Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

Spent 3 months making this metrics dashboard, where you can send any JSON or data and it'll pick out charts from it. Best part is - no 3rd party service is left out and the learning curve is super shallow (just make a request with any data).

The backend is very stable, but UX at the moment is poor, since I didn't manage to reach my target audience and am still thinking how to continue.

The intention is to build a second brain for knowledge workers. That will help knowledge workers save their best ideas, organize their learning, and expand their creative output.

Hacker? Interested? Let's connect on https://twitter.com/notoriousarun

Hardware is version .1 and as well as web app. I am learning new web stack tech to Enable commercializing this and improve the hardware.

Currently can add and remove links (pinboard clone). But the big goal is more ambitious (https://docs.learn-anything.xyz/roadmap)

Hard to do without funding.

I wanted a C++ hierarchical state machine library didn't require massive compile times like boost msm.

I work in robotics and have for a long time been frustrated with how hard it is to visualize data in C++. I created Toucan to try to solve that. The project is still in a very early stage but has already started to become a useful tool.

The API still needs work but it’s getting there. Toucan can be called from anywhere in your code, and runs in its own thread to always remain interactive and responsive.

https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/Voltmeter

Pretty much works for what we want at $workplace, I built it so that we can see if our platform services are up and running and healthy.

It uses scraping of a service status endpoint to collect service health and the health of the dependencies of that service.

Using that the app renders a graph with all services and dependencies which helps us quickly find services that are broken in prod.

Recently added inputs from our metrics back-end so that we can have auto-discovery of new services and to support services that don’t have a HTTP endpoint we can scrape

The idea was a mix of personal journal and private social network. But social network features are hard. Notifications, discovery, create a habit.

I am the one only user (I use it as a habit tracker). Couldn’t convince even my wife to use it.

I've always struggled with finding domain names for new projects (all the good ones are taken!) that I decided to do something about it.

The suggestion engine isn't really fully working yet, but the idea is to input a desired word/name/set of keywords and see a list of available domain names.

Kind of following the "build what you yourself would use" philosophy.

P.S.: Love the idea of having a periodical post like this on HN

https://github.com/cliftbar/automd

I think the engine really had some clever potential that didn't get fully realized in the end product, and I want to bring that out. Plus working on a DOS project has been very enjoyable for the simplicity and limitations.

I wanted something better than Django. So I built this. IMO it's already there from a technical perspective but the documentation needs some more work. Would greatly appreciate any feedback!

Website is Spanish only for now but the app has multiple languages. Still adding new cities whenever I can but I've been too busy lately.

Started as a project to learn more about routing and public transportation in Madrid and GTFS data. It was fun and I learned a lot.

It helps people start a business by helping them find the right software and acts as a starting point for research. It's half-baked because writing content is very difficult and energy consuming. But hiring writers just gets you crap. Its difficulty to make money if words don't flow.

"HDRFS is a lossless filesystem application which stores a complete history of every byte ever written to it. It is backed by a strictly append-only log, but works as a fully read/write POSIX-compatible filesystem. Think of it as a cross between a filesystem and tar, with infinite versioning and tuned to maximise ease of backups.

It is intended to be used by individuals to archive personal files."

Very half-baked. It works, but it turns out there are quite a few applications with highly pessimal write() patterns that bloat the metadata database, making it less general-purpose than I had hoped.

First building out this JS library - https://github.com/koblas/stdnum-js

which I plan on embedding in this React static site.

https://tininfo.com/country/AD/individual/NRT/

- Currently mired in building out all of the country validation in JS (the thing I know how to do) - Should really be working on building out more website templates and proving the functionality.

Why? Because I have to validate VAT numbers CPF or other random ID numbers on a regular basis and right now building unit tests just to test an 8 digit number...

[1] https://riffpod.io [2] https://twitter.com/proquokid/status/1347713280953999361?s=1...

[1] https://github.com/mping/observideo

Jazda is a simple hackable bicycle computer. You can build it out of components available in your local electronics store (except the display).

I started it some 10 years ago as an experiment in AVR programming, before Arduino existed, and it keeps a honorable place in the back of my head ever since.

I wanted a trimmed down interface for following live chess streams. To keep the website updated I run an AWS Lambda every two minutes that does the following:

1. Pulls active streams from the Twitch API.

2. Uses the Go templates library to repackage the response as static HTML.

3. Uploads the static HTML to S3, where it is served behind CloudFront.

A self hosted music streaming server that's simple enough for my mom to use