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#482I'm building a tool to take Instagram posts, parse the descriptions, and spit out a calendar.
I don't like browsing Instagram but a lot of events I'm interested in are only posted there. Instagram is very ephemeral, and because of the way the feed works it's very easy to miss posts if you don't browse constantly.
It works fairly well already though it still has a few false positives. It works on simple rules because machine learning would be too laborious to train. Still, I use it regularly and it's very handy to see what's happening around town.
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#483I run a community hackerspace in Fresno, CA called Root Access.
My main focus this year has been – and continues to be – working ways to ensure the space survives the pandemic.
We started making PPE earlier in the pandemic, which resulted in a lot of donations from the community. This came in clutch, and helped us build awareness of the space locally.
https://rootaccess.org/covid-19/
We also have another grant-funded project, in collaboration with several other non-profits, to build a network of low-cost air quality monitors in disadvantaged communities across the San Joaquin Valley.
We were hoping to use the funds from SJVAir to build up the space, get some new equipment, and run some cool events, but so far it's all gone to paying rent on a building we haven't been able to use since March.
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#484I have two recreational programming projects active now.
The first is a deterministic password generator [1] which is designed to be easy to use and manage. I've been using it myself for a couple months and have a couple UX improvements in my head that need to be done before I'd recommend it to anyone else. [1] https://bitbucket.org/nealtucker/whose/
The second is an infrastructure project which my brother and I are building as an opportunity for him to learn about automated infrastructure and security. Terraform starts by instantiating an automated private CA for the purpose of securely issuing certificates to all instances, and then all other instances come up with an agent that generates keys and calls the CA (along with a signed auth blob provided by the terraform run) to obtain certs. Nomad server also comes up, using the same certs, and controls all the other nodes. All communication is MTLS from the start and I'm in the process of adding ssh hostkey signing to the CA so at the same time the instances get certs, they get their hostkeys signed so we don't have to TOFU the ssh hostkeys. We have no idea what we'll do with it, but it's fun to build and teaching both of us a lot.
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#485An OpenGL-based 3D implementation of the Logo programming language, with the ability to have many turtles and create dozens of different 3D shape styles.
It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and we're working on porting it to WebAssembly and ARM. It comes with a couple dozen examples, including some basic 3D games (Breakout, maze game, driving game, TRON)
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#486I’m building a privacy-first app data (configuration) and feature flagging service. supporting user segmentation and % rollout without storing persona le identifiable data and a super simple api.
The app configuration/feature flags are expected to be kept in yaml/json files that you pass to the api, so you’re in full control and can check them in your VCS, accept pull requests and keep the same dev flow for configuration changes.
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#487At 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…
No product can solve the problem of self-discipline. The problems you're describing are an aspect of human nature. At some point, users will become particularly busy with something for days or weeks. After which they will dread seeing an app full of missed reminders and unread items, and they'll avoid it like the plague.
If you come up with a good enough solution, people will use it and you could be quite successful. But the day will always come when you have to declare Productivity App Bankruptcy
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#488A 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…
For a number of bay area devs I suspect this might have the opposite psychological effect. A $50 price tag might put some people off until they realize it's only 15-20 minutes of work.
The extension also shows you a random but helpful prompt to reflect on the nature of consumerism and happiness. Maybe it won't help everyone, but I hope that it reaches some.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#489A 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…
Love the idea, but I found it very intrusive and removed it. As in I don't like the redirect
Keep refining it !
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#490An web-based video creation tool where you can create short animated videos. Similar to Kapwing but focused on videos and with more animations and effects.
Still far from complete but it's been used for a couple of notable product hunt launch videos already such as bufferi.ng. And for a couple of blog posts of Supabase.
Not profitable or anything at the moment and looking at various niches where to take the product, could e.g. be used to automate news highlight videos from news articles (similar to the Onions instagram stories).
Link: https://glitterly.app/