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Re: Ask HN: Share your side project and your motivation

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Post by vinteruggla »

titodini wrote: post #3

https://www.jackfruit.ai - Automation and organizational tools for professional networking / job finding. Started to build it because I hated applying to jobs over and over again and was always forgetting where and to who I had applied. What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that getting your dream job might be one to two connections away from you. Getting a referral for an interview at a company makes you 9 t…

Are the connections & referals on the basis of my imported current contacts? Or how does it work?

Re: Ask HN: Share your side project and your motivation

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Post by jviotti »

I'm building https://www.jsonbinpack.org, a novel schema-driven and schema-less binary serialization format with a strong focus on space-efficiency.

JSON BinPack comes from my research at University of Oxford trying to solve the problem of expensive cellular network data transfer in the context of the Internet of Things. The results are pretty good based on the benchmark research I published: https://benchmark.sourcemeta.com.

The idea is that if you build an IoT product that is deployed to remote locations (the middle of the sea, a remote farm, etc) and sends data back to central servers over cellular networks, then JSON BinPack would allow you to potentially save a lot of money.

I published a JS-based proof-of-concept and I'm now working on a production-ready C++ implementation.

Dissertation link: https://www.jviotti.com/assets/dissertation.pdf

Re: Ask HN: Share your side project and your motivation

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Post by titodini »

vinteruggla wrote: post #11
titodini wrote: post #3

https://www.jackfruit.ai - Automation and organizational tools for professional networking / job finding. Started to build it because I hated applying to jobs over and over again and was always forgetting where and to who I had applied. What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that getting your dream job might be one to two connections away from you. Getting a referral for an interview at a company makes you 9 t…

Are the connections & referals on the basis of my imported current contacts? Or how does it work?

in v2 you should be able to upload either your linkedin contacts by downloading them from linkedin and uploading them to jackfruit, or uploading a spreadsheet into jackfruit. Curious to know how you are storing your current contacts?

Re: Ask HN: Share your side project and your motivation

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Post by png261 »

jviotti wrote: post #12

I'm building https://www.jsonbinpack.org , a novel schema-driven and schema-less binary serialization format with a strong focus on space-efficiency. JSON BinPack comes from my research at University of Oxford trying to solve the problem of expensive cellular network data transfer in the context of the Internet of Things. The results are pretty good based on the benchmark research I published: https://benchmark.sourc…

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