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Post by glasss »

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'm all talk here but this system you've described is an aspect of my dream, which is a personal ERP. Something to not only manage these goals / activities as you've described, but also to contain various aspects of information for your life. A repository for important documents filed in a manner that makes sense, profiles for the various people in your life containing various information (things they like, allergies, gift ideas, etc). Lots more in my head that I will continue dreaming about but certainly not lift a finger about.

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

twiclo wrote: post #56

Me and a friend have been working on a game that I describe as "Factorio but for programming". Essentially you're an AI who's mission is to mine every resource from a planet. To keep things efficient you start out small and have limited processing power. You're only able to run an assembly like language that we've developed. As you get more resources you can research new things like functions, variables, type argumen…

I am very interested in playing this, following this and possibly taking part if you're looking for other people.

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Post by kmf »

Working on https://jobsindevrel.com, a job board for developer advocates and devrel jobs.

I haven’t officially launched it yet, but starting to build up the Twitter (https://twitter.com/@jobsindevrel) and the mailing list so that when there is some actual traffic coming in, it should (ideally) be profitable pretty quickly. Hoping to launch this month!

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Post by loosescrews »

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…

The email address listed in the privacy policy doesn't seem to be valid.

I couldn't find stated clearly one way or the other whether or not you collect information about the sites that I visit.

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Post by hershyb_ »

working on https://testflight.apple.com/join/NPwgYK3H which is still in beta :) its a location based discussion app basically you can talk to people within ~2km of you. I thought it would be a nice to have during Covid for people feeling a little lonely. Would love to hear what people thing :)

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Post by jkarni »

A browser extension for creating unions/campaigns, that can collectively decide whether to e.g. boycott a website. If they so decide, all members of that union will, when visiting the page during the time-period of the boycott, see a message explaining the reasons for the boycott instead of the site.

(Or the union can decide to display a banner with a message at the bottom of the page, if a full boycott is too strong.)

Eventually the idea is to allow for a more integrated discussion about websites _on the website itself_ (i.e., forums with threads for pages/sites, accessible from that page via the extension, so that starting or participating in the discussion becomes easy).

I think a lot of the difficulties we have in collective organization in the realm of the internet can be ameliorated with a tool of this nature. Think of what it would take to effectively signal something to facebook. How would you find people who might have similar demands as you to organize a boycott? How would they find you? How would you remember about the boycott? How would Facebook know what the "canonical" set of demands are?

The work so far is here: https://izens.net/ (and on github: https://github.com/izens-net). There's still a lot to do, but a basic version of the browser extension already works.

(Other people were involved too, and some did in fact more work than me, in case the tone above suggests it's entirely me work.)

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Post by ir193 »

googletron wrote: post #406

I am working on personal finance tool called earmark.co One stop shop for all your finance goals. Investments, budget, multiple bank account, and automated transfers between account. Check it out! On mobile and the web. Coming soon.

will it requires my bank account password? I tried several accounting apps, all of them need me to type my bank password expicitly. I don't want to trust them

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Post by zenincognito »

I am working on https://hackerspad.net which finds leading alternatives to softwares,reviews and comparisions for your favourite app or software. I have been working on it since April last year learning PHP, MYSQL, Nginx, Wordpress, Redis and so on. I am a salesperson by trade.

The main difference between hackerspad and other alternative sites it that it is devoid of ads and the idea is to charge businesses for listing. It makes just enough to pay hosting cost.

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