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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://postcardbot.com

A simple sms based chat bot for generating and mailing postcards from photos you’ve taken yourself.

I took the sms approach because I’m exhausted from always needing to install an app for everything. Most things don’t need apps. This interface is unique and kinda fun to use. Also, it took me just a weekend to whip up so I’m quite fond of it .

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://jch.app

started as a mint / personal capital / spreadsheet replacement. Thought it would be neat to have a grafana-like way to build visualizations on aggregated accounts. I started with investments b/c it's easy to input/import without linking to bank accounts. I have Plaid development access and think a flexible playground will be more interesting for expenses.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://ant.care/ https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants I'm making a digital ant farm. SimAnt + Tamagotchi that runs in real-time. Written in Rust/WASM/Bevy The goal is to give people cute ants that do cute ant things 24/7, ask people to look after their ants and feed them once-per-day, and then deny the ability to provide ant care unless users engage in a breathwork/meditation exercise. I would love help. I'm very muc…

I like it! How does the queen get food? I let it run and the queen eventually just died despite having plenty of food around.

If you put one right in front of her face she'll pick it up and eat it, but that's about it right now. I want to add the ability for workers to feed her, but got distracted working on improving tunnels/chambers. I'll add something for that tonight or tomorrow. :)

(EDIT: I've pushed a quick implementation of regurgitating food. https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/blob/master/src/ant/hung... It'll take ~30 minutes to go live)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#315

https://www.oncer.io/ Encrypted messages without history - for when you want to send an api key or password or the like and don't want it sitting in the recipients WhatsApp/Signal history, for example, or going over non-encrypted channels like email or Slack. And you don't want to set up a complicated encryption messaging thing. There are similar services already: e.g. onetimesecret, burnernote - but I wanted somethi…

sounds a lot like privatebin.info . it also does the encryption client side. my workplace even selfhost it for our internal usage

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#316

OSINTBuddy - https://github.com/jerlendds/osintbuddy - https://osintbuddy.com Node graphs, OSINT data mining, and plugins. Connect unstructured and public data for transformative insights. My long-term goal is to turn this project into a viable alternative of Maltego/Palantir type software. Currently my roadmap looks something like: - Refactor and clean up the code base all over to make it easier to onboard potential…

I think Accounts and RBAC should be done early. Adding these things later has been hard IME.

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post #41

Friend and I built https://druthers.app , and we use it all the time to solve our own interpersonal disputes, as well as with family and friends. It hasn't got any quality-of-life chrome or meta-features such as logins, or bookmarks. We were reluctant, even, to add the sharing button, since obviously a person is already well-equipped to share a browser tab! (I kid! Of course users cannot be presumed to know the power…

Led Zeppelin.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like the UI: 1. using the new Chrome Sidebar API is a great choice! 2. selecting actions to show in the context menu is also a convenient customization idea Are you considering porting it to FF? Other than the Sidebar API it should be a very straightforward process.

Thank you! It was actually Chrome releasing the ability to open a sidebar using a context menu action that sparked the idea. I absolutely plan to support firefox. I figured I should get things working well in one browser first before looking into porting, but consider it on the near term todo list.

There is a cross browser extension helper in this thread. Maybe it works for you.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#319
https://gondola.camp/

A collage and mood boarding website. You can browse people's boards and move cards around Front end in rust running through wasm(egui) Can drag and drop pictures and gifs, create text blocks. Also has a fun noise based background generator

The signup experience isn't very polished right now.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#320
VSCode extension to automate generating prompts for ChatGPT for small coding projects:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/prepareprojectforllmpro...

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JeffreyE...

I made this because I realized I was wasting a ton of time preparing the same basic prompt format in a text editor over and over again. This extension saves me a huge amount of time. There are days when I use it 50+ times!

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