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Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by NhanH »

I'm building Stripe/Balance for Calendar, taking inspiration from one of the "Idea Sunday" in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582524).

The idea is to provide a simple API that allow you to store data with timestamp (event) and calendars, handling all the plumbing that comes with timezone and date time in general. While providing simple utility like web hook and cron job, or simple calendar html widget.

It's not ready yet, and we're aiming to be launching at the end of this year. But I'd love to hear what features you would be interested in using, or what kind of use cases we could provide value for. My email is in profile if anyone want to talk about it.

If you're interested, please leave your email on http://plaid.launchrock.com/ , and I will let you know when the API is ready!

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by karimhossenbux »

http://llumage.com - a place for my girlfriend and me to share our photos. Free stock for commercial and personal use, or do what ever you want with it! Not really a big project... but it was fun to show to my girlfriend how to built something easy.

I'm slowly building my third theme for themeforest too since month...

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by ivanca »

richev wrote: post #8
ivanca wrote: post #6

http://cutcss.com Creating responsive CSS with flexible layouts is still ridiculously hard, mostly done by hand and I want to fix that with a GUI.

I think you have a small layout bug on your website: When you mouseover the animated stick man at the bottom of the page some text pops up, but it's in the top-left corner of the page and half off the page (tested in IE11, Chrome and Firefox).

I told you CSS is hard haha. Thanks for the heads up, it's now fixed.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by galenko »

boksiora wrote: post #36

Me and few more guys are working on Microweber, drag and drop CMS in PHP. https://microweber.com/ Its also open source https://github.com/microweber/Microweber

I'm assuming that you're sort of doing the wordpress.org/.com model with paid hosted and free, open source self hosted options, right?

I did spend a few minutes on the site figuring this out.

imho the free trial is too close/similar looking to the download now and unless you know how wordpress plays, this can be confusing. Also, the fact that you can donate to the same site you have to pay for is a little weird.

Wordpress has a clear separation for a good reason.

I'm not saying what you're doing is wrong, I just think how it's presented can be improved upon.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by galenko »

hunvreus wrote: post #54

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck. Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git. To illustrate my point: - Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/ - The…

Helping with setup is great, but config is where the real pain is. So maybe some pre-defined config files? Or a generator of sorts? So if I have a nginx or apache web server and I spin up a 16gb DO instance just for that, the config by default would actually use all of the ram, instead of being capped to small defaults.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by porker »

hunvreus wrote: post #54

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck. Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git. To illustrate my point: - Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/ - The…

If this could replace PuPHPet and other Vagrant-config-generators out there I'd be interested. Finding PuPHPet very buggy, and something that 'just works' to quickly set up local dev machines would be very cool

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by hunvreus »

galenko wrote: post #65
hunvreus wrote: post #54

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck. Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git. To illustrate my point: - Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/ - The…

Helping with setup is great, but config is where the real pain is. So maybe some pre-defined config files? Or a generator of sorts? So if I have a nginx or apache web server and I spin up a 16gb DO instance just for that, the config by default would actually use all of the ram, instead of being capped to small defaults.

We have default settings for the services you add to your servers, but you can tune everything. Look at our Nginx doc for example (http://docs.devo.ps/services/nginx/), you can set up pretty much anything. The example section also shows you what config file we generate (if you're interested in this).

We give you all the tools to manage your infrastructure: provisioning, configuration management, variable management and automation.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by hunvreus »

porker wrote: post #67
hunvreus wrote: post #54

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck. Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git. To illustrate my point: - Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/ - The…

If this could replace PuPHPet and other Vagrant-config-generators out there I'd be interested. Finding PuPHPet very buggy, and something that 'just works' to quickly set up local dev machines would be very cool

We're already using the Vagrant export feature internally and testing it with a few developers. It's still not as automated and smooth as we'd like (requires 1 manual step).

Our plan is to enable you to add a repo, define your infrastructure and be able to move anything to any type of cloud provider (move from Rackspace to AWS? Search and replace, git commit, git push and voila). The VM export should be in in the next few weeks and allows you to point at a server to be built as a VM and available on S3.

Come nag me in the chat: https://www.hipchat.com/gyHEHtsXZ. Happy to add you as a beta tester for this feature.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by hashtag »

ashraful wrote: post #3

http://www.hackerlunch.com I am working on an iOS app that lets hackers meet up with each other and have lunch. I moved to San Francisco from Bangladesh last year and found it tough to meet other hackers. Being rather introverted, tech meetups didn't really work for me. I felt that a one-on-one meetup would be ideal. So that's what I'm building. I'm hoping to launch within a few weeks. If it sounds interesting to you…

Reminds me of letslunch.com
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