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Post by matt_heimer »

desertraven wrote: post #286

I’m working on a search engine crawled by users themselves. If I think about it, I'm not interested in 99% of the web. Therefore I don't need to deal with exhaustively crawling the entire web. Hypothetically, if I could access only the sites visited by the HN crowd, that would be fine by me. Somebody in an art community might feel similarly. If there were some metric the crawlers could use to rate a page (time spent…

Are you old enough to remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring ?

Take that idea and evolve it into a federated search service. If your site is in the "fishing" ring then your pages get indexed into the fishing index and the search widget on your site would potentially return results from all the sites in the same ring.

I guess I want SearchRing.

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Post by jcpst »

DominoTree wrote: post #329

I'm in a volunteer role as CIO for a nonprofit focused on human trafficking, and we're building a new investigations and case-management platform using Svelte/TypeScript/SvelteStrap, Rust/Rocket, and Postgres (and likely Neo4j at some point) because the options out there are either poor or very expensive. Once we have something working and solid, we're going to open-source it and provide it to other groups in similar…

I’m interested, and could help out in any area of that stack.

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Post by TaylorPhebillo »

chillycurve wrote: post #287

Currently developing a distributed transcoder-as-a-service to compete with the likes of AWS's Elastic Transcoder and Google's Transcoder API. By my math, I can transcode the same file in half the time and at 1/20 or so of the cost of those guys. Hoping to get into this summer's YC and looking for one or two co-founders. I am mostly a business/marketing guy who can hold his own in devops/backend, but no where near pro…

1/20 the cost sounds good, but can you post your math there, or why you think they can be beat by that margin? It sounds like a fun project to work on, but I worry that the price improvement estimate neglects a lot of what the cloud providers are charging for.

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Post by shivekkhurana »

dharmaturtle wrote: post #403

I'm building an opensource GitHub for Flashcards. Basically Anki Online (though there's an offline first client). The idea is that it should be easier to collaboratively build flash cards. The project started out with F#/Blazor, but for various reasons I'm (sadly) moving to Typescript/Electron. https://github.com/dharmaturtle/cardoverflow

Offtopic: What made you move from F# to TS ?

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Post by asicsp »

desertraven wrote: post #286

I’m working on a search engine crawled by users themselves. If I think about it, I'm not interested in 99% of the web. Therefore I don't need to deal with exhaustively crawling the entire web. Hypothetically, if I could access only the sites visited by the HN crowd, that would be fine by me. Somebody in an art community might feel similarly. If there were some metric the crawlers could use to rate a page (time spent…

>if it's tech related

https://notrashsearch.github.io/about.html might help (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774456)

There's also https://search.marginalia.nu/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764)

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Post by iamwil »

culi wrote: post #293

I'll start off with my prototype: https://elegant-shaw-2cb49a.netlify.app/votevote Anyone into electoral methods or game theory? If you've ever watched CGP Grey's videos on electoral methods or seen Nicky Case's *To Build a Better Ballot*,[1] it's very much in the spirit of that. It's mostly a toy that will run a single election in a large number of different electoral methods. Currently I've implemented ~26 differen…

This is pretty interesting. Have you connected with people doing token economics design or DAO governance? That would be pretty applicable.

Where did you source all the different electoral methods?

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Post by mariusor »

Tmpod wrote: post #336
mariusor wrote: post #249

I started a go project to create a link aggregator similar to HN and old reddit, but built on top of ActivityPub. It's targeted at small to medium communities, but at the same time it can reach outward through the federation mechanism that ActivityPub provides. Outside of immediate support to intercommunicate with other instances of its own platform, it will handle interactions from the larger fediverse at large: Mas…

Cool to see more AP projects! I assume you're aware of Lemmy; maybe you could acknowledge it on the README/wiki and explain in what way the platforms differ. From what I understand, Lemmy is more reddit-like while littr is more HN-like. Is this correct?

Yes, I am aware of Lemmy, however my project predates it by quite a while, and has a more comprehensive approach when it comes to the ActivityPub spec. They had the good fortune to receive a lot of publicity, which resulted in a lot more man power and some well deserved grants which helped them a long at a faster pace.

I don't know why I need to acknowledge it on my project though. Users that are interested can click around and see what's different and which one is more to their liking. It will probably be mentioned in the wiki at some point, as it's one of the immediate targets for federating with other projects.

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Post by navalsaini »

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 would appreciate your feedback on halfchess.com (though it has ads starting at later stages). You can find my email in about us section in the app or tweet to me @navalsaini .

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Post by dv35z »

ianbicking wrote: post #321

I've been interested in conversational bots and how they might be used for purposes that are more fun than customer service. I'm specifically interested in ideas that are silly, or emotionally salient, or weird, or anything that's not productive and not commercial. I have been poking around with some stuff, but mostly just ideas in my head. So for "collaboration" I mostly imagine getting ideas from each other, trying…

Check out https://replika.ai/. Turn on AR mode, so it's a "person" in your living room. They gave the AI bots some actual personality - it'll ask your opinions on ideas, etc. Have fun.
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