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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lefstathiou »

Groupie

An app that allows you to create join and manage social groups on the iPhone. Every group has a message board, live chat room, gps-enabled map and member directory.

Thus far we have over 70 groups and 300 users. Many thanks to members of HN that helped make it possible. You know who you are.

Url: www.groupie.mobi Video: www.groupie.mobi/whatisgroupie App Download: http://www.groupie.mobi/images/Apple_BTN.png

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Tichy »

jdrock wrote: post #157

http://www.80legs.com - web-scale web-crawling for everyone. Launched in September and growing revenue now. We've solved a lot of big data store issues in our back-end. Challenges have shifted from technical to business :) Extractiv - web-listening and content-extraction that combines semantic analysis and web-scale reach for a complete picture of what information is on the web and what the web is discussing. The cor…

While in principle I think the approach is great, I have recently learned that some of your "volunteers" are in fact people infected with spyware. Can't find the corresponding article atm, though :-(

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lefstathiou »

abyssknight wrote: post #128

Working on the house I just bought with my wife. It's the grandest hack I've ever had to do. From crazy 22ft walls of glass that need replaced, a kitchen from the 50's that needs a remodel to the shoddy wiring throughout the house. There's tons to do, and little time to do it in. This year I start a new position at the company I work for. Hopefully it'll bring more visibility and access to the people who make decisio…

Before and after pics would be nice. Perhaps you should make a blog of it. I love these projects. As a hacker, I have high expectations of you!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by bliss »

I'm working on my dream requirements management tool, it's basically just a big graph visualisation tool http://blissapp.wordpress.com/

Back to the data warehousing day job tomorrow though, so lets hope that the development of Bliss doesn't slide another year...

Also, trying to get my head around the ycombinator concept, wondering if the recursive magic that i've seen might be useful for fast graph traversals.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lefstathiou »

bengebre wrote: post #113

http://www.deptofnumbers.com/nyc/home-sales/new-york-city/ - An analysis of New York's property sales records by borough and neighborhood. I'm trying to build a openly defined price index for residential sales across the city.

check out the publicly available figures from radar logic, they aggregate residential real estate transactions in the boroughs and NYC and publish a daily price per square foot. an interesting technology they havent figured out how to capitalize on but relevant to you nonetheless.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lefstathiou »

onebluebrick wrote: post #98

Working on a simple, private, short-term mobile group communication tool called Fast Society. It automatically connects friends who are going to a concert, on vacation, or just out for a night of drinking over SMS and has a ton of cool functions to communicate during and share content after the event. Launching soon at http://www.fastsociety.com/ (still waiting on carrier approval)

I just launched a mobile group communication tool recently. A fun yet grueling process. I am eager to see yours in action. Will it be available on the iPhone?

feel free to reach out to me to chat. lefstathiou@gmail.com

my app is called groupie. www.groupie.mobi

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by cdibona »

I work at Google running open source compliance, code release, outreach and on public sector engineering management. Management, meaning, I don't code much anymore, although I added a totally trivial constant (1729, Hardy Ramanujan's number) to the calculator recently :-)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by camccann »

I'm working (slowly) on an interpreter for a minimal, non-strict, pure untyped lambda calculus. Bonus features include syntactic whitespace, some basic optimizations, simple tracing/debugging features, and support for "compiling" multiple source files into a single program.

No, it's not supposed to be useful.

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