Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

For parsing ISC Bind9 DNS (named.conf) configuration file in Python3, I have built using PyParsing for this. It is 99% code completed. MIT license. Designed for Bind9 version 9.0 to 9.17.2.

Three issues left.

Solid unit-testing coverage, moderate-system testing.

Probably the largest PyParsing to date.

https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues

I built Running Level https://runninglevel.com/ recently along the same lines as my other site Strength Level https://strengthlevel.com/ but have only done a soft launch. Gyms are closed here in the UK so a lot of us are out running instead.

Running Level has running standards for your age/gender over many distances like 10k/marathon/mile. The calculator on the homepage helps you rate your running performance against other people your age/gender, predicts race performance and recommends some training times.

I was hoping to do a Show HN or Product Hunt but marketing has never been my strong suit. Hope someone likes it!

2 years ago I created a guitar chords website to solve a problem I have with finding songs to play on my guitar/ukulele. You can login with your Spotify account and get some suggestions based on your listening history, and also import Spotify playlists.

I wanted to create a website that is lightweight, more accessible and less invasive for the user. Existing chords/tabs websites can be a real pain to use. The design and the UX of my app is a bit clunky, but it's fast and works and without JS. I have not really touched it since but I kept it online because some people use it (including me). I'm getting around 5-10k unique visitors per months, I think mostly from google searches.

I also worked on a feature that generates printable songbooks that people can order but I am concerned about copyright and legal issues, any comment on that would be welcome. I've implemented it already but activated just for me, and I ordered a few books already... (all the pdf generation, payment and shipping workflow works).

I'd love to get some design help or some fresh ideas for the project.

https://www.lyrink.com

I've wanted to build this into a web application for a while, but the idea always ballooned into wanting to do a YNAB or Mint competitor with debt calculator as just one feature. And while possible, building something like that as a solo founds seems daunting!

Anyway - check out this google sheet by Vertex42 which has some different paydown options, instead of just Snowball. Maybe something you can incorporate, if you haven't already.

http://www.vertex42.com/Calculators/debt-reduction-calculato...

Been spending the last 2 years or so working on putting together a data processing and exploration tool.

Primarily allowing for the importing of csv files, though handle excel files to a degree (need to improve that). The data exploration side basically allows the user to put together a stack of transformations which then get applied to the data which the user can then view the result of. The data processing side allows you to select a single transformation and it applies it directly to the data and then let's you download it.

The current version runs entirely client side in a js browser context.

Not sure if anyone finds any of that interesting :)...

I'm a little limited by the fact that UI isn't quite my forte.

I'm on my phone at the moment so I'll add some more details when I get on my desktop.

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So a bit more detail, it's a bit of a long story to be honest, I was working on it with a friend of mine, him non-technical, myself technical, we were looking at it as a bootstrapped company, got a reasonable amount of consulting work from it, but not really figured out a space where there was enough repeat interest where I could really build out a nice specific solution and pursue product-market fit.

The goal was to provide non-technical people (who could at least use Excel), access to no-code machine learning solutions and data transformations. We realised that there was a lot of things that people like my non-tech friend wanted to be able to do, but just couldn't use any of the existing tooling to do.

Over the last year we basically stopped working on it, but at the same time, I put a fair bit of dev work into it and I'm sort of trying to work out whether there's something there, or if it's a "sunk cost". I'm sort of fine if it is? I just really want to know.

The tooling's not perfect, a bit too much building to solve the problem our clients had at the time which didn't make for a great cohesive product, but the thought process was get enough repeat stuff in that we can start focusing on a particular direction.

Now I'm sort of toying with putting some time in to cleaning up the code and trying to see if I can make something of it, but I'm not sure if I'm kidding myself to be honest.

I've also been wondering if I should go the whole hog and just make it an offline tool with some online functionality. Porting it would be relatively trivial at this point, it's written in Clojurescript so I could easily do an Electron thing or a native Clojure version that's downloadable while still maintaining it in it's current form without that much of a problem.

This question has been a bit of a fortuitous circumstance really because I was thinking of doing a proper writeup of the tool as a blog post and then seeing whether anyone had any decent suggestions, but I'd been putting it off a bit because I'm still not quite sure what I could say =)... So in the end this has been sort of a forcing function, so that's at least something =)...

So without further ado, the tools:

- [Data Processor](https://tools.guanxi.ai/)

- [Data Explorer](https://guanxi-upload.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/data-exp...)

Data Explorer is CSV only, it was built really early on first and I've not really gone back and unified them.

I can do an overview as well of the tools as well if anyone's interested?