Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What are you working on?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

341–350 of 1001 posts

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#341

Post by decuran »

An app called EtymologyExplorer that allows exploration of word origins.

It shows word family trees in a visual layout. I made this because I'm really interested in how words relate to one another. For example "magnanimous" can be understood through its relatives "magnificent" and "unanimous"

Working on it has been both a blast and a slog (~6 years on & off). I used DL NLP (thanks fast.ai!) to convert written etymology paragraphs into a database of words and connections. The accuracy is roughly 99%. There are about 1.4M words and 1.3M word-pair-connections across 13k languages. The most interesting thing has been finding Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from "nose" to "anemone".

I'm just started making some revenue from sales of premium (to removes ads), which I'd like to grow. I'm also thinking of adding more visualizations to show interesting connections.

https://etymologyexplorer.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#342

Post by tin7in »

A document editor that automatically turns knowledge into your personal Wikipedia. I started working on this because I couldn't search and connect text from different sources like email, Google Docs, Slack.

The main ideas are:

- Rich text editor that automatically creates bidirectional links between pages and concepts in your knowledge base (could be terms, names, companies, etc.)

- You can drag and drop snippets of text from one page to another - create live references and summaries.

- Currently working on integration with Google Drive, email and Slack so that you can reference / drag and drop snippets of text from there to your notes.

https://saga.so

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#343

Post by slow_donkey »

Oras wrote: post #337

Working on GPT-3 based service to generate job descriptions. I am awaiting the approval of OpenAI team before I can share the link but here is a gif to show an example from the service: https://s2.gifyu.com/images/edited.gif Features include: - Generating general skills based on job title. - Generate required skills based on keywords. - Export to PDF and MS-Word. If anyone is interested feel free to follow me on twit…

What's the purpose? Do finely tuned job descriptions attract more candidates? I'm guessing the point isn't to actually describe the job if the copy can be automatically generated.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#346

Post by diamondap »

jetrink wrote: post #273

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,…

I wrote a similar app for archivists to push materials into preservation repositories. I used Electron, since it has good cross-platform support. The source is at https://github.com/aptrust/dart with documentation at https://aptrust.github.io/dart-docs/users/getting_started/

The underlying JavaScript code in that app started getting messy because I was working on several other projects simultaneously, but you might find it useful to play with as you consider your desktop app.

The archival community uses a simple text-based packaging format from the Library of Congress called BagIt, which allows you to include metadata and checksums with your archived materials so you can ensure their integrity and make sense of them when you get them back.

Anyway, you're working on an interesting problem. I'd be interested to see how it goes.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#347

Post by scottward »

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…

I think you've nailed it. There are very few tools that help you connect the long term with the current week and day, at least in a meaningful way.

https://www.habitstack.com/ is geared towards this. You enter your goals for the year and chunk them down to the quarter, month, and week. Then the software prompts you to stay engaged with the system.

As Scott Adams wrote, "Losers have goals, winners have systems." :)

I'm the founder. Happy to dialogue about the future of productivity and goal setting any time!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#348

Post by practicalwebdev »

dceddia wrote: post #132

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…

Great idea. I've been using the command line application from https://github.com/carykh/jumpcutter for my videos to automatically remove silence but it's not as user friendly as yours looks.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#349

Post by animatedb »

jedberg wrote: post #216
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…

On reddit, we created a bellwether award. It was basically for the person who was most accurate at upvoting things that got popular and downvoting the things that did not. The people who won the award the most were the ones that upvoted all the memes and blogspam. My point of this is not to discourage you, but to warn you that the way you've described your platform, the most "profitable" thing to do is not upvote goo…

Allow people to vote and follow different bellwether classifications.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#350

Post by rajeshp1986 »

palmm wrote: post #336

We've been building stuff in the HR space during free time. We were asking companies questions like: "How do you report an issue in your workplace?" or "How do you know when workplace misconduct has occurred?" Turns out, ~75% of misconduct witnessed in workplaces goes unreported[1] due to legacy processes, tools, or a system that doesn’t empower employees to share what’s going on.. :( Unfortunately, makes sense based…

This looks like a cool product. I can see its potential. You should expand on sales team and go hard on enterprise sales.
Post reply on HN