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

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Post by aumerle »

jstimpfle wrote: post #470
aumerle wrote: post #429

Earlier quoted context omitted.

xterm has extremely poor throughput performance. kitty and most other well designed terminals are atleast 2x as fast as xterm. For example: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/#throughput Of all tested terminals xterm is faster only than konsole.

Xterm feels faster to me than all alternatives I've tried (not kitty). I suspect it's input to screen latency. Also, crisp bitmap fonts. Startup is instant too. It has comparatively very good "fidelity", giving usable screen outputs with most applications without tinkering. A factor of 2x in throughput is nothing to sweat about I think, given that xterm is fast enough. Haven't verified the benchmarks in your link, an…

You are of course welcome to use whatever terminal you like, just be aware that speed is not a reason to prefer xterm.

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Post by webspinner »

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…

Are you going to add RSS? This would be cool!

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Post by webspinner »

stpn wrote: post #111

I've been working on a local-first personal finance/expense tracker called Tender: https://tender.run Tender runs as a PWA and uses the Automerge crdt and sqlite via wasm. The app more or less runs entirely in your browser (works offline!), though our server proxies connections to pull in plaid/splitwise data. Feature-wise, we're targeting folks who do want to manage their expenses but not have to do fine-grained bud…

It's definitely something I need. I don't need anything really complicated. I've actually been looking for a service like this for a while. Tried Mint once, but thought it was just a bit too much.

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Post by webspinner »

madacol wrote: post #135

A bookmarklet store https://getbookmarklets.com/ Though I am having trouble figuring out a simple way to solve discovering and make it work autonomously without leaving it open to spam Any ideas or feedback appreciated

I've always looked for something like this. Submission approvals. If you don't want to do approvals, perhapse charge $5 per submission. Also limit them from the same person to at least once every 24 hours, but probably more, if you want to keep it free.

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Post by fruktmix »

citizenpaul wrote: post #483
fruktmix wrote: post #479

I've been working on https://growfa.st . A lot of times, websites suggest I sign up for a 5-10% discount/promo code. That might lead to a sale and they get one more user to their email list. GrowFast takes that a step furtver by offering a widget that provides different tasks for the user to complete in order to receive the promo code. The tasks range between user generated content leading to more organic traffic, us…

I like the effect on the email signup but it appears to make my android 14 phone/firefox mobile cough blood.

Hahaha, really gotta fix that website asap lol. Thanks for the input though!

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Post by d2clon »

tlh wrote: post #36

https://www.osomatsu.net/ — a little recipe writing and sharing website that me and my wife (and some close relatives) have been using over the last few years. Have got plenty of ideas to implement on it, but it works well for us as is at the moment. People can request to join for free if it could be useful for them too.

No pictures? I get 50% of the information of a recipe based on the picture of the final dish. I don't buy recipe books if they don't have pictures of the final dish of each recipe

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Post by lesostep »

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,…

Wouldn't it be simpler to sell $20-30 dollar jewelry for 50$ with explicit promise that this jewelry is very easy to return in exchange for the 50$ gift card? You could add RFC chips to them so people couldn't return counterfeits. Epoxy resin is good at covering chips.

It would solve the problem of littering your house with cheap products, save the buyer the embarrassment of gifting something that looks like 2$ jewelry (it is noticeable when it is that cheap), and it makes easier for people to pretend that they actually want that necklace for the necklace and not for the gift card.

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Post by d2clon »

abusada wrote: post #332

Yes, working on Sonomo, a platform that allows investors to invest in music royalties, an income-generating asset that pays monthly dividends. Investors can choose to invest in individual songs or curated collections of songs called "Baskets" to diversify their portfolio. https://sonomo.com

I see I, as a user, get a portion of the earnings for each song (Spotify, ...) I have shares of.

Question: How the revenues of the song are confirmed? How do I know the artist is sharing all the revenues?

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Post by precompute »

_kush wrote: post #112

I am building a macOS app to help reduce screen strain and dry eyes due to prolonged screen use. It's called LookAway -- https://lookaway.app

Hey, I built something like this for personal use! I use xcalib to flash the screen every fifteen minutes.
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