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Show HN: Explore Websites by Chosen Color

I crawled lots of websites and extracted their color palettes (primary, secondary, etc) to build a searchable collection of website colors!<p>It was a fun side-project and I learned a lot about color theory. Let me know what you think and what features you would like to see :)<p>If you have any questions about the tech behind it, feel free to ask in the comments. Feedback is also greatly appreciated.

Show HN: I built a directory about big life decisions/regrets

Show HN: I built a directory about big life decisions/regrets

Show HN: I built a directory about big life decisions/regrets

Show HN: I built a directory about big life decisions/regrets

Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork

Wadzilla is currently a PoC. Although in theory it “works”, it does not create an entertaining experience as a game, although to me it is quite fun just too see it output ZIL for all of the rooms in a DOOM WAD, with all of the objects in all of their correct locations by their plain English names, along with the 8-character names for the textures of the walls, floors, and ceilings in their relative positions in the room. Part of that enjoyment of course comes from knowing what it entails just to get that far, so the amount of entertainment you derive from that may be far less. In fact, I suspect that for most people at this point the most amusing thing about Wadzilla will be the very concept of its existence - and of course the name, which I will take credit for while also acknowledging how fortuitous it is that the project practically named itself. “What should I name a tool that converts WAD to ZIL? Oh yeah, right. Of course. Wadzilla.”<p>I share it in this early stage because I suspect many in this audience may enjoy just reading about it, and many others might be excited by it and want to contribute to the effort, and also because I welcome feedback here and contributions by way of GitHub issues and PRs.

Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork

Wadzilla is currently a PoC. Although in theory it “works”, it does not create an entertaining experience as a game, although to me it is quite fun just too see it output ZIL for all of the rooms in a DOOM WAD, with all of the objects in all of their correct locations by their plain English names, along with the 8-character names for the textures of the walls, floors, and ceilings in their relative positions in the room. Part of that enjoyment of course comes from knowing what it entails just to get that far, so the amount of entertainment you derive from that may be far less. In fact, I suspect that for most people at this point the most amusing thing about Wadzilla will be the very concept of its existence - and of course the name, which I will take credit for while also acknowledging how fortuitous it is that the project practically named itself. “What should I name a tool that converts WAD to ZIL? Oh yeah, right. Of course. Wadzilla.”<p>I share it in this early stage because I suspect many in this audience may enjoy just reading about it, and many others might be excited by it and want to contribute to the effort, and also because I welcome feedback here and contributions by way of GitHub issues and PRs.

Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork

Wadzilla is currently a PoC. Although in theory it “works”, it does not create an entertaining experience as a game, although to me it is quite fun just too see it output ZIL for all of the rooms in a DOOM WAD, with all of the objects in all of their correct locations by their plain English names, along with the 8-character names for the textures of the walls, floors, and ceilings in their relative positions in the room. Part of that enjoyment of course comes from knowing what it entails just to get that far, so the amount of entertainment you derive from that may be far less. In fact, I suspect that for most people at this point the most amusing thing about Wadzilla will be the very concept of its existence - and of course the name, which I will take credit for while also acknowledging how fortuitous it is that the project practically named itself. “What should I name a tool that converts WAD to ZIL? Oh yeah, right. Of course. Wadzilla.”<p>I share it in this early stage because I suspect many in this audience may enjoy just reading about it, and many others might be excited by it and want to contribute to the effort, and also because I welcome feedback here and contributions by way of GitHub issues and PRs.

Show HN: CommitAsync – $100K+ dev jobs 100% remote only

Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer any questions.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02206-6" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02206-6</a>

Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer any questions.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02206-6" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02206-6</a>

Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer any questions.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02206-6" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02206-6</a>

Show HN: Right-click and save content directly to Google Sheets

I released the initial version of the Add to Sheets Chrome extension recently. With the extension, you can predefine the destination sheet and column where you want to save content, and then save/add content from any webpage with a right-click. Almost like Pinterest for GSheets - instead of copy/paste, you can right-click/save.

Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event

Hi, co-founder of markets.sh here. We are doing a lot of news processing and analysis around stocks and companies. One feature people like to use is “alerts” at certain price points. We have now extended this with LLM filters on the whole news feed so that you can create (near) real-time webhooks on arbitrary events like:<p>- Notify me when Nvidia is worth 10 trillion - Notify me about AI breakthroughs - Notify me when Intel is the market leader again - Notify me about successful Starship launches - Notify me when a war breaks out - Notify me about bankrupt unicorn startups - Notify me about significant economic events<p>The feature is still very early. If you write that you’re from Hacker News in the support chat, I’ll give personal support. Would greatly appreciate all feedback

Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event

Hi, co-founder of markets.sh here. We are doing a lot of news processing and analysis around stocks and companies. One feature people like to use is “alerts” at certain price points. We have now extended this with LLM filters on the whole news feed so that you can create (near) real-time webhooks on arbitrary events like:<p>- Notify me when Nvidia is worth 10 trillion - Notify me about AI breakthroughs - Notify me when Intel is the market leader again - Notify me about successful Starship launches - Notify me when a war breaks out - Notify me about bankrupt unicorn startups - Notify me about significant economic events<p>The feature is still very early. If you write that you’re from Hacker News in the support chat, I’ll give personal support. Would greatly appreciate all feedback

Show HN: I made a pixel art editor for Windows desktop

Show HN: I made a pixel art editor for Windows desktop

Show HN: I built a tiny-VPS friendly RSS aggregator and reader

Hi, folks.<p>As an RSS user, I tried Inoreader and Feedly, then ended up self-hosting a Miniflux instance on my homelab. A few months ago, I moved to another city and had to shut down my homelab for a long time, so I couldn't access my local miniflux. It was quite inconvenient. I decided to self-host my RSS aggregator on a tiny VPS or PaaS such as fly.io. However, Miniflux requires a PostgreSQL database, which may isn't suitable for a tiny VPS instance.<p>So I built fusion with Golang and SQLite. It contains basic features such as Group, Bookmark, Search, Automatically feeds sniffing, Import/Export OPML file, etc. It uses about 80MB of Mem and negligible CPU usage (metrics here: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/EJIdevn" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/EJIdevn</a>).<p>Feel free to share your questions and suggestions.<p>BTW, I also built an online tool to sniff RSS links from a URL. (<a href="https://rss-finder.rook1e.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rss-finder.rook1e.com/</a>)

Show HN: I built a tiny-VPS friendly RSS aggregator and reader

Hi, folks.<p>As an RSS user, I tried Inoreader and Feedly, then ended up self-hosting a Miniflux instance on my homelab. A few months ago, I moved to another city and had to shut down my homelab for a long time, so I couldn't access my local miniflux. It was quite inconvenient. I decided to self-host my RSS aggregator on a tiny VPS or PaaS such as fly.io. However, Miniflux requires a PostgreSQL database, which may isn't suitable for a tiny VPS instance.<p>So I built fusion with Golang and SQLite. It contains basic features such as Group, Bookmark, Search, Automatically feeds sniffing, Import/Export OPML file, etc. It uses about 80MB of Mem and negligible CPU usage (metrics here: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/EJIdevn" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/EJIdevn</a>).<p>Feel free to share your questions and suggestions.<p>BTW, I also built an online tool to sniff RSS links from a URL. (<a href="https://rss-finder.rook1e.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rss-finder.rook1e.com/</a>)

Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

I was inspired by the way ChatGPT writes bullet lists, then invites you to "delve" deeper.<p>This is an interface that reifies that rabbit-holing process into a tiling layout. The model is instructed to output hyperlink-prompts when it mentions something you might want to delve into.<p>Lots of features to add (sessions, sharing, navigation, highlight-to-delve, images, ...). Would love to hear other usecases and ideas!