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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by Palmik »

Here are some things I have built in the past that I would be open to collaborate on:

ScreenBud.com: Chrome extension to taking and annotating screenshots.

- Example (best viewed on desktop) https://screenbud.com/s/8c0HkzGxZDv

- Basic stats: Tens of thousands of uniques per month.

- Internals: Rust on backend, TypeScript+Svelte on frontend

- Potential for colab

   - Open sourcing some Rust libraries (e.g. auth)

   - New features (video support, payment subscriptions)
WordBueno.com: dictionary without clutter.

- Example: https://wordbueno.com/word/hello

- Basic stats: Tens of thousands of uniques per month.

- Internals: Rust on backend, TypeScript+Svelte on frontend

- Potential for colab:

   - Better data

   - Nicer frontend

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by karanbhangui »

Void_ wrote: post #66

I'm building a new task manager. I'm aiming it to be like HEY of email apps - Kinda opinionated, but hopefully fits workflow for a lot of people. https://focustask.app Building this in my free time, and would love to talk to anyone who might be interesting in helping with either coding or with marketing. My email is vojto at focustask.app

This looks really good! Signed up for waitlist :)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by dcz_self »

An open source bicycle computer.

The goal: a privacy-preserving, standalone fitness assistant on which you can load custom apps.

I always wanted a bicycle computer that I could program, which would help me not gethurt while training, and which would remember where I like to cycle. The modern ecosystem is full of devices, but I haven't seen a programmable one, much less one that can also survive for weeks on battery and wouldn't sell my data.

The moment has finally come, and I found a decent base!

I bought a Bangle.js 2 smart watch and a couple sensors, and have just started adapting it for this purpose. I'll need help getting the Bluetooth stack running, as well as creating an application to download and compare GPS trails.

The project is not formally announced yet, but feel free to contact me over email or Matrix (see profile).

Edit: obligatory mention of Rust as the preferred language ;)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by mch82 »

aliljet wrote: post #24

I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…

This is a great project. Orbi systems are so expensive. Are you basing your work on any open source mesh projects? Do you have a project site or GitHub where people can follow along?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by dbuxton »

newaccount74 wrote: post #39
personjerry wrote: post #19

I'm ideating around productivity and todo lists, I'd love to talk with and bounce ideas with any UX designers interested in the space! Email in profile :)

One thing I've been looking for is a simple to-do list app that allows sharing/syncing cross platform. There are some nice and simple to do list apps (eg. Notally on Android) that have no syncing. Then there are some platform specific solutions (eg. the Apple's Notes app) that work well on platform. I've been looking for something just to share a shopping list with my SO, and all I could find were elaborate SaaS prod…

Have you looked at Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/)? Allows you to share a subtree of your overall knowledge universe, works on all platforms, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by regnull »

I'm working on https://ubikom.cc, end-to-end encrypted email service based on the concept of self-sovereign identity. Basically, you keep the encryption key, and all your messages are encrypted, on the wire or at rest. The core platform is open-source, the code is available here: https://github.com/regnull/ubikom

Billions of users use GMail (or similar services). These companies are making money by selling ads, and their "free" email service is just another way to improve ad targeting. Furthermore, your account can be disabled at any time and for any reason. Sure, you can switch to Protonmail, Tutanota, etc. because they are "good" companies. But why do you have to trust to any of them? Keep your encryption key, and have communication providers move around encrypted bytes on your behalf. Store your identity on a blockchain (maybe), so that no one can take it away.

That's the idea. If you'd like to work on something like this, get in touch. lgx (at) ubikom.cc

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

panphora wrote: post #8

The web has gotten boring. I'm starting a static web host where every page is remixable by default. One click and you have a copy of any web page hosted on the platform. Not only that, but the front-end code (HTML, CSS, JS) is treated as the source of truth. Whatever changes the owner makes to a page (through DevTools, some custom JS, or clicking a button that does something) is saved permanently to the DB. This make…

I've been approaching it from the other end. The web hasn't gotten boring, but the signal to noise ratio has gotten really bad. The big problem for both creative websites and their long tail audience is discoverability.

There still seems to be a lot of interesting creative content out there, but it doesn't play by google and social media's rules, so what you find is listicles, blogspam, click funnels, various forms of low effort crap made in bad faith.

Here are just a few links to websites I've found that I thought were interesting (I'm not affiliated with any of them). Tell me, when was the last time you saw that type of stuff on google, facebook, or reddit, or twitter, or HN?

http://sod.jodi.org/index.html

https://dreamcult.xyz/

https://www.floppyswop.co.uk/

http://godxiliary.com/

https://dannarchy.com/

https://www.toiletpapermagazine.org/

I think it should be possible to build something genuinely useful in this space. I'm not exactly sure how or what, so I'm still experimenting with various ways of bringing audiences to websites off the beaten path, but it feels like I'm closing in on something.

I've been approaching this in a sort of independent R&D fashion, just trying things and seeing what sticks. If anyone is into this general space, maybe shoot me an email. Not really sure what's a good format for collaboration though.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by pkdpic »

kraig911 wrote: post #30

I'm a front-end developer / artist / father. I'm trying to make a software application for families common in my situation. I have an 8 year old daughter who is very autistic and there is a huge lack in tools I feel that a family and kid can communicate with. To that end - I am trying to make a communication board tool. In my mind think of Trello board but there's not much in the way of words only symbols. Right now…

Cool sounding project, are you thinking of this as a hardware project or something that would run through a browser or as a stand alone app?

Also what kind of art do you make? Im an artist working as a dev as well. I know we're out there but we're a bit rarer than I was expecting.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by onemoresoop »

I'd love to work with people who want to create free educative games for kids, games fun enough to keep kids playing while developing their brains in positive ways. Most games I found are infested with ads (hence not free), sprinkled with lots of dark patters and the games are not good enough I'd even pay for them. Maybe there are some free gems out there already but are quite hard to find. My kid is 4yo and it has been quite hard to find anything worthwhile for his screen time (something free at least).
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