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Working on fabric construction blocks (like Lego of clothing), that you can use to build clothing and accessories completely by hand without any tools or machines. Intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_eKc6c5tDw
I'm continuing the work on Cellm, an Excel extension that let's you call LLMs in cell formulas like =PROMPT(A1, "Rate the sentiment of the customer feedback as positive, neutral, or negative"), and then drag the formula down to apply the same prompt to thousands of rows. I built it after my girlfriend had to manually classify 7,500 research papers. Cellm automates that kind of repetitive work. Since we added MCP and…
I built something like that for Google Sheets in early 2024 and now I'm thinking whether I missed an opportunity.
I'm working on an app[0] that makes hosting temporary PDF forms simple, without needing an account or payment. You simply add input fields over any static PDF and publish it to get a link which you can send to other people who may need to fill the form. The form stays online for 30 days. To keep the forms online for longer, I will be offering paid plans. [0]: https://www.signmypdf.com
Well executed! Low fuss. The widget process was intuitive and worked good enough on mobile. Shareable link was easy. Some minor thoughts: Are the radio buttons meant to have a big outline? Any way to erase the signature? What tech did you use for the frontend?
You can erase existing signatures by overlaying a new signature widget on top of it and specifying a solid color as the background.
The frontend uses React, with Firebase handling most of the backend stuff.
https://gather.buzz - an influencer tracking / CRM platform.
My roommate and I are still working on Tornyol, our mosquito killing drone! It uses ultrasonic sonar to detect mosquitoes, and missile control theory to ram into mosquitoes and grind them in its propellers. Our target platform is a 40 grams tinywhoop so it’s safe to fly everywhere and makes almost no noise :). A Roomba for mosquitoes! The main plus compared to traditional systems is that a drone can cover an enormous…
I'm working on an engine for Excel-like formulas, which will be available both as a library and as a service (which I've mentioned on HN a few times before). I originally started work on the engine back in 2008, when our app builder needed it. This is a wheel I see people reinventing all the time, often for use in SaaS applications. The implementations are often underwhelming: function support is limited, documentati…
Still working on https://phrasing.app - an app for polyglots to learn over 120 languages in the most effective manner and a beautiful UI. Just finished a onboarding flow, now updating the search and create experience to fall more in line with actual usage from users, then hopefully prepping for a more public launch :) Had a fun week fixing up the application so it’s 100x faster on 5 different axes, and it’s starting…
I've been learning languages for almost 10 years now but your site UI is unusable on mobile
It should be fixed now though :) let me know if you have any more issues!
PS the app is very smooth inside, there was just a rendering issue on the home page.
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If it’s anything like the US, the listings only represent a minority of what’s available for sale and buyers are better off hiring a broker. If you could find a way to have majority of everyone actually list things for sale online, I think you’d have a solid business.
In Australia, brokers need to be licenced real estate agents (even as a buyers agent in many states), so I suspect there's a relatively decent culture of people who are serious about selling their business going through brokers and resulting in listings on at least one of the major platforms. There's just shy of 90,000 unique listings I'm tracking (i.e. after de-duplication) on these platforms. On the traditional cla…
Works like this in US too. Commercial brokers rely on their network and not listing things on a market. Even most commercial real estate property for sale in the US is unlisted. It’s a weird industry, there are listings site but they only reflect a minor percentage of what you’d find if you drive around looking at for sale signs.