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

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Post by ciccionamente »

wewtyflakes wrote: post #102
ciccionamente wrote: post #39

https://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?

One reliable way to convince customers is to provide emergency notes with a fixed expiration date of a maximum of 1 year from the time the note was written. After 1 year, customers are, in a way, forced to create a new emergency note, and at the same time, they can verify if anything is going to change soon on the platform (e.g. upcoming shutdown). This would also help to keep the emergency note’s content always up-to-date. When you sign up for car insurance, you do so for a maximum of 1 year, as prices and coverages may change.

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

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Post by Kkoala »

A suite of widgets / tools that many SaaS apps want at some point, but that can be cumbersome to manage and build from scratch, e.g. Announcements, NPS widgets, Product Tours, Feedback widgets etc. etc.

All are creatable and editable without coding skills (after the initial copy-paste setup). So for example, product managers and customer success can manage them without having to bother devs.

https://produktly.com/

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

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Post by Hasz »

curtisblaine wrote: post #122
Hasz wrote: post #103

Long-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.…

How are your clients sure that your storage lasts decades and doesn't end if you lose interest / fail / sell to another company? (They can't, of course, so: how do you convince them?)

It's a good question. A lot of it centers around creating good corporate governance and a reason for either me (or someone else) to stay interested (careful incentive design). This is obviously antithetical to the typical scale-up strategy of a tech company, and the financials are very similar to an insurance company. It's also why there is no free plan in the pricing.

In terms of convincing, for the technically-minded, I have a public disaster recovery plan, a public business continuity plan, and "escape hatches" for "common" events -- war, subpoenas, changes in law, a post-RSA future, etc. The goal is to cover as many events as possible, including the very improbable (like AWS losing a whole AZ!). The backing clouds are Microsoft Files and AWS S3, both with excellent track records and absurdly good durability. There is some special caching in front to minimize cost.

For the less technically-minded, there are no good alternatives. Self-hosted data is difficult to geographically distribute (and if you do it's difficult to update true cold storage). Cloud services have a very high lifetime cost, and unclear rules around data distribution to next of kin. Other methods, like burying some vacuum sealed MDISCs in a freezer, are not realistic.

I am of the opinion that while it is impossible to predict the future, it is possible to plan for it.

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

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Post by abhiyerra »

https://cashmoney.lol I like to read the SEC 10-Ks (annual reports) and 10-Qs (quarterly reports) first then look at Yahoo Finance, etc. So I took the ticker info directly from the SEC and created a single page app using jQuery DataTable and deployed to Cloudflare Pages so I can quickly go to the SEC page for the company, as well as others. The pro version is a Google Sheet version of the site that plugs into =GOOGLEFINANCE for additional data.

As for the domain, I had it lying around so I used it.

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

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Post by matteason »

I'm building https://ambiph.one, an ambient music/white noise/soundscape web app. It's a free alternative to apps which have a monthly fee or are covered in ads. Lots of lovely feedback from people who've found it useful for sleep, tinnitus, focus, ADHD etc

Just launched a PWA and now working on more mixing features like spatial audio, reverb and high/low-pass filters to let you create even more immersive sound environments.

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

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Post by notaustinpowers »

I've recently started on an RSS Reader that helps minimize doom scrolling by giving users 2 "Issues" a day, a Morning Rundown, and an Evening Recap. As well as Feeds being able to be categorized into user-created "Magazines" to gather content from multiple sources that the user finds relevant to each other.

I'd like to provide a lot of customization options for the user to customize it as they see fit. And ultimately make it FOSS in case anyone else wants to play around with it.

I'm still working on UI wireframes, but I use my site to publically post progress updates. https://www.keoni.dev

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

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Post by Kkoala »

tip_of_the_hat wrote: post #134

I'm working https://annotate.dev , a tool inspired by the Stripe documentation, to let anyone create step by step code walkthroughs. Here's a sample of a walkthrough you can create: https://annotate.dev/p/hello-world/learn-oauth-2-0-by-buildi... Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!

That's a cool idea!

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

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Post by mtlynch »

z3n0n wrote: post #124

Been working on making learning German just a little bit more fun with interactive stories: https://learnoutlive.com/stories/

This looks cool! What level of proficiency do users need to be at to start with your app? Would this be a match for someone who's coming in with zero German?
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