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Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by mrtrombone » Mon, Feb 25, 2013, 9:23 AM UTC

a5seo wrote: post #14

A blog where my 6 yr old daughter can review toys. She's been asking for this for a few weeks.

I set my son up on http://www.jux.com. Nice and easy

Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by flexie » Mon, Feb 25, 2013, 2:34 PM UTC

arjun88 wrote: post #17

flexie wrote: post #6

A site where you could safely and anonymously 'expose' corrupt government offcials.

i made this www.complainsindia.com (not in 4 hours)

Interesting. How do you go about securing that people who file complaints are anonymous?

Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by jkaykin » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 1:48 AM UTC

wcchandler wrote: post #15

I spend too much time procrastinating... so I'd like it if I could speed up my "stupid" time. I'd build a site that has the design of pinterest/instagram or whatever the site is that has the multi-columns of different heights for individual cells. And the content would simply be from various RSS feeds -- npr, cnn, fox news, times, huff po, etc. Ideally I'd bring it to a level similar to HN, Reddit and Digg with the o…

http://syndifeed.com

Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by brador » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 11:24 PM UTC

wcchandler wrote: post #15

I spend too much time procrastinating... so I'd like it if I could speed up my "stupid" time. I'd build a site that has the design of pinterest/instagram or whatever the site is that has the multi-columns of different heights for individual cells. And the content would simply be from various RSS feeds -- npr, cnn, fox news, times, huff po, etc. Ideally I'd bring it to a level similar to HN, Reddit and Digg with the o…

Try http://skimfeed.com.

Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by niazangels » Wed, Feb 27, 2013, 3:13 PM UTC

Gurrewe wrote: post #29

niazangels wrote: post #5

a qr clock :)

I started to create one a while ago. But I found out that there was really no use for it. :D http://x42.se/

Hey, thats pretty cool :D Well, atleast its buildable in 4hours, right? :)

Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by jon_dahl » Wed, Feb 27, 2013, 7:21 PM UTC

route3 wrote: post #8

Between ZenCoder and the encoding services that AWS released, someone needs to expose easy video encoding to non-developers. It's easy for us to wire up these services for our needs, but Joe Marketer can't. Here's what he see when he searches: a large amount of spammy looking sites offering downloadable software of questionable origin (and ability). Five minute trial versions. The actual download page has twelve othe…

People come to Zencoder wanting this, but it isn't really what we do. Not sure how big it is, but there is a market for this.

Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by keefe » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

download my reference server from github, write a couple templates, publish