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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#831
https://standup.flicken.net/

After trying[1] multiple[2] alternatives[3][4], I built this to keep track of who speaks when and for how long at a daily standup. The question of "who's next?" is no longer asked.

Team members are saved to local storage so you can re-use for the next standup.

[1] https://standuptimer.app/ [2] https://dailytoast.io/ [3] https://github.com/nemtsov/scrum-standup-timer [4] https://kirk.is/tools/standuptimer/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#832
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…

Great idea.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#833

I'm making a video editor that removes silence from videos. After creating a bunch of code screencasts, I've found most of my editing time is spent manually cutting out chunks of silence, and it's always felt like a job the computer should be doing. So I'm making a native Mac app to do it for me. It's in private beta right now, and feedback has been good so far! I'm hoping to hoping to get it launched in the next few…

Neat. Does this really need an app? I think it may be able to do with the command line. Something like ffmpeg that performs video operations and something to detect a noise level treshold.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Me and a friend have been working on a game that I describe as "Factorio but for programming". Essentially you're an AI who's mission is to mine every resource from a planet. To keep things efficient you start out small and have limited processing power. You're only able to run an assembly like language that we've developed. As you get more resources you can research new things like functions, variables, type argumen…

Sounds great!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#835

I'm making a video editor that removes silence from videos. After creating a bunch of code screencasts, I've found most of my editing time is spent manually cutting out chunks of silence, and it's always felt like a job the computer should be doing. So I'm making a native Mac app to do it for me. It's in private beta right now, and feedback has been good so far! I'm hoping to hoping to get it launched in the next few…

Very interesting. I'd be interested in an editor that could do a whole host of common mundane tasks in this way while maintaining the non-destructive editing promise. I often have to cut out coughs, umms and urrs as well. That takes up more of my time than anything.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#836
I have been working on multiple side projects, which is probably a bad idea when I cannot get myself to finish (or launch an MVP) or even one of them.

My most ambitious one is a web gallery that allows navigating a Digikam [0] photo collection. It will read the Digikam DB for metadata and allow access to the photos without having to manually export albums. This scratches my itch as I have a large photo collection (~120000 photos) organized in Digikam, and I want to be able to navigate my collection from everywhere without having to export new photos as I add them. The flow I'm looking for is:

1. I organize photos in my laptop, add titles, descriptions, tags, faces, etc. 2. Photos and Digikam DB are automatically synchronized to my home server using Syncthing [1]. 3. The web gallery instantly sees the new photos, albums and tags, no interaction needed.

I'm trying to focus on getting an MVP up and running (unrestricted access to everything), but after that I have many features planned such as multiple user accounts, access control, share with a link, tag filtering, embed support...

Besides this I have also been working on a Python library implementing the CashID authentication protocol [2]. Once it's done my plan is to create a Django app that uses it.

I meant to take over maintenance for the rust-bch [3] crate but haven't found time to work on it much.

[0] https://www.digikam.org/

[1] https://syncthing.net/

[2] https://gitlab.com/cashid/protocol-specification

[4] https://github.com/haplo/rust-bch/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#838

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

people running multi billion dollar enterprises usually just hire people to be their personal productivity app. I mean, personal assistants and secreterial staff.

Even in fairly developed countries it's not too expensive to just hire a low wage person to act as the productivity app between a few executives.

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