I’ve been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically, I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I make it in real life for them, then ship it to them.
Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me!
After almost a year of work I finally smoothed out all the kinks in the process, so can now go from a design to synthetic DNA in a cell in about a week (not counting oligo pool synthesis time). I can do about 600,000bp per week, which is large enough to synthesize the smallest bacterial genome (each week), tho I only do about 1000bp fragments. I’m also completely bootstrapped and self funded, and only get help from my several opentrons robots
I once met a freelance bespoke industrial adhesive maker. He takes orders from various factories for adhesives with specific properties, then uses his knowledge of chemistry + trial & error to make one that fits the specs provided.
A bespoke freelance industrial adhesive maker sounds like such a niche job, that's awesome. I would love to see a hackernews-type post with details of how he thinks about making a specific adhesive.
I can share a few things! (but definitely not all)
- One is finding different T7 RNA polymerases with unique properties by manipulating the backbone. They can be used for things like in-vitro RNA production for vaccines
- Another is synthesizing a phage that has been sequenced for a specific organism, but that the samples are now lost of. So resynthesizing that genome from scratch
- A different project (personal one) is building a DNA parts toolkit with standardized DNA parts so you can combine em together like legos. Pretty much nowhere but FreeGenes has open source genetic parts (I used to run that project), and I think open source genetic parts need to be in the world
I sometimes derive protocols from off-shelf ones, but pretty much everything beyond that is in-house. Most off-shelf protocols work for 1 sample in 1 tube - I had to adapt them to working on 1 plate of 384 tubes (and get those to work with robots). There is a significant amount of robotic code that I use, and a few custom protocols that are from a random obscure scientific paper in 1980s or 1990s
Synthetic DNA for data storage seems much higher to degradation (ie, heat, light, or other sources of radiation). Not sure if I would use syn DNA to for anything long term.
The oldest sequenced DNA is 1.6 million years old. In the right conditions, it lasts far longer than pretty much any storage method right now. Plus I also sometimes store things in Bacillus subtilis, which is very hardy https://keonigandall.com/posts/sporenet.html
You are asking for a counterexample
but I think s/he was asking for what assurances the software can provide. Is it proven to be perfect, bug free in both specification and the physical analysis?
Remember compared to you assume we
are all laymen.
It would be interesting for us on the armchairs how such software even works. Is it like (ahem!) antivirus software looking for patterns?
The reasons I ask for a counter example is because the number of “what ifs” are pretty much unlimited and easy to come up with, whereas I have to do a lot more thinking to answer them. It’s asymmetric and gets tiring
Answer is: no, not proven to be perfect. Most source is closed for the software. There is no specification. Never been a red team trying to break it. Unknown if it’s ever stopped any threats. There is no requirement to do it, and it’s all voluntary (though pretty much all synthesis providers do it). Mostly they just hash kmers and translations thereof and scan a pathogens/functional database. So implementable in a simple KV store for the most part. The bigger problem is false positives, and most work is done in de-shittifying the upstream pathogens data.
Last I checked all the groups charged a lot of money for access, unfortunately, and I’m not really big enough to join a group like the International Gene Synthesis Consortium :(
That's how Twist/Agilent do oligo pool synthesis (and Dynegene now). I'm pretty interested in the Genscript / Avery digital method of electrochemical synthesis. Turns out those pools ain't good enough to be used in a biological context, which is where I come in - I can assemble them well into sequence perfect stuff
I found a virology textbook at the local Catholic book fair when I was in 6th grade, got hooked, teacher in 7th grade let me order GFP transformation kits to the school that I could do at home, then off to the races from there. I was in this article if you're interested in more deets: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/biohackers-gene-e...
That's awesome. I also got hit hard by the science bug (pun intended) as a kid, which I can partly attribute to finding a random virology textbook in an academic bookstore dollar bin. I was obsessed with virology at least until college. I ended up majoring in math in college but made it through Ochem II and did some lab internships before committing to that path. Now I'm a ML/software engineer with a healthy interest in biochem.
Cool! Though it's a bit scary how easy it would be for someone to make something dangerous as mentioned in the nyt article. The 2018 article ends:
>“There are really only two things that could wipe 30 million people off of the planet: a nuclear weapon, or a biological one,” ....
>“Somehow, the U.S. government fears and prepares for the former, but not remotely for the latter. It baffles me.”
I guess we may have seen that kind of thing happen a year later with covid though that would have been government sponsored mucking around rather than DIY if it wasn't natural. Not sure how we stop that happening again?
Personally, I think the threat from the biologics itself is a little overstated. If COVID was released from a lab (I think it was natural), it was most likely due to bad governance and management of the lab. For DIY things - most DNA can be screened. I have had companies offer screening services for about 50k-100k a year. I can't afford that! So hopefully a free service or something near to that comes online.
I never went to university or anything, but did work for 4 years at UCI in directed evolution / mitochondrial engineering, then 3 years at Stanford on the FreeGenes project (got invited to work at both). Barely passed high school cause I didn't care about my classes there.
The key is doing that at an industrial scale, reproducibly, with hundreds to thousands of plasmids at once. Becomes less simple. You encounter bullshit problems with biology, which I guess is valuable because it makes a moat!
This is a great app, especially in this age of AI code generation, I am already using it. Looking forward for features such as light mode and exportability among other things.
This seems like a cool idea but I'd have to see it in action for something I need to learn.
The first thing that jumps to mind is that I want to click on a piece of code and see the explanation for it. It seems that it only goes in the other direction. I could imagine looking at the code and understanding most of it and just wanting to understand part of it.
I could anticipate an issue though - it could be many-to-one from explanation to code. The UI for that would be complicated.
If you’ve not seen it, there’s a vscode extension called CodeTour that does something similar, could be good inspiration (or maybe you already do better!)
I actually have several potential improvement ideas.
1. Put the walkthrough it in a graph, or a minimap to see the whole picture easily? Or in a https://c4model.com/ visualization
2. Why not make clickable code references visually stand out?
3. Make a VScode extension for it
This is awesome!! I can see a major use case for enterprise or government but along with that would come the desire for on-prem. Any chances of that happening?
I'd be happy to build and support an on-prem solution, but I'd a need commitment from an enterprise/government org. If that's something you're interested in, shoot me an email at alex@annotate.dev!
This is a really clever idea, and worked great on mobile as well. Is there a way to choose to display the code window underneath the documentation instead of on top?
I think I'd also like an option for the code window to be at the bottom. Generally when I'm reading blogs/articles on my phone I put the line of text I'm reading at the top of my screen.
The code being up the top felt like it was in the way of where I was naturally expecting the line I wanted to read was.
Also, I think this is great! Definitely something I'd want for my documentation.
You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire?
Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry," and they go out and buy you a $50 necklace that's actually worth only a buck or two, but has a gift card code worth $45 on the underside of the box.
You thank them profusely for the lovely necklace, they feel good for having bought you something besides a gift card, and you feel good that you can put $45 toward a new washing machine.
This is such a first world problem. It's normalized in many 3rd world countries to give and receive cash (red envelopes). Directly not giving money and resorting to gift cards (and roundabout methods like these) just, doesn't make sense to my third world brain is all I'm saying.
Many, meaning, not all. It's obviously a cultural thing. That red envelope idea is ancient.
China and Vietnam that do the red envelope bit would be "second world" countries, incidentally, as they were part of the communist block under that old "three worlds" labeling.
> China and Vietnam that do the red envelope bit would be "second world" countries, incidentally, as they were part of the communist block under that old "three worlds" labeling.
Although China played both sides & its support is one of the larger factors for why the US won the cold war.
Red Envelopes are more of a formality where you more or less receive as much as you give out. People in Asia still do "first world" presents in Christmas or Birthdays or etc.
This sounds very useful, but isn't this service going to automatically fail as soon as it starts to be known because you can't market it to the intended audience (the gift-receivers) without marketing at the same time to the adversarial audience (the gift-givers)?
I love the thought! Just a friendly warning - gift cards attract the fraud industry. This could result in a wide array of undesirable effects. Make sure you or someone on your team or someone you can call up and consult with knows the industry of gift card fraud really well. This will be very helpful in early planning and feasibility studies.
Wouldn't it be simpler to sell $20-30 dollar jewelry for 50$ with explicit promise that this jewelry is very easy to return in exchange for the 50$ gift card? You could add RFC chips to them so people couldn't return counterfeits. Epoxy resin is good at covering chips.
It would solve the problem of littering your house with cheap products, save the buyer the embarrassment of gifting something that looks like 2$ jewelry (it is noticeable when it is that cheap), and it makes easier for people to pretend that they actually want that necklace for the necklace and not for the gift card.
This is so incredibly narcissistic and mercantile. Being a grown up means you understand that you're not owed any gifts and that when somebody makes you a gift it is mainly for their pleasure and something to be grateful for, that they thought of you.
These kind of people who think receiving gifts is some kind of entitlement are the same kind of people who start bringing up their diets when you invite them for dinner. Cold, calculating, reptilian. No human emotion or joy of life.
Wait, hang on, not wanting to be served poison for dinner is a cold calculating reptilian thing to do? What else do these reptilians do? Run the government?
What these reptilians do is only think about themselves.
If you're invited for dinner it doesn't mean that somebody owes you a meal. It means somebody wanted to make a nice gesture towards you and get to know you more intimately, perhaps to discuss important things.
You eat something before you go, because it's not about the food. You can ask about the ingredients when you are at the table.
Exactly. Because being invited for dinner is not about stuffing your belly for free, it is a social meeting with more important matters. So if you have an allergy or a diet, you can mention that when you're seated. The host can make something that suits you, and if they aren't able, you can just have the drinks. That's why you eat before going out to dinner, so you don't have to worry about your belly. And it is also very convenient in case if the cooking is just bad.
I've noticed that these kind of social rules and politeness has been increasingly lost in people, and it is because of widespread narcissism. It's "me, me, me". The result is that people don't invite each other to dinners or other social gatherings, and everybody is worse off because of that.
> So if you have an allergy or a diet, you can mention that when you're seated. The host can make something that suits you, and if they aren't able, you can just have the drinks.
If I invited someone over for dinner and went through the effort to prepare a nice meal for them, and they waited until they were seated at the table to tell me that the food I've just put on their plate is something they can't eat or they will go into anaphylaxis, I would be pretty ticked off. "Oh, don't worry, I ate ahead of time" would make me feel even more ticked off, because I wouldn't have gone through the effort and expense of preparing a nice meal just to have a bunch of uneaten food sitting on the table while we have a social meeting.
The purpose of giving the host a heads up about food allergies is to avoid the host putting effort into preparing a meal that the guest can't eat. How is it a better outcome for the guest to remain unfed, food to go to waste, and the host to have this information sprung on them at the last moment?
You're saying that this kind of gentle heads up is an indication of narcissism, but I think it's exactly the opposite. It's a way of helping to ensure that things go according to plan.
Then the problem is with you. Like I've repeated, it is not about the food, it's about the company. You're thinking about your effort and your expenses, but inviting somebody for dinner is a nice gesture. What if you burnt the food by mistake while stressing about in the kitchen? Should the guest have a right to be mad because they're not getting their delicious meal? Of course not (and I hope I didn't need to state this). So why should you be ticked off if somebody does not eat at a dinner? Exception if you are only two people, and it's really about the food. But then I'd expect you to combine things ahead.
> "Oh, don't worry, I ate ahead of time"
That's not something you tell and not something you ask.
> How is it a better outcome for the guest to remain unfed, food to go to waste, and the host to have this information sprung on them at the last moment?
Because it's not about the food. You eat the leftovers for lunch the next day. You have something at home that you can make the guests if they're really hungry and can't eat the main meal.
If you're invited for dinner it's not about you or your aching belly. It is about having a more intimate meeting with other people. So don't bother them about your diet unless they ask, and don't go on an empty belly. The guests are not there to get "fed", inviting somebody for dinner is an excuse to have a nice time in a relaxed environment with people you like or want to know better.
I cannot count the times someone felt the need to bend over backwards to accommodate me because of something I didn’t want to do/eat/drink/whatever when I‘d been perfectly fine without any special treatment and moving on with whatever we were doing.
Plausible deniability can often short-circuit bullshit rituals. White lies are social lubricant. Come on, this isn't very advanced grass-touching here. I don't know if it will work, but I like the idea and admire the attempt.
Is it? It just seems wasteful and unnecessery. Even gifts cards are pretty stupid for anyone that has access to a credit card. It’s strictly worse than having the actual cash for all but the unbanked (including kids).
I've been working on a social link sharing site called lynmki that allows you to follow a subset of someone's interests rather than having to follow everything they post. E.g. Someone posts lovely examples of typography, and also about events on in their city but you live halfway across the globe so just want the typography.
I'm focussing on smaller circles, avoiding "algorithmic" feeds (aware sorting by reverse chronological order is an algorithm), and no advertising.
It borrows a lot from the greats like HN, Delicious, etc. and there's a long way to go (I just added likes last week) but people are already finding some nice links from it!
You can see it at https://lynkmi.com/ and I'd recommend reading the about page for even more. If it sounds interesting to you please sign up to the waitlist—it's very short!
Delicious had the feeds for every tag, I think. It's been a long time, hah. They're definitely nice to have! I have something similar with my HN searches. Although HN doesn't have tags, HNRSS makes it so you can do this.
I've been building algorithmic trading models for the last 4+ years. After trading them successfully with my own capital for more than a year, I launched https://grizzlybulls.com as an alternative to the traditional hedge fund monetization path.
Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown:
Model - Return - Max drawdown
S&P 500 (benchmark): +9.91% -27.56%
Platinum: +45.34% -16.48%
Gold: +39.53% -19.12%
Silver: +17.24% -22.96%
Bronze: +14.12% -23.93%
Vix Basic: +9.81% -24.23%
TA - Mean Reversion: +17.77% -19.92%
TA - Trend: +17.29% -24.98%
This is an unleveraged, apples to apples comparison. These are not high frequency trading models. Most of them only make a trade every 2-4 weeks on average. During long signals, the models are simply long the S&P 500 and during short signals, they go to cash. This can be implemented very tax efficiently by holding a core ETF long position that never gets sold and then selling S&P 500 futures (ES or MES) of equal value to the ETFs against the long position. This way your account will accumulate unrealized capital gains indefinitely and you'll only pay tax on the net result of successful hedging. The cherry on top is that the S&P 500 futures are section 1256 contracts that are taxed at 60% long term / 40% short term capital gains rates regardless of the duration they are held.
The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom built. Most important are various VIX metrics (absolute level, VIX futures curve shape/slope, divergences against S&P 500 price, etc), trend-following TA metrics (MACD, EMV, etc), mean-reversion TA metrics (Bollinger Bands, CMO, etc), macroeconomic (unemployment, housing starts, leading composite), and monetary policy (yield curve inversion, equity risk premium, dot plot, etc). They've been backtested very cautiously to avoid overfitting.
1. Love the name, not enough Pyrrhonists on hacker news these days! The OG.
2. Love the website, your design skills are killer. I hate that entire industry and even still my monkey brain went "oo I want to see the Euphoria index, sign up!"
3. This is kinda quintissential AI. Not to distract this thread from the valuable topic of non-trendy projects, but this is a great example of why we need to reclaim "AI" as a much more general term. I mean "algorithmic trading" could be a synonym for "human-like problem solving"...
Congrats on your success to date. I spent quite a bit of time putting together a trend system based on breakouts in futures markets. The system itself was nothing overly special. I purchased a few decades worth of futures data, created and backtested the system with Tradingblox.
The biggest problem was that the system really needed a minimum account of $1m USD so that each position wasnt too large and to get the diversification across different futures markets.
Good algorithms make the market more efficient, and this remark of yours about the future being unpredictable probably isn’t as great of a display of wittiness as you imagined.
This is nice to hear about. Can you tell me more about how your live results matched or diverged from your backtesting?
Did you list the returns of the commodities as a comparison, or are you trading those futures as well in the mix? (I know you only talked about ES/MES)
I've studied many systems over the years and never found any that matched or outperformed their backtests. So far our live results have hit between 1/4 and 3/4 of backtest performance depending on the model. Needless to say the high inflation and high interest rate market climate over the last two years hasn't been seen in the rest of the backtest period, but conditions are starting to normalize now.
Nevertheless, it would be prudent to expect any algorithmic trading model to underperform its backtest going forward, but there's enough leeway in the CAGR and max drawdown figures to underperform the backtest and still produce substantial alpha, especially for the more advanced models.
Right now the models are specialized to trade equities. I may develop new models that trade commodities in the future though.
To implement the strategy in the most tax efficient manner without leverage you would want to have an account worth 5 * (S&P 500 futures price). Today that would be about $26,375. MES uses a multiple of 5 while ES uses a multiple of 10.
However, with today's $0 commissions, if you aren't overly concerned about taxes, you can try out this strategy with as little as $500 and simply buy and sell one share of the ETF VOO on signal changes. Alternatively, if you have the risk appetite, you can get started with trading MES futures with less than $10k, though caution should always be warranted when using any amount of leverage.
A place to connect the books you want to read with friends who already own them, and vice-versa. Imagine a distributed library composed of your friends’ books.
Encouraging sharing with friends and starting conversations about topics you might never have considered having not known they were into the same books as you.
Very rough draft but it has the core functionality, even if it’s a bit cumbersome.
As an adult, many of the books one buys is to keep them. There's even that saying "He who lends a book is an ..."; working against you. In contrast, most of your children books you get rid of them, garage sale, give them away, whatever. Save for a few of them that become special, most are pretty much disposable.
As an adult, buying books is not a pressing situation, sure there's a lot of those you'd want to buy but you can easily put that for later, even forget about it. Take a kid into a bookstore and they want all the books, and they want them at that moment. So, it is more of a pressing issue to keep your kids busy with new books all the time.
PS: If you need a partner on this, I'd be up for it! My daughter is past the stage of kid books now but I wouldn't mind building it for the benefit of other kids.
love the idea! I would have registered if it weren't using passkey. is there a reason you chose this for user verification? I've never used it and am hesitant to adopt technologies that give chrome more control over the browser market
Many password managers have passkey support, I'm using the free version of Bitwarden and can recommend it. Windows Hello can also be used, and afaik Apple Keychain too.
I chose it because I wanted to learn more about passkeys and I liked the idea that I wouldn’t have to deal with private credentials themselves; just save a public key to my database. I use both KeePassXC and Bitwarden and they’re slowly getting support for passkeys (currently only on desktop).
I briefly had the ability to add a new passkey to the same account but wanted to keep it simple for my friends and not confuse them more. If that’s something that could help I’d be open to adding it in again.
I’m building a crawler for remote job postings. As well as a daily email that emails the latest remote jobs found in the past 24 hours to people who sign up: https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/
So far, there’s more than 1500 subscribers after a month and a half
Also, I thoroughly enjoyed your article -- How AI is disrupting the demand for software engineers: data from 20M job postings (https://bloomberry.com/how-ai-is-disrupting-the-tech-job-mar...). I've subscribed to your newsletter as well. Keep up the great work!
I had a similar idea of scraping lever, greenhouse and linkedin to get informed of absolute latest senior software engineer jobs. I also wanted to correlate to past job posts to rule out duplicates/reposts, and to analyze against what I am looking for. Some jobs rule out certain states and timezones. Other jobs are primarily java which is my only hard-no.
Would be cool if you could add user-specific filters somehow (via email?), since, looking at the previews it seems largely US-specific. I’d like to see EU/global remote jobs.
I've been working on a local-first personal finance/expense tracker called Tender: https://tender.run
Tender runs as a PWA and uses the Automerge crdt and sqlite via wasm. The app more or less runs entirely in your browser (works offline!), though our server proxies connections to pull in plaid/splitwise data.
Feature-wise, we're targeting folks who do want to manage their expenses but not have to do fine-grained budgeting. There's tools for tracking getting paid back and a splitwise integration as well. The app is desktop-centric right now, but we're working on getting a good mobile workflow together too.
Since everything is browser-based, it was actually quite easy to get a demo sandbox environment working. You can give it a quick spin here: https://demo.tender.run
Hey, so you may not be targeting this particular market but it is adjacent and something I would pay $5-10 a month for. Have you considered expanding this eventually into a Empower (formerly Personal Capital) competitor?
What I mainly use from them is:
- investment performance tracking across my various accounts.
- retirement planning/forecasting
- cash flow, expense, and income tracking overtime.
- warnings about upcoming credit card bills; amount is never right but I pay my statement in full so just a little thing saying “Hey this is going to hit your account on this date” is helpful for me.
- basic budgeting
Anyway a local first privacy respecting alternative I would definitely pay for. iPad support would be a must for me.
Just some unsolicited feedback. Best of luck
EDIT: forgot to mention the reason I am looking for alternatives. Empower bought Personal Capital and are getting much more aggressive in pushing their management services.
So, I figure it is only a matter of time before they either start selling my data or cut me off since I am not interested in anything they are selling. They have really nice iOS apps though.
Hah - I too am a former personal capital (and mint) user.
We've thought about if we want to tackle those features and become an all-encompassing personal finance, but it certainly is a wide feature set to cover for our team. Right now we're focused on polishing our small feature set, though I appreciate the feedback.
The 1-liner description reminded me of https://actualbudget.com/, which I think is mostly defunct now since the main author took a day job (looked very cool at the time but I never tried it unfortunately). Open source too.
It's definitely something I need. I don't need anything really complicated. I've actually been looking for a service like this for a while. Tried Mint once, but thought it was just a bit too much.
I am productionizing a golang project which I have working ... it parses an input image at the pixel level to synthesize its audio equivalent ... inspired by a 3Blue1Brown video on Hilbert Curves ... as it traverses the entire image pixel by pixel it assigns to each pixel an audio frequency which it increments for next pixel ... in doing so it collapses the 2D image into a 1D line of pixels ... then it engages audio oscillators at each element of this line at the assigned frequency with volume determined by the light intensity of the respective source pixel ... it then aggregates all these audio tones into a single tone which represents the source input image ( inverse Fourier Transform ) ... entire process above is reversible so the system can go from image to audio as well as audio to image ... goal is to allow Blind people to see with their ears ... alternatively it can allow the Deaf to hear with their eyes ...
Long-term (decades), no-subscription archival storage. Essentially, you buy a block of space, upload your data over time, and it gets distributed when you need it (if you lost a primary backup), or on your death (to friends and relatives, or whoever you choose), or on a specific future date.
It's a mashup of a safety deposit box, time capsule, and deadman switch.
It's not ready yet, but will be ready in a few weeks. If you're interested, I would really like to talk to you. My email is ethan@ethanmye.rs
FWIW, I did use chatgpt to write a lot of boilerplate JS and fix my bootstrap templates!
I worked on this in 2018/19. It's a really hard problem, and the only people I've found doing it at scale is a small Norwegian company called https://piql.no. They encode large files into film and store it in the Arctic World Archive - and they did GitHub's Arctic Code Vault.
DNA storage is interesting, though can be damaged by radiation. Would love to see where you land with this project - it's one of the few cases where crypto may actually be the only real digital solution.
I think boring, standard solutions are actually pretty effective. We use commercial cloud cold storage for primary backup, with a self-hosted cache layer in front to drive down cost. Commercial off-the-shelf storage is also the best characterized and has a proven track record.
NIST has some great reviews of the stability of optical media, and it’s quite good, done for the library of Congress.
DNA storage would enable some pretty crazy storage density, but ensuring there’s a compatible reader around in 30 years might be difficult
How are your clients sure that your storage lasts decades and doesn't end if you lose interest / fail / sell to another company? (They can't, of course, so: how do you convince them?)
It's a good question. A lot of it centers around creating good corporate governance and a reason for either me (or someone else) to stay interested (careful incentive design). This is obviously antithetical to the typical scale-up strategy of a tech company, and the financials are very similar to an insurance company. It's also why there is no free plan in the pricing.
In terms of convincing, for the technically-minded, I have a public disaster recovery plan, a public business continuity plan, and "escape hatches" for "common" events -- war, subpoenas, changes in law, a post-RSA future, etc. The goal is to cover as many events as possible, including the very improbable (like AWS losing a whole AZ!). The backing clouds are Microsoft Files and AWS S3, both with excellent track records and absurdly good durability. There is some special caching in front to minimize cost.
For the less technically-minded, there are no good alternatives. Self-hosted data is difficult to geographically distribute (and if you do it's difficult to update true cold storage). Cloud services have a very high lifetime cost, and unclear rules around data distribution to next of kin. Other methods, like burying some vacuum sealed MDISCs in a freezer, are not realistic.
I am of the opinion that while it is impossible to predict the future, it is possible to plan for it.
How it compares to the more established forever.com? I have an account but dont like that they dont accept zip/encrypted files. I have to diguise them as video files :)
It seems like they mostly focus on digitization, with some cloud storage being offered. A few key differences:
Data distribution: one of the hard parts is actually sharing the memories you’ve saved when you die (or at some future date). When you create an archive, you choose someone to give that data to.
Storage: no restrictions of what you upload, subject to US law. If you want to upload big encrypted blobs and give the key to someone else, I am happy to support it. Over the timespans we’re talking about, you want to look into quantum resistant encryption.
Cost: on a per gb price, I am much cheaper, as there’s no digitization labor involved. I think digitization is declining, as even my grandma kept most of her pictures on her iPhone. There still exists a great digitization market, but it is getting smaller.
My own photogrammetry pipeline because I'm fascinated by the tech (automatically create 3d models from photos). There are also a huge number of commercial applications but I haven't addressed one well enough yet.
So far I've built a first pass of the pipeline using C++/CUDA and used it to power a SaaS and desktop photogrammetry app (free for personal non-commercial use). Got some useful feedback from the initial release of the desktop app back in January and I'm hoping to spend some time iterating to improve further later in the year (currently contracting to generate some funds).
It's possible that some deep learning generative AI network will take over all 3d model generation from photos tasks in the future but I'm hoping/betting that a) classical techniques will give higher resolution, more accurate results for a while yet and b) even if deep learning matches in accuracy and resolution it will always be possible to get better efficiency for big chunks of the pipeline using classical techniques.
I would love if someone would make a photometry app that ingests video (such as iPhone video of my house or drone footage of my property) and outputs a 3D gaussian splatting model.
I want it just for fun, but I’m sure it to real estate agents!
Well, you can just extract the frames from the video and save them as PNGs. I am not sure though if iPhone videos contain the metadata necessary for photogrammetry model generation (camera angle, etc.).
It's a web-based scratchpad and note taker for developers and power users.
It sits somewhere between Obsidian and Simplenote.
It's particularly optimized for keyboard navigation: Ctrl + K / ⌘ + K to open note navigator where you can quickly create new note, switch between notes, delete notes.
Even though it runs in the browser, when running on Chrome you can store notes in a folder on disk and share between computers if that folder is replicated via DropBox / OneDrive / Google Drive etc.
It seems like they're trying to solve a problem that they've observed. I know I'd like to read more on the "recognizes user intent and supports it with rich interactions" comment. Time for a manifesto?
Xterm feels faster to me than all alternatives I've tried (not kitty). I suspect it's input to screen latency. Also, crisp bitmap fonts.
Startup is instant too.
It has comparatively very good "fidelity", giving usable screen outputs with most applications without tinkering.
A factor of 2x in throughput is nothing to sweat about I think, given that xterm is fast enough.
Haven't verified the benchmarks in your link, and not tried kitty, but I believe the bench did not test xterm with bitmap fonts which I believe are significantly faster.
I'd also look at CPU rasterization performance. I often don't have graphics acceleration available (in a VM).
I'm building https://ambiph.one, an ambient music/white noise/soundscape web app. It's a free alternative to apps which have a monthly fee or are covered in ads. Lots of lovely feedback from people who've found it useful for sleep, tinnitus, focus, ADHD etc
Just launched a PWA and now working on more mixing features like spatial audio, reverb and high/low-pass filters to let you create even more immersive sound environments.
A privacy-first personal finance stack, with free and SaaS versions, with "power user" developer-friendly data analysis.
No ads, no data sale, E2E encryption, localhost option, basic budgetting and transaction parsing, but for power users allows spinning up a jupyter notebook to play with your financial data.
Access to fine-grained, well-classified financial data costs money. The localhost option provides a way for you to integrate with providers of said data, e.g., using their "developer" api keys. As long as they support free personal use and you stay in their limits, the localhost option incurs no cost to you, and we have no reason (and no way!) to charge anything if you `git pull` and set up these integrations using our readme.md.
All storage will be encrypted w/ client side keys.
For SaaS, we do the integration automatically and pass hosting and fintech costs on as a monthly subscription. We provide automatic report options that also incur small charges, mostly to cover additional compute, hosting, and higher-tier integration with data providers. These reports can use transient data and/or pass encrypted payloads to client side report generation or display, e.g., SPA or CLI tools.
https://hyperpaper.me/ – rich, customizable planner pdfs for e-Ink tablets. I have another related project that I'm slowly working on, essentially an RSS reader that sends daily pdf digests/newspapers to your tablet.
Both are very fun and rewarding, and I love building things that help spend less time in front of a (glowing) screen.
Over the past few years, I've built up a bunch of tooling for virtual D&D/TTRPG games I played with friends. DM prepping, note sharing, inventory management, scheduling, etc. And all of that with Discord integrations so you can pretty much manage everything from a Discord server.
I'm currently in the process of converting it to a proper commercial service and making it available to others. If this sounds like something that would be of use to anyone, I'd love to hear from you! Email is in my about section (or just respond here).
I'd love to hear from them! Once I get a design update I want to start a private beta. If they're interested in participating, I'd be glad to give them free lifetime access. :)
I'm working on a tool that easily allows you to theme your UI using CSS variables called Blueberry. https://www.getblueberry.io/
The idea is that each CSS variable becomes a widget and then the Blueberry endpoint will serve those variables so you can let your users customize profile pages/portals and other places they integrate with you UI.
I haven't used this program specifically but I'm using an OK one (called "Take a break") and credit it with letting me look at screens again.
A few years ago my eyes would dry out within a few minutes of using a screen. I tried eye drops, resting my eyes, taking longer breaks, etc... which didn't work.
I did some research and there's something called the 20-20-20 rule which means looking at something at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. I found this app and it fixed my issues. Turns out the issue is your eye not changing what it's focusing on.
Highly recommend trying it even if you're not actively experiencing issues.
Your app looks a lot nicer than the one I'm using so I'll give it a try!
Thank you! My journey has been pretty much the same - extremely dry and irritated eyes after screen use and then 20-20-20 solved it so I decided to build this app :)
Nice app! Just downloaded however there's a bug where regardless of the focus time I set (when the app first launches) it always counts down from 20mins. If I edit the focus time in settings it will change.
I'm working on https://quickchart.io/, a web API for generating chart images. I've expanded it to a WYSIWYG chart editor at https://quickchart.io/chart-maker/, which lets you create an endpoint that you can use to generate variations of custom charts. This is useful for creating charts quickly, or using them in places that don't support dynamic charting (email, SMS, various app plugins, etc).
I messed around with some AI features, mostly just for fun and to see if they could help users onboard. But the core product is decidedly not AI.
I'm making a small compost freezer. This way, while your compost is in your kitchen and before you put it in the municipal compost bin outside, it doesn't smell, isn't wet, doesn't attract flies, and the bag doesn't rip. It has the form factor of a small trash can and uses a TEC for cooling.
Have you checked out bokashi and KNF? I found them interesting. I have a few years of background in organic gardening, and had a lot of fun doing it. But I've not try out bokashi yet.
https://pico.sh - a set of services catered toward terminal workflows. Static site hosting, ngrok alternative, blog platform, and a docker registry using ssh
This is actually a really cool idea. I work in the fintech industry and a simulator where we (employees sitting through boring compliance training presentations) could play as money-launderers and attempt to launder cash through the various schemes like layering etc would be a fucking awesome learning experience. I think you'd have a ready market there.
Trying to keep it "realistic" in the sense of how the structures are set up (bank reporting regulations, offshore companies, shell companies etc) but I'm optimizing for fun. It's an isometric Transport Tycoon-styled game but instead of building physical infrastructure you create financial connections between nodes like drug op -> cash business -> bank -> offshore company -> real estate investment.
It’s mainly an excuse to learn some new things (HTMX, Prisma, DigitalOcean, etc.), as well as get comfortable building and shipping something from scratch on my own.
My goal is to eventually see large (and funny) swings in reactions in realtime.
I am working on a data management tool called Ottava. Essentially, it's a tool that enable users to input data in a format resembling a pivot table, allowing them to conduct data analysis without the need for data transformation. For instance, users can create a gradebook with student names in the row header and subject in the column header.
The tool automatically converts this layout into database (unpivot), enabling users to perform aggregations such as SUM or AVERAGE without having to write formulas. Because the structure designed by the user often carries significance, such as organizing dates into columns with a hierarchical structure like Year -> Quarter -> Month.
Users can organize their data with grouped rows/columns and insert aggregations. Simultaneously, Ottava can derive insights from the structure metadata and propose various types of charts for data exploration. Subsequently, users can select the charts they are interested in, choose datasets, or drill down into the charts, providing further insight for Ottava to offer more precise chart suggestions based on user interactions.
Unlike AI with the capability to autopilot, our objective is to build a Mazda MX-5 for data analysis: providing users with both enjoyment and control while exploring data.
I'm building a gamified habit tracker, similar to Habitica[1], but simplified in some ways, and with offline support. My biggest issues with Habitica are their lack of offline support (even on mobile), and their extremely downtime-prone servers. My goal is to make something more pleasant to use.
I don't have a link to share since it's still fairly early in development, but I'm making good progress!
If you do graphics like Habitica, I think another improvement over them would be to do the graphics better. Not sure if others share this opinion but Habitica's art style I really find awful, generic and boring. Less so the pixel art (I like pixel art), but the colour palettes and sprites just don't feel great for me.
Been working on a fishing journal app. Pulls in weather, tides (salt), USGS streamflows (streams), add access points, save notes, make journal entries with catch log, and photo/videos.
Not into fishing and so not the target audience for this, but I just wanted to say this thing jumps out at me as one of those products the excitement over "web 2.0" and the API gold rush was all about. A world of niche web-accessible raw data streams, ready to be processed, combined, added to, and made into something useful by an enterprising developer. Cool project.
https://github.com/U8String/U8String which is a UTF-8 string library for C# that aims to offer rich and performant API to replace standard string for scenarios where you do want to consume UTF-8 directly. I'm working on it since last summer actually, it turned out to be much higher complexity project than expected :)
Also comes with a few niceties like the ability to directly consume Streams, Sockets, WebSockets and SafeFileHandles with U8Reader (sync/async) that solves painful and error-prone manual buffer handling when reading lines/segments/messages. It is kind of like higher level Rust's BufReader.
That's what bool.ToString() defaults to which I'm matching. As for the file API, it's a bit unfinished as I'm re-consolidating logic into U8File (OpenRead and ReadLines work acceptably, U8File.Read works too - U8Reader is in a more polished state), but the intention for the files is to detect and strip BOMs (it already does that in most[0] places[1]).
There is way more heavy lifting that the library does on the "data goes in" side of things because "data goes out" story in .NET is already in a good shape with everything accepting ReadOnlySpan<byte> and ReadOnlyMemory<byte> - zero-allocation interpolated UTF-8 output into streams, sockets, etc. is achieved through extension methods and should you want to write UTF-8 BOM, you can simply do so beforehand working with the corresponding API directly.
However, if you have a particular use case in mind that you're interested in or have trouble with - do let me know as I'd love to have more user feedback!
Nix-based PXE booting. It can boot different images than your NixOS-based system configurations, but the main focus has been to support NixOS. We even have a system which is able to scan your hardware pre-boot, and then launch the initial ramdisk with a kernel which has all the required drivers pre-installed. https://github.com/majbacka-labs/nixos.fi
I've been suspecting for a long time that Google might be doing something similar. Of course you need enough devices around (and internet) for this to work but it's pretty cool, I hope it takes off. Maybe a device manufacturer will be interested in this and buy/fund you.
I'm deeply engaged in rewriting my own data processing software from Elixir to C. I've already reduced the number of dedicated servers from 3 to 0.1 while scaling traffic and handling larger amounts of data. My goal is to optimize it for Raspberry Pi, just for fun... and it's also more ecologically friendly this way :)
By the way, I'd appreciate a programming partner with whom I can discuss security issues in C code. I would gladly exchange code review sessions. Is anyone interested here?
I'm working on a super simple way to monitor your API at an endpoint level - https://subbul.com/.
At work we spent a bunch of time implementing monitoring and alerting for all our APIs and I figured it would be nice to have a near plug-and-play solution, so I built exactly that.
Thanks! I'm using this as an experience to teach myself mainly. I'm not an expert cyclist but I prefer to DIY when I can.
For example, I looked at tires and wheels as a good litmus test. What were the minimum pieces of information that you need to know to pick the right tire or wheel and make those the only filters on the site.
In terms of expertise, I've mainly farmed out to the cyclist community on Mastodon and served requests on a first-come-first-serve basis. For example, one person pointed me to sheldonbrown.com for their article on tires and it was really illuminating.
https://weexpire.org - An opensource tool for creating emergency notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your death or if you are seriously injured.
Being as the timelines for seeing this product in action may be measured in decades (i.e. time of death, hopefully far away), how will you convince your customers that you will still be operating for decades? What happens if operations do cease?
One reliable way to convince customers is to provide emergency notes with a fixed expiration date of a maximum of 1 year from the time the note was written. After 1 year, customers are, in a way, forced to create a new emergency note, and at the same time, they can verify if anything is going to change soon on the platform (e.g. upcoming shutdown). This would also help to keep the emergency note’s content always up-to-date. When you sign up for car insurance, you do so for a maximum of 1 year, as prices and coverages may change.
A suite of widgets / tools that many SaaS apps want at some point, but that can be cumbersome to manage and build from scratch, e.g. Announcements, NPS widgets, Product Tours, Feedback widgets etc. etc.
All are creatable and editable without coding skills (after the initial copy-paste setup). So for example, product managers and customer success can manage them without having to bother devs.
Just for fun, I'm writing an internet forum software from scratch, strongly inspired by phpBB and the likes.
It is split into an Angular UI, C# ASP.NET Core RESTful API and postgres database.
I aimed to let EF Core handle the data model in the database and am pleasantly surprised by how well it works.
Also updating the database is a breeze with its migrations.
The features of a forum seem easy enough, but I find it difficult to detail it out into the data model at times.
We’re working on a privacy-focused iOS app that enables you to track anything. It’s called Reflect. The app enables you to answer questions like “how does meditation affect my mood” or “how does this new supplement intervention affect my sleep”. We already support detailed visualization and correlation between all of the metrics you track and are working on some very exciting features to make self-guided discovery even easier.
I’m having trouble understanding how to use the app! I am overwhelmed by the amount of configuration, and not sure how I am supposed to actually add activities or diary entries, for example.
Thank you for saying so. We want to make this interface easier to get started with with something like an onboarding flow or the SwiftUI TipKit.
Without knowing exactly what you want to use the app for, I’ll link you to our help page with some tutorials: https://ntl.ai/reflect/support
Currently the flow to tracking is to create a form template (called a Reflection template) to track a category of metrics such as Mood. In that template you add metrics like Happiness, Fatigue, etc. Once the template is created you have a form available that you can fill out at your convenience. You can design another template like Supplements with metrics for specific dosages, for example. Your history can be visualized and those metrics can be correlated shortly after.
Every time you fill out an entry you have the option of adding notes, which can serve as a diary functionality. Those notes are searchable in your history.
Let us know any other feedback you have, we’d really like to make this as usable as possible.
I've always looked for something like this. Submission approvals. If you don't want to do approvals, perhapse charge $5 per submission. Also limit them from the same person to at least once every 24 hours, but probably more, if you want to keep it free.
I'm working on a "low code" web app that helps developers build web apps (not marketing or blogs or e-commerce sites). Create your data models in the app and get an API, a database (or connect your own), and a Next.js app with all of the scaffolding, models, forms, validation, API calls, policies, access and authorization, etc. ready for you to use and customize.
A manufacturing focused ERP system using SvelteKit and SQL Server. These systems are typically made with Java and it's becoming clear to me that it's massive overkill when SQL Server is (or can be) doing most of the work and the application is (or can be) a thin layer between the user and the database. Using only one language, with perfectly matched types and validation schemas for both frontend and backend is a huge productivity win. Some may sneer at JS but my product running on Node is snappier than the competition and I think I can develop quality features with good UX faster P4P (only a 2 man team).
Interesting. I am also working in similar space. Lot of niche ideas that would be sustainable SaaS products but industry is sales driven and requires industry connections.
I'd be interested to know further on your offering
This looks cool! What level of proficiency do users need to be at to start with your app? Would this be a match for someone who's coming in with zero German?
Thanks! I'd say it depends a bit on your mother-tongue and general sense for languages, but yes, this is based on a very intuitive approach to language learning where you infer meaning from context, and even absolute beginners should be able to pick up some basic phrases.
A simple, self-hosted RSVP system for parties, now that FB is no longer a unifying platform for my social circle.
And a "mood meter" mapping app that puts anonymous reports of how folks are feeling on a world map. I don't quite have the skills (yet) to do this latter project, so we'll see how much time I have to dedicate to it.
Not yet. :) All I have so far is a minimal Flask app that worked well enough for the last party. Working on building something new in Go for the next iteration
OpenPV is a website to analyze the potential of PV installations for electricity production on your building. It's based on openly available 3D building data and does a shading simulation in the browser using WebGL: https://openpv.de
I would love to use something like this but globally. I'm working on some parcel analyzer product for Poland. Perfectly I would like to use it in form of an API where I can pass coordinates in request and get response with pv potential metrics.
The problem here is the availability of 3D building data - at https://github.com/OloOcki/awesome-citygml is a list of all possible regions where we could extend our service in future, but that is still very limited parts of the earth.
We are right now also open sourcing our shading simulation code of WebGL as an npm package, check out https://github.com/open-pv/simshady if that is interesting for you.
Based on your TLD, I would not have been surprised if the service is working for Germany only. But it is Bavaria-only - bummer. Any chance to extend the coverage?
We are right now extending to whole Germany. And in theory, all data from https://github.com/OloOcki/awesome-citygml can be integrated. But still, data is only available for very few parts of the earth.
https://cashmoney.lol I like to read the SEC 10-Ks (annual reports) and 10-Qs (quarterly reports) first then look at Yahoo Finance, etc. So I took the ticker info directly from the SEC and created a single page app using jQuery DataTable and deployed to Cloudflare Pages so I can quickly go to the SEC page for the company, as well as others. The pro version is a Google Sheet version of the site that plugs into =GOOGLEFINANCE for additional data.
As for the domain, I had it lying around so I used it.
A desktop app that helps you stay focused on your most important tasks every day.
It appears on top of all your other applications to capture and channel your attention into the things you actually care about, before you get distracted.
In the morning, it helps you effectively plan your most important tasks and throughout the day it pulls your focus back to those tasks.
I havnt actually built, but learning the relevant materials to develop a web app, where you can import architectural drawings in pdf/image and measure areas/lengths of spaces for easy export to be used by costing/quantity surveying.
I’m working on an app that ties a tech stack to psychological configurations so we can stop the “How many times did you mention Typescript” game on resumes and applicant tracking systems. The result is that HR can find diamonds in the applicants who might not match the precise keywords but can nonetheless do the job.
https://approximated.app - reliably automating custom domains and their SSL certs at scale. For SaaS, marketplaces, platforms, outbound services, etc. who have a lot of domains to manage.
Coming up on a million domains served, it's been a fun ride!
There's certainly a smattering of machine learning algorithms involved in some of the software components, but I'm working on Zipline's next generation "platform 2" delivery drone. As an embedded engineer, something has gone horribly wrong if we're trying to solve problems with AI!
Working on a data generation and validation tool called Data Caterer. The focus of it is being data source agnostic, fast and simple. Just last week, I released a UI for it.
I picked up godot 4 to try out a game idea, and have been running with it for a few months while leveraging chatgpt to get over the skills hurdle, https://www.reddit.com/r/boomballs/
AutoPTT lets you customize how push-to-talk works in apps like Discord or online games. It can even press the button for you based on voice activity, in case the program does not support voice activation natively.
Laid off last fall, and while looking for a new role I've been working on an old idea I had for a MIDI sequencing app. It's meant for live electronic music production, so it's not a full DAW for composing and editing tracks or anything like that. It just records notes for different MIDI devices/channels and loops them back over a selected number of beats. There are some other features as well, like an arpeggiator, but it's pretty basic so far. I've been meaning to record a demo video with real audio, but I'm not actually a musician myself so I haven't come up with anything presentable yet.
After diving a bit into finance last year, I found the book "Smart Portfolios" by Rob Carver, which basically aimed at teaching simple heuristics to help create and manage robust stock portfolios. Sadly this book has quite a few simplifications that were valid at the time of writing but are not anymore (ie. interest rates ~= 0). So I set myself to re-implement this a bit properly in a tool for me and eventually other people.
It's up and running online but still a work in progress. It only work for US stocks and the charts can sometimes display non-sense.
I've recently started on an RSS Reader that helps minimize doom scrolling by giving users 2 "Issues" a day, a Morning Rundown, and an Evening Recap. As well as Feeds being able to be categorized into user-created "Magazines" to gather content from multiple sources that the user finds relevant to each other.
I'd like to provide a lot of customization options for the user to customize it as they see fit. And ultimately make it FOSS in case anyone else wants to play around with it.
I'm still working on UI wireframes, but I use my site to publically post progress updates. https://www.keoni.dev
Next Generation Shell because I refuse to believe that UI that is limiting the interaction to single line is the pinnacle of UX that we can have today.
Terminals introduced cursor movement feature in the 1970s. Bill Joy responded with releasing vi in 1976. Text editing as we know it today was born. It used ... the whole screen! How the shell responded to this new feature? It largely didn't.
Back to NGS. The programming language is in a good shape. Working on the UI.
https://flatcal.com - a service which will allow to consolidate multiple calendars into a single one for easy sharing with others. For people who organize their time in separate calendars by choice or by necessity. F.e. having personal Google Calendar, corporate Outlook Calendar for work, and maybe another one for freelance. No AI involved, just a good, old processing pipeline. Which makes the service pretty flexible and allow to pre-process the events before merging them into a new calendar, i.e. anonymize events, change their type, filter them out, add some buffer time for rest, etc.
I have been frustrated with how project management tools make it hard for engineering teams to see the impact of their work on the product. I built Beacon (https://anvilyard.com/beacon), to fix this. Instead of focusing on moving a ticket to done, I am trying to get teams to think of how their tickets get the team closer to a product goal. I know there are a lot of cultural elements at play in an organization that affect how teams measure their progress, but I am trying to shape the tools we all use to make it easier to focus on end goals, not just features.
It's a free online coding website targeted towards beginners learning Markdown and other frontend tools like HTML, htmx, alpine.js, etc. It has GitHub pages-like hosting and you get your own free sparkshell.sh subdomain for your projects (which can be on your domain while having the source private!). You can also easily install certain libraries and frameworks in a couple clicks without having to deal with package managers or any of the sort. It's meant to be a sort of Repair alternative, but free.
I‘m learning SwiftUI and built myself a no-frills read-later app. The content is extracted on the device, it tracks the reading progress and lets me archive read articles. It can import links via a sharing extension. For the content extraction, I ported the postlight/mercury parser from JS to Swift. It’s easily my second most used app by screen time now, seems like I hit a nerve. I don’t plan to release it publicly.
I'm building a trading terminal tailored specifically for scalping traders, prop firms and brokerages https://stakan.io.
Coming from a trading background myself, I've worked for trading desks and quantitative trading firms, so I've seen many tools used by professionals that are not popular among retail investors, are not very well-known, or exist in the form of heavy and hard-to-get desktop apps. I’m trying to build something web-based, lightweight, and approachable, hoping to introduce a broader audience to these tools.
As a retail trader I prefer desktop heavy apps rather than web based ones. I believe what is missing in the crypto space is an algotrading app that allows me to code my own strategies and indicators.
I've been thinking a lot about algorithmic trading and imagined interfaces where you can code or build your own strategy from some blocks; this is really something I'd like for myself. But it's a bit out of reach for me right now as such an app, in my opinion, would really need a lot to be built before it can be useful; not an easy MVP here.
Also, have you tried TradingView? What do you think about them? They have scripting for strategies and indicators. It is an array-based language, I think, somewhat similar to R, just simpler. Nevertheless, I was able to craft quite interesting things in there.
As for desktop apps vs web-based: desktop apps definitely have their uses and advantages. I'm not saying web-based is better, but I think it's just more approachable, and there are ways where some of the existing apps might be improved.
I've been working on an open source project on/off for the past couple of years called ssh-sync, written in Go. The goal is to securely share SSH keys across multiple machines (avoid copy-pasting) and auto-generate new SSH configs based off of the user's current operating system (so your key paths are never wrong again).
A developer happiness product, https://workdna.com. It sends out employee pulse surveys that are purpose-built for dev teams and don't suck to fill out.
Lots of companies just cobble together a Google Form full of irrelevant questions, send it out, and throw their hands in the air when nobody fills it out.
WorkDNA surveys your team on criteria like CI/CD reliability, test flakiness, PR feedback quality, job satisfaction, and psychological safety. The surveys take 20 minutes to set up, 5 minutes to fill out, and are completely anonymous.
Two easy anecdotes, have seen it play out similarly multiple times over the past decade:
- <self-funded startup> has <big name B2B client> in the sales pipeline. Client wants an invasive <data/reporting> feature for <legal/compliance/ops> reasons. No chance to say no, <CxO> decides to build it due to <market pressure/big name/bonus>.
- <self-funded startup> has a platform that deals with anonymous <reviews/surveys/comments>. <big mean company> sues to take down mean <review/survey/comment> and sue the user for defamation. No chance to defend, need to give in to survive the lawsuit.
Those cases will come and they will hurt. It's probably healthy to up front think about how you would deal with it (and assume a worst-case-life-or-death scenario).
Working on optimising the content creation process and a platform to review the creators for YouTube.
For the rating and review application, providing a platform where anyone can review the creator, and add a comment on channel level and video level. This will help both the creators and consumers. Trustpilot for YouTube channels and videos.
The next one is to build an E2E content delivery setup all in one platform - starting from research to script writing, thumbnail sharing and review, video review, followed by an approval step and publish it directly to YouTube Studio. Platform will have multiple role based profiles so that the channel owner no need to share the YouTube studio credentials with everyone and no need to do all the tasks on their own.
I'm building an Open Source Loom alternative. Loom was bought by Atlassian in October last year for almost $1 billion. ScreenLink.io is a privacy focused alternative to this
The main focus on the product has been working on a cross platform application that can record and upload screen recordings, then on the backend it has been everything else to handle this
I’m working on a nutrition tracking app for iOS called FitBee (https://fitbee.app). There’s been a huge number of “AI” based products in this space but they’ve all been relatively bad in terms of accuracy and reliability (eg the Humane AI pin demo). At some point I’m sure I’ll introduce some AI based features into the product, but for now I’m focused on making it the fastest and most convenient way of tracking your nutrition.
Just launched "Postcard". My co-founders and I left Google & Meta to radically enhance the way a user connects and interacts with their closest friends & family. Many of the legacy consumer apps us an approach from 10, 15 ,20 years ago and users are looking for higher quality experiences and products. Lots of takeaways after launching our MVP & V1.. and we just submitted V2 to Apple & Google. www.thepostcardapp.com
In one week we have our anniversary for CloudCamping - a property management software for campsites. It is targeted for the European market at the moment, mainly the german market, because there is not much digital infrastructure in this space yet. In a nutshell: campsite administrators can create and configure their campsite and enable guest to book a place online.
What's the difference with https://www.pitchup.com/ ? Any time we go to a different UK area we use this, has most of them here. Only 53 sites for Germany, but it does say they cover 67 countries already which definitely wasn't the case when they started.
You create a new member by filling a Google Form (they receive a digital member card with a QR code by email), and add or subtract points by scanning the QR code.
Video Hub App - shows many screenshots per video of all videos from a directory as a pretty gallery. Thumbnails you can scrub through, filmstrips you can scroll through; tons of filters and search options.
Still working on my bootstrapped job board SaaS, Niceboard (https://niceboard.co) which I launched about 4 years ago now! Makes launching a job board for your community/association/company super easy, with just a few clicks and < 10min.
Been thinking about adding AI-related features but there isn't that much AI that would really make the product better.
I'm working on a developer platform [1] that makes the progression from local development to global deployment way smoother than alternatives.
At some point AI may have a role in the platform. But for now we're focused on much more fundamental problems related to the process of developing and scaling software applications.
Since a few years I'm developing a free and open source tool for D&D and TTRPGs in general, that let's you design handy printouts to print on thermal printers.
Thermal printers are small in size and the format is perfect for quick printouts :) (and it's just fun)
I'm working on a personal finance aggregator, as a Mint.com replacement. I started it a few weeks ago, after learning my mint account would be shut down and replaced with Credit Karma. I can hopefully get it launched in 1-2 more weeks.
I learned since starting that this field is saturated; there are many options... including several going through strong marketing campaigns currently! I'm going to still release this because it's mostly done, and it'll be something I use, even if no one else does; advantage of being able to customize it.
I do think I can do this better than other options in these areas - A: Faster and more responsive (by virtue of not using frameworks, tracking, analytics etc) B: Respectful of the user. Ie, no marketing email, compact site designed so you spend as little time on it as possible etc.
However, when I read this thread, it makes me not feel great about it, since it's not original or cool; not something contributing to mankind's advancement.
https://www.osomatsu.net/ — a little recipe writing and sharing website that me and my wife (and some close relatives) have been using over the last few years. Have got plenty of ideas to implement on it, but it works well for us as is at the moment. People can request to join for free if it could be useful for them too.
A couple things I love from the recipe app I use (cookbook), which you could steal:
- Clicking on a step or an ingredient strikes it through
- on larger screens (eg tablet), it’s a horizontal split screen between ingredients and steps
- automated conversion between imperial/metric.
- Could go even further with unit conversion for common ingredients (what the hell does a _cup_ of butter mean, it’s not a freakin liquid why would you use a volume unit, give me goddamn weight) and tips (volume of salt is very different depending on what salt you use)
No pictures? I get 50% of the information of a recipe based on the picture of the final dish. I don't buy recipe books if they don't have pictures of the final dish of each recipe
I'm working on a very experimental music generator:
https://app.bars.ai
(I regret my domain choice). It's free to use and you can play around with it pretty easily.
The idea is that you have a "framework" that you can change for what you want the music generator to produce. You can download the MIDI files it produces as well.
I honestly loved (!) the created melody, but stumbled across a couple UX issues. Most of those, I think, could be fixed with smarter defaults and some tweaks. Excellent work, though. Would love to see how it develops...
During creation of a new track:
- Why do I need a description?
- Why do I need a name, actually?
- Why is there only Latin and Empty available?
- Edit: Just realised that the Latin track is hardcoded?
During editing:
- I was not sure whether / how my actions affect the tracks / track items. (One remedy could be showing the actual waveform of the created sounds in the editor instead of a placeholder waveform.)
- Creating a new instrument — I found the "Instrument Sound Pack" dropdown menu only by accident after some clicking. It would be great to see what type of instrument I'm dealing with without having to click on the instrument itself. (Maybe map it directly to the displayed name? I'd rather have Acoustic Bass 1 to 4 instead of a bunch of "Unnamed Instrum...")
- Some actions have no effect until you restart the playback (e.g. changing speed of a track item).
- Some actions stop the playback (e.g. changing the instrument type)
This is really good feedback, I'll try to address some of these tonight.
I've added name and description because I made a feature where you could create an account to save your work. During development, I got tired of having to constantly recreate test scenarios, so I integrated AWS cognito and started saving compositions.
Latin is hardcoded. To be honest, I wasn't really sure what to do there. The latin template really just bootstraps the UI to save some time and act as a demo. My plan is to make 3-5 premade compositions for each major genre, and have the create flow let you pick between them.
On making changes impacting the UI, this is something that I'm still really struggling to find a balance between. I'll prioritize this higher based on what you've said!
TL;DR elevator pitch: subscription based reddit-like platform. Your subscription is split evenly between everything you upvote that month. Nonio takes $1 out of your subscription to pay for servers.
One thing I found from the launch was there was a huge volume of mobile users, who didn't have a great experience. I hired a dev to help work on an iOS app for this, which we're building in the open.
I'm working on a tool for sharing things like API keys using encryption apis built into the browsers, https://www.oncer.io.
What I'm working on at the moment, and am sort of stuck on, on is how to make a web app doing in-browser encryption secure - since the server delivers the code that does the encryption in the browser, users sort of have to trust the server anyway to deliver that code. I would like to at least somehow, maybe through a browser extension, assure the user that the version of the web app running in the browser is at least is the same as the build output for a given release in the repo on GitLab/GitHub/the like maybe... then it's sort of like 2FA in the reverse direction, 2 sources (https server connection + extension doing code check) confirm that the real web app has been delivered to the browser.
Appreciate any thoughts on this head scratcher! Maybe there's some way to assure the web app code integrity I just don't know about! :)
I'm working on the Synthetic Data Vault, a set of libraries to generate realistic synthetic data. We have an option to use GAN models but we've found that Gaussian & other copula models work great because they're faster and more user configurable.
It's uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams.
In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k <vendor>, all their system ever did was alert us when we weren't down".
I'm currently working on a self-documenting (OpenAPI, rolled it myself: https://developers.onlineornot.com/) API that'll let folks use terraform (or even just the API itself) to setup their uptime checks, cron job monitoring, status pages, even their teams.
This is a super simple IT problem to solve technically (ping a URL, provide a status HTML page, etc.) but really hard to get right, like your customer comment about a vendor. If done wrong, people will go to their "you had one job" card. How do you handle hosting of your own service and isolation from larger "cloud" or internet issues?
I replicate the service across several AWS regions, and Cloudflare Workers.
At the moment, it's really good at answering "am I down everywhere?", since I can just double check in several other regions.
I recently taught it to answer "Am I down just in this region?" by monitoring across cloud providers in the same location, though it's more of a niche use case (for the people I chat to, anyway)
Next month is scheduled for a few projects that are aimed at a broader market than the current products, like an API and a toy/demonstration version for casual users.
I seldom work on AI. For a few years, my opinion has always been: each wave of AI uses different technology. I don't find a continuous flow in this domain, nor do I understand its underneath better.
So, investing in AI is a large risk: back to my university, the popular AI framework is a neural network, logistic regression, supported-vector machines, etc.
Instead, I spent time working on data infrastructure, which keeps evolving but follows a somewhat consistent direction. If you look at databases, the essential building blocks are identical to those fifty years ago.
I first worked on Apache Flink and became a committer after one year as a contributor. And then Apache ZooKeeper and Curator, so did become a committer / PMC member. Later TiDB / TiKV and now GreptimeDB. The knowledge and experience is reusable.
Creating the best place to discover and distribute Christian apps and tools: http://faith.tools
While some may not see this as a problem, it’s actually kind of hard to find great Christian apps in the sea of old blog posts of top 10 apps all taking about the same apps
I’d consider myself an indie hacker and built many tools for Christians, but later discovered there’s no great place to distribute those apps. Hear me out. The app stores are good, but they won’t feature a Christian app as app of the day. It makes sense to not prefer one religion over another as a major corporation. What it does do is leave a hole for Christian app makers
After[0] several[1] experiments[2] in structured code editing[3] (to list a few) I'm now ready to take a bigger stab at it and am working on coding environment/lang where UI is also a primitive of the language. Early days, but happy to chat if someone is curious.
I'm building a registrar, beachfront/, for Handshake TLDs I own.
For the uninitiated, Handshake is a blockchain that democratizes the issuance of TLDs via Vickrey-style auctions. Handshake does NOT handle SLDs (second-level domains, or just "domains").
That's where beachfront/ comes in. I recently presented my progress at HandyCon a couple weeks ago and published the transcription this morning.
Why do I bother with this? Handshake is a blockchain-based naming system focused on TLDs (and security via DANE/DNSSEC). Other blockchains are focused on finance, data, &c and just so happen to have (SLD) naming systems.
A complete web development stack. A combination of a full-stack JavaScript framework [1], a deployment service [2], and a CSS framework [3]. All designed to work together and remain stable long-term so you're not chasing the typical rug pulls. Just under 3 years in and excited to see everything coming together.
I just launched paid subscriptions to Bernard (https://bernard.app), an automated broken links checker for websites and got my first paying users.
These days I am taking a break and looking to "pivot" it into a more complete website monitoring tool, that not only scans for broken links, but also offer uptime monitoring, page speed and scans for all sorts of issues that might affect your user. Basically a one-stop shop for everyone that runs a website.
This is a product I would love for myself, but I am unsure if it is a good idea to expand the scope of a product that originally had quite clear and "modest" goals: to check for broken links.
It’s not a product per se, but I can already see it needing something purpose built in the future.
I’m hosting a 6 week cohort of makers and builders to meet virtually every week and share progress with a demo day at the end. It’s been really exciting to see the response of such a program. People are doing things from crocheting to programming.
It’s totally free and the point is to meet other people making things and to finish your own projects.
A todo app for recurring personal projects. I found that breaking projects down into simple tasks really helps with my procrastination, but existing apps don't make that process too easy and quickly get cluttered.
My prototype lets me create project templates (that can contain other projects) and I can instantiate an arbitrary amount of them. Triggers can be a time ("every quarter") or some logical threshold (e.g. failing three workouts puts a "review fitness plan" action on my schedule).
It's my first real coding project and almost certainly too big, but it's been very fun to use so far and I already have ~50% of my ADHD social circle interested in the alpha.
This sounds like it would be useful to me at work. The types of projects I have to manage are often dependent on other tasks and shifting timelines, so a lot of the existing project management software I have tried feels "close but not quite."
Will you be releasing this for public consumption?
I hope to and I'll probably ask on HN for volunteers once I have a stable-ish alpha ready. Might take a while, though; grad school owns my life for now.
I'm a bit doubtful that it'll handle professional-scale project mgmt from the go - the early vision is to help other ADHD folks like me build tiered todo lists - but it'd certainly be a nice target to aim for.
If you'd like to field a few questions or get an early invite, feel free to ping me at gnfxf@rap0.pbz (rot13).
I’m working on a simple Fuzzy Pay-off Method (FPOM) real options calculator and a Datar-Mathews (DM) one based on Monte Carlo simulation: https://sdss.lostbookofsales.com
I'm working on Rolepad (https://rolepad.com), a tool that brings together candidates (job application management) and hiring managers / recruiters (better candidate experience). The candidate side is pretty decent at this point, working on the employer side now. The first capability this will unlock is keeping the status of the application in sync between the two, for greater transparency and hopefully reduced ghosting. I'm sure I'll eventually start sprinkling some AI in the app, but for now it's much more important to get basic functionality, user experience, and market fit right.
A lot of times, websites suggest I sign up for a 5-10% discount/promo code. That might lead to a sale and they get one more user to their email list.
GrowFast takes that a step furtver by offering a widget that provides different tasks for the user to complete in order to receive the promo code. The tasks range between user generated content leading to more organic traffic, user reviews and even testimonials (haven't decided fully on the tasks just yet).
I think this is a cool concept and I hope companies think likewise.
It parses any given codebase and visualizes all function calls as a hierarchical graph. Quite useful for onboarding new team members, digging through old codebases, or simply debugging issues.
You can further tweak the graph for various use cases. For example, a frontend engineer can view the dependency graph of all UI components, while an infra engineer can view connections between all cloud resources defined in Terraform.
I tried it for a python app I have, finished the setup in the desktop app, but the webpage kept telling me it failed to reach the desktop app.
I'm in Windows 11. I even disabled my firewall, used a guest account with Brave browser to make sure all my extensions were disabled, and disconnected from my VPN just in case. Still didn't work.
Growth hacking, marketing, and sales for SMBs and solo-preneurs.
Think highly paid freelancers (we find opportunities for them) and blue-collar service companies (they want more leads, but can't afford a high talent growth team).
https://smashamp.com - we currently serve clients in an agency capacity and are building tools/SaaS to do all of this in a self-serve fashion.
The most exciting frontier we are positioning ourselves for is LLM growth hacking, i.e. AI SEO. But, our current company/product is still going to be living in agency/SaaS mode for years to come.
I'm working on a Telegram-based all-in-one personal life tracker.
Apparently, Telegram bots provide functionality that allows creating UI resembling native apps, with the bonus of not having to install anything besides Telegram, as well as not having to ask any app stores for approval. Combined with chat-based UX, it fits perfectly for tracking things.
I've been working with my hands: I've developed a pair of analog haptic optical gloves, a time-release encryption integration, and a series of inventions to allow folks to get back to the real world if they get stuck somewhere else. I'm leaving most of the work unfinished of course, just trying to get the rough parts hammered out.
If anyone is interested, I'll probably be working as Jacobs Sign Co, which is a family name and business that has been a guide for me my whole life. Aloha, and god bless. Happy Easter y'all, a hui hou
Interactive Emails! AMP4Email and interactive html emails are finally starting to gain traction but developing the emails is still a total pain so I'm building a company (https://zaymo.com) that makes interactive email easy. We have pre-built interactive widgets for e-commerce and a drag-and-drop builder to add them to any existing template. Seeing conversion boost of 40-90%
https://dmba.info, a décentralized, self certified micro blogging platform (Twitter like) : generate keypair on your mobile client, register a name on your self hosted appliance. Your appliance is configurable via Bluetooth and then http api and get visible on the Internet via Tor,as an onion service. Register your onion name on Namecoin with the built-in ElectrumNMC wallet and you, and your good to be reachable. The stack is built on top on the Secure Scuttlebut protocol and is working for personal use. Looking for contributors.
Just playing with it now for German, and the second ever set of words it taught me were ‘Er’, ‘aus’, and ‘Dorf’, and it then asked me to fill in the blank:
Er ist aus unserem Dorf
…only it hadn’t taught me ‘unserem’, so I had no way of even guessing the right answer. (I just had to get it wrong intentionally.)
Is this intended behaviour or should it also have taught me ‘unserem’ first?
That is not the intended behaviour, but happens sometimes when the NLP pipeline and the dictionary don’t agree on the part-of-speech of a particular word.
I’ll have to run a script identifying all such cases in the built-in decks and most likely correct them by hand.
Happy to hear any other thoughts or issues so I can make it better :)
(Obviously) I don't fully understand your architechure, but isn't there a (relatively) simple check that it shouldn't test for a word that it has never taught?
(And on the bright side, I'm sure I'll remember unserem now!)
Well, yes, but the system filters definitions based on part of speech. For example, you don't want to show "to guide or conduct" (lead, verb) for a sentence talking about the metal lead (lead, noun).
In this case, unserem was assigned the part of speech determiner by the NLP pipeline (shoutout to https://stanfordnlp.github.io/stanza/, it's brilliant), but the dictionary only has an entry for unserem as a pronoun.
Perhaps a better design is to always show all entries, and just put the entries whose POS match the word in the sentence (if any) above the others.
Working on Symph (https://symphmusic.com), a web app for musicians that lets you synchronize measures/bars in a music score with timestamps in a YouTube video. Demo video: https://youtu.be/az6IENwtn78
It's like Songsterr, except you get to reuse your existing music scores (PDF/PNG/JPG). I am using a supervised ML model to auto-detect the music bars in the score.
Interesting question to me, as I was focusing on AI for most of my career but got burnt out. Getting back to more traditional software engineering was a bliss. Right now, I'm working on our web scraping API SaaS (https://scrapingfish.com/). What I found mildly surprising and amusing is how web scraping happens to have one common thing with AI: you hypothesize on something, run an experiment, draw conclusions, iterate.
I am working on a zero-code content-rich document generator at https://markdown2.com/ It's a quick and easy way to generate & share content rich documents in 30 secs. The sandbox https://markdown2.com/sandbox is a good demo of capabilities with some sample templates.
There's an API coming that will allow those customised docs to be generated at scale.
Last week the Android App Store finally approved my GopherGeyser app! It's used to control our sprinkler controller (over MQTT) to turn your outdoor living space into an animal-themed Bellagio water fountain show / splash pad to entertain kids/dogs in the warm months! :)
It's still pretty basic, but I'm pretty proud of it. Even though it doesn't use AI, I used AI to write the app, generate copy, and generate the image assets, as I didn't care to learn Flutter just for this one app and have no artistic ability.
Working on Digest, a tool for people to consume the entire internet via their own personalized newsletter. Currently working on adding more sources, but so far have gotten Reddit, HN, X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, RSS, Stripe, Weather, Google Calendar, and Product Hunt added. You can try it at https://usedigest.com
Vibrant community of like-minded people, meeting someone new every single morning. Connect through passions, hobbies, and professions, all from your inbox.
It it still pretty fresh, launching only 2 weeks ago.
I've been working on creating more practice tests for the Digital SAT at https://digitest.io/.
For those that don't know, the SAT is fully digital now and there are only 6 official practice tests available. So, with the help of AI, we created a platform with more tests to practice from.
I'm working on a bulk search-and-replace tool for webmasters and developers that allows you to correct errors on your webpages, add width/height attributes to <img tags, convert all method names to lowercase/uppercase, insert a header with the filename and copyrights to each source code file, etc.
Prospecting for leads is rough. Lots of work and little results. The main difficulty is that your message is falling on deaf ears. You are talking with the wrong people!
I am building a tool that connects sellers with people who have ALREADY expressed an interest in what you are selling(ie warm leads.)
I am working on https://hellotrader.io - a service that allows traders to define their trading strategies without coding and run instant backtest between changes to give them feedback on their potential profitability. Once the strategies are defined, the service scans the market in real time on their watchlist and alerts the users if the conditions required for their strategies are present.
That's actually a good idea. Last I checked, a simple out of the box WordPress install was not a good idea. I fully functioning wordpress site required you to at least install anti spam and security plugins if you wanted to use it in any serious capacity, along with a bunch of other stuff for basic functionalities now common to many websites.
I'm not sure, I write plugins when a customer needs it.
Stuff like custom forms, calculators, booking systems... For one customer I implemented a complete web hosting client control panel as a set of WP plugins.
Custom forms with support for triggering actions is definitely on the roadmap. I'm not sure where I stand on the possibility to add a fully fledged plugin system. I've been looking at the possible scripting environments that are easy to integrate/execute in Go, there's a few JS-interpreters for example. But it would be quite a task to make the UX good in the case of runtime errors etc.
It was a while since I had a look on how the plugin system works in Wordpress. I should read up on that. Thanks for the feedback!
> A free, open source, local-first, spaced repetition system that works offline, has p2p syncing, plugins, and first class support for collaboration. It's GitHub/Reddit for flashcards.
Currently working on a prototype "fuzzer" for react components, where the input is programmatic interaction with said component (clicks, typing, toggling), and the output is graphical representation of all possible states this component can get into. This is tracked through code execution, but ultimately displayed in DOM form.
Sort of an attempt at automatic yet structured ui testing for both stress testing frontends and product design
We're working on Joyfill — A developer-friendly embeddable form builder that accommodates document-style complex form scenarios inside web and mobile apps.
I've started tinkering on a tool for test case management. It would be a direct competitor of things link TestRail or Practitest. QA folks that I talk to seem to feel very underserved by these types of tools, so it feels like there would be demand for something with a bit more polish.
I'm working on Astral Divide, a 2D game about space travel, exploration and automation. The concept is quite unique, but inspired by games like Starbound, Terraria, Factorio and minecraft.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that it got 782 comments, with many of them being comments by people who had created such apps and posted links to them, for people to check out.
I've been working on ReadShape [0] where users can save their highlights & notes from e-books, such as Kindle, Apple Books, and Libby.
Primarily it focuses on being a centralized look-up & revisit kind of app to help with retention, but it also allows you to sync your highlights to Notion.
https://pirep.io - a collaborative database of all airports in the US & Canada and their local amenities for general aviation pilots. There's a bunch of local knowledge scattered about for recreational pilots, most of it unpublished. Pirep aims to make that more accessible so it in turn gets more people out flying.
I'm working on a daily trivia game, Disorderly https://playdisorderly.com/. It's maybe not the most ambitious project, but it's been fun to just make small incremental improvements to a project that's primary purpose is just to be fun.
I am working on bootstrapping the trust chain (kinda "web of trust"), if you run an org (company,team,meetup,github repo...etc) email me if you're interested in a cert.
Working on Novops (https://github.com/PierreBeucher/novops), a FOSS config & secret manager for development and CI. It helps manages secrets securely from various sources (Hashicorp Vault, AWS/GCP/Azure, etc.) across multiple environments. Great for DevExp :)
I'm personally working on a specialized system monitor software to address deficiencies with a popular enterprise IWMS. It is aimed at companies that do not want to splurge for Splunk and require some specific system admin controls and metrics. There is a forwarder and backend API which will be completely self-hosted. I'm using this project to build some expertise in Go :)
AR-Diagram tool for patterning, be it metal, fabric, cardboard cutouts (I use it for woodworking) -- Create in AR and export a diagram/outline or import a diagram and overlay in AR for marking -- still in localhost for now -- web app in delicious vanilla js, and first time I've described the tool outside of my head so really appreciate feedback
I've been working on Logdy.dev a web based UI for browsing logs. I want to offer developers a similar experience to logs browsing on production but during development stage.
https://github.com/wong-justin/fmin - I'm working on a file manager for the terminal. A little like Midnight Commander, and a lot like fman. Features: jump to directory (like zoxide), filter as you type, a command palette, and custom commands through shell scripting.
Nice. Btw, your mobile menu does not close if you click away (you have to click on the cross) even if that is pretty standard behaviour (just in case you missed that)
If you're building this as a business, then you need to stop coding and get selling right now. Building a landing page is 0% of that, talk to customers, figure out what they want. Writing code first will not advance you at all towards a business goal.
An open-source, type-safe http client to your postgresql database. It let's you access your database directly from your react components. It's fast, safe and performant. Think Graphql but you don't need to implement resolvers, it's all generated from your database schema.
If this sounds interesting to you, ping me (email on my profile) :)
What I would actually like to have is a generic PostgREST, sitting on top of sqlalchemy or something like that so that I can start on sqlite or DuckDB and then swap out the RDBMs if needed.
Well, I'm building a self-hosted alternative to Hotjar/FullStory/Google Analytics[0], it is not AI-related but my latest feature, which I added this month, is AI, ChatGPT integration for text-to-MySQL queries.
I'm working on http://www.flow-storm.org/ A time travel debugger for Clojure with some unique features, aiming to enhance the already awesome interactive development of Clojure by enabling you to record and explore executions on demand.
I‘m learning ImGui currently and try to build a data visualization tool around SQLite that works cross platform. Even webassembly (using emscripten) would be great, but I can‘t manage to establish cross platform networking right now. For example to import JSON data from a remote url.
I guess I am a little behind in trends. Working on VR/AR app for visionOS, Vision Pro. Social network (like instagram) for sharing panoramas, 360 photos and spatial videos. Pretty fun project!
A new communication medium with a hardware device (walkie-talkie + voicemail). It is aimed at being a successor to email, standard chat interfaces, voicemail, calendar scheduling with zoom calls.
A phish music streamer all owned and operated by me. Working a rewrite now with a few other side projects, but easily the one I can point to and say I use!
Working on an universal search bar for the cloud era... Started as a university project, now building it with 2 friends, private beta is ready, will become public in a few days...
It's called Owledge and we are learning so much things
https://socialweaver.com, an employee advocacy platform. Our product enables your employees to directly share and engage with your LinkedIn content from Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email.
It's an interactive breathing app (responds when you breathe). Initially for stress & anxiety, we're developing a medical device (SaMD) for asthma + COPD.
https://majorpager.com - Very simple on-call rotation scheduling for small teams!!! I even toyed with the idea of putting a `#noai` hashtag on the homepage.
im building a simple service catalog available in slack. it lets you fuzzy search any service name (eg. payments or billing because naming is hard) and get back which team owns it, their working hours, runbook link ect. so you can answer who owns this? with 1 command.
I'm still playing around with what pain points to solve for staff in large orgs s o any suggestions on what annoys you would be super helpful.
looking to add automated team status reports to see what PRs have been merged or open in your team and across the company. https://whoowns.app/comingsoon
Scratching an itch with a personal project: https://hnr.app/ "HN Reader"
It's supposed to be the API layer for a Mac app while I learn Swift, but I got carried away with the web view I was using to debug and ended up with a usable HN homepage heavily inspired by hckrnews.com
Motivation is that large-language models have a very straight-forward task of predicting the next token and the dataset is easy to get. With this app I aim to do two things:
1. Gather a fairly large dataset that captures the brush-strokes for various art prompts.
2. Bootstrap an algorithm / model that can decompose any image/art/illustration into brush strokes.
A longer-term goal for this app is to build an auto-complete (Co-pilot or Grammarly equivalent) for art.
I'm working on:
- a very simple monitoring platform (for HTTP and possibly PING) for 2€/mo, that _just works_
- a sort-of-project-management thing for law professionals
Right before writing this comment, I noticed it is there, but it's called "Money". Being different is cool, but some basic UX principles are too tough to break.
playcocola.com an online platform to help videogame developers receive valuable feedback on their projects. Collect and organize gameplay video recordings of testers' sessions, with text comments and thinking aloud. I'm building both the backend in Rails and the recording client in HTML/JS.
i help to sync upcoming esports matches to your Google calendar https://tournacat.com/. it's 1-click install away and you pick the esports title of your choice.
it is not easy to find good software engineer job in taiwan. I also try to build a good community of english speaking engineers. If you live in taipei or interested moving, it’s on https://taipeidev.com
www.searchsecdata.com, like "google trends" for 10-k filings that public companies submit to the SEC. Currently supports full-text search on almost all 10-k filings for current S&P 500 and Russell 2000 companies for the last 20 years.
Thanks for the suggestions! Yeah I scraped the annual reports from the SEC website, and built a database of the results. Lots of malformed xml to deal with
It's not a commercial product but I've spent some time building a Magic The Gathering deck builder[0]. I want to build a VTT engine but I feel like if I'm gonna receive a cease and desist letter from Hasbro that'll be the thing that triggers it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it was mostly a 2 week project to learn Go and HTMX anyways....
I've been working on and off on several smallish apps I use in the kitchen, purely non-commercial.
I shared https://teig.pro a few months ago and it's made substantial improvements since then. It's a recipe builder that recalculates masses on-the-fly and supports adding/editing ingredients -- especially focused on breads. Unfortunately Fly.io seems to have flagged the project and is preventing me from deploying updates without upgrading my account (which is already paid). There are quite a few bugfixes which will be rolled out once that issue gets resolved, or I change hosting.
I also made https://pepcorn.pro quite a bit longer in a similar spirit, but much simpler. It uses your device's microphone to detect popcorn "pop"s, and measures the time between them -- done popcorn usually has ~5 seconds between pops.
I am working on a new kind of device, that, compared to the technology we use today, will make everything look like toys of the past. I am 100% convinced we are very close to our generations "PC revolution" era (no, no AI gadget waste). Not only is it superior tech, it is actually sustainable. This will chsmge everything.
While currently writing software prototypes & building hardware PoCs, i should spend more time trying to find team members... Otherwise i will not be able to secure financing which is crucial right now... so, soon i either will still be working on this, or i am dead. Let's see!
Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me!
After almost a year of work I finally smoothed out all the kinks in the process, so can now go from a design to synthetic DNA in a cell in about a week (not counting oligo pool synthesis time). I can do about 600,000bp per week, which is large enough to synthesize the smallest bacterial genome (each week), tho I only do about 1000bp fragments. I’m also completely bootstrapped and self funded, and only get help from my several opentrons robots
Bespoke synthetic DNA is much cooler though.
We both happened to be traveling in the same country one New Year's and got to talking.
- One is finding different T7 RNA polymerases with unique properties by manipulating the backbone. They can be used for things like in-vitro RNA production for vaccines - Another is synthesizing a phage that has been sequenced for a specific organism, but that the samples are now lost of. So resynthesizing that genome from scratch - A different project (personal one) is building a DNA parts toolkit with standardized DNA parts so you can combine em together like legos. Pretty much nowhere but FreeGenes has open source genetic parts (I used to run that project), and I think open source genetic parts need to be in the world
I don't suppose you'll need documentation help at some point in the near future...?
Remember compared to you assume we are all laymen.
It would be interesting for us on the armchairs how such software even works. Is it like (ahem!) antivirus software looking for patterns?
Answer is: no, not proven to be perfect. Most source is closed for the software. There is no specification. Never been a red team trying to break it. Unknown if it’s ever stopped any threats. There is no requirement to do it, and it’s all voluntary (though pretty much all synthesis providers do it). Mostly they just hash kmers and translations thereof and scan a pathogens/functional database. So implementable in a simple KV store for the most part. The bigger problem is false positives, and most work is done in de-shittifying the upstream pathogens data.
Here’s a good paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9988571/
Last I checked all the groups charged a lot of money for access, unfortunately, and I’m not really big enough to join a group like the International Gene Synthesis Consortium :(
Might interest you!
>“There are really only two things that could wipe 30 million people off of the planet: a nuclear weapon, or a biological one,” ....
>“Somehow, the U.S. government fears and prepares for the former, but not remotely for the latter. It baffles me.”
I guess we may have seen that kind of thing happen a year later with covid though that would have been government sponsored mucking around rather than DIY if it wasn't natural. Not sure how we stop that happening again?
Sorry but that's so outside of my understanding it reads like pure science fiction
(I'm sure it's a thing, I'm just a moron)
The key is doing that at an industrial scale, reproducibly, with hundreds to thousands of plasmids at once. Becomes less simple. You encounter bullshit problems with biology, which I guess is valuable because it makes a moat!
So yeah, at a certain mass...
Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
The first thing that jumps to mind is that I want to click on a piece of code and see the explanation for it. It seems that it only goes in the other direction. I could imagine looking at the code and understanding most of it and just wanting to understand part of it.
I could anticipate an issue though - it could be many-to-one from explanation to code. The UI for that would be complicated.
I actually have several potential improvement ideas.
1. Put the walkthrough it in a graph, or a minimap to see the whole picture easily? Or in a https://c4model.com/ visualization 2. Why not make clickable code references visually stand out? 3. Make a VScode extension for it
I'm not familiar with the c4 model, I'll need to investigate.
> Why not make clickable code references visually stand out
Is the goal here that you want to know that a specific text block annotates a part of the code?
> Make a VScode extension for it
I think I will! I need to noodle a bit on the user experience here
I'd be happy to build and support an on-prem solution, but I'd a need commitment from an enterprise/government org. If that's something you're interested in, shoot me an email at alex@annotate.dev!
Not currently, can you elaborate why you'd want to the code window at the bottom?
The code being up the top felt like it was in the way of where I was naturally expecting the line I wanted to read was.
Also, I think this is great! Definitely something I'd want for my documentation.
I use Figma to get a proof of concept of how I want things laid out. From there it's more tinkering at the code level.
Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry," and they go out and buy you a $50 necklace that's actually worth only a buck or two, but has a gift card code worth $45 on the underside of the box.
You thank them profusely for the lovely necklace, they feel good for having bought you something besides a gift card, and you feel good that you can put $45 toward a new washing machine.
China and Vietnam that do the red envelope bit would be "second world" countries, incidentally, as they were part of the communist block under that old "three worlds" labeling.
Although China played both sides & its support is one of the larger factors for why the US won the cold war.
Indeed it seems that way. It's kind of funny and sad at the same time when people get frustrated over such things.
It would solve the problem of littering your house with cheap products, save the buyer the embarrassment of gifting something that looks like 2$ jewelry (it is noticeable when it is that cheap), and it makes easier for people to pretend that they actually want that necklace for the necklace and not for the gift card.
These kind of people who think receiving gifts is some kind of entitlement are the same kind of people who start bringing up their diets when you invite them for dinner. Cold, calculating, reptilian. No human emotion or joy of life.
If you're invited for dinner it doesn't mean that somebody owes you a meal. It means somebody wanted to make a nice gesture towards you and get to know you more intimately, perhaps to discuss important things.
You eat something before you go, because it's not about the food. You can ask about the ingredients when you are at the table.
I've noticed that these kind of social rules and politeness has been increasingly lost in people, and it is because of widespread narcissism. It's "me, me, me". The result is that people don't invite each other to dinners or other social gatherings, and everybody is worse off because of that.
If I invited someone over for dinner and went through the effort to prepare a nice meal for them, and they waited until they were seated at the table to tell me that the food I've just put on their plate is something they can't eat or they will go into anaphylaxis, I would be pretty ticked off. "Oh, don't worry, I ate ahead of time" would make me feel even more ticked off, because I wouldn't have gone through the effort and expense of preparing a nice meal just to have a bunch of uneaten food sitting on the table while we have a social meeting.
The purpose of giving the host a heads up about food allergies is to avoid the host putting effort into preparing a meal that the guest can't eat. How is it a better outcome for the guest to remain unfed, food to go to waste, and the host to have this information sprung on them at the last moment?
You're saying that this kind of gentle heads up is an indication of narcissism, but I think it's exactly the opposite. It's a way of helping to ensure that things go according to plan.
Then the problem is with you. Like I've repeated, it is not about the food, it's about the company. You're thinking about your effort and your expenses, but inviting somebody for dinner is a nice gesture. What if you burnt the food by mistake while stressing about in the kitchen? Should the guest have a right to be mad because they're not getting their delicious meal? Of course not (and I hope I didn't need to state this). So why should you be ticked off if somebody does not eat at a dinner? Exception if you are only two people, and it's really about the food. But then I'd expect you to combine things ahead.
> "Oh, don't worry, I ate ahead of time"
That's not something you tell and not something you ask.
> How is it a better outcome for the guest to remain unfed, food to go to waste, and the host to have this information sprung on them at the last moment?
Because it's not about the food. You eat the leftovers for lunch the next day. You have something at home that you can make the guests if they're really hungry and can't eat the main meal.
If you're invited for dinner it's not about you or your aching belly. It is about having a more intimate meeting with other people. So don't bother them about your diet unless they ask, and don't go on an empty belly. The guests are not there to get "fed", inviting somebody for dinner is an excuse to have a nice time in a relaxed environment with people you like or want to know better.
I cannot count the times someone felt the need to bend over backwards to accommodate me because of something I didn’t want to do/eat/drink/whatever when I‘d been perfectly fine without any special treatment and moving on with whatever we were doing.
There would have to be two websites or something.
Yes. That... doesn't sound like a very hard technical challenge?
I'm focussing on smaller circles, avoiding "algorithmic" feeds (aware sorting by reverse chronological order is an algorithm), and no advertising.
It borrows a lot from the greats like HN, Delicious, etc. and there's a long way to go (I just added likes last week) but people are already finding some nice links from it!
You can see it at https://lynkmi.com/ and I'd recommend reading the about page for even more. If it sounds interesting to you please sign up to the waitlist—it's very short!
I'm also building it in public so follow along if you want: https://twitter.com/TheOisinMoran/status/1725929527761596434
edit: thank goodness the domain name actually is https://lynkmi.com/, crisis averted.
#1 use right now is making looping clips from youtube videos, but I want it to function as a semi-shared way to organize bookmarks
Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown:
Model - Return - Max drawdown
S&P 500 (benchmark): +9.91% -27.56%
Platinum: +45.34% -16.48%
Gold: +39.53% -19.12%
Silver: +17.24% -22.96%
Bronze: +14.12% -23.93%
Vix Basic: +9.81% -24.23%
TA - Mean Reversion: +17.77% -19.92%
TA - Trend: +17.29% -24.98%
This is an unleveraged, apples to apples comparison. These are not high frequency trading models. Most of them only make a trade every 2-4 weeks on average. During long signals, the models are simply long the S&P 500 and during short signals, they go to cash. This can be implemented very tax efficiently by holding a core ETF long position that never gets sold and then selling S&P 500 futures (ES or MES) of equal value to the ETFs against the long position. This way your account will accumulate unrealized capital gains indefinitely and you'll only pay tax on the net result of successful hedging. The cherry on top is that the S&P 500 futures are section 1256 contracts that are taxed at 60% long term / 40% short term capital gains rates regardless of the duration they are held.
The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom built. Most important are various VIX metrics (absolute level, VIX futures curve shape/slope, divergences against S&P 500 price, etc), trend-following TA metrics (MACD, EMV, etc), mean-reversion TA metrics (Bollinger Bands, CMO, etc), macroeconomic (unemployment, housing starts, leading composite), and monetary policy (yield curve inversion, equity risk premium, dot plot, etc). They've been backtested very cautiously to avoid overfitting.
1. Love the name, not enough Pyrrhonists on hacker news these days! The OG.
2. Love the website, your design skills are killer. I hate that entire industry and even still my monkey brain went "oo I want to see the Euphoria index, sign up!"
3. This is kinda quintissential AI. Not to distract this thread from the valuable topic of non-trendy projects, but this is a great example of why we need to reclaim "AI" as a much more general term. I mean "algorithmic trading" could be a synonym for "human-like problem solving"...
The biggest problem was that the system really needed a minimum account of $1m USD so that each position wasnt too large and to get the diversification across different futures markets.
Did you list the returns of the commodities as a comparison, or are you trading those futures as well in the mix? (I know you only talked about ES/MES)
Nevertheless, it would be prudent to expect any algorithmic trading model to underperform its backtest going forward, but there's enough leeway in the CAGR and max drawdown figures to underperform the backtest and still produce substantial alpha, especially for the more advanced models.
Right now the models are specialized to trade equities. I may develop new models that trade commodities in the future though.
However, with today's $0 commissions, if you aren't overly concerned about taxes, you can try out this strategy with as little as $500 and simply buy and sell one share of the ETF VOO on signal changes. Alternatively, if you have the risk appetite, you can get started with trading MES futures with less than $10k, though caution should always be warranted when using any amount of leverage.
Encouraging sharing with friends and starting conversations about topics you might never have considered having not known they were into the same books as you.
Very rough draft but it has the core functionality, even if it’s a bit cumbersome.
https://opnshlf.com
I thought of doing this a while ago but for children books, never went on to actually do it but I definitely see a need in there,
* Children books are quite expensive
* Most of those you get over them in a couple minutes to an hour
* Your kids want new books every single day
Buying 5-10 and regularly trading them with other parents seems like a neat solution.
Two big things that are different:
As an adult, many of the books one buys is to keep them. There's even that saying "He who lends a book is an ..."; working against you. In contrast, most of your children books you get rid of them, garage sale, give them away, whatever. Save for a few of them that become special, most are pretty much disposable.
As an adult, buying books is not a pressing situation, sure there's a lot of those you'd want to buy but you can easily put that for later, even forget about it. Take a kid into a bookstore and they want all the books, and they want them at that moment. So, it is more of a pressing issue to keep your kids busy with new books all the time.
PS: If you need a partner on this, I'd be up for it! My daughter is past the stage of kid books now but I wouldn't mind building it for the benefit of other kids.
I chose it because I wanted to learn more about passkeys and I liked the idea that I wouldn’t have to deal with private credentials themselves; just save a public key to my database. I use both KeePassXC and Bitwarden and they’re slowly getting support for passkeys (currently only on desktop).
I briefly had the ability to add a new passkey to the same account but wanted to keep it simple for my friends and not confuse them more. If that’s something that could help I’d be open to adding it in again.
I've been wanting to build this too. Want to chat? Happy to collaborate
My username at gmail.com
So far, there’s more than 1500 subscribers after a month and a half
Also, I thoroughly enjoyed your article -- How AI is disrupting the demand for software engineers: data from 20M job postings (https://bloomberry.com/how-ai-is-disrupting-the-tech-job-mar...). I've subscribed to your newsletter as well. Keep up the great work!
I had a similar idea of scraping lever, greenhouse and linkedin to get informed of absolute latest senior software engineer jobs. I also wanted to correlate to past job posts to rule out duplicates/reposts, and to analyze against what I am looking for. Some jobs rule out certain states and timezones. Other jobs are primarily java which is my only hard-no.
Tender runs as a PWA and uses the Automerge crdt and sqlite via wasm. The app more or less runs entirely in your browser (works offline!), though our server proxies connections to pull in plaid/splitwise data.
Feature-wise, we're targeting folks who do want to manage their expenses but not have to do fine-grained budgeting. There's tools for tracking getting paid back and a splitwise integration as well. The app is desktop-centric right now, but we're working on getting a good mobile workflow together too.
Since everything is browser-based, it was actually quite easy to get a demo sandbox environment working. You can give it a quick spin here: https://demo.tender.run
What I mainly use from them is:
- investment performance tracking across my various accounts.
- retirement planning/forecasting
- cash flow, expense, and income tracking overtime.
- warnings about upcoming credit card bills; amount is never right but I pay my statement in full so just a little thing saying “Hey this is going to hit your account on this date” is helpful for me.
- basic budgeting
Anyway a local first privacy respecting alternative I would definitely pay for. iPad support would be a must for me.
Just some unsolicited feedback. Best of luck
EDIT: forgot to mention the reason I am looking for alternatives. Empower bought Personal Capital and are getting much more aggressive in pushing their management services.
So, I figure it is only a matter of time before they either start selling my data or cut me off since I am not interested in anything they are selling. They have really nice iOS apps though.
We've thought about if we want to tackle those features and become an all-encompassing personal finance, but it certainly is a wide feature set to cover for our team. Right now we're focused on polishing our small feature set, though I appreciate the feedback.
It's a mashup of a safety deposit box, time capsule, and deadman switch.
It's not ready yet, but will be ready in a few weeks. If you're interested, I would really like to talk to you. My email is ethan@ethanmye.rs
FWIW, I did use chatgpt to write a lot of boilerplate JS and fix my bootstrap templates!
edit deadpan->deadman
DNA storage is interesting, though can be damaged by radiation. Would love to see where you land with this project - it's one of the few cases where crypto may actually be the only real digital solution.
NIST has some great reviews of the stability of optical media, and it’s quite good, done for the library of Congress.
DNA storage would enable some pretty crazy storage density, but ensuring there’s a compatible reader around in 30 years might be difficult
In terms of convincing, for the technically-minded, I have a public disaster recovery plan, a public business continuity plan, and "escape hatches" for "common" events -- war, subpoenas, changes in law, a post-RSA future, etc. The goal is to cover as many events as possible, including the very improbable (like AWS losing a whole AZ!). The backing clouds are Microsoft Files and AWS S3, both with excellent track records and absurdly good durability. There is some special caching in front to minimize cost.
For the less technically-minded, there are no good alternatives. Self-hosted data is difficult to geographically distribute (and if you do it's difficult to update true cold storage). Cloud services have a very high lifetime cost, and unclear rules around data distribution to next of kin. Other methods, like burying some vacuum sealed MDISCs in a freezer, are not realistic.
I am of the opinion that while it is impossible to predict the future, it is possible to plan for it.
It seems like they mostly focus on digitization, with some cloud storage being offered. A few key differences:
Data distribution: one of the hard parts is actually sharing the memories you’ve saved when you die (or at some future date). When you create an archive, you choose someone to give that data to.
Storage: no restrictions of what you upload, subject to US law. If you want to upload big encrypted blobs and give the key to someone else, I am happy to support it. Over the timespans we’re talking about, you want to look into quantum resistant encryption.
Cost: on a per gb price, I am much cheaper, as there’s no digitization labor involved. I think digitization is declining, as even my grandma kept most of her pictures on her iPhone. There still exists a great digitization market, but it is getting smaller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
It's not a perfect switch, but the idea is that you might have things you would only rather release when you're dead.
https://beholder.vision
So far I've built a first pass of the pipeline using C++/CUDA and used it to power a SaaS and desktop photogrammetry app (free for personal non-commercial use). Got some useful feedback from the initial release of the desktop app back in January and I'm hoping to spend some time iterating to improve further later in the year (currently contracting to generate some funds).
It's possible that some deep learning generative AI network will take over all 3d model generation from photos tasks in the future but I'm hoping/betting that a) classical techniques will give higher resolution, more accurate results for a while yet and b) even if deep learning matches in accuracy and resolution it will always be possible to get better efficiency for big chunks of the pipeline using classical techniques.
I want it just for fun, but I’m sure it to real estate agents!
[1] https://www.skyebrowse.com/
It's a web-based scratchpad and note taker for developers and power users.
It sits somewhere between Obsidian and Simplenote.
It's particularly optimized for keyboard navigation: Ctrl + K / ⌘ + K to open note navigator where you can quickly create new note, switch between notes, delete notes.
Even though it runs in the browser, when running on Chrome you can store notes in a folder on disk and share between computers if that folder is replicated via DropBox / OneDrive / Google Drive etc.
More info: https://edna.arslexis.io/help
This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming progress on Twitch.
If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1].
[0] https://terminal.click
[1] https://warp.dev
I recently saw a video about a terminal emulator being developed in Zig by Mitchell Hashimoto.
Googled now and found the text of the talk, which links to the video.
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-pattern...
[0] https://vimeo.com/854038896
Of all tested terminals xterm is faster only than konsole.
Startup is instant too.
It has comparatively very good "fidelity", giving usable screen outputs with most applications without tinkering.
A factor of 2x in throughput is nothing to sweat about I think, given that xterm is fast enough.
Haven't verified the benchmarks in your link, and not tried kitty, but I believe the bench did not test xterm with bitmap fonts which I believe are significantly faster.
I'd also look at CPU rasterization performance. I often don't have graphics acceleration available (in a VM).
How is the privacy aspect? Does it use ChatGPT? Do you support any local LLMs?
Terminal Click is made by a indie hacker (me) and will be selling copies on release. You’ll own the binary and that’s that.
Having to open a RAM-hungry application to execute command-line applications is just negative progress.
Just launched a PWA and now working on more mixing features like spatial audio, reverb and high/low-pass filters to let you create even more immersive sound environments.
No ads, no data sale, E2E encryption, localhost option, basic budgetting and transaction parsing, but for power users allows spinning up a jupyter notebook to play with your financial data.
All storage will be encrypted w/ client side keys.
For SaaS, we do the integration automatically and pass hosting and fintech costs on as a monthly subscription. We provide automatic report options that also incur small charges, mostly to cover additional compute, hosting, and higher-tier integration with data providers. These reports can use transient data and/or pass encrypted payloads to client side report generation or display, e.g., SPA or CLI tools.
If there is a link to sign up for a mailing list I'd be happy to be notified
I'd be really interested in something like this.
Both are very fun and rewarding, and I love building things that help spend less time in front of a (glowing) screen.
I'm currently in the process of converting it to a proper commercial service and making it available to others. If this sounds like something that would be of use to anyone, I'd love to hear from you! Email is in my about section (or just respond here).
The idea is that each CSS variable becomes a widget and then the Blueberry endpoint will serve those variables so you can let your users customize profile pages/portals and other places they integrate with you UI.
A few years ago my eyes would dry out within a few minutes of using a screen. I tried eye drops, resting my eyes, taking longer breaks, etc... which didn't work.
I did some research and there's something called the 20-20-20 rule which means looking at something at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. I found this app and it fixed my issues. Turns out the issue is your eye not changing what it's focusing on.
Highly recommend trying it even if you're not actively experiencing issues.
Your app looks a lot nicer than the one I'm using so I'll give it a try!
I'm on an M1 OS 14.1.1
I messed around with some AI features, mostly just for fun and to see if they could help users onboard. But the core product is decidedly not AI.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokashi_(horticulture)
This has been my design bible so far https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/money-la...
https://opinionmoji.com/
It’s mainly an excuse to learn some new things (HTMX, Prisma, DigitalOcean, etc.), as well as get comfortable building and shipping something from scratch on my own.
My goal is to eventually see large (and funny) swings in reactions in realtime.
;)
The tool automatically converts this layout into database (unpivot), enabling users to perform aggregations such as SUM or AVERAGE without having to write formulas. Because the structure designed by the user often carries significance, such as organizing dates into columns with a hierarchical structure like Year -> Quarter -> Month.
Users can organize their data with grouped rows/columns and insert aggregations. Simultaneously, Ottava can derive insights from the structure metadata and propose various types of charts for data exploration. Subsequently, users can select the charts they are interested in, choose datasets, or drill down into the charts, providing further insight for Ottava to offer more precise chart suggestions based on user interactions.
Unlike AI with the capability to autopilot, our objective is to build a Mazda MX-5 for data analysis: providing users with both enjoyment and control while exploring data.
https://ottava.io/
I don't have a link to share since it's still fairly early in development, but I'm making good progress!
[1] https://habitica.com/
https://bluelines.app/
Also comes with a few niceties like the ability to directly consume Streams, Sockets, WebSockets and SafeFileHandles with U8Reader (sync/async) that solves painful and error-prone manual buffer handling when reading lines/segments/messages. It is kind of like higher level Rust's BufReader.
Is the default encoding when handling files UTF8 OR UTF8-BOM? Is both supported?
Another question: in the readme you have this example
`var joined = U8String.Join(',', boolean.Runes); // "T,r,u,e"`
Why is " T" of true in uppercase?
There is way more heavy lifting that the library does on the "data goes in" side of things because "data goes out" story in .NET is already in a good shape with everything accepting ReadOnlySpan<byte> and ReadOnlyMemory<byte> - zero-allocation interpolated UTF-8 output into streams, sockets, etc. is achieved through extension methods and should you want to write UTF-8 BOM, you can simply do so beforehand working with the corresponding API directly.
However, if you have a particular use case in mind that you're interested in or have trouble with - do let me know as I'd love to have more user feedback!
[0] https://github.com/U8String/U8String/blob/main/Sources/U8Str...
[1] https://github.com/U8String/U8String/blob/main/Sources/U8Str...
Real physics and computational communication problems. Crazy tech, fun stuff!!
By the way, I'd appreciate a programming partner with whom I can discuss security issues in C code. I would gladly exchange code review sessions. Is anyone interested here?
At work we spent a bunch of time implementing monitoring and alerting for all our APIs and I figured it would be nice to have a near plug-and-play solution, so I built exactly that.
https://builder.bike
For example, I looked at tires and wheels as a good litmus test. What were the minimum pieces of information that you need to know to pick the right tire or wheel and make those the only filters on the site.
In terms of expertise, I've mainly farmed out to the cyclist community on Mastodon and served requests on a first-come-first-serve basis. For example, one person pointed me to sheldonbrown.com for their article on tires and it was really illuminating.
All are creatable and editable without coding skills (after the initial copy-paste setup). So for example, product managers and customer success can manage them without having to bother devs.
https://produktly.com/
It is split into an Angular UI, C# ASP.NET Core RESTful API and postgres database. I aimed to let EF Core handle the data model in the database and am pleasantly surprised by how well it works. Also updating the database is a breeze with its migrations.
The features of a forum seem easy enough, but I find it difficult to detail it out into the data model at times.
Got a link?
Here is the link to the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Here is the link to our website with more information: https://ntl.ai/reflect
Without knowing exactly what you want to use the app for, I’ll link you to our help page with some tutorials: https://ntl.ai/reflect/support
Currently the flow to tracking is to create a form template (called a Reflection template) to track a category of metrics such as Mood. In that template you add metrics like Happiness, Fatigue, etc. Once the template is created you have a form available that you can fill out at your convenience. You can design another template like Supplements with metrics for specific dosages, for example. Your history can be visualized and those metrics can be correlated shortly after.
Every time you fill out an entry you have the option of adding notes, which can serve as a diary functionality. Those notes are searchable in your history.
Let us know any other feedback you have, we’d really like to make this as usable as possible.
PS: not an affiliate, just curious
Though I am having trouble figuring out a simple way to solve discovering and make it work autonomously without leaving it open to spam
Any ideas or feedback appreciated
I give you a non-intrusive bait (ssh private key, crypto wallet private key), you store it anywhere you want to monitor.
A manufacturing focused ERP system using SvelteKit and SQL Server. These systems are typically made with Java and it's becoming clear to me that it's massive overkill when SQL Server is (or can be) doing most of the work and the application is (or can be) a thin layer between the user and the database. Using only one language, with perfectly matched types and validation schemas for both frontend and backend is a huge productivity win. Some may sneer at JS but my product running on Node is snappier than the competition and I think I can develop quality features with good UX faster P4P (only a 2 man team).
Can you say more about this? Do you mean using stored procedures heavily or something else?
And a "mood meter" mapping app that puts anonymous reports of how folks are feeling on a world map. I don't quite have the skills (yet) to do this latter project, so we'll see how much time I have to dedicate to it.
Currently porting some crappy one-off apps I wrote to FastAPI.
We are right now also open sourcing our shading simulation code of WebGL as an npm package, check out https://github.com/open-pv/simshady if that is interesting for you.
As for the domain, I had it lying around so I used it.
It appears on top of all your other applications to capture and channel your attention into the things you actually care about, before you get distracted.
In the morning, it helps you effectively plan your most important tasks and throughout the day it pulls your focus back to those tasks.
You can check it out here: https://dayglow.app
We created a better way to bring large distributed tech teams together for quarterly showcase events.
Events like demo day, hackathons and quarterly planning.
Our goal is bring employees together in realtime so they can actually meet colleagues from around the world and exchange ideas.
Ironically, when companies hold a DemoHop event, we hear from custoemrs that AI is often the #1 topic of conversation.
So maybe we're working on AI but only indirectly. https://www.demohop.com
https://currenttimeutc.com/
It's gained a decent amount of content and users since launching shortly after the Vision Pro launch.
Coming up on a million domains served, it's been a fun ride!
https://github.com/data-catering/data-caterer
Reddit is blocking the subreddit for whatever reason.
https://autoptt.com/
https://www.pulselyre.com
After diving a bit into finance last year, I found the book "Smart Portfolios" by Rob Carver, which basically aimed at teaching simple heuristics to help create and manage robust stock portfolios. Sadly this book has quite a few simplifications that were valid at the time of writing but are not anymore (ie. interest rates ~= 0). So I set myself to re-implement this a bit properly in a tool for me and eventually other people.
It's up and running online but still a work in progress. It only work for US stocks and the charts can sometimes display non-sense.
I'd like to provide a lot of customization options for the user to customize it as they see fit. And ultimately make it FOSS in case anyone else wants to play around with it.
I'm still working on UI wireframes, but I use my site to publically post progress updates. https://www.keoni.dev
Terminals introduced cursor movement feature in the 1970s. Bill Joy responded with releasing vi in 1976. Text editing as we know it today was born. It used ... the whole screen! How the shell responded to this new feature? It largely didn't.
Back to NGS. The programming language is in a good shape. Working on the UI.
https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
It's a free online coding website targeted towards beginners learning Markdown and other frontend tools like HTML, htmx, alpine.js, etc. It has GitHub pages-like hosting and you get your own free sparkshell.sh subdomain for your projects (which can be on your domain while having the source private!). You can also easily install certain libraries and frameworks in a couple clicks without having to deal with package managers or any of the sort. It's meant to be a sort of Repair alternative, but free.
Some screenshots: https://franz.hamburg/atoms/2024_Feb09_18:30.html
Coming from a trading background myself, I've worked for trading desks and quantitative trading firms, so I've seen many tools used by professionals that are not popular among retail investors, are not very well-known, or exist in the form of heavy and hard-to-get desktop apps. I’m trying to build something web-based, lightweight, and approachable, hoping to introduce a broader audience to these tools.
Also, have you tried TradingView? What do you think about them? They have scripting for strategies and indicators. It is an array-based language, I think, somewhat similar to R, just simpler. Nevertheless, I was able to craft quite interesting things in there.
As for desktop apps vs web-based: desktop apps definitely have their uses and advantages. I'm not saying web-based is better, but I think it's just more approachable, and there are ways where some of the existing apps might be improved.
There is still work I have to do before a v1 release but definitely interested in feedback. https://github.com/therealpaulgg/ssh-sync
Lots of companies just cobble together a Google Form full of irrelevant questions, send it out, and throw their hands in the air when nobody fills it out.
WorkDNA surveys your team on criteria like CI/CD reliability, test flakiness, PR feedback quality, job satisfaction, and psychological safety. The surveys take 20 minutes to set up, 5 minutes to fill out, and are completely anonymous.
...until they aren't. (Speaking from corporate experience)
I’d love to hear more about your experience - please feel free to email me (info in profile) if you’re not comfortable sharing publicly.
- <self-funded startup> has <big name B2B client> in the sales pipeline. Client wants an invasive <data/reporting> feature for <legal/compliance/ops> reasons. No chance to say no, <CxO> decides to build it due to <market pressure/big name/bonus>.
- <self-funded startup> has a platform that deals with anonymous <reviews/surveys/comments>. <big mean company> sues to take down mean <review/survey/comment> and sue the user for defamation. No chance to defend, need to give in to survive the lawsuit.
Those cases will come and they will hurt. It's probably healthy to up front think about how you would deal with it (and assume a worst-case-life-or-death scenario).
For the rating and review application, providing a platform where anyone can review the creator, and add a comment on channel level and video level. This will help both the creators and consumers. Trustpilot for YouTube channels and videos.
The next one is to build an E2E content delivery setup all in one platform - starting from research to script writing, thumbnail sharing and review, video review, followed by an approval step and publish it directly to YouTube Studio. Platform will have multiple role based profiles so that the channel owner no need to share the YouTube studio credentials with everyone and no need to do all the tasks on their own.
The main focus on the product has been working on a cross platform application that can record and upload screen recordings, then on the backend it has been everything else to handle this
The source code is available here https://github.com/mangledbottles/screenlink
[0] https://www.cloud-camping.com/
1) it is additional hassle for them with no obvious upside as they most likely have their organic traffic
2) they are not that great business - even if - then they most likely don’t want a database that tax authorities could see that they are.
Both reasons seem like lots of those places wouldn’t pay for service. But feel free to prove me wrong by having great business.
https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/qr_code_loyalty...
You create a new member by filling a Google Form (they receive a digital member card with a QR code by email), and add or subtract points by scanning the QR code.
Some of the workflows I'm trying to unlock:
- Track every breaking change pushed to your API and notify your team on Slack and e-mail
- Generate a changelog from your OpenAPI automatically
- Generate mocks for every endpoint to share with your frontend person/team
- Public, private, and password-protected API reference pages to share with partners
Here's a link: https://frevo.dev (still in early access)
https://videohubapp.com/
MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
It uses the microdata and json-ld documents embedded in the page to find the content you actually want to see. No need for AI/LLM extraction.
Been thinking about adding AI-related features but there isn't that much AI that would really make the product better.
At some point AI may have a role in the platform. But for now we're focused on much more fundamental problems related to the process of developing and scaling software applications.
BTW we're looking for developers to try it out!
1. https://noop.dev
Thermal printers are small in size and the format is perfect for quick printouts :) (and it's just fun)
The tool is called Sales & Dungeons: https://github.com/BigJk/snd
I learned since starting that this field is saturated; there are many options... including several going through strong marketing campaigns currently! I'm going to still release this because it's mostly done, and it'll be something I use, even if no one else does; advantage of being able to customize it.
I do think I can do this better than other options in these areas - A: Faster and more responsive (by virtue of not using frameworks, tracking, analytics etc) B: Respectful of the user. Ie, no marketing email, compact site designed so you spend as little time on it as possible etc.
However, when I read this thread, it makes me not feel great about it, since it's not original or cool; not something contributing to mankind's advancement.
https://www.finance-monitor.com/
A couple things I love from the recipe app I use (cookbook), which you could steal:
- Clicking on a step or an ingredient strikes it through - on larger screens (eg tablet), it’s a horizontal split screen between ingredients and steps - automated conversion between imperial/metric. - Could go even further with unit conversion for common ingredients (what the hell does a _cup_ of butter mean, it’s not a freakin liquid why would you use a volume unit, give me goddamn weight) and tips (volume of salt is very different depending on what salt you use)
The idea is that you have a "framework" that you can change for what you want the music generator to produce. You can download the MIDI files it produces as well.
During creation of a new track:
- Why do I need a description?
- Why do I need a name, actually?
- Why is there only Latin and Empty available?
- Edit: Just realised that the Latin track is hardcoded?
During editing:
- I was not sure whether / how my actions affect the tracks / track items. (One remedy could be showing the actual waveform of the created sounds in the editor instead of a placeholder waveform.)
- Creating a new instrument — I found the "Instrument Sound Pack" dropdown menu only by accident after some clicking. It would be great to see what type of instrument I'm dealing with without having to click on the instrument itself. (Maybe map it directly to the displayed name? I'd rather have Acoustic Bass 1 to 4 instead of a bunch of "Unnamed Instrum...")
- Some actions have no effect until you restart the playback (e.g. changing speed of a track item).
- Some actions stop the playback (e.g. changing the instrument type)
This is really good feedback, I'll try to address some of these tonight.
I've added name and description because I made a feature where you could create an account to save your work. During development, I got tired of having to constantly recreate test scenarios, so I integrated AWS cognito and started saving compositions.
Latin is hardcoded. To be honest, I wasn't really sure what to do there. The latin template really just bootstraps the UI to save some time and act as a demo. My plan is to make 3-5 premade compositions for each major genre, and have the create flow let you pick between them.
On making changes impacting the UI, this is something that I'm still really struggling to find a balance between. I'll prioritize this higher based on what you've said!
TL;DR elevator pitch: subscription based reddit-like platform. Your subscription is split evenly between everything you upvote that month. Nonio takes $1 out of your subscription to pay for servers.
One thing I found from the launch was there was a huge volume of mobile users, who didn't have a great experience. I hired a dev to help work on an iOS app for this, which we're building in the open.
Designs: https://www.figma.com/file/im8a7L7axmbj0S0lm27NKa/Nonio-iOS-...
Code: https://github.com/jjcm/nonio-ios
What I'm working on at the moment, and am sort of stuck on, on is how to make a web app doing in-browser encryption secure - since the server delivers the code that does the encryption in the browser, users sort of have to trust the server anyway to deliver that code. I would like to at least somehow, maybe through a browser extension, assure the user that the version of the web app running in the browser is at least is the same as the build output for a given release in the repo on GitLab/GitHub/the like maybe... then it's sort of like 2FA in the reverse direction, 2 sources (https server connection + extension doing code check) confirm that the real web app has been delivered to the browser.
Appreciate any thoughts on this head scratcher! Maybe there's some way to assure the web app code integrity I just don't know about! :)
You can't. End of story. Thankfully, most people don't care and will happily use it anyway.
https://github.com/sdv-dev/SDV
It's a non destructive photo editor with a strong bend towards procedural generation.
Working on a video touch recording feature at the moment.
It's uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams.
In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k <vendor>, all their system ever did was alert us when we weren't down".
I'm currently working on a self-documenting (OpenAPI, rolled it myself: https://developers.onlineornot.com/) API that'll let folks use terraform (or even just the API itself) to setup their uptime checks, cron job monitoring, status pages, even their teams.
At the moment, it's really good at answering "am I down everywhere?", since I can just double check in several other regions.
I recently taught it to answer "Am I down just in this region?" by monitoring across cloud providers in the same location, though it's more of a niche use case (for the people I chat to, anyway)
Starting with basic analytics, then adding the ability to create SLA, and maybe predicting spend.
Still very early https://github.com/marketplace/action-insights-repotower
https://arbitrand.com
Next month is scheduled for a few projects that are aimed at a broader market than the current products, like an API and a toy/demonstration version for casual users.
So, investing in AI is a large risk: back to my university, the popular AI framework is a neural network, logistic regression, supported-vector machines, etc.
Instead, I spent time working on data infrastructure, which keeps evolving but follows a somewhat consistent direction. If you look at databases, the essential building blocks are identical to those fifty years ago.
I first worked on Apache Flink and became a committer after one year as a contributor. And then Apache ZooKeeper and Curator, so did become a committer / PMC member. Later TiDB / TiKV and now GreptimeDB. The knowledge and experience is reusable.
While some may not see this as a problem, it’s actually kind of hard to find great Christian apps in the sea of old blog posts of top 10 apps all taking about the same apps
I’d consider myself an indie hacker and built many tools for Christians, but later discovered there’s no great place to distribute those apps. Hear me out. The app stores are good, but they won’t feature a Christian app as app of the day. It makes sense to not prefer one religion over another as a major corporation. What it does do is leave a hole for Christian app makers
Thus https://faith.tools was born
[0]: https://dflate.io/shady-phoney
[1]: https://dflate.io/vscode-soy
[2]: https://dflate.io/state-of-tofu
[3]: https://dflate.io/code-is-not-just-text
For the uninitiated, Handshake is a blockchain that democratizes the issuance of TLDs via Vickrey-style auctions. Handshake does NOT handle SLDs (second-level domains, or just "domains").
That's where beachfront/ comes in. I recently presented my progress at HandyCon a couple weeks ago and published the transcription this morning.
https://blog.neuenet.com/post/handycon-presentation
Why do I bother with this? Handshake is a blockchain-based naming system focused on TLDs (and security via DANE/DNSSEC). Other blockchains are focused on finance, data, &c and just so happen to have (SLD) naming systems.
[1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick
[2] https://cheatcode.co/push
[3] https://cheatcode.co/mod
https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic
https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
These days I am taking a break and looking to "pivot" it into a more complete website monitoring tool, that not only scans for broken links, but also offer uptime monitoring, page speed and scans for all sorts of issues that might affect your user. Basically a one-stop shop for everyone that runs a website.
This is a product I would love for myself, but I am unsure if it is a good idea to expand the scope of a product that originally had quite clear and "modest" goals: to check for broken links.
I’m hosting a 6 week cohort of makers and builders to meet virtually every week and share progress with a demo day at the end. It’s been really exciting to see the response of such a program. People are doing things from crocheting to programming.
It’s totally free and the point is to meet other people making things and to finish your own projects.
Here’s a blog post where I chat more about it: https://iml.bearblog.dev/lets-make-things-together
But I imagine there could be a whole CRM-like system that might need to be built to manage it if it gets any bigger.
Some unique selling points are:
- Apps are defined as declarative HTML. It's possible to build complex apps using only HTML + CSS and no back end code.
- Supports the creation of complex filters/views via a simple UI, with indexing for fast lookups.
- Collections and records update in real time.
- Efficient; real time updates only reach users who are currently looking at the affected resources/views.
- Scalable; behind the scenes, both the database and pub/sub mechanism for delivering real time updates support sharding.
- Spam prevention with rate limiting and backpressure limits.
My prototype lets me create project templates (that can contain other projects) and I can instantiate an arbitrary amount of them. Triggers can be a time ("every quarter") or some logical threshold (e.g. failing three workouts puts a "review fitness plan" action on my schedule).
It's my first real coding project and almost certainly too big, but it's been very fun to use so far and I already have ~50% of my ADHD social circle interested in the alpha.
Will you be releasing this for public consumption?
I'm a bit doubtful that it'll handle professional-scale project mgmt from the go - the early vision is to help other ADHD folks like me build tiered todo lists - but it'd certainly be a nice target to aim for.
If you'd like to field a few questions or get an early invite, feel free to ping me at gnfxf@rap0.pbz (rot13).
A lot of times, websites suggest I sign up for a 5-10% discount/promo code. That might lead to a sale and they get one more user to their email list.
GrowFast takes that a step furtver by offering a widget that provides different tasks for the user to complete in order to receive the promo code. The tasks range between user generated content leading to more organic traffic, user reviews and even testimonials (haven't decided fully on the tasks just yet).
I think this is a cool concept and I hope companies think likewise.
https://codemap.app
It parses any given codebase and visualizes all function calls as a hierarchical graph. Quite useful for onboarding new team members, digging through old codebases, or simply debugging issues.
You can further tweak the graph for various use cases. For example, a frontend engineer can view the dependency graph of all UI components, while an infra engineer can view connections between all cloud resources defined in Terraform.
I'm in Windows 11. I even disabled my firewall, used a guest account with Brave browser to make sure all my extensions were disabled, and disconnected from my VPN just in case. Still didn't work.
Think highly paid freelancers (we find opportunities for them) and blue-collar service companies (they want more leads, but can't afford a high talent growth team).
https://smashamp.com - we currently serve clients in an agency capacity and are building tools/SaaS to do all of this in a self-serve fashion.
The most exciting frontier we are positioning ourselves for is LLM growth hacking, i.e. AI SEO. But, our current company/product is still going to be living in agency/SaaS mode for years to come.
For example If you make a request on https://mydomain.com/<your-username>/<event-name>?userid=<us...
I will store this event and show you analytics using beautiful charts.
It will work for all framework which give option to make GET request and no need to set up BIG-G analytics packages.
Apparently, Telegram bots provide functionality that allows creating UI resembling native apps, with the bonus of not having to install anything besides Telegram, as well as not having to ask any app stores for approval. Combined with chat-based UX, it fits perfectly for tracking things.
https://geektrack.mxgrn.com/
If anyone is interested, I'll probably be working as Jacobs Sign Co, which is a family name and business that has been a guide for me my whole life. Aloha, and god bless. Happy Easter y'all, a hui hou
Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
Er ist aus unserem Dorf
…only it hadn’t taught me ‘unserem’, so I had no way of even guessing the right answer. (I just had to get it wrong intentionally.)
Is this intended behaviour or should it also have taught me ‘unserem’ first?
That is not the intended behaviour, but happens sometimes when the NLP pipeline and the dictionary don’t agree on the part-of-speech of a particular word.
I’ll have to run a script identifying all such cases in the built-in decks and most likely correct them by hand.
Happy to hear any other thoughts or issues so I can make it better :)
(And on the bright side, I'm sure I'll remember unserem now!)
In this case, unserem was assigned the part of speech determiner by the NLP pipeline (shoutout to https://stanfordnlp.github.io/stanza/, it's brilliant), but the dictionary only has an entry for unserem as a pronoun.
Perhaps a better design is to always show all entries, and just put the entries whose POS match the word in the sentence (if any) above the others.
It's like Songsterr, except you get to reuse your existing music scores (PDF/PNG/JPG). I am using a supervised ML model to auto-detect the music bars in the score.
There's an API coming that will allow those customised docs to be generated at scale.
It's still pretty basic, but I'm pretty proud of it. Even though it doesn't use AI, I used AI to write the app, generate copy, and generate the image assets, as I didn't care to learn Flutter just for this one app and have no artistic ability.
Vibrant community of like-minded people, meeting someone new every single morning. Connect through passions, hobbies, and professions, all from your inbox.
It it still pretty fresh, launching only 2 weeks ago.
For those that don't know, the SAT is fully digital now and there are only 6 official practice tests available. So, with the help of AI, we created a platform with more tests to practice from.
https://www.abareplace.com/
I am building a tool that connects sellers with people who have ALREADY expressed an interest in what you are selling(ie warm leads.)
Check it out!
https://www.salesspur.com/
As of today, there are no other apps available to just practice and do coding exercises on mobile.
Feel free to check the app - you have a link to download the iOS app on the landing page :)
https://codenquest.com/
Stuff like custom forms, calculators, booking systems... For one customer I implemented a complete web hosting client control panel as a set of WP plugins.
It was a while since I had a look on how the plugin system works in Wordpress. I should read up on that. Thanks for the feedback!
> A free, open source, local-first, spaced repetition system that works offline, has p2p syncing, plugins, and first class support for collaboration. It's GitHub/Reddit for flashcards.
https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/
All the "hard" tech has been more or less built out... all that's left is drawing the rest of the owl >_>
Sort of an attempt at automatic yet structured ui testing for both stress testing frontends and product design
Check it out: https://qually.app/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2597060/Astral_Divide/
My current plan is to be ready for a demo within 2025.
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623695
I was pleasantly surprised to see that it got 782 comments, with many of them being comments by people who had created such apps and posted links to them, for people to check out.
So, go check them out :)
Primarily it focuses on being a centralized look-up & revisit kind of app to help with retention, but it also allows you to sync your highlights to Notion.
[0] https://readshape.com
PKI certificate based online information verification
Demo: https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY
I am working on bootstrapping the trust chain (kinda "web of trust"), if you run an org (company,team,meetup,github repo...etc) email me if you're interested in a cert.
More on https://logdy.dev
https://www.mailsweeper.co/
It creates a new label in your inbox, auto labels according to your preferences, and periodically moves those emails to trash can.
Built to avoid me/my wife going over the free Gmail storage limit
It's fun and I don't think LLM with all the uncertainty would fit as well since you want to cover the whole input space.
Hope to charge 99$ or something per year for it but I don't know if anyone would pay for it :)
I asked for some feedback from some strangers on discord and thought I'd try to improve accordingly before attempting something more public.
But so far it's mainly been "that's a neat idea" rather than "Oooh, I want that! I'd pay for that".
If you're building this as a business, then you need to stop coding and get selling right now. Building a landing page is 0% of that, talk to customers, figure out what they want. Writing code first will not advance you at all towards a business goal.
Investors can choose to invest in individual songs or curated collections of songs called "Baskets" to diversify their portfolio.
https://sonomo.com
Question: How the revenues of the song are confirmed? How do I know the artist is sharing all the revenues?
If this sounds interesting to you, ping me (email on my profile) :)
What I would actually like to have is a generic PostgREST, sitting on top of sqlalchemy or something like that so that I can start on sqlite or DuckDB and then swap out the RDBMs if needed.
Right now I'm shopping for a tool like this, tried all of these. Can I try yours?
[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com
https://immersishare.app/
https://flowy.live
A phish music streamer all owned and operated by me. Working a rewrite now with a few other side projects, but easily the one I can point to and say I use!
There is no AI in it so far but we consider adding support for parsing the result to extract data using LLM.
$10 each. Super hot, super fresh, super tasty, super filing, super consistent, super value, hmm maybe I'll call it super chicken.
https://github.com/martinn/quickapiclient
https://new.rt.ht - code templates
https://RTEdge.net - edge network
Hope this collection helps many people
Never say never adding chatbot like functionality but for now, no AI.
https://www.lungy.app
It's an interactive breathing app (responds when you breathe). Initially for stress & anxiety, we're developing a medical device (SaMD) for asthma + COPD.
[1] https://www.breathscape.com
Don’t even have a landing page yet, but you can sign up for free.
https://app.srssly.com
Eh.... what?
Totally forgot about that.
Also always hated that analogy because in Italy 1 person = 1 pizza. (And 2 for me)
https://www.whoowns.app
It's supposed to be the API layer for a Mac app while I learn Swift, but I got carried away with the web view I was using to debug and ended up with a usable HN homepage heavily inspired by hckrnews.com
Motivation is that large-language models have a very straight-forward task of predicting the next token and the dataset is easy to get. With this app I aim to do two things: 1. Gather a fairly large dataset that captures the brush-strokes for various art prompts. 2. Bootstrap an algorithm / model that can decompose any image/art/illustration into brush strokes.
A longer-term goal for this app is to build an auto-complete (Co-pilot or Grammarly equivalent) for art.
ps: This app has some bugs. Keep low expectations
https://cx-reports.com
https://github.com/yazz/yazz
https://manapool.com
Right before writing this comment, I noticed it is there, but it's called "Money". Being different is cool, but some basic UX principles are too tough to break.
i help to sync upcoming esports matches to your Google calendar https://tournacat.com/. it's 1-click install away and you pick the esports title of your choice.
currently, we're at about 160+ users
- add year range, like 2019-2024
- bold searched word in results; italic is not so visible
- custom table results per page (25, 50, 100)
- export to csv of all results in table
Did you scraped all text into database, or search through bunch of text files?
[0]: https://divinedrop.app/
[1] https://ply.io
I shared https://teig.pro a few months ago and it's made substantial improvements since then. It's a recipe builder that recalculates masses on-the-fly and supports adding/editing ingredients -- especially focused on breads. Unfortunately Fly.io seems to have flagged the project and is preventing me from deploying updates without upgrading my account (which is already paid). There are quite a few bugfixes which will be rolled out once that issue gets resolved, or I change hosting.
I also made https://pepcorn.pro quite a bit longer in a similar spirit, but much simpler. It uses your device's microphone to detect popcorn "pop"s, and measures the time between them -- done popcorn usually has ~5 seconds between pops.
Oh boy. :-)
While currently writing software prototypes & building hardware PoCs, i should spend more time trying to find team members... Otherwise i will not be able to secure financing which is crucial right now... so, soon i either will still be working on this, or i am dead. Let's see!