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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2023)

36 points| david927 | 3 years ago | reply

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

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[+] ammmir|3 years ago|reply
I'm working on ExecAPI - https://execapi.com - a code execution as a service platform, starting with WebAssembly nanoservices, deployed a bit like CGI scripts, but running on the edge, so comparable latency to Cloudflare Workers and Lambda@Edge. Currently thinking about ideas around HTTP-triggered workers, long-running services, web hook handlers, etc. and how we can bring cloud costs down to the bare minimum.

It's more of a fun project right now, but hoping to unearth some marketable use cases and ideas as I go along. I'll do a proper launch in a month or two.

[+] futhey|3 years ago|reply
Built a PWA (+ TestFlight) to search, browse, and generate Stable Diffusion images: https://app.pica.so/

Fun to build, mostly just thinking through the UI, catching up with all the new AI models coming out these days. Would be a ton of work to really polish and monetize an iOS / Android app like this, not interested in taking it much further.

[+] dieselgate|3 years ago|reply
This will probably be different than other comments but working to finish up a metal/welding project. Converting a trailer to be usable for a 22' sailboat - almost done just having to do some spray painting and add bolts. It's been probably about 8 months of working in my free time to get here, pretty excited to be done.
[+] ElCapitanMarkla|3 years ago|reply
Nice work. Could you weld before or did you learn it for this? I built a trailer a couple of years back and really enjoyed it. I’m thinking about building some sort of cage / box so I can get more loose landscaping material on there.
[+] surprisetalk|3 years ago|reply
• organizing outland 2023: a tiny tech conference in southern california

• i rewrote a giant piece of software from scratch and will demo it for the owners of the product tomorrow (wish me luck)

• creating an mvp for my new startup that will tackle the AI alignment problem (looking for pre-seed investment!)

• polishing a compiler for a programming language i made

• writing essays on productized services, selfish recycling, elm, and wolfram alpha

• searching for a healthcare plan

• training for the aids/lifecycle (7-day bike ride from SF to LA)

[1] https://taylor.town/now

[2] https://outland.sh

[3] [email protected]

[+] scubbo|3 years ago|reply
Goodluck!
[+] romanhn|3 years ago|reply
Rolepad - https://rolepad.com, helping job seekers manage their search process. Emails and spreadsheets can quickly get overwhelming and there aren't really many tools out there for folks that want to manage their own pipelines. Companies have applicant tracking systems, this is similar but for the other side.

At the moment working on functionality to easily ingest email communications with recruiters/companies so that it can truly be a system of record (without needing to give access to your inbox or any of that).

[+] obayesshelton|3 years ago|reply
Couple of thoughts.

You need to find a way to sync with platforms you have applied on for example LinkedIn Easy Apply

Will edit when other thoughts come in.

[+] mcapodici|3 years ago|reply
One for the Indiehackers/Startup, or even company internal tools people.

Firestarter https://github.com/mcapodici/firestarter, is perhaps a more humble project than most here, but happy if anyone is interested to follow it.

It is an attempt to build what is (in my opinion!) a great stack for quickly iterating on a web app idea. Probably about a month off from first release, which will be a simple TODO app you can sign up for, with full instructions on getting it set up and deployed that would be about an hour's work. From that point you have a semi-professional setup with devops and CI taken care of so you can move faster on your idea or startup. No need to touch a server (there isn't one to touch!)

Uses Firebase/NextJs/Vercel/React/Tailwind/Github Actions/Jest/Testing Library

I chose firebase because it is a very good choice for getting up to speed fast. The downside it is a lock-in, and not open source. However the code is written in such a way that swapping out to Parse, for example would be fairly easy to do.

[+] mnsh|3 years ago|reply
UI components as a service. I struggle to find inspiration for simple ui components when i design and build websites.

It would be great to not start from scratch everytime and still have base ui that could be customizable.

Codepen partially solve this, but searching them takes time and often they are not customizable.

There are multiple sites but they just redirect to selected codepen.

Don't know if it's viable. I am banking on the rise of indie devs building products without designers.

[+] zarathustra333|3 years ago|reply
Im building a p2p rental marketplace https://www.rentr.me/ . Focused on NYC and allows NY'ers to safely rent items from each other.

Currently looking for a cofounder so feel free to reach out :) https://ellispinsky.com/

[+] derwiki|3 years ago|reply
I used to be in this space. How are you going to handle fraud/theft? E.g. someone uses a stolen driver’s license/whatever to sign up with a verified account, uses a stolen card, shows up to borrow $highValue item, and then never returns it.
[+] nniroclax|3 years ago|reply
I always forget when to plant things in my garden so I made a little tool for myself. You set your zip, then pick your plants, and it will tell you your upcoming planting dates.

https://rootedreminders.com

[+] jasfi|3 years ago|reply
InventAI: https://inventai.xyz

This will help creators build with AI using a cool UI with tons of features. Initially for images, then I'll expand to documents and code. I'm aiming to launch in the next few weeks.

[+] ilovefood|3 years ago|reply
It's still very modest and in it's starting phases (not ready for Show HN), but I'm working on small website/guide on how to get started using Rust for Data Engineering. I've been using Rust in my new job with quite some success over the past months and decided to share what I learned. As someone who's used to Python for almost a decade now, it is a very nice complement and quite surprisingly fits the bill for things like Data Engineering.

https://datawithrust.com

[+] rozenmd|3 years ago|reply
I've been working on OnlineOrNot for two years (as of last week), and started building an open source CLI in TypeScript for it:

https://github.com/onlineornot/onlineornot

I'm finding building a CLI fun because it's still a "frontend", but you have to think harder about how the UX should work - since you can't just make it pretty.

(it's also a cheap way to grow the roadmap for my public API since I need to build all these endpoints to make what I want to do possible)

[+] ezekg|3 years ago|reply
Working on adding “environments” to my business’ API (https://keygen.sh). I’ve gone over 6 years without offering a “sandbox” environment to customers, so I’m excited to finally be working on this one. It’s been quite complex implementatiom-wise, and has touched a lot of surface area, since I want it to support multiple named environments (e.g. staging, dev, one-off isolated test envs for CI/CD). But it’ll be worth it.
[+] rjieger|3 years ago|reply
Building a site that helps people determine where to live using publicly available data sets. https://searchaway.co/

It's a fun side project but something I think needs to exist. I found it difficult to see how places were changing over time (ie are schools getting better or worse, is income increasing or decreasing, etc..) Would love to hear your feedback or meet individuals interested in working together. [email protected]

[+] tetek|3 years ago|reply
I'm building a productivity app based only on camera images. For me it's always easier to capture what I need than to put it into words

think:

- fixes around the house / todos

- image as a reminder

- wishlist (some photo lists can be public and shareable)

- recommendations (when someone is showing you a book or sth, just capture and save it)

I'm still at an early experimentation stage, but have I'm documenting progress at https://twitter.com/visuelapp

[+] makeitrain|3 years ago|reply
I started something similar, so far just an inventory of my stuff but I wanted to add a chores and maintenance schedule. I like the UI you have for setting up an item when you take a picture.
[+] kenmoia|3 years ago|reply
Currently putting the final touches on https://www.sheetmonitor.com/

Its a simple tool that plots how data changes in a google sheet over time. So the categories of value per row, number of rows added & removed and some more complex things like averages.

I use it personally to monitor user and finance related sheets that others are editing so I can see how things are changing over time.

[+] DBformore|3 years ago|reply
A remote controlled car , using LEGO + Android. I'm also try to insert a simple AI to this, to make the car remember every driver and adapt its sensitivity.
[+] highhedgehog|3 years ago|reply
A stupid project just for sake of learning. Within are immature group of friends we always had a million nicknames. The website will give the nickname of the day! As stupid as is sounds, I want to kind of buld everything from ground up and i am facing a lot of challenges. Handling login, exposing APIs with an API Gateway, Database etc. I wish I could find more interesting project to learn with, but i have no ideas :(
[+] dieselgate|3 years ago|reply
What stack are you using and are you familiar with Ruby on Rails?
[+] cddotdotslash|3 years ago|reply
I've been working on a GitHub App to help developers identify potential software supply chain security risks (pipeline misconfigurations, dangerous dependencies, SCM misconfigurations, etc.). Only has a handful of features at the moment as I'm doing some user interviews to learn more.

https://docs.sourceshield.io

[+] mattbgates|3 years ago|reply
Been diving in the world of ChatGPT and other AI tech lately.

In February, I was working on two projects and just released them both recently:

https://trackmybot.com - public ChatGPT responses with public archive.

https://artsy.sh - dynamic drawing tool featuring DALLE-2 and Stable Diffusion 2.1 engine models.