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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by kraig911 »

sylvansson wrote: post #130
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…

I don't know what your family's needs are specifically, but there are several fantastic Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) tools out there that are open source and in active development. The community is very friendly and they always welcome help from experienced software engineers. I personally contribute to Cboard ( https://www.cboard.io ) and a few others but check out the OpenAAC website ( https://w…

Yeah I'm thinking of contributing to and taking from Cboard. Basically I want to great an interface that uses the symbols to help a kid not just interact with peers to talk to them but also say write and send a note.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by dashwehacct »

ggcdn wrote: post #113
dashwehacct wrote: post #104

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 g…

fyi email isn't shown, you have to add it to your 'about' to appear

I’ve added it just now. (Thank you!)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by PTGPSoftware »

threefiftyone wrote: post #12

I'm with a friend and we're focusing on building cool SaaS projects as a way to improve our product building skills and possibly make some money. At the moment we have a HR platform that one client is using and we're looking to build other stuff - we have some ideas in the making. If anyone wants to join

JS / PHP Developer here. Interested in new projects.

Email is in profile. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by kevmo314 »

remram wrote: post #124
kevmo314 wrote: post #10

I'm building a live video cdn backed by a kademlia dht (the BitTorrent one). https://github.com/muxable/cdn No major benefit of using a dht except it's kinda cool that the entire thing runs sans centralized database. If you're interested, the space is what my startup is working on but the cdn specifically is mostly a fun tangent to learn about kademlia for me. It's always fun to work with more people in the live vide…

What is the advantage over BitTorrent?

Using WebRTC makes the file "live", in that it publishes from the current timestamp instead of when the publishing started.

In principle I think BitTorrent can be adapted to this, but essentially the output "file" doesn't hash correctly so I think it would be a lot of hacks to the point where it's avoiding actually using most of the parts of BitTorrent anyways. In particular this is evident on the DHT, my understanding is the DHT actually stores fragments of data and BEP44 verifies integrity. In my implementation, the DHT stores some metadata for who can publish the data because the media stream is live and we don't want to broadcast every packet over the DHT.

Of course, I'm new to BitTorrent so that's my understanding. I'd love it if I could use more BitTorrent components directly :)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by vivegi »

ikinsey wrote: post #107

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.

I had posted this on Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096235#30096410) a few days ago.

Your crawler perhaps could be customized to crawl and publish an index of all available Progressive Web Apps. A naive way would be to check for sites that have a PWA App manifest file in their root folder.

Let me know if you are interested in collaborating.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by npteljes »

dcz_self wrote: post #74

An open source bicycle computer. The goal: a privacy-preserving, standalone fitness assistant on which you can load custom apps. I always wanted a bicycle computer that I could program, which would help me not gethurt while training, and which would remember where I like to cycle. The modern ecosystem is full of devices, but I haven't seen a programmable one, much less one that can also survive for weeks on battery a…

What's your opinion of the PineTime watch?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by shakezula »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #131
shakezula wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a card game app I’m working on, focused on the mtg community. I would be interested in collaborating.

Cool, want to shoot me an email and we can zoom sometime? There was a point in my life where all I did was play Magic ;)

Yes absolutely, I’ll email you and we can setup a call

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Post by wanderingstan »

Typography of code : Design meets the IDE. How can the visual presentation of code be made more functional and aesthetic. Syntax highlighting doesn't have to be the zenith of how code is displayed. (Once upon a time indentation was a radical new idea!) I'd love to ideate and build prototypes with like minded coder-designers.

Blog post I wrote about the steps in developer experience up till now: https://wanderingstan.com/2020-02-04/the-evolution-of-develo...

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by dashwehacct »

buescher wrote: post #139
dashwehacct wrote: post #104

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 g…

Take a look at meshtastic

Hey, that’s very interesting. I’ve considered something like this for my own personal needs a few years ago, but there weren’t a ton of options. Thank you for sharing this!

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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