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What Are You Building? Share Your Projects

#1
Hey Hackers!

I'm curious to know: What are you building? Whether it's a new app, a cool side project, or a innovation, share it here!

Details:

- What's the project about? - What inspired you to start it? - Any challenges you've faced along the way?

Question:

What motivates you to work on your projects, and how do you overcome hurdles in the development process?

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#2
Non-Profit based ACME CA in Europe.

We want to establish an alternative to Let’s Encrypt that is taking the core features and values from ISRG. That’s not based on “bad US!1!”, more then a alternative would strengthen the ecosystem. This also means to create an alternative ecosystem like boulder.

The current challenges are mostly about incorporating the non-profit and structure it right. So that it’s as open as possible.

Motivation? To help shape the security landscape and bring much wanted features that are not viable for Let’s Encrypt to implement. Viable describes that boulder would require major rewrites for it to get implemented.

Specially we want to provide SMIME and .onion certificates.

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#5
I’m building a crawler that crawls over 50k company websites directly for remote jobs.

It’s currently a mailing list you can sign up here: https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/ . You can pick and choose from any role you want including ML engineer, backend, frontend, as well as other non-engineering roles.

I started it to scratch an itch of mine but along the way others were interested in it so I decided to build something people could sign up for :)

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#6
Me and my wife are working on https://nativi.sh

It's a tool to help you improve your writing in your second language. We're still tweaking the input pre/postprocessing and prompts at the moment and would love some feedback!

Motivation for the project: my wife is French, I'm still not fully fluent and I sounded like a goof on text in her family's group chat so this helps sanity check my texts without bugging her for review.

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#7
I have a small side project called AutoPTT [1]. It's a Windows app for voice communications, mostly aimed at gamers. It can press and/or release your push-to-talk key automatically based on voice activity because not all software/games support voice activation natively.

The reason I made it was the reason I make most things: because I needed it myself. Making it was not that difficult, though I must admit I've never been too fond of Windows C/C++ APIs.

I have a feeling that the website could use some work. It's certainly not flashy, and mostly just text. Would appreciate any feedback :)

[1] https://autoptt.com

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#9
I'm building a language learning app for intermediate language learners.

https://www.langturbo.com

I'm learning Swedish and I found out that there are not many intermediate to advanced resources. Most language learning apps focus on beginners (rightly so, that's where the money is) so I built this first for me, but now I also have a paying users and people seem to like it.

Some new features I'm planning are SRS integration and pronunciation training with the "shadowing" technique.

Challenges: focusing too much on trying out new tech and finding a fair price point (still figuring this out)

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#10
I'm creating a hobby operating system in Nim (early stages). After an initial attempt[0] I decided to start over[1] and document my journey in building it[2]. The focus for me is on learning low-level systems programming and enjoying the journey, rather than building something production ready.

[0] https://github.com/khaledh/axiom

[1] https://github.com/khaledh/fusion

[2] https://0xc0ffee.netlify.app/osdev/01-intro.html

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