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Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

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Post by mindentropy »

pyepye wrote: post #17

PKG Deploy ( https://www.pkgdeploy.com ) - More than a few times I have wanted to create either RPM or DEB packages but the barrier to entry always seemed rather high. Then while conducting interviews with what recruiters were calling senior engineers it became quite apparent that many people will still manually deploying code using a bunch of manual commands. Something packages are good for. So I decided to start cr…

This is good for IoT devices etc. There is a lot of major/minor upgrades that need to be done and such a tool can be helpful.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

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Post by gwehrli »

meisterbrendan wrote: post #2

I'm a designer here in SF. I'm VERY EARLY in exploring an idea. The problem: calls where I'm trying to catch up with more than 5 or so friends aren't great. If you think about an actual house party, there's a room with music playing where you hang out and don't talk so much, but there are also other spaces, like talking by the food table or going to get a drink and striking up a conversation. None of those constructs…

Discord has all of this. You can even use a bot like Groovy for Music.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

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Post by econcon »

Converting Plastic Waste into 3d printer filament

Project: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Hopefully, this will reduce the use of virgin plastic for creating art pieces in 3d printing community and you might be able to create beautiful and useful things out of waste plastic while cleaning plastic waste from the environment.

It's a profitable business.

I worked on this in my free time during quarantine.

I want to make the project more accessible so people around the world can develop local recycling unit. There is lots of work which needs to be done including making parts more standardized, demonstrating how parts fight together in a visual way and also have a microcontroller firmware to control diameter of filament.

I need help from someone who can write Arduino code, mostly includes reading diameter from a guage and then change the motor speed of puller roller so that it stretches the filament if filament diameter is more than target and slows down the stretch if filament diameter is less than the target diameter. This needs PID control.

Telegram: alexfromtokyo

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

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Post by kls »

eschutte2 wrote: post #10
meisterbrendan wrote: post #2

I'm a designer here in SF. I'm VERY EARLY in exploring an idea. The problem: calls where I'm trying to catch up with more than 5 or so friends aren't great. If you think about an actual house party, there's a room with music playing where you hang out and don't talk so much, but there are also other spaces, like talking by the food table or going to get a drink and striking up a conversation. None of those constructs…

Does Sococo do something like this? https://www.sococo.com/why-sococo/

So one of the remote contracts I worked used this tool, when I first saw and used it, I thought it was the dumbest idea ever. After using it for a while, I think it is one of the most brilliant remote collaboration tools out there. My only gripe was when someone leave your room, the app should notify you after a short period of time, that you have left your mic on. I did not like the idea of it being easy to leave a hot mic on.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

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Post by lksslr »

meisterbrendan wrote: post #2

I'm a designer here in SF. I'm VERY EARLY in exploring an idea. The problem: calls where I'm trying to catch up with more than 5 or so friends aren't great. If you think about an actual house party, there's a room with music playing where you hang out and don't talk so much, but there are also other spaces, like talking by the food table or going to get a drink and striking up a conversation. None of those constructs…

Similar idea, early stage, but already a working concept: We are working on https://laptopsinspace.neesh.de

Edit: no mobile support yet

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

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Post by freedomben »

johntash wrote: post #18
pyepye wrote: post #17

PKG Deploy ( https://www.pkgdeploy.com ) - More than a few times I have wanted to create either RPM or DEB packages but the barrier to entry always seemed rather high. Then while conducting interviews with what recruiters were calling senior engineers it became quite apparent that many people will still manually deploying code using a bunch of manual commands. Something packages are good for. So I decided to start cr…

It's been a long time since I've used it, but you may be interested in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm if you haven't seen it before.

Also been a long time since I used it, but it was amazing for one project and incredibly frustrating for another. Worth a look for sure, but if you run into issues don't spin your wheels.
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