Ask HN: What did you build in March? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#41

Post by nfm » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 9:50 PM UTC

Backbone based Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] extensions for our time tracking and invoicing app, Paydirt[3]. They prompt you to start a timer when they spot keywords related to your clients on the pages you visit.

This is our MVP into intelligent time tracking, seems to work well for people that spend all day in the browser. We'd love some feedback!

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paydirt-time-...

2. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clfnlkjacgohceabde...

3. https://paydirtapp.com

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#42

Post by aorshan » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 9:54 PM UTC

I built a crank calling app using twilio and sendgrid at a hackathon this weekend. Its nothing special but its the first thing I've really ever made.

http://cranksomeone.webs.com/

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#43

Post by eLobato » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 10:00 PM UTC

I solved security problems and made a enormous test-harness for ThisCausesThat, a research project for UC Irvine. https://github.com/eLobato/wc_master

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#44

Post by sunsu » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 10:01 PM UTC

A product that lets you Build Your Own Phone System: http://www.buildanumber.com

Very early alpha release. Lots of UI issues and its in desperate need of a tutorial.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#45

Post by cifder » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 10:01 PM UTC

Accomplished a few things:

Redesigned the layout for merchant signup at

http://giftsmatic.com/new

Built with 2 friends at a hack weekend

http://eventon.com

A cool mashup of upcoming events and ones that you rsvp'ed for. Currently it's integrated with eventbrite and facebook.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#46

Post by ajtulloch » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

Scratched an itch and built LaTeX2Markdown (http://tullo.ch/projects/LaTeX2Markdown) - a LaTeX to Markdown converter designed for converting AMS-LaTeX documents to webpages.

Offers compatibility with AMS-LaTeX (theorems, lemmas, proofs, etc), and drop-in integration with a Markdown/MathJaX blogging environment. Pandoc can't cope with these environments, so it seemed useful to build something that did.

The usage model is effectively:

1) Write your mathematic documents (lecture notes, blog posts, exercise solutions) in LaTeX using the full AMS-LaTeX suite.

2) Convert to PDF, Markdown, or another format.

3) Use Markdown/MathJaX for blog, use PDF for distribution, etc.

Full source available at https://github.com/ajtulloch/LaTeX2Markdown.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#47

Post by dsco » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 10:03 PM UTC

I built a tiny (>3 kb) JavaScript date picker. It's been done many times before, but it's my first open source project so I'm pretty stoked even if no one ever uses it. http://sunmer.github.com/tinycal/

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#48

Post by Hellenion » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 10:05 PM UTC

My very first public application, tracks a simple checklist. http://solidusserver.net/ware/spike/

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#49

Post by gghootch » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 10:08 PM UTC

Currently building a little ditty which will send me an email notification every tuesday of all new album releases of my top artists according to Last.FM

You can check out an alpha, alpha build @ http://smooth-wind-2063.heroku.com/

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?

#50

Post by dmvaldman » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 10:10 PM UTC

I taught myself exactly what I needed to know about backend development (and no more!) and launched http://www.quipvideo.com!

Feedback appreciated.