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Static Hosting - http://www.statichosting.co/

It's a static website hosting service for making hosting jekyll/hugo/etc. sites way easier in terms of setup and updating. It's coming out of beta soon, but if you want to try it out sign up for the beta list and I'll let you in ASAP.

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I'm 3/3 so far! Cool site man

One UI suggestion: make the images bigger!

Thanks for the suggestion. If you click on them, they'll pop out to the full size. Otherwise, I couldn't figure out how to get it to appear OK on both desktop and mobile (because I"m not really a web developer).

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Symmetry Labs! http://symmetrylabs.com/ I'm working on a new paradigm for creating generative content for 3D displays (at the moment with LEDs). I'm also working on real-time, single-angle virtual reconstruction and registration of 3D LED structures using computer vision techniques.

I saw that Symmetry Labs did the Generate music video! I honestly thought that was CGI! Do you have any tips of getting started with the type of LED display work you do, with regards to the control software?

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I'm working on BankBotsBank (https://github.com/bankbotsbank/bankbotsbank), an open effort to develop a collection of open-source bots that provide API access to accounts on any bank.

I developed the first bot, which can be used as a sample, with JavaScript (ES6, and ES7's async/await) and Nightmare (based on Electron, so on Chromium).

It's awesome because free API access to this data for any bank in the world may enable new and interesting fintech apps (actually, for me this project is a stepping stone towards another project that I plan to build on top of it), and I think that the open-source approach is the most effective way to achieve that (i.e. free and comprehensive API access to accounts data on any bank of the world).

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I'm working on an online learning platform I'm calling Academiac. Teachers with some expertise can write and publish text-based courses which user then pay to enroll in.

Very similar to Udemy but really focused on text-based courses instead of videos. The goal is to create a high-quality alternative to regular ad-supported courses and tutorials

Not available yet but will be launching to course teachers soon!

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Cloudcraft - https://cloudcraft.co

It's a free tool for creating AWS architecture diagrams in an isometric style. You can snap together AWS services as if they were LEGO blocks. The latest development is that you can now scan an actual live environment and import your real resources.

Right now (when not reading HN...) I'm working on making the grid infinite, adding zoom & pan, so it becomes usable for really large architectures. It's a lot of fun.

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ModelMod: modify art in games

https://github.com/jmquigs/ModelMod

I posted this as a "Show HN" a few months ago. It's awesome because for the vast majority of commercial games, there is no way to customize the art, since the Developer doesn't provide an end-user art pipeline. There are older programs that allow texture customization, but as far as I know, ModelMod is the first program that lets you snapshot models, edit them, and the reload the edited version in game.

Currently I'm working on CoreCLR support (a lot of the code is F#) and experimenting with pixel shader transplants.

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Dr Kodama - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr.-kodama/id1060934796?mt=8

My first (iOS, very simple) game. Got to learn Swift and some basic game dev principles - was fun (save for encountering this issue: http://stackoverflow.com/q/24223572/548170). Thanks for trying and please hit me with any feedback if you got it.

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CANtact - http://cantact.io

Open source hardware for communicating on CAN buses, which are the main network used in today's automotive systems. Hardware has been around for about a year, but I'm currently working on new open source software for visualizing and communicating on CAN buses. Hoping to demystify automotive electronics and make them more accessible!

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Pavlok -- (http://buy.pavlok.com) --- a wearable device to change behavior. We just integrated with IFTTT and now it has become a haptic feedback platform. The device can vibrate, beep, and send electric shocks.

And we are releasing a developer API later this month :)

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