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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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#141

I made a web app where you can create marketing images and videos of your saas app / software product. Built it for fun - mainly to learn puppeteer, how to set up auth, node.js, GSAP and how to write serverless functions. Biggest highlight so far: got featured in the Google official blog. App here: https://glitterly.app

Love this, will definitely try it out later today! Just a quick note, the 'Get Started' link in the email 404s

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Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com

Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal factors for specific plant growth. For example, for lettuce, the best you will get would be EC, Ph, Light Intensity, CO2 ppm over an average range. However, approaching it from a perspective of 'systems' design where all these things play a role (often in an interaction with all factors) is still missing. For example, what part of the artificial light spectrum + nutrition level + air composition would be most optimal is still missing.

I'm a computer scientist by training and I'm trying to solve this with ML. It's a really hard problem, but I'm doing it. I have a mini-farm setup in my appt where I collect the data, but hopefully I'm getting some more seed-money to build a 10m^2 farm to be able to demonstrate the optimization. My goal is to hit as high as 370 kilos of herbs per m^2 (or 2.5 cubic meter) per year from only a four layer farm.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#143
A beautiful "New tab" page, which only has 2 purposes. Have a beautiful background, and widgets iOS-like, so they bring the info from all the multiple websites you use everyday.

* Desktop first * Blazing fast * Privacy as a first citizen * All widgets free * Premium backgrounds in the future

https://myweather.io

Less about the forecast, more about you.

(Alpha state. Should be polished by Feb 23)

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#144
A simple embeddable widget to let your blog visitors tell you what they thought of the article:

https://reactly.io

I'm working on it in my spare time and for now it's really just something for my own blog so I can get some sense of what people think of what I put out, but I'm planning on making some plugins for Gatsby.js and Wordpress.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#145

I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

Any chance of open sourcing the code for others to contribute as well?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#148

I made a web app where you can create marketing images and videos of your saas app / software product. Built it for fun - mainly to learn puppeteer, how to set up auth, node.js, GSAP and how to write serverless functions. Biggest highlight so far: got featured in the Google official blog. App here: https://glitterly.app

Love this, will definitely try it out later today! Just a quick note, the 'Get Started' link in the email 404s

Thanks let me know how it goes, ah I updated the domain yesterday and didn't remember to update the welcome email - thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#149
I made my own version of the bullet journal to get organized.

https://bulletweek.app

I use it everyday and I like this way of splitting tasks and getting things done. There is so many options out there from a simple txt file to complex apps... this means there isn’t a one app fit all and I enjoyed taking a year off to prototype it and shape it around my paper bullet journal habits. If people find it useful it’s great but I mainly pay 99$/yr for my own custom app which feels great

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