A couple of FOSS enthusiasts and myself have taken over the decade old game controller remapping tool DS4Windows (https://github.com/CircumSpector/DS4Windows) with the goal to rewrite major parts using latest dotnet patterns and technologies. There's still months worth of work left but despite being an ambitious task, it's quite doable and fun figuring out your way around someone else's massive code base. Join us if you like!
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#222An 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?
The idea is great!
The hardware is a little less to my tastes: the one I picked up has a GPS unit, plus a display that can stay on for days (weeks?) on a single battery charge, plus it's readable in the sunlight.
Otherwise I think there will be a fair share of software reuse between the projects.
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#223Very passionate about the NFT space and have a couple ideas I'd like to build out and validate. Generally:
- Diving deeper into ERC-1155s and exploring deeper "membership" or "pass-like" utility for web3 companies to leverage
- Verticalized marketplaces
- NFT studio model for certain celebrity personas I'm friends with
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#224I was thinking it would be nice to exercise in VR, but I would have to pick something aerobic I wouldn't mind doing blindfolded, which rules out a lot, but I think a row machine could work. So I'm imagining a pacific-island-navigate-by-the-stars simulator, maybe speed up time so 8 hours of night become 30 minutes of cardio. Choose a couple of islands to row between, get some directions of which star to follow, and ge…
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Unreal has much better VR support with, basically, push button publishing. I would not choose anything else for VR.
An Oculus Quest is wireless with inside out tracking in 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) and has no problem tracking people jumping and ducking in games like beat saber.
Unreal will map the camera to the movement coming from oculus hardware and you just make your art and some basic visual scripting in blue prints to make a PoC.
This is a couple week(end)s of work to get an MVP.
I don't have a rower so wouldn't be able to help but good luck! Great idea and very doable. Although I will warn you sweating in a headset does feel icky with the included fabric pads.
Edit to add:
Sky is just a sky box (sphere) that rotates because stars in real life are effectively at infinity
Water simulation is limited by whatever else you are drawing. Older quest hardware will be limited by draw calls. This is why you see so much stylized art in VR games that are cross platform. You likely would want a simple vertex shader and not a fluid sim.
Now I want a Tron VR rowing sim :D
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#225I'm not sure if this is the best thread, but I'm potentially looking for a partner. I'm the founder of https://bigpicture.io/ . The primary product is company data and IP data as a service via API. I'm debating what to do with the company. I've only raised a small angel round, and the company is profitable. A competitor reached out to me about an acquisition a couple weeks ago, so I'm debating that vs raising money v…
I've considered similar companies as a customer and I could never figure out why paying for such an API would be better than just purchasing a company database.
I'm an engineer, ceo, and investor. I'm looking for projects where I can help with my money/connections/skills to build things now which will then later turn into passive income. My strong suit is AI and process automation.
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#226Hi, I'm working on solutions to currency inflation and would love some help. Similar to a COLA (cost of living adjustment) on your salary, I think people should receive a COLA on their savings. Inflation destroys economies and lives all over the world, due mostly to uncontrolled currency printing by gov't. And, as obvious as it may sound, we don't have to sit back and just accept it anymore. We can build tools that protect people, and their savings, from dramatic losses in value. To do that, I am building an NFT "Russian doll" that is linked to CPI (consumer price index). How does it work?: As CPI rises past a predetermined level, the smart contract in the Russian Doll nft will auto-mint the holder a new NFT (Russian Doll #2), which the holder can then sell to cover inflation. Buyer of Russian Doll #2 gets same inflation protection, as CPI rises past a predetermined level, RD #2 auto-mints RD #3, and on and on.
As governments print more money, and prices rise, the hope is that citizens can use these NFTs to combat that rise in price. That is the basic idea, which we can iterate on. I'm super excited about it simply because I think it has the potential to do a lot of good in this world. look forward to hearing from anyone interested, please reach out!!! (pdeckr at gmail).
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#227I'm down to help out on anything.
I am a self-taught software engineer since 2016, prior to that I was a supply chain optimization consultant. Currently employed as a senior software engineer.
My experience (* means strong):
- full stack development (mobile/browser UI, backend). Experience includes nodeJS*, Go, React*/Angular, Flutter*/React-Native/Swift, AWS/DO/GCP
- bunch of side projects where I've taught myself design (and tools like Figma*), product management (books mostly), and have notion* documents for my projects. currently working on an app to alleviate loneliness.
My goal is to launch my own company some day, but nobody in my family or close friends is an entrepreneur or entrepreneur minded. I am trying to find some friends in this circle.
Please hit me up if I sound like a good fit, I am willing to grok on any brainstorming sessions or join you to work on something interesting.*
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#228Last month karlicoss the developer of Promnesia posted in the collab post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760122
I made a discord server in response (we mostly idle) to discuss knowledge management tooling
Awesome Knowledge Management https://discord.gg/XPNeDSQE2j
Would love to continue to chat about existing tools and new ideas in this space!
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#229I'm working on https://rinse.one which is basically a simple text box you enter common queries/commands and get answers. I have many ideas but not enough time on my own. For example, next thing I have planned is to make the commands composable. I mostly work on the backend. I would like to collaborate with someone who does the frontend (but backend collaborators are welcome too). I like keeping things simple. The who…
This is a neat idea. I am always googling for formatters and such.
Have you seen https://devutils.app/
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#230Anyone interested in fixing news, and doing it with Web3?
We build an open source and non profit news organization that's a combination of Wikipedia and Genius. The goal is to be a destination that people can trust to provide more than one side of a story and separate opinion from fact. It scrapes news, has an AI that organizes topics, human editors to make sure things are organized properly. It surfaces articles and videos that are meaningful contributors to the topic based on heuristics and editors. We markup biases of authors. Show when articles are making claims that lack evidence. Build a fact checking regime that is open and obvious. We don't do all the news, just pick a few hot topics each day, like Digg.
It has a website, mobile app, probably a podcast.
I imagine the non profit has a sister DAO where good contributors are rewarded with a new token we create. Use NFT's for badges. Various other options.