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Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by gbog »

cj wrote: post #48
andrewlouis93 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is sick. I haven't looked into other website localizing solutions, but how is this approach better than what's currently being used in industry?

The traditional localization approach is very time intensive, and requires a large time commitment to implement properly. Localize.js automates most of the localization process, which lets you localize your site in ~10% of the time it would normally take. The traditional way you'd localize a website is by replacing text in your template files with string keys. For example: Hello world! . becomes... {{ t 'homepage.hel…

Can't check your site because I'm on a phone. I would interested to know how you solve this issue.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by cjbarber »

dang wrote: post #14

All: it's not clear yet whether we should have "Screenshot Saturday" and "Idea Sunday" as regular features, or whether they should be weekly if we do. Happy to hear arguments pro and con, though perhaps not in this thread. (Edit: On second thought, we might as well discuss it here and keep it at the bottom.) If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the…

I'd like to propose a Problem Thursday's, in addition to Idea Sunday.

Topic: What problems are you experiencing that you want solved? IMO this is more conducive to creation of solutions and idea generation than Idea Sunday.

1) Sharing of problems doesn't impose any constraints on the solution, allowing readers to identify their own solutions (and thus feel more attached to the potential solution). To explain another way, my hypothesis is that people would rather come up with their own idea (aka solution) to a stated problem, than build out someone else's idea of a solution. (Even if the leap from problem -> solution is one cognitive cycle and nothing revolutionary).

2) I'd rather see people solving problems

All that said, the Idea Sunday thread is great, too.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by maresca »

LottoLane / http://www.lottolane.com

Lottery Pools for the 21st Century. LottoLane handles all aspects of lottery pools. Keep friends/family/colleagues in the loop with upcoming drawings. Track who has paid to play. Share pics of tickets with pool members. Find out if you've won instantly after a drawing without checking the numbers yourself.

Screenshot of a lottery drawing page:

http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png

Screenshot of sending emails to users:

http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by holic »

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bglsyo0tnwp6ddd/Screenshot%202014-...

I needed a better way to visualize upcoming music events at a given location, filtered by genre.

This is a project I've been working on bit by bit over the last few years, has been rewritten several times, and is about to get a design overhaul once the functionality is finished (getting close!).

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by jw2013 »

gittribute (http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/)

Gittribute saves your time on getting help on your open-source project. Need help on your project? All you need is to add one line on your Github project's README.md & click your link there, and then everyone in the world will see you need help and they will find you.

It is under MIT license here: https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute

I want to post a screenshot, but currently there is only one project listed on the website, so may be it is better if those interested care to check the website itself: http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by w4 »

Auto Miles: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic-mileage...

It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on custom tax system support for international users since a bunch of users are looking for it, plus a bunch of minor bug fixes (ugh):

https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png

As an aside, I would kill for iOS to have a static maps API like Google does. MKMapViews are way too resource intensive to have multiple on screen at a time like Auto Miles needs, and I found MKMapSnapshotter to be really finicky and still use too much memory.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by seizethecheese »

dang wrote: post #66
seizethecheese wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One pro argument is that if the quality of these goes down hill they will fail to make the front page anyway, so what's the down-side?

I suspect that's wrong and that they'll make it to the front page regardless.

Wrong from whose perspective? It's strange that "wrong" things make it to the front page. By definition wouldn't that make them "right?"

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by brudgers »

dang wrote: post #14

All: it's not clear yet whether we should have "Screenshot Saturday" and "Idea Sunday" as regular features, or whether they should be weekly if we do. Happy to hear arguments pro and con, though perhaps not in this thread. (Edit: On second thought, we might as well discuss it here and keep it at the bottom.) If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the…

It seems like positive activity and reduces the pressure to try and game the 'Show HN' mechanism.
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