Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

424 points by TekMol ↗ HN
We have the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads. But what about people who don't want to work for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money but still want to work together on cool projects?

For free to make the world better or to start a startup.

If you do, please post your project or your skills!

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I'm building a gig economy / play-to-earn content moderation tool where people earn crypto for moderating content on social platforms. Contact in bio.
I thought at first this HAD to be a troll, but nope!
There is some unexplored potential in opt-in moderation systems. Where instead of singular entity providing content distribution, content amplification and content moderation you can pick and choose what topics need to be filtered and what teams/individuals will do the filtering for you.
Sounds like Reddit. (being serious and not snark there. I quite like Reddit)
More like Reddit minus global rules. But I also see differences. Subreddit admins manage both feed and comments. Here you can have that decoupled. The fun bit is comment tree moderation. Imagine different subtrees culled for different people - effectively no global view on a comment section (unless you disable your user/comment moderation sources temporarily).
Hey, I want to put together an open source project that gives an overview of how to set up a minimal viable web application from scratch via all the different frameworks.

The idea is to format the tutorial for each framework as a shell script. So there is no ambiguity of how to reproduce the results. And it is even possible to just copy&paste the steps into a docker container and see the framework in action.

Here is a demo of how this could look like for Django:

https://www.gibney.org/from_debian_to_web_app

It would be cool to have one column for each framework and then align them visually by feature. So if you want to compare how do you use a template, you can look at the "Let's use templates" row and have a quick overview of how it is done in Django, Laravel, Flask, Symfony, NextJS...

Each framework section could link to the developer(s) who wrote it.

If you want to contribute to the section for your favorite framework, send me a message!

Neat idea. Interested in this as a user - will reach out :)
Seems like a great idea, what exactly is the MVP? I've thought about doing the same from time to time, doing as shell script seems like a nifty idea but possibly a little more work for the author. Curious if there are multiple steps adding to the same file how you would approach that.
My idea is that the script contains the basic steps which building an MVP usually contains: setup, routes, templates and user accounts.

From there on, it is up to the developer to add their own design and functionality. After you understand the code for setup, routes, templates and user accounts this should be easy.

As for mutliple steps adding to the same file, I think overwriting the whole file every time is doable. For example when we introduce the concept of a template, the template can be created like this:

    cat << 'EOF' > templates/index.html
    <h1>Hello World</h1>
    EOF
Now say later we want to use a base template which contains a content block. Now we modify the template to extend the base template:

    cat << 'EOF' > templates/index.html
    {% extends "base.html" %}
    {% block content %}<h1>Hello World</h1>{% endblock %}
    EOF
Are you familiar with https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks ?

It's not tutorial-style, but it does contain hundreds of sample web apps (that all do the same thing, but still)

Looking at those, it seems the sample apps are way more complex than what I envision. The Django one starts with these dependencies:

    Django==3.1.12
    greenlet==0.4.17
    gunicorn==20.0.4
    meinheld==1.0.2
    mysqlclient==1.4.6
    psycopg2==2.8.6
    pytz==2020.4
    ujson==4.0.1
The approach I want to show is: What are the minimal steps to get a working web application with routes, templates and user accounts. I know that at least for Django, this is possible with no additional dependencies.
Looks like you're basically looking for TodoMVC and Real World. TodoMVC is a simple todo list implemented in various frameworks while Real World is a more complex real world app, a blog style social media site.

https://todomvc.com/

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

That is a bit of a misunderstanding. I do not want to build a collection of repos or projects which the user can read through or try out.

My whole project is just one page!

The page displays multiple scripts side by side.

One script per framwork.

Each script can turn a fresh Linux installation into a working web application with routes, templates and user accounts.

Ah that makes more sense now. So you're basically writing docs for all these different tools such that someone can copy paste and get a working installation.

What are your thoughts on docker which seems to do something similar? Also, how would you stay updated on every single framework if they ever change their installation scripts or other such parts?

I wouldn't say that Docker is doing something similar. What I want to do is give a one-page overview of the web framework landscape.

Since I envision the scripts to be very small, I expect that updating them will not take long. The history of the updates will indeed be very interesting. In 10 years we can look at it and see how often each framework had breaking changes.

Makes sense. I mean docker as in dockerfiles which are essentially scripts that create the docker image as a full environment.
Yes, Dockerfiles usually set up an environment suitable for certain tasks.

So instead of using debian:11-slim as I propose, one could use a Dockerfile made for Django. But that would help very little. Django even abandoned their official Dockerfile because it brings so little to the table.

In my opinion, using a higher level Dockerfile than the bare OS is a net negative. The developer won't know how much magic it hides. Even though it just hides a few lines of code. And being higher up in the stack also means stuff will break more often and the scripts need to be updated more often.

I don't have a side project to recruit for right now, but I've wanted this very thread in the past. My current projects all revolve around reducing my dependency on commercial SaaS products. A hypothetical project I'd be interested in contributing to would be an ActivityPub Strava/Ride with GPS clone.
I like the goal of reducing dependency on SaaS product. I use these Strava/Garmin apps a lot and while Strava was cool for a while it hasn’t progressed and doesn’t feel worth the money. Curious to hear what you had in mind, I am in the geospatial space and work with routing tools, etc.
I don’t have a feature list off the top of my head. The basics that Strava offers would be a good start: show your GPS tracks on a map, allow sharing with friends, a chronological feed of your friends’ rides.
I'm building iOS Apps as a solo builder. Sometimes it's a little lonely. If you are interested in sharing experiences, advice, or just chat about ideas/programming/tech or collaborate, say hello at my contact is in my profile.
I've been designing iOS apps ux/ui for the last 12 years. What are you building now? :-)
I've been building iOS apps as a solo builder for nine years and definitely agree that it gets lonely, both in the development of it and then waiting for users to stumble across it.

Maybe its time to focus on marketing and product fit ;-)

I am a UX/UI designer who always struggled to pair with the right developer, and/or right business oriented extrovert person, to build things. If you struggled from the other side, let's talk, contact in bio.

My projects / areas of interest:

1) high-concurrency booking system (10,000 university students trying to enrol in classes for next semester)

2) real-time money streaming

> real-time money streaming

What does this mean?

Money can be transferred in realtime continuous flow into your pocket. Imagine you salary is not coming once a month, but instead every second you work. So that you can actually pay with it the next second.. It's the first time in human history that this is actually possible.
For what it's worth, the distinct impedance mismatch inherent to monthly payment has a very useful buffering quality to it.

A pay-per-second model explicitly validates accountancy-per-second, aka micromanagement, and constructs a unique feedback loop that, exactly as you say, has never been possible before.

How would you build fundamental contingencies against micromanagement into such a model?

I am trading crypto, options and stocks based on news (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Reddit) in manual and algorithmic fashion (it feels a lot like Factorio: manual first then automate it).

I don’t believe in technical analysis, and I think the efficient market hypothesis is mostly true and love Fama’s work (and sometimes I am first!).

The biggest reason I do this is because it feels like a PhD that can actually pay well.

Are you similar? Let’s meet!

Email is in my profile

Very cool. Sorry you’re being downvoted. I wish you luck.
>> based on news (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Reddit)

This may be part of the motivation.

I building an app that helps crypto investors (traders will be added later), discover good projects. There are many projects of varying quality and the great ones frequently go under the radar until they have done multiple X's. My thesis is that it would be a good idea to have a service that brings them to investor's attention early. I'd love to connect and get input/collaboration from people who know the space.
interesting idea. once upon a time, i wrote a social sentiment analyzer for various cryptocoins. it was actually pretty accurate and made me a few bucks. quality was not considered at all, but after recently stumbling across forums shilling ICP (and subsequent research of said cryptocoin) I think your idea is a worthy one.
Thanks for your kind comments! Can we connect and talk more about this ? (Lol @ICP )
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I want to build an ultimate SaaS boilerplate / starter as a commercial product.

The audacious goal is something like “build a Trello clone from git init to a live product in under 10 minutes”

Looking for like-minded folks with any of the following skills:

- strong React

- UI/UX design

- TypeScript

- AWS

- SaaS building

- writers for docs, tutorials, articles, evangelization

- product / project manager

I would think that actually thinking about and defining everything that a Trello clone to do would take more than 10 minutes... Are you imagining a "software requirements" -> "product" compiler type of deal? Or what do you envision the workflow would look like?
It probably wouldn’t be a perfect trello clone. And of course it’s just a demo of capabilities with a plan to develop highly scripted.
How much are you offering for these services and why is it different to any existing SaaS boilerplates on the market
This wouldn’t be a service, but rather a product.

I want to lean in heavily into existing AWS services and have everything e2e pre-wired, testable with great CI experience and essentially following best AWS practices.

If you are into autonomous sailboats, robotics, rust, or combinations thereof, let me know :)
This sounds fun. Rust is amazing, and I've been playing with it on AVR chips lately. And I spent several summers sailing years ago. Email me if you'd like. Curious to know what you're working on.
Nice! Let me know about this project. I'm not a dev, just a sysadmin from old school always wanting to learn more stuff. I was teaching robotics for kids and teachers also.
What's the best way to contact you? It's been ~2 years since my last robotics project, but interested to learn more.
Have some experience with robotics and sailing but prefer python and ROS.

Is there anyway to follow progress of what your working on?

Not sailboats, but we are building a semi-typical Wall-E like turtlebot like robot based on lifelong reinforcement learning.

https://www.gooddog.ai/

Hey I have experience with robotics (ROS1, trying to work on projects using ROS2 now) and autonomous vehicles (mainly Motion Planning & Control and decision making in uncertainties). What are you working on?
Awesome! Are you doing anything that has loitering capabilities in an area? Something that's always bothered me is illegal fishing off the coasts of poor countries that can't afford to effectively monitor their own waters and I have been thinking about ways to tackle this (e.g. a system of buoys with sensor arrays that ping the coast guard/navy if they detect a ship without their AIS system on).
Experienced software engineer here, but no experience with robotics. Interested to learn and work on projects, specifically related to water vehicles.
Interested in learning more! Particular autonomous drones and robotics on this side.
I'm looking for someone in the devrel/dev-influencer space to help me continue to grow a discord community of programmers that are looking for their first job. Info at https://qvault.io (it's launched but still very very small)
I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and surveillance, and a management web app.

If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collaborate and bounce ideas off others.

How do you take the nose prints? Do you tranquilize them and then literally press their nose against a piece of paper covered in an inklike material or is it photo based?
I don't know if Gorillas work the same way as dogs, but maybe you could put something that smells nice on a device that extends a small nose-boop extractor arm when close, and gather the noseprint that way.

To simulate this invention:

- have a dog

- put something smelly on your thumb

- extend arm to point thumb towards dog

- as the dog is within 5-10cm radius of your thumb, press your thumb against their nose (and say the obligatory "boop")

- imagine your had something to extract noseprints from their nose on your thumb

I guess facial recognition is a more apt description. We just use photos of wild gorillas cropped around the nose. Not intrusive at all!
> ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints

Really cool stuff. I wonder if face detection is sufficient too? It has been proven to work for brown bears [0].

I have also been doing some open source work [1] to democratise object detection in this space but I haven't had the time to make improvements to the project in a while.

* [0] http://bearresearch.org/

* [1] https://github.com/petargyurov/megadetector-gui

In fact, we are basically doing facial detection based on cropped photos of gorillas around the nose. Thanks for the links! I'll be sure to check it out.
This sounds incredibly interesting and would love to know more about it. Where to read more or get in touch with you? (your profile doesn't mention any contacts or links)
Hey I just added me email to my profile. Happy to share more directly!
Hi there.

Seeing as you are in DRC. I've worked on a number of projects there. Maybe you might be interested in checking out an app we made to help NGO/media etc learn about and manage their digital and physical security? Lots of groups on the ground there have used it in situations like kidnap, targeted malware etc.

It's called Umbrella. It's free, opens source, on ios and Android available in many languages. If you are interested, have a look at at https://www.secfirst.org or ping me via the email in my profile! :)

Awesome thanks for sharing! I can see this being helpful for us as well.
>Umbrella...kidnap, targeted malware

This looks like a behavioral modification tool, to prevent kidnap, etc. Two questions: is there a scenario database of DRC "actualized risk", that describe real kidnaps, extortion, etc ideally with root cause analysis? What is your revenue model[1]? Okay, 3 questions: what do you think of tools like what NSO provides for client recovery?

1 - Speculation: do you make revenue by providing a marketplace where security service providers can market to consumers?

Good questions.

So at the moment the advice we give is not country specific. We have slightly different levels depending on risk, threat model and skill. Building a logic to do country by country was something we tried but is incredibly hard.

Our revenue model is based on a few things. We got grants to build the initial version, we also create paid white label versions for organisations that want their own and we do security training and consultancy services.

Regarding NSO Group. Well considering we work every day with journalists and activists, some of whom have been targeted by NSO...to say we despise what NSO does is probably an understatement.

How does one find a job like that, it sounds amazing! I originally studied environmental science before having worked as a Data Scientist and now Data Engineer for the past 4 years. I worked a lot with geospatial data and sat images. Ultimately I would love to combine both again and use these skills to do something useful for the environment. If anyone has links to orgs/companies that do relevant work and hire (or wants to collaborate) I would be keen to hear. Thanks!
Big fan of the environmental sciences over here. You might look for jobs and opportunities at nonprofits/NGOs as places where applied research and interventions are occurring. Mission-driven organizations, including government ministries, are a good way to feel like the hours you spend at work are directed towards something positive in the world. In some cases like the GP these sound like direct actions in the field - which sounds really enriching.

NGOs jobs tend to be structured on topics as much as on functions, so making a shortlist of topical keywords might be helpful in the search to become aware of organizations. You should also look directly at organizations' staff lists, which are typically fairly open and have emails listed. One thing to be aware of is many nonprofits have tightly budgeted projects with specific needs, so getting your foot in the door on a less interesting project might be needed. Generalists can benefit here.

I know a few job sites that collect these kind of positions, some techy and some not:

https://techjobsforgood.com/

https://nextbillion.net/jobs/

https://greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/

https://www.devex.com/jobs/search/

Last I will mention the nonprofit organization I work for - World Resources Institute (https://wri.org). We organize our work around seven global challenges: food, forests, water, the ocean, energy, climate, and cities. We do research, build data products and applications, organize partnerships. We help tackle some the largest questions related to how we collectively transition to a world where more than 9 billion humans have their food and energy needs met through fair economic and environmental systems.

That sounds super interesting. Two questions: 1) Do you work remotely or are you in DRC? 2) What are some good ways to find job opportunities at the intersection of software engineering and wildlife conversation?
I know some communities that are aiming at climate in general and not focused on wildlife specifically but may have some related opportunities. Work On Climate, climate action tech and my climate journey.

PS: I love that autocorrect.

Thanks! Haha, it wasn't even autocorrect. Just tired from NYE I guess :D
Are you personally involved in any climate projects / looking to collaborate?
I spent two years working in DRC and have now moved to a remote position (based in the US). There are a few organizations I've worked with that do great work: Allen Institute for AI (EarthRanger), SmartParks.org and Conservation X Labs. There are surely others, but these offer products directly to national parks to improve their capabilities.
Awesome, thanks for the recommendations.
What ML framework or Lang you working in?
For now we are using Azure Custom Vision and have a working demo that achieves solid results. This seems sufficient for now. This will fit into a web app that uses React and Django.
Read more books.
Why?
because the world is big and beautiful and people are the same all over. yes there is war and conflict in africa, but maybe read more to find out where, why and when. you need to confirm and rebut your sources and come to your own conclusions.
I'm just saying what the author of the book said because it stuck in my memory. This guy has hitchhiked through Asia, Americas and Africa - from south to north. He was just describing his experiences with people in the countries he's visited. I'm not sure what's your point.
Can u share the book title and author please?
Africa: Last Hitchhike by Tomáš Poláček

It's only available in Czech so I had to translate the title. I've read it in two days, really enjoyed it.

Gross generalisations like “the people there lack humanity” make me very sad. I don’t know anything about the DRC and have never even visited Africa, but I bet the majority of people there care mostly about having good shelter, safety, enough food to eat, and looking after their kids the best they can.

Like everyone else in the world.

Well he's just describing his experiences. And I believe they are mostly truthful and that they generalize to some extent, in other words, the stark difference from other countries he's visited is not a statistical anomaly. He has hitchhiked across Africa (from south to north), the Americas and Asia so he has a lot of countries to compare.

Are you saying that people are equally friendly, hospitable, kind and ethical across the world?

Yes.
That is very naive and incorrect.
Well - in a thread posted by someone from the DRC about saving animals from harm, you appear to have made a blanket assessment about a country that was literally torn apart by European colonisation, solely on the basis of a single book written by some (presumably) European white man who met a vanishingly small fraction of the population of the world’s 16th largest country and decided based on that tiny sample that the entire country “lacks humanity”.

I hope you can perhaps see the problem here.

Is LoRaWAN tracking the gorillas?
LoRaWAN is used for an alert system in an area where local communities are threatened by an armed group called the ADF (aka ISIS-DRC). In the future we hope to roll out a large-scale LoRaWAN to monitor wildlife (elephants, lions) as well as vehicles and rangers on patrol.

Gorilla tracking devices are likely to be intrusive and cumbersome for them. They are also known to help each other out and remove devices. For now, gorillas are tracked on foot by a team of rangers.

Pretty awesome. Do you know more about other projects like this or what new ideas are going on in DRC ?
I can really only speak to conservation to Congo. One thing I've noticed is that conservation organizations in DRC take on a lot more responsibilities than just wildlife conservation. In Virunga National Park, for example, the park has built and operates a power utility to provide an alternative to charcoal. This is made up of four run-of-the-river hydroelectric plants, hundreds of kilometers of distribution lines (high and medium tension), and smart meters to connect customers. You can check out virunga.org to learn more!
Are you interested in collabing on projects like these? Feel free to message me, contact on profile, exploring economic alternatives to extraction and local economic empowerment/autonomy initiatives
How likely would it be to opensource projects like this?

I think many programmers want to do something good ( preferably by learning) and are willing to spend time on projects like this.

Quite likely! I'm planning on making the gorillas identification project open source as there's actually quite a lot to it (the core AI functionality, management of lots of images and gorillas data, making sure it all works fine on a crappy connection with old Androids).
That's interesting! I definitely wish you the best of luck.

Ps. Don't forget to submit it here ;)!

My company offers digital processes solutions - like dynamic checklists - for remote locations (vessels, trucks, airplanes, inspections) with no (constant) internet connection. Get in touch with me if that is something your park could benefit from.
Hey! Curious what impact you've seen of the mining sector in the country but especially towards wildlife and economic development? I have heard the country wants to move up the value chain too, any feelings on whether doing something like processing (requires lots of skilled workers and 24/7 power) is actually realistic? Do you have any recommendations/travel guides for someone who would want to come visit and not just stay in the capitol?
You're definitely right that DRC wants to move up the value chain. Most raw materials are shipped out of the country for processing or smuggled to neighboring states (gold). However, the impact on wildlife is most certainly negative. The economic development impact is pretty unclear; DRC has shown time and again that mineral wealth is equitably distributed. Despite the jobs some new processing plants might afford, the profits from these operations will likely just line the pockets of those in charge.
On the latter point, interesting, maybe I'll try to dig up some research on what the counterfactual would be if there was no mining industry; my understanding is that while the conditions are terrible, it does provide jobs for hundreds of thousands if not millions. In regards to distribution of gains... yeah, seems like the whole world is failing at that one, just more egregious in a place where people are starving or having to become child soldiers. That being said, what's the alternative here? Mining companies will come because of the resources and I see no other angle for the DRC to industrialize other than the control they have on the mineral wealth.
This is a great usecase for ML!

Where can I read more about this part of your work?

It's still pretty early days for this project so I haven't published anything yet. Hopefully soon!
The timing of this post is amazing me. Just an hour ago I was doing an internet search for how to host or participate in screen sharing while working on pet hobby projects. My thinking was “coding a side project on your own can get lonesome and stall. Wouldn’t it be neat to hangout with devs while coding, even if not speaking that much. Can share screens, be supportive.”
Sounds like Twitch for devs.
Right. But instead of one presenter with viewers its many to many.
One concern I would have with this is secrets handling. Say I'm screen sharing my development environment and I come across a secret, I would want my screen share service to be able to detect a secret is on screen and to either block it out or just cut off the screen share entirely until it is no longer on screen. This likely isn't foolproof, so having a hotkey to pause/unpause screen share when I know I'm about to deal with secrets would be useful as well.
That's a good idea. Of course, sharing your screen at all would be optional in the "Let's have some company while we're working on stuff" friendly circle of folks.
I've been using focusmate.com for a few weeks now. You make an appointment to pair with another random user for a 50 minute work session. You just say hi and get to work each on your own thing. It's not dev-specific so it's kind of pointless to get into what you're working on. But just having an appointment and saying hi to someone has helped me do more than I expected.
I work on ways to write programs that help outsiders understand their big picture (rather than insiders understand incoming contributions).

The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-source program, get an idea for a simple tweak, open it up, orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a single afternoon.

More details: http://akkartik.name/about

What I have so far: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

Lately I'm spending a lot of time on the sandboxing model. It's nice to be able to download and run untrusted programs before we start trying to understand them. How to permit this without letting them cause too much damage, by explicitly giving them arbitrarily fine-grained permissions that are still easy to take in at a glance.

An open question: What useful information do you think each person should write in the comment to help you decide whether to collaborate or not?
- Contact Method

- My Topics or Projects

- My Skills

- More Skills Needed

- My Goals

- My Links

- My Temperament

- Temperament Needed

- My Beliefs

- Other:

mromanuk - If you are interested in sharing experiences, advice, or just chat about ideas/programming/tech or collaborate, say hello at my contact is in my profile.

shazeubaa - Wouldn’t it be neat to hangout with devs while coding, even if not speaking that much. Can share screens, be supportive.

eloisius - A hypothetical project I'd be interested in contributing to would be

areas of interest, skills you have, skills you're looking for. maybe also indication of experience/seniority level.
Unmukt Foundation[1] in India runs after school programs for poor kids to get them technology education. We're looking for people who can teach Python, Arduino, anything else.

They make best use of low-cost resources. Check out the Arduino-based robot built using recycled materials.

[1] https://unmuktfoundation.org/

I'm working on a zwift clone that runs in the browser and has the look and feel of a 8-bit arcade game. It's very early stage but the basics work. So if you are a indoor biker and want to join (dev, graphics, game concept or if you just want to test it for your indoor training), contact me. Contact in bio.
A couple of years ago I started to build a tool for my own personal use. It ended up being a metaverse full of sticky notes. I'm currently seeing if there's a market for it outside of just myself - https://www.temin.net/

Give me a shout if you're interested in turning it into something - email is in my profile.

Reminds me of Miro and Mural, there's surely a market for it.
It certainly scratched my personal itch for something that lets you relate/encode/recall information in 3D but also work in 2D.

The primary feedback from friends has been it's cool, but hard to use without much of UI (current version is all shortcut keys). That's something I can fix in the next couple of weeks.

A harder problem is there's a decent chunk of knowledge workers with no experience navigating virtual 3D spaces. If you didn't grow up playing Quake, Minecraft etc you might find Temin frustrating to use for a little while.

Simple in form, it's brilliant. Best of luck to this one.
I've thought of something like this, glad to see its been created. Love it. This is how I 'picture' things in my head so it makes it easy for me to organize. Now only if there was a file explorer like this I'd love to use one.
Thanks, glad you like it!

For organising information Temin has been an entirely positive experience for me. For the first time what's in my head matches what's on a screen.

Early on I expected that mental model to fall over as the amount information in a metaverse grew, but I have ~12,000 sticky notes/pieces of paper in my 'main' metaverse and haven't personally felt the need to add any search functionality yet. I'm honestly not sure if I know where everything is, or just how to get back to it. Speaking to a neuroscientist or similar would be great - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_memory#Current_theories

I'd also be keen to speak to anyone who has thoughts on Temin as a graph, as more recently I've been finding sticky notes mean multiple things and belong in multiple locations. https://temin.co.uk/#links does a rather poor job of explaining my current solution.

This looks fantastic, I'd love to try this.

Regarding your question about why this works : I urge you to read at least the first chapter of Frances Yates The Art of Memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory - how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page.

Please do sign up if you haven't already, or send me an email and I'll get you setup.

Thanks for the book recommendation, I've started to read it. It's nice to get some history and depth to concepts I had some awareness of.

I do wonder how method of loci strategies stand up to bricks and mortar sticky note use in collaborative environments. In my day job I've felt other people moving and adding things to a wall as almost destructive if I didn't experience it happening (purely in terms of memory). As changes in Temin are written to a ledger a fringe benefit is you can play back what's happened while you were gone, which seems to sooth that.

For work, I also spend a lot of time writing/drawing/thinking with a pen, and most of the artefacts in my metaverse are created with a Wacom not a keyboard. Being able to remember where things are I put down to Temin, being able to remember what's there I put down in some part to that. I'm not going to trying to convert people who prefer to use keyboards, and I expect pen-first users will very much be a minority, but the research on retention when it comes to pen vs. keyboard is pretty compelling.

hey Oliver, awesome project, I will definitely try it and I am also interested in developing it further - Miro is breaking new record every month, so totally worth to compete.

Also it could be an interesting intersection between laptop (where you create data and put things to the boards) and VR (where you navigate, process and work with data). I am not sure about MVP, but surely there is so many usecases, starting from personal collection of knowledge to teamwork, project documentations etc.

Nice, I'll reach out to you.

Great insight into the use cases for Temin depending on the I/O. It took me using a desktop and VR headset to form the same opinions. Initially I thought my VR usage would be higher, but it's below 1% of the total time I spend inside Temin. VR is also pretty good for presenting/telepresence.

Mixed reality excites me way more than VR, so I'm keen to skate more towards that technology long-term.

I am working on INET256, an API and address standard + reference implementation for secure network communication.

https://github.com/inet256/inet256

Developers, applications, and end-users are under-served by the network layer. INET256 provides necessary features (stable addresses, encryption) to client applications, which usually have to reimplement those features themselves.

I'm a product manager looking for a talented technical co-founder for a niche SaaS tool venture.

I have validation, unique domain expertise and a strong "why now".

The plan is to exit within 4 years at a $5-10M valuation taking minimal or no external funding.

If this piques your interest, please drop me a message. Email on my profile.

What programming language, field, complexity?
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If you are looking to do some collective good, consider a wildlife conservation project.

I created a GUI wrapper around a popular AI model for object detection for wildlife conservation [0]

The idea is that most ecologists don't have the technical expertise to run such models, so making their life easier is an important task. The use of AI also saves them loads of time. The project was born when I got in touch with New Zealand's Department of Conservation for volunteering opportunities.

I haven't had time to continue working on this; help is welcomed!

* [0] https://github.com/petargyurov/megadetector-gui

Anyone looking to collaborate in the cannabis space? I founded The Highest Critic[0] several years back and it has solid footing to do so much more.

[0] www.thehighestcritic.com

Let's WFH while building the future of work. Get support building and promoting your WFH idea, contact in bio.
yay, what about gamedev?

someone need a little labor force at projects written on c#/unity?

or maybe you're have vanilla JS stuff?

let me know: cr189@yandex.com

P.S. my competition profile: codewars.com/users/pGc3m9

anyway, i don't know target auditory, and how skilled must be person, but i want read more stuff like that.