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

#111
I am building https://www.rdrbot.com using:

* ASP.NET MVC 5, Knockoutjs, Momentjs, jQuery and Bootstrap

* Azure Websites, Azure SQL, Azure DocumentDB, Azure Caching

* OAuth 2 providers (Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Live)

The idea is to make a site that aggregates multiple sources into one so I can try to keep up with RSS, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Right now its somewhat a glorified RSS reader. I dunno if I will ever monetize it, something I just wanted to make.

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

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I've been developing the stack for The ContentMine ( http://contentmine.org ). In the next month or so, we will start scraping the entire scientific literature as it is published each day, and processing it through our 'fact extraction' pipeline. Done so far: - I've defined a JSON format for declarative web scrapers (ScraperJSON: https://github.com/ContentMine/scraperJSON ) - made a Node library for web scraping with…

I've long thought about doing this with arXiv to determine if you could extract results and synthesize answers to questions. Is anything like that part of the goals for The ContentMine?

Yes. We're trying to build the toolset so that the end product is not predetermined, but that we empower people to make whatever they can imagine. In about 6 months time it should be relatively easy to implement your idea on top of what we build. arXiv will of course be included :)

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

#113
I'm currently working on a Database Forms designer for Linux.

It started off as a small side project to see how easily I could get a quick n' dirty db app put together on gtk, but it's kinda taken on a life of its own and grown to something a lot more than I first intended.

I'm just starting to add Python scripting support now.

But I am enjoying it.

gtk and Objective C

http://www.data-forms-action.com

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

#114

I've been working on a site called Sibbell ( http://sibbell.com/ ). At the core, the idea was to provide a way to get notified when GitHub projects you use (star or watch) publish new releases. Keeping you in the know when features get added or that bug that's about to kill your Monday gets fixed. Seems like something GitHub would do, but the only way you can get notified about releases through GitHub is to 'watch' a…

Sounds like a great idea, and you built a great landing page, imho! But what is sib in sibbell.com? gitbell is available!

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

#116
I'm working on a shell tool for managing tinydns + git + Apache + daemontools.

Long story short. It's a nice frontend written in Perl that parses your configuration files and based on templates modifies them.

So this gives you the opportunity to do :

    server-tools repo add https://github.com/any/repo.git --domain www.new-site.com --site html --site-home path/to/public
which will clone git repo, add www.new-site.com as a domain for this server ( modify tinydns config ) and create a new vhost for apache that has a root path/to/public.

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

#118
I've just began working in https://spate.io again.

There are no statistics to show yet as nobody is using it, but I'm hoping I can change that soon.

The API and the website are two separate Flask apps whilst the websocket server is implemented using node. For now the API and the websocket component communicate using redis' pubsub functionality for the MVP stage, but I have a vague suspicion this will have to be the first thing to change eventually. Will have to test.

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

#119

I've just began working in https://spate.io again. There are no statistics to show yet as nobody is using it, but I'm hoping I can change that soon. The API and the website are two separate Flask apps whilst the websocket server is implemented using node. For now the API and the websocket component communicate using redis' pubsub functionality for the MVP stage, but I have a vague suspicion this will have to be the f…

I like your website and what you're offering is really cool but I think it would be better if you specified how you much it costs or if there are any limits. I understand it's in beta and maybe you don't have pricing figured out yet, but as a potential user, I'd like to know more before signing up. "Create a free account" with no pricing page is scary. It tells the potential user nothing. I'd rather have "Free while in beta" with an explanation of future plans/pricing and limits. Otherwise, it looks really neat.

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

#120
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I build and sell high-resolution posters of the sky at http://greaterskies.com I've been at it for some years now, and it's been featured here a couple of times. The backend (astronomical computations and generation of the PDF) I implemented in Common Lisp. It's still tiny: I get around 20 visits a day, sell around a poster a day, and can't figure out how to make it grow.

If you're converting 5% of new visitors into customers, you're already doing well - setup some paid search on long-tail terms. Unique anniversary gifts, unique birthday gifts for outdoorsy folk, etc.
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