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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by Arqu »

I'm working on https://www.datagekko.com. It's a passion project of mine that came from a scratch your own itch situation. Working on it for the past 6 years or so a couple hours every day on average (spent a ton of time). As it matured I decided to push it from a hobby project to a product. Super close to launching it, but constantly keep delaying it as I always have something to improve.

Learned a ton on it and literally helped me shape my career in the past 5 years.

A short description would be a large scale metrics/telemetry system. But I'm aiming to make it available for small-scale use as well so that small guys (like me) can leverage those benefits.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by mandeepj »

jozi9 wrote: post #28

I’m working on http://www.apilope.com - I think it’s cool for monitoring rest apis with test cases, which was kind of a scratch my own itch thingie.

This is really great. I see a lot of potential in this. I'm sure it has taken a lot of your time. I'll definitely try it. Thx

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by risto1 »

A KISS replacement for react + redux. It comes in two flavors:

- callbag-html + callbag-store

or

- callbag-element + declaredom + callbag-store if you're planning on using web components

Benefits:

- It uses morphdom for fast diffing, which is as fast as virtual-dom

- It's lack of parochiality -it just uses plain HTMLElements. It makes using 3rd party libs seamless because you don't have to wrap them. It also means that you can batch things into animation frames to avoid unnecessary layout thrashing

- Callbag is used because it's a stupidly simple streaming library, easy to understand. Things like cold/hot observables, or what gets updated in a tick, can make streaming libs pretty complicated. Callbag fights that with it's extreme simplicity.

In general the entire toolset is easy to understand in terms of how it works, and that's important

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by lukevp »

graystevens wrote: post #32
admiralEyebrows wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm interested! How did the proof of concept turn out? Any chance you could make to order...

I personally really liked how the PoC went – I plan on doing a full write up in the next couple of days, which will outline what I did, start to finish. Here is an example of the sticker/skin and the finish. Excuse the slightly 'off' cut on the corner – I'm looking to produce a highly accurate template for each of the various models. https://imgur.com/FfQ3XQs

Might be off because of this: https://hackernoon.com/apples-icons-have-that-shape-for-a-ve...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ecesena »

Solo, an open source security key. Think of the open source counterpart of a Yubikey or Google Titan. Just a few hours ago we've been featured by Kickstarter: https://solokeys.com/kickstarter

What makes Solo special is that it's the first security key:

1) open source + FIDO2: https://github.com/SoloKeysSec/solo

2) NFC + USB-C

3) in many colors, i.e. "customizable" also by non-tech people

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by wprapido »

timdavila wrote: post #3

I'm working on a personal organization app - basically integrating a to do list, habit tracker, and notes app into one. I think it's cool because it's useful to me and a "scratch your own itch" app. If you're curious it's at https://www.nominal.net

A habit tracker + to-do app? It's one of my side projects, too

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by hazz99 »

ecesena wrote: post #46

Solo, an open source security key. Think of the open source counterpart of a Yubikey or Google Titan. Just a few hours ago we've been featured by Kickstarter: https://solokeys.com/kickstarter What makes Solo special is that it's the first security key: 1) open source + FIDO2: https://github.com/SoloKeysSec/solo 2) NFC + USB-C 3) in many colors, i.e. "customizable" also by non-tech people

I love this! Thank-you for your venture. Is there any way I can subscribe to updates? Do you know what your final pricepoint will be? (Often changes from the Kickstarter promises)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by hazz99 »

I'm working on a self-hosted, automated testing service for universities. I'm designing it to be distributed and fault-tolerant, which I've never done before! Structuring the application around producers, consumers & queues has decoupled it immensely, and (so far) has made the codebase extremely easy to grok. I've just go to figure out docker-compose, so I can throw up a new instance in a few seconds ;)

Does anyone have any recommendations for a newbie to the distributed architecture space?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by hazz99 »

mattbierner wrote: post #13

I’m using an old paper tape punch machine to print out (5% of) the human genome. The punches are from the early 80s, and it’s really neat to be able to physically see each bit of data. The plan is to fill up a room with the punched tape, sort of mirroring a strand of dna and giving you a sense of just how large the genome actually is. Unfortunately I’m having a hell of a time finding space to print in. May just end u…

Do you have any photos of it so far? It seems like a really cool project
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