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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by rodolphoarruda »

johngummadi wrote: post #329

I'm working on a Uber like service for home-made food in my spare time (apart form having a day job). http://crave.yorker.me

Do you plan to expand to other services beyond home-made food?

In the city I live there are large condos that are almost like small towns. The one I live in has 300 families and around 1200 people. Some time ago I thought of developing an online service that would allow such condos to build internal "yellow pages" listing services such as: home-made food, baby siting, car washing, hair stylist, nails, dog walking. The condo administration would pay a fixed monthly fee based on the number of units. Administration would also benefit with features like general announcements and the "condo agenda".

Let me know if this sounds interesting to you.

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Post by napoleond »

kieranr wrote: post #398

We're building an SMS chatbot for the Canadian cannabis market. It allows you to purchase marijuana directly from dispensaries and licensed producers in a few messages. We’re adding NLP and a basic recommendation engine to help increase retention and drive purchases. We built out the infrastructure in a hackathon and are grinding away at an MVP. Starting to demo for dispensaries soon. I think we’re really on to somet…

Hey, not sure if this is helpful but I have a side project that might save you some work: https://www.smsinbox.net

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by godot »

cheapwx wrote: post #430

I created an API (that is still a WIP) to provide forecast data pretty cheaply. Last fall I was working on another side project(that got shelved) that needed weather data, and I was blown away by how expensive most of the other APIs are if you need quite a lot of data. Shoot me a message if you'd like a trial token to do some tire kicking. www.cheapweather.com

Just curious, what's your data source? I'm not a potential consumer or competitor, just wanted to know where one would go about getting something like weather forecast data to provide as an API.

If you feel that information is part of business secret, you don't have to answer.

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Post by kevinwuhoo »

tgrundmanis wrote: post #428

Myself and a technical partner are working on a linting SAAS project that comments on style issues right on the PR in GitHub. As the non-technical partner I am working on optimizing conversion and prioritizing product work. We check style for 11 languages and looking for feedback on what to tackle next, or fix in the current product. Here is the page if you want to check it out: www.stickler-ci.com.

How do you guys plan on competing with Hound besides on price? In my experience Hound is fast and from thoughtbot, but a little bit pricy for what it does.

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Post by azaydak »

I have zero experience in web development so I decided to start a self project to learn some of the basics of front-end and back-end development and server management. So I created a home server to host machine learning capabilities.

I set up a Linux web server with an Angular front end that users can create an account and log in. From there they can use the web UI to design and create deep neural networks. Currently it supports autoencoder, fully connected, convolution, and a host of other network layers. The user can also upload data and train the network. The server hosts a nVidia GTX1080 GPU to train and run the network. The website was served using Flask and Tensorflow was used to create the networks. Successful models could also be deployed as an API endpoint.

My final solution wasn't very scalable but I learned a lot from it!

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Post by j_s »

gympulsr wrote: post #217

I built a mobile app for fitness enthusiasts to connect with like minded people around the world. Mark your gym on a map and send messages to people that are working out near you. Post funny gym stories and pictures to motivate others. Website: https://gympulsr.com The biggest problem during development was the framework itself. As there aren't many people out there that are using Qt for mobile app development, it wa…

"If you build it, they will come" only works in the movies.

There are several devs turned marketers here on HN that have taken the time to document what's currently working for them. The most recent I'm aware of is Austen Allred: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13877509 Some of his stuff he made freely available (apparently a bit dated per discussion): https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-to-get-press-for-your-s... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10438634

As seen on: PR 101 for engineers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169309

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by yjlim5 »

I’m working on an open source verb conjugator for different languages, currently in Korean and Hindi. The conjugator will take in a verb and a grammar form and output the conjugated word. For example, the future form of ‘하다’(to do) should return ‘할꺼야’(will do). This API will come handy for people who are learning a new language or, if you’re like me, building a language learning app. It gives us the flexibility to create learning materials like flashcards. The project is still in its early stage, available at https://github.com/llipio/conjugator.
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