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I was laid off a few weeks ago. Then I learned my dad’s carpet cleaning company has been struggling, so I started learning about Google Local Service Ads to help him out. THEN I learned his old Windows desktop CRM was discontinued and one OS update away from no longer working. I wanted a way to track every dollar spent to determine return on ad spend, but the Google LSA dashboard left a lot to be desired. And existing SaaS CRMs didn’t have great integrations to Google Ads API. So I built Crewbird, a Field Service Management and CRM for service based businesses with Google LSA integration where my dad is quickly approaching 3x ROAS!
I’m still looking for work in the mean time but I’m proud of what I’ve achieved so far.
https://github.com/pg1/paper-profit/
Paper-trading platform that lets you learn by doing—teaching about investing and trading.
A video player focussed on 360 videos.
I got a 360 camera (GoPro MAX v1) for my bicycle, after re-discovering bicycling during COVID. I soon found it was fun to review the video after a ride, but the software was a bit clunky. Upgraded to a DJI Osmo 360, and found the software likewise powerful, but still not what I wanted.
As an audio video developer I knew I could make it work the way I wanted, and this year I finally set about doing that: https://recap360.app (macOS-only at the moment).
It’s a ~5MB download from the macOS app store; no in-app ads, no accounts, no ~GB download. It loads the video of a 5-hour bike ride in seconds, direct from MicroSD. Complete with a map overlay & graphs of various internal metadata. (Speed, altitude, ascent rate, but also internal temperature etc).
It’s been fascinating to see the various tradeoffs the camera vendors make; how much in-camera stabilization & rolling shutter compensation vs how much to leave to the player. Also interest ing is how the metadata is recorded in the file; some document them, most don’t.
Started with GoPro MAX, added DJI Osmo 360 & Insta360 support. More coming soon. Even plays dash cams & body cams (Vantrue & Boblov; I was curious to see how they stored GPS data).
AI is still killing the website I live from[0], training its AI on my work and using it to deny me an audience. Traffic is down 80-85% from the same month pre-LLMs.
So I'm cutting operating costs to the bare minimum. Today I shut down one service and replaced a VPS with Cloudflare Workers. I'm also trimming my SaaS subscriptions and self-hosting what I can.
Working on this website feels so pointless if it will end up dead in a year. I just returned from a vacation and realised that I just don't like being online anymore. I'll cut my expenses to a minimum, log off, and ride a motorcycle around the world. What happens after that is anyone's guess.
https://launchroom.vantezzen.io/
A self hosting dashboard that gives you a Railway-like canvas to connect your different services in a project and that uses tailscale for easy multi-server setups
I work on a suite of open source public transit software projects, collectively called OneBusAway (or OBA). The software is used by millions of transit riders every day around the world, including in New York City, the Seattle area, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.
University of California San Diego has deployed our Wayfinder and Waystation web apps for their 35,000+ students!
We're getting ready to launch our Vehicle Positions software, which replaces expensive, proprietary vehicle location systems with free, open source software that runs on commodity smartphones.
Our next-generation server software, Maglev, is adding support for newer transit data formats, like GTFS-Flex so that we can show demand responsive transit systems on the map.
We are always looking for more developers, biz dev, ux designers, product managers, and more to help out!
Open volunteer positions: https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar...
Our software: https://github.com/OneBusAway/
More about us: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org
My Snagit license was up for renewal. After VS Code, Safari, and Terminal, it was the app I used most on my computer, so I needed it to run fast and do what I wanted. Instead, it kept getting in my way in all its bloated glory, and I didn't want to pay to renew it. So I'm building my own replacement.
Yes, it's another screenshot and recording tool. But this one has exactly the features I need, nothing more and nothing less. It's like a home-cooked meal. Sure, it's vibe-coded, but it has a bit of an engineer's touch.
I’m reverse engineering and replacing the entire stack on Samsung A54 (Exynos 1380, Mali-G68), started with booting to a customized linux kernel (7.3) w/o Android layer at all (Wayland and WPE WebKit only), built a custom WLBT thin firmware to replace the original fat blob (using mac80211 as the foundation), figured out how to exploit USB control transfer and got ACE in the PBL, reconstructed (with byte-identical verification) their LK-based S-Boot, uH and harx, patched mesa/panfrost, optimized kernels for this device (finally got STT/TTS running on GPU faster than on CPU), figured out how to utilize NPU, built a custom toolchain for it. I’m trying to properly own this device (and giving it to Claude on the lowest possible level, but still running pKVM and getting rid of original hypervisors), it’s the goal number one at this point, no binary blobs, ability to change sw and control hw on-the-fly. Obviously with AI usage (Opus 5.5/4.8, GLM 5.3, Kimi 3.1), there’s a lot of work.
I am still working on fast and dense stock market related visualizations, example:
Drawdown (from 52-week high) charts for top performing YTD stocks of the NASDAQ 100:
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=drawdown&p=ytd&in=n...
View the stock charts of holdings of an ETF like ARKK in a dense way:
https://chartrow.com/quote/arkk/holdings#range=10y&ma=20%2C5...
Microsoft business fundamental trends:
https://chartrow.com/quote/msft/trends
Visualizing the top performing stocks in different ways:
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=charts&p=ytd
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=heatmap&p=ytd
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=calendar&p=ytd
Feel free to change views from charts to table to heatmap etc. And it should feel responsive. Report any bugs to me and happy viewing. :)
https://pahunchi.netlify.app/ A free app for women to pretend to be on call when alone in a cab or to get out of a bad date. Can share location, voice note on a realistic call where AI responds in your language (currently supports Hindi, English).
Ages ago, I had built a tool to monitor the mains power frequency with resolution of some microseconds. I looked at my old assembly code, and realized with better optimization and optocoupler choice, I could probably get that down to some hundreds of nanoseconds.
The original idea was to try and correlate phase jitter to space weather, essentially using the mains power system as a sort of radio telescope. I never did get it working (although I did not have much time to try, either). I was able to see interesting things like generators spinning up to maintain the frequency though.
Will open source the hardware when done. I am not an astronomer, just some random fellow that investigates things at depth for no particular reason.
I've been having fun with using AI to gather data on niche subjects so I can visualize and understand it better.
Recently, this has been porting the wikipedia "Getting to philosophy"[0] to other gaming wikis, and working alongside agents got me to a really nice visualization[1] for it.
I'm now slowly working towards converting this to an immersive article so I can share some of the emerging patterns and evaluating the differences within the various wikis.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
[1] https://antonygarand.github.io/gaming-wiki-analysis/mesh/?
Some friends and I started working on a tool to help us deal with the increased output from AI. Instead of reviewing large PRs, we review architecture diagrams with proofs. Most of the companies we worked at had stopped reviewing code, and reading large output got exhausting.
We built https://draw.redcrayon.ai, inspired by tools we love like Excalidraw: a live architecture board you and your coding agent draw on together. The agent connects over MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, claude.ai) and draws what it changes as it works. The edges are meant to cite a source line (or fingerprint). You read the board instead of walls of text, and you can circle something in red crayon to get the agent to answer/fix it.
What we use it for:
- An incident scratch pad, where the agent lays out what it finds while debugging
- Seeing how a change affects the architecture before reading the diff
- Flagging the risky parts, like a DB migration, with every piece of code that reads that table
- Github App that generates a diagram per PR (something that is a work in progress)
- Ever wanted to create a branch of your existing diagram rather than completely clone/copy it? That's something we added to draw.
Docs: https://docs.redcrayon.ai
OSS (Apache-2.0): https://github.com/redcrayonai/draw
A series of actually hard puzzle books, so far sudoku, killer sudoku and some fiendish wordsearches that only use 5 letters per grid.
https://extremepuzzlebooks.com
A sample wordsearch is available as a pdf here: https://extremepuzzlebooks.com/assets/sample/extreme-wordsea...
I'm quite proud of this wordsearch concept as I've not seen it done before.
All the logic puzzles have an online solution to show step by step how you can complete them.
https://extremepuzzlebooks.com/walkthroughs
I've been working on the software to generate, test and verify these for a couple of years and finally built up enough puzzle stock that meets the difficulty requirements to properly launch.
Now the work is on every hackers favourite part... Marketing!
For the last 3 years, with a small team has been building https://kube-dc.com/ - a platform for building enterprise grade private and public clouds. Its like VMware + OpenShift + Railway in a single product: completely multi-tenant, built entirely on the K8s API (we built over 46 custom controllers in Go, with UI in Radix UI), with managed services like nested K8s, Postgres, Kafka, Valkey, and GitHub runners. Not the charts :) real services. Also we can do vlans BGP, shared GPU and all fancy stuff required.
Now we don't deploy this to private companies except some gov projects. But we are engaging existing IaaS and dedicated servers providers. Later hope we would fight with Broadcom and IBM :)
We previously ran a services company that built over 100 private clouds, then decided to turn that experience into a product with an aggressive level of automation to let DevOps, SRE, and platform teams hit a 1:300 ratio per developer (now dev + AI agent teams).
We are currently deployed across 12 datacenters and raising our seed round this month.
Regarding been curious, today I have created my first explainable video with Remotion +claude so if you want to see open edit results check https://promo-review-shalb-promo.stage.kube-dc.com/
Would be glad if you comment. Thanks!
I worked at a sports company forever ago, and ever since then, I've wanted to build my own NBA scores + stats site. After a few false starts over the years, I have a new concept called Center Court that I'm so excited about.
It's primary purpose is for live boxscores because all of the major sports sites have terrible UI/UX experiences. I always defaulted to ESPN.com but it's so slow and awful. Center Court is basically a bridge between espn.com (or nba.com) and more advanced stat focused sites that don't offer a good live experience.
The technical implementation behind it is quite novel in this space too. Instead of storing computed statistics in a database, I store raw play by play payloads immutability and everything else is derived from those and can be trivially rebuilt so the event log is a derived cache of the payloads. Every stat on every page is a pure fold over the event log at request time; no derived number is stored.
This enables some powerful features like being able to re-derive a game's entire state at any point of the game (or even a time range). Example game to try out: https://centercourtlive.com/game/0022600197
The site is meant to be extremely fast. It's all server-side rendered with progressive JS enhancements. URLs are immutable and cached behind a CDN.
To help my kids preparing for an exam (and steer them away from asking Gemini for solutions), I’ve built an iPad Kids Tutor app. They can take a pic of a problem that they struggle with (initially for math but it works for any subject) and the harness then prepares a plan how to work through the issue using both claude and codex on the backend. It’s been fun to build and watch my kids start using it and actually enjoy it (ok, not always).
Vela! A new desktop environment made to use just Vulkan 1.4, expecting to be faster than Plasma* and made with wlroots, but using a custom renderer. It has focus on fractional scaling, sharpness and usability. Take a look at https://velade.org
*currently building a benchmark suite, reaching approx. 40% less ram usage, 40% faster input lag, less cpu usage in some activities, and faster responsiveness during high cpu usage (from other tasks)
A singing training app for bad singers. You sing the pitch line and get a score. Let's you sing to any original song by listening along and not playing the song itself.
Recently got some good feedback on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195488 and am following up with Linux and Windows versions and using Fable 5.1 to internationalise the app and landing page which explains the app.
I've been deep in the weeds on two wildly unrelated projects.
Project #1: I've been working on migrating an application [1] from GCP (where I pay $200/mo to host it) to a physical server (PowerEdge R7625) I've racked in a colo near me, running on my own IPs/ASN [2] and all that jazz. I've been dragging my feet on the this as there's just a lot of moving pieces, but I got a good chunk of the last few hard bits done today.
Project #2: Building a DIY bright-ass lamp, like Brighter [3] or Rhythm [4], but for a few hundred bucks instead of $1-2k. I've specced out the parts, designed the hardware, and built the firmware. Later today I'll do my first LED test against a bench supply, to get some hard numbers for if my cooling solution (a chunky aluminum heatsink and some Noctua PC fans) is sufficient for the full 500+ W final version.
As far as curiosities go, I've been doing a lot of Go (the board game, not the language) puzzles, and reading about sailing (mostly the book from the Hundredrabbits folk [5])
[2] https://bgp.tools/as/55078
I'm building Papillon: https://papillon.so, a real-time collaborative workspace for product teams.
The idea is to bring chat, docs, files, links, tasks, whiteboards and calls into one place, organised around project channels, rather than jumping between Slack, Notion, Linear, etc. I want to build a better Slack, something that feels instant, got a hacker/IDE feel to it, and works offline.
One feature I love is that teams can build little apps with AI directly inside their workspace. Things like shared support rotas, spreadsheets, dashboards or custom workflows, all running in an isolated sandbox (with cloudflare OS) and easily accessible to the team.
I've been building it solo for around 18 months now, alongside my job as a staff engineer. The web app is live, and there's a macOS app too. It's built with Tauri, so I will eventually release apps for other platforms but I need more time to test it properly.
I had a team try it and they loved it, but in the end their leadership wasn't comfortable adopting something built by a solo developer as a side project. I understand, and it's a tricky problem for me to solve at this point. I've added a lot of security/trust info, uptime history etc. to the website as a result of that.
I'm looking for a few small teams willing to give it a go. Happy to help setting things up or answer any question. I'd also love any feedback, good or bad...!
Very different than usual HN vibes here, going for some solarpunk-y & creative coding projects:
https://cybersolar.earth - artist website for my solarpunk hiphop & drum n bass album coming out, plus some thoughts on climate+culture
https://newsdash.concourse.codes - basically: Perplexity for climate news. hardcoded to be personally relevant rn, uses Gemini to do some basic web search grounding. Turned out to be fairly helpful
https://arena.concourse.codes - Use are.na channels to 'fine tune' a Gemini image gen model and prompt what you want. Inspired by wishing I could easily tell Midjourney to quickly use a collection of 10 images to set the style of an image. gens limited as is WIP but fun to play with for a min (edit: ofc i share today & have UI bug! click the page header to fix for now, will fix later:D)
https://colors.concourse.codes - kinda janky atm but an attempt at crowdsourcing a color palette for my music
https://concourse.codes - my personal site! come say hi
-- edit: open to thoughts on any of the proj, all just passion projects at the moment & haven't shared any before! be kind:)
I've been building a web browser in C from scratch, without any libraries and without AI.
This is finally approaching a usable state: navigates and renders Wikipedia, supports TLS, builds on Windows, macOS and Linux, loads PNGs and JPEGs, etc.
I'm going to opensource this once it supports most of CSS 2.2 layout and renders HN too (HN is totally blank right now, because it's a giant <table> which is still a TODO :-) )
I still don't know what to do with this. It's been a huge passion project and I'm very happy about it. I planned to create a book or video course about C programming, starting from printf("Hello world!\n") and ending up with a working browser; but the advent of AI coding agents in the past 2 years changed a lot the market for such a course.
I'm still finishing this due to stubbornness and some sunken cost fallacy effect :-)
Would love to hear feedback and ideas about such a project.
A few months ago I was looking to create a dead simple weather site that would show me the next 24 hours in plain language and email me the night before. Most weather sites are horrible to read and most of this information is freely available by your local NWS.
I am currently on maternity leave with my first baby have just launched to the app store my first app!
I'm a product designer by trade and learnt to vibe code on Claude about a month ago now. I was weaning my baby and he developed a rash and haven't been able to work out what the pattern was causing it. So I created an app for weaning parents to log the food, add any reactions so when talking to their GP they can start to see a pattern and all advice, like nutrients, food variety, how to serve food all coming from the NHS and FSA.
Currently got 12 mums using the app and would love any feedback to make it even better! <3
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/niblet-weaning-diary/id6822680...
A month and half ago launched Maxxmod, a Chrome extension that improves the YouTube experience by removing distractions (hiding Shorts and cleaning up search results) and adding new tools and shortcuts (volume booster, screenshot tool, quick access to Picture-in-Picture and playback speed controls). I’ve been adding features since then.
Last week, YouTube introduced GIFs in comments, so added an option to stop them from autoplaying and play them on demand (a play button).
Disclaimer: I posted a Show HN when launched the 1.0, but it didn’t get traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829812
Gave (https://gave.skar.cloud/en) a wish list app for families available on iPhone and iPad.
"Gave" is Norwegian for "gift". It started as something I built for my family as each Christmas there were numerous bad solutions to making sure nobody knew what they got while still making sure that nobody got double up of something they wished for. I have iterated a lot over the last 3 years: I've built one version as a very simple web page, one version as a PWA, and now a fully-fledged native iOS and iPadOS app.
In Gave, the people who follow you can see what's free, reserved or bought, so nobody receives the same gift from two different people. You never see the status of your own wishes as the server never sends you that data. That goes for notifications, widgets, Siri and Spotlight too. There's a "Hide status" switch for when you show your screen to the person you're shopping for.
Some other things it does:
- Private notes and secret gift ideas.
- Easy view of whose birthdays and holidays are coming up, and if you are prepared.
- MCP server for connecting your favorite agent.
- Very native experience: It is integrated with Spotlight, Siri, deep linking, notifications and Apple Intelligence if you want to use it.
It's free: no ads, no subscription, no analytics, no affiliate links. Data lives on a server in Norway. Native SwiftUI on iOS 26, Laravel and Postgres on the backend. It now has English support as well, but the default language is Norwegian until the next version goes through review (hopefully today).
I'd love feedback, especially from anyone whose family has tried a shared spreadsheet or another wish list app and given up on it.
Working on http://downread.com/, making it an advanced RSS reader. I am trying to push the boundaries of what an RSS reader can do. Just added podcast capabilities, complete with background play, queuing and video streaming. Now I am working on adding posting and commenting within the reader, based on rss.chat and the webmention protocol. I am also procrastinating the completion of the mobile apps, which I really should finish soon..
- finishing porting GNOME to Fil-C. It is starting to work but with some features still disabled.
- about 1/3 of the way through getting Rust to compile to Fil-ABI. This means you can interop between Rust and Fil-C without weakening either language’s guarantees. I’ll need this to get librsvg to work in Fil-GNOME.
- almost done making assembly memory safe. The SaRCAsm (safe runtime capability-enforcing assembler) works and I have OpenSSL ported to it but I don’t yet have 100% confidence in this. Once this is done I’ll be able to get rid of zunsafe (the closest thing to an escape hatch in Fil-C; it’s only used for the assembly in OpenSSL; without calls out to assembly, OpenSSL has too high risk of timing side channels).
The glue between AI assistants, agents, and data. 100% open source (MIT).
Provides a flexible data layer plus users, groups, granular permissions, notifications, durable work queues, audit logs and more… MCP and CLI interfaces. Works across all agents and assistants (Claude, GPT, etc)
Most useful for small teams and agencies that need to build one off solutions for collaboration and operations inside of the harness they already use.
I've rolled out a few LLM-wikis for clients. Saw a lot of excitement with technical teams, but ran into issues deploying them with business teams. No one wanted to learn git or GitHub, event if Claude handled most of it :/
So I built Isomorphic, an open-source MCP that sits between the user and a markdown knowledge base in GitHub. It's kind of like Obsidian but it's "inside" Claude web, ChatGPT web, etc. Not a separate UX. Organizations keep their knowledge separate from the AI and interoperable, helps org build brains for customers, projects, internal teams. Conformant to Google's Open Knowledge Format.
Been having fun with it. Lots of learnings re: permissioning, version control, search. Working on dreaming and security features that catch when info goes stale, users upload sensitive info, etc.
A minimal X11 application that prints state and keycode on key press. I needed the state for special function keys like Alt-GR, but I didn't want to search the web for it.
Originally started from the st[0] terminal and removed unused functionality, but there was still too much code. Ultimately I followed a minimal example from rosetta code[1].
For the task of removing functionality I developed a small tool based on LLVM that prints the source code location of functions that are unreachable from main, so that I can safely remove them without altering functionality, deleted ~3000 LOC in a couple of minutes[2], still I'm struggling with integrating the tool with cmake
[0] https://st.suckless.org/ [1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Window_creation/ [2] https://github.com/FattiMei/modmask
A memo app where indented lists stay flat instead of nesting https://koalamm.com
Notion, Obsidian, and most other memo apps use nested, parent-child lists. I love how OneNote lets you move lines around freely with a flat structure, but as you know OneNote is clunky, so I built this.
I was laid off a couple of weeks ago, so I have some time for myself and my projects.
I'm porting my Unicode library to Rust https://crates.io/crates/mojibake-rs.
I'm also writing a puzzle game with a door that has one million locks. It's real-time multiplayer; some locks have opening combos, and others can be opened only by > 2 players. I'm writing it to practice with PostgreSQL. I only have an HTML prototype to test it. https://6251.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/hn-door-screenshot.p.... If you are interested, I can publish the code.
https://github.com/amterp/muster is a Libghostty-powered terminal for managing your agents. I just gave it a bit of a visual refresh this weekend and it's looking pretty great imo. It's my daily driver lets me keep an eye on my agents and allow them (cross harness included) to work together, communicate, and spawn new Muster agents themselves.
https://github.com/amterp/kan is an offline Kanban-as-files-in-your-Git-repo project I started near the beginning of the year and continue to evolve and work on. It's my main way to track tasks and projects, and these days I'm handing a ton of control of my kanban boards over to AI agents that interact with it thru the kan CLI, express which cards block what, etc, and they can pick up work automatically with 'kan ready'.
An online quiz game https://imperiaquiz.com/en (1 vs 1 vs 1) or bots when there're not many online players. Go backend, React + Three frontend and a ton of questions (no API used there, I used LLMs and hand-reviews on many to fill up over 20,000 questions)
A remake of the old ConQUIZtador game.
I've been working on a simpler, more extensible Markdown variant I'm calling Zd. I've also been working on a simple, embeddable language that's something in between Lua, Koka, and Erlang.
In both of these projects, I'm trying my best to find a balance on AI usage. So far, they both have held strongly to the principle of only accepting code I've written personally. At the same time, as I begin to land on stable design decisions I've found that speculative experiments with AI can be helpful. I can benchmark potential future decisions prior to committing.
I'm not saying that AI couldn't be used to do more, but I'm trying to ride a line where things still feel personal, local, and deeply my own design. And more than that, I'm practicing holding on to the joy in the work. It's too easy to just know that AI could be used to plow through a problem. It makes my scope tend to creep and my estimates shrink. So, pushing back involves continuing to scope small changes and remembering to feel positive about each win.
Trying to port over Video Hub App from Electron to Tauri (400mb -> 40mb installer)
https://videohubapp.com/ - Browse, search, and organize your videos on Win, Mac, and Linux
https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App - MIT open source!
I continue working on my side project Babel Nexus. I had some issues with billing so I moved it to my home computer and am rebuilding it using powershell and VS Code. I am trying to figure which small AI system I should put on my computer like Cline, Zoo Code, or Qwen. I can do this because I have an NVIDIA graphics card. I have also looked at Ollama. I am steadily rebuilding my app. It costs very little to build it on my home computer. I have redone a lot of little things and added a whole bunch of content. I plan on using Railway to host it because for the long term it is less expensive. Right now, my existing app is placeholder. https://babelnexus.com I added several new free ebook applications recently to the Beyond the Public Domain section.
A complete implementation of React in Godot:
Because I can. Well, let's be honest: because LLMs can. There's nothing particularly novel about this. It's just wiring a bunch of libraries together. Certainly would have been time consuming, but not difficult, strictly speaking, since all the heavy lifting is done by the libraries utilised.
Likely going to migrate https://breaka.club HUDs and editor UI to React since Godot control nodes are by no means impossible to work with, but somewhat cumbersome.
EDIT: Oh, will be open source like a lot of Breaka Club's other libraries very soon. Still optimising.
I’m learning English and wanted to watch movies in the original with my girlfriend. She isn’t learning English and didn’t want to watch in this way. I couldn’t find anything that really worked, so I vibe-coded this player. Now I listen to the original in my headphones and she listens to the dub on the speakers.
This player runs in a browser and lets you play two audio tracks from the same movie on different devices.
It doesn't require installation or an account and the movie doesn't leave your computer.
Working on Zoupyu (https://zoupyu.com). You paste a long video, it suggests the best moments, and you pick the start and end points which then become clips. Most AI clippers just pick for you, so I wanted something that gives me full control over each second. I want to expand it into a platform that brings creators and clippers together through content rewards.
7 months ago I left my job to give more time to Zoupyu. Solo building and figuring out everything from SEO, marketing, tech, design, and everything else it takes to build and run an online product. I never sold anything in my life before and now we have around 50 paying customers from all around the world, just 3 months ago my goal in life was to make one sale just one! and now its around 50. I know its not much but feels so good that I achived that. That too all organic.
https://minihomelabs.com/hwdb - Basically the PCPartPicker of used OEM hardware.
It's harder than it should be to compare old pcs for home labbing so I've been building this to scratch my own itch. Right now it's more focused on specs but I'm working on expanding out to to include things like viable upgrades and explaining the different model lineups.
I've been working on a self-hosted cloud drive (like a Google Drive alternative to run on your own server), about to release v2.
v1 didn't have a desktop app with sync, so I added one. I also redesigned the whole web app (a few pages are same as old design but I might change those later)
Honestly, I rewrote almost everything. I've been using it myself since the first alpha, and the v2 release candidates feel like a different app.
It still has some rough edges, so I got a friend to run it on his server as a tester which made finding bugs a lot easier.
Feedback is very welcome, it is my first project: https://github.com/itsmeares/staaash
I am working on Raspberry PI OS mod for kids - https://luminum.tech/ I have one user (my kid). The core of the idea is to have one no-limit device at home that is dedicated to learning and not games.
Mother of all VPNs -- https://moav.sh
A new editor and processing engine for the Foveon Sensor cameras that were manufactured around 2002-2019. The existing software is either wildly slow, or does not process according to manufacturer intention. Think choosing between waiting multiple seconds after every single UI interaction to display changes, or color casts not being handled and the images looking green/magenta in different areas of the shot. One tricky bit is that the 4 different sensor architectures are all processed differently.
This weekend I am modifying the pipelines to be able to operate on downsampled sensor layers so that I can get multi shot editing as snappy as possible. If you are only displaying 500ish pixels wide, its wild to still be rendering the full 16mp image. Perfetto has been very helpful while optimizing.
Last weekend I was able to make what I feel like is a generational leap in reducing the noise from these sensors. https://www.dpreview.com/forums/threads/foveonic-process-you...
Up next is redoing the caching/scheduling architecture to reduce the amount of overhead and to support multiplexing downsampled editing so that the images are processed within the same GPU pass instead of N passes * M images serially.
I've been working on G-Scope, a free application for digital microscopes, available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Most USB microscopes come with poor software, often limited to one brand or operating system. G-Scope works with almost any UVC microscope and several Wi-Fi models too, it has photo/video capture, calibrated measurements, annotations, and more advanced features like panorama stitching and PDF reports. Some pro features require a one-time purchase.
Everything is local, without account, no subscription, cloud or telemetry.
I always wanted to have all laws to be easy to interpret or at least try to track their changes over time to better understand what’s going on. So I’ve built OpenNorme for the Italian legal corpus here: a single git repo with all laws from 1861 to today with daily scraping from an official api. https://github.com/dej611/italian-laws-history
After every update the github pages is rebuilt with the new data, so you can see some trends in there with some aggs and nice charts. Also, had some fun to build a clippy clone with an in browser SLM.
I’ve been working on an analog framework to reduce journals into high quality essential commonplace books.
The process as of now:
0. Create a separate journal called BestOf. Get a black pen and a red pen.
1. Write in your daily journal as usual
2. Once you reach the end of your daily journal, take the red pen and underline the text that resonates the most
3. Wait a few days to let the thoughts settle
4. Take your BestOf journal and copy over only the best of the underlined sections using the black pen.
5. (most important) Once every week, review your BestOf journal and strikethrough with a single line what you no longer need.
Over time, this effortful reduction process creates a single repository of the best ideas from all of your daily journals.