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 mappu » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 8:41 AM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #52

Working literally every waking hour (22 hour+ coding sessions) for two weeks, I've created a replacement for our WinPE-based Windows repair CDs [1] in Linux, in anticipation of Microsoft's non-renewal of all WinPE licensing agreements to 3rd parties, and made them fit on an ISO that (GUI desktop environment, all kinds drivers and binary blobs, web browser, partition editor, custom repair tools, and all) is only 40MiB…

Could you elaborate on the licensing change for Windows PE?

Sorry, this is the first i've come across it, and it looks like it's affecting other vendors as well (Paragon?) but i havn't found a useful source or summary.

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

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Post by mapster » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 4:20 PM UTC

I launched a web store: http://mapsalesdirect.com It's not saas but it is fulfilling a 2012 goal of "make and launch something"

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

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Post by IanDrake » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 4:10 AM UTC

shpen wrote: post #140

IanDrake wrote: post #9

Virtual dog fighting - http://PuppyShowdown.com - OK, more like puppy pillow fighting. It's still rough around the edges and buggy, but I should have an update ready tonight or tomorrow to smooth things out.

I really wanted to use it, but I gave up as soon as soon as I realized that Facebook is the only way to log in. Not everyone will trust your website, and requiring Facebook limits the number of users you will receive.

Yeah, I understand that. I've gone back and forth on it a bit. When I complete my vision for the site there's going to be a lot of fun features that depend on your social graph, so I decided it's worth it.

The one thing I tried to avoid was asking for too many permission. The site only asks for basic permissions + your email address.

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

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Post by kaolinite » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 3:22 PM UTC

I launched portnotifier.com (not actually working currently) and mailtoolkit.com :-)

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

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Post by kaolinite » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 3:31 PM UTC

there wrote: post #15

I released Pushover, a mobile notification service with clients for Android and iOS. https://pushover.net/ How I built it: http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/03/16/on_building_pushover/

there, wow. Really nice service. I will get your Android app in a few days time. It would make me more confident in your service however if you could open-source the server software, and allow the client to connect to other servers. As there's no monthly charge, as far as I'm aware this shouldn't affect you negatively, but your call of course :-)

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

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Post by pestaa » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 3:52 PM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #13

I built a high performance 99.999999999% durable key-value data store: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-03-27-adding-durability...

Just so you know, kivaloo (or, more precisely, kiváló) means `excellent` in Hungarian.

Good luck with the project!

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

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Post by teeray » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

A small status board for the dining locations at my school: http://www.isbirchopen.com