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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by rorykoehler »

xchaotic wrote: post #196
davehcker wrote: post #142

Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…

"By the year 2025, 63% of the world’s population will be living in cities" I wonder if Covid will revise those trends. Where I live (rural), there's plenty of unused land that needs a lot let contortions to farm (cheaper) but is indeed further away from the mouths to be fed in cities. How is the math behind urban farms vs simply shipping food into the city?

There are other considerations at play. We need to rewild nature and minimise human footprint if we want to keep the world livable.

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Post by rorykoehler »

Mumps wrote: post #175
davehcker wrote: post #142

Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…

Please tell me "seed-money" was a pun intended moment. Jokes aside, from a biology perspective why the aversion to GMO? From an ML perspective, what are you optimizing for - maximized growth rate?

The one place I'd be happy to see GMO utilised is in siloed and controlled indoor farms.

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Post by benkoller »

ondrek wrote: post #177

Async planning tool Bearicorn ( https://bearicorn.com/ ) I started this two months ago and it's suppose to be a tool which helps me with personal planning. Sharing tasks with my wife, colleagues, friends and employees. It's a side project and I still have a job, so I work during evenings and nights on it.

Maybe it's me being blind, but I do not see a download/signup anywhere. How would one try bearicorn?

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Post by blackrock »

igeligel_dev wrote: post #76

To be honest all my projects created till now. They are all super low-cost per month (around 10$ per month) and eventually they will grow. - https://caseconverter.pro/app - a simple online case converter, could probably grow it with SEO - https://getworkrecognized.com - app to keep a work diary and create self-reviews, actually paid for itself. Got promoted twice within 2.5 years at current company - https://linkediu…

How much do you make from your ads?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by new_here »

davehcker wrote: post #142

Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…

The Dutch are apparently the second largest vegetable exporter in the world (!) using these kinds of techniques. Lots of interesting research happening at Wageningen University and Research. A greenhouse that keeps getting mentioned is Duijvestijn Tomatoes.

Further reading here if you're interested:

1. https://www.dw.com/en/could-high-tech-netherlands-style-farm...

2. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-...

I agree though, there's not enough info out there about an integrated approach. Perhaps it's proprietary.

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Post by theawless »

I was building a small library [1] for WebRTC signalling by sending the signalling messages over Matrix (or Signal or Discord in future). Once the signalling is completed, the connection could be utilised for anything like peer to peer games, drawing boards, or just plain old chatting.

[1] decent-signal: https://github.com/theawless/decent-signal

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by ajnavarro »

A torrent client that exposes torrent content as files: https://github.com/distribyted/distribyted

It's pretty fun to work on it and implement new use cases. Right now it supports FUSE mounts, but I'm thinking to make it work as a WebDAV server too.

Also, I'm working on several demos, like SQLite compatibility, similar to https://github.com/lmatteis/torrent-net, or CSV analysis using Jupyter notebooks for huge datasets like https://ghtorrent.org/

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by benkoller »

drzel wrote: post #23

I work on a mod for the original Quake Team Fortress. We’ve been getting roughly eight players a night for many years. That’s enough to play. That’s enough success for me. https://www.FortressOne.org

Any chance for a port to Big Sur? Would love to be #9.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by blackrock »

TheNewAndy wrote: post #112

I made this iOS game: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/two-birds-one-stone/id15396463... I have wanted to be able to play this game for a long time, and probably thanks to pandemic, I did the work to enable it to be shared with others. It has made a grand total of 3 sales this year, and that isn't really bothering me (the main frustration is the apple developer fee...) There is various info (including a trailer of sorts…

Nice! What you can do is reuse the structure of your game, and make another one. Basically, just re-skin it.

Then, I think a better approach is to just give it away for free. Then, display ads, or sell tokens when they player dies.

Only display ads, in non-critical parts of the game, like when the player dies, or when he pauses the game. Or in between levels.

But, the biggest money maker, might be to sell tokens. Once in a while, you’ll get some guy that just drops $20 on your game. These guys are the whales.

What did you write it in? Objective-C or Swift?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by igeligel_dev »

tony0x02 wrote: post #190
igeligel_dev wrote: post #76

To be honest all my projects created till now. They are all super low-cost per month (around 10$ per month) and eventually they will grow. - https://caseconverter.pro/app - a simple online case converter, could probably grow it with SEO - https://getworkrecognized.com - app to keep a work diary and create self-reviews, actually paid for itself. Got promoted twice within 2.5 years at current company - https://linkediu…

The concept of getworkrecognized may have startup potential..just a thought

Its similar to https://progressionapp.com. The difference with my project is that I try to target the actual employees. Its just a different targeting group but its really difficult to get people to pay for it of course. Will try to revamp onboarding/trials somehow in the following months and thanks for the encouraging words. Feel free to give me any feedback and if you wanna try it for free, feel free to reach out to getworkrecognized@gmail.com
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