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Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by mindcrime »

A suite[1] of open source tools for organizational knowledge sharing / collaboration / communication that includes:

1. Quoddy[2] - An Enterprise Social Network that uses Semantic Web technology to automatically detect entities in content, and enhance the content and show related content. And much, much more. It's an ESN that is really meant to integrate with other enterprise applications and business events, as opposed to being a simple "facebook clone" dropped inside an organization. We just added OpenMeetings integration so you get audio/video chat and whiteboarding as well.

2. Neddick[3] - Think "Reddit for the Enterprise", but with a lot of features that aren't in Reddit.

3. Some other stuff, but those two are where the bulk of the focus is right now. :-)

[1]: http://fogbeam.github.io/Fogcutter

[2]: http://fogbeam.github.io/Quoddy

[3]: http://fogbeam.github.io/Neddick

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by PublicEnemy111 »

I was pretty far into building a platform for investors to buy portfolio insurance, then I read about Vest this morning(http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/hardware-demo-day/). It sucks to see I'm not the first, but their website reveals the idea still has a long way to go before normal investors adopt it. Most investors don't feel qualified to pick stocks for their own portfolio, so how will they know what type of insurance they need? What happens when this idea scales and option prices become far more expensive as a result? Option liquidity(or lack thereof) is the reason portfolio insurance in the 80's turned to futures for protection. It's a good idea, but I suspect it will take a few iterations :)

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by tolu_olubode »

DanHulton wrote: post #30

I'm working on a receipt-saving service for small businesses/freelancers: https://receiptron.com/ The goal is to make it the easiest way to save receipts. No app to install, no complicated expense report forms to fill out, just take a picture of the receipt with your phone camera, email it to our specially-trained robots, and it gets saved and sorted for you for later.

Sounds pretty cool actually!

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by DanHulton »

Omnipresent wrote: post #38
DanHulton wrote: post #30

I'm working on a receipt-saving service for small businesses/freelancers: https://receiptron.com/ The goal is to make it the easiest way to save receipts. No app to install, no complicated expense report forms to fill out, just take a picture of the receipt with your phone camera, email it to our specially-trained robots, and it gets saved and sorted for you for later.

This is neat. Are you using OCR to extract data from receipts?

Nope, just a specially-formed subject line at this stage. OCR is a neat idea, but I'm trying to do the "launch quickly, figure out the market, build features based on actual customer interest" thing. OCR would be fun to do, but very error-prone, very hard, and not necessarily proven to add as much value as a whole bunch of other ideas that are on the backburner as well.
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