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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by tokenizerrr »

waleedka wrote: post #172
ejb99 wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you make anything form it now? What are you hoping to get for it? - and what stack are you using?

It's two parts: An App Engine/Python for the UI and user registration, and a Linux server for image capturing (Python, Javascript, RabbitMQ, ...etc.). At first we used popular libraries like Phantomjs, but eventually had to write our own to scale better. I'm experimenting right now with moving the image capturing code to an App Engine managed VM to simplify things and make it scale easier.

Could you please elaborate on what your own implementation turned out to be?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by derwiki »

rtcoms wrote: post #64
derwiki wrote: post #48

https://www.dailysitesnap.com/public This project takes screenshots of various URLs once a day. It's been a fun way to watch my side project grow up, and a number of other people receive daily emails. It could be an interesting business, but not really one I'd like to pursue. Email "adam at cameralends" if you're interested in it.

Which library/plugin you are using to take screenshot of urls ? I am working on a similar app based on Ruby on Rails and these days searching for a proper solution for taking screenshot of an url .

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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by PhrosTT »

ShaneCurran wrote: post #20

https://www.chemical.io/ - Lab management made easy Chemical.io is a free cloud based lab management system that lets you catalogue chemicals using a smartphone and automatically re-order chemicals when running low. It's an excellent domain and the software is very polished so it would be a great investment for prospective buyers. I'm also open to offers on http://www.libramatic.com/ . It's a cloud based library cata…

Would mind telling me how you're decoding barcodes from the images? This is a problem I'm currently working on using js/canvas. Did you use ZXing?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by JustARandomGuy »

waleedka wrote: post #172
ejb99 wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you make anything form it now? What are you hoping to get for it? - and what stack are you using?

It's two parts: An App Engine/Python for the UI and user registration, and a Linux server for image capturing (Python, Javascript, RabbitMQ, ...etc.). At first we used popular libraries like Phantomjs, but eventually had to write our own to scale better. I'm experimenting right now with moving the image capturing code to an App Engine managed VM to simplify things and make it scale easier.

Which library are you using for image capture? Been using webkit2png ( https://github.com/AdamN/python-webkit2png/ ) for a personal project, but I'm interested to hear your experiences.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by yankoff »

xentronium wrote: post #223
usaphp wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.tweepsect.com/ - is blocked in Russia

These idiots banned a/the cloudflare endpoint. [1] http://antizapret.info/index.php --- see for yourself (108.162.196.104)

This site is pretty interesting. Where do they get this data from? I'd think that banned site list is not published anywhere?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by xux »

habosa wrote: post #121

www.blogmask.com It's a 100% anonymous blogging platform with a clean interface. Just start writing and set a password for your post so you can come back later and edit it. Stores literally zero information about the author. Has a stolen-from-svbtle voting system and a reply mechanism. I believe it has potential because I left it untouched and came back a month later to find dozens of employees of the company OpenEng…

Love the editor GUI. Are you using a framework for that, or did you code it yourself?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by sideproject »

I maintain the site http://sideprojectors.com

Would love to hear your comments & feedback on how things can be improved to help you sell your side projects.

Personally, it's been quite rewarding to see people exchanging messages and actually buy & sell side projects.

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