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

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Post by tison »

I seldom work on AI. For a few years, my opinion has always been: each wave of AI uses different technology. I don't find a continuous flow in this domain, nor do I understand its underneath better.

So, investing in AI is a large risk: back to my university, the popular AI framework is a neural network, logistic regression, supported-vector machines, etc.

Instead, I spent time working on data infrastructure, which keeps evolving but follows a somewhat consistent direction. If you look at databases, the essential building blocks are identical to those fifty years ago.

I first worked on Apache Flink and became a committer after one year as a contributor. And then Apache ZooKeeper and Curator, so did become a committer / PMC member. Later TiDB / TiKV and now GreptimeDB. The knowledge and experience is reusable.

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Post by hairycrab »

Lich wrote: post #161

Been working on a fishing journal app. Pulls in weather, tides (salt), USGS streamflows (streams), add access points, save notes, make journal entries with catch log, and photo/videos. https://bluelines.app/

Not into fishing and so not the target audience for this, but I just wanted to say this thing jumps out at me as one of those products the excitement over "web 2.0" and the API gold rush was all about. A world of niche web-accessible raw data streams, ready to be processed, combined, added to, and made into something useful by an enterprising developer. Cool project.

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Post by the__alchemist »

I'm working on a personal finance aggregator, as a Mint.com replacement. I started it a few weeks ago, after learning my mint account would be shut down and replaced with Credit Karma. I can hopefully get it launched in 1-2 more weeks.

I learned since starting that this field is saturated; there are many options... including several going through strong marketing campaigns currently! I'm going to still release this because it's mostly done, and it'll be something I use, even if no one else does; advantage of being able to customize it.

I do think I can do this better than other options in these areas - A: Faster and more responsive (by virtue of not using frameworks, tracking, analytics etc) B: Respectful of the user. Ie, no marketing email, compact site designed so you spend as little time on it as possible etc.

However, when I read this thread, it makes me not feel great about it, since it's not original or cool; not something contributing to mankind's advancement.

https://www.finance-monitor.com/

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Post by kidproquo »

Working on Symph (https://symphmusic.com), a web app for musicians that lets you synchronize measures/bars in a music score with timestamps in a YouTube video. Demo video: https://youtu.be/az6IENwtn78

It's like Songsterr, except you get to reuse your existing music scores (PDF/PNG/JPG). I am using a supervised ML model to auto-detect the music bars in the score.

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Post by elamje »

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.…

I worked on this in 2018/19. It's a really hard problem, and the only people I've found doing it at scale is a small Norwegian company called https://piql.no. They encode large files into film and store it in the Arctic World Archive - and they did GitHub's Arctic Code Vault.

DNA storage is interesting, though can be damaged by radiation. Would love to see where you land with this project - it's one of the few cases where crypto may actually be the only real digital solution.

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Post by elamje »

Growth hacking, marketing, and sales for SMBs and solo-preneurs.

Think highly paid freelancers (we find opportunities for them) and blue-collar service companies (they want more leads, but can't afford a high talent growth team).

https://smashamp.com - we currently serve clients in an agency capacity and are building tools/SaaS to do all of this in a self-serve fashion.

The most exciting frontier we are positioning ourselves for is LLM growth hacking, i.e. AI SEO. But, our current company/product is still going to be living in agency/SaaS mode for years to come.

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Post by hackable_sand »

stavros wrote: post #232
jmkni wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How the fuck does one "assemble DNA" lol Sorry but that's so outside of my understanding it reads like pure science fiction (I'm sure it's a thing, I'm just a moron)

Very very small tweezers.

After we did DNA extraction in high school we were provided toothpicks to serve the strands onto a microscope plate.

So yeah, at a certain mass...

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