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Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by webmaven »

mazumdar wrote: post #48
zkirill wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is awesome but why do you only target men?

1) I started building this out for myself and for some of my male friends who shared the same sentiment. 2) Men and women shop differently and I feel as if women want more choices so the model does not necessarily work for them. That said, I've received a lot of interest from women for the first product we launched so plans may change in the future.

Keep in mind that women buy a lot of clothes for men. So even if you're just making menswear, don't forget to target women in your marketing and research.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by webmaven »

hunvreus wrote: post #54

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck. Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git. To illustrate my point: - Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/ - The…

No GCE?

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by hunvreus »

webmaven wrote: post #102
hunvreus wrote: post #54

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck. Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git. To illustrate my point: - Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/ - The…

No GCE?

It's on the roadmap with many other thigns (S3 for example).

edit: we'll be pushing the roadmap on the site this week so that people know what's in the works.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by brickcap »

I am working on wrinq

http://www.wrinq.com/

wrinq allows landlords to collect rent online from their tenants and issue rent slips once it has been received. Besides that it allows the landlords to keep a track of their expenses (on the property) and see how much they profits they earn monthly ,yearly etc. Admittedly this would be much more useful for people who manage more than one tenant.

It will also keep a track of tenants who pay on time so in case if wrinq ever gets successful I would have an opportunity of doing a spin off that "hooks" potential landlords with good tenants (but that is distant future)

Target audience : Landlords who don't live in the same house as the tenants and who possibly have more than one tenant to manage.

Launch Date: Well I want to collect a few emails this time around before launching. See if there is any interest for what I am doing. Right now I am working about 25% on the product (technology wise it is pretty simple) 75% on it's marketing (haven't started actively yet).

But I am thinking December should be a good time to launch.

Trivia:

wrinq is an acronym

Wield Rent and Issue Normative Quittance.

To be honest I only made it up after I decided wrinq sounded cool and got the domain for it :)

Tech stack :

I am using openresty and couchdb on the server side.

Jquery and simple grid[1] on the client side.

[1] https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by rnnbrk »

I’ve been working on a bot monitoring platform - hoping to launch soon.

Problem: Up to 61.5 percent[1] of website visitors are bots, of which 30.5% are malicious. The presence of bots lead to content theft, malware injection, server hijacking, spam links and DDoS attacks. Website owners are often unaware of their existence and the extent of their effects.

Solution: A platform to monitor and analyse bot traffic. We alert you to attacks, pinpoint affected pages and identify and analyse all bots. To retrieve traffic data we use pixel tracking & JavaScript tracking code. To detect bots we look for abnormalities in a series of traffic data such as HTTP header fingerprinting, JavaScript footprint, timestamps, IP reputation etc.

With the results from our platform you can better implement methods of prevention such as blocking IP addresses/user agents or go about including CAPTCHAS or similar where necessary.

If this is something you would be interested in I’d love to hear what you think :).

[1] http://www.incapsula.com/blog/bot-traffic-report-2013.html

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by mkdir_home »

hunvreus wrote: post #54

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck. Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git. To illustrate my point: - Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/ - The…

It is hard for me to read the grey text on the white background, maybe darken it up a little?

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by mkdir_home »

ashraful wrote: post #3

http://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…

Awesome idea, but the background image (the cityscape) takes about 7 seconds to load for me. Try optimising it down to a smaller filesize?

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by mkdir_home »

projectdelphai wrote: post #93

I'm been working on providing a service to recommend manga. The only other existing alternatives are myanimelist and mangaupdates and I feel my project has a greater potential to be more comprehensive, up to date, and personalized. http://mangarecs.herokuapp.com explanation and writeup: first writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/2eejdt/rmanga_heres_... second writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/commen…

Looks good, have you heard of twitter boostrap? Its a easy to use library to spice up the UI of web apps.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by mkdir_home »

elliottburris wrote: post #52

I'm a data scientist who is building Slipper, an iOS app that uses algorithms to reconnect and recommend missed connections. In beta now, but ~5% of new users are matched on sign-up with a real post written about them. Launching later this month, perhaps early October. Feedback most definitely welcome! https://slipperapp.com (also sneakily available in the App Store if you feel like checking it out: https://itunes.ap…

I am finding it a bit difficult to properly understand what this app does.

So it uncovers lost connections between the user and other people, where do the stories come into this?

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by archagon »

I'm building a clone of the official iPhone software keyboard for use as a base for 3rd party keyboards: https://github.com/archagon/tasty-imitation-keyboard

Instead of fixed images and positioning, it uses CoreGraphics and Autolayout, making it adaptable to portrait/landscape of any size. (It's really slow on device ATM, but hopefully that will be fixed shortly.)

In the end, I intend for it to have most of the looks and functionality of the existing iPhone keyboard (when possible) except for iOS8 suggestions. Release date for beta-ish 1 should optimistically be a week or two after the iOS8 release date.

Also, unrelated, I had an idea for a human-readable passphrase generator, in the vein of diceware, but I need to find a good algorithm for generating grammatical sentences and correctly conjugating verbs, etc. Also, I have yet to limit my wordlist to the most commonly used words. Right now, it's... silly: http://archagon.github.io/grammatical-passphrase-generator/

Possible future features: arbitrary length, rhyming schemes, other mnemonic features.

(Give it 30 seconds or so to load — everything is done in JS, including wordlist parsing.)

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