Finally released the paid subscription offer for my web app and got the first customers. http://www.wookmark.com/about/plus
Ask HN: What did you build in March?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#92My first android app. Added multithreaded ability to request slow network resource, ability to issue raw SSL connections + very nice looking GUI. Actually that was a good month re: learning new, and cool stuff.
Would love to check it out, if you can provide a market link!
Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#93I developed http://theindianlist.com using Bootstrap and Rails. Check it out to get ur curry fix.
Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#94Finally released the paid subscription offer for my web app and got the first customers. http://www.wookmark.com/about/plus
You might want to look into your permalinks (/about/about,...).
Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#95I learned objective-C and XCode in my spare time and finally released my first iOS app http://pinboardapp.in
Not very pretty, but I am happy to get off the ground. Now building something more complicated. Hope to see it in "What you built in April thread" :)
Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#96I built http://keepdream.me in 24 hour period based on a whim one day when I woke up. I fully expect to be the only long term user, but it was nice to learn about setting up node/receiving email on Heroku.
Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#97Got tired of all overcomplicated tree plugins for jquery and built my own really simple one: https://github.com/mnilsson/treeish
Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#98I took the month off work and traveled around Japan, Chile, and Argentina.
During my travels, I managed to do quite a bit of work on The Silver Searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher . It's a clone of ack[1], but written in C instead of Perl. I've done a decent amount of profiling[2] to find slow parts and improve the speed. For literal searches it uses a version of Boyer-Moore-Horspool strstr[3]. For regex searches it uses the new JIT compiler in PCRE[4].
Depending on the search, it can be 3-5x faster than ack. And thanks to some contributors this past month, it's now in homebrew and Gentoo portage.
Well, back to the grind tomorrow.
2: Using gprof, valgrind, and Instruments.app. See http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/01/23/making-programs-faster-prof...
3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_sear...
Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#99AutisticTouch.com for the Lehigh Valley Hackathon (hack.lehighvalleytech.org) where my team and I took 1st place overall and tied for crowd favorite.
Re: Ask HN: What did you build in March?
#100I built Filosync, which is a distributed version control system for non-programmers with a very simple UI, because I love the DVCS concept and I think everyone should use it!
http://www.filosync.com