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

I’m working on a test integration tool. You write your tests declaratively using YAML (ie. setup the environment, databases, etc., load fixtures, make api calls or db calls, and check assertions), so it’s completely language agnostic, which makes it perfect for grey-box/black-box testing. This way of testing also ensures you’re testing functional, business cases, and gives great stability on an exposed interface, because everything runs with real dbs, real queues and so on. From experience, this way of testing hits the perfect balance between reliability, usefulness, maintainability (when done right), and verbosity (at a previous company we replaced the tests on all of our layers with this kind of integration tests and it ended up being the most stable code base and test harness we ever worked on).

I’m currently polishing the logs and reports as much as possible, and then I’ll add support for more tools (Kafka, Rabbit, Nats, etc.). I have tons of features in mind to improve UX, speed, and bring more value to the tests.

Down the line, I want to find a business model for this tool and sell it, but I need to do a lot of thinking on this side since I’ve never done this before.

https://snaptail.dev - during the past few days I was exploring concept of single source file applications where you can hide the build system.

I've cobbled together this tool which hides nextjs build system and allows to work with just single file.

It works great for fast prototyping or building an internal/local apps.

edit: repo: https://github.com/rybarix/snaptail

Hi guys, For the past few months, I'm working on a form builder called minform with focus on UX and themes. Current form builders too restricted when comes to styling. It's free for unlimited submissions with paid plan for team feature.

You can try here without signup: https://admin.minform.io/try

Site: https://minform.io

I had a bit of a tough time towards the end of my last job, and felt a similar ennui. If you can, I’d highly highly recommend picking up a completely unrelated hobby to fill your non work (and occasionally work, when you’re in that limbo) time. I couldn’t believe the effect it had on me, and it meant that I started my new role feeling refreshed and optimistic, rather than just diving into it like I normally do.

Personally, I hit the gym for 4 months, mostly to fix the lack of sleep that came with the restlessness and lack of mental exercise.

I'm currently working on a PDF search engine that will index and then search through several thousand pdfs. As a tabletop role-player and former researcher, I've always wanted a simple tool to do this, and I hope I won't be the only one to benefit from it. This is my first project of this scale and I hope to be able to show it here soon.

On the technical side, it's a desktop application coded entirely in java with a javaFX interface. No AI or online data uploads, just the Lucene search engine and PDFium for PDF rendering.

Here is a very short demo : https://youtu.be/CGo9JRUByGA