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Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by unclegene » Thu, May 31, 2012, 3:55 AM UTC

Playing (mainly - tuning at this moment) with a new book recommendation engine, http://dozen.softover.com The main challenge/goal here - better than existing big players quality with much less data and resources

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by jianmeng » Thu, May 31, 2012, 3:56 AM UTC

I am working on a canvas based freemind

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by rnochumo » Thu, May 31, 2012, 4:18 AM UTC

jamiecarruthers wrote: post #90

rnochumo wrote: post #17

I just finished building a widget, for beta testing, that startups can grab from my website that has a built in screen recording tool. So once they embed this on their own website they can entice users to record their interactions and it will even pick up on audio feedback as well. You can see the widget on my site http://betapunch.com . The widget is the little punch icon in the right corner of the page. It's not gr…

As an average Joe, I've got no idea why I should click to begin a screencast. What does it do and why should I do it?

Good point. I know it's not crystal clear and that is largely my fault because I see it every day. I am hoping the newer style widget will clear things up maybe. The startup is allowed to customize an incentive when they get their widget code to display on their site. The purpose is to get something from the startup as a reward for beta testing their app. (A free upgraded plan, or some swag etc.)

Video recorded feedback has been proven to be much better than text based feedback. Why write out a problem and have something get lost in translation when you can show them and talk them through it?

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by ericclemmons » Thu, May 31, 2012, 4:28 AM UTC

An internal (for now) local web app that provides 1-click installs for our numerous Github-hosted projects, applications, and Wordpress blogs using Vagrant, Capistrano and PhantomJS (environment, deployment, and change notifications, respectively).

Also, using AngularJS.

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by unclegene » Thu, May 31, 2012, 4:30 AM UTC

grokcode wrote: post #69

I'm building a book recommendation engine. You rate books you have read and we recommend other books you might like. We don't care about anything that doesn't improve the quality of the recommendations, so no book clubs, no author blogs, no user book lists... http://authoralcove.com

Funny, how many people try to build the same thing? :) Just posted here about my practically the same project, http://dozen.softover.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by kamaal » Thu, May 31, 2012, 4:36 AM UTC

tikhonj wrote: post #12

I'm working on what I call "semantic version control". Namely, instead of diffing and merging text, the goal is to parse the program and diff/merge the AST. EDIT: A better way to state the goal: I want to take advantage of the underlying structure of a computer program to inform the diff/merge. The first step just happens to be diffing ASTs, but I go beyond this. I already have some neat features--for example, I can…

I was just wondering what would be the use cases of this.

I mean to say code version control really is text version control. The whole idea is to track the changes, the cause for the change and who changed with some history. Added with this ability to do other code release related changes like revert, merge etc.

What is the use of semantic version control?

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by kamaal » Thu, May 31, 2012, 4:37 AM UTC

chromatic wrote: post #77

I'm building a site that performs discounted cash flow analysis of stocks. Most of the existing work in this area comes from people selling custom spreadsheets. I think there's a good chance to disrupt that market, especially by combining it with education and a notification component.

I understood everything apart from 'discounted cash flow analysis of stocks' Can you please explain in plain English what that means?

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by kemalta » Thu, May 31, 2012, 5:19 AM UTC

I'm working on two iOS components. The first one is RadioTunes SDK(http://radiotunessdk.com) which is a radio streaming framework for iOS with http/mms support. The second framework is PDFTouch SDK(http://www.binpress.com/app/pdftouch-sdk-for-ios/859?ad=5107), a fast and customizable framework for rendering PDF files.

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by sathish316 » Thu, May 31, 2012, 5:19 AM UTC

I'm making an app to create json apis from any publicly available small datasets and share them with others. Think of imdb top 250 movies, wikipedia list of tv show episodes, periodic table etc. I'm still working on making it fast. For preview check out http://apify.heroku.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you Building?

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Post by rmATinnovafy » Thu, May 31, 2012, 5:29 AM UTC

I'm building a digital magazine called !session. It targets the HN crowd, with a touch of marketing. It debuts soon. Keep posted for the announcement.