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

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Post by paulus_magnus »

A crossover between Google docs with OneNote:

- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934

- handles more complex drawings: (give it time to load) http://write-live.com/d/7fce10bb-bc39-43d4-a7f1-6bd0d60b9550 http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e

- unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...

- Drawings are stored in the cloud, and can be accessed by multiple devices simultaneously: co-drawing, draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab

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

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Post by RussianCow »

DanHulton wrote: post #64
RussianCow wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yeah, that's totally fair, I just got overly excited.

Even just the total would be awesome. I don't mind entering metadata manually, and looking through a picture of the receipt for each line item if I need to do that, but I've love it to automatically capture the total so I can see those at a glance without manually inputting them. Maybe the date, too, but that's less important if I can just take the photo as soon as I get the receipt. (Getting the vendor would be doubly awesome, but I know that would be nearly impossible, so I wouldn't ever expect that.)

I wrote a web app to do this for myself when I was contracting, but I had to manually enter the vendor, total amount, and date for each receipt, which got really tedious. (The process wasn't fast enough that I would do it on the move, so I saved up receipts and did them in batches, which took a lot of time.) I'd love to just be able to take a picture and enter some metadata (probably just vendor and category) and have at least the total be pulled from the receipt, and the date either pulled or defaulted to today's date.

Yes, please let me know if you ever implement OCR! And feel free to contact me directly in general. My email is sasha1rus@gmail.com. In the meantime, I'm going to give this a try as-is. Thank you!

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

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Post by vldr »

A SaaS to make sending (transactional) emails from your (web)app easier. It handles wysiwyg editing, styling, testing across clients, online viewing, attachments, translations and much more for you.

No need to do this in code anymore :)

I just put the landing page online (still needs a bit of work): https://attraction.email

I actually have too much functionality planned - so much is possible once you have a dedicated app for this stuff, I need to scope it down for version 1.

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

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Post by mukesh2687 »

vldr wrote: post #83

A SaaS to make sending (transactional) emails from your (web)app easier. It handles wysiwyg editing, styling, testing across clients, online viewing, attachments, translations and much more for you. No need to do this in code anymore :) I just put the landing page online (still needs a bit of work): https://attraction.email I actually have too much functionality planned - so much is possible once you have a dedicated…

intro-bg.png is 12.8 Mb. killing the browser and taking time to load.

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

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Post by vukmir »

SixBets Predictor - https://sixbets.co.uk

Trying to make a profitable predictor for the English Premier league. Currently, the predictor is profitable on the whole season, but not on the weekly basis.

I've train it on data from the 1992/1993 to 2011/2012 season, and tested it on the 2012/2013, 2013/2014, and 2014/2015 season. In tests, it shows profitability from 4.12 to 8.40%.

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

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Post by charlieegan3 »

gkelly wrote: post #79

A twitter bot for HN, but stories are delayed for 24 hours and then must meet a score threshold. I use it to catch up on news after a few days away from the internet. Bot is hosted on Google within the free quota! I plan to post the source to github eventually... https://twitter.com/icymihn

You might find this interesting too: https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news. I wrote http://serializer.io/ specifically for this purpose. I have 10 as a points limit.

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

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Post by vldr »

mukesh2687 wrote: post #85
vldr wrote: post #83

A SaaS to make sending (transactional) emails from your (web)app easier. It handles wysiwyg editing, styling, testing across clients, online viewing, attachments, translations and much more for you. No need to do this in code anymore :) I just put the landing page online (still needs a bit of work): https://attraction.email I actually have too much functionality planned - so much is possible once you have a dedicated…

intro-bg.png is 12.8 Mb. killing the browser and taking time to load.

Oops, thanks for pointing that out. Should be fixed in a minute.

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

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Post by agnivade »

I have recently built an app which exposes a web interface through which you can add youtube songs. And the app will play them from the queue.

The context is that we have a big hall room and we wanted to play songs from anywhere in the house without being connected to the speaker. Of course, we decided against buying a bluetooth speaker and create something of our own !

Check out the source here -https://github.com/agnivade/youremote. Its built with React + material design UI + golang.

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

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Post by skorecky »

tolu_olubode wrote: post #67
skorecky wrote: post #59

https://stashit.pw/ Stash It is a simple bookmarking tool. Find something interesting on the web? Stash It and come back to it later.

So Pocket? I'm confused?

Kinda, but more features on the way that will separate us more.
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