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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by shivang2607 »

written-beyond wrote: post #20
shivang2607 wrote: post #4

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I literally said this exact thing verbatim with someone who was worshipping ai for code. This is an insane idea, really cool. One bit of feedback, I'd love if this could be a little more aesthetic in the visualization. The method names are a little hard to read, white on light green.

It was just the first look...My primary focus on was on the Engine. I will upgrade the UI and will surely change the UI you mentioned. You can also contribute if you wish as it is open source (built in nextjs)

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by black_puppydog »

domh wrote: post #33
siddhant wrote: post #28

I’m building ATProto Alternatives ( https://atprotoalternatives.com ). I started looking into AT Protocol recently and find it very interesting, so I started collecting a list of decentralized products built on top of AT that are alternatives to mainstream (popular) products.

This is very cool! I too have been very curious about ATProto after reading Dan Abramov's blog posts on it: https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/ One question, I tried sharing your site with a friend and the share URL is coming up as http://localhost/ which is strange and I've never seen before. Is this something that's possible to customise via meta tag, or is this a bug in my browser (Vanadium 147 on Graphene…

Seems like accidentally they uploaded a local development build of the HTML:

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by petargyurov »

I recently built Cranki [0], a free little PWA that generates crosswords using your Anki flashcard lists. It's aimed at language learners (who find flashcards boring and crossword fun!). To be honest I built it just for me and then decided it might be useful for others.

It's all local, no server, no database, etc. Mobile and desktop friendly.

I did build it with the help of AI, but no AI inside the actual thing.

[0] https://cranki.app

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by geekysquirrel »

So great to see how much stuff there is going on outside of AI!

I've been working (on and off for over a decade) on a way to manage my unwieldy photo and video collection. I experimented with so many tools before but ultimately nothing ticked all my boxes so I wrote my own. Admittedly lots of niche stuff like proper support for UTC time, stereo photos and partial dates and things like 100% offline face detection and custom tag hierarchies and querying without a database. Each time I add a new feature I'm having a blast :)

https://gitlab.com/geekysquirrel/memo2

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by hagbard_c »

I recently made a 'notification-driven RPC' app for Android to help me help others:

Notifactor (Android App)

A lightweight native Android app that intercepts notifications on the device and triggers actions based on configurable rules.

The app uses Android's NotificationListenerService API. Once granted notification access it receives a callback for every notification posted on the device. It then checks each notification against configured rules and runs the configured action.

Why would you want this?

I don't know why you would want this but I can tell you why I made it: to make it easier to control some functions on Android devices used by people I often help using them in some way. My mother's Android TV (which I use to communicate with her through Linphone), phone and tablet sometimes stop doing the right thing. I live about 1300 km to the north of where she lives so I can't just hop on my bike to fix things. Thus far I relied on a set of Termux scripts on these devices to keep a reverse ssh tunnel open to an endpoint on my server but this has a number of drawbacks: the tunnel is not always there when I need it due to WiFi dropouts and other similar problems and the constant connection uses battery power on the phone and tablet. If only I could cause the tunnel to be created when I need it and brought down when it is not needed... Well, that is possible using Notifactor by sending a notification on a specific channel (ntfy refers to these as topics) whereupon Notifactor runs a Termux script which manages the tunnel (etc.).

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by TrianguloY »

I made this one-page little tool to help me split bills when going out with friends:

https://trianguloy.github.io/githubPages/SplitBill/splitBill...

The UI is horrible, but I really liked doing the coding. I'm also aware of other similar sites, but this one contains the features I need.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by BrunoBernardino »

nottorp wrote: post #32
BrunoBernardino wrote: post #9

This seems a little bit of a duplicate of [1], but I can repeat my answer here as any views help! My wife and I continue to work on Uruky, a EU-based Kagi alternative [2]. Since last month we finally got our production API Key for EUSP/STAAN (it was certainly the slowest and most complicated search provider to adopt, so far), and that brought us to 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer. We alr…

> Names are hard, and we’re aware it can remind people of Uruk and Uruk-hai. That’s OK. What I would worry about is if it reminds whoever holds Tolkien's copyrights of Uruk and Uruk-hai.

That’s a good point, thanks for mentioning it. I think we’re safe since Uruk can’t be copyrighted as it’s an ancient city’s name and the name of a time period, and there are no intentional Tolkien references on the product.
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