Ask HN: What are you working on?

Really cool idea, I think people would love that! The biggest hurdle would be getting enough interesting content. You would almost need to create a Wikipedia for real world locations.

If you were able to get enough content I think that would be an incredible app/service.

Software defined radios that can work in extreme conditions (like during or just after a giant disaster), an IoT kernel that does useful work in a mesh network without a back haul, a personal 'internet radio' that can stream your home market AM/FM stations to you anywhere, and computer system to teach the mid-levels of computer science between programming and and database design.

Problem: I write reStructuredText notes and essays to myself (and run rst2html) about things I'm learning, exploring or have learned, e.g "Cool shell tricks" or "How to manage my diabetes." Managing lots of rst and html files becomes a mess, especially links to other pages if you refactor, or just finding your stuff.

Project: Miki - Makefile Wiki. A small, personal wiki to manage the above. No software written, just a makefile that coordinates tools you already have or are easy to install. The README emphasizes using the navigation features that your browser already has, rather than writing navigation pages.

https://github.com/a3n/miki

You can use any or each of reStructuredText, Markdown or AsciiDoc.

It produces any or all of .html, .pdf and .txt.

Also produces a bare-bones book/media catalog in .json format. Because I sometimes link to my books in my wiki pages.

The refactor problem is "solved" by "make badlinks", which prints out any bad internal links it finds.

In your markup pages, you end your links in the markup suffix of the link's destination (if it's to an internal page). This way you can easily use your text editor's "go to file under cursor" feature to open the destination's source (who wants to open a pdf in Vim?); Miki transforms that into a .html, or .pdf or .txt suffix during output generation, as appropriate

Coincidentally, yesterday I decided that it's "done enough," barring bugs or feature suggestions, and I recorded that observation in the Journal page in my local Miki-based wiki. That feels very slightly like a self-hosting compiler.

I recently created a web app to find restaurants nearby that would serve samosas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13902445

I am also working on this utility that would let people know when new restaurants open up in the neighborhood

http://bsnip.com - A screenshot and annotation utility. I wasn't happy with any of the available options, either the price was too high, or the feature set was lacking so I decided to make my own.

I believe BetterSnipper stands out in its ability to dock to the side of the screen, making it especially good at taking/editing/uploading multiple screenshots.

I've been working on this side project for a few years now and it's starting to become more mature, but still a lot of work left and features to add, but a ton of fun to learn and see it come together.

I'd love to get any feedback or suggestions :-)