http://examtime.com - it is cool because it is helping people (100,000 so far) study and pass exams.
Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
41–50 of 786 posts
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#42http://codedose.com We are working on a small side project (codename: market colors) that will make daily analysis of stock price movements and trend discovery super easy. You will be able to analyze and compare literally thousands of stocks from US, European and Asian markets in a few minutes. AJAX frontend with interesting high volume batch processing in the back end. (if you are interested in more details, drop us a line!)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#43Currently building out http://forever.fm, an automatically-beatmatched radio stream of popular music from around the web. Built out the real-time music streaming backend in a mix of Python, C++ and Golang, just submitted the iOS client to the App Store, and am currently finishing up the Android client. (Along the way, I also built my own distributed, persistent version of Unix pipes on Redis: http://github.com/psobot/pressure)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#44Side project, a small webapp, that would help me:
1. Learn Python, Django, HTML etc.
2. Track my yet-another-wake-up-early-attempt and (hopefully) motivate me.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#45Infinite Flight: it's a flight simulator for mobile platforns I had been working on on the side for almost 7 years before finally deciding on joining forces with a friend to ship it on Windows Phone, then iOS and Android. What's cool about it is that it's written entirely in C# while and we still get decent performance on most devices. Also, we're slowly gaining traction with users that prefer flying with us rather than with the established competitors :)
You can find more about the app here: http://flyingdevstudio.com and http://infinite-flight.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#46http://www.jsdelivr.com - A free public CDN for webmasters.
It uses 2 enterprise CDNs and 14 hosting providers all load balanced with multiple failover features.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#47I have been working on a web-based interactive environment for creating 2-d mechanics problems (with bodies like particles,disks,boxes, forces like gravity, springs, linear & circular motors and joints like revolute joints and sticks etc.) and simulating them. Think Algodoo for the web.
I think it's cool because nothing like this exists for the web. I recently gave a presentation at a Javascript conference in Bangalore on this: https://hasgeek.tv/jsfoo/2013-2/688-interactive-physics-simu... To see the demo, skip to 13:00 in the video.
I haven't launched it yet because collision detection and response is pending. Hope to do it soon. :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#48https://www.truevault.com/
TrueVault is a HIPAA compliant data backend for apps, devices, and sites. Developers use TrueVault so they can develop healthcare apps without building out their own HIPAA compliant infrastructure. You access data in TrueVault via our API and native clients. Think of TrueVault as Stripe for confidential patient data. You use Stripe to store credit card data so that you are PCI compliant. Our customers use TrueVault to store protected health information (PHI) so that they are HIPAA compliant.
It’s cool because new healthcare applications are paring back their feature sets so that they don’t have to be HIPAA compliant. TrueVault helps solve this problem, and prevents legislation from hindering innovation. TrueVault will handle HIPAA so that entrepreneurs can focus on improving the quality of care for millions.
Also cool because TrueVault takes care of all of the technical requirements mandated by HIPAA. HIPAA compliant hosting providers (AWS, FireHost, Rackspace) only provide a HIPAA ready environment. You still have to spend the dev time and money to build your own application stack in order to comply with HIPAA.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#49Just started working on something to attack SharePoint that is based on sensible standards (REST, JSON, etc.) with the front end completely in something like AngularJS or Ember. This is cool as, in my opinion, SharePoint Must Die.
Indeed, it must die. Please kill it
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#50Building on Hofstadter's models of analogy-making to build pattern recognition algorithms that work in a more human-like way. At least, that's my hope! My background is in computational neuroscience, but I'm doing this on my own, mostly for fun. If it sounds interesting, I'd love some company! greg at gregdetre dot co dot uk
This sounds interesting. What kind of data structure do you use to represent a "pattern"?