I created some of the early Android and ios football result apps back in 2011. I used to work as a regular dev and became relatively rich somewhere in 2013. It gave me room to start other businesses and become financially independent.
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#402I created https://infect.info which is a software used by doctors to determine the best antibiotic to subscribe to patients based on symptoms or bacteria properties.
The software helps save lives on a daily basis.
It uses recent data from lab tests to show which bacteria is resistant to which antibiotic.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#403In terms of value per person probably improving the faceted search marginally on one of the biggest auction sites in the world.
In terms of the impact I care about, I try to give aspiring programmers my time and talk to them about how they can improve their hirability by building useful skills that you'd use day to day. I haven't had much success, but the little success I do have was helped in large part by an influential mentor. Those can be hard to come by, and time is expensive.
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#404I was about to say I built this beautiful IVR for a taxi company 20 years ago. It was so good, solved so many of the annoyances I had observed with IVRs before… so perfect it was, that it remained untouched all these years… I was about to say that. But out of nostalgia I just called the number and it’s been replaced with some Byzantine piece of crap.
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#405As a pandemic project, I started a kids stories podcast with my then 5 year old son. Two years later, it has over 5.5 million downloads and I get letters from parents telling me how the podcast has impacted their kids lives. I actually haven't posted an episode in over a year, and need to get back to it!
Would love a link!
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#406Impacting others? I started a Facebook group about a live stream for a falcon nest in Melbourne's CBD. It's had international news coverage and has been involved in a bunch of curriculums for schools around the world.
Personally? I built a heavy duty portable hard drive shredder than can shred a drive down to 1mm pieces in 60 seconds. Overall I sunk about $300k into the business and probably made back maybe $100k. I think we're 10 years ahead of the market, at least in Australia. But, it had huge impact on how I think about business, the customer, and how to pair the two instead of building awesome solutions no one needs (yet)
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#407I created Tiny Flashlight for Android 12 years ago. It's been downloaded almost 500m times. Back then every hardware vendor implemented the camera API in their own way and it wasn't easy to start the camera led. I had to purchase many different devices from different carriers from all around the world just to find out a way to start the camera LED. It was very helpful when the vendor published the kernel source code…
How many Android phones does it take to turn on a lightbulb
...sorry.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#408Co-created Dall-E Mini (now named Craiyon, and I am not involved anymore).
It was among the first text to language models created independently. And it was fully open source.
It also got covered by New York Times in the article covering Dall-E 2 by Cade Metz.
Links:
- GitHub: https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini
- Hugging Face Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini
- NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/technology/openai-images-...
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(I know this is not as much impactful as others in this thread. But I did this after less than 2 years after transitioning to tech from Physics, and at the age of 22.)
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#409We are two friends working on a native app to analyze videos using computer-vision [0]. We have been developing it for more than 2 years, to make sure it works in real-time for all CPUs. Not sure about impact but it is really cool to play and analyze videos in real time and help unlock some of the values stored in lot of video libraries. [0] https://ramanlabs.in/static/videointel.html
Perhaps somewhat bold to insert your beta into the conversation, but I'm actually looking for something like this to catalog home video - especially faces, speech, and speaker.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#410Probably this JavaScript function I posted on my blog in 2003 https://simonwillison.net/2003/Mar/25/getElementsBySelector/
Hey Simon, thanks for creating Django with Adrian. I was deeply interested in programming from a young age but learning Django in my teens sparked a passion for web development that has yet to feign so many years later! Appreciate all your contributions to this space.
OMG.
My most impactful thing I've done outside of paid work is a website running on Django. I could live without queryBySelector or their descendants, but not without Django.
Thank you, Simon.