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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by gandutraveler »

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…

I was thinking about this very similar concept few years back. The idea was to prevent only the top 1% content surfacing all the time. My solution was to cap the number of likes/upvotes to some value like 10k.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jean-malo »

zserge wrote: post #732

I work on these three projects to launch them soon: * https://onthesamepage.online/ - a minimalist private whiteboard with no registration; already used in German schools, but working on scaling it and prepare for a more general market. * https://lalatabs.com - a tiny tabulature website for amateur musicians who can't read notes; need to add a few hundred songs and open it to the public. This won't be monitized, and…

On the same page is really cool!

In case you didn't already know: using the same whiteboard on a 27" screen vs a mobile screen hides a big portion of it on mobile. It seems like the whiteboard isn't scaled according to the screen size.

Love the concept though!

EDIT: Never mind looks like if you just dezoom it works, my bad!

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Post by codethief »

zserge wrote: post #732

I work on these three projects to launch them soon: * https://onthesamepage.online/ - a minimalist private whiteboard with no registration; already used in German schools, but working on scaling it and prepare for a more general market. * https://lalatabs.com - a tiny tabulature website for amateur musicians who can't read notes; need to add a few hundred songs and open it to the public. This won't be monitized, and…

On the same page looks really nice! Is there an export functionality?

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Post by devscreen »

I'm working on improving how companies screen and hire engineers. My experience over 10 years as an engineer is that Leetcode and whiteboard coding aren't good indicators of future performance of candidates.

I'm building a system that will automatically sin up a github project with a pull-request to review, or an issue to fix. Further test-types are planned but I will launch with these two. No matter the skill level of an IC engineer, they will need to carry out effective code reviews and fix bugs. I think that the PR test will be good for senior candidates while the bug fix test will be good for junior - mid-level engineers.

I have a basic landing page where interested people can sign up to be notified when it's ready: https://devscreen.io/

Let me know what you think! The goal of this is to improve the candidate experience and make better hiring decisions.

Edit: quick thanks to u/dvt for starting this thread. It was a fun read!

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Post by koheripbal »

jldugger wrote: post #369
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…

> 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. I like the idea, but this could backfire on me =/ app: "it will take you 10 minutes to afford this" me: "…

If it monitors the cost of Time, then I hope it reminds you of how much earning potential you've lost arguing on social media too.

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Post by gandutraveler »

I'm working on a (not so instant) messaging app to help friends stay connected.

Most of us use some form of instant messaging apps like whatsapp, FaceTime, snapchat to be in touch with our close friends/family inner circle. But it's hard to keep in touch with the ones whom we lost touch with. like your best friend from school, ex colleague.

My goal is to create an app that will randomly connect them out of the blue.

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Post by beowulfey »

I’m rewriting an open source protein sequence alignment viewer for biologists. Originally made it in python with Qt, now adapting it to C++ (which I knew little about prior). Been a fun learning project and I get to benefit from the spoils in my own research.
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