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Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

#181

It's awesome to see so many building so much cool stuff. I just got lost for 20 minutes in benjoffe's site. Here are a few of mine: Track lunch debts (turns out I'd rather just buy people lunch but I got to play with some JS): http://lunchng.appspot.com/ Save clippings from web pages (2008, seems like someone builds one of these every six months, could use a refresh with ideas from http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com…

This pagestack thing looks cool, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

#184
Murphy on Luxury: http://murphyonluxury.com. Seeking to emulate the success of email newsletter verticals like DailyCandy & Thrillist, but with a refined editorial tone and a focus on luxury travel (news/reviews of resorts, hotels, spas, first class/private aviation, etc). High CPMs for this sort of audience (that's the goal at least), and it's a topic I love.

I've focused most of the design on the email templates so far, so the website remains very alpha.

Trying to decide whether to bootstrap or try to get F/F/F or angel/seed $. (DailyCandy, for example, apparently had $300K seed funding only later raised money from Bob Pittman (after 250K subscribers, I think I read).

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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regvex.py -- http://gist.github.com/641688 Regvex is a proof of concept timing attack against regex engines. To make a long story short, the timing characteristics of regex engines make it perfectly suited to timing attacks, allowing you to (locally or remotely) create data that matches a given regex, and potentially even reconstruct the actual regex you're matching against. The current version works locally against…

Fascinating, could you explain how this works?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

#188

http://pocketodds.com/ Poker odds calculator (texas holdem), the plan is for the website version to get linked around and soon release a phone version for a couple of bucks (starting with iphone, not finished yet).

fantastic, gonna save a bookmark on my phone for the next round of poker.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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post #76

http://viewtext.org Pulls article text out of html pages Populates RSS feeds Save text to PDF Extract text from PDF's API to pull article text in XML, JSON, JSONP formats

May I link to it from another page?

http://viewtext.org/api/text?url=techbio.org&format=html...

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