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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 3 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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enos_feedler ◴[24 Aug 24 23:11 UTC] No.41342624[source]▶
personalized city walks. https://substrait.com Just started messing around with chatgpt for generating code and using the API to generate the walks.
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ghaff ◴[25 Aug 24 03:14 UTC] No.41344050[source]▶
Interesting. There was one app I liked but Bose bought and it seemingly went into the bit bucket. I like the person-led tours such as exist in SF but it's often morw convenient and practical to have on-demand computer ones.
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enos_feedler ◴[25 Aug 24 03:25 UTC] No.41344105[source]▶
It was Detour. My idea is continue where they left off by generating tours instead of having people produce them. I want these to be super personal. You might have a favorite movie that was filmed in the city you are visiting. I want to generate tours for that.
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ghaff ◴[25 Aug 24 03:51 UTC] No.41344225[source]▶
Heh. Not in a city per se but I helped a friend with mapping Harold and Maude locations. http://www.boffo.us/haroldandmaude/

I'm sort of a map geek and know how to do old USGS stuff.

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enos_feedler ◴[25 Aug 24 16:53 UTC] No.41348875[source]▶
Okay this is crazy, but when I went to your website I looked at the church picture and thought "I recognize this!". I live at Forest and Waverley :D I will definitely going to add Palo Alto to my site and try and replicate this tour :)

Starting with cities and AI generated guides is a way I want to bootstrap this project. I strongly believe the best guides will be those created by people who are passionate. Your work here is proof of this :)

If you are local to Palo alto still I would love to chat with you about the idea. In any case thanks for sharing here :)

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1. ghaff ◴[25 Aug 24 17:40 UTC] No.41349375{3}[source]▶
Not my website. A friend of mine from school who was also one of the lead Infocom game designers. But feel free to ping me. My email should be in my profile.

I'm actually a Cambridge/Bostonite though live about an hour West. Peel free to ping me about local stuff. Some local Boston movies (e.g. Good Will Hunting) are pretty weel documented, others are in areas I probably wouldn't go out of my way to visit, but lots of good routes.

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2. enos_feedler ◴[25 Aug 24 19:22 UTC] No.41350405[source]▶
Cool, thanks! I did check but don't see an email there. I just added my own contact to my about box. If you can send there or update profile let me know.
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3. ghaff ◴[26 Aug 24 16:09 UTC] No.41358645[source]▶
He's not real active on social media. I'm at www.bitmasons.com.