Ask HN: What did you build in March? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by tayl0r » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 12:11 AM UTC

The last day of the month I built my own screencast.com server for use with the Jing screenshot software. This enables you to take and upload screenshots with Jing, but it bypasses the real screencast.com server and uploads them to your own server instead (by redirecting screencast.com through dns or hosts file trickery).

This is useful for businesses who don't want their screenshots to go up on the web. They can keep all their screenshots on their intranet while still using the great Jing client for taking & sharing the images.

It needs polishing but it's a good 1st step into making something that is ready for production use.

https://github.com/tayl0r/JingServer

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by cwisecarver » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 12:13 AM UTC

joefreeman wrote: post #35

http://trackt.com - real-time collaboration using sticky notes

It's pretty. You should implement hammer.js from the above comment so I can use it on my iPad.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by GBKS » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 12:35 AM UTC

gala8y wrote: post #94

GBKS wrote: post #91

Finally released the paid subscription offer for my web app and got the first customers. http://www.wookmark.com/about/plus

You might want to look into your permalinks (/about/about,...).

Where do you see a problem? The repeat of "about" in this specific URL? Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by pcd » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 12:37 AM UTC

adj wrote: post #88

I released my first solo app to help me capture and remind myself of my ideas. It’s called “Noted! and is available for iPhone - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noted!/id504164257?ls=1&m... You can read about my success (or lack thereof!) here - http://atomyard.com/blog/How-not-to-market-an-iPhone-app/

Very cool. Just what I've been looking for

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by xiaomei » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 12:40 AM UTC

I built BuyMyFile (http://bmf.cm). BMF is a file marketplace that rewards buyers with discounts for referring sales. Please let me know if you find this service useful so I can keep working on it. Thanks patio11 for feedback on this.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by relaunched » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 12:51 AM UTC

I just built http://failrecovery.com

I was so sick and tired of tweeting companies fails, to let them know what was going on, and just have them ignore me. So, I figured by using social pressure, maybe I can get their attention. I mean, who really wants to be at the top of my "I have bad social customer service" list.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by relaunched » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 12:56 AM UTC

jasonlotito wrote: post #99

AutisticTouch.com for the Lehigh Valley Hackathon (hack.lehighvalleytech.org) where my team and I took 1st place overall and tied for crowd favorite.

Hi Jason,

You should setup a rewrite rule for the autistictouch.com

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by amoore » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 1:18 AM UTC

nfm wrote: post #41

Backbone based Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] extensions for our time tracking and invoicing app, Paydirt[3]. They prompt you to start a timer when they spot keywords related to your clients on the pages you visit. This is our MVP into intelligent time tracking, seems to work well for people that spend all day in the browser. We'd love some feedback! 1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paydirt-time-... 2. htt…

brilliant! I may "embrace and extend" this idea for my workplace. I'd build a browser extension that notices when I load a new trouble ticket and makes an entry in my timecard for it. If I used paydirt, I'd love the thing you just built.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by simon_weber » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 1:34 AM UTC

I built an api for Google Music: https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

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Post by superfamicom » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 1:52 AM UTC

http://superfamicom.org/text-to-8-bit

I built a toy: Text to 8-Bit

Create 8-bit game screenshots using your own text in Fami-liar games. About 12 hours of work, most of that is in graphics work (chop chop chop). Javascript with Canvas, not terribly fancy but very fun.