the software stops working. Use well-known formats and human-readable file names.

* Automatically store data in multiple locations, including S3-compatible services, Amazon Glacier, file servers or locally. Allow each collection of items to have its own mix of storage locations.

* Organize within collections using tags and metadata.

* Provide a simple checkout system to download items when needed.

I have the core features working and I am now building the desktop application, which I intend to be cross-platform. However, I've never written a desktop application before, let alone a cross-platform one, so development has slowed while I learn and experiment.

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Post by tibu »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

You're saying that you can add your long term goals and you would split it into more and more smaller parts finish could be at the end even daily tasks? Interesting. Would you combine this with daily operational tasks or would you handle them separately?

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Post by weichsel »

A long running side project of mine is a lightweight GIF & video utility for the Mac: https://www.peakstep.com/claquette/ It can perform a handful of often-needed video tasks like cropping, trimming or re-encoding.

It is a fully native Mac app that also comes with a nice screen recording tool to record either the Mac's screen or iOS devices connected via Lightning cable.

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Post by texodus »

https://texodus.github.io/mtg-perspective/?seasons-in-the-ab... https://github.com/texodus/mtg-perspective

A Magic TG (the popular card game) deck builder and card screener analytics app. I actually remember virtually nothing about Magic, I just built it to test-drive the analytics web UI! Built on Perspective, Apache Arrow to encode the entire Magic card database in a single 20mb file so I can embed it in a browser, and some great enthusiast web services for decks, card meta data, symbology and images.

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Post by radlad »

jsomau wrote: post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Wow, this is exactly what I need. I've recently been thinking a lot about how much less likely I am to purchase a product if I map its cost back to my hours worked. Thanks for this!

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Post by InitialLastName »

corytheboyd wrote: post #134

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 re…

Do you have a plan for showing dynamics? Would be fascinating to get a live piano roll of a performance that used (say) a color scale for the loudness.
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