Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by stpn » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:28 AM UTC

I’ve been building a personal finance app that runs fully in the browser (using the automerge crdt and sqlite) for over a year now at https://tender.run.

Recently I’ve been taking more of being able to flexibly run sql against this data, and this past week I’ve been working with d3 to make fancy sankey graphs to show income/expense flows. Quick preview here: https://demo.tender.run/reports/sankey

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by ViktorV » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:28 AM UTC

On JumpHigher [1], an app that helps you improve your vertical leaps, just using your phone camera. It's functional already, but very early, the algorithm took quite a while to nail ( still far from perfect ).

I'm a CEO of a small consulting company, and I love working with startups ( or hate working with huge companies, matter of perspective ), and I always thought that to be better at that we have to be able to launch our own stuff.

Also, I never launched anything solo, working alone is hard for me so this was a challenge. I want to continue working on it on the side for a while.

The main audience for now would be basketball players that want to dunk, or anyone that wants a good leg workout and track the progress.

1. https://www.jumphigher.io/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by dtkav » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:31 AM UTC

I'm working on Relay [0] -- a collaboration plugin for Obsidian using yjs to provide live cursors and folder sync.

I'm currently thinking about how to robustly Integrate different edit sources like iCloud, obsidian sync, git, and yjs updates. I think it could be cool to create a crdt persistence format that can live alongside markdown files (like note.md + note.md.crdt) to support edit history tracking from multiple users and their devices.

[0] https://youtu.be/Ol6zDF5vrZo

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by jeeyoungk » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:31 AM UTC

8organicbits wrote: post #106

The recent relicensing of Redis to a non-open-source license bothered many in the community. But the groundwork for the relicensing was laid much earlier. I've been working on relicensing monitor to track various projects attributes that can affect the ease of relicensing a project. https://alexsci.com/relicensing-monitor/

I also think CLAs are eerie and goes against the open source spirit, I don't think CLA alone puts a project in "high risk". I'm not sure about the FAANG open source projects that are used as libraries (Guava, React, ...). These projects fundamentally don't jeopardize these company's businesses, and serve to increase the developer goodwill amongst the engineers. Nobody can predict the future but I can't imagine these projects becoming relicensed.

More plausible scenario is them becoming an abandonware, but even in those cases the community can carry the torch.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by daniel31x13 » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:33 AM UTC

I’m working on a self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager: https://linkwarden.app

Github: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by jmcgough » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:33 AM UTC

Secondary applications for med school - once your initial single app gets processed, every school (out of the 20+ you apply to) wants multiple essays from you. The process of preparing for and applying to med school is a nightmare and consumed the last two years of my life. I've had a lot of really cool life experiences because of it though, learned so much about medicine, and done some actual good. But I just want to get in this cycle and be done with endless essay writing.

I've been working on and off on building an app for learning chest x-ray interpretation, but that's shelved until I finish applications.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by greenie_beans » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:33 AM UTC

rehabbing an old bike. also, bookhead, software for bookstores to sell online: https://www.bookhead.net/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

#158

Post by boogieknite » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:34 AM UTC

Apple vision pro app for documenting realtor's pre-listing-checklist notes in space and then also exporting notes to LMS-required PDFs for submission.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by meonkeys » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:34 AM UTC

mattkevan wrote: post #137

I’m working on a collaborative ebook reading app. The idea is that you can create a reading group, invite people and then share comments and highlights and see each other’s reading progress. It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while, for example to read a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there’s lots of other possibilities including author reading parties, proofing and education. Got the basic…

Cool! Lemme know if you want help with testing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by boogieknite » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 12:35 AM UTC

Drupal interface for interacting and managing ArcGIS Online services, layers, and tables for people who understand GIS but aren't GIS experts to build reports that query across potentially unrelated services.