I'm interested to see things that people would have never published otherwise. I know a lot of my projects never make it to a published phase, but I still would have been interested in knowing the general reception. Please drop your projects here!
The guide covers things like:
- shebangs
- exit codes
- parameter expansion
- file permissions
- how to look up docs via "man" and "help"
- And a lot more.
The codebase I'm starting with is a Ruby version manager (written in bash) called RBENV. I've published it onto a platform called HelpThisBook.com, a platform to help authors get feedback from early readers (co-created by Rob Fitzpatrick, author of "The Mom Test", "Write Useful Books", etc.). Instructions on how to leave feedback should be given when you open the link below.
https://helpthisbook.com/richie/impostors-guide-to-the-shell
I'm trying to pare down my personal projects to just the really exciting ones, so I don't have much, butni think the most appropriate to the thread is https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices
It's mean to be a cross-framework library for creating device integrations, so you can, say, write a handler for RTL SDR weather stations, and use it in a simple script up to a mega framework.
I kind of dislike the way HASS and others handle automations where they have special purpose primitives for everything that needs lots of hand written code.
I just have config entries, they must be strings, and data points, they can be strings, numbers, bytes, or objects. You can put metadata on them. There's also a few other utilities like the ability to make subdevices, and the ability to request things from the host.
There are no special subclasses, a light bulb is just a device with a brightness point.
It currently runs my security system with object detection recording, QR decoding if desired, multiple regions, motion detection without decoding every frame, and subsecond latency streaming to the browser, a nice recordings browser that can view a recording while it's being made, etc.
Been working on this as a new way to find, explore, and view old historical maps and aerials of my area. Still heavily in development but have been surprised by some early traffic stats (1-2K organic uniques / mo and growing 200%+ m/m right now)
Hoping to add in more advanced map tooling within the next week or 2, including new basemap options, 3d terrain view, and then a proper search box which I've been pushing off for far too long
—Arthur —dijo con tono cortante, ["Arthur," he said sharply.] y su voz sonó como el chasquido de una ratonera—, [and his voice sounded like the click of a mousetrap.]
All of the existing apps that I checked only display translation upon clicking a word (like in Kindle), but that 1) doesn't work well when you're only starting to learn; 2) takes too much from the reading experience, and becomes a chore. Also, most of them only allow a limited selection of books.
I'm using it myself for over a month now, and enjoy reading with it a lot. I feel almost no friction using it, it's the usual pleasure of reading a book with added exploration of a new language.
The problems:
Translating can be hard or / and expensive. Cheaper / free translations are often incorrect, and struggle with idioms. DeepL would cost > 20€ for a long book. ChatGPT hallucinates, and adds to the original. I'm using Google Translate for now and it's good enough for me, but I don't feel it's good enough to charge for. It often mixes genders (as opposed to ChatGPT which can deduct them from context I guess), and occasionally mistranslates.
Would you want to use such app even with the often erroneous automated translations?
If you’ve ever tried to make a mathematical animation (think 3Blue1Brown), it’s a real pain. I was using manim for awhile to make animations for my YT channel, but the whole iteration process felt very slow and repetitive. So I thought I would recreate manim over the weekend, except with a GUI and real-time feedback. It’s been a year and a half and I’m hoping this weekend will be done soon so I can move on and start making videos again.
So far, it does a lot, but it still needs a lot of polish and refinement. The readme gives some gifs and a better idea of the feature set right now.
It's an FPGA without routing hardware, which on the face of it, is the stupidest thing to do. However, because of the clocked nature of the bitgrid, you all data only has to travel to neighboring cells, so lines will be short, and clock rates should be able to be up in the gigahertz range. Instead of worrying about how quickly you can get a signal from one side of the chip to the other, the latency will be 1/2 of the number of cells across, if the signal takes a straight line.
However... everything along that path can be compute, and routing should be trivial. It avoids the trap with GPUs where they are Turing complete, thus hard to reason about. Like an excel spreadsheet, you can track dependencies, and know exactly where a given bit came from. The chip as a whole, on the other hand, is Turing complete.
If anyone knows how much energy in FemtoJoules an 4 bit latch and a 4 bit input LUT take up, and a static ram cell... that would help in estimating the real world power consumption/feasibility of this thing. I can't find a good answer anywhere.
I wasn't happy with the solutions I found to this online, and thought it'd be fun to try and build one myself.
The main features for creating and running an encounter are ready: 1. Adding any 5e SRD mob or a custom mob to battle maps 2. Dragging mobs around the battle map 3. Turn and health tracking 4. Status effect tracking
But there are a few bugs to iron out, and more features to come!
As a heads up, if you visit the site and get a cold start of the container, it might take a while to be properly interactive. This is, unsurprisingly, the first thing to fix on the roadmap.
A now-comaintainer from CERN also contributed X11 and port forwarding support to it and is now continuing the development of the project. Since I switched industries and am nowhere near containers anymore, the project could really use a few contributors.
A few feature ideas we had but never implemented:
- Web-based terminal that directly interacts with ContainerSSH via websockets.
- File manager using the same.
- Better audit logging for SFTP interactions, allowing for filename-based search.
- Web interface for viewing audit logs.
There are a few talks/videos available online:
- ContainerSSH in one minute [2]
- Building a science lab with ContainerSSH (CERN usecase, Red Hat Research Day EU 2022) [3]
- Build your own honeypot with ContainerSSH (DevConf CZ 2021) [4]
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9OrnPi2IM
https://github.com/mattrichmo/wisewriterv3
It’s my first complex app I’ve created that required multiple apis, and dealing with errors from multiple levels but I never actually uploaded a single book to Amazon so I can’t speak to the quality of the content. I was thinking if throwing this up on a website and letting people make a book for their child or something but I’d love the take the idea of zero-to-launch automation further. I’d love to go to bed and have a new well researched, highly desired product that actually serves a market need when I wake up sort of deal.
Each website/page (depending on your preferences) becomes an ephemeral channel where you can see and interact with others users browsing the internet. It's still in a WIP shape but very functional.
Website: https://webcursors.click/ Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-cursors/chcedo...
At the moment I'm mostly just planning on sharing it with my brother, but who knows. I generally think I'll eventually share the data somewhere possibly on a website. I can't commercialise it if I understand the New York Times license properly since I scraped the Timesmachine for the listing pages.
Regardless, it's been super fun, and the data is very cool. Like 21 thousand unique films. At the moment I'm mostly trying to decide if I want to continue adding bits, like seeing all the listings a specific actor was in ... Mostly to test the hypothesis purported by PCU that there is always a Michael Caine or Gene Hackman film on television (I'm joking obviously there isn't although it is closer than you'd think). At the moment you can view an individual date or all of the listings for a specific film.
To me this is starting to feel almost like a Wikipedia thing or internet archive. This is, in a way, a specific ground truth of when television programs played in the New York area. I just have no idea who or what would be interested in it.
At the company, where I work, we are heavily relying on multiple reviewers to promote familiarity with the code base, as well as, of course, to increase overall code quality.
Gitlab Premium and Ultimate allow to use multiple reviewers, however, we don't need any other features from those tiers (well, maybe organization-wide code search could be nice as well).
As the result, I created a browser extension, which allows to use multiple reviewers via comments and descriptions. It also has graceful degradation, i.e. even team members without the extension will still be able to participate in the process.
On top of that the extension adds merge request deadlines with notifications, comment labels (viewable without the extension as well), custom review statuses ("Approved conditionally " is a real time saver) and more.
The extension works pretty well in our company, however, I would love to see if it's applicable to other companies as well, or what other features people need.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/codecode-review-fo...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/codecode-gitl...
I love food and I love travel. Naturally I decided to compile a list of all the best restaurants in the world. Still very much a work-in-progress but would love to get feedback.
The goal of the 0.1 release is to have a strong engine for setting English text, and I'm pretty much there. The main focus of 0.2 will be the macro system and beginning work on internationalization.
I started Burro in October 2018 and took a four year break (yay side projects!). I came back to it early this year and have been working on it pretty consistently ever since. It's exciting to have gotten this far!
Website: https://burro.sh
My plan is to make tools for making tutorials customized exactly to the users phone / desktop screen. So if an icon is on bottom right, the tutorial should mirror the same.
I have sporadically worked on it for the few months. The only issue is whether I am dumbing down the app way too much.
Anyway … I’ve been working on CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) for a while because I think code review is the biggest shortcoming of GitHub.
The idea is to make a code review tool for power users. Just like you have an editor that makes you productive at writing and reading code, you should have a review app that makes you and your team productive at reviewing it.
Or for any Xooglers out there: imagine critique but on GitHub.
Would love feedback on how it’s positioned and if I could improve the value prop!
The idea being to provide compliance checks such as licensing and such, although I guess it would allow for checking for potential source code leaks as well and as a plagiarism detector.
It works by running a program over your source code which produces line by line hashes, with the result uploaded and then scanned over. The result is a report indicating what percentage of code was identified as copied both on a project and on an individual file level, with the identified source and its location. As such if nothing is leaked there is no ability to reconstruct the source code as it is a hash.
It works over 200+ languages, and while working over line by line currently can be expanded out to work in different ways.
Looking for interested parties to try it out (see my bio for contact) in addition to the current ones I have. Even if its just you wanting to kick the tires.
Reading/writing content from/to GitHub happens through an Open Source API library I released. For the content data schema, I simply require a plaintext GraphQL type file inside the repository. The schema then automatically determines the API structure as well as the editor-friendly UI that I can generate on the Commitspark website when you log in via GitHub.
Even though Commitspark is already publicly available, it is still 100% a side-project that doesn't earn me any money (yet).
The vulgus in Latin were the common folks, the non elite, hence referring to cussing ass “vulgarity,” as in “we nobles do not talk that way, that is how the common folk talk!”. And if I do my job right most professional programmers should be offended by the result? But that's a really awful thing to have as your north star.
The basic idea is that computation should be something that does not require a degree and work experience and other markers of professionalism... Computation is just an intellectual amplifier. I was shocked some 5 to 10 years ago to have gone to a guy’s “Excel Tips” meeting at the advertising firm I worked for—all the other programmers skipped—and saw a bunch of non-technical folks excitedly sitting down to learn what I rapidly realized was... programming! They were volunteering to run and sit at a programming class!!
But Excel is a shitty language, but it is also vulgar. When you go to learn it, there is no compiler step, the interpreter step is a repl of sorts, everything is being automatically printf-debugged for you by default, and helpful colorful boxes point to the data dependencies of the cell you're working on while you're working on it.
But it's also like, why isn't everything like that. If I give you a UI that is written this way, you should expect to be able to long press on a button and see the button disassemble before your very eyes, you can track the pipeline for its clicks, and if that button doesn't do what you want it to do, you just change what it does. Everybody on this planet should be able to do that, it shouldn't require ivy league ivory tower education bullshit.
So I have these prototype languages that are fundamentally graphical, and kind of amount to a sort of XSLT (of all things!) being compiled to WASM?. A bit of inspiration from hypercard here and there. And it's weird because the decision to WASM is kind of its own shit decision? Like, I wanted the ability to just text you an app that I am working on and you can run it on your phone and feel safe that I am not stealing all your secrets, was why I started compiling to WASM. But as far as I can tell there is nothing I can do with WASM other than to define a function library, so the resulting language such as it is, is mostly a bunch of conventions operating on a WASM function library, and it gets really elaborate and complicated and I am 90% sure that you could just exploit the conventions in the state that it is right now, so like “why am I writing XSLT-to-WASM who the fuck cares” sometimes.
Nothing fully worth showing off right now though.
This is what I wish Dropbox was, a simple layer that make interacting with your FTP server easy so nobody has to own your data. The end game is both to be feature complete with Dropbox and be able to change every aspect of the application through plugin so everyone can get out what they want from it. To do that, I’m making the core a sort of framework to build file manager like application.
* A turn based game that is essentially "football manager for counter strike" where you control the whole team and their actions in "planning" and "execution" phases.
* I run a Slack community for the South African tech scene, constantly hovering between "I wish I could sell this and move on" and "I really should put in the effort to monetise / grow this".
I also have plans to add a feature to save and share your projects, but not implemented yet and I'm always curious what other features or musical capabilities people would enjoy playing with.
I'm also working on cli time tracking tool that is still very basic but I'm sort of wondering how best to add more functionality. The current main branch allows you to start a task with `$ start -t` and you can add details and then list all the events you've tracked, all saved to sqlite database. I like how immediate it is to track things from the command line, but I'm still thinking about how to display the events and tasks you've tracked (I'm building with rust and started tinkering with Ratatui to build a TUI, though I prefer just having a cli most of the time). I'm also still thinking about cli UX. I kind of prefer the git hub cli style that has commands and sub-commands because it seems more orderly than just having long lists of arguments. Anyway it's very in the beginning stages but would love recommendations on reading for UX for command line interfaces. https://github.com/farmeroy/Time-Bandit
Convert your code to an image from the command line. No internet connection needed, although it can also download and convert code from Github too. Made it because currently the best alternative (carbon-now-cli) sends your code over the wire and there's a lot of situations where that's not desirable.
I've been working on this on and off for a few weeks now. The idea is to let LLMs interact with the outside world using function calling. Eg- I built a simple version of chatgpt web browsing using function calling. There's a django site which is responsible for the auth, managing chats etc and then there's a flask site that's responsible for running functions in a gvisor sandbox. Users will be able to upload their functions as docker images and I'll run them in a sandbox.
There is a lot of self doubt at this point: who is this for? Will people pay for usage? Should I open source the entire thing or part of it? To add to this: I have no online audience, how do I promote this?
I do have some answers to these questions. Eg- should I open source the flask site and get llama 2 to use it? It provides value to the community + hopefully I can get some attention for the project.
I would appreciate any feedback on this project. Please send me an email if you want some openai credits added to your account.
Edit: use testaccount/demouser to login, I've added some credits for testing.
There are vertical light rays, and optics transforming them are falling from the sky. The goal is to get rid of all the darkness.
Preview:
I've conducted A LOT of interviews and have been the interviewee plenty of times. To me the hardest part about prepping on LeetCode was that I would sometimes get stuck on something. Not necessarily stuck to find any solution but the optimal one. The hints I'm getting back from GPT have proven to be very valuable and it still lets me code the solution with those pointers.
It's not a perfect product by any means but it's my work in progress passion project that I believe has a lot of potential.
With zero extra effort, you get a simple blog. With configuration via settings files stored in a secret gist or on a gist itself, a rich blogging experience.
A currently hidden feature that is useful is RSS feeds for any GitHub users gists: https://gist.aviperl.me/avi-perl/rss
I'm hoping that the GitHub graphQL API might let me get list of gists with their file content, in which case, no outside build step would be needed to provide the full experience for a GitHub user.
What I mean here by "full experience" is adding a title, image, tags, etc.
I never showed it publicaly, so I'm the only user. Fell free to use it and I'm open to any feedback.
Mind you I'm a backend dev, so in terms of design and overall frontend quality it is definitely lacking.
Due to changing jobs recently I created this site as a fun side project, as other sites I found involved sending your financial data to someone else's server. But I'm not really happy with the introductory text, nor did any friend I showed it to find the "help" link which was disappointing. Would love some feedback or advice!
First just a list of all local Catholic events with subscribe-able tags for target audiences, but then also a directory of local businesses run by parishioners.
Maaaaaybe eventually message-board-type features, but that's far enough in the future to ignore for now.
No idea yet if anyone will care about it as much as I do, but it's something I wish existed, and nobody else seems to be building it!
A(nother) golang TUI library. Targeting modern terminal features, and a few different APIs for building applications. I really like notcurses, but the CGO cost when setting individual cells is very high...so this was my attempt to "port" what notcurses does to go. I handle things a little differently than notcurses, but in general am taking a lot of the same approaches for finding out terminal capabilities. Just not nearly as many optimizations when it comes to the render side (but Vaxis can render at about 5000 FPS in typical cases, so I haven't tried to optimize anything more there than it already is).
The main design decision I am going back and forth on how much I have used globals. Initially the design was a big struct, but I liked being able to use globals so when I write widgets as part of the library, they can send messages into the event queue without needing access to an application struct or something. I can't think of a single use case where a user would need more than one instance, so globals have seemed fine (and even notcurses says you can have only one notcurses instance per process...so I'm not even straying from that).
Thanks for any feedback!
I'm trying to nail down the exact audience/tone. Is it for families with kids? How hard should the clues be? Should it be more lighthearted or immersive?
I am aware of the existence of strava and komoot but I had some frustrations creating specific routes using their apps on mobile. Especially adding and dragging waypoints to a route was a focus point. In addition to exporting the route to a gpx file, the website allows to view the elevation profile and road type.
The tool did function for a short while, during which it successfuly reclaimed a few hundred dollars in refunds. However, it broke when a courier site introduced reCAPTCHA at their login and Amazon made UI changes to their order page. I'm now at a crossroads, contemplating whether the upkeep required to ensure the app keeps working is worth my while, given how niche the potential market is. I am not sure if I can make realistically make money from this. Would love to hear insights or suggestions.
For reference, you can check it out at https://taxrefunder.io, although the core functionality is down at the moment.
A Talking Avatar AI generator similar to d-id. Worked on it for 2 months but I have problems adding natural head movement to the speaker. About 100 users so far but 0 revenue. Very low traffic (like 10-20 users/day). Not sure where to go next, at moment trying to focus more on marketing and getting feedback
It began from my desire to have a robust Postgres-backed job processor. What I quickly realized was that the interface in front of the queue was what was really important. This allowed me to add both in-memory and Redis (provided by asynq) backends behind the same interface. Which allows users to switch between different backends depending on their durability and performance constraints. E.g. in-memory for testing/development/low durability requirements, postgres when you're not running Google-scale jobs, and Redis for all the obvious use cases for a Redis-backed queue.
This allows me to swap out job queue backends without changing a line of job processor code.
I'm familiar with the theory that one shouldn't implement queues on Postgres, and to a large extent, I disagree with those theories. I'm confident you can point out a scenario in which one shouldn't, and I contend that those scenarios are the exception rather than the rule.
It is a desktop application and self-hosted, which will allow to sync with your work laptop and mobile devices without the need for 3rd party server. Many online solutions for knowledge management did not make me happy (e.g. Notion[2], Miro[3], Evernote[4]) as they all lacked either diagram building or were online only. There is also an Obsidian[5] for it is too complicated and it's unbelievable that a user has to go through hours of tutorials on youtube to understand how to use PKM software. Hence I created my easy but powerful tool for keeping all the knowledge/documentation in one place.
The desktop app was build using Kotlin Multiplatform (JVM app) with Compose UI framework
You can view(and comment!) the app screenshots here [6]: There are also mockups with more features, so ignore weird UI at first.
[1]: https://www.drawio.com [2]: https://www.notion.so [3]: https://miro.com [4]: https://evernote.com [5]: https://obsidian.md
[6: App screenshots]: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lOIfGaXKbymw7fQXjwBh...
The platform employs a custom-trained Language Model (LLM) to perform a semantic analysis of both the resume and the job description. This analysis then generates practical suggestions that could enhance the applicant's likelihood of bypassing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). Ultimately, the goal is to transform a job advertisement into a potential job offer.
Currently, rolematch.me is in its private beta phase. It does not collect or store any user data and is available free of charge. However, we are planning to introduce a premium version that will offer additional features such as cover letter assistance and job search capabilities.
For those interested in testing the platform, the invite code is the *name* of a well-known early cheat code. This code could be activated in the game Gradius by pressing buttons in a specific sequence.
The tool is free and helps you manage your job applications, pipeline status, interviews, emails, notes, etc. Notable features include the ability to leave detailed reviews of your job process (+ read others' reviews and get various per-company stats... this is new, went live yesterday - tracking more fine-grained data than Glassdoor and others), forwarding emails to save@rolepad.com so they can be tracked as notes within Rolepad, sharing your progress via Sankey charts, and more.
I've been working on a chrome extension that let's you run python code in ChatGPT. You can see the output, see plots with matplotlib, upload and download files, use a bunch of packages, all thanks to Pyodide[0]. Basically ChatGPT's own code interpreter but worse (it's also free, you get what you pay for). It was important to me that it works completely locally and does not save any data.
It is one of my first personal projects and seeing the number of users go up makes me happy and want to keep improving it. I had to make my github repo private because I had an issue with a copycat, but I can make it public if people actually care.
My proposed solution is to use Service Workers to cache a web app in the browser and employ clever tricks to prevent the server from pushing updates to either the Service Worker or the caches. This way the user can then control any updates and verify new versions using means that are already familiar from other ecosystems: comparing hashes, trusting only signed code, etc.
The goal isn't to develop a new e2ee messaging app. Instead I'm prototyping something that resembles an auto-update framework like Squirrel [1], only for web apps. Ideally it will be largely "plug and play", i.e. you could take the existing WhatsApp web app, serve it using the updater framework, and your users would now have a trustworthy version of WhatsApp.
So far I have a small amount of PoC-level code validating several small parts of the larger concept. For instance, I'm fairly confident that I will be able to reliably prevent forceful server-controlled updates, which is a core requirement. Right now I'm in the process of formalizing a threat model, hoping to spot any gaps before I move forward with the implementation.
Feedback on the idea in general would be highly appreciated, but I'd also love to hear any more specific concerns regarding technical solutions, UX, etc.
The three main todos on my roadmap are:
- support languages other than JS (C/C++ would be the obvious ones)
- improve the visualization
- improve debugging (e.g. if you have a syntax error)
I feel like self-hostable asset and expense tracking is something a few people would care about. I believe tech forward folks are faced with a choice between:
- Command-line tools like gnucash or ofxtools that are pretty bare bones
- Spreadsheets that are manually updated
- Give in, and hope that these companies don't have data breaches
Those options kinda suck :). Does anyone want this? I made it part of the way, until I got infuriated by the sad state of "open banking" in Europe (a friend was interested, but is in Europe, where OFX isn't popular).
https://github.com/lgrammel/modelfusion
It is only getting limited traction so I’m wondering if I’m missing something fundamental with the approach that I’m taking.
I think high-quality AI transcription should be a lot cheaper.
It's pretty simple: Unlimited transcription (powered by Whisper) for $10/month. Upload your audio/video files, get your transcripts (and export to many common formats).
There's a free tier of 4 transcripts (i.e. up to 2 hours) per day if you'd like to check it out.
TurboScribe is especially designed for individuals who need to transcribe larger volumes of audio/video (i.e. dozens or hundreds of hours, including at the highest Whisper large_v2 quality level) or just don't want to have to worry about getting billed by the hour, hitting some ridiculously low cap, etc.
Homebrew clubs style—bring the half-baked experiments you've been tinkering with, we'll all learn something from it
It takes a URL and a voice selection, sends it off to Azure TTS speech service. The backend handles converting the HTML to SSML, it's really a one step solution to converting web pages to audio files that you can download, or stream on the platform.
I use it a lot for Hackernews articles at work, where I want to keep working, but there's an interesting article that I want to read.
The voices that come from Azure are reasonably good enough.
It's just an Astro app for the frontend, with a golang service behind it that parses the webpages and sends it off the azure. Also using supabase for authentication and database storage, although I'm using Cloudflare for it's R2 storage of audio.
You, the proud owner of some new ants, must keep them alive. For the MVP, you'll just get a ration of food each day when you show up, but there's a catch. To unlock the food, you need to arrive at a self-designated time each day, you can't miss your time window, and you'll need to participate in a breathing exercise. Black screen, white text, breathe in/out, repeat for a minute, etc. You emerge calmer than before, get your food, feed your ants, watch them thrive, and get on with your day.
Long-term, I'd like to continually increase the complexity of the simulation to make it more engaging, disguise the self-care offerings behind game lore/mechanics, and provide more self-care offerings such as journaling or guided meditation.
The goal is to get people who like using technology a lot to unintentionally dedicate a few minutes each day to checking in on themselves. They get into it thinking they're caring for some wannabe-Tamagotchi ants, but they stick with it because they're on a seven day self-care streak, feel good about that, and don't want to let their ants down. It's similar to https://finchcare.com/ but less on-the-nose about feelings and more for those who'd appreciate a RimWorld / Dwarf Fortress simulation aesthetic.
This is my first attempt at anything like a ~game and I have very little to show in way of functionality, but I've been enjoying teaching myself Rust/Bevy and writing with an ECS-first mindset. Trying to use these tools has slowed down development several magnitudes compared to throwing TypeScript at the wall, and I haven't seen significant benefits yet, but I'm hoping that long-term the low-level control and fast-growing game engine will pay dividends.
Anyway, here's a few ants which dig dirt and make some sand piles. I know it's not much :)
I'm hoping to get people checking back on their ants for seven straight days by spicing up the visuals a little bit, adding a queen, nesting, egg laying, hunger, death, and then a top-down view for food discovery / pheromone trails.
The state of debugging is kind of in the dark ages. I bet I spend 90% of the time on a feature just trying to figure out the execution path - what method calls what other method and under what context. It only gets harder as the code base grows.
Call Stacking is an attempt to automate that discovery process.
I build Inouts - a search engine for online tools without BS, with a focus on specific examples of their use.
Instead of browsing seo optimized pages, fake "top X tools for ..." rankings or websites full of dark patterns where, for example, only at the end of the process you find out that you have to pay, you can use Inouts.
Currently in the database there are more than 5000+ tools and even more examples of their use. Categorized in over 1000+ tasks they solve. You can easily find the right tool through the search engine and filters such as:
- inputs, outputs
- tasks
- payment plans (free, paid)
- platforms (website, mobile app, etc.)
- features (no account required, no CC required, no watermark, etc.)
Currently works best on desktop.
1) HoM&M3: Hota player vs AI battle simulator - i already did some reverse engineering of AI used in battle and reimplemented some game mechanics to be able to run simulations with a few units. Purpose: to find average best possible output for given fight scenario.
2) Benchmark runner, database and visualization - i have some code for db, cli and dsl used for querying data. Purpose: to find performance regressions in subsequent builds and to give nice visualizations of product performance for management and marketing.
3) General purpose scripting language built in Go. No code, but most of the grammar already defined. Purpose: mostly educational.
I am interested in knowing what are the common problems you face with command line approach that can be solved via a Web UI
- TripSync: A “shared travel plans app” for you and your friends. Essentially tells you where your friends are going to be when and when you’ll be in the same area. (For iOS, not yet launched of course)
- cookmatic: recipe organization and parsing: https://cookmatic.co
- polyfill: finding developer jobs based on company values as opposed to programming languages: https://polyfill.work
- tweeker: a/b and multi variate testing: https://tweeker.io
- payote: custom stripe invoice data and invoice plugin for your site: https://payote.co
- minotaur: using Spotify data and YouTube to make a free web based music player with a better, simpler ui: https://minotaur.fm
Some are essentially finished, others are barely started.
I don’t want to entirely replace the data gathering + annotation workflow for everyone, but I believe that ready-to-go data can reduce the barrier of entry for ML projects, make _some_ people realize that they don’t really need their own data collection, and even help large businesses reduce their dependency on Scale / Appen.
It’s UI/UX is pretty similar to Figma (you can import from Figma). We do support integration of your own design system, that means that you can use actual code components in design canvas with all interactions and business logic. (Currently we have integrated Ant design and Mantine libraries)
We are looking for beta testers who want to speed up UI development or simply save money on FE development.
That's double meta in this thread, I know.
I don't have an MVP yet but I've been testing and tweaking prompts. An early strategy might be to release this as a free open source app and then offer extra business value later. I created an email form in case there's any interest here.
Problem is getting any kind of SEO success. The site is functional and designed to be as easy to use as possible, what it doesn't have are any articles, blogs, ads, pricing, or distractions (other than multiple casino-related themes, for a little bit of flair). What's good for users (I hope) seems to suppress any presence in search engines, however.
I did this as a way to play around with iPod development and swift and i made it pretty far, more than expected, using the hn api powered by fire ase.
I eventually got into an issue with hn stories with too many comments. I need to rethink my approach on how to handle these cases, otherwise the app crashes when it tries to render 800 comments or so.
Overall it was a fun learning experience.
I've got a project called http://digitapes.app/ - very much not-finished yet, but would be interested in hearing some thoughts.
The basic premise is that it's an easier media archiving / montage tool. Rather than saving everything to google/apple photos, this allows you to "share" to digitapes instead (much like you might "share" to your family members via messenger) - then digitapes puts them all together into a montage reel that you can watch / download / share.
You could also give access to your friends, who they can "share" it to your tape, so the group of you can make a montage of the holiday you all took.
I also wanted to break away from subscription pricing: you buy a tape for X dollars, and it should continue to exist* (maybe it becomes read-only after a little bit, and it has a size / length limit). - this obviously requires more people to buy more tapes, to keep the business going.
I made it with idea of keeping "home movies" for my daughter. My wife and I have video tapes from when we were young, but digital media has a "cheap and plenty" vibe, so I wanted to have a special place that i could easily store and montage photos and videos of my daughter while she grows up.
I've just been too busy with raising her to finish it off, unfortunately. :D
Myself and a friend have been working on this for quite a while. It's frustrating because it has come so far (showing trail data worldwide interactively on a tiny budget is challenging), and yet it is so far from being something super useful like AllTrails due to low data quality and a lack of relevant features (photos, reviews, etc etc.)
I never had the time to polish the platform so I did a ground-up hardware and software refactor. The hardware was redesigned as an homage to popular snap-fit robot model kits, with runner layouts and instructions ( https://github.com/psychomugs/r0b0/blob/main/docs/assets/bls... ).
I've tried to generalize the software as an `aconnect` for non-robot-specific hardware devices. The software powers this digital back I designed for my >50-year old Leica M2 ( https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/leica-mpi-a-pi-zero-retrofi... ) and enables quick prototyping of physical IO, e.g. using a MIDI keyboard to control motors or a gaming joystick to control a mouse.
It's mostly a passion project to refine the platform into something more usable than how it was left, but I'm open to suggestions or beta testers!
dbNet is a web-based SQL IDE using Go as a backend, and your browser as front-end. I built it because I was unsatisfied with the database clients out there. Alot of them are top-heavy, unintuitive, slow or expensive.
Here are some of the databases it connects to:
Clickhouse Google BigQuery Google BigTable MySQL Oracle Redshift PostgreSQL SQLite SQL Server Snowflake DuckDB
Be gentle, it's running on a budget server.
Rules:
- Combine cells by dragging over them to create a adjacent path, that either multiply or add up to the last cell in the path, like 2*3=6 or 4+5=9. - Swipe in any direction to move the cells in that direction.
The game uses visual color-code to help the user to get an intuitive feel for which numbers can be multiplied together. Most people will get a sense of this without an explanation, but technically the color coding are the fractions of the number. For instance if the target cell is 12, it has two orange(2) and one green(3). In this case, one can look at cells close to the target that has those colors, instead of performing the calculation.
--- I've been working on this for about a year in my spare time. I think that the most important part that is missing now is a nicer UI, as well as to tweak the controls a bit.
I've had a ton of fun with this one, with various over engineered implementations (it's my personal project, so I can can do that if I want), and learned a ton.
Interesting highlights:
- Generating fun, varied and challenging boards. - Using bitmaps to create a custom but memory-space-effective representation of every action taken on a board.
As for a pricing model, I think it will be free, with a _Buy me a coffee_-button or similar.
Mobile users can snap a math problem pic, desktop offers drag-drop, paste & file upload. Crop pics for accuracy, AI converts to LaTeX for analysis. The rest is math GPT with a system prompt
The gear I have is a cheap heartbeat/pulse monitor integrated with raspberry pi.
Got the database stuff all set up - now need to get the commands to work...
The basic idea is you upload the jsonschema to a website and get a binary in return. This binary generates data based on that schema and sends it to endpoints as / how / when you want. Set up a VM with your backend and let it run for a week, look at the report to find any crashes, repeat. Maybe with some nice webhooks etc.
The reasons to do this by sending a binary the user run themselves instead of over the network are that fuzzing will generate a _lot_ of requests, with a binary you can have it running on localhost and cut down on time.
Value prop: Find crashes in backend code and help you improve your input validation schemas.
Later I've realized that it can just as easily be used to generate test data, lots of test data too, but that probably requires different marketing etc.
Hoping to have a PoC up before end of year or so if anyone is interested.
The idea is to remove friction in the writing process. I’ve always wanted to be more regular with my writing, and I have a long list of topics I want to write about with notes on quite a few. I have content, converting those rough notes into blog posts is a time consuming process. I can get GPT to rewrite the notes but it’ll not preserve my writing style and will stand out as AI generated content even though it’s not.
PenPersona is able to look at samples of your writing, generate a “persona” from those samples, and then apply it to notes to convert them into articles matching the style from those samples.
While working on this I’ve seen many similar apps which gives me reassurance that it’s a real problem, but I’m not sure I want to enter a crowded market and the product feels more like a feature rather than a full product to me.
I'm building a planning methodology for tech teams to use once they know what they want to build in an iteration. This is meant to be the missing near-term tactical planning framework, not yet another long-term-roadmap concept.
Happy to help facilitate planning too with anyone who wants to try it in their team but isn't sure how to start.
The language is:
- platform agnostic
- component oriented
- designed to feel intuitive to non-technical users
https://github.com/matry/documentation
My philosophy is this: over the last decade or so, the design world has been attempting to get closer to developers and collaborate more closely. While there's a lot of excitement and energy from the design side to solve this problem, I don't see as much enthusiasm from the dev side. So what I'm trying to do is carve out a space in the software development toolchain specifically for designers - an approach I'm calling "design inclusion".
The real question is how to do this. Most attempts from the design side fall under two categories - making design tooling more programmatic (aka Figma), and introducing no-code or low-code tools. I think both of these fall short in various ways; it wouldn't be practical to list those reasons here. If this gap is going to be bridged, I think the solution has to come from engineers. We have to define an interface for design contribution, and over the years that I've spent thinking about this problem, I've come to the conclusion that a formal language is by far the most versatile and efficient way to create that bridge.
I haven't worked out a coherent UI for this quite yet, but ideally you'd be able to give yourself a notification that a branch you were working on hasn't seen any updates in some time, or that you did commit but haven't pushed, or haven't changed the status of the Jira ticket back into review.
If anyone has these problems, I'd love to hear if anything like this would be useful.
I have given up on it because it belongs to a market that requires being a large, well-known entity (search). So I just use it for myself since I find it extremely helpful, but I am always happy when random users give me tips ans suggestions on how to improve it further. It's not 100% done and it's capped at one free search per day because again, I am not trying to grow it
That said, ive been working on a node.js PDF Text screenplay parser that will ultimately push out a JSON object according to an initiative to standardize all screenplay objects in screenJSON[0].
Here is the github for my project, it’s messy but I’m about 80% there and just need to spend more time on Regex to catch edge cases. Currently working on a next.js front end that maps out the script into a visual format but that’s not ready to be seen yet. Also don’t judge me on the name, it’s not going to stay as that. No AI as of yet, but could use text classifiers to be able to tell the difference between a key prop, and say, a camera movement but I’m trying to get as far as I can without LLM help of the classifications.
Developing a new approach to the online local business directory portals where we start with the user and their end goal to then suggest businesses and bundle deals
instead of assuming they’ll start with location, category or keywords (plumber, London) and then have to filter based on price and ratings.
The platform encourages local business to cross-promote, cross/upsell and offer bundles with non-competing business.
An example; user wants their pool and garden cleaned and trimmed.
Instead of searching for two businesses and starting two conversations, and payments, the gardener and pool cleaner can come together to offer a Summer clean up.
One click. One payment. Two services. Service is delivered, and we pay out minus a small commission.
It’s more a multivendor e-commerce marketplace focused on local business and cooperation than a listings site.
And already partnered with a B2B2C messaging app that coordinates business and customers via email/SMS - so it doesn’t fall apart once the deal is sold.
I’ll have something to share soon.
[0]: https://logseq.com/
I'm open to suggestions on what other e-ink platforms to add, as long as they have a reasonable cloud API. I'm also looking for a good e-ink platform to move to personally, as it becomes apparent that reMarkable really doesn't want third parties to use their proprietary cloud "API".
I'm currently working on "JobMailer".
When I was looking for a job and applying to 100-200 positions, I got really good at the process. To me it seemed like a somewhat wasted skill set, because I was just looking for one job (unlike, for example, trying to acquire customers).
"JobMailer" rebundles paid subscription features that a job seeker might use only a handful of times over their search period and automates manual application tasks:
- Find good fit companies and jobs
- Reword resume/CV to mirror or match job description and keywords
- Find recruiter and hiring manager email addresses
- Write cover letter and send email to recruiter/hiring manager to get noticed
- Track email opens
- Single page hub for all application statuses (think Mint but for all different company application login pages)
The goal would be to semi-automate and submit ~50 high-quality and tailored applications in the first 30 days for a user.
I've been working on a managed service provider for smaller clouds -- right now it's focused on Hetzner.
A few services (redis, webpage analytics) have already been released on Nimbus and next is Object Storage next and it's quite a big lift!
The dogfood tastes great so far! I've been able to consolidate a bunch of instances I was running and mange them centrally which is fine (I had a lot of side projects).
I've been having trouble finding the right people to try it out and give me feedback/see if they'd use it regularly, and if you're running on Hetzner (or have avoided it because they didn't have managed services) I'd love to hear from you.
[EDIT] - I should note, there IS a free tier, but a credit card is required. You can launch an ephemeral redis instances for absolutely free, but I do have a CC gate up to help mitigate fraud (and to see if I've built something people actually want!).
https://github.com/Ahnfelt/firefly-boot#readme
It comes with IDE support and such, and the language itself is more or less done, but there are so many other things to do before it's ready for serious work :)
I've been working on an incremental brainfuck-and-beyond interpreter. Brainfuck is nice because you can deal with single characters rather than lexing or parsing. Right now it's just a brainfuck interpreter with all the bells and whistles you'd want animation, highlighting the loop you're in, skipping the loop you're in, memory tape visualizer, decent error messages when you write a bad loop. Here's a preview (kinda ugg because everything has to live in one file) https://ellie-app.com/nG99JJ3wt6da1
I'd like to make a bit of a writing series on this: start with BF with one instruction and a single cell tape. Expand to cover everything in BF. Then expand out to a language slightly bigger until we have the idea of scopes being a thing.
Here are the ways I was thinking of expanding the language a bit in order to bring in new concepts:
- Bring in numbers where 10> means >>>>>>>>>>. This means we need to parse more than one character at a time and introduce new ways of failing. Like maybe 5[ is a bad instruction because we don't want to have a loop in there 5 times (or maybe we do?)
- Add variables. I know that sounds antithetical, but I think it's interesting. Programs like "++^var>_var" would mean "increments the value in the current cell twice. Store that value into a variable named 'var'. Move one cell to the right. Put the value stored in 'var' into the current cell" so then we have to keep track of what variables are what. Kinda fun.
- subroutines or even better function calls so that the current scope of variables can change. I have no idea what that would be like.
Anyways, is there anything like this out there already?
I am working on a dedicated GPT AI Dungeon Master. Results have been promising so far. Though it has a ways to go before it is even remotely playable outside of "yeah, it'll break if you do that, let me load up the jupyter notebook that can handle that situation."
https://github.com/justinlloyd/retro-chores
A physical chores list with a digital component. Unfortunately it has languished for a year due to circumstances of life (family health issues). Now that things are settling down I can return my attention to it.
And I found a functional 4K 55" TV on the street last night that was being disposed of, so I'm trying to decide what to do with that (apart from watching TV on it). I am thinking another cat toy, since the cats trashed their last one.
Jekyll let’s you use CSV/YAML/JSON files as data source, but they’re unwieldy since the schema is fixed.
The plugin is meant to let you reshape your data before you use it within Jekyll. You get complete flexibility of SQLite, to let you join tables, use indexes etc.
What I can’t figure out is how to best do “dynamic” queries, say a query that needs to show the number of reviews on the restaurant page (restaurants is the table). Each of these page will need to run a dynamic query with the page.id variable.
SQLite Injection isn’t a big issue, since this is all trusted input. But I’d like something better than just Templating queries using liquid.
I’m doing some parameterized queries on the global level (see README). Need to find a nice way to do them locally.
Maybe just putting them in metadata would be a good way?
Biggest issues are inventory and buyer-side bugs now. I wished I would have shipped a few months ago, got caught up on a feature I didn't need to engage users.
The problem: creating unique, engaging product content is expensive and time consuming for retailers. Hiring content writers can cost $50-100 per product. Multiply that by 1000s of products and then add in constant product churn.
With uniquely tuned AI models, combined with a retailers raw product data, I can generate content that improves the buyer's experience and leads to:
- higher conversions
- improved SEO
- standing out from competitors
The app includes:
- the unique LL models
- pipelines to connect to the retailer's catalog
- a feedback mechanism to monitor the products (add to cart, conversions, on page time, etc) and test new content
I did pilot with a large wine retailer. We generated nearly 4,000 product descriptions and saw a near immediate increase in on page time and conversions. It is 90 days out we are now seeing an SEO gain too.
It teaches you everything you need to train an LLM, including the basics of deep learning and linear algebra. You learn the theory and the application. It includes written explanations, code, diagrams, and videos.
I believe that learning should be challenging enough to let the concepts sink in, so it's not a course you can just skim. It also isn't a "just type this, trust me" type of course - I think it's important to always know why you're doing something and how it works.
I've written 11 lessons, and I'm up to transformers - only a few more lessons to go. It's been fun to write, but balancing time spent training models with writing the course has been hard. Hopefully I will get to finish it soon.
If you would like to view it, please visit: https://github.com/mateusfreira/nun-db
Feedback is always welcome, especially if you have a use-case in mind that you believe it may be suitable for but are unsure. I have already utilized it in many of my personal projects and for a few clients with a small number of users, but I am hopeful that it will soon be ready for larger-scale implementation. Comments here, issues on GH or emails are welcome
That word, “technoetics”, beautifully encapsulates what I find most interesting: the exploration of consciousness through technological means.
My ambition would be to merge “maker culture” with fringe topics related to parapsychology, anomalous cognition (remote viewing), mind-matter interaction, … in a kind of open-minded and curious yet self-aware, artful, playful, and not-so-serious way.
To make it a little more specific but probably still very cryptic to anyone not familiar with this: I am working on software to support various “psi” experiments. For example, I want to make it really easy to do timestamped ARV-based predictions of future outcomes.
I don’t have anything to show publicly right now, but feel free to comment or reach out via mail (see profile) if this piques your interest too.
https://www.sheetmonitor.com/ - Time-based-analysis on aggregated google sheet data. You can point it at a google sheet and define what data you want to track. It then grabs aggregate data from the sheet at regular intervals so you can see how the sheet is changing over time. Its something thats not possible to do within the sheets themselves for a lot of circumstances. Nodejs, sheets api & a time series DB.
https://dafr.ink/ - Simple Goal orientated project tracking. Wanted to create a tool that was really really fast, sharable without anyone having to login, but with optional lazy authentication. Svelte & cloudflare functions.
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
Here's what I mean by using variables from the character sheet directly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCqe3A5dFg
Tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...
CommonMark doesn't propose a standard for bibliographic references. I'm wondering if anyone would find cross-references and citations in Markdown to be useful?
Like bots trained on a market: https://www.kindbuds.ai/ght/telluride
Or bots for utility: https://www.kindbuds.ai/ght/spence
Or bots for business: https://www.kindbuds.ai/ght/knowmad
Much is mid development - ultimately I'm deep working on finishing out the sites UX, bot output and functionality.
Would love any general feedback or ideas!
Our product flow starts with an email validator - The user can load the list of email IDs or, through our integration of famous CRM such as Salesforce or Hubspot. Our flow first will filter out all the invalid mail ids - We're using an ML model and a basic logical approach in the backend.
Once this is done, we allow them to store valid contact data in our product. Once that is done, they can do email marketing from our product. As of now, we're working on the email marketing part.
The plan is to give them multiple templates for them to choose from. By using AI, we are planning to create unlimited templates for them. The messages can be personalised for each contact based on their details and current status.
Email id validator flow is completed, and we're actively working on the email marketing flow.
Not perfect right now (you can try it out at https://www.semiform.ai/examples to see what I mean) - trying to figure out a few things:
- How to deal with a 'half-completed' response where the user hasn't provided all the requested information? Not really possible for most traditional forms if fields are required. Could be helpful or counterproductive.
- Need to make it simpler for non-technical users to set up an effective form. Right now planning to add templates to help with this, but I think there's more to be done here
It then tries to date the recording by matching it to historical data.
The signal processing part is getting decent. I'm still trying to collect more reference signals in RU, UK, China and Japan.
Tom Scott made a video about the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY
Eventually I'd like to add auth and a backend, it's using localstorage for now.
Imports data from strava and lets me search and compare multiple rides.
The trail name detection only works in SantaCruz (CA) area.
I spent 3-4 months working on it whilst having a day job. It's a writing/reading/listening platform, kinda like a mix of Medium/Substack/Wordpress/Twitter/Reddit...
I wrote about the tech stack and how I built it here: https://persumi.com/c/persumi/u/fredwu/p/how-i-built-a-mostl...
Still got a long way to go, especially to tweak the user onboarding side of things to explain much better on the concepts.
Would love some feedback!
The main features include:
- Capture the flag: Every week, a virtual flag is planted randomly in various cities. Capture these flags to collect virtual coins, encouraging you to discover new areas.
- Virtual medals: Earn medals by running iconic distances. These medals will boost your experience.
- Groups: Compare your performance with that of your co-workers, friends, and family members.
There's still a lot of work to be done, bugs to fix, and features to enhance. However, it has already helped some of my friends and me to stay motivated.
If you are a runner or want to be one, which other feature can help you to stay motivated ?
https://twitter.com/uraniumstockbot https://github.com/victorabarros/ura-bot
I'm making a social media app called Spotted. It's aiming to combine the visual messaging aspects of Snapchat and IG Stories with the "opt-in" features of recent apps like Gas and BeReal
Hopefully looking to launch soon!
The two week "season" and then break makes it really fun. It gives importance to games that otherwise would just be one of 162. My wife who isn't into baseball now knows all the sluggers, can rank stadiums in order of HRs, and checks weather on game days at ballparks w/o roofs.
Next feature I need to add is separate leagues so other groups can play w friends.
It's a NES-tanks inspired browser game where you use your phone as a controller. It's built for local multiplayer sessions and includes a simple level editor (levels are encoded in urls so it's easy to share them). In order to play you have to scan qr code with your phone (for test purposes it's possible to control 1 tank with WASD after pressing "local" button). There's still plenty of scaling and compatibility issues that will probably never be solved but it's been quite fun to work on.
Idea is to improve and enhance your Costco warehouse shopping experience, mainly:
- Provide platform to enable shoppers to review and rate products and for others to find said reviews. Costco and Sameday doesn't provide reviews, so we try to fill the gap.
- Recently we started showing very special Costco warehouse deals in our app, there's a certain magic to Costco prices, e.g. if something ends in .97 it is extremely discounted but it's never advertised otherwise so we try to bring more of these special deals to our users.
- We have more features and want to bridge Costco communities together.
But... feel like, something is missing still?
Working in a startup of two people means I'm always context switching & lose track of my day. I convinced my brother to build an app that helps us manage our notes & reminders using ChatGPT. We found it to be really helpful for our day to day work & we recently had someone do an awesome review of our app https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x27OhTQ9bA0
Happy to share testflight link for anyone else interested in helping us
It allows me to install various things in various environments without getting too deep in to bash scripting.
For example:
$ is cli version tmux gt 3.2 && echo || echo
$ is there go && is there nvim && nvim +:GoUpdateBinaries +qa
$ is known cli version bash 5.2.15
I've also been working on a service to track TLS cert expirations, domain name expirations, server pings and successful HTTP HEAD requests. https://www.prettygoodping.com/
It's an optimizer, just add what you know you want, set some cost / range / speed limits, and it will output the cheapest version of the ship that includes all required modules and has all requested stats.
Some overview posts: https://jodavaho.io/tags/highfleet.html
My colleague and I have been working on this tool and using it in some internal projects. It works quite well as an intent->functions machine, and makes the process of invoking functions with GPT a lot more bearable. We hope to make it a library which does one thing so great that it will be the industry standard in its niche, so looking for some feedback on the documentation and use.
Stripe's mobile app and others kinda do this already but some of their numbers can be inaccurate (as detailed in the repo's readme) so that made me open-source + solve an issue my own SaaS has with Stripe:
https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-app
As mentioned in the challenge section, getting data from Stripe is slow so I've been reluctant to put this app in front of others even though it is fully functional.
At this stage, I'm primarily targeting small senders that need great reputation. There are no dedicated IPs. Emails are delivered from a pool of shared IPs that have great time-to-inbox and deliverability.
In contrast to other providers, I do not plan to support click and open tracking to protect recipients privacy. I'd appreciate feedback on that though.
Always happy to chat about email in general if there are any questions.
If you have diverse interests (say Tech vs Games vs Traveling), they can each be contained within their own feeds and your recommendation signals will not be polluted between the different feeds.
Any help with code review or additional features are welcome :)
It's a web app to learn languages using podcasts, Youtube and chatgtp. I have been using these language learning techniques myself and I know they work better than duolingo or similar apps. I'm biased of course, but that's the reason I'm building this in the first place, I don't think there's any other app as effective out there.
It's not done yet, but it's usable on desktop. Any type of feedback is appreciated.
Its is a collection of engineering related blogs articles from technology companies. Its meant for technology professional to discover tech content. It also has a built-in instant search service of searching for a keyword (like 'gpt' or 'kubernetes') across multiple technology company website's blogs with a single search and filtering the results.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100760
(Hypersprawl/Hypershack is a metaverse/playground in 4 spatial dimensions. where you can upload your 4 dimensional objects and move around and in them. more info in the show HN or https://brainpaingames.com)
Currently it is completely free but I would need to assign certain permissions to new user accounts so they can create exercises and workouts. I would do that for everyone who signs up today.
I've been working on a landing page builder for sometime now (mostly just weekends though).
It's written in vue 3 and laravel. The usp is that once you enter the page data you can try on hundreds of designs and style and customise the components without ever touching the data.
My plan is it make it open source but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Here is one YouTube video I made explaining it
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cN7E6REY7TM
Would love to get some feedback too.
It works quite well and is very usable as a daily driver. I'm adding more features to it and making it available to install it via platform-native package managers.
More and more communities are moving to closed-off apps hidden behind auth, and not being indexed by search engines. This is quite unfortunate, and I'm hoping that Shpong can (soon) be a viable alternative that respects the open web.
Shpong instances federate with each other, and I'm working on adding ActivityPub compatibility as well.
- working on cleaning up the source for open sourcing
- the first task is failing right now due to a bug
- doc upload is bugged
- tools are disabled
- tons of loose ends in the UI
- Actively developed: database is likely to be wiped frequently until launch, along with any user accounts.
I'm currently in the design phase and would love to get feedback on the concept, especially from those who've faced disk space issues due to development projects.
Currently only South Australian & Victorian dive sites, but probably the most extensive collection of either.
Live website here: https://divedb.net/
Source here: https://github.com/cetra3/divedb
Currently exploring activitypub integration, being able to log dives and have people follow/comment/react to them from the fediverse
There are other transcription apps out there, but they are all focused on b2b, so I have been making one for individuals.
https://www.glowvoicenotes.com/
It’s still pretty early days(first version should be available in about a week) but I would love to find anyone out there interested in using voice as part of their work flow, there are a few different directions it could go in terms of features.
- https://mousetrack.co.uk - a Disney World price tracker that tracks how the hotel/ticket prices are changing over time and which also gives some great tips on how to save money on holidays
- https://chirper.picheta.me - A Chrome browser extension which puts the Mastodon timeline into twitter.com
Later on, we'll add job boards, ways to share summaries/notes, news, vote, tag, explore through user profiles, etc.
I have an early version of it hosted on https://ridemapper.henrygrant.dev and add features as I think of them/when I have time.
Currently working on building a simpler version first that lets you expose multiple ports (like for your frontend and backend), generates a public URL, and connects the ports by rewriting requests in the browser to the public URLs.
Basically ngrok + more powerful deploy previews. Curious what y’all think!
I've started building this a while ago but gave up around two years ago: https://gitlab.com/restbase/restbase
Catnip is an RSS web app with two main differentiators: - it's an RSS 'aggregator', not a reader mode. I believe the browser itself is the optimal reader. Every RSS app has a bespoke reader mode that tends to suck in comparison to the browser itself. - it has a frontpage that's an aggregate of some popular feeds, making it useful without an account. I plan on adding some boosting of popular feeds once I have users.
Currently working on Spheria - a Personal AI that learns from your data to be able to speak for you.
For a long time, I've been thinking of alternate ways to make my knowledge searchable by anyone at any time and forever (docs, posts, links, books, libraries...). Thought that putting a chat interface that acts as a safe guardrail would make the experience nicer.
Every day, you can send AI your selfies, and it will provide suggestions for your outfit and how to enhance your appearance. Sometimes, people feel hesitant to ask their friends for advice.
Here is the landing page I created with Carrd: https://glowbuddy.carrd.co/
The app is still in the idea stage, but I'd be happy to answer any questions!
Could monetize this eventually fairly easily with a premium version with expanded suite of features and improve the UX.
If anyone wants to help me take on some of the more technical aspects.
--> I need a clean HTML/CSS to PDF export functionality, but it's proving challenging.
Any interest or feedback?
Build user dashboards into your B2B SaaS product in five minutes, not five weeks
There are a lot of exciting filesystems out there - what I'm focusing on is ease of use and getting a "magic" experience for the end user. Think NFS, but easy to setup.
If anybody is interested in learning more or helping write some language specific implementations I'd love to talk.
And a skeleton application that uses the bundle. https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/SeleneCMS
Issues and Pull Requests welcome.
Depending on what feedback/success I have with it, I plan on adding support for more shells, operating systems, etc.
Lots of things that could be done with this but a lot of robotics teams and projects got laid in the past year and it doesn't have as many users as it once did. There is also Foxglove which is a full-blown funded startup working on something similar and the more progress they make, the less motivation I have to make my FOSS project better, as a one-person team.
* Air quality monitor -- https://dheera.net/projects/airmonitor/
Unfinished due to the PM2.5 sensor in it (PMSA003I) always reporting 0 and Adafruit not caring.
* BotParty -- telepresence robots -- https://dheera.net/projects/botparty/
Unfinished since COVID isolation ended and telepresence parties aren't needed anymore
* Luxo -- jumping Pixar lamp -- https://dheera.net/projects/luxo/
Unfinished due to lack of time but it does scoot and jump.
* Digital 4x5 camera back -- https://dheera.net/projects/4x5/
Unfinished due to issues with CRA optimization on the microlens array on the Pi HQ camera and unavailability of a real HQ camera with an actually large (e.g. 35mm) sensor.
* E-ink picture frame -- https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/
Pending to be done: (a) Get rid of the unsightly USB power wire, use a battery or super-capacitor and a thin strip of solar panel on top of the frame, and ESP32 deep sleep mode and have it update once every hour or so. (b) Update it to use a diffusion model in the cloud for image generation (c) Add a microphone and a mode where you can yell a prompt at it and it draws it
It's a simple (WIP) ISA and corresponding simulator. I want to get experience adding a new backend target for LLVM, and this is will be the target.
The idea is to be similar to other LLVM targets, but different enough that I can't just copy-and-paste existing LLVM code.
Basically got 0 paying customers right now, but we are using it on all our internal projects - just started running Google ads to see if I can get some conversions. Would love some feedback - especially if you are the target audience - a team that uses Slack and Notion.
It is a link aggregation. Can be used as a RSS client, or YouTube front end for subscriptions.
It is intended for light, personal use, therefore it is not much scalable, but supports user management.
I have to finish the front end but I don't like to do it so I'm constantly procrastinating.. Funny is that I wrote the backend in nodejs, later in .Net, and at the end with golang but I never finish the frontend...
Been working on this for 3-4 months. Summarizes YouTube videos and synthesizes podcasts that you can listen to. Also has transcripts so you can follow along. Click on the timestamp to jump ahead.
Summarization target percentage is set to about 50%. So if you want to listen to a Lex Friedman podcast, this can save you half the time.
Developed in pure JavaScript and can work in both desktop and mobile browsers.
It includes a custom front-end framework that completely eliminates the need for front-end coding.
The tool also includes many features such as a shopping cart, signatures, and fully flexible forms.
Development with this tool does not require a graphical interface, so ChatGPT can handle most of the development.
Package: https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna
A paper we're just finished: https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna/blob/main/papers/ai-sql-ac...
https://github.com/saulpw/aipl
When you want to run some prompts through an LLM over a dataset, with some preprocessing and/or chaining prompts together, AIPL makes it much easier than writing a Python script.
If you are like me you have a list of links to recipes on different websites. Maintaining this becomes a hassles and makes it hard to plan your week.
This website scrapes the recipes and saves them in a database, ensuring you aren’t reliant on the original website anymore. Useful if they decide to delete the recipe or disappear altogether.
I've just deployed the other day with a very basic design, but basic functionality tested - a way to charge people to send you messages. Trying to onboard first users now
Internal company podcast platform
Very open to feedback and ideas. Contact in my bio. Thanks HN!
Our newest vulnerability alert service. We aggregate vulnerability data from over 50 sources into one consistent data schema and allow users to write detailed queries and setup alerting. We've even introduced a pretty good local scanner to keep your SBOM up-to-date.
https://www.thumbsup.to/ - Collect more user feedback
It's a small tool to sort and filter protein bars.
I often found myself trying to figure out how many protein per dollar or calories I'd get and a friend of mine said he does the same. So we decided to build this in our spare time.
In technical terms, it's PostgREST + GoTrue as TS library (written in rust and go, compiled to wasm, with support for Ppostgres/MySql/Sqlite/ClickHouse)
* So I was thinking to create branches from 0 to do some work on it.
* Other approach I was thiking is everything in master/main but different folders.
They are meant to be small scripts or structures so I don't see a big reason for having different repositories
A no code web automation bot builder. It's in production, but still need to work on scaling the product, users.
It's https://wplytic.com - WordPress Analytics Plugin (data is stored directly in the WP database).
Sign up is possible but the link is nowhere on the website: https://app.monsterwriter.app/
https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt
Feedback welcome!
Trackmania meets Elite Dangerous but in 2 Dimensions
This my attempt at making a serious game, learning stuff and finally publishing wherever possible.
And I love feedback.
https://github.com/spideyz0r/kubesw
It's written in go, I did some releases but still requires more tests.
It would be cool to get some feedback.
Been working on a way to turn websites into animated demo videos, with clicks and transitions etc.
Hoping that it'll help with producing landing page videos or marketing videos without needing after effects
Working on this while working my main role. This is the missing piece I needed for my previous startup so been working to complete the suite.
Would love to connect with any lending/finance guys about this.
I’m currently searching around for a handful more clubs to try us out free in exchange for feedback.
I waited too long to publish this but it is still nowhere near done and I just had to publish early.
Missing most features I want to add but hey, it’s live now!
(No tutorial yet, click on the castle and move around with WASD. E to undo a move.)
Little multiplayer web game made with Elixir and Svelte. Based on the game generals.io.
Not mobile friendly atm.
* Build system that people will actually love. (I hope.)
* Init system that is easier to use than systemd, while also building distributed systems.
* All-in-one VCS, like Fossil, but it can track changes to binary files.
The actual Pip package isn't published yet, but the documentation should be self-explanatory.
The frontpage is done, demonstrating the product. ML pipeline is ready. It lacks the CRUD backend though.
-- please review the site before comparing to my goals below, to see if it matches --
It brings insights (with nice pixels) by clustering together wrt the reason an ML model "reasons about" predicting a column in the dataset.
UX is simple: upload a CSV/excel, select a goal column and you are set.
I haven't spent much time marketing it if at all, and have gotten little feedback; and none wanting to pay for it.
If you see some interest in it, I'd love to talk about it. Or even integrate it in another product, for a fee
The goal was to avoid aggregators like plaid while avoiding manual entry.
It’s a headache to remember return windows for different merchants.
You own the content, I care about distribution.
I tried a self-hosted blog, but comments and likes were a mess. Email was my solution.
what is your idea / project?
An odd mashup between Diablo, old arcade shooters, with a splash of Vampire Survivors style progression
https://github.com/hofstadter-io/cuelm (working name)
Our hypothesis is that a unified config space across our industry will bring many benefits.
Our open questions are largely around whether we
(1) replace / alternative
(2) just a skin, still same reconciliation loop from the tools
(3) replace, but support existing modules & charts
I have been working on this podcast transcription project for a couple months and it's been super rewarding.
I listen to a podcast called No Such Thing As A Fish[0], where some researchers talk about their favorite facts they learned that week. Then they riff on it and are generally smart and funny. I listened to the series so many times that I decided I wanted to listen to the show on shuffle, not at the episode level, but at the fact level.
Since I have been playing around with whisper.cpp in python this seemed like a perfect way to combine some technologies I've been wanting to play with.
I ran whisper[1] over the entire podcast and transcribed all the episodes. I had to do this multiple times because I kept messing up. It eventually took like 7 straight days of my M1 processing to get through ~490 episodes using the medium.en model.
4 million words, and an 800Mb SQLite database later, I got the transcriptions done and have put up a nice site for searching through the data.
Now I just need to figure out the rest. Breaking it up into facts. Getting the audio working. Highlighting and linking to words, phrases, etc.
Some cool info about the process so far:
1. The SQLite database is chunked up and stored as static files, and the frontend queries the static files directly using HTTP range requests, so it only downloads a couple hundred kbs when querying.
2. I've been proper using ChatGPT 3.5 free version to help me write python and SQL. It's been pretty game changing as I feel basically no pain from not knowing what I'm doing.
The code is here: https://github.com/noman-land/transcript.fish
Please help if you know how to get whisper speaker diarization working!! I would really appreciate the help.
Also any tips on ways to index[2] or search[3] my database that will be super efficient would be helpful. Indexing matters a lot when querying the database in ranges like this... I have learned...
[0] https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/
[1] https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper
[2] https://github.com/noman-land/transcript.fish/blob/maste/db/...
[3] https://github.com/noman-land/transcript.fish/blob/master/sr...
Talk with an LLM to guess the secret word it's thinking.
Shouldn't take much longer but I haven't released it yet. I have been playing around with how I want the commands to be displayed. Simple but useful for me, and I plan to keep it open source.
What for, you may ask? Basically I'm trying to decompile a PlayStation 1 video game and I've quickly decided that dealing alone with multiple +500 KiB executables of complete utter spaghetti code wasn't going to work. Instead, I've decided that I'd rather divide-and-conquer the problem, so I've been tooling up to split executables into relocatable object files, in order to decompile those one at a time and Ship of Theseus-style my way to success.
Ironically, all of that stuff is so not done that I don't even know what meaningful feedback there could be. My prototypes do work, but only for 32 bit little endian statically-linked MIPS executables. The articles on my blog are draft-quality. As for the decompilation project itself that started all of this, it hasn't seen much progress due to all of those side-quests. The overall topic is so esoteric that so far I've only managed to hear about one group of two persons that tried to do anything remotely similar and one another anecdotal account [6] suggesting that this particular skill is very uncommon among reverse engineers.
Personally, I'm starting to think that maybe I could've actually reverse-engineered and decompiled the game in the time I took to get here. I've also tried to engage with Ghidra to upstream the foundations of my modifications in my fork, but after some back-and-forth it became clear that my prototype-grade stuff wasn't industrial-grade and couldn't be merged in its current state, which is why I'm currently reworking the code in my fork as a Ghidra extension.
To those that want to provide feedback after reading all of this: beware, I've had a lot of fun going down that rabbit hole, but this is one hell of a time sink and a particularly tricky mind-bender.
[1] I don't actually know what's the actual name for this technique, given that there are so few resources on it out there. I do know I didn't invent it.
[2] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-unlinker-scripts
[3] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/tree/feature/elfrelocateble...
[4] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-unlinker-extension
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081#36590078
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232&p=3#35740761