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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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post #96

An online tool to do business intelligence and analytics that doesn't require a team of consultants to setup. Should add that I am looking for a cofounder so post/msg if interested. Edit: E-mail is jeff.tchang (at) gmail

What's your email? Mine is anony304 at gmail

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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post #42

I'm working on a web-based pixel perfect mockup tool called jMockups, which is built on top of HTML5's canvas element. Most web designers use Photoshop to do this right now, but Photoshop makes it much harder than it should be (the UX, lack of common HTML elements, difficult to share, etc). An early alpha version will be available in a week or two. If you're interested in helping test it, shoot me an email: matthew.h…

i've been thinking about doing something like this, would def be interested in testing - contact info in profile.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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post #96

An online tool to do business intelligence and analytics that doesn't require a team of consultants to setup. Should add that I am looking for a cofounder so post/msg if interested. Edit: E-mail is jeff.tchang (at) gmail

Please tell us more.

I have been working on it by myself for a few months (so have a working proof of concept).

The idea is a data aggregation service that helps small to medium online businesses analyze common sources of ecommerce data.

Most small businesses do not have the time or manpower to implement complex business intelligence solutions such as SAP, Cognos, or Actuate (the big players in this space).

My product serves to bridge this gap by providing an easy way to gather both traditional and non-traditional metrics. By traditional I mean gross sales, volume, margins, site traffic etc. Non traditional would be a lot of the "Web 2.0" metrics (tweets, buzz, etc).

I'm at a point right now where a proof of concept is built but I need a lot of help in the marketing/business development department.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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An (open source) music library manager and automatic tag corrector. http://beets.radbox.org/

It's Python and all command-line. I'm trying to make something that's both better than iTunes for managing music (not that hard) and smarter than MusicBrainz Picard for correcting tags (a little harder).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

#110
At work...a sinatra api for an existing app that is currently a horrible mess of java and xml configuration files (more "code" is in xml than java, ugh!)

After hours...working on features toward the launch of http://www.wanderphiles.com (teaser site...sign up!). So much to do and only a couple hours a day to work on it.

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