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Show HN: I created a PoC for live descriptions of the surroundings for the blind
The difference in cost between products that are developed as accessibility tools compared to consumer products is huge. One example is camera glasses where the accessibility product costs ~$3000 (Envision Glasses), and the consumer product costs ~$300 (Ray-Ban Meta).<p>In this case the Ray-Ban Meta is getting accessibility features. The functionality is promising according to reviews, but requires the user to say "Hey meta what am I looking at" every time a scene is to be described. The battery life seem underwhelming as well.<p>It would be nice to have an cheap and open source alternative to the currently available products, where the user gets fed information rather than continuously requesting it. This is where I got interested to see if I could create a solution using an ESP32 WiFi camera, and learn some arduino development in the process.<p>I managed to create a solution where the camera connects to the phone "personal hotspot", and publishes an image every 7 seconds to an online server, which then uses the gpt-4o-mini model to describe the image and update a web page, that is read back to the user using voice synthesis. The latency for this is less than 2 seconds, and is generally faster.<p>I am happy with the result and learnt a lot, but I think I will pause this project for now. At least until some shiny new tech emerges (cheaper open source camera glasses).
Show HN: I created a PoC for live descriptions of the surroundings for the blind
The difference in cost between products that are developed as accessibility tools compared to consumer products is huge. One example is camera glasses where the accessibility product costs ~$3000 (Envision Glasses), and the consumer product costs ~$300 (Ray-Ban Meta).<p>In this case the Ray-Ban Meta is getting accessibility features. The functionality is promising according to reviews, but requires the user to say "Hey meta what am I looking at" every time a scene is to be described. The battery life seem underwhelming as well.<p>It would be nice to have an cheap and open source alternative to the currently available products, where the user gets fed information rather than continuously requesting it. This is where I got interested to see if I could create a solution using an ESP32 WiFi camera, and learn some arduino development in the process.<p>I managed to create a solution where the camera connects to the phone "personal hotspot", and publishes an image every 7 seconds to an online server, which then uses the gpt-4o-mini model to describe the image and update a web page, that is read back to the user using voice synthesis. The latency for this is less than 2 seconds, and is generally faster.<p>I am happy with the result and learnt a lot, but I think I will pause this project for now. At least until some shiny new tech emerges (cheaper open source camera glasses).
Show HN: I created a PoC for live descriptions of the surroundings for the blind
The difference in cost between products that are developed as accessibility tools compared to consumer products is huge. One example is camera glasses where the accessibility product costs ~$3000 (Envision Glasses), and the consumer product costs ~$300 (Ray-Ban Meta).<p>In this case the Ray-Ban Meta is getting accessibility features. The functionality is promising according to reviews, but requires the user to say "Hey meta what am I looking at" every time a scene is to be described. The battery life seem underwhelming as well.<p>It would be nice to have an cheap and open source alternative to the currently available products, where the user gets fed information rather than continuously requesting it. This is where I got interested to see if I could create a solution using an ESP32 WiFi camera, and learn some arduino development in the process.<p>I managed to create a solution where the camera connects to the phone "personal hotspot", and publishes an image every 7 seconds to an online server, which then uses the gpt-4o-mini model to describe the image and update a web page, that is read back to the user using voice synthesis. The latency for this is less than 2 seconds, and is generally faster.<p>I am happy with the result and learnt a lot, but I think I will pause this project for now. At least until some shiny new tech emerges (cheaper open source camera glasses).
Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
I built Discuo, a unique discussion platform that combines:
- Infinite thread branching: conversations evolve naturally in multiple directions
- 24h post lifespan: all content auto-deletes after 24 hours
- No account needed: just start posting or commenting instantly
- Complete anonymity: no tracking, no personal data collection
- Minimalist design: distraction-free, focused on pure discussion<p>Originally created for developers to share progress and discuss code, it evolved into a platform covering various topics while maintaining its minimalist essence.
Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
I built Discuo, a unique discussion platform that combines:
- Infinite thread branching: conversations evolve naturally in multiple directions
- 24h post lifespan: all content auto-deletes after 24 hours
- No account needed: just start posting or commenting instantly
- Complete anonymity: no tracking, no personal data collection
- Minimalist design: distraction-free, focused on pure discussion<p>Originally created for developers to share progress and discuss code, it evolved into a platform covering various topics while maintaining its minimalist essence.
Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
I built Discuo, a unique discussion platform that combines:
- Infinite thread branching: conversations evolve naturally in multiple directions
- 24h post lifespan: all content auto-deletes after 24 hours
- No account needed: just start posting or commenting instantly
- Complete anonymity: no tracking, no personal data collection
- Minimalist design: distraction-free, focused on pure discussion<p>Originally created for developers to share progress and discuss code, it evolved into a platform covering various topics while maintaining its minimalist essence.
Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
I built Discuo, a unique discussion platform that combines:
- Infinite thread branching: conversations evolve naturally in multiple directions
- 24h post lifespan: all content auto-deletes after 24 hours
- No account needed: just start posting or commenting instantly
- Complete anonymity: no tracking, no personal data collection
- Minimalist design: distraction-free, focused on pure discussion<p>Originally created for developers to share progress and discuss code, it evolved into a platform covering various topics while maintaining its minimalist essence.
Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You
Experiment with different flex properties to understand how they affect layout. Adjust the controls below to see changes in real-time and copy the generated CSS code.
Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You
Experiment with different flex properties to understand how they affect layout. Adjust the controls below to see changes in real-time and copy the generated CSS code.
Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You
Experiment with different flex properties to understand how they affect layout. Adjust the controls below to see changes in real-time and copy the generated CSS code.
Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You
Experiment with different flex properties to understand how they affect layout. Adjust the controls below to see changes in real-time and copy the generated CSS code.
Show HN: An SSH based utility to transfer pipes across machines – beam
Hey HN,<p>At work, I was annoyed about having to download logs by writing them out to files and transferring them over to my local over HTTP (admittedly, this is because of a rather novel architectural situation).<p>So, I built a tool in Go that lets you pipe contents into an SSH server for sending and reading them out on another connection. You can also use this tool to transfer files. Just cat the file on the sender end and redirect the output of the receiver end to a file.<p>Please note that the transfer rate is heavily dependent on your connection and proximity to the public ssh.beam.camp host. This is because there is no simple way to auto connect to the closest host using a regular SSH client.<p>Hope you find beam useful.
Have a nice weekend.
Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier
Hi,<p>As an enthusiast chess player, I like to manage my games and my opening repertoire as a set of PGN files stored in a Git repository (PGN is a text file format for recording chess games). So I wanted a way to pretty-print PGN files using a CLI and integrating in my editor.<p>Today, it looks like most people use GUI-based software. So I decided to create a Prettier plugin that formats PGN files. Prettier is a well-known pretty-printer in the Node.js ecosystem, used to ensure consistent source code formatting in software projects. One upside of implementing this PGN formatter as a Prettier plugin is that it benefits from its editor integration.<p>The plugin is currently near complete, even if the project is still at an early stage. It's usable, even if there might be some bugs.<p>Hope you find this useful. Comments and ideas are welcome. Have a nice weekend.
Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier
Hi,<p>As an enthusiast chess player, I like to manage my games and my opening repertoire as a set of PGN files stored in a Git repository (PGN is a text file format for recording chess games). So I wanted a way to pretty-print PGN files using a CLI and integrating in my editor.<p>Today, it looks like most people use GUI-based software. So I decided to create a Prettier plugin that formats PGN files. Prettier is a well-known pretty-printer in the Node.js ecosystem, used to ensure consistent source code formatting in software projects. One upside of implementing this PGN formatter as a Prettier plugin is that it benefits from its editor integration.<p>The plugin is currently near complete, even if the project is still at an early stage. It's usable, even if there might be some bugs.<p>Hope you find this useful. Comments and ideas are welcome. Have a nice weekend.
Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier
Hi,<p>As an enthusiast chess player, I like to manage my games and my opening repertoire as a set of PGN files stored in a Git repository (PGN is a text file format for recording chess games). So I wanted a way to pretty-print PGN files using a CLI and integrating in my editor.<p>Today, it looks like most people use GUI-based software. So I decided to create a Prettier plugin that formats PGN files. Prettier is a well-known pretty-printer in the Node.js ecosystem, used to ensure consistent source code formatting in software projects. One upside of implementing this PGN formatter as a Prettier plugin is that it benefits from its editor integration.<p>The plugin is currently near complete, even if the project is still at an early stage. It's usable, even if there might be some bugs.<p>Hope you find this useful. Comments and ideas are welcome. Have a nice weekend.
Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier
Hi,<p>As an enthusiast chess player, I like to manage my games and my opening repertoire as a set of PGN files stored in a Git repository (PGN is a text file format for recording chess games). So I wanted a way to pretty-print PGN files using a CLI and integrating in my editor.<p>Today, it looks like most people use GUI-based software. So I decided to create a Prettier plugin that formats PGN files. Prettier is a well-known pretty-printer in the Node.js ecosystem, used to ensure consistent source code formatting in software projects. One upside of implementing this PGN formatter as a Prettier plugin is that it benefits from its editor integration.<p>The plugin is currently near complete, even if the project is still at an early stage. It's usable, even if there might be some bugs.<p>Hope you find this useful. Comments and ideas are welcome. Have a nice weekend.
Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3
Got into a rabbit hole today.<p>POC works using 'npx efficient-recorder'.<p>Is this useful to anyone?
Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3
Got into a rabbit hole today.<p>POC works using 'npx efficient-recorder'.<p>Is this useful to anyone?
Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3
Got into a rabbit hole today.<p>POC works using 'npx efficient-recorder'.<p>Is this useful to anyone?
Show HN: I aggregated over 200 Go-To-Market strategies
Hey HN,<p>I aggregated a bunch of GTM advice, including their rankings.<p>Thought it could be useful for some founders here.<p>Let me know if you have any feedback. Thanks!