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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dalerus »

biztos wrote: post #393
dalerus wrote: post #76

Problem: Writing regular content for your product's blog is time consuming. Project: We are working on automating the content writing process. Articly ( https://articly.me ) is a automated content strategy and writing platform. You give us your site or product and every week our platform sends you a new article to post to your blog.

I love this idea, and I'm curious where you get your writers and who they are, generally speaking. (I understand if you don't want to reveal that.) As an American on-again, off-again expat, I have long thought that there should be good money in getting educated native speakers in "cheap" locales to write and edit stuff. I know a few Americans and Brits who make a good (local) living as editors for various organizatio…

Thanks for the kind words!

We get our writers from all over, almost exactly as you say. My business partner and I are expats in Asia and have made a good network of US and U.K. writers looking for work as they travel.

That and freelancers who've applied through the site. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by fgandiya »

School work for one. I'm really behind on that.

Also, I'm working on my blog/YouTube channel. Honestly, the blog is more beneficial to me rather than the random individual to decides to look at it since it's so bad.

I'm working on improving my presentation and research skills, video editing, SEO etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by ambrop7 »

scottbez1 wrote: post #126

As a hardware side project I've been designing and building an open source split-flap display - the kind of electro-mechanical displays you used to see in train stations and airports that loudly flip through letters and numbers as they update. https://scottbez1.github.io/splitflap/ Have a few working prototypes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslkflVv-Hw ), but I'm currently redesigning the electronics/PCB to make…

This is great. I don't see how I can resist making one. I will probably 3D-print the hardware but use my own electronics and SW for controlling it. (I'm kind of addicted to writing my own software for controlling 3D printers and this looks like it would be an easy fit)

I suppose it's a stepper motor that needs to be moved to the right position? How is it homed?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by scotu »

aswerty wrote: post #32

I, along with my co-founder, are working on a shopping platform for furniture and decor seen on the set of movies and TV shows: https://www.seenonset.com Startups definitely like to deck out their offices with some of the nicer high-end designs. Even Y Combinator's home page image carousel has the likes of the Bertoia Diamond Chair and the Nelson Saucer Pendant Lamp on show! Though a lot of startups go for the replic…

I really enjoy seen on set, I've been checking it out for a little while now. Keep up with the good work!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by joeblau »

I'm trying to make an alternate resource to https://git-scm.com called https://www.gitdvcs.com. I've spent the previous 4 weekends building it. The goals were to simplify the architecture by creating it as as static site that can be hosted on GitHub rather than a RoR site. I also want to help provide better resources for the Git community in general.

This is an extreme side project and it's very much a WIP, but my goal would be to eventually buy git.com and see if I can become the authoritative source for git information.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by paxcoder »

tpush wrote: post #449

I'm working on a programming language. Just as a hobby, not commercially. :-) Design-wise it's really just how my ideal language would work: functional, compiled, statically typed(higher-ranked, impredicative, but type-level functions are first-order, and no effects system), mutable refs that are _not_ GCed, first class delimited continuations, equi-recursive _and_ iso-recursive types, implemented in C so the compile…

What do you mean you didn't read up on type theory? I'm guessing ypu've studied it at a university?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jrgnsd »

Project: I'm building a simple management interface on top of Elasticsearch. I find their pricing model where you can only get some key enterprise features (like security) when you take a support package somewhat restrictive. It's still early days, but I'm getting there :)

https://github.com/eagerelk/proxes

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kureikain »

I'm working on an uptime monitor system[1] and a color palleter[2]

My issues with existing tools is they doesn't support phone call alert and have to integrate with pagerduty. I just want something that's simple with phone alert.

I also want to config check use a chatbot because at the end of the day, I only want to get alert when my site is down, that's ll. All nice UI is just an add-ons.

I also want to have better control on interval checking time. Spend around 4months on it until now and probably public launch this week.

During the time, I have a hard time to chooese a color scheme. So I think why not generating color pallete from popular sites.

Both of open sources project but no one contribute except me haha.

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[1] https://noty.im

[2] https://kolor.ml

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