Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by ColanR » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

cknight wrote: post #95

Problem: Despite there being plenty of articles and discussion posts online, I've not found a way of easily tracking how a given corporation is conducting itself ethically. Project: I started Suitocracy with a friend so we can log events as they're reported in the media, and also get peoples' thoughts. We're essentially trying to capture it in one place so we can see how companies improve (or not) over time. https://…

That's cool. Is there any chance you're going to open source the code behind it?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by adamqureshi » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:15 PM UTC

I am working on this: https://onlyusedtesla.com/

A marketplace to buy / sell a used tesla.

My opinion is that Tesla is doing EVERYTHING differently. It would be highly likely that the Tesla on-board vehicle super-computer (currently made by Nvidia - leader in AV tech) could easily handle selling the used vehicle per the owner's request automatically online. All Tesla vehicles are connected to the web via LTE 24/7.

I hypothesize that a Tesla owner or Tesla could automatically upload vehicle mileage, age, options, etc. on to a dedicated used tesla website. Perhaps onlyusedtesla.com can be an exclusive website to Tesla (the company) through a strategic partnership. (know a guy who know's a guy?) can you get me an intro? anyone have elon musks email?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kylebgorman » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

I am building libraries for predicting which pronunciation of a homograph to use for in a text-to-speech application. E.g., when we go to synthesize "bass", should we use the pronunciation that rhymes with "mace" or "pass"?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by noahsark769 » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

I'm working on an Amazon Alexa app that can send your phone arbitrary push notifications.

Ever since I bought a dot, I've been frustrated with the relatively high friction of sending data from the dot to my phone (why do I have to open the Alexa app to see the full weather forecast? why can't Alexa send me a link to a full Wikipedia article? why can't Alexa start composing a text for me? etc). The solution is to build an app which can route you from an Alexa request (e.g. "Send me the Wikipedia article on X"), to your phone, to the appropriate app.

There are relatively few use cases that I've found so far, but I think the Alexa -> Push interface is a cool one to explore, and it's been really cool to work with the platform and finally get to the point where my app receives a notification from the Alexa cloud. Open to suggestions for this if anyone has any as well!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by conorgil145 » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:17 PM UTC

calcsam wrote: post #198

I'm building a stock option calculator for startup employees. It walks you through how to collect the information you need to know about the stock options you own, or have been offered, and figure out how much they would be worth in various scenarios. http://www.optionvalue.io

I would have found this incredibly useful when I was doing research to understand stock options that I have had in the past. Sounds like a really cool project. Keep at it!

Also, to get a more accurate estimation, you will have to know the amount of investment in each round and the permissions that come with different classes of shares. For example, liquidation preferences and investors deciding whether they will convert to common shares or not, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by olleromam91 » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:18 PM UTC

jessriedel wrote: post #190

I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of t…

Is the goal for this to happen in real time?

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Post by andrewfong » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:19 PM UTC

I'm working on https://esper.com. It's a bunch of tools to get rid of useless meetings like auto-cancelling meetings if no one confirms they want to go, rating meetings, and tagging and charting calendar events.

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Post by ColanR » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:20 PM UTC

dzenos wrote: post #139

Problem: We believe document versioning is broken for most people: writers, attorneys, academics, journalists, etc. We engineers have Github, but others don’t. So, we decided to solve this problem and create Tuiqo Project: Document versioning for humans We built a prototype: http://tuiqo.com (video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj8ezqLCOs ). We are accepted to YC Startup school founders track.

Quick note - your homepage says 'try without registering', but clicking on the editor button prompts for a login.

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Post by theocean154 » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC

Two projects: An FPGA based database accelerator: paine.nyc/dau-site paine.nyc/dau paine.nyc/ffpp

Along with this im designing a PCIe fpga board to interface host the accelerator.

And,

A reactive algorithmic trading system for trading BTC/LTC/ETH across multiple exchanges: paine.nyc/algo-coin

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Post by sp33k3rph433k » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC

I'm working on building something that will incentivize site owners who have some kind of creative content on their site to remove ads in favor of donations to their site. It's a pretty unobtrusive widget they can add to their pages and it makes it so the user doesn't have to leave the page to donate. Still a WIP, but it's getting there!

http://trussapp.com