RSearch, a tool for building recursive topic-trees based on search results and comparing how the topic trees change every day. Similar to Google Alerts but more powerful and informative.
Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
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Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#262I was having problems with my hands from muscle exhaustion due to typing. My doctor recommended I should use an alarm clock, to remind me to not type for more than a few minutes at a time. Instead, I thought, I could do better. So I made the following program: It is a program that has a countdown, lets say, 100 key presses, and every time you press a key, it goes down by one, and every, lets say second, it recovers 1…
Token bucket rate limiting for your fingers
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#263"Oh By".[1] It's a "universal shortener".[2] You can take any block of text and condense it to a simple code that you can chalk up anywhere. It's the same idea as a QR code but you can just quickly write it out with a pencil or chalk it on the street ... or verbally state it. I'm convinced there is some use-case that this elegantly solves and would be genuinely valuable to people ... but beyond mentioning it here on…
You are on a Malwarebytes blacklist, just FYI.
It says: "Website blocked due to phishing"
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#264I built a social rss reader that ranks content based on how much you liked other content posted by the same feed or user: https://linklonk.com
I haven't marketed it much except for a Show HN. I spent $20 on Google Adwords to see how effective it is. The result was a few clicks but no new signups. I'm curious how other folks in a similar situation have marketed their side project? What channels have you found useful?
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#265The proverb 'necessity is the mother of invention' made me build a solution for sharing a keyboard and mouse between multiple devices.
Synergy/Barrier is not horrible, but I find the latency a little painful.
Ended up getting an industrial HDMI switch, with a KVM. Built a server in Go that connects to the serial port of all the devices.
A companion client that runs on all the machines tells the server when the mouse moves to the edge of the screen, so the USB inputs can be switched to the correct computer. Basically, it allows you to have multiple computers connected, to multiple displays, sharing one keyboard and mouse. (You can define layouts on the server, so the displays can move around on the matrix HDMI switcher).
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#266I made a Chinese language learning tool that uses speech recognition to grade flashcards [0]. It fills the niche where interactive apps like Duolingo and HelloChinese don't offer very much spoken practice. Unfortunately, the ASR isn't great, so I'm holding off on marketing until it's better. Honestly, if I spent half the time learning the language as I have making tools, I'd probably be fluent by now... [0]: https://…
> Honestly, if I spent half the time learning the language as I have making tools, I'd probably be fluent by now... Hahaha, I made the same mistake to the point of going into PhD in the field. Most of the (prototype) tools aren't even released.
That’s really cool actually! Did you discover any techniques to be particularly effective? I recall a PhD working on language “wait learning” which I’d love to use, but it never made it out of the lab. Maybe you’re also sitting on some good stuff. (If you’d prefer to link papers, that’d be great, too!)
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russians only put significance into two colors?
Unfortunately, i'm dependent on an incomplete dataset ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kdEOmMxo-Shy2gGlUpPe... ) from the original dataviz ( https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colour... ) That being said, if you have any informations on Russian color meanings, you might consider contributing here ( https://github.com/tfrere/colours-in-culture#contribute )
Thanks for the plethora of information! I appreciate it
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#268A simple browser extension for Hacker News that shows a sidebar with links buried deep in HN comment threads such as this one - so that you can quickly glance at all the external things people are talking about. https://github.com/dit7ya/hnlinks
finding this made me giggle. I had this idea a couple of days ago and started drafting how to solve it. Well, you saved me some work :)
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#269I have, in my spare time, developed a truly marvelous demonstration of AI, or more precisely, "I", that fits within 10TB and appears to demonstrate in full force and effect an active human-like intelligence with an IQ of approximately 160. Unfortunately at the moment I have neither the time to write down nor is this post sufficiently capacious to allow delineation of the significant factors involved in the development of this system. However I do resolve to do so at a later time.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#270EnergyMeterApp
Mobile app to help track performance of your solar panels. Supports SolarMeter/eGauge
energymeterapp.com