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

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Post by stpn »

I've been working on a local-first personal finance/expense tracker called Tender: https://tender.run

Tender runs as a PWA and uses the Automerge crdt and sqlite via wasm. The app more or less runs entirely in your browser (works offline!), though our server proxies connections to pull in plaid/splitwise data.

Feature-wise, we're targeting folks who do want to manage their expenses but not have to do fine-grained budgeting. There's tools for tracking getting paid back and a splitwise integration as well. The app is desktop-centric right now, but we're working on getting a good mobile workflow together too.

Since everything is browser-based, it was actually quite easy to get a demo sandbox environment working. You can give it a quick spin here: https://demo.tender.run

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

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Post by j2bax »

jawns wrote: post #75

You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire? Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry,…

Awesome! Makes me think of this song: https://youtu.be/4s0KidJf5FQ?si=H56SCAivnsU6jy6W

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

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Post by CharlesW »

snowfield wrote: post #104
abnercoimbre wrote: post #94

A 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

It seems like they're trying to solve a problem that they've observed. I know I'd like to read more on the "recognizes user intent and supports it with rich interactions" comment. Time for a manifesto?

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

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Post by nurettin »

snowfield wrote: post #104
abnercoimbre wrote: post #94

A 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

It lets you run commands on program output text incrementally instead of piping the initial command or re-running it.

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

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Post by riperoni »

neonsunset wrote: post #68

https://github.com/U8String/U8String which is a UTF-8 string library for C# that aims to offer rich and performant API to replace standard string for scenarios where you do want to consume UTF-8 directly. I'm working on it since last summer actually, it turned out to be much higher complexity project than expected :) Also comes with a few niceties like the ability to directly consume Streams, Sockets, WebSockets and…

I like this a lot, thank you. Have to try it out in a project.

Is the default encoding when handling files UTF8 OR UTF8-BOM? Is both supported?

Another question: in the readme you have this example

`var joined = U8String.Join(',', boolean.Runes); // "T,r,u,e"`

Why is " T" of true in uppercase?

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

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Post by curtisblaine »

jawns wrote: post #75

You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire? Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry,…

This sounds very useful, but isn't this service going to automatically fail as soon as it starts to be known because you can't market it to the intended audience (the gift-receivers) without marketing at the same time to the adversarial audience (the gift-givers)?

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

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Post by OisinMoran »

I've been working on a social link sharing site called lynmki that allows you to follow a subset of someone's interests rather than having to follow everything they post. E.g. Someone posts lovely examples of typography, and also about events on in their city but you live halfway across the globe so just want the typography.

I'm focussing on smaller circles, avoiding "algorithmic" feeds (aware sorting by reverse chronological order is an algorithm), and no advertising.

It borrows a lot from the greats like HN, Delicious, etc. and there's a long way to go (I just added likes last week) but people are already finding some nice links from it!

You can see it at https://lynkmi.com/ and I'd recommend reading the about page for even more. If it sounds interesting to you please sign up to the waitlist—it's very short!

I'm also building it in public so follow along if you want: https://twitter.com/TheOisinMoran/status/1725929527761596434

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