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Working on a library of videos that teach programming basics ( and advanced topics ) using JavaScript and the Web Audio API.

http://learnwebaudio.com http://learnwebaudio.com/portfolio_item.html

There are a lot of books and tutorial videos that teach programming to those interested in video games but not much in the way of teaching people who already have familiarity in the creative digital audio space.

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We are working on a MTurk like system for audio/video transcription. We have developed a four step process to ensure that the accuracy as high as possible irrespective of the difficultly level of the file. Check it out at https://scribie.com

If your cost of transcription is above 10-15 cents/minute email me at 1000app at gmail and I can give you some feedback on how to get there.

If you are already below, then Kudos.

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Just getting into development so its slow going. One of the ideas I am working on is a service which will provide a "one stop shop" to manage rental properties and rental relationships. It will includes things such as listing rentals, managing the viewing process, tenant verification, legal documents, and all financial transactions including the ongoing rent payments.

"Landlords" and "Tenants" would set up profiles which will be used to match prospective tenants with listings and vice versa.

Some of the key aspects of this concept are the creation of a marketplace to encourage rental unit upgrades, community management both for large apartment/condo complexes and geographical communities with large concentrations of rental units, and tie-ins with third party services / various partnerships.

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Working on TruckPlease https://www.truckplease.com/ If you need to move something you can post it there and guys with trucks and moving companies around you will put down quotes for the job. Then you can accept/decline the quotes and get connected to the mover. It's a Rails app. The focus is on stuff within the same city (or county at least) so shorter local moves. It's mostly in Vancouver, BC right now although we g…

I think it's a great service, and was really toying with the idea of creating something like this when I was living in the UK. But mostly for ebay purchases.

There are lots of bargains for furniture and heavier stuff which is 'pick-up-only'. If you can get a quote for picking it up and delivering it before you even bid on an auction, this will open up loads more opportunities for both buyers, sellers, and local delivery companies.

So my 2 cents worth of tip is adding an ebay bookmarklet or a way to add an eBay id instantly to get a quote on.

Also lots of potential if this grows for moving companies who have extra space in their trucks to bid and fill those gaps within the area.

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#206
I just released http://burgerfest.nl which is a skinned version of a flapy-bird clone, as promo for a party (yesterday). I also build a physical interface where you could play the game by hitting a big red button. And a big scoreboard consisting of 63 incandescent lights, which I control with an arduino and 21 relays. One of my first arduino projects, which was fun.

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post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are you handling the actual accessing of user's finance data? Automatically via API? Or having them maintain a ledger?

For now it's manual input. A lot of folks balk at this, but I find I do better when I'm forced to thoughtfully engage with my budget. For example, my wife and I are primarily concerned about improving our grocery spending. This means that we only have to input spending 2 or 3 times each week. It's really not a burden, and really helps keep our use of the app simple. All of the other spending that goes through our che…

Thanks for the reply. Your app looks great, I'm going to sign up for early access!
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