What are you guys building?

Easiest way to build an audience for a project is to share your project. Use this thread to tell us what you are building and kick-start your project.

I'll go first. I was having hard time picking fonts, I am working an open-source tool to make it easier for you to select fonts for your website.

Here's a sneak peek:

Watch it in action.

The extension is submitted for review, so if you want to get notified, join other on waitlist

Extension is now live on Chrome store: Font tester

or load the extension manually from Github

Now your turn 👇️

Comments

[Ben Halpern]

We're going to have a wider announcement next week once everything is fully ready, but we have quietly put dev.to/++ live.

We have lined up partnerships — and will be adding many more — for more generous free and introductory tiers to services so individual devs don't have to break the bank just to kick off a side project.

We're also bundling it with some DEV upgrades that are mostly only feasible with a small additional cost incurred and the benefit of verification you get from a subscription.

Again, very new service, but anticipate a lot of value in this if you sign up for early-bird. 🐥

[Paul]

This is really useful. Saw this on the sidebar yesterday.

[Ben Halpern]

We want to keep adding value and make it an absolute no-brainer for everyone to sign up for. For some it's already there, but soon I think it'll be very clear across the board.

[Neurabot]

😋 Waiting for it. It's pretty innovant.

[Ava Nichols]

🤯

[Hugo Duprez]

Very cool extension!! Love the design.

I'm building a web-based game design editor. Think Figma, but for game devs :) Written in Svelte & Rust.

[Paul]

Love this! Very cool project!

[Hugo Duprez]

Thank ya :D

[Manuel Sanchez]

Buahhh, love it! incredible, thanks for doing this!

[Hugo Duprez]

Thanks, Manuel! :)

[Sindbad_X]

Currently I'm working on a Amazon Price Tracker. It's a personal project. Essentially, I can submit amazon product links and my server will periodically scrape the product data.

Right now, I'm trying to get it done in any way. Because I've abandoned a lot of projects in the past.

For this first working version, I'm using node js, puppeteer and sqlite as the primary database as well as a queuing database. Here's the flow:

1. Client add the product with API => server validates the product => saves in product table
2. A cron job runs periodically, once a day, let says, and trigger a function that adds the products to a temp_queue table and after that, scraper function is invoked.
3. Scraper is initialized, it's get the product from the temp_queue table and scrapes the product.
4. After scraper get the data, it puts this newly fetched product info to history table in sqlite. And, removes/dequeue product from temp_queue table.
5. The scraper runs until temp_queue table is empty.

I just want to get done the v1of this project. Right now, the code is awful and sqlite is a poor choice for queue, and my scraper is not very efficient, and amazon is good at detecting bots, so my scraper will fail if I may add more than 10-20 products. But for now, I'm okay with that.

Later on, I want to add notification feature. So when the product prices fall, I get notified.

[Saša M]

If you want to try my data extraction / browser automation platform dex8.com contact me for free demo account.

[Neurabot]

Good.

[Milind Singh]

I have built something very similar but serverless.
github.com/openwishlist/preview

Let me if we can collaborate

[Sindbad_X]

@milindsingh Thanks for sharing.Your version is 💯 better and refined. I would like to collaborate, but I don't know where to start. We can discuss detail on twitter, sending you a request there.

[Milind Singh]

You can connect me on telegram as well. t.me/adapttive

[Andrii]

Not quite a product, more like a pet project, and hasn't worked recently, but maybe some feedback will re-ignite my will to continue working on it
The tool is currently only for image compressions, is open-source, works on the user machine, potentially can be PWA, and already can work without an internet connection with a service worker (kind of extra proof that it's secure and no data is sent to the server except analytics)

compress.cat

[Paul]

Its an interesting project and I really like how straight-forward and simple it is.

Since you wanted a feedback, here's couple of quick things I notice

• Since its an open-source project a Github link on the website would make it easier for people to find and contribute to your project
• The drag and drop doesn't seem to work correctly.
• Adding a drop area right on the landing page would make it much more easier for your visitors to try your tool
• When trying to add multiple images an error occurs.

Hopefully that should get you started :). Looking forward to see the complete project.

[Andrii]

Thanks, Paul appreciate it

• Since its an open-source project a Github link on the website would make it easier for people to find and contribute to your project. Right, but I don't quite want people to contribute, more just share code so they can check by themself it's really "privacy first". But link somewhere is definitely needed
• The drag and drop doesn't seem to work correctly. Reminder to me to finally write some tests here
• Right, minus the extra step, in version 0.0.0.0.0.1 it was working like that, but then I decided "I need a landing page". But now I see if I need it, users not necessarily do
• When trying to add multiple images an error occurs. Ah, once again testing, is definitely the next thing I should do after fixing it

Thanks, that's great feedback didn't even know I had so many bugs at this stage

[Sindbad_X]

Hey checked out your project. Really handy in certain scenarios. A small suggestions: I would have liked to have sliders to be on right side like your personal website second section, instead of scrolling to bottom. Also if it's open source, provide a github link. If you don't want people to contribute, just put in the readme file.

[Andrii]

Thanks for the feedback!
Sliders, Do you mean "quality" slider and buttons? Yeah, it makes sense but I thought it's better to have a full-width image so you can spot artifacts if there are any. Provided a link, but on landing there is still a lot of work to do to redesign it, and I am not happy with it. Right, didn't think about Readme
Thanks!

[vladkens]

Hi. Choosing fonts is a problem if you are not a designer. Good luck with your project!

I've been working on this projects last year:

• ghstats - self-hosted service to track & keep GitHub repos views (Rust)
• macmon - Apple M-series performance monitor in CLI with power metrics (Rust)
• ecloop - let say fast Bitcoin addresses checker by bloom filter (a lot of interesting math inside) (pure C)

[Paul]

whoa! That's a lot of cool stuff you are build, good to see so many of them are open-source

[Neurabot]

Wow ! Exceptional.

[King Triton]

GTA (no, I'm not a Rockstar developer), GitHub Trending Archive is an app that collects information about popular GitHub repositories daily and stores it in a database. With this app, you can track changes in trends for selected programming languages ​​as a local website, if you're interested, you can check it out here -> github.com/king-tri-ton/github_tre...

[Horace Nelson]

Great idea.

[King Triton]

thanks

[Arnaud Dagnelies]

Currently, mostly webauthn.passwordless.id

[Paul]

This is pretty impressive!

[Neurabot]

Cool.

[Adam Gardner]

tracepusher is my project to bring OpenTelemetry to all those places where it isn't. Think. (Power) shell scripts, CICD pipelines, translating correlated log lines to GANTT style traces, creating traces from .har files etc. etc.

github.com/agardnerIT/tracepusher

[Neurabot]

I use to hear about opentelemetry even on this platform. What is about it concretely ?

[Adam Gardner]

An open standard, SDK and tools to help generate telemetry data (metrics, logs and traces) in a vendor neutral way. It is not a storage / analysis platform.

In short, it's a way to make your services and applications emit telemetry in a standardised way which can then be consumed by other tooling.

This might help too: opentelemetry.io/docs/what-is-open...

[Neurabot]

Thanks too much. It is clear method to explain such topic.

[Kazys]

My pet project is a Visual Studio extension that assists in the test-driven development process. It primarily helps generate the boilerplate code needed for TDD. Link to it: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items... and easytdd.dev/ or dev.to/easytdd

[Neurabot]

Great.

[Thomas Bnt]

This is a small Discord bot with beautiful photos from Unsplash. Only high quality pictures. This is a free service, and any users can search with words, or randomly get a photo. Or directly the profile of a user.

Splash Everyday - A Discord bot with Unsplash

Splash Everyday is a simple Discord bot who you can request some beautiful pictures come from Unsplash ! So you'll only find photos in HD quality and various colours!

thomasbnt.dev