I'd be interested in building a listening comprehension tool for foreign language learners. I'm thinking having a slider for vocab (top 1000 words, top 2000 words, etc) and a slider for speed of speech plus an adjustable timer for how long the user has to understand the sentence.
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#192I would like to code some Go. It’s been a while since my role now is way too far from the code So if anyone has an idea that want to develop or a project in Go already let me know.
I am a core maintainer on the KEDA HTTP Addon project (https://github.com/kedacore/http-add-on). It's 100% written in Go and we are a small group looking for additional contributors. I believe there are interesting challenges ahead of us that will be enjoyable to solve.
If you're interested, please reach out. My username here is the same as my username on the Gophers and Kubernetes slack groups.
(You're of course welcome to just go pick up an issue in the repo if you'd prefer)
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#193I'm building out a new budgeting/personal finance app born out of frustration with YNAB. Would love someone skilled with UX to help me out with it. The front-end is a react application, and the backend is Elixir/Phoenix.
Some of my frustrations with YNAB:
* Rigid categories. This makes you do a lot of work up front. I am envisioning letting people just assign categories on the fly without having to pre-define them.
* What do to with my money? In YNAB, every paycheck you are a supposed to give each money a job (a category). In practice, there is a very little guidance around what to do if you have too much, or too little money. I'd like a little less flexibility here, as well as the ability to create/define rules to help make actual assignment of funds more automated. ( I have some ideas about this).
* Its very common to budget intermittently. But you can come back to your budget after a month and have 100s of transactions to go through, your categories are all underfunded, and you don't know what to do, so you click "Make a Fresh Start". I also have idea around this
* Reports: The default reports in YNAB leave a lot to be desired. Extensions like "Toolkit for YNAB" help, but good reporting should be a first-class citizen of a finance app.
* Tagging transactions. related to the above, tagging transactions will help with reporting and seeing where your money is going.
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If any of the above interests you, my email is in my HN profile. This is a side/after-work project, not a full-time one.
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#194I've been working on three projects, from short term to long term:
1. Visual synthesizer to synch with popular music to share and jam
2. Wearable thought recorder to predict your future intent (on hold)
3. Anonymous Collaboration to sort 10^12 intents for 10^9 users
The first is pretty far along. I used to VJ semi-pro on a Wacom tablet and then ported it to the iPad (which Apple deprecated when they moved to 64-bit only). Have rewritten in Swift, and in process of redoing the menuing system in SwiftUI. Kids love it and is a subversive way of leaning STEM concepts through play. Demo of the Wacom tablet version (2005) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlkzZubHnM&t=9s
The second is an Apple Watch centric app that I spent a couple years on. Just raise your wrist to record your thoughts. I released a subset of the idea in the AppStore, but didn't market it. Spent a few more months on updating the design but is now on hold. Old version here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-now/id1323143774?ls=1
The third is kinda hard. I spoke at the RSA Data Security conference (1998) on how to share interests without a trusted third party. The idea is to combine some homomorphic blinding to sort intent(s) through a massively parallel graph. It's kinda weird because the graph is an asynchronous cellular automaton. I'm not even sure if it is plausible. It's more of a lossy switching network than a static ledger. Somewhat inspired by the work of Goldreich, Micali, Widgerson: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Goldreich,+Micali,+Wigd...
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#195I am building a site to analyze my investment portfolio - run risk models, evaluate payoff scenarios, and even suggest options trades.
I have been doing a lot of options trading in the past few years, and needed better tools to analyze complicated options positions, so I started with payoff calculator for a set of options (both at expiry, as well as at intermediate times using Black-Scholes). Here's an example: https://tinyurl.com/pa-example
And now I am building other stuff to analyzing your whole portfolio, and to suggest options trades that will lead to a better payoff profile (as per your customizable utility function, eg: you might weigh losses exponentially and profits logarithmically beyond a threshold).
This is a side project; I have a day job and a family, so I get about 4-5 hours a week to work on this. I have been building this in Rails.
I have don't have any current plans of making this a real business. It's fun and useful to me, and I want to keep it that way, but I am open to launching it as a freemium/paid site in the future if others find it useful.
An ideal collaborator would be someone who is good at Javascript and web UI; but most importantly, our goals should match. If you are that person, email me at admin@portfolioanalytics.org (or reply to this comment with yours)
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#196If you're interested - Piano Gym is looking for others who are interested in building out our existing website and tools
Here's a quick video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4
Piano Gym is a learning and practice ecosystem focused on prioritizing music theory and performance skills acquisition through the use of flash cards. We use flash cards in order to pair them with modern learning techniques like spaced repetition, graded feedback, and progress tracking so that you can practice material and work through content that is managed by Piano Gym, and all you have to do is enroll in a school/course/lesson and do your reps! Just show up every day and do 15 minutes of reviews. You're going to make progress.
Our website uses the Piano to navigate exercises as well as regular keyboard/mouse input. We work on browser technology and are looking to eventually make it mobile devices.
We provide content creation for everyone so that anyone can make their own schools/courses/lessons and the best part is each school gets its own landing page.
For example we're using the methods book from https://freepianomethod.com which is provided by Mayron Cole, and if you wanted to practice it without signing up or enrolling you could easily visit this link: https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method
Even better when you find the piece you want to practice you can share it directly like so: https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method?sheet_mu...
Our goal is to do this for free. We believe that no one should be blocked from learning. And one of the issues with this at the moment is that our team is very small and has been currently working nights and weekends to make this happen. We would love the chance to add a technical member to our team in order to build this product out to its full vision.
If you're interested please feel free to direct message me or reach out on social media :)
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#197I created a Discord to find people to collaborate with.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You might also want to look at other apps that use the OpenBoardFormat: https://www.openboardformat.org/partners
I contribute to Optikey and was involved in OpenVoiceFactory in its first incarnation. Optikey is primarily QWERTY based but does supported the Communikate pagesets - more general OBF support would be a welcome PR! Coughdrop is probably a better fit for your needs, and is open source so free to self-host, though they do offer hosted plans for $.
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#199I'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 am a programmer and also a father, and working on using AI to revolutionize how we teach kid how to read.
I noticed that a very simplistic LSTM neural network model is able to learn very quickly all the rules of pronunciation ex:
- grapheme "EA" in “please” or "heat" is pronounced one way
- but grapheme "EA" in « death » or " bread" is pronounced in a different way
- but grapheme "EA" in "great", "steak", "break" is also pronounced in a different way In fact the neural network is learning the rules and able to guess the pronunciation of word it have never seen before.
This made me try to see
1- what is the minimal number of example the Model need to be trained with to learn all the rules.
2- What is the optimal sequence that rules must be learned ... This can all be discovered and measured easily and accurately by training the model with different training set. I believe this have never been done before, because experimenting with real kid is too slow.
We make the assumption that is something is easy to learn by an LSTM model it will also be easy to learn by a human. (turn out to be true)
There is a lot of design decision that need to be made about how to visually display "grapheme" and let the kid interact with them.
This is just a side project for now but I am in strong need of a UI programmer to partner with!
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#200I'm a web developer and I'm currently writing a book about game development in the web. The book is still a work in progress (it likely will never be "complete"), but it's quite usable and soon I'll be able to demonstrate small games with the currently existing chapters. The link is here:
https://suldashi.github.io/gamebook/
I'm looking for someone to try it out, give some feedback, and possibly even write a game by following along the instructions. The target reader is a somewhat experienced programmer (such as a close-to-graduation CS student) who won't need to be told what's a function or class, but you don't need to know anything about game development to make use of the book.