Show HN Today: Top Developer Projects Showcase for 2024-10-20
Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2024-10-20. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Summary of Today’s Content
Today’s highlights feature innovative projects including HackBud, a platform for team building at hackathons, and TimeSkip, a Chrome extension generating YouTube timestamps for creators. Other notable offerings are Coconut Shell, a Firefox extension for message encryption, and an AI-powered dictation tool. Additionally, a new journaling app aims to enhance productivity. The conversation also includes a browser extension for design inspiration and a directory of directories to assist startup launches. Lastly, a unique social network focuses on personal beliefs, showcasing diverse applications across tech and creativity.
1. Show HN: HackBud – I no longer struggle to find teammates for Hackathons
URL: #
Author: Utkarshn10
Description: Hey there,
Last year, I participated in a hackathon and wanted to connect with people to build a team. I went to Discord and other channels to find people who would be interested in participating, but it took a lot of time to find people and reach out to them and decided to participate alone.
Then came the idea of solving my problem by building a platform where I could find people with the same mentality who want to build cool stuff in hackathons, without much effort. Hence, HackBud was born.
I am launching it on Product Hunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hackbud
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
2. Show HN: Add timestamps to any YouTube video
URL: https://timeskip.io
Author: timeskip
Description: Hey HN,
I always found it annoying that some long YouTube videos didn’t have chapters.
So I created TimeSkip, the first to generate chapters directly in your player!
Built for YouTube creators. It works well for:
- Podcasts
- Webinars
- Educational Content
I hope this is helpful to you.
Would love your feedback!
Nigel
Indiehacker
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
3. Show HN: Doom Inside an SVG
URL: https://www.chrisdalke.com/doom.svg
Author: chrisdalke
Description:
Popularity: 56 points | 6 comments
4. Show HN: Stopping bots and fraud in online surveys
URL: #
Author: kjok
Description: Online surveys are often used to quickly collect data for market research. However, use of sophisticated AI-powered bots and fraud in surveys ruin data quality, leading to bad business decisions.
We have created a tool for blocking bots and detecting fraudulent respondents. It is currently in beta, and free to use.
Please try here: https://surveys.ai
Would love to know your feedback. Thanks!
Popularity: 4 points | 1 comments
5. Show HN: Centralize Build Scripts with Webpack
URL: https://github.com/h8ngryDev4Hire/scripting-webpack-plugin
Author: h8ngryDev
Description: A simple Webpack Plugin built in Typescript for running scripts during the emission phase in Webpack’s build process! Feel free to provide feedback! Constructive & Non-constructive :)
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
6. Show HN: One-dot-per-vote comparison map of US Election Results
URL: https://votermap.github.io
Author: NameError
Description: Source code and more info here: https://github.com/votermap/votermap.github.io/tree/main
The core idea is to take precinct-level election results and visualize them with one dot per vote, but distribute those dots based on block-level population density. For both maps, this uses 2020 Census block non-incarcerated voting-age population totals to place the dots (most of the work to generate these block-level vote and population numbers was done by the redistrictingdatahub.org, with the exception of DC, CA, and PA).
The map uses MapLibre for the front end and a vector-tile service called Tippecanoe to generate the tiles.
I was inspired by maps like this one: https://x.com/kennethfield/status/1363974716826869760 (the author has an excellent book of 101 visualizations of US Election data), but wanted to make a version that uses precinct-level data and offers the side-by-side comparison of 2016 vs 2020.
I hope it’s okay to post this here despite the political nature - it was an interesting project from a tech/cartography standpoint and it’s cool to see the political geography of the US.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
7. Show HN: Semantic Macros Text Editor
URL: https://samtxt.samrawal.com/
Author: zora_goron
Description:
Popularity: 17 points | 3 comments
8. Show HN: Launching GetProduct.dev
Author: getproduct_dev
Description: I would be happy to get any feedback!
Here is why I built it and what it is:
I found it hard to monetize another project of mine where users entered wishes they had. Google ads generated almost no revenue. Therefore I tried Affiliate Marketing using various Affiliate Programs where the users wish is entered as query. Especially with amazon this worked pretty well even though I hit a lot of problems to get it working. My revenue from that is at least 10x the revenue I had from google ads.
Thats why I build getProduct.dev and I would be really happy if you would try it our and give me some feedback. It is a nicely documented api to get dynamic affiliate links. I do not get a cut of the revenue because it uses your own Amazon account.
You get 100 free requests once you create an account and if you need more for testing you can contact me.
Currently it only supports amazon affiliate but I plan on integrating more like Aliexpress and also I am thinking about more usecases that could potentially leverage AI to generate even better responses.
Thanks for reading and any feedback!
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
9. Show HN: Use, configure, and download LLMs right from Discord
URL: https://github.com/jake83741/vnc-lm
Author: Jake83741
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
10. Show HN: Create mind maps to learn new things using AI
URL: https://github.com/aotakeda/learn-thing
Author: arthurtakeda
Description: Enter a topic and get a learning mind map generated by an LLM with links to learn more about each subtopic.
You can use it with local models (through Ollama) or external models.
If you have any feedback, please share it! Hope it’s useful
Demo: https://youtu.be/Y-9He-tG3aM
Popularity: 149 points | 52 comments
11. Show HN: I visualized an autoregressive language model in the browser
URL: https://twitter.com/rickyrmao/status/1847825572153688431
Author: sirgooserino
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
12. Show HN: Requiem: No setup PHP scripts for blog, gallery
URL: https://github.com/n0x5/Requiem-simple-PHP-programs
Author: ffwd
Description: Very simple PHP scripts with zero or minimal setup - just upload to webhost and blog/share photos
Blog features:
- Uses sqlite
- Drag n drop upload of files
- Posts and static pages
Gallery features:
- All images organized through FTP
- Single file gallery
- Just upload and add folders via FTP
- Automatically creates thumbnails
- Doesn’t modify directory structure
Calendar features:
- Calendar is still a work in progress and is not as zero setup as you need to rename all files manually.
Popularity: 2 points | 3 comments
13. Show HN: I built a Firefox Extension which can encrypt messages on any website
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/coconut-shell/
Author: sukhmeetsingh
Description: Hi all! I wanted more control over message encryption across different sites I use, so I built Coconut Shell, currently a Firefox extension, using OpenPGP.js to handle encryption locally in the browser.
I released v1.0.1, still in Proof-Of-Concept, so I hope to get some feedback on how it works and features you think would be helpful.
Try here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/coconut-shell…
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
14. Show HN: I built open-source Apple Intelligence-like Writing Tools for Windows
URL: https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools/releases/tag/v3
Author: TechExpert2910
Description: I posted this a while back, but there’s been a major update — it now supports local LLMs, multiple cloud LLMs, code editing, chat mode, themes, dark mode, and more!
As a high school student, I love LLMs and the execution of Apple’s Appel Intelligence Writing Tools, but was disappointed that nothing like that existed for Windows. So, I created Writing Tools, a better than Apple Intelligence open-source alternative that works system-wide on Windows! It can use the free Gemini API, or a multitude of local LLMs via Ollama, llama.cpp, KoboldCPP, TabbyAPI, vLLM, etc. It’s much better than the tiny 2B parameter Apple Intelligence model! It works in any application with a customizable hotkey - Proofreads, rewrites, summarizes, and more - Free and privacy-focused (your API key stays local, no logging, no tracking, local model options, etc.)
It’s built with Python and PySide6, and I’ve made it easy to install with a pre-compiled exe. For the technically inclined, the well-documented source is available to run or modify.
I’d love feedback from the HN community on both the concept and the implementation. Are there features you’d like to see? Any thoughts on making it more robust or user-friendly?
GitHub: https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools
P.S. This is my first major Windows coding project, so I’m especially keen on advice for best practices and potential improvements! Thanks so much for your time :)
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
15. Show HN: Minimal image regression template for PyTorch
URL: https://github.com/hugohadfield/pytorch_image_regession
Author: hugohadfield
Description: Last year I got interested in image regression but struggled to find any easy tutorials or templates for getting set up with image regression in pytorch. Seems like all the tutorials were about image classification.. I decided to make a very minimal pytorch image regression example for a task that I thought would be easy to solve to make it easier for people to clone and then modify with their own datasets. Its pretty basic and has minimal dependencies. Let me know if you spot any bugs or simple improvements :)
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
16. Show HN: I Built a UI to finetune LLMs x100 faster
Author: cgonzar3
Description: After fine-tuning GPT for a personal project, I realized how tedious it is to write plain text in a massive JSON file. That’s why I built this app for my own use, and I want to see if others could benefit from a tool like this as well ;)
Popularity: 4 points | 3 comments
17. Show HN: Client Side anti-RAG solution
URL: https://ai.unturf.com/#client-side
Author: foxhop
Description: Client Side Only Example, chat with this page.
Because we don’t use API keys we don’t have any real need for a server.
view the page source, it’s all there!
The program doesn’t take history into account & yet is has surprising coherence.
View Source and start on line 258.
Popularity: 7 points | 2 comments
18. Show HN: I made an AI-powered dictation tool
URL: https://github.com/egoist/whispo
Author: 0x142857
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
19. Show HN: Belief.garden – a social network around personal beliefs
Author: klntsky
Description: Hi! I’m building a webapp that may appeal to the rationality/philosophy crowd. It lets one maintain a public profile of their beliefs, which can be used as a way to get to know the person initially, or as a chat opener It’s far from finalized but please take a look and give some feedback
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
20. Show HN: Vagabase – Flight Diary and Map
Author: jolejole
Description: A website primarily for logging personal flights. Let’s you see a map of all the places you’ve been, top airports, top airlines, countries you’ve visited, etc.
You’ll have to sign up to really experience the website, but I added top airports and airlines which is viewable when logged out :-)
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
21. Show HN: I gamified remote workers efforts and make them feel recognized more
Author: solorami
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 3 comments
22. Show HN: I made AI story generator so I could learn how to say fish in polish
Author: mercedesmg
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
23. Show HN: I built a browser extension to collect design inspirations
URL: https://www.designshots.co/
Author: Rayid
Description: Hi, I’m Rayid, a 17y/o indie hacker passionate about building stuff. As a web developer, I’ve always struggled with designing websites from scratch. Let me be honest—I’m not good at it. Like many others, I turn to the web for inspiration.
But searching through countless websites to find the perfect design inspiration quickly became a hassle. Sure, I could bookmark sites or take screenshots, but organizing them? Total chaos. I ended up with a chaotic mess of images and links that were impossible to navigate when I needed them most.
That’s when I thought—there has to be a better way. So I built Designshots, a simple browser extension that takes full-page screenshots of websites and stores them in a clean, organized platform.
With Designshots, designers and developers can easily capture, save, and organize design inspiration in one place, making the creative process smoother and more efficient. Whether you’re designing a new site or simply gathering ideas, this tool will help you create stunning, eye-catching websites with ease.
You can check it out here: designshots.co
Popularity: 2 points | 2 comments
24. Show HN: Create a Digital Signature in Seconds with This Free Tool
URL: https://smashingdocs.com/signature-generator/
Author: SmashingDocs
Description: I built this simple free signature generator to quickly create a nice-looking digital signature. No design skills or fancy software needed—just hand-draw it or type your name, pick a style, and download it.
It’s a super basic tool, but useful if you need a signature for invoices, documents, or anything else where a little extra polish helps. You can download it in PNG format as a transparent file, so it’s easy to drop into any project.
If you’re also into templates for things like invoices or letterheads, there are a many other resources on the site that might come in handy.
Thanks for checking it out!
Popularity: 10 points | 0 comments
25. Show HN: I made a Journaling app to be more productive
URL: https://www.journaling.tech/
Author: arthurbarbosa
Description: I’m excited to share with you the onlinefication of my best habit, the one that has helped me build all my other habits: journaling.
I didn’t want to carry around paper and a pen, so I created this app to make journaling more convenient and accessible.
I hope you all enjoy it!
Popularity: 4 points | 2 comments
26. Show HN: I created a Chrome extension that adds timestamps to any YouTube video
URL: https://timeskip.io/
Author: timeskip
Description: Hey HN
I always found it annoying that some long YouTube videos didn’t have chapters.
So I created TimeSkip, the first to generate chapters directly in your player!
Built for YouTube creators:
- Boost your video’s SEO with chapters
- Save hours with just one click
- Affiliate program (50%)
Works well for:
- Podcasts
- Webinars
- Educational Content
I hope it is helpful to you. Would love your feedback!
Nigel
Indiehacker building aside 9-5
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
27. Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories
URL: https://hnup.date/
Author: yunusabd
Description: I feel like it was inevitable, with the recent buzz around NotebookLM. I’m just surprised that it hasn’t been done yet.
Popularity: 413 points | 141 comments
28. Show HN: Online Game - Fairyland Merge & Magic
URL: https://www.fairylandmergemagic.com
Author: starboat
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
29. Show HN: Ruby on Rails SaaS boilerplate (I made it as a 16 year old)
URL: https://www.locomotive.it.com/
Author: sergio_2024
Description: Hey HN,
I’ve made a Ruby on Rails SaaS template after 2 months of coding, as a 16 year old student.
it has: 1. Tailwind pre-built components and pages 2. PG database 3. Devise set up and google omniauth 4. Stripe payments 5. Stripe webhooks 6. Dotenv private variables 7. Up to 15 CSS animations
And more!
link: https://www.locomotive.it.com/
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
30. Show HN: Talking Avatar AI
URL: https://www.talkingavatar.ai/
Author: luyaohwang
Description: Rewrite video with talking avatar using AI. Clone voices, sync lips, create custom videos easily. Create new stories with our AI platform.
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
31. Show HN: I made a directory of directories (seriously)
URL: https://www.indielaun.ch/
Author: adscei
Description: I kept seeing more and more Product Hunt alternatives pop up, so I started tracking them in a spreadsheet to potentially use for future launches. The list was sitting at around 80 sites when I decided to deep dive and see how many more I could find.
So I then built IndieLaunch: 250+ directories to help you launch your startup.
It’s free to use and includes Domain Rating (DR) and traffic info so you can pick the right spot to get the most eyes on your launch.
Popularity: 5 points | 2 comments
32. Show HN: I built an AI that creates React landing pages
Author: bockerwee
Description: Hey, I used to spend hours creating landing pages for my side projects & SaaS. However it’s such an important part of the process.
I’ve noticed that the whole process is pretty redundant: why not make it 10x faster using AI?
Generations are 100% free for now. The AI generates a working NextJS14 project that you can immediately deploy.
Any feedback?
Popularity: 1 points | 3 comments
33. Show HN: Fast whisper turbo for ASR (speech-to-text) tasks
URL: https://github.com/JosefAlbers/whisper-turbo-mlx
Author: JosefAlbers
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
34. Show HN: Online Tool for Quick Iframe Testing and Code Generation
URL: https://iframetester.dev/
Author: Kevin_Guo
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
Conclusion
Today’s Show HN roundup showcases a diverse range of innovative projects. From AI-powered tools to creative coding solutions, these projects reflect the dynamic nature of our tech community. Which project caught your attention the most? Let us know in the comments!
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