Manan's notes

202408111518 Anti-projects

Projects I wish someone had done already. Why isn't that somebody me?

Let me know if you want to build any of these with me.

  1. Improving spacedentist/spr: Submit pull requests for individual, amendable, rebaseable commits to GitHub so that individual PR descriptions contain a link to PRs before and after the current PR in a stack. Done; see Let's fix spr!
  2. A writing tool where you can create different checkpoints or commits of the piece you are writing. You can then make some edits, and once you are ready to commit your edit, you can perform an equivalent of a git add patch. This feature would allow you to decide (on the individual-line level) whether to include something in your writing or not. Additionally, you can tag the piece with a commit tag, effectively marking the checkpoint with a commit. Effectively: Git + a native macOS writing editor.
  3. An AI agent that you can talk about system design questions with, and it asks you follow-up questions and conducts the interview for you.
  4. An AI agent that you can upload a plain-text repository to. It has context of your notes, can help you answer questions about your notes, and provide guidance about new areas to explore.
  5. An app that can take in a web page and generated the most relevant Spaced Repetition prompts from it.
  6. Audio-AI-writing interface. AI interviews people, and you just talk. AI helps structure it into an outline as you talk (but you control it). When you’re done, AI uses your own words to generate a first draft. AI + Audio first draft tool
  7. A tool to do weekly reviews. You can provide which systems that you want to connect it to. Start small -- Things 3, a plain-text repo of notes, Readwise. It highlights what you read in the last week, whether you completed the tasks you signed up for, and provides a space for you to reflect on your completed work.
  8. A clothing recommendation app that provides a TikTok-like interface to learn your clothing preferences. It then partners with major clothing stores to recommend you clothes you would actually like instead of random junk.
  9. AI DJ that can assess vibes and adjust music accordingly.
  10. Social personal knowledge graph
  11. SF parking spot checker. Input location and duration, app alerts if street cleaning will occur during that time.
  12. AI code review tool. (Maybe an extension to Cursor?) given the context of a repository and a given git diff, provides a summary of what’s going on in the diff and the most important files to look at first.
  13. A tool that lets you take photos and immediately take notes on them.
  14. A spaced-repetition tool using plugins in The Archive (A love letter to The Archive) to surface old notes.
  15. Building a spaced repetition system in Readwise Reader using a combination of filtered tags and views.