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Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Yes. A fully automated business for 3D prints of ultrasound scans in glass cubes. The USP is that you upload a low res scan (most doctors don't want to give you access to the full 3d data) whereupon it does image processing to create a 3d point cloud which it puts into a reverse engineered laser engraving format. If payment is processed on the bundled website it then sends the engraving file and delivery sheet to a s…

Very interesting, can you email me at tom [at] printtopeer [.] com?

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Cannot agree more with wishcan. I sketched up a few different ideas for something like this, but never pushed on because I thought integrating with hotels, airlines, etc. Would painful. Also figured I'd need to automatically parse email confirmations, which would be a PITA. What is it written in and how much work is left to do?

Parsing emails seems to have got a whole lot easier - most I interact with have started moving to schema.org microformats (eg, https://schema.org/FlightReservation and https://schema.org/LodgingReservation for flights & hotels respectively). It seems google/gmail are backing this quite extensively, which is how it's finally found traction.

Never heard of https://schema.org/ before. Looks like a great resource thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Having built and given up on an app that did exactly this, I would like to learn more about your experience. I am in the process of giving away the app, back-end, etc. as a result of a flippa auction. https://flippa.com/6895313-curia

An idea came to my mind when I was selected for Apple WWDC. There wasn't a platform to find who else are attending WWDC event. Connect is an Online platform to meet other attendees before the event - We build this platform keeping following in mind - - To share accommodation - Airport Cab sharing - A trip/ Sightseeing new city - Or Business Networking

That's awesome, you are doing much more than I did in the past. Kudos. If you want to connect and bounce ideas you can find my contact in my profile.

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https://github.com/pvinis/mazical It's not much but it was a start. I airways wanted to play a game like that do I thought I would make it. It's a maze that you do not see and of the walls until you bump into them. I would love to see someone actually programming it so I can finally play it :)

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I've been making a podcast discovery app, it's not live yet but the latest home page screenshot is http://imgur.com/a/Bkn7Y (basically: Trending topics, Recommendations (based on social media profile and listening history, subscribed shows, and iTunes charts), and instant search of over 4.5 million episodes across more than 60 thousand shows.) I may not be able to keep going on it though because of constraints on tim…

Interesting! Cool idea.. I'm curious to where you got all the podcast data?

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I don't have a started project per se, but have some domain names I acquired about 2 years ago for online resume/project/listing sites in the developer/designer space (all ending in ???resu.me). They keep on auto-renewing, but if anyone's interested, I could be talked into offloading them :)

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Hi Mitchell, I'd be very interested to discuss this with you. I've been working on a similar application for over a year. What would you expect from the right person?

Just to keep it open, and keep basic usage free.

Great - I'll send you an e-mail with more info :)

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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I had been building http://wishcan.com , a drag-and-drop travel planner, and will hand it off to someone willing to continue the work. Trip planning is difficult to get right, and notoriously hard to find a business model for. I think it's simply because no one has gotten the UI/UX perfect. I am now working on an IoT platform called http://smartxlab.com

How can I contact you the best?
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