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Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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

#62
I've been working on a news aggregator since last year that pulls news articles and photos from major news sources, determines which stories are related, and sorts them in a timeline fashion. That allows you to go back and see what the top news stories were on any day in the past, or even month in the past.

http://tracket.com

http://tracket.com/2015/01 (Top stories in January 2015)

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

#63
Toolkit for high-productivity web-development in Go language [1]. Inspired by the concepts of Revel Framework but is implemented in a form of small independent utilities (and relies on `go generate`). Key aspects: No runtime reflection, type safety, compatibility with the standard library, 100% customizability.

[1]: https://github.com/anonx/sunplate

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

#64

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 absolutely brilliant! I might sign up just for my own personal use. That said, when I was a contractor, I would've paid double that for a service like this--if this works as well as it claims, the amount of time saved during tax season would more than justify $100 a year. Edit: Never mind, I thought this worked using OCR. It's still a cool service, but I wrote this comment under that assumption, so unfortunat…

It's still early days. Do me a favour? Let me know: if it worked via OCR, what important information would you want it to pull out? And if I do get that in there, would you want me to let you know?

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

#68
A democratically run publication with no central ownership, built on Ethereum.

Members can propose an album, article or gallery based on a theme/description. Anyone can fund that proposed release, and should if they like the idea and want to see people participate. Any member can submit content to a proposed release. Members can vote on which submissions are the best. Once a deadline is reached, the highest voted content is published. All funds are distributed to the winning content creators. Ownership tokens are created and distributed to all participants.

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

#69
I'm starting a web app that would function as a private space. Something like a combination of the facebook wall where you can post stuff that you want to remember, a journal, notes, to-do's, calorie counter plus some more stuff. It will be modular so you can add the stuff that you want to use and remove those that you don't use.
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