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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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Post by h2odragon »

Spent a bit of time last month on multilingual scrabble: what set of ~100, or 150 tiles will allow us to play a good scrabble game in language $X?

There's plenty of word lists on the net to give a sense of "what is a language", and a scrabble simulator script was fun to come up with. So now i have a script that can take a proposed tile set and play a bunch of scrabble games with it in a given language (or group of them) to help judge the viability of the set.

I took it that far because my wife is learning Czech and wanted a tile set as a study aid. Our ~128 tile English set is providing fun on our refrigerator for the whole family as a "walk by crossword game", and the 150 tile czech set seems to be working for the wife. 98 wouldn't be enough for czech; simulator said, and it was right.

I was excited at first about the possibility of sharing the results of my work, but "crossword / scrabble game" is apparently a very narrow niche. Most of the world I can talk to doesn't appear to need a better scrabble set.

I had fun with it, and that's reward enough.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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Post by cddotdotslash »

I’ve been working on a tool for managing AWS Organizations, SCPs, and IAM policies. At the moment it’s more a collection of scratch-my-own-itch features (interactive tree view for accounts, access denied debugger, and a few tools related to seeing how SCPs are inherited through the OU structure). Hosting it at wut.dev if this sounds interesting to you.

One neat thing (although makes it more challenging to build) is that I’m using the AWS JS SDK to do everything client side. So the whole app is basically a single HTML/JS page with no API, creds are only stored locally, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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Post by ishanr »

I am working on a ebook reader which uses AI to make reading easier and has a built in book club to talk about the book as you read it and once you are done.

Basically I am building it for myself as some books are hard to read, and if I can substitute a paragraph or some sections with an ELI5 version that would get me through a lot more books and may it so much fun.

And I love chatting about books and that is half of the fun for me, so I am building it in the app itself.

Using Tauri and Rust for all of this because I don't like slow apps.

Will also build mobile apps next once I am done with the desktop versions as I like syncing where I read etc.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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Post by mgl »

I'm working within a small team on an open-source alternative to Salesforce Platform.

Our big dream is to enable companies of any size to build faster and smarter high-quality software with a solid enterprise foundation (think: security, scalability, traceability) and still retain the rights to the product they pay for.

https://github.com/openkoda/openkoda

Short demo of our insurance application template: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtPOZEERMQo

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