Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by bmelton » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 5:23 PM UTC

Zak wrote: post #225

bmelton wrote: post #218

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I may be speaking out of turn, since I have no special expertise with either club owners or club lighting, but you might try taking it to the channel to market. If you can find club lighting supply houses (which I am only guessing exist) -- and allow them to make hearty margins, they'll push your software for you as part of their new installs / sales. Again though, I don't know the market or niche, so take this sugge…

It's not a bad idea. At the consumerish end of the market, people often buy club lighting from Guitar Center[0], which sells a large selection of generally low-end to midrange DJ and club equipment. An aggressively-priced low-end version could sell very well there. The higher end of the market is served by specialized lighting dealers. Professional lighting equipment is very expensive, such that prices are not usuall…

I bought my first Les Paul at Guitar Center, so I'm familiar.

I think if you could get them to push for you, and maybe MusiciansFriend.com (a similarly sized competitor, a la New Egg vs. Tiger Direct), you'd be in decent shape, distributor-wise.

Either way, best of luck. Let us know how it goes.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by ckinnan » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 5:28 PM UTC

vitaminj wrote: post #163

fakeempire wrote: post #151

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what country?

Laos

Laos is actually WAY off the beaten path.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 1:36 AM UTC

inklesspen wrote: post #228

dgallagher wrote: post #115

I'm working on a startup that's, well, it's a secret. Not everybody is going to tell. ;) Last November I was laid off from my job. Haven't been able to find a new one, so I've been teaching myself to code in the meantime. It's a completely different field but I'm in love with it. :) I come from a mixed business/finance/IT (Win sys admin) background. I've run several self-employed small businesses which weren't scalab…

Wait, so you want someone with Python, Django, .NET, sysadmin, and Cocoa experience? That's a heck of a lot of hats, even for a startup.

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by sil3ntmac » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 7:16 AM UTC

jimmyrcom wrote: post #61

sil3ntmac wrote: post #57

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I've used it, it rules. jimmyr.com is pretty cool too, used to be my homepage.

what beat it

news.ycombinator.com, hah. that was most of what i read anyways so i just switched over one day

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by maryrosecook » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 8:02 PM UTC

yummyfajitas wrote: post #199

maryrosecook wrote: post #181

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How are you trying to make it suck less? (I'm just curious: recently, I had three MRI scans while I was in hospital).

The variable cost of MRI is scan time. The MRI technician needs to make a tradeoff: more time for higher quality image. I'm trying to get a better quality in the same time. Big picture idea: the MRI doesn't spit out pictures, it spits out encoded pictures (the Fourier transform). Using a simple model of what bodies look like, I can dramatically narrow the search space when decoding the pictures.

Wow, that sounds amazing. Don't forget to emphasise the benefit to the patient, as well. Spending two hours in a small, hot tube when you've just had heart surgery is not fun.