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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jamesvnz »

maddynator wrote: post #663

I am working on creating an app for people with type2 diabetes. They only need to take the picture of the food they are about to eat and the app will tell approximate range of how many points their blood sugar can rise. For example, if you take a picture of an apple, it can tell that eating a full apple will increase blood sugar by 5-15 points. Its a range because it depends on the quantity and the individual insulin…

Sounds great - but maybe a simpler first step would be just estimating the carb content. This way you'd get type 1s interested too. It would be the first step before insulin/carb ratios and glycemic index become factors.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by keeble »

Me and a friend are working on a skincare routine assistant app called Bomi. We launched the mvp a month ago.

With Bomi you can create an unlimited number of routines and you are notified when you need to apply them, you can track the products on your virtual shelf (when you opened them, you are notified near the expiration date), you can browse a database of products and you can add products to your wishlist so as not to save information all over your phone. We also want to add a statistics module in which you can view the progress that your skin has made lately.

Here you can find more details: http://bomiapp.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by purrcat259 »

I'm working on bringing the "pay as you go" model to game server hosting, starting with Factorio.

Most game server hosts require you to pre-commit to 1/3/5/etc days of hosting and limit the number of "slots" for people to play. I think these are completely arbitrary limitations as a result of them needing to justify the cost of the server in the rack.

If you pre-pay for 72 hours straight, plausibly you're going to be asleep and working/learning for 2/3rd of that time, which is all wasted time that you paid for.

My aim is to enable a player to buy X credits and pay by the hour. Parent gamer who only gets an hour of play in the evenings and a few in the weekend? Price conscious student who still wants a high quality MP server to play with friends? You get a lot more value for your €$5 this way.

My email is in my profile if anyone is interested in trying it out once I release the alpha version.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by hnlmorg »

I've spent the last ~5 years working on a cross platform $SHELL and scripting language that sits somewhere between Bash, Fish and Windows Powershell.

The idea being it has UX improvements and sane defaults like fish (eg man page parsing for better auto completions), it supports structured data types like Powershell but yet still works fine with traditional POSIX byte streams like Bash.

I've also worked hard on the syntax to try and keep it as familiar with POSIX as I can for ease of use, but throwing out POSIX where it's counter-intuitive. And likewise, the syntax tries to balance terseness (since REPL is a write many read once environment) with readability (to make shell scripts less cryptic).

Target audience is basically myself but I think this fits anyone who spends a lot of time in the terminal using sysadmin or developer tools. Particularly DevOps tooling which are often JSON / YAML / etc heavy.

This is a personal project but I'm very much open to feedback, suggestions, feature requests, pull requests, etc...

https://github.com/lmorg/murex

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tjomk »

Working on two things. During the day I am (almost) a solopreneur and building shipit [1] - a tool for people to help visualize their product plans and connect these to company goals. There is a fair share of competition here, but all of the existing tools are extremely broad (think Jira vs Trello), and when you just start using these it's hard to figure out what to do first. Trying to solve that issue by keeping shipit super simple and avoiding feature bloat.

While I try to keep the blog relevant to the target audience, every now and then a technical post slips in:

- encrypting sensitive data in the database [2]

- using checlists for testing the build before release [3]

- moving from software engineer to product manager [4]

To avoid burning out, in the evenings I also build a remote-controlled car that uses 4 independent motors and is controlled by PS3 joystick. I got inspired by the video showing torque vectoring [5] in Rimac, and wanted to build something like that too. There's also an old project called Aelith [6] doing similar thing. I'm still in the early stages, and experimenting with 3D-printed motor mounts. When that is ready, will move to the software part.

[1] https://www.getshipit.com

[2] https://www.getshipit.com/blog/securing-data-at-shipit/

[3] https://www.getshipit.com/blog/software-checklist-testing/

[4] https://www.getshipit.com/blog/from-software-engineer-to-pro...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2Do1gAuog

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET1HEyqEQJQ

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by berkes »

A professional social network, on the fediverse. AKA a "decentralised" alternative or addition to- LinkedIn. https://flockingbird.social

With some friends, I've been on this for months now, doing all the "less fun stuff" such as interviews, market-research, businessmodel, designing, aligning needs[3], concepts etc. And the more fun stuff, such as proof of concepts and lately some actual programming (yay).

"The fediverse" is providing invaluable feedback and ideas, as did interviews. If HN has some ideas (even if it is: it will fail, here's why) please tell me! (alternatively leave an issue on github[1] or a toot on mastodon[2]).

Most important question: would you put your profile/resume/CV on a decentralised professional network and why (not)?

Secondly: Would you be interested in running a small social network just for your co-workingspace, colleagues, company, alumni, startup-hub, businessnetwork, etc?

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[1] https://github.com/Flockingbird/roost/issues

[2] https://fosstodon.org/@flockingbird

[3] following the great models at https://leanstack.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by ShiftEnter »

Not really a product (yet), but I'm researching and trying to create an accessible natural language understanding algorithm without the use of deep neural networks (or at least, not in any significant way). In my opinion, neural networks are used in the wrong way when it comes to natural language processing such that they make the whole understanding process too opaque. Instead, I'm trying to consider the NLU pipeline as a graph problem for which I can use any model to speed up the search but where it can work without it as well.

It's a long shot and a big topic, but I've managed to enjoy it along the way so far by coding different NLP algorithms (CYK parser, dependency parsers, tokenizer, etc.) and trying to publish some of the code (C#) I made as NuGet libraries for others to use.

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