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Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by a_d »

mateuszbuda wrote: post #19

Here is my post from last year which didn’t get much attention on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33507260 It analyzes how much sugar is in the food based on nutrition facts data scraped from Walmart. It also shows relation between amount of sugar and rating.

This is incredibly useful! Is it possible to make this into a simple (single page) shopping list? Where I type my shopping list, product recommends substitutes with lower sugar — and gives me distribution (histogram) of main ingredients for my shopping list.

That would be life changing.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by iainctduncan »

I created Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pure Data. They are extensions to the Max/MSP, Ableton Live, and Pure Data computer music environments that embed an s7 Scheme interpreter in the host so that you can script, automate, and live code the hosts with s7, a Scheme from the CCRMA computer music center at Stanford and the same one used in the Snd editor and the Common Music 3 algorithmic composition environment. This allows you to do things like write algorithmic music tools, sequencers, and use the Ableton Live API in Scheme, including with Common Lisp style macros. It has an API for integrating with Max to share data structures, hook into the scheduler, run in the high priority thread, and so on. (The Max javascript object does not run in the high thread and so while it is similar in scope, it can't be used for accurate timing, so is no good for sequencing or live algorithmic generation.) S4M allows you to do all the goodness of high level music programming in a Lisp, without losing the ability to use modern commercial tooling and instruments. It's my thesis project for a Masters in Music Technology with Andy Schloss and George Tzanetakis at the University of Victoria, and I plan to continue to a PhD working on it. I tried submitting twice, but it never made the page, which surprised me a bit given Lisp interest here.

The github page is here: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max

The youtube channel with various demos is here: https://www.youtube.com/c/musicwithlisp

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by 5amdotis »

My app Quiet: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1441525727?pt=11941...

Quiet is a content blocker for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac that lets you block out all of the unwanted distractions like Facebook, Twitter, etc...

On the Mac it also acts as a network filter.

I am looking into expending this app to more systems and browsers.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by Sai_ »

I made (am making) an email inbox for your entire domain - https://pretzelbox.cc. Great for solopreneurs and small teams who need use case specific emails like leads@domain or support@domain but don’t want to keep buying email inboxes.

Here are a few cool things you can do with it -

1. Reply as anyone @your-domain

2. Comes with a built-in blog you can post to from your email much like world.hey.com

3. You can share emails as hyperlinks - great for sending reminders to people on WhatsApp/Messenger to tell them to take some action on an older email and to bookmark useful emails

I have a few Chartered Accountant and small law firms practices using it but I thought it would take off in a much bigger way in the indie hacker community than it actually did.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by yboris »

Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - Browse, search, and organize your videos (Win, Mac, Linux).

I sell it for $5.00 but $3.50 goes to the cost-effective charity Against Malaria Foundation. I recommend more people give to cost-effective charities (see GiveWell.org for info).

It's also MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by pgjones »

I've three things :),

1. Quart, https://quart.palletsprojects.com, an ASGI (async/await) re-implementation of the Python web MicroFramework Flask. It is now maintained alongside, by the same people, as Flask.

2. Hypercorn, https://hypercorn.readthedocs.io, an ASGI/WSGI server that supports HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3.

3. My book "A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications", which uses both of the above and shows a beginner how to build a full stack app (React frontend) running on AWS. See https://pgjones.dev/tozo/ for details, code, and link to the example app.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by cc101 »

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epiphany-workflow-ii/id1508000... ADHD is a problem for many people in high tech. Epiphany Workflow is a mac program for very bright college students who are in academic trouble caused by ADHD. E provides help organizing and sustaining a directed academic effort. It's particularly good for organizing research papers and compiling class notes into a study guide.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by untech »

My friend from time to time makes some really cool project, then he posts it on HN and gets zero traction. His submission page [1] looks so ridiculous now, that I joke that his next submission would look like “Show HN: I created a true AGI running on my analog wristwatch (3 points, 0 comments)”.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=borzunov

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