Got anything you've been working on in the last few weeks/months? Go ahead give us a short demo of it! What does it do? What problem does it solve? When will it launch?
Ask HN: What are you building?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#2I can answer this. We are working on a do-it-yourself SaaS tool that marketers can use to create mobile engagement campaigns like incentive-based mobile contests, games, surveys, etc. To create one, marketers currently have to rely on developers and designers which can cost them a lot of time and money. With our tool, marketers will be simply able to pick a ready-made campaign, customize with content, rules and difficulty levels, and simply publish it in a matter of minutes for a fraction of the cost. We are actually working on a demo video as I write this and hopefully you'll be able to see it over the weekend. So keep your eyes open.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#3http://www.hackerlunch.com
I am working on an iOS app that lets hackers meet up with each other and have lunch.
I moved to San Francisco from Bangladesh last year and found it tough to meet other hackers. Being rather introverted, tech meetups didn't really work for me. I felt that a one-on-one meetup would be ideal. So that's what I'm building.
I'm hoping to launch within a few weeks. If it sounds interesting to you, you can sign up for an email notification when I launch, just go to hackerlunch.com. I'll probably do a Show HN once I launch as well.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#4A toy native code compiler for a made-up language where all functions are anonymous.
All programming languages are horrible in certain crippling ways. It's my hope that this one will be slightly less bad in some areas (undoubtedly with the expense of some glaring deficits). It's pretty cool to have first-class functions, type extension methods, PHP-like vectors/maps, and still end up with a sub-4KB exe.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#5https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ovaludi.no...
I've been working (and still am) on an Android puzzle game using libgdx. The puzzle requires to fill a board with Xs and Os while obeying the no-three rule (no three Xs or Os in a row) and the same number rule (same number of Xs and Os on each line and column).
The puzzle turned out to be quite challenging and addictive, similar to sudoku. The most difficult part of development was that I would start the game to see check a new feature and I wouldn't get back to development until I finished filling the board.
The most interesting part of development was writing the algorithm that generates the board in order to ensure a unique solution and account for the various levels of difficulty.
I've already published a version of the game and I'm currently working on adding some features to it.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#6http://cutcss.com
Creating responsive CSS with flexible layouts is still ridiculously hard, mostly done by hand and I want to fix that with a GUI.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#7I am working on a free Windows application for Nest products (Learning Thermostat and Protect Smoke & CO alarm).
Primarily a notifier (heating on, Smoke or CO emergency etc), it also gives you thermostat temperature and home/away control.
You can see the status of your Nest devices at-a-glance by means of a series of icons (one for each device) down in the taskbar notification area (aka system tray).
Currently seeking beta testers!
More details at http://richardeverett.com/Nest
All feedback (good and bad) as well as feature suggestions welcomed.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#8http://cutcss.com Creating responsive CSS with flexible layouts is still ridiculously hard, mostly done by hand and I want to fix that with a GUI.
I think you have a small layout bug on your website: When you mouseover the animated stick man at the bottom of the page some text pops up, but it's in the top-left corner of the page and half off the page (tested in IE11, Chrome and Firefox).
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#9Credits - A built from scratch cryptocurrency that seeks to solve a few pain points with current cryptocurrencies.
* Aiming for instantaneous(ish) transaction confirmations.
* Much easier and safer to develop against the protocol than Satoshi clients.
* New consensus algorithm that doesn't require paying $2 million per day in electricity and hardware to secure the network.
http://getcredits.io https://github.com/CryptoCredits/credits
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#10I'm working on a Chrome extension for Gmail. The main feature is Tab completion of templates. If you do a lot of Gmail it might save you a lot of time:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicktext-for-chro...