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

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Post by endofreach »

I am working on a new kind of device, that, compared to the technology we use today, will make everything look like toys of the past. I am 100% convinced we are very close to our generations "PC revolution" era (no, no AI gadget waste). Not only is it superior tech, it is actually sustainable. This will chsmge everything.

While currently writing software prototypes & building hardware PoCs, i should spend more time trying to find team members... Otherwise i will not be able to secure financing which is crucial right now... so, soon i either will still be working on this, or i am dead. Let's see!

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

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Post by nitwit005 »

pkoird wrote: post #132
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 is such a first world problem. It's normalized in many 3rd world countries to give and receive cash (red envelopes). Directly not giving money and resorting to gift cards (and roundabout methods like these) just, doesn't make sense to my third world brain is all I'm saying.

Many, meaning, not all. It's obviously a cultural thing. That red envelope idea is ancient.

China and Vietnam that do the red envelope bit would be "second world" countries, incidentally, as they were part of the communist block under that old "three worlds" labeling.

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

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Post by victorbjorklund »

rhin0 wrote: post #200

I built a tool to help automatically conserve email storage (so you don't pay for more). https://www.mailsweeper.co/ It creates a new label in your inbox, auto labels according to your preferences, and periodically moves those emails to trash can. Built to avoid me/my wife going over the free Gmail storage limit

Nice. Btw, your mobile menu does not close if you click away (you have to click on the cross) even if that is pretty standard behaviour (just in case you missed that)

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

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Post by JohnMakin »

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…

this is the coolest thing I have ever read. How did you even get into that?

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

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Post by mkw5053 »

I'm making a small compost freezer. This way, while your compost is in your kitchen and before you put it in the municipal compost bin outside, it doesn't smell, isn't wet, doesn't attract flies, and the bag doesn't rip. It has the form factor of a small trash can and uses a TEC for cooling.

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

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Post by canadiantim »

OisinMoran wrote: post #120

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 chro…

I feel dyslexic even trying to read that domain name. I want it to say link me, but the f is lynmki

edit: thank goodness the domain name actually is https://lynkmi.com/, crisis averted.

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

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Post by Jhsto »

Nix-based PXE booting. It can boot different images than your NixOS-based system configurations, but the main focus has been to support NixOS. We even have a system which is able to scan your hardware pre-boot, and then launch the initial ramdisk with a kernel which has all the required drivers pre-installed. https://github.com/majbacka-labs/nixos.fi

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

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Post by reaperman »

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…

Thank you so much for posting this. It's wonderful to hear how excited you are about it all.

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

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Post by remyp »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #172
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)

This is a big concern for us. Fortunately, we are self-funded and only answer to ourselves.

I’d love to hear more about your experience - please feel free to email me (info in profile) if you’re not comfortable sharing publicly.

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