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i dont think youd need 671b for something like this

this seems to be a command detection which 8b should be able to do just fine


i tried it on a mac with 8b and all the commands it gave were for linux even when I said "for macOS"


I made most of it on react native. i don't have a mac or an iphone to build the ios version tbh.

it should be a simple config change tbh. would love to merge a pr for that. else, will try borrowing a mac & iphone over the weekend :)


I made this because I spend a lot of my time on a mobile phone at work. I switch between slack, email and telegram in my daily work.

Many times, i make commitments to people - like, i will get back or i will follow up. But then that just gets lost in all the noise. I forget where i made those commitments.

So, i built this simple tool where each time i make such a commitment, i can just take a screenshot and share it with this app. the app will create a todo which i can mark as done later.

super simple app. do give it a swing :)

the other thing i wanted to share is that i thought this was a trivial enough app for chat gpt to make. And that's why i signed up to build this at 1am. i thought i'll be in and out quickly. I got chat gpt to write the entire code.

But ...

It didn't work. I spent hours debugging. and the errors were so small that i didn't spot it at all!

particularly this one : I needed other apps to be able to share an image with this app. On the android manifest, i needed to set a configuration called "android.intent.action.SEND"

but chat gpt gave me the code which had "android.intent.android.intent.action.SEND"

I didn't spot it at all and went down several rabbitholes to figure out why the configuration isn't being set. I thought it was a compiler issue so i did several rounds of clean builds and decompiled the build to check the configurations.

It was a nightmare.

I gave up and went to sleep.

Today morning, i rewrote the app from scratch. It took me 30 minutes. I still used chat gpt, but only for very specific mundane/boilerplate code. Everything else i wrote myself.

I find these AI tools to be incredibly useful to code, but i they are not able to build e2e systems. Even if they build something that's 80% there and i have to write only the 20% that'd be great. but i fear that's not where the state of the art is. It significantly sets you behind if you get it to write large chunks of code.


It is a neat idea! Because often the point at which you need to add a todo you are doing it because you don't have time to do it now. Which means the screenshot UI is quick way to get the information stored (like an email, calendar appointment, or text message or photo). I see myself using it.



I know, I know. Yet another NFT Marketplace?

If digital artists can have their own NFT Marketplace to sell digital paintings NFTs, hackers deserve the same.

This is a fun side project we built. We don't make money from this. We just want to make sure there is a neat way to reward the open source contributors.

Though this is a sideproject, I'm keen on making this successful. It's currently launched on a testnet. I wanted to have comments from the HN network to see how we can make this better before we launch more generally.


Here's my own resume made using openresume : https://openresume.dev/madhavanmalolan

What do you look for in a candidate at the screening stage?


Where is here the value for the HR people?

They don't want to look through your github repos.

They want to have a list of things you have done and skills you have.

If I would get a page like this I would not bother looking because for me its not relevant what github repos you have.

Most developer do work on private repos which are not public.


A simple authentication mechanism that can be hosted by anyone, to enable "Login using Ethereum" - just like we use "Login with Google" around the web


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