Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by akhann » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 7:02 PM UTC

We just launched a dedicated technical due diligence / tech M&A risk consulting company. The goal is to help investors make more informed investment decisions.

https://www.apioneers.com

We are currently building a streamlined process for investigating risk inherent in a technology company (be it a start-up investment or a critical piece of infrastructure for enterprise systems), and finding out just how much can be solved for with such a standardized approach vs. the consultants' years-long experience applied in a creative, inquisitive way.

Next to this, we are also putting a lot of hours of R&D in a financial product that's going to help make housing more affordable for good tenants AND just as or more profitable for landlords at the same time. Good progress here, already talking with banks for contractual details.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by pks016 » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 7:30 PM UTC

alfg wrote: post #606

I work mostly around multimedia, so a few video-related tools I've been working on lately: 1. FFmpeg command generator: https://alfg.github.io/ffmpeg-commander/ 2. Web-based MP4 File Inspector: https://github.com/alfg/mp4-inspector 3. Web-based FFProbe: https://github.com/alfg/ffprobe-wasm 4. Rust MP4 library: https://github.com/alfg/mp4-rust Also, trying to get a bit more familiar with Rust and Web Assembly.

FFmpeg one is great. Looks useful. I have few commands that I use saved in a note. Is there a way to support youtube videos?

E.g I use these

> youtube-dl -g "youtubelink"

> ffmpeg -ss 12:15 -i "1st-URL" -ss 12:15 -i "2nd-URL" -t 5:15 -map 0:v -map 1:a -c:v libx264 -c:a aac output.mkv

Both urls are for audio and video.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jlamp » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 8:42 PM UTC

I'm working on a website to help new home buyers prepare to buy a home. You enter a few details about your financial situation and location and I present your "home preparedness" summary. I then present a list of homes in the area for you to browse, each with a score to show how affordable it is for you. Finally, you can save homes to your account to track changes over time as we help you to prepare for your first (or subsequent) home purchase.

Right now it's a Django application that I've been working on for a few weeks now. I hope to have a MVP ready that I could present here soon.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by donkooijman » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 9:35 PM UTC

I am working on my own time tracking application. Web, iOS & Android and Mac. The app helps freelancers keep track of time they spend on projects/clients. A dashboard shows you how much you can invoice per week/month per client.

I have used different time tracking apps since I started freelancing a couple of years ago. About one year ago I decided to built my own. This gave me the possibility to style it exactly how I like. I named it Billable (https://getbillable.com/). I also find it really nice to use my own product every single day.

There have been so many unfinished side projects through the years. It feels good getting to this stage. The first web version is ready. Right now focusing on removing bugs and preparing images and texts for the Mac App Store.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tastytacos » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 11:28 PM UTC

dceddia wrote: post #132

I'm making a video editor that removes silence from videos. After creating a bunch of code screencasts, I've found most of my editing time is spent manually cutting out chunks of silence, and it's always felt like a job the computer should be doing. So I'm making a native Mac app to do it for me. It's in private beta right now, and feedback has been good so far! I'm hoping to hoping to get it launched in the next few…

Not trying to be discouraging, but my fear would be that your product is just a feature that other video editing software products will add if it is popular. Have you thought about your endgame? It is a good idea though -- I'm surprised they don't already do that.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by xcubic » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 12:45 AM UTC

artembugara wrote: post #160

I and my friend are building API to search for structured news articles [1]. It's a data-as-a-service. We've been working for ~1 year. Our full-time job now. ~3k MRR Our recent article about what we've learned [2] [1] https://newscatcherapi.com/ [2] https://newscatcherapi.com/blog/we-ve-been-running-a-bootstr...

What tech stack do you use? Specially for searching

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by daltrogama » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 3:06 AM UTC

Mine's not a side project, but I think its as interestint. After working on json-dsl for recommendation execution planning and carried that design to our search middleware, now I'm working in a "CQRS+Eventsourcing like" solution with dags-driven extendable state machines that gives a git-like vensioning view of some business entity. The chalenge is to guarantee that it'll work in a very efficient way (cost x latency) and be a good high-level abstraction platform for many product teams to work on in a safe, transparent and productive way. When being locally successfull, as it does not carry any business-specific code, we can plan to make it open-source. Looking forward to share the details with all comunity.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dyeje » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 3:12 AM UTC

patwolf wrote: post #469

I recently started the process of digitizing some old 8mm home movies from my late grandfather. I lament not knowing most of the stories and people shown in the films. It's gotten me thinking about the best way to preserve details of my life for future generations--like what I think my great great great grand kids might be interested in knowing about me if they were doing genealogy research. They probably won't care…

Check out Artifact for inspiration. They're doing something similar with audio recordings.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by CentiPenny » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 7:10 AM UTC

A micropayment processor. We handle payments from $0.0001 and up. No technical upper limit, but at $2.50 we become more expensive than regular CC processors. No cryptocurrencies involved, so it is available for a wide audience.

1-click/no-click purchasing

As little as one line of code integration. Can create a store page with as little as 7 lines of code that people can purchase items with a single click.

We work as a content paywall, as a pay-per-article addition for subscription paywalls, as a fast checkout method for digital stores, and for in-game/in-app purchases.

The API is small and easy. Can be run on page load or programmatically so that it can be bent to use in most situations.

True in-game/in-app API (outside of a browser) is coming soon.

https://www.centipenny.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by funfunfunction » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 2:31 PM UTC

matiastucci wrote: post #677

https://Annotate.tv : take notes on YouTube videos. Some random features I like about it: You can use the video transcript, do OCR of the video and export your notes into Readwise and/or markdown

I'm curious how you provide transcriptions for these videos. Is there a way to pull the transcriptions off of YouTube, or are you transcribing them with something like Cloud Speech-To-Text? I'm working on a project where YouTube transcriptions are required, any insight would be super helpful.