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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:40 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #235

SushiHippie wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Just create a base system for yourself

You can convert easily between hours and money so that you can resolve the problem of both by conversion of one to the preferred

So assuming you make $100/hr:

“I can’t believe I gave 10 hours to this and then they want to charge me an additional $5 on top!?”

Turns into

“I just gave 10 hours to this, and they want me to give 3 more minutes of my time to publish it?”

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by personjerry » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:42 AM UTC

https://thinkerapp.com/

It's reddit but all subreddits/posts/comments also get responses from unique ChatGPT personalities

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:45 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by weiwenhao » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:46 AM UTC

https://github.com/nature-lang/nature

The programming language project will be the next golang or rust. It has not yet released an official version.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by LorenDB » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:48 AM UTC

https://github.com/LorenDB/muziko

I'm building Muziko, which is an app that will give you a list of songs every day to practice on your musical instrument of choice. I was planning to post it here eventually, but not for a long time, as I still need to build a UI that doesn't completely suck and fix some big issues. However, if this sounds cool, please have fun with it!

It's written in C++/Qt/QML. Native apps that are also completely crossplatform ftw.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by thot_experiment » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:49 AM UTC

I built a mood boarding app yesterday, it's a very simple "arrange images on a plane" tool to keep references handy when I'm arting.

It has one specific neat feature which is that it can pack itself into a single HTML file so you can share your mood board with someone in a very simple way.

https://thot-experiment.github.io/big_mood/

Here's a mood board for some art I'm currently working on, a single HTML file generated by clicking the "save" button (NSFW warning (artistic nudity)). https://thiic.cc/heavy/mood.html

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by jonorsi » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:49 AM UTC

https://github.com/orsi/react-gamin

A very rough prototype of a game library with modern functional React. After seeing only a few game libraries in React, and all being relatively old and class-based, I wanted to learn how to make a React-based version of some simple games.

So far I got pong and some walking/animating sprites on a map, but hopefully will find more time in the future to flesh it out.

One big issue I found out was it’s incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to dynamically add/remove react components in and out of the dom. React very much encourages not touching or modifying “children”, with most apis that do that being obsolete and deprecated.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by aGHz » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:53 AM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #299

I'm making an interactive garden designer to help plan a (mostly rose) garden in my front lawn that will be visible to the town. https://garden.simonsarris.com/ It all works (double click to place plants, undo/redo, copying, etc etc), but it needs more items. And saving and loading does not work yet. Actually, since this is HN, you could write go.Diagram.fromDiv(myDiagramDiv).model.toJson() To save and share. But I n…

You could simply encode the json to base64 and put it in the url fragment (hash). Then you can save by bookmarking the url and share by copy/pasting it, all without a server. I've seen some web games use this method but I can't remember which off the top of my head.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by dirteater_ » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:53 AM UTC

https://www.landow.dev/posts/tech/3d-autotiling/

Wanted to make a cartoony dark souls with a built in level editor. Games have so many fun rabbit holes that it's hard to actually make something. Then I tried to make a writeup and found out writing is hard.. still had fun!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by stanislavb » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:53 AM UTC

https://lenns.io/ - it may not be exactly ready for prime time (lacking communication & marketing); however, it's been fully functional and my RSS reader of choice for the last 2 years. Why - a single source cannot overwhelm my feed; I can set priorities to sources and categories;