Ask HN: Show your non-AI project

[martinbaun]

Every new project seems to be an AI project that's a wrapper ontop of ChatGPT or some library.

What are cool non-ai projects you're working on and why? And what tech is behind?

Cheers!

[nicbou]

I measure the wait times at the Berlin immigration office. This makes the residence permit application process a lot more predictable.

It's not super complex. A Django backend and a VueJS frontend. The small innovation is using localstorage to save a modification key, so that people can update their existing feedback without dealing with emails and logins. I also email people a reminder to update their feedback after 2 and 6 months, since people tend to forget to do that.

It's working pretty well. We gathered more feedback in a month than we'd normally do in a year or two. It's immensely useful in support to my residence permit application guides.

Result: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/auslanderbehorde-wait-time...

Explanations: https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/immigration-office-wait...

[martinbaun]

this is so cool, how come you ended up making this? You had to do this process yourself?

[nicbou]

Yep. I'm an immigrant myself, and I had an expired residence permit for most of 2024 due to immigration office wait times.

[wannabebarista]

Not a tech project, but I've been writing about research in economics, philosophy, and math/logic from 100, 150, and 200 years ago. It's been a rewarding experience and helps build context around the typical canon in various fields.

Here's my look at 1874: https://bcmullins.github.io/research-from-1874/

[martinbaun]

I wanted to read more of the Austrian economics as well. So many things they got right, and so many issues we have in current society because of this.

I know unsolicited advice are not great, but maybe instead of giving github all that free content, you could just pop it on your own domain and then have a lot more control over what's happening.

[epirogov]

Code Operator

https://github.com/arise-project/vscode-code-operator

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Artifici...

Visual Studio Code extension you can create, share, and manage annotations directly within your source code, promoting efficient team communication and task management.

Rules of SEO

https://github.com/arise-project/rules_of_seo

Rules of SEO is a .NET tool designed to check whether a webpage adheres to specified rules. These rules define various aspects of the webpage content, such as titles, descriptions, and segments. The utility leverages a set of rules, keywords, and competitor information to validate the webpage content.

[martinbaun]

very cool, I was thinking of making plugins for various platforms as well. How hard is it and do you see good traction?

I am not really using VisualStudio here - just vim :D

[wingerlang]

I've shared ScreenMemory [0] before, but I just released a 2.0 redesign so why not. It records your (macOS) screen and gives a calendar / timeline to explore. You can then revisit what you did. I use it daily and mainly to go through my day before standups, it's incredibly how much side-tracking I do and completely forget each day.

Tech is quite simple, all native frameworks from Apple. OCR included!

[0] https://screenmemory.app

[martinbaun]

Very cool, a bit like (total) recall for Windows, except I see you keep the data local ;)

[wingerlang]

Yep, very similar. A host of tools similar have come (and gone) in the past year alone from what I've seen. Most of them seems to focus on the AI aspect though.

Fun fact, while the app is only a bit over a year old, I was doing something similar with a simple cron job nearly a decade ago: https://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/15/automating-screenshots...

[martinbaun]

I love simple solutions. I am doing something similar-but not so similar. I got tired of Loom and needed something simpler, and I made VideoBackr.com that can record your screen for share directly in the browser. I just made a cronjob to encode/compress the videos once a minute, works like a charm though there's a little delay :)

[atif089]

https://www.voyago.io/

We're a social travel discovery app that matches your interests with your friends for perfect recommendations.

Although there is still a little bit of AI in one portion of the app because that's how we started, our recent pivot has been focused on social mapping and review features.

[martinbaun]

Love the design! I had a similar idea of this but also not only with travels but with restaurant recommendations.

Real recommendations from your friends.

[atif089]

Sorry, I never got a notification of your response but, Bingo! It's the same idea! We actually do restaurants as well! I'm using OSM at the moment, so you can technically rate and review any feature that exists on OSM.

[pvg]

there's a monthly megathread that covers all the things that don't fit in Show HN, the rest you can pick out of Show HN itself

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=david927

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

[martinbaun]

oh, thank you!

[korky]

https://metricster.com

Advanced subscription analytics for Stripe.

Available FREE on Web, iOS and Android

[hex3]

A video game where the dead are shaken down for until millions.

[martinbaun]

I have no idea what you just wrote. Pop a link mate :D