Ask HN: What are you Building? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by vermasque » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 6:25 PM UTC

nkron wrote: post #34

Not very exciting, but I'm experimenting with a site to list sales tax rates by city: http://www.sale-tax.com . It's been fun to play with scraping government forms, SEO, and adsense. Maybe next year around tax time it will even be useful to people :)

It would be more useful if it was easy to compare places. For example, do I save money crossing the state line to buy something? Some states also charge sales tax on specific things that other states disregard (e.g., clothing).

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 7:49 PM UTC

Breefield wrote: post #52

I'm working on a tool that helps you find the webpages you've previously come across. This is primarily done by showing large screenshots with each bookmark. I plan to add a variety of page-browsing tools to help you find that page quickly (from color palettes to cover-flow-esq flow). http://folindux.com

If you can do this across my different devices and make it searchable like oh last week, that sire about you know err umm.

I really want this

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by Jose_GD » Mon, Jun 04, 2012, 1:47 AM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #64

An open source WYSIWYG CMS and plugin platform running on Node.js and CoffeeScript, along with a hosting service and simple virtual hosting control panel. The main advantages over other similar systems are: * open source: MIT license * ease of use: everything is a widget, including layout/design aspects * efficiency: virtual hosting for many sites on one server/VPS, Node.js, caching, reduced requests etc. * easy to e…

I think any new CMS project like yours should consider mobile as a main target

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by maxkpage » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 6:25 PM UTC

I am working on http://scorebookz.com

It's a sports team management site. Allows team captains/coaches to easily manage their schedules, stats, and players. I have a good number of teams using it, so it you know anybody who has a team send them a link.

I also just released my first iPhone app called Bullpen:

http://www.maxkpage.com/bullpen

Which is a pitch counter for baseball and softball pitching coaches.

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by sakai » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 6:40 PM UTC

I'm building an agricultural crop classification and forecasting tool, using remotely sensed and other data.

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by audreyt » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 3:43 PM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #64

An open source WYSIWYG CMS and plugin platform running on Node.js and CoffeeScript, along with a hosting service and simple virtual hosting control panel. The main advantages over other similar systems are: * open source: MIT license * ease of use: everything is a widget, including layout/design aspects * efficiency: virtual hosting for many sites on one server/VPS, Node.js, caching, reduced requests etc. * easy to e…

I think the plan sounds great and would happily contribute to the effort, especially for the EtherCalc part. :-)

Have you considered EtherPad Lite? It might be a more appealing choice than EtherPad, considering the common Node.js codebase.