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

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by s_kilk » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

I've been working on BedquiltDB on-and-off for the past year or so: http://bedquiltdb.github.io/

I'm also currently working on a web version of Marcus Aurelius "Meditations", mainly because I wanted a way to just randomly show single chapters. https://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/marc

It's been fun so far, especially the process of choosing a freely-available translation, cleaning it up and so forth.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by thegabez » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 8:26 PM UTC

Tech/Finance news aggregator. Still a work in progress. https://quantumsheep.herokuapp.com/

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by sleazebreeze » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 8:31 PM UTC

sgslo wrote: post #13

I have several courses on Udemy.com. They sometimes go slightly out of date as frameworks release breaking changes. Right now, I'm just about to upload some updates to my most popular course on React/Redux: https://www.udemy.com/react-redux/?couponCode=HAOW8983

I'm in the middle of your Elixir course right now - it's excellent! I did your first React/Flux course and also the Redux one. Your teaching style works very well for me.

The way I get the most out of it is to pause the video after you outline the project spec, implement the whole thing in my own (bad) way and then watch to see how you do it.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by ldenoue » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 8:37 PM UTC

robinhowlett wrote: post #29

Parsing horse racing PDFs with Java.

Link? I'm working on a new PDF reader that can reflow text and maintain beautiful fonts and graphics from the original

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by Vivtek » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 8:58 PM UTC

franciscop wrote: post #40

I'm learning Japanese and wasn't happy with Anki's interface (+ I wanted to learn about Spaced Repetition), so I decided to do Anchor: http://francisco.io/japanese/ Now I'm cleaning it up a bit to allow to easily switch from courses and considering making it into an app. I also want to make a couple of tweaks to the SR algorithm, but it works great already for my needs.

That's pretty slick! I still haven't found an SR tool that I can stand to work with, but that's clean enough it might do the trick.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by Vivtek » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 8:59 PM UTC

I'm building a robot. Since I've never actually done any hardware work, I'm finding it a mind-expanding experience.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by krapp » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 9:01 PM UTC

Basic project template for compiling SDL2 projects with related libraries and Lua in C++ on Windows: https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/sdl_mingw32

It's a batch file that creates project directories, calls a makefile that builds the thing, and then copies the dlls to the build path. Ugly, and probably wrong in any number of ways I'm unaware of, but it works. Once i'm happy with this, I'm planning to get some basic games cloned in C++ and Unity, using it to generate projects.

Also cloning HN in Hack, but don't expect to see that anytime soon, since I can't find anywhere to host it.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by dividuum » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 9:01 PM UTC

A Lua based Digital Signage tool (written in C/Lua) for the Raspberry Pi. And a complete SaaS platform (mostly written in Python) around that tool, so you don't have to understand neither of them and can get everything up and running in 5 minutes. It's commercially used and growing. And a lot of fun. https://info-beamer.com/pi (the tool/standalone program) and https://info-beamer.com/hosted (the SaaS). Feedback welcome!

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by DeonPenny » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 9:55 PM UTC

I am working on a Universal Banking app called NuBank. It was previously called giveapenny at http://www.giveapenny.co.

Right now I am in closed beta working on some on cleaning up the interface and also planning on giveapenny.co business app that will help business bank more easily.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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Post by Huhty » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 10:10 PM UTC

Snapzu Blog Enhancement Suite: It's essentially a voting community widget that you can embed on your blog to make it a lot more social and engaging. This provides any blog with extra content, extra audience, and additional revenue (with revenue sharing). Right now there are similar widgets out there (Twitter, Pinterest, etc) but most are redundant (showing content that's already on your blog) and not really allowing your audience to participate or engage.

URL: http://blogenhancement.com

Right now were in pre-launch mode (collecting emails of interested bloggers) and are launching all the listed features in about 35 days. This is an add-on to our core community and discussion platform Snapzu (similar to reddit/HN), which has been around for a few years.