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

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

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Post by justEgan »

I created KopiMap (https://kopimap.com) to help people discover great cafés in Jakarta Indonesia, but I wanted to take the UX further by automatically organizing user-submitted photos into meaningful categories (menu, food/drinks, ambiance).

The challenge is how to classify images as cost efficient as possible without compromising performance. I decided to go with running ML models on the client-side.

Technical implementation: - Built and trained a compact TensorflowJS model (~3MB) that runs entirely in-browser - Model lazy loads only when users are submitting reviews - Classifies uploaded photos into Menu, Food & Drink, or Vibes (interior/exterior) - Zero server costs for inference, quick enough classification feedback

This approached solved several problems: 1. Reduced server costs by moving inference to the client 2. Improved UX with immediate photo categorization 3. Maintained app performance by lazy loading the model

Would love feedback from the HN community on: - Optimizing the model size further - Alternative approaches to client-side ML - General UX improvements for local discovery apps

I had no prior ML experience, so this was a fun challenge :)

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

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Post by vc289 »

I'm building an AI Data Engineer @ Ardent AI. It's an autonomous AI Agent that can perform data transformations in your databases (mongodb,postgres,supabase for now) from plain english queries

It drops directly into your stack, no new configuration needed

It has its own compute engine and will soon support spark to be able to dynamically perform large scale ETLs and data manipulation.

I also am working towards supporting automatic data pipeline building and data quality checks.

It's live right now @ https://Ardentai.io

Check it out :)

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

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Post by jcmfernandes »

carlos-menezes wrote: post #6

I'm working on a passwordless authentication SaaS.

Busy market, hard to sell to companies who need to migrate. The main reason for migrations is price (eg. Auth0 being super expensive), which is not a good thing. I'm probably not telling you anything new.

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

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Post by spacesanjeet »

It is probably not substantial among the projects people have commented on this thread, but I am happy to be working on my first personal website made from plain old HTML and simplecss.

Learning how to arrange things, navigation, and my own blog on my own site gives me the gratification of owning something fully. Everyone should have their own site is truly what I agree with.

https://spacesanjeet.me

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

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Post by pdyc »

https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline free csv viewer with charts and tables with usual sorting/searching/filtering etc.

I am planning to use the core of this product to create kind of arbitrary dashboard for csv but i am not sure if there is any need for this kind of product.

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

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Post by woile »

I'm still working on https://reciperium.com where people can write recipes with a custom language and create forks of other recipes and modify them.

I'm currently working on supporting images on the recipes.

I'm proud of having launched on producthunt and now trying to figure out how to attract more users

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

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Post by GoToRO »

muhrizqiardi wrote: post #105

F*ck it, I'm not gonna sugar coat it. I was supposed to be working on a project called Tagbox... but it feels like it's never gonna see the light of day. I hope I'm wrong though, I still want this to succeed, for once in my life, I want to actually succeed on at least one thing. I want to contribute some good thing to the society. First, what is it? It's a bookmarking app alternative to Pocket or Raindrop.io. Yeah, y…

Even without the other problems, I can assure you that the vast majority of managers will think that a 80% done project is almost done. The truth is the remaining 20% is where you have to fit everything together so you revisit an rewrite most of the project. It's a different kind of work that feels boring because you already did those things maybe 3,4 times already. It helps to understand the phase of the project you are in, to reduce the frustration. It also helps to do something even very small, every day and focus on that. One day you will run out of things to do.

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

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Post by chilldsgn »

At work, busy adding internationalisation and localising an Angular 16 application. Figured out you can do runtime language switches, without having to maintain separate builds for each locale. Angular's documentation is rubbish.

In my spare time, building an OpenAI wrapper to create SEO meta descriptions for websites. It's mostly a tool for me to use because at work the marketing people don't do this very well and I am too lazy to do it with ChatGPT (copying the prompt and setting it up every time). Plus, the API is way cheaper for me to use. Building it with Laravel and InertiaJs is so much fun. The marketing people at work said they'll find a tool like this super useful, so I already have a user haha.

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

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Post by rjzzleep »

I'm building a wayland sleep and gamma handler that has lua scripting integration. It bothers me that it's so hard to set different timeout handlers. So I recently integrated wljoywake, which allows me to handle timeout on joystick commands and am in the process of adding flux like functionality.

The reason why I want scripting is between I want the color to pause while I'm playing videos without having to add scripting logic to other tools.

I'm also planning to add rofi like functionality with layershell. Rofi is the only tool that has first party support for keybindings and other functionalities, but it's all done through strings. I'd rather have a lua scripting interface that can call other scripts and communicate with json or something similar.

https://github.com/fishman/wlsleephandler-rs

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