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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#911
Since there are a lot of people with entrepreneurial mindset reading this... I've built Snack – a video chat roulette for Slack. https://aboutsnack.com/

It is steadily growing and generating revenue. However, due to other obligations, I am not able to actively work on it. I am keen to find someone to take it over from me, raise capital, and build a proper business. My contact is easy to find if you are interested to chat.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#912
I've just started a browser app that allows you to create and restore layouts of windows with websites, with minimal graphical UI and which remembers zoom levels and scroll positions as well as has an auto-refresh functionality.

The goal is to have a dense information display system that can persist between restarts and after the window is interacted with, all of the overlapping windows are correctly restored to their positions.

I will use it to display trading data, but it would also probably be useful for showing service and build statuses if they are distributed across different services or pages.

I've looked for exising solutions for this on Windows, and they look all very rudimentary. Window layout savers have very little recognition logic when restoring window placements, and of course they don't restore internal state like auto-refresh and scroll position. Chrome by default doesn't restore pop-up windows, while non-popup windows have too much of a GUI visible and I wasn't able to find an add-on that can do this.

I would probably be better off writing a browser extension, but I'm not that proficient in that, so for now am going with making a browser by integrating Microsoft's new embedded Chromium-based browser.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#913
Machine learning in the browser. I am focusing on tensorflow.js. There is a tensorflow to tfjs conversion script that can compile certain models to be used in a browser.

I have found it to be buggy, obviously there are performance issues, but when it is just right it is a really magical user experience. My first test was highlighting a section of a document, running it through client side OCR, and automatically copying it to the clipboard. It happens in less than half a second.

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#915
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…

previously present as Friendfeed (till it was shutdown) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#916
I'm making a web app written in elixir using phoenix liveview, tailwind css and alpine.js that allows twitch streamers to listen to music from youtube or soundcloud along with their communities without having to play the audio directly through their stream, and for viewers to listen along with a streamer. This effectively bypasses twitch's recent dmca enforcement policies, which are what gave me the idea to make this in the first place.

It's not much but (most of) it's mine :)

https://github.com/ohmree/frick_dmca

Currently users can sign in with twitch and play audio locally from youtube urls (using the invidious api, so no google login required) but I work on it whenever I can so it can hopefully become what I described above.

Contributions are more than welcome, although my code is pretty much undocumented and untested (but you could say I'm still in the prototyping stage so there isn't much code to begin with)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#917
I'm building an open-source lightweight, high-speed immutable database with a delta-encoding approach that makes branch, merge, push, pull, clone, time-travel and other git-like operations possible.

It is called TerminusDB and I just redesigned the README:

https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb

We think it could enable the sort of data mesh architecture discussed in this article:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-mesh-principles.html

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#918

I've just started a browser app that allows you to create and restore layouts of windows with websites, with minimal graphical UI and which remembers zoom levels and scroll positions as well as has an auto-refresh functionality. The goal is to have a dense information display system that can persist between restarts and after the window is interacted with, all of the overlapping windows are correctly restored to thei…

Cool idea! The Mac OS dashboard used to have a feature where you could save a cropped view of a web page as a widget, which would automatically refresh whenever the dashboard was opened. I used to use it to show a couple of weather radar and forecast maps. Sadly it was taken out in more recent versions.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#919

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…

It sounds like we might have converged onto similar visions. I've got a terrible prototype, are you looking for a collaborator?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#920
I'm trying to create a better stranger chat experience. Services like chatroulette and omegle have been around for around 10 years, and haven't really evolved much since then. I think this can be done a lot better. My version focuses on topic based chat, and uses machine learning to optimize for more civil conversations.
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