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pravenj commented on Ask HN: Is Linux Safe to Daily drive in 2026?    · Posted by u/A_Random_Nerd
pravenj · 2 months ago
I have
pravenj commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
pravenj · a year ago
I am working on this mobile app that is a cross between karaoke and musical instrument practice. Through playing music for a long time, I realize that playing with a band or with the actual song is important to get a good feel of music, specially for starting musicians. Hence the app. Currently I have Nepali songs up. I am finding it difficult to get more subtitle files or generate them quickly (for lyrics layout). Through this I would want to ask how I can quickly generate lyrics file. I really would appreciate the help.

https://guitaraoke-app.web.app/

pravenj commented on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?    · Posted by u/fuzztester
pravenj · 2 years ago
25 years ago I needed an app that would transliterate my writing in English to my native language (Nepali), as I did not know how to type in my native language (which I still don't). So I made a 1 person use transliterater. The fonts used for my native language then were mostly ascii fonts with typefaces changed to characters of Nepali. When unicode became more common, then an app that would change from those ascii fonts to unicode. Then I needed units converter as Nepal uses different units of measurement compared to metric as local levels. Hence unit converter for myself. Few more applications on the way, but most have been replaced by Google. In the last 4 years I have moved away from programming to being a full time farmer. Here I needed simple app that would take market data from past years to figure out when I would get the best price for a crop. Hence I made one for myself that would aid me make my crop calendar. Now working on a simple 1 person app for a crop calendar.
pravenj commented on Ask HN: Coolest thing you learned in 2023?    · Posted by u/mikekoscinski
pravenj · 2 years ago
Coolest thing I learned is to clone trees. Roughest thing I learned is that most people who talk about climate, don't really want to plant trees. They just want to talk about it.
pravenj commented on Tell HN: Did you know that you can help restore a person’s eyesight for $50?    · Posted by u/munchhausen
pravenj · 3 years ago
If you checked out all others maybe you want to check this one too. Its in Nepal and pioneers of various tech in cataract surgery -- https://tilganga.org/ Their number of treatment is pretty impressive (73,49,257 is their current count of people treated.)
pravenj commented on Ask HN: What's stopping you from blogging?    · Posted by u/codazoda
pravenj · 3 years ago
I wrote and made collection of stuff, but literally nobody read in last few years. Realized blogging (or making anything on the web) comes with a lot of marketing. Hence found text files to be better for note to oneself.
pravenj commented on Ask HN: Please suggest an open source project work on    · Posted by u/pravenj
mtmail · 4 years ago
pravenj · 4 years ago
Thank you... Will do.
pravenj commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2022)    · Posted by u/david927
pravenj · 4 years ago
I have started planting local fruit trees with an aim to plant 120,000 local fruit trees in the next 3-5 years. Currently I have reached 3000 in the last 5 months, with another 1000 in polybags.

Leaving programming after 25 years of it, I wanted to do something that will help world be a better place even after I am gone. Trees have always appealed to me. Hence local fruit trees -- sell fruits to run farm once fruiting happens in a few years. Local plants are localized to climatic and soil conditions of the area thereby requiring the least nutrition, water and care.

Its going to be a bit slow from here for few reasons, I have to learn to grow saplings faster and out of season, make fertilizer year round and figure out how to ensure plants are growing. I have figured out some of it, but financial resource crunch will hit me in next 6-8 months. So now trying to come up with ways to handle that.

Help in any of the above is extremely welcome. Does anyone feel social impact funds will want to look at me?

u/pravenj

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