https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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#82https://pingtype.github.io - it helps me learn Chinese, and I'm going to keep using it even though it doesn't have any traction. Generating word spacing, pinyin, and literal translations for interesting text, rather than just homework books, is far more motivating.
Hi Peter, do you have any other recommendations for learning Mandarin. I've just started taking lessons a few weeks ago.
First I wasted a lot of time looking for how to study Chinese. The best thing to do is to consistently practice. Don't worry about grammar.
Just try learn new words everyday and then deliberately practice them with speakers.
No tool will help you with this.
Try to identify why you need to study Chinese. You'll learn much faster if you need rather than want to learn it.if you don't have a need try to create one.
Learning characters is much easier than you think. The hard part about Chinese for me is the pronunciation and when you finally get good enough to hold conversations understanding that people don't say what they mean.
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#83https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.
My parents just had the radio hooked up to the same circuit that was driving the bathroom lights. You enter the room, turn on the lights and there was instant audio. Makes sense to put this into a product.
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#84I'm working on https://github.com/uberswe/beubo - It's a CMS similar to Wordpress but written in Go. It's still very early and it has a lot of bugs but what will make it powerful is plugins and themes. Performance is the biggest difference between Wordpress, plugins will most likely use RPC/gRPC which means they could be written in any language. I'm mostly writing it for use with my own projects like https://tournify…
Interesting project. I'm creating my own blogging CMS with a similar tech stack, Go + sqlite3 + Go templates. Works well so far. I plan adding plugins as well. Do you use a special library to support those?
Right now I'm leaning towards using https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin
You should link your project, it would be interesting to follow.
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#85Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#86https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.
Good luck with your launch! Have you settled on a price yet? I didn't see one one the website.
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#87Writing a book on how to advertise on google ads. Don’t care if I make any money; I see so much money wasted on Google ads I want to at least try to centralize good Ads practices.
I'd love to read your book! Contact info in profile.
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#88The idea is to build up my "making and marketing software products" muscles.
I am doing this in non-work, non-family hours (what few there are) and really don't care what succeeds - it's just if I do t do something I will go crazy.
I don't want a billion - I just want to really try. (without the risk of joblessness and family etc)
The first one - reviewing my kids YT watching habits with them. Got a list of others to try.
I was actually pushed over the edge by a post recently of Andy Fry who is doing a 12 startups in 12 months thing. Had to give something a go after that.
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#89Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#90I wrote a meal scheduler - https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler . It tracks ingredients we have at home, it has a database of recipes, it knows where we can buy ingredients online (for delivery). It schedules meals for my shared household. I can give it a request like: "next week I want to cook 4 vegetarian meals with 3 portions, and 1 vegan meal for 8 people for big shared dinner, and I want It thinks for…
I wonder if you have any interesting example data-files that could be used with the model, preferable both something small and something larger? Would be fun to test the model locally to see how it behaves.
Notes: I'm assuming here that https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler/-/blob/master... is the model used.