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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Weird - why'd the twitter account you've linked on the page get suspended?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Love the idea, but I found it very intrusive and removed it. As in I don't like the redirect Keep refining it !

Thanks for trying it! So unfortunately I can't launch an extension popup over top of the checkout, it's just not in the browser extension APIs AFAIK. One alternative was to inject the popup in to the checkout page but I figured if this got any traction it's possible then a checkout page host could read the data (ie, your salary) from that. Thus, I landed on the intrusive redirect. Open to other ideas though!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I've been working for the past few years on an online card game (think Hearthstone or Magic: the Gathering but with a tactical board component as well) where players can design their own cards in a WYSIWYG editor, and the rules text of each card (things like "Whenever this object moves, draw a card", etc.) is translated into JS by a semantic parser.

It's a hobby project that's still in the alpha stage, but I'm hoping to finally put out a beta version this year. The core functionality is all there, but there are still some key questions that need to be answered around ease-of-use and game balance (not an easy proposition when players get to create their own cards!)

You can check it out in its current form here: https://app.wordbots.io/ . The code is hosted at: https://github.com/wordbots .

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #501
post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Weird - why'd the twitter account you've linked on the page get suspended?

I just submitted a Twitter support request to figure that out myself :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #285

https://www.dispoteca.com/ I just launched the marketing site on Monday. I'm 38 with a spouse and two small children. I've been a CTO of two SMBs over the last few years and needed to build something of my own. It's the craziest thing I've ever done. The industry is end-of-life IT assets. It's a big industry with a lot of steak dinners that you can make a decent living at by grinding. I was introduced by a buddy of m…

Agree with other commenter. Stellar landing page, and this seems like a good business idea. Best of luck.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#506

I'm working on a 3rd person adventure game. Went through a personal crisis in 2018/19 and started to write and paint again. Then one day on a flight to Berlin I managed to outline a story for what I was going through and I've been working on that since that moment.

Good luck! I hope you safely navigate(d) out of your crisis.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm working on a front-end data handling framework inspired by backend model system (largely laravel) including collections, factories, and much more. It feature rich, extensible (OOP, driver pattern), fully tested, does the right amount of magic, written in typescript. It's gonna be joy to work with... I worked on this for about 7-8 months now.

Forgot to add it's currently works with rest APIs but planning to add graphql support too among other things
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