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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by steve_wilson »

https://invitivo.com

A website to create digital invitations. Similar purpose as WhatsApp groups for invites, but taking away the noise and adding way more personalized design to the invite.

The UI still has lots of issues and I need to i18n the landing page, but it works and a couple of people use it every day already. I‘m spending 2€ per day on google ads to see how my changes to product alter user behavior.

It’s a side project and I‘m not planning to squeeze money out of it. Just want the world to celebrate more and I want to experience building a product from zero to „actively used by many people“.

Appreciate all feedback and input!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by anon1253 »

https://github.com/vortext/esther

Esther is my personal project to develop a diary app that talks back. Basically. Along the way I learned how to htmx, llama.cpp via JNA and practical experience with LLMs. I suffer from type-1 bipolar disorder with psychoses and normal life just ain't gonna happen. So unemployed, single, #nolife ... I decided to build a chat bot for myself. It's not finished the RAG stuff still needs implementing, but oh well. It's written in Clojure on GraalVM (because I wanted to try polyglot) other than that it's nothing /too/ fancy ... but it feels great having an LLM + UI you can just build the way you like it

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by adrianmsmith »

https://whenwillirunoutofmoney.com/

I thought it’d be cool to have a small textual language where you could describe “this payment goes out every quarter” and “this one goes out monthly from date X to Y” and so on. As a freelancer it can be difficult to know how much cash you have available given taxes go out at weird times, and it’s useful to simulate “let’s delete this row where the customer pays” to stress test your finances and so on.

I also wanted it to be “privacy-first” because I figured I wouldn’t trust my financial data to a random person on the internet, so neither would I expect anyone else to.

So I created this site and put it online but I’m a developer, not a marketer. I did a “Show HN”, it got some nice comments but not much traction.

Not sure if I should spend effort marketing it. It’s just a free site so I’m only doing this for fun. Or maybe the product is wrong and needs changes e.g. more features.

Difficult to know what to do. Advice appreciated!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by sharemywin »

afraidofthemoon wrote: post #5

All the URLS I purchased on Name cheap lol.

You should really just create at least one page talking about each project idea. I use dreamhost because I can host unlimited* websites for like $40 for the year.

that way the domains look seasoned in googles eyes.

Here was the video I watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVeybVWSUP4

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by revolt2tech »

boredemployee wrote: post #9
revolt2tech wrote: post #8

I want to create an intelligent CRM that gets users from your database automatically, and categorizes each user with behaviors. Do you think it is a good idea? I talked with some users but they are choosing traditional CRMs over mine. Is this a wrong positioning or just the idea doesn't solve any problems? Thanks!

You know, in some countries, people are using Whatsapp a lot to do b2b. I don't know any CRM integration with it that could segment/classify customers using the app.

Thanks for the answer!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by defaultcompany »

Here's a couple...

This project I made a while ago and never took it further: https://github.com/weinberg/concurrencyRunner. Concurreny Runner allows you to debug multiple running processes simultaneously, with breakpoints set to allow specific interleaved execution paths to be explored. This allows you to trigger concurrency scenarios which are typically very difficult to analyze because they rely on random timing. That repo has examples which demonstrate typical database concurrency issues of "read skew", "write skew" and "read modify write". I envisioned it as something you could run in CI to actively test for these things like we do other integration testing.

This other one is in the sad graveyard of promising projects which I never could devote enough time to: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=69545.0. It's an adventure game where I recorded hundreds of panoramic images and stitched them all together into a seamless walkable player experience. One day...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by tikimcfee »

https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat

View, search, and analyze arbitrary source code (best support of Swift right now) in 3D and AR space. You open your phone or tablet, yeet hundreds of files into 3D space, and can start highlighting, moving, and tracing execution by literally walking around your code. The desktop app has similar features, and the standard 3D viewer is just as fun. I would love help - from anyone of any kind - to build this out towards greater usefulness.

It’s a lot of fun, it’s super cool to look at, and it’s the thing I’ve wanted to use since I was a small child. “Let me touch the words!!”

P.s - the dictionary and word wall samples are fun too

P.p.s: there are two versions, and you can download the original SceneKit implementation for both macOS and iOS from the releases section.

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