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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Problem: There are lots of forums like r/AppIdeas, r/ideas, indiehackers, hackernews etc where people post their ideas/products/landing-pages for feedback. They sparsely get any feedback as the other people on these forums are also looking for feedback, but not willing to "give" feedback.

Solution: Created a Discord Server where you need to give 3 feedbacks to request 1. This way it encourages people to participate in the discussion instead of just spamming their ideas.

Traction: 40 signups so far.

Link: https://discord.gg/Vw5Fm3zx

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://postcardbot.com A simple sms based chat bot for generating and mailing postcards from photos you’ve taken yourself. I took the sms approach because I’m exhausted from always needing to install an app for everything. Most things don’t need apps. This interface is unique and kinda fun to use. Also, it took me just a weekend to whip up so I’m quite fond of it .

That's actually really cool! Seems like a nice handy little service, you could make a contact in your phone for it and then remember about it some random time later and be able to use it, no problem. I love little tools like this.

For those curious, you just text the picture to +1 (408) 688-5985, respond to its questions about message, name, and address, then it sends you a Stripe link to pay $3.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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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…

SimAnt! Now that brings back some memories!

> and then deny the ability to provide ant care unless users engage in a breathwork/meditation exercise

Little surprise twist there!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://gudzpoz.github.io/brocatel/tutorial.html It's a (story-)scripting language based on Markdown and Lua. Basically it lets you write choice-based interactive fictions in Markdown (and Lua code blocks for advanced usages). It is not actively developed these days since I consider the language itself is somehow usable and I have little free time these days. But the runtime-time API and compile-time macro API will p…

“Markdown for X” is a grossly underutilized technique for software creation/interfaces. This is such a great application for it!

Not technically markdown but https://sketch.systems is somewhat similar to a decision tree in that it models state machines with a markdown-like syntax.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#400
http://www.plottingtool.com/app.html

It's a fully client-side, Tableau-inspired data visualization & exploration tool for CSV / tabular data. I built it around 7 years ago with just ES6 and d3.js (no React etc) but never really finished or "launched" it - perfectionism led to a neverending todo list, and with a target market of only myself I didn't have a strong pull toward solving a real-world use case. I even took some time between jobs thinking I'd build it into a real product, but only managed to burn myself out instead (quite a surprise to learn that could happen on a passion project!)

But it does work - drag in a CSV file (ideally <100MB) and you can make some cool charts and quickly explore a dataset, all without the data leaving your machine. The features aren't very discoverable, but it has stuff like adding derived columns, various fancy charts, row/column sorting, custom colors, etc. I'm sure there are far better tools around these days, but I've still come back to this thing a surprising amount in my day job when I want to whip up a quick histogram or investigate some trend in a medium-size dataset.

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