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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by berkes » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:13 AM UTC

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #660

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…

I'm not sure how one would word this exactly, but there are many additional costs to each product that we buy. Plant space, animal lives, tainted ecosystems, busted up terrain, displaced humans are all contained in most of the products we buy, and especially online. It's one thing when it's a bare necessity, but I shudder when I think about how many animal lives were lost in order to produce just one faux-animal bean…

A local group is building FairSharesApp, which is an app that tries to make you aware of the additional costs to a product. And allow you to buy that off.

AFAIK they only do CO2 emissions, yet. But when I spoke to them, they had more planned.

My problem with such products, is that they will reach the people who need it less: people who already care and try their best, will be able to do a little better; but people who don't care, won't install and use it, yet their impact is probably relatively much larger.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dirtylowprofile » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:13 AM UTC

The next Tiktok but on a shoestring budget

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tosterovic » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:13 AM UTC

I've hacked together an anti procrastination browser plugin which blocks blacklisted pages and displays a dashboard with the alternative actions:

- a todo list - maybe I can do this small chore now?

- a break timer - maybe it's time to break?

- and some simple statistics to shame me into not going through.

If I want to go through for some reason I can solve simple adding task, which is ok when I really need to, but stops me when I am procrastinating.

It's a first version, and one of many such plugins, but it's specifically tailored to my needs. Maybe someone will find it helpful. It's here: https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/instead/ and here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instead/bokgngfmhc...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by matthberg » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:15 AM UTC

I requested my full listening history from Spotify in an attempt to make my own version of wrapped. The repo isn't public yet, but I have scripts for reformatting the json they give you, adding timezone data from IP lookups, as well as graphing and summarizing at any timeframe granularity. It's mainly written in R, and I'm debating about adding a Shiny front end or trying to port it to a clientside web app.

I've also been working on a generative art library in common lisp (also private repo'd though :/).

If there's any interest or similar work I'd be more than happy to chat about it (hey.hn@mws.is).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Nowado » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:15 AM UTC

Get ready for a mouthful of buzzwords:

repetitive conversation automation/human in the loop chatbot/personal response cache.

Basically, if you find yourself having the same conversation (or answering the same questions) I want to make it very fast and easy to respond with the same thing (without linking people to your personal FAQ that nobody's going to read).

Currently there's only slack extension. It lets you add pair {question:response} and retrieve responses by questions using semantic similarity. So you can still be nice and respond like a human, but do it under 5 seconds.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by midasz » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:16 AM UTC

A couple of things honestly.

The project I'm closest to 'finishing' is https://list.futbol, which aggregates silly titles found on /r/soccer. It originated from a post called something like 'It was the saddest backflip of my career...'. After that post users started keeping track of 'the list' with comparable posts. The list started living in comments, and eventually a subreddit was born (/r/saddestbackflip). What I'm doing is twofold:

- A static site built on hugo that has markdown posts per submission, it's on github here: https://github.com/midasvo/the-list so that if I get hit by bus a bus someone else can easily fork it or take it over (or if I add things that people don't like they can start their own). It also offers a really simple JSON endpoint so others can do what they want with the data. It's the communities data after all, not mine.

- A reddit bot (https://github.com/midasvo/the-list-bot) that checks top-level comments on /r/soccer for callouts (e.g. !addittothelist), creates a markdown post from the submission, commits and pushes it to a separate branch on https://github.com/midasvo/the-list, and creates a pull request. Once the pull request gets accepted, github actions go to work and the site will be updated. It already does this.

What I still want to do is to add a threshold to the parent comment, e.g. if the !addittothelist comment gets 100+ upvotes the pull request will be merged automatically.

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Furthermore I'm working on self-hosted recipe application using Spring Boot and React. Honestly just want to use it for me and my wife, but the philosophy is that people should be able to self-host it using a container - the data is yours. If I have the time/motivation I want to add the ability to 'connect' to others instances so you can retrieve their recipes and add them to your own repository. But firstly I'll work on exports/imports.

I'm not doing this on github, but on my own gitea instance + build street using drone-ci and other stuffs.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by pfdevilliers » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:17 AM UTC

Building a niche network for Haworthia plant enthusiasts. The initial version is basically an inventory system that people can use to track inter-species breeding using QR codes on the plant. Probably the coolest bit about Haworthias is the different colours and shades you get by combining them. However, the interesting part to me is the family tree of a particular plant. How cool would it be if you can see the ancestors for each Haworthia plant and then whey you buy from a breeder you not only get a good looking plant but almost a bit of history as well?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by berkes » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:21 AM UTC

Gaessaki wrote: post #359

I’m working on a restaurant delivery cooperative: https://radish.coop . It’s basically like the other delivery platforms, except that it is owned by its users (so restaurants, employees and consumers) which vote on its direction and partake in its proceeds. I’m a restaurant owner/programmer who felt that things could be done more equitably and feared that the continued dominance of the current crop of platforms would…

I've seen several of them in Europe. Both in media and IRL. Knowing some people who work at a local one, all I can say, is that this quite certainly is the road to the future.

For one, because unions and govts are pushing down to delivery services that pretend to have "freelancers" working for them, but really just offload costs (social fees, insurance, taxes) to underpayed workers. A model where all the employees are actual entrepeneurs, and not just on paper will work much better here.

And second, because delivery is a rapidly growing niche in itself. So even if coops take only 2%, it is a rapidly growing 2%.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by rkuska » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 8:25 AM UTC

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…

That's a really nice idea! I like that. What helped me from impulse buying is a simple thing; I always when I encounter something I want to buy I store it in the bookmarks (I have a folder in bookmarks called "To buy"). I only buy after a couple of weeks have passed and I decided I really need that thing. When I have a free time I go through my list and delete things that are obsolete. The second thing is, I have a limit of buying 1 thing per week (this includes also things like basic necessities, for example deodorant, that I need for myself). Needless to say I got the inspiration from my wife, she practices this for a few years already. The best thing about this is that it actually makes me feel good.