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Sesame/orange chicken over rice food trucks that operate like vending machines. Can only order one thing and just indicate quantity to pay.

$10 each. Super hot, super fresh, super tasty, super filing, super consistent, super value, hmm maybe I'll call it super chicken.

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post #95

Working on Lungy: https://www.lungy.app It's an interactive breathing app (responds when you breathe). Initially for stress & anxiety, we're developing a medical device (SaMD) for asthma + COPD.

Reminds me of Breathscape [1], a former colleague's biofeedback-driven generative audio app.

[1] https://www.breathscape.com

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im building a simple service catalog available in slack. it lets you fuzzy search any service name (eg. payments or billing because naming is hard) and get back which team owns it, their working hours, runbook link ect. so you can answer who owns this? with 1 command. I'm still playing around with what pain points to solve for staff in large orgs s o any suggestions on what annoys you would be super helpful. https://…

looking to add automated team status reports to see what PRs have been merged or open in your team and across the company. https://whoowns.app/comingsoon

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I'm deeply engaged in rewriting my own data processing software from Elixir to C. I've already reduced the number of dedicated servers from 3 to 0.1 while scaling traffic and handling larger amounts of data. My goal is to optimize it for Raspberry Pi, just for fun... and it's also more ecologically friendly this way :)

By the way, I'd appreciate a programming partner with whom I can discuss security issues in C code. I would gladly exchange code review sessions. Is anyone interested here?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty quick way to figure that out is to ask for it now, build the landing page.

I made https://www.befuzzed.com/ a while back, but no emails yet. But I haven't tried to market it either so that's on me. I asked for some feedback from some strangers on discord and thought I'd try to improve accordingly before attempting something more public. But so far it's mainly been "that's a neat idea" rather than "Oooh, I want that! I'd pay for that".

If you're building this as a hobby, cool, go on.

If you're building this as a business, then you need to stop coding and get selling right now. Building a landing page is 0% of that, talk to customers, figure out what they want. Writing code first will not advance you at all towards a business goal.

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I’m working on https://langible.com , a language learning app intended to be fun like Duolingo and effective like Anki. Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!

Just playing with it now for German, and the second ever set of words it taught me were ‘Er’, ‘aus’, and ‘Dorf’, and it then asked me to fill in the blank:

Er ist aus unserem Dorf

…only it hadn’t taught me ‘unserem’, so I had no way of even guessing the right answer. (I just had to get it wrong intentionally.)

Is this intended behaviour or should it also have taught me ‘unserem’ first?

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#387

A place to connect the books you want to read with friends who already own them, and vice-versa. Imagine a distributed library composed of your friends’ books. Encouraging sharing with friends and starting conversations about topics you might never have considered having not known they were into the same books as you. Very rough draft but it has the core functionality, even if it’s a bit cumbersome. https://opnshlf.c…

love the idea! I would have registered if it weren't using passkey. is there a reason you chose this for user verification? I've never used it and am hesitant to adopt technologies that give chrome more control over the browser market

Many password managers have passkey support, I'm using the free version of Bitwarden and can recommend it. Windows Hello can also be used, and afaik Apple Keychain too.

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"Boring enterprise software". A manufacturing focused ERP system using SvelteKit and SQL Server. These systems are typically made with Java and it's becoming clear to me that it's massive overkill when SQL Server is (or can be) doing most of the work and the application is (or can be) a thin layer between the user and the database. Using only one language, with perfectly matched types and validation schemas for both…

> when SQL Server is (or can be) doing most of the work Can you say more about this? Do you mean using stored procedures heavily or something else?

Some stored procedures but mainly just well planned schema and raw SQL.

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

#389
I‘m learning SwiftUI and built myself a no-frills read-later app. The content is extracted on the device, it tracks the reading progress and lets me archive read articles. It can import links via a sharing extension. For the content extraction, I ported the postlight/mercury parser from JS to Swift. It’s easily my second most used app by screen time now, seems like I hit a nerve. I don’t plan to release it publicly.

Some screenshots: https://franz.hamburg/atoms/2024_Feb09_18:30.html

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post #344

I'm working on Astral Divide, a 2D game about space travel, exploration and automation. The concept is quite unique, but inspired by games like Starbound, Terraria, Factorio and minecraft. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2597060/Astral_Divide/

super cool! Just the sort of game I'd love playing. Any plans to open up a demo/beta?

Glad to hear that! The game is only in closed alpha currently because it's not mature yet for a public release.

My current plan is to be ready for a demo within 2025.

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