Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Release early, release often. Don't worry, be crappy. Fail fast. Iterate.
Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects.
Also, if you need any help with a project, a startup, or an idea, just post it here.
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FXcursion is an STM32-based guitar processor prototype. It has 3 stereo inputs and outputs, builtin effects chain, looper and recording. It lacks proper user interface (we've found a designer last week, so it's in the works now!), and the hardware still needs a lot of changes, but I've been impressed with the progress so far.
https://github.com/RATsynthesizers/FXcursion
https://github.com/eimrine/resume/blob/main/eimrine-s%20rese...
that way the domains look seasoned in googles eyes.
Here was the video I watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVeybVWSUP4
One has to enter some abstract of what they want to write, and some text they have so far, and the tool generates possible continuations.
It requires quite a bit of editing, maybe 3-4 attempts for each completion if one wants to generate decent text. Feedback was mostly positive from a dozen or so professional writers who tried it out for a day.
I feel that it generates more naturally looking text than ChatGPT with the typical prompts.
See my profile if you want to try it out. You can use the demo without registration.
Demo doesn't work for me in Firefox for some reason – I can't type anything into the “Start typing...” field.
And here is the link to the demo for convenience:
https://writingcharm.com/write
Because if it does then I have https://peopleandblogs.com
A website to create digital invitations. Similar purpose as WhatsApp groups for invites, but taking away the noise and adding way more personalized design to the invite.
The UI still has lots of issues and I need to i18n the landing page, but it works and a couple of people use it every day already. I‘m spending 2€ per day on google ads to see how my changes to product alter user behavior.
It’s a side project and I‘m not planning to squeeze money out of it. Just want the world to celebrate more and I want to experience building a product from zero to „actively used by many people“.
Appreciate all feedback and input!
Esther is my personal project to develop a diary app that talks back. Basically. Along the way I learned how to htmx, llama.cpp via JNA and practical experience with LLMs. I suffer from type-1 bipolar disorder with psychoses and normal life just ain't gonna happen. So unemployed, single, #nolife ... I decided to build a chat bot for myself. It's not finished the RAG stuff still needs implementing, but oh well. It's written in Clojure on GraalVM (because I wanted to try polyglot) other than that it's nothing /too/ fancy ... but it feels great having an LLM + UI you can just build the way you like it
This is so cool.
Once ready reach out to community of psychologists and doctors to help get your product in the hands of their patients!
I thought it’d be cool to have a small textual language where you could describe “this payment goes out every quarter” and “this one goes out monthly from date X to Y” and so on. As a freelancer it can be difficult to know how much cash you have available given taxes go out at weird times, and it’s useful to simulate “let’s delete this row where the customer pays” to stress test your finances and so on.
I also wanted it to be “privacy-first” because I figured I wouldn’t trust my financial data to a random person on the internet, so neither would I expect anyone else to.
So I created this site and put it online but I’m a developer, not a marketer. I did a “Show HN”, it got some nice comments but not much traction.
Not sure if I should spend effort marketing it. It’s just a free site so I’m only doing this for fun. Or maybe the product is wrong and needs changes e.g. more features.
Difficult to know what to do. Advice appreciated!
This project I made a while ago and never took it further: https://github.com/weinberg/concurrencyRunner. Concurreny Runner allows you to debug multiple running processes simultaneously, with breakpoints set to allow specific interleaved execution paths to be explored. This allows you to trigger concurrency scenarios which are typically very difficult to analyze because they rely on random timing. That repo has examples which demonstrate typical database concurrency issues of "read skew", "write skew" and "read modify write". I envisioned it as something you could run in CI to actively test for these things like we do other integration testing.
This other one is in the sad graveyard of promising projects which I never could devote enough time to: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=69545.0. It's an adventure game where I recorded hundreds of panoramic images and stitched them all together into a seamless walkable player experience. One day...
View, search, and analyze arbitrary source code (best support of Swift right now) in 3D and AR space. You open your phone or tablet, yeet hundreds of files into 3D space, and can start highlighting, moving, and tracing execution by literally walking around your code. The desktop app has similar features, and the standard 3D viewer is just as fun. I would love help - from anyone of any kind - to build this out towards greater usefulness.
It’s a lot of fun, it’s super cool to look at, and it’s the thing I’ve wanted to use since I was a small child. “Let me touch the words!!”
P.s - the dictionary and word wall samples are fun too
P.p.s: there are two versions, and you can download the original SceneKit implementation for both macOS and iOS from the releases section.
Would make it a cool way to find underperforming code.
Feel free to ping me more thoughts!
This is a NSFW site that uses randomization. I'm trying to work towards some of the magic that StumbleUpon used to have.
https://mtrees.io
I searched on youtube to ee if anyone made a video explaining it, but i'm back at square 1
I am still working on it. Invention game. Doing a beta test with some D&D players at a table top bar. You really have to read the Big Book I am making to understand it and yes I am making an overview video but I want to find a few colleges or classes first to practice. Its sort of a joke, me and my friends just come up with funny inventions. Sort of like the old SCP text game if you remember that. eBook kind of sucks. There's a poetry book that is integrated into the Big Book and it tells a story. https://mtrees.io/video-small.mp4 and https://mtrees.io/MTREES-PROMO-2.4.pdf
Still very much in Master Beta phase!
FHIR data viewer (a healthcare data format if you're new to FHIR). I've been working on it for some time now, and just released the Mac build a couple of weeks ago.
Had a 'soft launch' on LinkedIn a week ago that was very well received by my followers.
Still a lot of work to do before a commercial release - huge features missing. But last week's launch was positive - a real boost.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7114844...
My Show HN was a flop. :)
Just as a warning, not even half of the stuff on the landing page are actually present in Coral but they absolutely will be future. The next thing on the plan is to re-write the UI in React Native so I can take Coral with me on the go.
https://coral.nectarine.sh (the download page is inactive, but you can grab a release from the GitHub page if you're so inclined)
https://coral.nectarine.sh/story.html
https://logictrader.xyz - Online crypto trader, but still needs a lot of work. I'm a bit short on time now with the AGI project.
I'm building a service that helps founders (just like you and me) craft their investor updates in literally seconds. We're currently in the testing phase of the MVP, so I could really use some help.
I'd love to give anyone of you a demo of the tool and see if it ACTUALLY alleviates your pain related to any part of creating and sending investor emails, and if I'm not chasing windmills, haha.
Let me know if you're up for a chat sometime next week. 15min max, promise! https://calendly.com/n10v thanks
Slightly fancier paste bin with markdown support that I want to turn into a group editing service that takes inspiration from pull request style workflows.
Obsidian Local LLM Assistant. It's actually a fork of someone else's project who was working with the Open AI API.
I built this for personal use, but maybe someone else also finds it useful.
It's a Firefox add-on that arranges YouTube video tabs based on the runtime of the video. I often hoard many YouTube tabs and at some point I want to either watch the shortest ones or play something lengthy so I can do household chores while listening to the video. This makes finding the correct video from tens of different tabs so much easier. There is one known major bug: if a video is playing, the sorting doesn't work.
There is an older version published for Microsoft Edge, but Edge Add-ons started rejecting the updates based on unclear reasons (something along the lines of "no value for user" ???). When reaching for support through email, I only get responses from people who don't understand English and just copy-paste the exact same unclear rejection report and close the ticket.
Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee and outright rejects me paying it, probably because I live in Switzerland and my credit card is from a Finnish bank.
Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google.
Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!
It's $5, but still...
Also, turns out $5 deters most spammers.
Somehow, donating time for the benefit of others, or money for the benefit of others is fine, but as soon as I'm donating both, it feels like it's not worth it.
Yes, this is an irrational view.
You can convert easily between hours and money so that you can resolve the problem of both by conversion of one to the preferred
So assuming you make $100/hr:
“I can’t believe I gave 10 hours to this and then they want to charge me an additional $5 on top!?”
Turns into
“I just gave 10 hours to this, and they want me to give 3 more minutes of my time to publish it?”
It's a high enough bar to trip up a lot of bad actors, but low enough that it's a simple annoyance for most of us.
But yeah, reason 4,590,234,761 why people who misbehave make things more expensive/difficult/time-consuming for the rest of us.
Last I checked Twitter/X had no way to prevent you from signing up again after a ban if you paid via Apple Pay, as an example.
https://github.com/deejayy/linkedin-noise-remover
If somebody is already a certified chrome extension publisher, feel free to upload it :)
After adding all the tabs
You can stream them by or If you use chromecast you can even dohttps://github.com/niedzielski/cb
Alternative Wifi app to connect to Fujifilm cameras. I mainly wanted to just try and make a MVP to see if it's possible, and now it's grown into something usable.
http://salaryoverlap.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/