~~Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't look like a jobs tracker.~~ Wait, I get it now, this isn't job applications, it's jobs available out there.
Bit of both. It stores available jobs via JSON upload, but also lets you log interviews and track their overall lifecycles.
This demo is just the UI and isn't thorough about API mocking (and the interview forms have a couple snags I need to work through still so I've left it out of the test data), but the full application also includes crawler flows for collecting results.
Just writing posts for my blog on personal experiences with startups https://developerwithacat.com . Am taking a break from any serious building, bit tired of failing. Using the blog as a form of self therapy.
Still on my sabbatical and continuing to build on things I enjoy rather than things that pay (for now).
Main focus is https://wheretodrink.beer, collecting and cataloging craft beer venues from around the world. No ambition of being exhaustive, but aiming for a curated and substantial list. After the last thread, a bunch of people added their suggestions, thanks! It helped add interesting new venues from cities I hadn’t covered yet.
I’m very slowly layering on features, and have a few spin-off ideas I’ll keep brewing on for later. The hardest problem thus far has been attempting to automate popularity rankings and automatic removal of defunct venues without breaching a bunch of ToS.
Also made https://drnk.beer, a small side project offering beer-related linkpages and @handles for Bluesky (AT Protocol). It's been on the backburner, but still very much live.
Probably looking for another small project for the next few months to focus on something else for a while.
Always curious to see what others are building and doing. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve been working on an app called Lång. It’s a calm daily spending guide – shows you what’s okay to spend today, based on how much needs to last how long.
The idea came from noticing how most people manage money day to day: checking their balance, adjusting by feel, trying not to drift. There are tons of tools for planning or categorising, but not much that fits that kind of improvised pacing.
Still early, but trying to shape it around those habits – to make something simple and steady, that supports how people already do things.
An iOS app that lets you change the paint color of your rooms and try out new interior design styles (ex: Rustic, Coastal, etc).
I built it because I was blown away with what the latest image generation models can do and found that interior design is one area where it could already provide significant value for people. I’ve already used it in just about every room in my house to help me decide on:
- which paint color I should use
- how I should arrange my furniture
- what color theme I should be using to match the design I’ve gone with
- general inspiration on decor
It’s free to download to try with sample imagery. Unfortunately due to the cost of image generation, you won't be able to upload your own photos in the free version (yet). But I’m constantly improving the app and would really love some feedback.
Using Google's GDELT to analyze velocity and sentiment around public-policy/political news. Objectives: develop a taxonomy of news-event types and their behavior; use that taxonomy to test faster/better time to market with responses; ultimately determine which scenarios, if any, can be predicted.
Idea is to be the uptime monitoring + status page solution software teams choose. Next big project I'm looking at is making a terraform provider for uptime checks, so setting up alerts for your new microservice becomes seamless.
Still years away from employing me full time, but we're getting there.
It's pretty simple so far. I'm focused ok getting the basics right and robust, such that I can start playing around without disrupting the real network. I don't have any specific goals, I'm just sort of messing about.
One question that dropped into my lap today was who just announced 2k new Infohashes over the span of 10 minutes. That'll keep me busy for a while.
Last year I quickly built then released an experimental mixed reality horror game for Apple VisionPro: https://pulsargeist.com. It was a lot of fun and people actually liked the early prototypes of it. The game ended up completely tanking on VisionPro. Most people are on Meta Quest anyway so I'm now trying to re-implement the whole thing with Godot for Quest.
It's been a lot of fun but Meta HorizonOS (or whatever) is such a poorer dev experience... Anyway I'm now trying to rebuild the live environment mesh reconstruction feature that doesn't exist while encountering first limitations with Godot... Hopefully it will be ready in a couple months!
If this whole thing got you curious you can watch a technical talk I made about this game at the Letsvision conference in Shanghai, CN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYFH2hiRNqk
...and if social media doesn't somehow destroy your soul, you can follow me here: https://x.com/sxpstudio
pretty much every project out there could use some help.
to find ideas, start with the software you are using. is there any that you like using a lot where you feel that something could be improved? you can also look at websites that you are using, see if any of them are volunteer based.
if that doesn't lead to anything, look at your skills, or skills you'd like to learn. then look for projects based on that.
and finally just browse issues of various projects, search for "help wanted" or "good first issue" or similar and simply try out fixing one such issue, then see if you like working with that project.
i also have a project that i could use some help with, but the learning curve is a bit high (or rather the setup work you need to do to before you can start coding): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159045
I was in a similar boat some months ago but realized my inability to come up with good ideas was really just me getting frustrated by previous side-projects I didn't finish or got bored by.
What helped me get unstuck and get my creativity back up was setting myself constraints, like whatever I work on today, I'll ship it today, or let's try to make an intentionally useless bash script in 20 minutes.
Each day, I create a new 30-second episode based on the plot direction voted on by the audience the day before.
I'm trying to see how far the latest Video GenAI can go with narrative content, especially episodics. I'm also curious what community-driven narratives look like!
For the past week, I've been tinkering mostly with Runway, Midjourney, and Suno for the video content. My co-creator vibe coded the platform on Lovable.
Working on Lunova — a QuickBooks Online app that you can create custom alerts via SMS/email such as when big deposits land, invoices go overdue, or vendor prices spike. Just cleared Intuit’s tech/security + marketing review (Took over 3 months... after building the MVP) and we’re now live on the QBO App Store. Feedback and feature requests welcome: https://uselunova.com
Not yet. I'm writing it because of a new 7800 cartridge type somebody is working on and that work needs an emulator. I'm waiting for him to complete his half of the project before releasing it. If I release it now, it'll let the cat-out-of-the-bag too soon :-)
I have a fully working 2600 emulator that's publicly available. That'll give you an idea of what I'm aiming for. https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600 Because the 2600 and 7800 are so similar, I plan to merge the two projects together in the future.
I'm working on getting all my supported iOS/MacOS/WatchOS/TVOS apps ready for Version 26 (Liquid Glass).
It introduces quite a few changes. In my shipping apps, I'll probably be simply telling the OS not to use Liquid Glass (for now), but for my various test harni, I will need to adapt. Looks like a fair bit of work.
An app that allows you import text in a foreign language you are learning and then click on sentences or words to get a translation and generate flashcards from them.
Haven't released properly yet - not sure if it's stable but oh well.
I don't like using my personal email to sign up for things. But there are definitely things that I do want to sign up for - newsletters, try out some services.
I know there are temporary email services, but I actually want to use these services. Of course there is Apple email that forwards to your real email.
But, I also don't want to flood my inbox.
Anyway, I wanted to receive these transactional emails in my personal Slack.
its not working when i try to do connect with slack i am getting this error
Something went wrong when authorizing this app.
Try going back and authorizing again. If problems persist, contact support for help.
I'm working on https://tickerfeed.net - a new kind of forum for stock market discussion.
After HashiCorp was acquired by IBM I decided to take time off from corporate life and build something for myself. For years I've also been a casual retail investor on the side.
Forums like /r/stocks and /r/wsb in the past have been useful resources for finding leads and interesting information. But meme-ification (among other factors) have substantially degraded sites like Reddit, to the point where interesting comments are much fewer and far in between. With TickerFeed I'm hoping to recapture what was lost - a platform where investors can discuss companies and all things stock market through meaningful long form content.
It's also a chance to build something with my dream stack - Go + HTMX + SQLite, and that's been fun :)
Insurance is negative NPV. Trying to make it NPV neutral by giving people tools to self-insure. Starting with an app that lets you self-insure your phone with friends and family.
This is cool. I'm interested in reading more on this concept. Any chance you have a write up of experiences so far? Or can you point to other resources?
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[ 0.28 ms ] story [ 310 ms ] threadI recently shipped a first-draft UI demo that you can play around with for my self-hosted jobs tracker:
https://escape-rope.bhmt.dev
This demo is just the UI and isn't thorough about API mocking (and the interview forms have a couple snags I need to work through still so I've left it out of the test data), but the full application also includes crawler flows for collecting results.
Main focus is https://wheretodrink.beer, collecting and cataloging craft beer venues from around the world. No ambition of being exhaustive, but aiming for a curated and substantial list. After the last thread, a bunch of people added their suggestions, thanks! It helped add interesting new venues from cities I hadn’t covered yet.
I’m very slowly layering on features, and have a few spin-off ideas I’ll keep brewing on for later. The hardest problem thus far has been attempting to automate popularity rankings and automatic removal of defunct venues without breaching a bunch of ToS.
Also made https://drnk.beer, a small side project offering beer-related linkpages and @handles for Bluesky (AT Protocol). It's been on the backburner, but still very much live.
Probably looking for another small project for the next few months to focus on something else for a while. Always curious to see what others are building and doing. Thanks for sharing!
The idea came from noticing how most people manage money day to day: checking their balance, adjusting by feel, trying not to drift. There are tons of tools for planning or categorising, but not much that fits that kind of improvised pacing.
Still early, but trying to shape it around those habits – to make something simple and steady, that supports how people already do things.
https://lang.money
I built it because I was blown away with what the latest image generation models can do and found that interior design is one area where it could already provide significant value for people. I’ve already used it in just about every room in my house to help me decide on:
- which paint color I should use
- how I should arrange my furniture
- what color theme I should be using to match the design I’ve gone with
- general inspiration on decor
It’s free to download to try with sample imagery. Unfortunately due to the cost of image generation, you won't be able to upload your own photos in the free version (yet). But I’m constantly improving the app and would really love some feedback.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roomai-restyle-your-home/id674...
Idea is to be the uptime monitoring + status page solution software teams choose. Next big project I'm looking at is making a terraform provider for uptime checks, so setting up alerts for your new microservice becomes seamless.
Still years away from employing me full time, but we're getting there.
Just noticed your website checker might have a bug: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=Kfd51...
It's pretty simple so far. I'm focused ok getting the basics right and robust, such that I can start playing around without disrupting the real network. I don't have any specific goals, I'm just sort of messing about.
One question that dropped into my lap today was who just announced 2k new Infohashes over the span of 10 minutes. That'll keep me busy for a while.
It's been a lot of fun but Meta HorizonOS (or whatever) is such a poorer dev experience... Anyway I'm now trying to rebuild the live environment mesh reconstruction feature that doesn't exist while encountering first limitations with Godot... Hopefully it will be ready in a couple months!
If this whole thing got you curious you can watch a technical talk I made about this game at the Letsvision conference in Shanghai, CN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYFH2hiRNqk
...and if social media doesn't somehow destroy your soul, you can follow me here: https://x.com/sxpstudio
I'd like to volunteer for a software project but I struggle to find good ways of locating a project that interests me.
to find ideas, start with the software you are using. is there any that you like using a lot where you feel that something could be improved? you can also look at websites that you are using, see if any of them are volunteer based.
if that doesn't lead to anything, look at your skills, or skills you'd like to learn. then look for projects based on that.
and finally just browse issues of various projects, search for "help wanted" or "good first issue" or similar and simply try out fixing one such issue, then see if you like working with that project.
there also was an hn thread similar to this one some time ago where people posted projects that they need help with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42157556
i also have a project that i could use some help with, but the learning curve is a bit high (or rather the setup work you need to do to before you can start coding): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159045
What helped me get unstuck and get my creativity back up was setting myself constraints, like whatever I work on today, I'll ship it today, or let's try to make an intentionally useless bash script in 20 minutes.
May be coming up with a list for people like us in itself could be something.
How We Met – https://how-we-met.c47.studio/
Each day, I create a new 30-second episode based on the plot direction voted on by the audience the day before.
I'm trying to see how far the latest Video GenAI can go with narrative content, especially episodics. I'm also curious what community-driven narratives look like!
For the past week, I've been tinkering mostly with Runway, Midjourney, and Suno for the video content. My co-creator vibe coded the platform on Lovable.
I have a fully working 2600 emulator that's publicly available. That'll give you an idea of what I'm aiming for. https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600 Because the 2600 and 7800 are so similar, I plan to merge the two projects together in the future.
It introduces quite a few changes. In my shipping apps, I'll probably be simply telling the OS not to use Liquid Glass (for now), but for my various test harni, I will need to adapt. Looks like a fair bit of work.
Haven't released properly yet - not sure if it's stable but oh well.
I don't like using my personal email to sign up for things. But there are definitely things that I do want to sign up for - newsletters, try out some services.
I know there are temporary email services, but I actually want to use these services. Of course there is Apple email that forwards to your real email.
But, I also don't want to flood my inbox.
Anyway, I wanted to receive these transactional emails in my personal Slack.
So, that's what Fro is for (https://fro.app)
- Sign up - get an email address - link to your Slack channel
And you can now catch up on those newsletters via Slack.
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After HashiCorp was acquired by IBM I decided to take time off from corporate life and build something for myself. For years I've also been a casual retail investor on the side.
Forums like /r/stocks and /r/wsb in the past have been useful resources for finding leads and interesting information. But meme-ification (among other factors) have substantially degraded sites like Reddit, to the point where interesting comments are much fewer and far in between. With TickerFeed I'm hoping to recapture what was lost - a platform where investors can discuss companies and all things stock market through meaningful long form content.
It's also a chance to build something with my dream stack - Go + HTMX + SQLite, and that's been fun :)
Bogleheads used to be place with serious folks but I haven't been there in a decade or more so no idea what it's like these days.
+1 on your tech stack
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/open-insure-self-insurance/id6...