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Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites
Hi HN!<p>It’s hard to find interesting people to work with on your ideas.<p>Our solution: index the /about, /ideas, /now pages of 1000s of personal websites. There are thousands of cool personal sites out there, with amazing ideas on them, but there’s nowhere to easily search through. So we built a simple site that indexes 7k+ personal sites [0]. We were inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement [1] and other IndieWeb directories [2], but we figured that it would be more useful if we:<p>* Let you search directly across personal sites without having to visit them<p>* Take the content from 3 specific pages, /about, /now and /ideas, to structure everything<p>* Define /ideas pages as a space to articulate things you want to work on<p>We hope this’ll be a cool place for people to find others to collaborate with - would love your feedback. If you’d like your site to appear at the top, add it via the form and add a last updated date of today (any format). It’s completely open source (MIT) and open to contributions [3]!<p>Peter & Louis<p>[0] gathered from: 1) <a href="https://nownownow.com" rel="nofollow">https://nownownow.com</a> and similar sites 2) checking all HN posts since 2020 with more than 100 upvotes<p>[1] <a href="https://nownownow.com" rel="nofollow">https://nownownow.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https://personalsit.es" rel="nofollow">https://personalsit.es</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow">https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow</a>
Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites
Hi HN!<p>It’s hard to find interesting people to work with on your ideas.<p>Our solution: index the /about, /ideas, /now pages of 1000s of personal websites. There are thousands of cool personal sites out there, with amazing ideas on them, but there’s nowhere to easily search through. So we built a simple site that indexes 7k+ personal sites [0]. We were inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement [1] and other IndieWeb directories [2], but we figured that it would be more useful if we:<p>* Let you search directly across personal sites without having to visit them<p>* Take the content from 3 specific pages, /about, /now and /ideas, to structure everything<p>* Define /ideas pages as a space to articulate things you want to work on<p>We hope this’ll be a cool place for people to find others to collaborate with - would love your feedback. If you’d like your site to appear at the top, add it via the form and add a last updated date of today (any format). It’s completely open source (MIT) and open to contributions [3]!<p>Peter & Louis<p>[0] gathered from: 1) <a href="https://nownownow.com" rel="nofollow">https://nownownow.com</a> and similar sites 2) checking all HN posts since 2020 with more than 100 upvotes<p>[1] <a href="https://nownownow.com" rel="nofollow">https://nownownow.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https://personalsit.es" rel="nofollow">https://personalsit.es</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow">https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow</a>
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Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link.<p>Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main concern is that even released as a low-cost purchase, there is a very strong culture to share this type of information at no cost. I would like to have a more sophisticated suggested donation system adaptive to user country, but I wasn't able to find a good solution.<p>In terms of 'good startup ideas', I don't think this is one of them. The very high level of soldering skill required makes it difficult to scale, and the prevailing piracy culture makes it challenging to monetize. My main advantage is that costs are very low now that I have the entire thing working. Other than forge ahead at a loss and hope for the best, or to pivot hard leveraging the imaging technology, I'm not sure what other options I have. It feels too complicated and repetitive for shoft-form video content. If you have any feedback, questions, suggestions, etc., I'd love to hear them.
Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link.<p>Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main concern is that even released as a low-cost purchase, there is a very strong culture to share this type of information at no cost. I would like to have a more sophisticated suggested donation system adaptive to user country, but I wasn't able to find a good solution.<p>In terms of 'good startup ideas', I don't think this is one of them. The very high level of soldering skill required makes it difficult to scale, and the prevailing piracy culture makes it challenging to monetize. My main advantage is that costs are very low now that I have the entire thing working. Other than forge ahead at a loss and hope for the best, or to pivot hard leveraging the imaging technology, I'm not sure what other options I have. It feels too complicated and repetitive for shoft-form video content. If you have any feedback, questions, suggestions, etc., I'd love to hear them.
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