- Nulis - a tree text editor for writers
I have built a beta that was very well received, now it's time to clean up the code(rewriting it from scratch), add some cool features, and follow the roadmap to complete v1.0.
- Helix - a habit tracking app
Designed this app mostly for myself, but I think it turned out great, has a lot of potential, and users seem to love it. My goal here is also to complete all the functionality I've set out to complete with my roadmap and reach a solid v1.0.
- Startup Lab - blog
I want to seriously pick up the pace and quality of my blogging. I want to finally develop a sustainable daily writing habit, and make some successful posts.
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If I succeed, I will have two awesome SaaS projects to sell, and a great traction channel(articles + medium publications + reddit) to promote them.
I've estimated that I will need 40k total visitors(or 9 months of 150 daily visitors) to reach my goal of $1k MRR
(40k visitors * ~5% retention * ~10% conversion to paying customers = 200 paying users. 200 users * $5/mo = $1k/mo).
If I successfully accomplish my plan - I will finally achieve my dream and become a successful startup founder.
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As a bonus, I would love to find a good voiceover actor and produce YouTube videos out of my articles(or learn to speak better and do voiceover myself); and I would also experiment with engineering as marketing(I have 3 smaller projects I could promote and use as a traction channel).
I'd use this, looking forward to a V1.
Nulis seems very interesting. I just played with it a bit. I certainly like your approach on creating an outline.
I'm also working on an app for writers: https://mediatag.io. It is more general for all creatives and filmmakers, but I wrote a use case for screenwriters: https://mediatag.io/use_cases/filmmaking/screenwriting
A complete Rust implementation has the benefit that it can be adapted to myriad other languages and thus has a much wider audience appeal. It's also about 10x faster than cpython, but pypy may eliminate that gap entirely. Of course there are the usual other benefits, as well.
Since Rust is in its infancy for application development, such an authorization library would address a growing need by the Rust ecosystem.
If any programmers want in, email me.
References:
Yosai: https://github.com/YosaiProject
Python-Rust adapter: https://github.com/YosaiProject/yosai_libauthz
authz.rs: https://github.com/Dowwie/rust-authz
blog post: http://daringordon.com/rust_tutorials/
Obviously a lot of CSS work to do, however with some better SEO and animations, it could be a useful tool with affiliate possibilities. This isn't an area I know much about/care for, however.
Check us out if interested: recesslabs.com
For me, my last side project was a crypto-related joke site (sendcryptopeopletulips.com).
I think the next one will also be a humor + tech project. I'm really interested to explore tech as a medium for comedy.
Besides I'm going to read a lot, and finally understand Haskell.
As for the programming stuff: write a book about databases, and write some Postgres patches for fun.
[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.castlewrat...
I was wondering, what are you using to make this? Are the sounds sampled, or is there digital synthesis going on?
Ha ha, that's a fun area. I had written this Python "piano" app for PCs a while ago; it's simple, but the comments on it about Western classical music theory (which I am a newb at) were interesting:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/04/play-piano-on-your-comput...
Edit: In fact, I had first written a BASIC version of this same program on my first personal computer, an IBM PC Jr., which I wrote about here:
Lissajous hippo, retrocomputing and the IBM PC Jr.:
I swear I'd end up late for my own funeral.
One of the features is called 'Lightbox' where you can draw overtop a picture and follow steps of a tutorial. Another feature would be to help artists find resources related to your niche with 'LinkKit'.
Right now its very old code and I've been working on a much cleaner update during the past year. So, once its ready I'll do the show 'Show HN' thing for feedback.
Here's a taste of the old code.
Lightbox http://artjutsu.com/lightbox/canvas/Default.aspx?q=3
Jam Together is a web application which you can use to play some music together with your friends, remotely. Right now it's possible to play with a midi keyboard as well as just your laptop keys.
I've got a piano, a synth and a drum kit working (if you create a free account. Piano only without an account).
I'll be adding more instruments, work on reducing latency (anyone here with multiplayer game development experience that would like to help out?), different jamming modes, and most importantly work on some marketing to get more feedback on the app so I can evolve it in the right direction.
Check it out on the link below. A couple of disclaimers though... Chrome only, optimised for people residing in the EU for now, otherwise latency is too much of an issue to reliably play.
I'm using ArangoDB (https://www.arangodb.com/) to store ideas as collections of nodes, where the properties and details of those ideas (or objects) can be connected to eachother. The properties can be simple descriptions of the node, or documents such as html, pdf, or images.
Im doing this because my memory is terrible (ADHD), and I want to make a system that lets me take notes and record ideas in a way thats more... organic in the way that I think about things. I also tend to use a lot of documentation from the web, and have no way of sorting it other than through bookmarks. Being able to pull webpages off of the internet and reference them within notes is a powerful tool, I have found.
I'm excited for the project for a lot of reasons, but what excites me the most is what I can do once I have this personal database filled out enough. I will essentially have a graph based model of what is typically floating around my head, like a network of thoughts, interconnected by both objective and subjective properties. I aim to use this database to build a sort of personal assistant, personalized for the user.
I think that this is something that we are kind of missing today, where a lot of our interactions come from the internet, this ephemeral space where you can't exactly organize everything that you see and interact with. As an example, imagine that you saw a neat article about cancer research that you wanted to tell someone about later. You send the URL to your database server where it is downloaded, parsed, tagged, and linked to other articles or notes that you may have (this would start out being manual, but I hope to automate it). Once that info is in the database, you can have it recalled through either a direct request for that record, or through implicit actions such as looking for scientific papers in the database and narrowing it down to the one you want.
I have nothing to show for the project so far, it still in it's infancy, but I really think that this is something that will be useful to people, if at the least just myself.
For matrix in general, see: https://matrix.org/
For diff. between matrix and xmpp, see: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differen...
For Dendrite - matrix's homeserver written in Go - see: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
Cheers!
- A "Travel Guide" for Physics, which collects the best explanations for any physics topic and sorts them depending on the required level of sophistication: https://physicstravelguide.com/
- A platform, where students and researchers can publish their notes: https://physicsnotes.org/
Website: https://learn-anything.xyz
Code: https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything
Currently trying to move to a new design and format.
For 2018 I'm hoping to make progress on an app I've started, which handles Project Management specifically for software development consultants. The difference from most other PM tools is going to be handling multiple projects for multiple clients, client/role-restricted views, separate-but-linked requirements and task+time tracking, and separate-but-linked budgeting and estimating. I'm designing this primarily for myself, but also so that it can become a SaaS product I can offer as either a hosted service or self-hosted product.
It's more of a full-time project until it succeeds or fails. If it takes off then I'd love to build SEO recommendations and Digital Marketing tools into it. These are 2 industries in the content world that really need to be commoditised.
As a side-project to Pollygot, I'd love to do an RSS reader app where you can view discussions from both HN and Reddit within the same app. If this one takes off, then I'd love to do a Flattr/Brave type model of micropayments within the app
- input: https://p.sicp.me/gti5L.lisp
- output: https://p.sicp.me/bRaaf.js
It's written in lua (915 lines at the moment). I do that to help me with the building of a programmable voice assistant (https://github.com/slasheva).
BTW this topic is a great idea. 4chan has a daily programming thread like that.
Some ideas:
Poker variant - quite hard but thought of a way to do it without a trusted oracle.
Hodl contract - forces you to hold for X months
Simple asset price contract where 2 parties bet each way. Requires an oracle.
Sports betting. Oracle.
Reputation coin - prove your general rep by aggregating HN, SO, Reddit etc. scores. Oracle.
The usual lottery
A "ponzi"
Let me know if you want to get in touch and I'll stick an email in my profile. Would like someone to bounce ideas and help each other if stuck.
Release finally my timetable generator application for highschools/universities https://github.com/karandit/confetti/
2. Finish my other long pending project, a REST API game inspired by the detective game Cluedo https://github.com/karandit/rest_dojo_web
It was used as a motivation for me to learn elm http://elm-lang.org/
I am going to be working on finishing that up in 2018.
It's a huge project that is going to take me quite some time. I want to keep the site 100% ad free, so I trying to put together some ideas on how to monetize it. For now I an just asking for donations. But at some point I might need to figure out some kind of way to monetize it.
- United States Ghost Towns http://unitedstatesghosttowns.com
And of course my open-source webhook server project: https://github.com/adnanh/webhook
It also adds the concurrency control feature so you don't have to worry if you want only one instance of the script running, or want to kill the currently running one, or run them in parallel etc...
Another feature would be generic trigger rules where you can use values from payload to see if the script should be run at all (i.e. push to the feature branch, but you want to run the script on merges to master...).
As a developer, all of this might sound easy to implement, but whatever you make, you also have to maintain... And as you know, the business requirements tend to change quite often and you'll get to a point where you have to generalize your custom CGI scripts, and you end up spending more time maintaining infrastructure than doing development on the actual product.
Webhook on other hand is pretty much a CGI server with a few handy features :-)
This year I reimplemented it in rust and did some low level optimization to make it fast.
Initially I thought it'd be easy to acquire users since I'm speaking to my own kind - but it's pretty hard to get into developers' head :) No instagram influencers can be used, that's for sure.
Anybody have any ideas?
It infers inspirations for queried movies using their reviews: http://cinetrii.com?i=tt5580390
If it's simple enough, I don't bother Googling for a solution, I build it for them. Exactly as they request. Nothing more, nothing less.
Between farmbot and MIT openAg, it feels like there is momentum to disrupt the food industry. From my first tests this year, it is way cheaper and gives better results, to grow my own food either in the small plot in my back yard or inside in some sort of hydroponic setup. My goal is to make it super simple.
Also going to create some free example applications for hopefully teaching more advanced native concept on Android to any who want.
Looking for beta testers to give feedback at the moment.
Using Elixir, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, Stripe Connect probably hosted at Packet, Vultr or DO and maybe GCP.
Not a fan of AWS or Serverless-hype.