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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by bitexploder »

pram wrote: post #157
echelon wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oof. This is probably most people, too. There need to be more jobs where the interest alignment in work is 100%. Disney animators, Nintendo programmers, audio programming, SpaceX engineers, ML/AI, bioinformatics, ... Rockets, chemicals, machines, visual toys, solving moonshot things, ... Less plumbing and glue code. Less adtech. Less studying and optimizing trivial human interactions that nobody will remember.

I work in data and ML and it’s mostly plumbing and glue code lol

People seriously underrate how important data cleaning and massaging is in ML though.

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Post by ghotli »

ghotli wrote: post #267
caleb-allen wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, this sounds really cool! What is the main way you create/edit the list items? Is it manual, automated, etc? Could you describe the way you use it to learn new things? I really like the philosophy behind this--seems quite elegant

Thanks! Most of the "how" is shared in another reply. Really it's just an array of strings that keeps a cursor (and technically a stack for interruptions that pop off before returning to the cursor in the list). So posting a fresh list to the service that runs it is a common use case. Loading saved lists, routines, some things have state machines that inform task creation but that complexity I wax and wane finding al…

Actually, there's the other aspect of "learning things" which is if I want software to do something I just build it and usually I've never done it before. The elisp emacs functions, the Android launcher, the swift taskbar menu thing, global hotkeys on windows in c++, data only push notifications, background services on all the things. Just a good excuse to roll up my sleeves and get some code written for something I otherwise have no business digging into. It's fun and keeps me well rounded.

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Post by as89 »

linksnapzz wrote: post #266
as89 wrote: post #241

Glad to see this thread come back! I'll share something of my own, though it's not a tech project. I've been working on translating Japji Sahib - which is the foundational prayer of the Sikhs - into English poetry. The original is a poem, but most of the existing translations are in prose and use Western religious terminology that's not really appropriate to the original. I just wrapped up a first draft of the transl…

Very nice!

Thanks!

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Post by djbusby »

rlayton2 wrote: post #145

I have a small game that I made to experiment with some tech. https://donotplaythisgame.click/ In short, you accrue points while you aren't playing it, but you have to log into actually get the points (similar to "the game", which you just lost). You get your global ranking only after logging in though.

The only way to win is to not play.

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Post by Galanwe »

sfilmeyer wrote: post #230
radiantexp21 wrote: post #162

Believe it or not, I sell the following on Fiverr as radiantxp21: "I will special stocks and option picks lose all your money fast and intelligently" I know, it sounds a bit, non-English, but in my defense: it was my first time using Fiverr and I had no clue how to use it. The ad is up for a few months already, and I had many laughs creating it, but yesterday I had my first client! I panicked, I realized that I am as…

Are you licensed? Maybe the first candidate just intends to take your financial advice and then sue you into the ground afterwards.

I hope original comments see this. Advising investment vehicles for money, without proper disclaimers and a licence is a very bad idea.

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Post by rlafranchi »

Symbol Tax - cryptocurrency capital gains calculator

https://symbol.tax

I made it for myself to make my life easier come tax season. Current solutions just didn’t meet my needs. I made it a desktop application with a perpetual license because I just didn’t see the value in a cloud service subscription for something I only need to do once a year. Hope to one day make it useful for others looking for alternatives, but operational cost is nothing, just a static website - so not really concerned if it doesn’t go anywhere.

Disclaimer - I’m not a tax expert/CPA, use at your own risk.

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Post by chanux »

ThePaulAlek wrote: post #192

https://docit.dev/ I am building a Knowledge Transfer platform for software engineers that let's people make documents with video recordings, screen recordings, voice recordings, diagram making, document hosting, and more all in one place. The goal is to put all the features native to the platform, that way the user can just click and use rather than be redirected to a third party integration.

Good idea. Pay attention to your Meta.

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Post by ryangittins »

https://siftrss.com/

I've been running siftrss for about five years now. It lets you enter an RSS feed, add a filter, and get a new RSS feed excluding the stuff you specify. I made it to scratch my own itch.

Originally it wasn't going to be public but I thought, "eh what the heck, it's only a bit more effort to put a simple interface on it." Since then more than 100k feeds have been created and donations have paid for the minimal hosting costs.

I do get feature requests from time to time,and I would like to fulfill them eventually, but for the most part I rarely work on it. I'd love to have richer, more powerful filters with boolean logic along with feed combining, rewriting of tags, proxies, all sorts of things... but I've been a software engineer long enough to know that the greater complexity would mean more people emailing me their demands and blaming me for their (mis)use of the tool. It just wouldn't be fun anymore. It'd be another chore.

I've thought about trying to monetize it but 1) it seems unlikely that it'd ever amount to anything substantial, 2) probably wouldn't be worth the effort, and 3) kind of feels against the spirit of RSS.

I guess in some sense it has succeeded, but in reality it succeeded on day one when I was able to use it myself.

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