Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by padseeker » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:33 PM UTC

A smart form builder called Keenforms;

https://www.keenforms.com

Imagine google forms/wufoo/survey monkey with a few things that all those other apps don't, like;

-dynamically calculated values

-conditional validation for inputs

-hide/show options

-more that is still under construction

It could be used to take user input, but it also be a UI calculator tool that could be put up on the web very quickly, (not unlike howmuchtoiletpaper.com), allowing non-technical individuals to build dynamic user interfaces.

It still needs work, still trying to decide if it a SaaS app or a tool to build dynamic forms for people. It's inspired by the "configurator" part of a Configure Price Quote (CPQ) app. I'm hoping to release it by the end of spring 2020.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by maverick2007 » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:34 PM UTC

Nothing super innovative, just working on some forum software to power a ring of forums I'm building around my love of roller coasters and theme parks. If by some chance you're interested, the first site in the ring is up (minus forum) at https://norcalthrills.com

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by tcgv » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:34 PM UTC

mmmuhd wrote: post #230

I am building a platform to enable anyone choose a real star in the universe and have it named it after them forever, it all started when I dreamt of having a ceremony to name a star after me, I got a big bang out of that dream and promised myself to have the coolest star named after me and have it stick forever. My intention is to somehow make it into kind of a galactic social network where you can explore stars and…

This got me curious. Is there an institution/organizationis in charge of officially naming stars? What's its reach?

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by sarangab » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:35 PM UTC

Have been working on an algorithmic trading product. We are building a product to help traders get their trading strategies to live algorithms without worrying about the infra.

http://invsto.com/

If you have used TradingView, MT4 or Zerodha based bots, you would have definitely faced automation and execution related problems that you can relate to.

Currently building the system, EAs and bots to help assist traders.

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Post by bootlooped » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:35 PM UTC

The washing machines in my building are often on the fritz or steal money. I was going to make a simple web app where you can see which ones have been recently confirmed working or broken. It would rely on user input. I think I'll try to do this with AWS s3, lambda, and athena. I want to have operating costs below a couple dollars a month, since I will likely make no money on this. I've also considered trying to use Google Sheets as a backend.

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Post by badtuple » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:36 PM UTC

I'm building a lightweight timeseries database/log abstraction called Remits. Remits stands for "Remote Iterator Server".

The concept is that you can push Messages to an append only log, but can only query them back out via Iterators. An Iterator is a map, filter, or reduce function that iterates over either a Log or another Iterator.

Iterators can be composed and optionally persisted. So the data can be transformed at query time, or persisted and just read from disk. Iterators allow you to start at an arbitrary message, so it can be used as a persisted message queue or similar.

I'm only a few commits in, and there isn't much to see yet. I'm really excited by the power and simplicity of the idea, and to have a lightweight Kafka alternative. Feel free to follow along if interested: https://github.com/badtuple/remits . If you feel like working on something in Rust, feel free to reach out on Github issues or email. It's always fun working with other people.

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Post by brianyu8 » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:36 PM UTC

A friend and I are home from college right now because of the virus. We just started working on HighlightKit (https://highlightkit.com/), which makes it incredibly easy to add Medium-esque text highlights to your own website/personal blog. Users can save their highlights, view top highlights from other users, and share highlights on Twitter. We're open to feedback and are looking for pilot users!

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Post by jiofih » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:37 PM UTC

chdaniel wrote: post #130

I'm making a new tool for writers. With it, you'll be able to write your essays on "layers" The problem? Tweets are easier to read than long-form essays, as they require less time commitment. If the content is not good on a long-form article, you'll find out way too late. With this tool I'm developing: Layer 1 is the shortest version of your essay, the 1 min read — like a tweet. The idea boiled down to the shortest v…

Reminds of https://getcoleman.com/ and this other portfolio site where each word could be expanded until it became a large essay, can’t remember its name.

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Post by andawg » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:37 PM UTC

uhoh-itsmaciek wrote: post #7

I play bluegrass mandolin and I'm working on https://fretboard.cool to better understand scale and chords patterns across the neck. Guitar and ukulele are also supported. Very few chord and scale types are supported right now, but I plan to add more when I figure out how to integrate them without complicating the interface too much.

This is awesome! I play dobro, checking out the open D / open G guitar section. G6 / A6 / D6 tuning would be nice to have as well.

I am planning on learning pedal steel and also play 8 string dobro. I think this would be a huge asset for doing that. How hard is it to add a new "neck" and generate scales on it? I assume given a string tuning you just walk up the neck creating the next note for the scale as you go, right?

I also write software during the day, so let me know if I can help out :D

Also, the open G is not as I would expect, but I think the DGDGBD tuning is what people expect on guitar. Dobro uses GBDGBD tuning for open G, DADF#AD open D, 8 string dobro is GBDEGBDE. Would love to see those as well! Sorting out scales on an 8-string dobro is a brain melter, even worse for a pedal steel...