Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
I see so many AI product launches. Is there anyone who is working on non-AI products?
If so what are you working on?
If so what are you working on?
Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me!
After almost a year of work I finally smoothed out all the kinks in the process, so can now go from a design to synthetic DNA in a cell in about a week (not counting oligo pool synthesis time). I can do about 600,000bp per week, which is large enough to synthesize the smallest bacterial genome (each week), tho I only do about 1000bp fragments. I’m also completely bootstrapped and self funded, and only get help from my several opentrons robots
Bespoke synthetic DNA is much cooler though.
I don't suppose you'll need documentation help at some point in the near future...?
Might interest you!
Sorry but that's so outside of my understanding it reads like pure science fiction
(I'm sure it's a thing, I'm just a moron)
Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
The first thing that jumps to mind is that I want to click on a piece of code and see the explanation for it. It seems that it only goes in the other direction. I could imagine looking at the code and understanding most of it and just wanting to understand part of it.
I could anticipate an issue though - it could be many-to-one from explanation to code. The UI for that would be complicated.
I actually have several potential improvement ideas.
1. Put the walkthrough it in a graph, or a minimap to see the whole picture easily? Or in a https://c4model.com/ visualization 2. Why not make clickable code references visually stand out? 3. Make a VScode extension for it
Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry," and they go out and buy you a $50 necklace that's actually worth only a buck or two, but has a gift card code worth $45 on the underside of the box.
You thank them profusely for the lovely necklace, they feel good for having bought you something besides a gift card, and you feel good that you can put $45 toward a new washing machine.
It would solve the problem of littering your house with cheap products, save the buyer the embarrassment of gifting something that looks like 2$ jewelry (it is noticeable when it is that cheap), and it makes easier for people to pretend that they actually want that necklace for the necklace and not for the gift card.
These kind of people who think receiving gifts is some kind of entitlement are the same kind of people who start bringing up their diets when you invite them for dinner. Cold, calculating, reptilian. No human emotion or joy of life.
I'm focussing on smaller circles, avoiding "algorithmic" feeds (aware sorting by reverse chronological order is an algorithm), and no advertising.
It borrows a lot from the greats like HN, Delicious, etc. and there's a long way to go (I just added likes last week) but people are already finding some nice links from it!
You can see it at https://lynkmi.com/ and I'd recommend reading the about page for even more. If it sounds interesting to you please sign up to the waitlist—it's very short!
I'm also building it in public so follow along if you want: https://twitter.com/TheOisinMoran/status/1725929527761596434
edit: thank goodness the domain name actually is https://lynkmi.com/, crisis averted.
#1 use right now is making looping clips from youtube videos, but I want it to function as a semi-shared way to organize bookmarks
Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown:
Model - Return - Max drawdown
S&P 500 (benchmark): +9.91% -27.56%
Platinum: +45.34% -16.48%
Gold: +39.53% -19.12%
Silver: +17.24% -22.96%
Bronze: +14.12% -23.93%
Vix Basic: +9.81% -24.23%
TA - Mean Reversion: +17.77% -19.92%
TA - Trend: +17.29% -24.98%
This is an unleveraged, apples to apples comparison. These are not high frequency trading models. Most of them only make a trade every 2-4 weeks on average. During long signals, the models are simply long the S&P 500 and during short signals, they go to cash. This can be implemented very tax efficiently by holding a core ETF long position that never gets sold and then selling S&P 500 futures (ES or MES) of equal value to the ETFs against the long position. This way your account will accumulate unrealized capital gains indefinitely and you'll only pay tax on the net result of successful hedging. The cherry on top is that the S&P 500 futures are section 1256 contracts that are taxed at 60% long term / 40% short term capital gains rates regardless of the duration they are held.
The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom built. Most important are various VIX metrics (absolute level, VIX futures curve shape/slope, divergences against S&P 500 price, etc), trend-following TA metrics (MACD, EMV, etc), mean-reversion TA metrics (Bollinger Bands, CMO, etc), macroeconomic (unemployment, housing starts, leading composite), and monetary policy (yield curve inversion, equity risk premium, dot plot, etc). They've been backtested very cautiously to avoid overfitting.
1. Love the name, not enough Pyrrhonists on hacker news these days! The OG.
2. Love the website, your design skills are killer. I hate that entire industry and even still my monkey brain went "oo I want to see the Euphoria index, sign up!"
3. This is kinda quintissential AI. Not to distract this thread from the valuable topic of non-trendy projects, but this is a great example of why we need to reclaim "AI" as a much more general term. I mean "algorithmic trading" could be a synonym for "human-like problem solving"...
The biggest problem was that the system really needed a minimum account of $1m USD so that each position wasnt too large and to get the diversification across different futures markets.
Did you list the returns of the commodities as a comparison, or are you trading those futures as well in the mix? (I know you only talked about ES/MES)
So far, there’s more than 1500 subscribers after a month and a half
Also, I thoroughly enjoyed your article -- How AI is disrupting the demand for software engineers: data from 20M job postings (https://bloomberry.com/how-ai-is-disrupting-the-tech-job-mar...). I've subscribed to your newsletter as well. Keep up the great work!
I had a similar idea of scraping lever, greenhouse and linkedin to get informed of absolute latest senior software engineer jobs. I also wanted to correlate to past job posts to rule out duplicates/reposts, and to analyze against what I am looking for. Some jobs rule out certain states and timezones. Other jobs are primarily java which is my only hard-no.
Encouraging sharing with friends and starting conversations about topics you might never have considered having not known they were into the same books as you.
Very rough draft but it has the core functionality, even if it’s a bit cumbersome.
I thought of doing this a while ago but for children books, never went on to actually do it but I definitely see a need in there,
* Children books are quite expensive
* Most of those you get over them in a couple minutes to an hour
* Your kids want new books every single day
Buying 5-10 and regularly trading them with other parents seems like a neat solution.
I've been wanting to build this too. Want to chat? Happy to collaborate
My username at gmail.com
Tender runs as a PWA and uses the Automerge crdt and sqlite via wasm. The app more or less runs entirely in your browser (works offline!), though our server proxies connections to pull in plaid/splitwise data.
Feature-wise, we're targeting folks who do want to manage their expenses but not have to do fine-grained budgeting. There's tools for tracking getting paid back and a splitwise integration as well. The app is desktop-centric right now, but we're working on getting a good mobile workflow together too.
Since everything is browser-based, it was actually quite easy to get a demo sandbox environment working. You can give it a quick spin here: https://demo.tender.run
What I mainly use from them is:
- investment performance tracking across my various accounts.
- retirement planning/forecasting
- cash flow, expense, and income tracking overtime.
- warnings about upcoming credit card bills; amount is never right but I pay my statement in full so just a little thing saying “Hey this is going to hit your account on this date” is helpful for me.
- basic budgeting
Anyway a local first privacy respecting alternative I would definitely pay for. iPad support would be a must for me.
Just some unsolicited feedback. Best of luck
EDIT: forgot to mention the reason I am looking for alternatives. Empower bought Personal Capital and are getting much more aggressive in pushing their management services.
So, I figure it is only a matter of time before they either start selling my data or cut me off since I am not interested in anything they are selling. They have really nice iOS apps though.
It's a mashup of a safety deposit box, time capsule, and deadman switch.
It's not ready yet, but will be ready in a few weeks. If you're interested, I would really like to talk to you. My email is ethan@ethanmye.rs
FWIW, I did use chatgpt to write a lot of boilerplate JS and fix my bootstrap templates!
edit deadpan->deadman
DNA storage is interesting, though can be damaged by radiation. Would love to see where you land with this project - it's one of the few cases where crypto may actually be the only real digital solution.
So far I've built a first pass of the pipeline using C++/CUDA and used it to power a SaaS and desktop photogrammetry app (free for personal non-commercial use). Got some useful feedback from the initial release of the desktop app back in January and I'm hoping to spend some time iterating to improve further later in the year (currently contracting to generate some funds).
It's possible that some deep learning generative AI network will take over all 3d model generation from photos tasks in the future but I'm hoping/betting that a) classical techniques will give higher resolution, more accurate results for a while yet and b) even if deep learning matches in accuracy and resolution it will always be possible to get better efficiency for big chunks of the pipeline using classical techniques.
I want it just for fun, but I’m sure it to real estate agents!
It's a web-based scratchpad and note taker for developers and power users.
It sits somewhere between Obsidian and Simplenote.
It's particularly optimized for keyboard navigation: Ctrl + K / ⌘ + K to open note navigator where you can quickly create new note, switch between notes, delete notes.
Even though it runs in the browser, when running on Chrome you can store notes in a folder on disk and share between computers if that folder is replicated via DropBox / OneDrive / Google Drive etc.
More info: https://edna.arslexis.io/help
This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming progress on Twitch.
If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1].
[1] https://warp.dev
I recently saw a video about a terminal emulator being developed in Zig by Mitchell Hashimoto.
Googled now and found the text of the talk, which links to the video.
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-pattern...
How is the privacy aspect? Does it use ChatGPT? Do you support any local LLMs?
No ads, no data sale, E2E encryption, localhost option, basic budgetting and transaction parsing, but for power users allows spinning up a jupyter notebook to play with your financial data.
I'd be really interested in something like this.
Just launched a PWA and now working on more mixing features like spatial audio, reverb and high/low-pass filters to let you create even more immersive sound environments.
Both are very fun and rewarding, and I love building things that help spend less time in front of a (glowing) screen.
I'm currently in the process of converting it to a proper commercial service and making it available to others. If this sounds like something that would be of use to anyone, I'd love to hear from you! Email is in my about section (or just respond here).
The idea is that each CSS variable becomes a widget and then the Blueberry endpoint will serve those variables so you can let your users customize profile pages/portals and other places they integrate with you UI.
A few years ago my eyes would dry out within a few minutes of using a screen. I tried eye drops, resting my eyes, taking longer breaks, etc... which didn't work.
I did some research and there's something called the 20-20-20 rule which means looking at something at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. I found this app and it fixed my issues. Turns out the issue is your eye not changing what it's focusing on.
Highly recommend trying it even if you're not actively experiencing issues.
Your app looks a lot nicer than the one I'm using so I'll give it a try!
I'm on an M1 OS 14.1.1
I messed around with some AI features, mostly just for fun and to see if they could help users onboard. But the core product is decidedly not AI.
It’s mainly an excuse to learn some new things (HTMX, Prisma, DigitalOcean, etc.), as well as get comfortable building and shipping something from scratch on my own.
My goal is to eventually see large (and funny) swings in reactions in realtime.
I don't have a link to share since it's still fairly early in development, but I'm making good progress!
The tool automatically converts this layout into database (unpivot), enabling users to perform aggregations such as SUM or AVERAGE without having to write formulas. Because the structure designed by the user often carries significance, such as organizing dates into columns with a hierarchical structure like Year -> Quarter -> Month.
Users can organize their data with grouped rows/columns and insert aggregations. Simultaneously, Ottava can derive insights from the structure metadata and propose various types of charts for data exploration. Subsequently, users can select the charts they are interested in, choose datasets, or drill down into the charts, providing further insight for Ottava to offer more precise chart suggestions based on user interactions.
Unlike AI with the capability to autopilot, our objective is to build a Mazda MX-5 for data analysis: providing users with both enjoyment and control while exploring data.
Also comes with a few niceties like the ability to directly consume Streams, Sockets, WebSockets and SafeFileHandles with U8Reader (sync/async) that solves painful and error-prone manual buffer handling when reading lines/segments/messages. It is kind of like higher level Rust's BufReader.
Real physics and computational communication problems. Crazy tech, fun stuff!!
At work we spent a bunch of time implementing monitoring and alerting for all our APIs and I figured it would be nice to have a near plug-and-play solution, so I built exactly that.
By the way, I'd appreciate a programming partner with whom I can discuss security issues in C code. I would gladly exchange code review sessions. Is anyone interested here?
All are creatable and editable without coding skills (after the initial copy-paste setup). So for example, product managers and customer success can manage them without having to bother devs.
Here is the link to the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Here is the link to our website with more information: https://ntl.ai/reflect
It is split into an Angular UI, C# ASP.NET Core RESTful API and postgres database. I aimed to let EF Core handle the data model in the database and am pleasantly surprised by how well it works. Also updating the database is a breeze with its migrations.
The features of a forum seem easy enough, but I find it difficult to detail it out into the data model at times.
Though I am having trouble figuring out a simple way to solve discovering and make it work autonomously without leaving it open to spam
Any ideas or feedback appreciated
I give you a non-intrusive bait (ssh private key, crypto wallet private key), you store it anywhere you want to monitor.
A manufacturing focused ERP system using SvelteKit and SQL Server. These systems are typically made with Java and it's becoming clear to me that it's massive overkill when SQL Server is (or can be) doing most of the work and the application is (or can be) a thin layer between the user and the database. Using only one language, with perfectly matched types and validation schemas for both frontend and backend is a huge productivity win. Some may sneer at JS but my product running on Node is snappier than the competition and I think I can develop quality features with good UX faster P4P (only a 2 man team).
And a "mood meter" mapping app that puts anonymous reports of how folks are feeling on a world map. I don't quite have the skills (yet) to do this latter project, so we'll see how much time I have to dedicate to it.
As for the domain, I had it lying around so I used it.
It appears on top of all your other applications to capture and channel your attention into the things you actually care about, before you get distracted.
In the morning, it helps you effectively plan your most important tasks and throughout the day it pulls your focus back to those tasks.
You can check it out here: https://dayglow.app
It's gained a decent amount of content and users since launching shortly after the Vision Pro launch.
Coming up on a million domains served, it's been a fun ride!
After diving a bit into finance last year, I found the book "Smart Portfolios" by Rob Carver, which basically aimed at teaching simple heuristics to help create and manage robust stock portfolios. Sadly this book has quite a few simplifications that were valid at the time of writing but are not anymore (ie. interest rates ~= 0). So I set myself to re-implement this a bit properly in a tool for me and eventually other people.
It's up and running online but still a work in progress. It only work for US stocks and the charts can sometimes display non-sense.
I'd like to provide a lot of customization options for the user to customize it as they see fit. And ultimately make it FOSS in case anyone else wants to play around with it.
I'm still working on UI wireframes, but I use my site to publically post progress updates. https://www.keoni.dev
It's a free online coding website targeted towards beginners learning Markdown and other frontend tools like HTML, htmx, alpine.js, etc. It has GitHub pages-like hosting and you get your own free sparkshell.sh subdomain for your projects (which can be on your domain while having the source private!). You can also easily install certain libraries and frameworks in a couple clicks without having to deal with package managers or any of the sort. It's meant to be a sort of Repair alternative, but free.
Some screenshots: https://franz.hamburg/atoms/2024_Feb09_18:30.html
Terminals introduced cursor movement feature in the 1970s. Bill Joy responded with releasing vi in 1976. Text editing as we know it today was born. It used ... the whole screen! How the shell responded to this new feature? It largely didn't.
Back to NGS. The programming language is in a good shape. Working on the UI.
Coming from a trading background myself, I've worked for trading desks and quantitative trading firms, so I've seen many tools used by professionals that are not popular among retail investors, are not very well-known, or exist in the form of heavy and hard-to-get desktop apps. I’m trying to build something web-based, lightweight, and approachable, hoping to introduce a broader audience to these tools.
Lots of companies just cobble together a Google Form full of irrelevant questions, send it out, and throw their hands in the air when nobody fills it out.
WorkDNA surveys your team on criteria like CI/CD reliability, test flakiness, PR feedback quality, job satisfaction, and psychological safety. The surveys take 20 minutes to set up, 5 minutes to fill out, and are completely anonymous.
There is still work I have to do before a v1 release but definitely interested in feedback. https://github.com/therealpaulgg/ssh-sync
The main focus on the product has been working on a cross platform application that can record and upload screen recordings, then on the backend it has been everything else to handle this
The source code is available here https://github.com/mangledbottles/screenlink
https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/qr_code_loyalty...
You create a new member by filling a Google Form (they receive a digital member card with a QR code by email), and add or subtract points by scanning the QR code.
Some of the workflows I'm trying to unlock:
- Track every breaking change pushed to your API and notify your team on Slack and e-mail
- Generate a changelog from your OpenAPI automatically
- Generate mocks for every endpoint to share with your frontend person/team
- Public, private, and password-protected API reference pages to share with partners
Here's a link: https://frevo.dev (still in early access)
MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Been thinking about adding AI-related features but there isn't that much AI that would really make the product better.
At some point AI may have a role in the platform. But for now we're focused on much more fundamental problems related to the process of developing and scaling software applications.
BTW we're looking for developers to try it out!
It uses the microdata and json-ld documents embedded in the page to find the content you actually want to see. No need for AI/LLM extraction.
Thermal printers are small in size and the format is perfect for quick printouts :) (and it's just fun)
The tool is called Sales & Dungeons: https://github.com/BigJk/snd
The idea is that you have a "framework" that you can change for what you want the music generator to produce. You can download the MIDI files it produces as well.
TL;DR elevator pitch: subscription based reddit-like platform. Your subscription is split evenly between everything you upvote that month. Nonio takes $1 out of your subscription to pay for servers.
One thing I found from the launch was there was a huge volume of mobile users, who didn't have a great experience. I hired a dev to help work on an iOS app for this, which we're building in the open.
Designs: https://www.figma.com/file/im8a7L7axmbj0S0lm27NKa/Nonio-iOS-...
I learned since starting that this field is saturated; there are many options... including several going through strong marketing campaigns currently! I'm going to still release this because it's mostly done, and it'll be something I use, even if no one else does; advantage of being able to customize it.
I do think I can do this better than other options in these areas - A: Faster and more responsive (by virtue of not using frameworks, tracking, analytics etc) B: Respectful of the user. Ie, no marketing email, compact site designed so you spend as little time on it as possible etc.
However, when I read this thread, it makes me not feel great about it, since it's not original or cool; not something contributing to mankind's advancement.
What I'm working on at the moment, and am sort of stuck on, on is how to make a web app doing in-browser encryption secure - since the server delivers the code that does the encryption in the browser, users sort of have to trust the server anyway to deliver that code. I would like to at least somehow, maybe through a browser extension, assure the user that the version of the web app running in the browser is at least is the same as the build output for a given release in the repo on GitLab/GitHub/the like maybe... then it's sort of like 2FA in the reverse direction, 2 sources (https server connection + extension doing code check) confirm that the real web app has been delivered to the browser.
Appreciate any thoughts on this head scratcher! Maybe there's some way to assure the web app code integrity I just don't know about! :)
It's a non destructive photo editor with a strong bend towards procedural generation.
Working on a video touch recording feature at the moment.
It's uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams.
In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k <vendor>, all their system ever did was alert us when we weren't down".
I'm currently working on a self-documenting (OpenAPI, rolled it myself: https://developers.onlineornot.com/) API that'll let folks use terraform (or even just the API itself) to setup their uptime checks, cron job monitoring, status pages, even their teams.
Next month is scheduled for a few projects that are aimed at a broader market than the current products, like an API and a toy/demonstration version for casual users.
Starting with basic analytics, then adding the ability to create SLA, and maybe predicting spend.
Still very early https://github.com/marketplace/action-insights-repotower
So, investing in AI is a large risk: back to my university, the popular AI framework is a neural network, logistic regression, supported-vector machines, etc.
Instead, I spent time working on data infrastructure, which keeps evolving but follows a somewhat consistent direction. If you look at databases, the essential building blocks are identical to those fifty years ago.
I first worked on Apache Flink and became a committer after one year as a contributor. And then Apache ZooKeeper and Curator, so did become a committer / PMC member. Later TiDB / TiKV and now GreptimeDB. The knowledge and experience is reusable.
While some may not see this as a problem, it’s actually kind of hard to find great Christian apps in the sea of old blog posts of top 10 apps all taking about the same apps
I’d consider myself an indie hacker and built many tools for Christians, but later discovered there’s no great place to distribute those apps. Hear me out. The app stores are good, but they won’t feature a Christian app as app of the day. It makes sense to not prefer one religion over another as a major corporation. What it does do is leave a hole for Christian app makers
Thus https://faith.tools was born
For the uninitiated, Handshake is a blockchain that democratizes the issuance of TLDs via Vickrey-style auctions. Handshake does NOT handle SLDs (second-level domains, or just "domains").
That's where beachfront/ comes in. I recently presented my progress at HandyCon a couple weeks ago and published the transcription this morning.
https://blog.neuenet.com/post/handycon-presentation
Why do I bother with this? Handshake is a blockchain-based naming system focused on TLDs (and security via DANE/DNSSEC). Other blockchains are focused on finance, data, &c and just so happen to have (SLD) naming systems.
For the rating and review application, providing a platform where anyone can review the creator, and add a comment on channel level and video level. This will help both the creators and consumers. Trustpilot for YouTube channels and videos.
The next one is to build an E2E content delivery setup all in one platform - starting from research to script writing, thumbnail sharing and review, video review, followed by an approval step and publish it directly to YouTube Studio. Platform will have multiple role based profiles so that the channel owner no need to share the YouTube studio credentials with everyone and no need to do all the tasks on their own.
[0]: https://dflate.io/shady-phoney
[1]: https://dflate.io/vscode-soy
These days I am taking a break and looking to "pivot" it into a more complete website monitoring tool, that not only scans for broken links, but also offer uptime monitoring, page speed and scans for all sorts of issues that might affect your user. Basically a one-stop shop for everyone that runs a website.
This is a product I would love for myself, but I am unsure if it is a good idea to expand the scope of a product that originally had quite clear and "modest" goals: to check for broken links.
I’m hosting a 6 week cohort of makers and builders to meet virtually every week and share progress with a demo day at the end. It’s been really exciting to see the response of such a program. People are doing things from crocheting to programming.
It’s totally free and the point is to meet other people making things and to finish your own projects.
Here’s a blog post where I chat more about it: https://iml.bearblog.dev/lets-make-things-together
But I imagine there could be a whole CRM-like system that might need to be built to manage it if it gets any bigger.
Some unique selling points are:
- Apps are defined as declarative HTML. It's possible to build complex apps using only HTML + CSS and no back end code.
- Supports the creation of complex filters/views via a simple UI, with indexing for fast lookups.
- Collections and records update in real time.
- Efficient; real time updates only reach users who are currently looking at the affected resources/views.
- Scalable; behind the scenes, both the database and pub/sub mechanism for delivering real time updates support sharding.
- Spam prevention with rate limiting and backpressure limits.
My prototype lets me create project templates (that can contain other projects) and I can instantiate an arbitrary amount of them. Triggers can be a time ("every quarter") or some logical threshold (e.g. failing three workouts puts a "review fitness plan" action on my schedule).
It's my first real coding project and almost certainly too big, but it's been very fun to use so far and I already have ~50% of my ADHD social circle interested in the alpha.
Think highly paid freelancers (we find opportunities for them) and blue-collar service companies (they want more leads, but can't afford a high talent growth team).
https://smashamp.com - we currently serve clients in an agency capacity and are building tools/SaaS to do all of this in a self-serve fashion.
The most exciting frontier we are positioning ourselves for is LLM growth hacking, i.e. AI SEO. But, our current company/product is still going to be living in agency/SaaS mode for years to come.
It parses any given codebase and visualizes all function calls as a hierarchical graph. Quite useful for onboarding new team members, digging through old codebases, or simply debugging issues.
You can further tweak the graph for various use cases. For example, a frontend engineer can view the dependency graph of all UI components, while an infra engineer can view connections between all cloud resources defined in Terraform.
A lot of times, websites suggest I sign up for a 5-10% discount/promo code. That might lead to a sale and they get one more user to their email list.
GrowFast takes that a step furtver by offering a widget that provides different tasks for the user to complete in order to receive the promo code. The tasks range between user generated content leading to more organic traffic, user reviews and even testimonials (haven't decided fully on the tasks just yet).
I think this is a cool concept and I hope companies think likewise.
Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
We created a better way to bring large distributed tech teams together for quarterly showcase events.
Events like demo day, hackathons and quarterly planning.
Our goal is bring employees together in realtime so they can actually meet colleagues from around the world and exchange ideas.
Ironically, when companies hold a DemoHop event, we hear from custoemrs that AI is often the #1 topic of conversation.
So maybe we're working on AI but only indirectly. https://www.demohop.com
For example If you make a request on https://mydomain.com/<your-username>/<event-name>?userid=<us...
I will store this event and show you analytics using beautiful charts.
It will work for all framework which give option to make GET request and no need to set up BIG-G analytics packages.
It's still pretty basic, but I'm pretty proud of it. Even though it doesn't use AI, I used AI to write the app, generate copy, and generate the image assets, as I didn't care to learn Flutter just for this one app and have no artistic ability.
It's like Songsterr, except you get to reuse your existing music scores (PDF/PNG/JPG). I am using a supervised ML model to auto-detect the music bars in the score.
There's an API coming that will allow those customised docs to be generated at scale.
Apparently, Telegram bots provide functionality that allows creating UI resembling native apps, with the bonus of not having to install anything besides Telegram, as well as not having to ask any app stores for approval. Combined with chat-based UX, it fits perfectly for tracking things.
Sort of an attempt at automatic yet structured ui testing for both stress testing frontends and product design
> A free, open source, local-first, spaced repetition system that works offline, has p2p syncing, plugins, and first class support for collaboration. It's GitHub/Reddit for flashcards.
https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/
All the "hard" tech has been more or less built out... all that's left is drawing the rest of the owl >_>
PKI certificate based online information verification
Demo: https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY
I am working on bootstrapping the trust chain (kinda "web of trust"), if you run an org (company,team,meetup,github repo...etc) email me if you're interested in a cert.
Check it out: https://qually.app/
I am building a tool that connects sellers with people who have ALREADY expressed an interest in what you are selling(ie warm leads.)
Check it out!
For those that don't know, the SAT is fully digital now and there are only 6 official practice tests available. So, with the help of AI, we created a platform with more tests to practice from.
Primarily it focuses on being a centralized look-up & revisit kind of app to help with retention, but it also allows you to sync your highlights to Notion.
As of today, there are no other apps available to just practice and do coding exercises on mobile.
Feel free to check the app - you have a link to download the iOS app on the landing page :)
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623695
I was pleasantly surprised to see that it got 782 comments, with many of them being comments by people who had created such apps and posted links to them, for people to check out.
So, go check them out :)
It creates a new label in your inbox, auto labels according to your preferences, and periodically moves those emails to trash can.
Built to avoid me/my wife going over the free Gmail storage limit
Vibrant community of like-minded people, meeting someone new every single morning. Connect through passions, hobbies, and professions, all from your inbox.
It it still pretty fresh, launching only 2 weeks ago.
If this sounds interesting to you, ping me (email on my profile) :)
It's fun and I don't think LLM with all the uncertainty would fit as well since you want to cover the whole input space.
Hope to charge 99$ or something per year for it but I don't know if anyone would pay for it :)
Investors can choose to invest in individual songs or curated collections of songs called "Baskets" to diversify their portfolio.
There is no AI in it so far but we consider adding support for parsing the result to extract data using LLM.
https://new.rt.ht - code templates
https://RTEdge.net - edge network
$10 each. Super hot, super fresh, super tasty, super filing, super consistent, super value, hmm maybe I'll call it super chicken.
More on https://logdy.dev
A phish music streamer all owned and operated by me. Working a rewrite now with a few other side projects, but easily the one I can point to and say I use!
Never say never adding chatbot like functionality but for now, no AI.
It's an interactive breathing app (responds when you breathe). Initially for stress & anxiety, we're developing a medical device (SaMD) for asthma + COPD.
Don’t even have a landing page yet, but you can sign up for free.
It's supposed to be the API layer for a Mac app while I learn Swift, but I got carried away with the web view I was using to debug and ended up with a usable HN homepage heavily inspired by hckrnews.com
Hope this collection helps many people
Motivation is that large-language models have a very straight-forward task of predicting the next token and the dataset is easy to get. With this app I aim to do two things: 1. Gather a fairly large dataset that captures the brush-strokes for various art prompts. 2. Bootstrap an algorithm / model that can decompose any image/art/illustration into brush strokes.
A longer-term goal for this app is to build an auto-complete (Co-pilot or Grammarly equivalent) for art.
ps: This app has some bugs. Keep low expectations
i help to sync upcoming esports matches to your Google calendar https://tournacat.com/. it's 1-click install away and you pick the esports title of your choice.
currently, we're at about 160+ users
[1] https://ply.io
I shared https://teig.pro a few months ago and it's made substantial improvements since then. It's a recipe builder that recalculates masses on-the-fly and supports adding/editing ingredients -- especially focused on breads. Unfortunately Fly.io seems to have flagged the project and is preventing me from deploying updates without upgrading my account (which is already paid). There are quite a few bugfixes which will be rolled out once that issue gets resolved, or I change hosting.
I also made https://pepcorn.pro quite a bit longer in a similar spirit, but much simpler. It uses your device's microphone to detect popcorn "pop"s, and measures the time between them -- done popcorn usually has ~5 seconds between pops.
While currently writing software prototypes & building hardware PoCs, i should spend more time trying to find team members... Otherwise i will not be able to secure financing which is crucial right now... so, soon i either will still be working on this, or i am dead. Let's see!