Day job (contract): Massive overhaul of an antibody workbench for drug discovery.
Evenings: Building out a concept for a "YSQL" bringing CRDTs (Yjs) to SQLite and Postgres. CRDTs are great for real-time, but also awesome for offline async collaboration. Using the same CRDT for both front end data structures and backend database merging seems to me to be a good combination. The plan is to build out some simple primitives first, then layer a SQLite (WASM in browser) <-> Postgres sync system on top for local copying and modification of datasets.
I recently released Card Buddy [1], a Mac app to help you organize ideas on small index cards on a canvas. You can pick from different canvas styles which can auto-arrange your cards to make it easier to reorder them for a narrative, or pick from a grid-based canvas which lets you stack cards. You can drag images in as well and create a mood board like Pinterest.
I'm planning on releasing an iPad version with drawing so you can sketch out storyboards with it.
A project I posted a few years back on HN for an invisible full-lid sticker for MacBooks, so that you could both protect them _and_ keep your stickers once you get a new laptop. I finally found a cost effective manufacturing solution, so setup a shop for them!
I'm working on Klugbot (http://www.klugbot.com) an AI personal assistant. The idea is to go way beyond what assistants like Siri, Alexa are capable of doing using a combination of LLMs, calling APIs, and deep integrations.
I'm approaching scheduling first - looking at your calendar and coordinating with others to find availability and setting up a meeting - all by just invoking the model.
Eventual goal is to do everything a real human assistant can do online + over phone calls.
Just starting off, and would love to talk to more people interested in this domain. Feel free to hit me up at hi@klugbot.com
Working on Conjure (https://conjure.so) - a habit, time, and goal tracking platform with a habit rules engine, data layer, dashboards, integrations, and API, real-time across web, desktop and mobile.
Just released a free plan, after a mere 2.5 years of solo and bootstrapped dev.
Feel the primitives are in place now (even down to a Habit version control system for the rules engine) and have daily users who are getting value, so focusing now implementing user feedback and trying to get it out there (as have done no real marketing), before I tackle the next big feature I'm excited about.
Thank you so much! I spent some time researching subjective well-being, life satisfaction and behaviour change a few years ago when I was at an unhappy point in life, and started experimenting building systems that helped me be consistent and balanced in the things that are meaningful to me. I tried to figure out how to make it sustainable and low friction through automations, habit rules, emergency modes/completion types and so on. All this led to Conjure. For me, what differentiates it are Habit Completion Types, Habit Version Control, the Habit Rules Engine, being real-time across web, desktop and mobile, the Measurement system with custom fields and a bunch of other over-engineered things :)
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Evenings: Building out a concept for a "YSQL" bringing CRDTs (Yjs) to SQLite and Postgres. CRDTs are great for real-time, but also awesome for offline async collaboration. Using the same CRDT for both front end data structures and backend database merging seems to me to be a good combination. The plan is to build out some simple primitives first, then layer a SQLite (WASM in browser) <-> Postgres sync system on top for local copying and modification of datasets.
Proof of concepts:
https://github.com/samwillis/yjs-sqlite-test
https://github.com/samwillis/yjs-pg-test
I'm planning on releasing an iPad version with drawing so you can sketch out storyboards with it.
[1] https://www.ussherpress.com/cardbuddy/
LidLayer - https://lidlayer.com
• fundraising for my pre-seed startup
• organizing a tech conference in Southern California: https://outland.sh
• writing at https://taylor.town
• preparing for the AIDS/lifecycle -- please donate :) https://giving.aidslifecycle.org/participant/taylor
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I'm approaching scheduling first - looking at your calendar and coordinating with others to find availability and setting up a meeting - all by just invoking the model.
Eventual goal is to do everything a real human assistant can do online + over phone calls.
Just starting off, and would love to talk to more people interested in this domain. Feel free to hit me up at hi@klugbot.com
Just released a free plan, after a mere 2.5 years of solo and bootstrapped dev.
Feel the primitives are in place now (even down to a Habit version control system for the rules engine) and have daily users who are getting value, so focusing now implementing user feedback and trying to get it out there (as have done no real marketing), before I tackle the next big feature I'm excited about.
You can see our work: - https://quantumchess.net (has run on Google's quantum computer) - https://tiqtaqtoe.com - https://github.com/quantumlib/unitary (open source library to add quantum behaviour to software, aimed at coders, not physicists)
Its more of a labor of love than anything else. This month I almost broke even so that's nice.