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Ask HN: What do you want to see built?

Posted by option_greek on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:23PM
from the ask-hn dept.
By some weird circumstances, I ended up with 5 whole days to kill and nothing else to do. Instead of a netflix binge, I want to do something productive.

What itch/problem do you want to see go away or what solution do you want to see built ?

or to put it in reverse, if you had 5 days, what would you build ?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by Tomte on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:26PM (#21019048)
A successor to par2 that works cross-platform, is maintained, works with UTF-8, works with directories, works with thousands of files, and is a single binary.

I don't care about the specific code, Reed-Solomon, LDPC, whatever, just something to easily shield my files from bit-rot (aka soft errors).

pyFileFixity, rsbep, par2, par3, QuickPar, MultiPar etc. are not the solution.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by gitgud on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:59PM (#21021965)
Most people here would only suggest things that they couldn't build, otherwise they'd probably build it themselves.

It might be better to look inward... Find a pain in your life and try to build something to reduce that pain

So, maybe a site to find/submit projects to build?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by dominotw on Saturday September 21, 2019 @03:14PM (#21037291)
> otherwise they'd probably build it themselves.

what about laziness

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by gitgud on Sunday September 22, 2019 @03:14AM (#21040081)
True, but people would never admit to that... I know I wouldn't
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by brwr on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:28PM (#21019076)
An intuitive, intelligent performance debugging tool that works for any programming language.

A similar tool that finds common errors like race conditions, missing null checks, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by Jack000 on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:07AM (#21024644)
just saw this app on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21013117 not sure if it's been made yet, but it occurred to me that a much better version can be made now with on-device ML based OCR. Clearly there's a large user demand.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by AlexDragusin on Sunday September 22, 2019 @01:00PM (#21042409)
A simple game where you get to kill time :)
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by seveibar on Sunday September 22, 2019 @11:46AM (#21041883)
An IDE/code editor for E-ink displays.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see built? by craig on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:50AM (#21046760)
I really want to switch to e-ink but last time I checked there weren't any good sized screens. Anyone doing this successfully?
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