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Post by mokshjawa »

lostintangent wrote: post #356

I’m working on a tool that allows developers to record and playback interactive, guided walkthroughs of a codebase, directly from their editor. It’s called CodeTour, and it’s currently available as a VS Code extension: https://aka.ms/codetour . I built it because I frequently find myself looking to onboard (or “reboard”) to a project, and not knowing exactly where to start. After speaking to a bunch of other develope…

So awesome! Actually, working on something somewhat similar called Codeflow (https://usecodeflow.com/). Right now, we have a web app where people can create these walkthroughs/tours but wanted to ultimately create an IDE extension. Love what you've done thus far.

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Post by scythe »

Not a personal project, but I've recently decided to start contributing to the Vala compiler. If you're bored and have any interest in compilers, I recommend it. It has a relatively low barrier to entry and the code organization is decent by the standards of 90000 line projects. The barrier to entry is I think a little lower than with rustc, although to be fair I only know a little about rustc.

Other than that—not a coding project, but I have been messing with a novel cement composition. It's stalled due to coronavirus making it hard to get equipment.

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Post by mebr »

A website builder that is 10x easier to use than the competition.

Why? There are too many small businesses without a website. The upfront cost is too high to see if a website benefits their business. Wix and Squarespace and such are way too complex to use for an average small business owner(or say their kid). Most customers of these websites hire a 3rd party to develop their website. That costs more and takes longer.

Solution: if you can build a website without any training using an intuitive interface 10x quicker than what you thought it would take, most likely you build a website for your business yourself.

I have the MVP ready, and some customers. Currently I'm trying to scale to meet the demand. There is still a long journey ahead.

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Post by muststopmyths »

celicaraptor wrote: post #603

I am working on a recycling bin/garbage bin location website. It's purpose is to find the nearest bin for you to throw away trash that you may have in your hand. It currently has 700,000+ bins from OSM data and users can add as well.I want to add some features like getting walking directions to the nearest bins and probably having to create am account to add a bin to handle the case of slamming. Here is the site http…

Please do this for Japan. It's a bit disconcerting as visitor to have to carry the wrappers for everything you buy around until you can find a trash can. And everything is so highly packaged there.

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Post by _peeley »

I'm still in the super early stages of working on a collaborative sketch/whiteboarding web app. The idea is to have a site wherein users can sketch a diagram/write out some notes, with other users able to view in real-time or save and view later a la Google Docs.

Had the idea a few weeks ago, but with most universities converting to online lectures and many businesses working from home it seems like there's a definite niche in the market for it. Most professors (especially non-STEM) are totally oblivious to anything other than death-by-PowerPoint when it comes to online lectures, and most businesses either snap a pic of a messy whiteboard for posterity or re-draw diagrams through software after they've proven to be worth preserving.

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Post by virtualritz »

Working on integrating a high end offline 3D renderer into Adobe AfterEffects as a plug-in.

Did that before, company tanked briefly before being profitable six years ago. Customers are still asking to bring the product back.

I though I give it a shot. We were five at the time for two such products. I figured I can do a single product with less features myself.

API changed on both sides (host app & renderer). Old codebase was C++ and I have limited rights to it.

I am writing the new product from scratch in Rust. I am probably the first person to write an AfterEffects plug-in in Rust. Luckily that app is now so old that the API is pure C99, great for Rust bindings. That's actually the most fun part of this. Rust is pure bliss. Particularly now that the community has moved to Discord feedback seems to be more instant than on IRC before.

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Post by probolsky »

zackb wrote: post #547

I'm working on a morse code iOS app that can optionally use Force (3D) Touch. My dad had a stroke recently and is quarantined in a care facility. He can't talk but remembers morse code like a boss. He can't lift his finger off the screen to "tap" and there were no other morse apps out there for people with physical impairment. With this he's able to communicate... I've been coding for 15 years but this was life chang…

Awesome.

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Post by kohtatsu »

Moderate brain dump (sorry). I'm writing some DSLs, including a DSL to implement config DSLs. I'm also pining over a new OS/shell environment, featuring a terminal where perhaps things like vertical line height isn't always fixed. And also a shell that grants permissions to invoked programs, enforced with vms or chroots or selinux idk. Probably starting with Qubes. Maybe fancy terminal output integration like TempleOS (links and programs; maybe graphics, maybe font awesome idk). Definitely want helper panes based on context of the shell/OS/running program. I've also been wanting a trackpad driver w/ OS integration that's closer to gestures-with-visual-feedback, but I guess Apple stole the thunder on that one with iPadOS. I still want it in the ISE tho, I think it's important for the UX to be discoverable. It'll probably have keyboard shortcuts too I just don't want to commit to a paradigm for that yet. I'm probably too slumped to have any of this built anytime soon; but that's what I'm working on for myself. Here's my twitter https://twitter.com/nomsolence, mostly about covid right now but I keep it to random terminal screenshots normally.

edit: Project will be called MajOS; the ethos is a witch's cabin in the woods.

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