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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#231
https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

A Facebook-style ActivityPub server. Has wall posts, groups, and events.

Not yet "ready" — 1.0 would need much better moderation tools, photo albums (with tagging), discussion boards (in groups), and a client API. Direct messages are a work in progress right now.

I myself use it daily for my participation in the fediverse.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #41

Friend and I built https://druthers.app , and we use it all the time to solve our own interpersonal disputes, as well as with family and friends. It hasn't got any quality-of-life chrome or meta-features such as logins, or bookmarks. We were reluctant, even, to add the sharing button, since obviously a person is already well-equipped to share a browser tab! (I kid! Of course users cannot be presumed to know the power…

Likely it will have "stopped working" by now, because it's peer-to-peer and none of you are sticking around long enough to become the host.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#233

https://draw.horse This is a drawing toy that takes some inspiration from kidpix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix ). It makes amusing (to me anyhow) noises, has some goofy brushes and stamps. You can't save your pictures or print them out, and I haven't gotten around to figuring out some happy medium of using canvas and doing a flood fill.

I love the sound effects

Thank you, means a lot that you took a look.

These were hand selected with a focus group consisting of a 4 year old and 6 year old, so pretty demanding UAT on that front

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google. Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!

Well TIL https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/ It's $5, but still...

If I spend a few hours of my time developing a Chrome extension for free, and publish it on the store, then users get to use it for free, but if Google wants $5 then suddenly I am investing both time and money into something where I will never get any reward.

Somehow, donating time for the benefit of others, or money for the benefit of others is fine, but as soon as I'm donating both, it feels like it's not worth it.

Yes, this is an irrational view.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#236
post #41

Friend and I built https://druthers.app , and we use it all the time to solve our own interpersonal disputes, as well as with family and friends. It hasn't got any quality-of-life chrome or meta-features such as logins, or bookmarks. We were reluctant, even, to add the sharing button, since obviously a person is already well-equipped to share a browser tab! (I kid! Of course users cannot be presumed to know the power…

Seems interesting, but doesn't work in Safari latest. I get a blank screen.

A blank screen, or a "loading skeleton"? The app is peer-to-peer, so if none of the recent visitors have hit refresh to become the host the data will no longer be accessible. Terrible UX for you, but forever $0 hosting costs for me.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#237

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…

Damn you are smarter than most people if not everyone I've worked with.

This is so cool.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#239
Changelog monitor tool I made for myself that I’m slowly making available.

I keep an eye on a number of project changelogs and needed to be notified when they update. Since they’re in various places, and don’t all have releases so I can’t use GitHub’s release notifications, I built a simple tool to consume from anywhere with an url and send me a diff. Slowly adding features on top of that.

https://1changelog.com/

I’d love to know if this is valuable to anyone else on the planet but me. Or what would make it so.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#240
post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google. Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!

Well TIL https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/ It's $5, but still...

This is mostly to deter malicious behavior because it makes it unprofitable for bad actors to publish malware by spamming the store with dumb apps that are only life-support systems for their little packages of joy.

It's a high enough bar to trip up a lot of bad actors, but low enough that it's a simple annoyance for most of us.

But yeah, reason 4,590,234,761 why people who misbehave make things more expensive/difficult/time-consuming for the rest of us.

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