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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by aerophilic » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:37 PM UTC

metasean wrote: post #152

aerophilic wrote: post #9

Robot Turtles! https://github.com/RobotTurtles https://github.com/RobotTurtles/home These turtles use a raspberry pi + webcam to turn to a face, recognize "flash cards" via QR cods, and chase a ball. All parts are open source, so if you have a 3D printer, you can pretty much build one yourself. (The pcb you would need to order from dirtypcbs, though I have a few spare if needed).

There is already a popular board game named Robot Turtles. http://www.robotturtles.com/

Yup, well aware, I had originally started this idea before Dan Shapiro came out with his excellent game. I haven't however bothered to change the name of the project yet... If you have a good alternative name do let me know ;)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by bazillion » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:37 PM UTC

davemel37 wrote: post #423

bazillion wrote: post #220

I created a completely new branch of advertising, which basically superimposes advertisements directly over images in a way that actually benefits consumers: http://pleenq.com/ . Here's a demo video (fairly old, have to still update with the latest look): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfKBvs53Ss Say you have a picture on a blog post showing a car engine, explaining how to fix something inside of it. You could high…

Are you just going to use affiliate feeds or are you looking for advertisers. I am happy to test advertising for one of my clients (ecommerce home decor space).

Would love to test advertisers -- do they/you have a publisher available to test it on that makes sense? It could be a blog site that shows images about their products, or even their own home page linking to products within their catalog.

I'm always down to implement new ways to demonstrate the versatility of the product -- please email me when you get a chance (email in profile).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by djb_hackernews » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:37 PM UTC

gxespino wrote: post #399

http://melthq.com I'm building the API for physical gifting. Want to reward your best customers with chocolates, flowers, company swag, etc. but don't want the operational overhead? Automate making a call to Melt's API and we'll handle the buying, customizing, and logistics. The goal is to increase customer engagement, customer satisfaction, word-of-mouth growth and lifetime value.

I like this. I've thought about something similar that was more targeted at the high end market.

A woman comes in to your boutique clothing store and drops $10k in your store. In the process your sales associate working with her learns she likes opera and wine. You tell [SERVICE] and they source and deliver a personalized gift according to their tastes on your behalf to show appreciation for their business.

I like where you started. It might be interesting to "hire" a few expert gift givers that can find awesome gifts given a persons likes and a budget to get outside the flowers and chocolate options.

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Post by andrewmcwatters » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:37 PM UTC

Grid (game engine)

http://www.planimeter.org/grid/

https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk

The Grid engine is a 2D game engine built on LÖVE.

Grid makes powerful concepts from 3D game engines accessible in a 2D game environment.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by akavel » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:38 PM UTC

A well-tested, easily extensible & customizable, offset-capturing, robustly-specified Markdown parser in Go:

https://github.com/akavel/vfmd

with a (long-term) plan of writing a WYSIWYG desktop Markdown editor around it. A hobby project in spare time, so pacing is on and off.

Also much too many other hobby projects. But hey, that's what makes them hobby!

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Post by apawloski » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:39 PM UTC

"Live" views of the Earth from Himawari-8 (a geostationary Japanese satellite).

Latest image: http://earth.apawl.com

Video of the previous 24 hours at: http://earth.apawl.com/recently

Bonus: Video of the eclipse earlier this week. http://earth.apawl.com/eclipse

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by devarist » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:40 PM UTC

Working on new features and a new design for our developer's journal app https://devarist.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by ClickQuestion » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:40 PM UTC

zinxq wrote: post #10

ClickRouter - because it allows me to use all my affiliate accounts (CJ, Skimlinks, Viglinks, shareasale, etc) at once. This has nearly doubled my affiliate revenue. At first it was an internal tool I ran for a long time, but been working to make it a service. http://clickrouter.com

Looks interesting. I'm curious why you built this. Prosper202 is the canonical approach used by most affiliates. It's got both self-hosted and hosted options.

From your landing page, I can't tell what missing features led you to roll your own.

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Post by mladenkovacevic » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

iamleppert wrote: post #108

Kespry - http://www.kespry.com/ We provide a drone to the (primarily aggregates/mining) industry that can create highly detailed survey quality maps. Our customers can use the data in measuring the volume of their material (stockpiles) and in planning a big project, construction, etc. Basically anything you can imagine someone would need information about a physical location from above. We develop the full stack in h…

Were you guys at the PDAC this week?

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Post by hokkos » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

rileyt wrote: post #89

Amplitude https://amplitudeapp.com/ Interactive music discovery. Amplitude tries to get a feel for your current mood and then gives you a 30 song playlist that you can save to Spotify. Spotify's discover weekly is great, but you only get one playlist a week. The radios are a great idea, but I found them to far to repetitive and playing very mainstream music I'v already heard. Amplitude sits somewhere in the middle.

Does Spotify provides the 30s sample of the tracks freely ?