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Re: Ask HN: What apps are you building?

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Post by sras-me »

vunderba wrote: post #10

I’m working on a 100% faithful adaptation of both QBasic and QuickBasic 4.5 that runs entirely in the browser running on a virtual CPU and hardware abstraction layer. It’s a love letter to everyone who learned to program on Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters in the ’80s and early ’90s. The whole project is fully open source. The best compliment I’ve received so far is from friends who grew up in the same era I did: when…

I am also doing something similar here [1]. But I decided to NOT use BASIC as the language. Instead I implemented a new language with more modern features like foreach loops, closures and a less verbose syntax etc. But the focus is still on getting the same IDE experience as QBasic IDE as well as the graphics/sound capabilities as the good old QBasic. Another priority was the availability of built in documentation help with example, which was also a great thing about QBasic.

Not being able to run in the browser is a purposeful choice I made. I want the users to distance themselves from the browser (which I think is an abstraction that is best avoided in the context).

You can take a peek here [2] where you can see a video demo of the IDE loaded with the program for a partial clone of the paratrooper game.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/spade [2] https://vimeo.com/835347764

Re: Ask HN: What apps are you building?

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Post by wtomas »

I'm building Sufleur: a package manager for LLM prompts. You publish Mustache templates as immutable semver versions, and a CLI generates typed TypeScript/Python from them — typed on both the input and output side. The part that's been the most fun to build is inferring input types from the template itself:

  Hi {{user.name}}{{@type string}}
becomes

  { user: { name: string } }
as an input type in the generated code, so prompt changes fail your build instead of your production.

I started it ~a year ago and it died like side projects do. Months later, building something completely different, I caught myself wishing for exactly the tool I'd abandoned, and since then it's completely vacuumed up all my free time.

Repo: https://github.com/sufleur/cli

Re: Ask HN: What apps are you building?

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Post by BearBest »

I have developed an application to manage cards or documents on my mobile phone, which can quickly add authorization watermarks to cards or documents.

And a tool to combine some windows on the computer has also been developed, which can quickly open multiple specified application windows according to the set layout through shortcut keys.

There is also an application that meets my own bookkeeping habits.

If you are interested, you can go to https://bear.best/en/products/ for a look. ^_^

Re: Ask HN: What apps are you building?

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Post by BrunoBernardino »

More of a service than an app, my wife and I have been building a paid and private search engine, ad-free, focused on personal search customization. It's called Uruky and it's at https://uruky.com

There's no personal information necessary whatsoever (when you signup, you're assigned a randomly-generated account number, which is what's used to login). You can get 2h of a free trial _if_ you pass a local and private proof-of-work captcha. Then you top-up your account with a payment, and that's it (you can even use crypto via our ProxyStore partnership [1]). No subscription, no data from you is stored in your database.

This month we reached 250 monthly active accounts, _nearing_ 300, but _hopefully_ that'll happen next month. It's much harder without a subscription and social media ads, but we wouldn't want it any other way.

Oh, you also get the source code after 12 months (BUSL -> AGPLv3 in 2 years).

[1]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky

Re: Ask HN: What apps are you building?

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Post by chrismatheson »

Im trying to finish an idea ive had for years. Meal Planning but using the computer & constraints to help people/families truly reduce decision fatigue and "mental load".

In an ideal world it would be good enough to put meal planning on autopilot.

Getting pretty close to public beta if anyone is interested.

Re: Ask HN: What apps are you building?

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Post by austin-cheney »

https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

* Dashboard for docker and web servers

* The web servers serve WebSockets and http from the same ports

* The web servers provide simple proxies and can even proxy TLS connections over non-TLS intermediaries

* Provides resource graphs for each docker container and web servers provide simple

* Lists all machine processes, services, user accounts, ports by tcp or udp, hardware information, and more

* Provides tools for testing http and WebSocket connections

* Provides remote shells allowing the user to choose from all installed shells on the machine

* supports both Linux and Windows

* Is just written in TypeScript and designed for high performance

Re: Ask HN: What apps are you building?

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Post by ekorbia »

I'm working on xword-pipeline: https://github.com/ekorbia/xword-pipeline

It's a pipeline for generating dense crossword puzzles with a Rust grid fill engine and optional Claude based clue writing and QA processes.

I use it to generate the crossword puzzles on https://wordfuzz.com/. The quality is already good for smaller (5x5 and 9x9) puzzles. I'm working on improvements for larger 15x15 NYT style puzzles.

I'm also working on Ekorbia: https://github.com/ekorbia/ekorbia-desktop. It's a lightweight, MIT licensed, Rust/Tauri desktop app for private local LLMs with a prompt library, chat overlay, ephemeral chat, model comparisons, and folder/RSS/URL watches.

The builds are unsigned but you can build it yourself to avoid the warnings. It has a bundled engine on macOS and requires an OpenAI-compatible server on Windows/Linux. Any feedback would be appreciated.

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