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Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by ejcx »

jwcrux wrote: post #42
ejcx wrote: post #37

I've already built it and I am finalizing website copy, static pages, etc before launching. I built network 'canaries', for lack of a better word, that do a couple things. 1) They emulate popular services, Web Server, FTP Server, MySQL server. 2) They provide you with information and alert you when other machines talk to it (for example, it will give you information from a POST request on a page that has a password f…

I'd be interested in hearing more about it and how it compares to other established honeypots (e.g. Kippo). Is there a place I can go now to learn more?

I have a logging and alerting aspect with email/SMS, as well as way more types of services than just SSH.

Mine are also easily hackable from a developer standpoint. People who buy it can easily add new alerting and logging servers of their own.

Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by AnkhMorporkian »

tommoor wrote: post #30
AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #23

I've had a project in mind for a while, and I've built a prototype for my own use, but I'm looking into creating a public version of it. A unified package tracking website. Put in some tracking numbers, get a centralized list, get status updates for all your packages from a single source. There's one site I've found that sort of does this (packagetrackr.com), but quite frankly it's awful. I also have some ideas for p…

Not discouraging your prototype/project at all, but make sure to check out http://www.aftership.com - service works really well for lots of different couriers :)

Seems to be a slightly different concept. That seems to mainly be for shippers, whereas mine would be for receivers. Also, their pricing seems a little absurd, I'm pretty surprised they have such big name customers.

I still think my project would be viable though, since it would have a free plan with unlimited packages.

Thanks for the heads up about aftership. If nothing else, it'll be a good way to get a list of carriers I should look at supporting :)

Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by ejcx »

needcaffeine wrote: post #48
ejcx wrote: post #37

I've already built it and I am finalizing website copy, static pages, etc before launching. I built network 'canaries', for lack of a better word, that do a couple things. 1) They emulate popular services, Web Server, FTP Server, MySQL server. 2) They provide you with information and alert you when other machines talk to it (for example, it will give you information from a POST request on a page that has a password f…

I love this! Is there any way I can follow your work/progress?

Hey I really appreciate the interest. If you email the email address in my profile I'll make sure to get you set up for free when I'm set up in the next month.

The same "email for free access" offer goes for anyone else who is interested as well. Please email me and I would be glad to get you set up with an account.

Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by TACIXAT »

I'm finishing up the mobile site for https://socialite.ooo, looking to start dropping invites in a few days. I started it New Years last year, so I'm stoked that I was able to get it to launch in one year of moonlighting.

I have a basic fitness app I want to build, should be super easy, hopefully be able to crank it out in January. A friend pointed out the idea while on vacation, there are no other apps for this on Android or iOS. I'll be giving that friend half of the profit as a thanks for the idea.

February, start working with a former colleague on a business idea, we haven't decided which idea yet though but we have a few that have potential. Finally working on something security related in my spare time.

Do two classes per semester (after work). That should let me finish my masters by June 2017. Then my girlfriend and I can get off the east coast to somewhere warmer.

Save more money. Buy less stuff. Present at some security conferences.

Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by ejcx »

amirmc wrote: post #47
ejcx wrote: post #37

I've already built it and I am finalizing website copy, static pages, etc before launching. I built network 'canaries', for lack of a better word, that do a couple things. 1) They emulate popular services, Web Server, FTP Server, MySQL server. 2) They provide you with information and alert you when other machines talk to it (for example, it will give you information from a POST request on a page that has a password f…

Congrats! This is quite interesting and I look forward to seeing the site. Have you come across CyberChaff [1]? It seems like you may have similar goals. CyberChaff makes use of HaLVM [2] so this approach (using unikernels) seems like it might suit you too. I've put together a website to help gather the unikernel projects [3], so if you choose to consider this approach for your next round of work, please do share you…

Thanks a lot. I'm familiar with those projects and while v1 of my project doesn't use it it would be amazing to use it for the higher interaction canaries/honeypots I build.

Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by NoughNo »

Augmented Graffiti: A mobile app where users draw and post images to any surface, which are able to be viewed through the camera by those in the user's social network.

I've been a bit afraid to start this (or any) side project due to my time consuming bad habits. However 2016 is the year for me, and you.

Best of luck everyone.

Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by nemild »

suhail wrote: post #36

I'd like to expand my knowledge in machine learning/AI. I am not that great at math so this will push my boundaries a bit. I am on chapter 2 of this: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap2.html Ultimate goal is to be able to intuitively see valuable places where machine learning would actually be useful in solving problems people have in the world. I'd like to be able to debate ideas with people that know ML…

You might enjoy Andrej Karpathy's work as a supplement as well:

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/ http://cs231n.github.io/

Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by gremlinsinc »

simonswords82 wrote: post #15

I'm going to continue to get out of the way of my team who do an awesome job running http://www.staffsquared.com which we started three years ago. Using the time this frees up I'll be launching http://www.thingsclick.com and doing some consultancy bits for various companies helping with their digital marketing.

Both services look pretty awesome, I wouldn't mind giving thingsclick a try on some projects, I'm notoriously bad at testing my apps.

Re: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Post by gremlinsinc »

Finishing and working on getting more traffic to : http://startupwrench.com -- Also get some advertisements going, and hopefully build out the job-board. Right now, to get the first 5 jobs there's a coupon code: Firsties if interested go to: http://jobs.startupwrench.com 65% off.

It's already bringing in some adsense money, and I'm not sure how much on affiliate programs, as they are a little harder to track and see as they are a bit over the place, maybe I'll try to use curl and pull in data from the aff programs. But the job-board could be a gold mine.

I'm also wanting to start a service where users can submit their startup and we push it out to all the startup listing directories like startupli.st and producthunt, and tweet/dm and email a bunch of tech blogs, kind of like a PR blast just for new startups and apps. I'd want to make it as automated though to lower profit margin, rather than doing everything by hand.

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