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Ask HN: What's something you want but don't have time to build?

by someuser54541 on 8/5/22, 7:30 PM with 7 comments

• by suprjami on 8/5/22, 8:35 PM

  An open-world post-apocalyptic desert roguelike game. Think Mad Max or Fallout but ASCII/tiles, turn-based, aimless and limitless.

  Existing examples and development start:

  - Dwarf Fortress - 2002

  - Cataclysm DDA - 2010

  - Caves of Qud - 2010

• by thanatos519 on 8/6/22, 10:58 AM

  A distributed WASM/WebGPU fractal zoomer in which participant consensus decides where to zoom. All participant computers share the calculation efforts and torrent the results to each other.

  Rendering can get well ahead of the zoom level so that everyone gets a full-screen full-framerate fractal zoom as if they had all of that compute in the room with them.

• by cpach on 8/5/22, 7:50 PM

  A “virtual PBX” for personal use, based on Twilio or similar.

  “Firecracker containers” for macOS, based on Apple’s Virtualization framework.

• by IceMetalPunk on 8/5/22, 7:35 PM

  A better career in a more creative field... does that count?

• by politelemon on 8/5/22, 7:34 PM

  Build as in a gaming computer or build as in a side project to monetize?

• by simne on 8/5/22, 9:30 PM

  Better world.