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

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Post by logtempo »

koeng wrote: post #168

I’ve been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically, I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I make it in real life for them, then ship it to them. Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me! After almost a year of work…

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...

Might interest you!

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

remyp wrote: post #99

A developer happiness product, https://workdna.com . It sends out employee pulse surveys that are purpose-built for dev teams and don't suck to fill out. Lots of companies just cobble together a Google Form full of irrelevant questions, send it out, and throw their hands in the air when nobody fills it out. WorkDNA surveys your team on criteria like CI/CD reliability, test flakiness, PR feedback quality, job satisfac…

> are completely anonymous

...until they aren't. (Speaking from corporate experience)

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

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

mjouni wrote: post #77

I have been frustrated with how project management tools make it hard for engineering teams to see the impact of their work on the product. I built Beacon ( https://anvilyard.com/beacon ), to fix this. Instead of focusing on moving a ticket to done, I am trying to get teams to think of how their tickets get the team closer to a product goal. I know there are a lot of cultural elements at play in an organization that…

I'm just imagining how frustrating it must be when those metrics stay flat.

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

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

cardamomo wrote: post #35

A simple, self-hosted RSVP system for parties, now that FB is no longer a unifying platform for my social circle. And a "mood meter" mapping app that puts anonymous reports of how folks are feeling on a world map. I don't quite have the skills (yet) to do this latter project, so we'll see how much time I have to dedicate to it.

Got a link?

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Post by sentientslug »

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!

This is a really clever idea, and worked great on mobile as well. Is there a way to choose to display the code window underneath the documentation instead of on top?

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

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Post by duranduran »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #167
duranduran wrote: post #130

I'm working on a very experimental music generator: https://app.bars.ai (I regret my domain choice). It's free to use and you can play around with it pretty easily. The idea is that you have a "framework" that you can change for what you want the music generator to produce. You can download the MIDI files it produces as well.

I honestly loved (!) the created melody, but stumbled across a couple UX issues. Most of those, I think, could be fixed with smarter defaults and some tweaks. Excellent work, though. Would love to see how it develops... During creation of a new track : - Why do I need a description? - Why do I need a name, actually? - Why is there only Latin and Empty available? - Edit: Just realised that the Latin track is hardcoded…

Thanks for checking it out!

This is really good feedback, I'll try to address some of these tonight.

I've added name and description because I made a feature where you could create an account to save your work. During development, I got tired of having to constantly recreate test scenarios, so I integrated AWS cognito and started saving compositions.

Latin is hardcoded. To be honest, I wasn't really sure what to do there. The latin template really just bootstraps the UI to save some time and act as a demo. My plan is to make 3-5 premade compositions for each major genre, and have the create flow let you pick between them.

On making changes impacting the UI, this is something that I'm still really struggling to find a balance between. I'll prioritize this higher based on what you've said!

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Post by pxeger1 »

nutrie wrote: post #155
snowfield wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know it's crass, but why? Aren't terminals good enough

I wish somebody built an emulator as fast as xterm and as configurable as something like kitty. Until then, xterm it is.

Kitty is fast enough for me. Why is speed such a concern for you?
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