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Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Post by Edmond »

https://certisfy.com

PKI certificate based online information verification

Demo: https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY

I am working on bootstrapping the trust chain (kinda "web of trust"), if you run an org (company,team,meetup,github repo...etc) email me if you're interested in a cert.

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Post by jvanderbot »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #14
jvanderbot wrote: post #3

A privacy-first personal finance stack, with free and SaaS versions, with "power user" developer-friendly data analysis. No ads, no data sale, E2E encryption, localhost option, basic budgetting and transaction parsing, but for power users allows spinning up a jupyter notebook to play with your financial data.

How would a privacy first SaaS with a localhost option work from both business and technical perspectives?

Access to fine-grained, well-classified financial data costs money. The localhost option provides a way for you to integrate with providers of said data, e.g., using their "developer" api keys. As long as they support free personal use and you stay in their limits, the localhost option incurs no cost to you, and we have no reason (and no way!) to charge anything if you `git pull` and set up these integrations using our readme.md.

All storage will be encrypted w/ client side keys.

For SaaS, we do the integration automatically and pass hosting and fintech costs on as a monthly subscription. We provide automatic report options that also incur small charges, mostly to cover additional compute, hosting, and higher-tier integration with data providers. These reports can use transient data and/or pass encrypted payloads to client side report generation or display, e.g., SPA or CLI tools.

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

rozenmd wrote: post #12

For the last three years, I've been working on https://onlineornot.com It's uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams. In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k , all their system ever did was alert us when we w…

This is a super simple IT problem to solve technically (ping a URL, provide a status HTML page, etc.) but really hard to get right, like your customer comment about a vendor. If done wrong, people will go to their "you had one job" card. How do you handle hosting of your own service and isolation from larger "cloud" or internet issues?

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Post by andrew_eu »

I've been working on and off on several smallish apps I use in the kitchen, purely non-commercial.

I shared https://teig.pro a few months ago and it's made substantial improvements since then. It's a recipe builder that recalculates masses on-the-fly and supports adding/editing ingredients -- especially focused on breads. Unfortunately Fly.io seems to have flagged the project and is preventing me from deploying updates without upgrading my account (which is already paid). There are quite a few bugfixes which will be rolled out once that issue gets resolved, or I change hosting.

I also made https://pepcorn.pro quite a bit longer in a similar spirit, but much simpler. It uses your device's microphone to detect popcorn "pop"s, and measures the time between them -- done popcorn usually has ~5 seconds between pops.

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Post by terryjsmith »

I'm working on a "low code" web app that helps developers build web apps (not marketing or blogs or e-commerce sites). Create your data models in the app and get an API, a database (or connect your own), and a Next.js app with all of the scaffolding, models, forms, validation, API calls, policies, access and authorization, etc. ready for you to use and customize.

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Post by idempotent_ »

Shamanoid wrote: post #22
idempotent_ wrote: post #8

I'm working on a money laundering simulator video game.

How realistic is it? Asking for a friend

Trying to keep it "realistic" in the sense of how the structures are set up (bank reporting regulations, offshore companies, shell companies etc) but I'm optimizing for fun. It's an isometric Transport Tycoon-styled game but instead of building physical infrastructure you create financial connections between nodes like drug op -> cash business -> bank -> offshore company -> real estate investment.

This has been my design bible so far https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/money-la...

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