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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by akkartik »

conartist6 wrote: post #96
akkartik wrote: post #61

I work on ways to write programs that help outsiders understand their big picture (rather than insiders understand incoming contributions). The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-source program, get an idea for a simple tweak, open it up, orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a single afternoon. More details: http://akkartik.name/about What I have so far: https://github.c…

This is related to the goals I have for https://github.com/conartist6/macrome , except that my focus is on restoring forking potential for frontend development. I expect if forks become more abundant that the need for trust will be a major driver of merges.

This sounds tantalizing! Please write the blog post so I can read more about it :)

Increasing the number of forks is a long-time goal of mine. Check out the bottom of this old page from a previous project of mine: https://akkartik.github.io/mu1

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by yboris »

My 4-year old project Video Hub App is MIT open source charityware desktop application (TypeScript, Angular, Node, Electron) and I'm happy to have people contribute PRs. I'm unsure what a "collaboration" would look like, but perhaps there are some who would like to assist, rather than take a lot of responsibility. I'm thankful and thrilled for whatever you're up for.

My project for the year is adding facial recognition (I have a branch in PR that is 30% of the way finished with the feature already).

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://videohubapp.com/en/

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by johndetloff »

kraig911 wrote: post #30

I'm a front-end developer / artist / father. I'm trying to make a software application for families common in my situation. I have an 8 year old daughter who is very autistic and there is a huge lack in tools I feel that a family and kid can communicate with. To that end - I am trying to make a communication board tool. In my mind think of Trello board but there's not much in the way of words only symbols. Right now…

This sounds like a really cool project. I'm an iOS developer, if you end up needing native iOS contributions please feel free to reach out at the email in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by dashwehacct »

It’s a bit of a wacky idea, but there are a bunch of outdoors clubs that have sub-par technology solutions.

As these groups are small, usually minimal hardware and a FOSS tool or two is all they really need. Meaning their actual cost is probably way less then their expected cost (or what some hungry web dev quoted them at).

The idea is to bridge the gap between these groups and some tech that would add value to the groups. There is a strong possibility of cross pollination between outdoors groups, and for individuals in these groups to require more specialized tech solutions.

It feels crazy enough that it might work, but the idea is still young.

Email is in my profile if you have any advice, think this is stupid/great, want to collaborate, or just want to chat!

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by alexandargyurov »

If you like the game Teardown, and wish it had multiplayer support, I am building a server-based multiplayer mod for it. It's written in C# (client) and Golang (server) and using Nakama as an open-source game server. Just working on this in my free time, wouldn't mind an extra hand!

Discord alexandargyurov#1220

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by kraig911 »

nivethan wrote: post #42
kraig911 wrote: post #30

I'm a front-end developer / artist / father. I'm trying to make a software application for families common in my situation. I have an 8 year old daughter who is very autistic and there is a huge lack in tools I feel that a family and kid can communicate with. To that end - I am trying to make a communication board tool. In my mind think of Trello board but there's not much in the way of words only symbols. Right now…

This is quite interesting and important. Do you have anything I could follow or some literature about the topic? I'm not even sure what to search for as I never thought about alternative modes of communication.

A quick google as an example but this is from healthline. https://www.healthline.com/health/communication-board

I'll ask my wife who is a BCBA to share any studies related. The premise is symbols to help a kid reach from using symbols to letters/words. Right now they print a ton and velcro them to a board and communicate a complicated topic. There are apps out there but they kind of are lacking IMO and hard for a kid to figure out.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by ikinsey »

I've been developing web crawlers for the better half of a decade. They are used for various purposes such as cataloging sentiment/bias in news media, finding new tv shows to watch, or mapping out the Tor hidden service directory.

Currently, I am writing a web crawler application framework in golang. Always looking for help or new ideas on what to crawl next!

Emails welcome, check my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by johndetloff »

onemoresoop wrote: post #80

I'd love to work with people who want to create free educative games for kids, games fun enough to keep kids playing while developing their brains in positive ways. Most games I found are infested with ads (hence not free), sprinkled with lots of dark patters and the games are not good enough I'd even pay for them. Maybe there are some free gems out there already but are quite hard to find. My kid is 4yo and it has b…

I'm a fan of building games, and a fan of reducing the number of ads people see! I'm an iOS developer, if you could use help from a native iOS dev feel free to reach out at the email in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by Buttons840 »

I'd love to research practical ways to apply modern machine learning techniques to video games. Video game AI techniques seem stuck in the 90s. Too many games have been limited by poor AI, and I want to fix that.

I'm currently wanting to study bandit methods and tabular reinforcent learning. These are limited, but simple and predictable, which is important for games.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by wnolens »

Void_ wrote: post #66

I'm building a new task manager. I'm aiming it to be like HEY of email apps - Kinda opinionated, but hopefully fits workflow for a lot of people. https://focustask.app Building this in my free time, and would love to talk to anyone who might be interesting in helping with either coding or with marketing. My email is vojto at focustask.app

cool, also signed up for access.

This fits my mental model. I do it in a markdown document for work, and paper for personal.

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