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Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
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#102https://weexpire.org - An opensource tool for creating emergency notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your death or if you are seriously injured.
Being as the timelines for seeing this product in action may be measured in decades (i.e. time of death, hopefully far away), how will you convince your customers that you will still be operating for decades? What happens if operations do cease?
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#103Long-term (decades), no-subscription archival storage. Essentially, you buy a block of space, upload your data over time, and it gets distributed when you need it (if you lost a primary backup), or on your death (to friends and relatives, or whoever you choose), or on a specific future date.
It's a mashup of a safety deposit box, time capsule, and deadman switch.
It's not ready yet, but will be ready in a few weeks. If you're interested, I would really like to talk to you. My email is ethan@ethanmye.rs
FWIW, I did use chatgpt to write a lot of boilerplate JS and fix my bootstrap templates!
edit deadpan->deadman
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#104A new terminal emulator [0] from scratch. It's native and cross-platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming progress on Twitch. If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1]. [0] https://terminal.click [1] https://warp.dev
I know it's crass, but why? Aren't terminals good enough
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#105https://github.com/wong-justin/fmin - I'm working on a file manager for the terminal. A little like Midnight Commander, and a lot like fman. Features: jump to directory (like zoxide), filter as you type, a command palette, and custom commands through shell scripting.
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#106Still continuing to work on https://non.io, which I kinda accidentally launched on hackernews around 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296695
TL;DR elevator pitch: subscription based reddit-like platform. Your subscription is split evenly between everything you upvote that month. Nonio takes $1 out of your subscription to pay for servers.
One thing I found from the launch was there was a huge volume of mobile users, who didn't have a great experience. I hired a dev to help work on an iOS app for this, which we're building in the open.
Designs: https://www.figma.com/file/im8a7L7axmbj0S0lm27NKa/Nonio-iOS-...
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I replicate the service across several AWS regions, and Cloudflare Workers. At the moment, it's really good at answering "am I down everywhere?", since I can just double check in several other regions. I recently taught it to answer "Am I down just in this region?" by monitoring across cloud providers in the same location, though it's more of a niche use case (for the people I chat to, anyway)
How do you check sites behind cloudflare or similar that block the status code?
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#108Improving the accuracy and robustness of gps on mobile devices -- https://www.zephr.xyz/
Real physics and computational communication problems. Crazy tech, fun stuff!!
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#109https://dmba.info, a décentralized, self certified micro blogging platform (Twitter like) : generate keypair on your mobile client, register a name on your self hosted appliance. Your appliance is configurable via Bluetooth and then http api and get visible on the Internet via Tor,as an onion service. Register your onion name on Namecoin with the built-in ElectrumNMC wallet and you, and your good to be reachable. The stack is built on top on the Secure Scuttlebut protocol and is working for personal use. Looking for contributors.
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#110https://vibetrack.co - Calendly for people that prefer in-person meetings.