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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm currently working on a website screenshot API. It also converts webpages to PDF. You can check it out at https://urlbox.io .

I did something similar ( simple hack really), that uses phantom https://github.com/NicoJuicy/WebsiteAsImageWebService

It gives a screenshot of the url, with optional variables ( height, width and onlyFrontPage)

How are you doing it?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Problem: The process of getting thoughts from your head into an organized, written draft form isn't as fast or accessible as it could be. Project: I'm building a conversational UI / bot ( https://writing.ai ) that helps people write faster. The basic idea is that it asks you a series of questions about a topic, asks follow-up questions for more detail as needed, and when it's done outputs a completed draft. You're st…

Sounds interesting. Is it more for creative writing or more business oriented? I'm signed up in any case.

Thanks for the signup!

My initial target is short-form content such as blog posts and essays. I'm going to wait to see how that goes to decide what to focus on next, but odds are that it'll be more structured content like academic papers or technical reports.

I'm definitely not ruling out an eventual focus on creative writing, but it'll take a bit for the system to get to that stage.

That said, I'm designing it with the ability to ingest annotated writing samples of any sort, so it's possible that a wider range of writing types will be supported sooner than expected.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm building myself a publishing platform which I'd like to make available to others for $12/yr. It'd be a GUI for static-code generators, where you can write markdown in a browser, hit "publish", and Jekyll/Middleman will generate content for you + push the newly generated article to the GitHub repo. I'm spitting out tools, as a side-effect of that: https://github.com/wkoszek/lastpass-ansible https://github.com/wkos…

I think this is a viable project - I've thought about doing something similar myself. How will you differentiate from Netlifly CMS, though?

https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm working on an open source "interactive time series forecasting app"[0] powered by Prophet[1] and Plotly[2].

I aim to make it a fully featured front-end to the Prophet forecasting tool released by Facebook's Data Science group.

I loved Prophet at first sight and thought it can be a goto solution to the problem, so I have decided to use Plotly's interactive charting and React's declarative programming for the performance.

It's still in the development phase for now, my next task is to enable installation through NPM or PIP.

[0] https://github.com/Prophetly/Prophetly

[1] https://facebookincubator.github.io/prophet

[2] https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds interesting. Is it more for creative writing or more business oriented? I'm signed up in any case.

Thanks for the signup! My initial target is short-form content such as blog posts and essays. I'm going to wait to see how that goes to decide what to focus on next, but odds are that it'll be more structured content like academic papers or technical reports. I'm definitely not ruling out an eventual focus on creative writing, but it'll take a bit for the system to get to that stage. That said, I'm designing it with…

Looks very interesting. I guess I might be fighting a loosing battle here - but any plans for an offline solution? This is the kind of thing that I'd probably love to use on the train (many tunnels, no 4g/spotty in-train wireless) - and on flights (wifi is comming, but not always) -- or other places without good network coverage (composing a blog post on a hike..).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm trying to make a search engine that gives you the opposite of what you search for: this is what I've got so far http://sample-env.wk77znpmqm.us-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/

How opposite is it?

My animal searches still resulted in other animals.

The other day I wondered if one could find the furthest wikipedia entry and which it would be. The classical "opposite" is usually very very close: do/undo, matter/anti-matter etc...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Problem: The process of getting thoughts from your head into an organized, written draft form isn't as fast or accessible as it could be. Project: I'm building a conversational UI / bot ( https://writing.ai ) that helps people write faster. The basic idea is that it asks you a series of questions about a topic, asks follow-up questions for more detail as needed, and when it's done outputs a completed draft. You're st…

This is a really interesting project. I just signed up to get notified of launch (andrew @ indentlabs.com) but if you want to shoot me an email with what you're working on and where you're at, perhaps I could help out or give you some feedback on the idea/implementation. Either way, always good to have more eyes occasionally. :)

Thanks, sent you an email!
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