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#311
A Rust/Electron/three.js cross-platform disk-space usage analyzer. It's meant to be easy to learn, efficient to use, and nice to look at.

I have a beta up and would love any feedback: https://diskatlas.com/

It's my first small software business idea that I'm seriously pursuing. My goal with it is to earn enough passive income that I can return to work on more ambitious exploratory projects, e.g.: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#313
A travel planning app to help people convert their pent-up desire to explore the world again into live travel plans.

It constantly monitors:

- State-level travel restrictions for 65 countries

- Airbnb and hotel prices and availability

- Flight prices and availability

- Cross-border driving restrictions for road trips

You don't need to open 20 tabs to check that your flights match the hotel options, and then check that you can navigate each country's new travel requirements. We'll alert you when the whole trip is available.

We're calling it Airheart (https://airheart.com)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#314
Two things:

* (Yet another) password and secret manager, using modern cryptographic libraries (age) and with a strong emphasis on customizability[1]. I personally use it as a general purpose secret store for everything from passwords to command snippets.

* A tool that runs commands when USB devices are inserted or removed, allowing a user to write filters against a variety of device metadata. The end goal is something similar to udev rules, but much nicer to configure and cross-platform. Still unreleased.

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/kbs2

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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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…

Your extension sounds cool but what I'd love is a system to suggest if I should go premium or cheap on an expense.

For example I'd go super cheap on wired earbuds but premium on a set of knives. Or super cheap on knives but premium on an electric knife sharpener

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#318
Hexagons.

There's a library available at https://github.com/uber/h3 that lets you partition the earth into hexagons (minus the required 12 pentagons) at various resolutions. It's spiffy. I had the hardest (read impossible) time when I first took a look at it getting it to compile into a mobile game. It worked fine in desktop, but not on mobile.

So I punted and converted the whole thing into C#. It's a hot mess currently, but it works.

However, the folks who created H3 added functionality and some optimizations that I want, so I'm rebuilding it, partly with dealing with some of the issues that have come up with my game during development. It's coming along smoothly, though the unit tests are what's slowing me down at this moment.

Once that's done, I'm going back to my game. Covering the world in brightly colored hexagons as reality starts to crumble around you.

So, still... Hexagons. That's what I'm working on.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#319
Hey I see a bunch of us working on browser extensions, so cool! Now that everyone's working from home and glued to desktop screens, I really think that browser extensions are the new HUD for productivity.

I'm working on a browser extension that helps me discover new stock to trade when I browse the web. Say I like to shop on lululemon.com. I may not know that it's a public company, or that I can easily buy its stock even though it's a Canadian company. My browser extensions tells me that I can trade LULU, and other fun facts about the stock.

How do you discover new stocks to trade? I'll trade my free extension for your feedback :)

https://finance.shan.io/stock-inspector-discover-new-compani...

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