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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by mwood23 »

https://www.packagepal.ai/

It's an in-house shipping protection platform for Shopify stores. 260 million packages are lost/stolen per year, and it's really not on the brand in a lot of cases. Huge hit on margin and when given the choice, a lot of customers prefer the piece of mind.

My goal is to give brands the ability to run this in house instead of relying on a third party that could give a worst possible outcome for brand and customer.

Want to make it have an AI claims agent and build a bunch of workflows. The widget took forever to pull it off though so we ship what we have!

Note to self, embeddable widgets are hard no matter how simple they look.

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Post by peteradio »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #176

https://ant.care/ https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants I'm making a digital ant farm. SimAnt + Tamagotchi that runs in real-time. Written in Rust/WASM/Bevy The goal is to give people cute ants that do cute ant things 24/7, ask people to look after their ants and feed them once-per-day, and then deny the ability to provide ant care unless users engage in a breathwork/meditation exercise. I would love help. I'm very muc…

I like it! How does the queen get food? I let it run and the queen eventually just died despite having plenty of food around.

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Post by anewcolor »

astroalex wrote: post #173

https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/ A weird and cumbersome web based synthesizer. In the examples below, double click on a node to trigger a signal in the circuit and produce sound. Here is a "song" that a friend made with it: https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?2.9.C4.m.1.15,6.9.... And here is "Happy Birthday": https://alex.miller.garden/sonic-circuit/?3.1.G3.m.1.24,4.1....

this is totally impractical and I love it

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by mhzsh »

https://streamigo.io/

It's an app to help 2+ people choose what to watch together on the most popular streaming platforms by presenting semi-random titles, asking each person to vote (swipe left/right), and settling on the "best" based on most votes/popularity.

It was born out of endless scrolling through Netflix (and the like) with significant others and friends, and not settling on something to watch. Instead, this shortens the process by allowing everyone to give their input, but accepting the results from the app as the thing to actually start playing. As the creators, we've almost exclusively used it to choose movies or series to watch, and have often ended up watching things we'd have never found naturally in XYZ streaming service's UI (so at worst, we created an expensive away for us to avoid getting frustrated finding something we agree on).

It's limited to usage within the US only for now, as wrangling all of the metadata is time consuming (and we're based in the US). The UI/UX needs some help, as it was built by backend devs with React Native. The backend is Scala/Play/Redis/Postgres deployed on Docker Swarm.

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