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Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by stuaxo »

Just finished a fun year off concentrating on creative code type projects (and travelling) -

Many improvements to shoebot - (A cairo port of nodebox). Experiments in graphics for python - started a midi mapper / OSC controller in kivy. - learned about bezier curves. - wrote various music vis experiments in shoebot and nodebox-gl. - wrote a couple of simple VJ apps and actually VJd with them. - Experimented with building native android apps using SDL. - Did numerous opengl + shader tutorials (and contributed fixes).

Currently finishing off a sort of 'leaderboard' of chapters for a book writer (to choose the order of the chapters).

A bunch of other things - vext - a way to use libs like Gtk from virtualenv) - time learning about 'boring' stuff, testing, packaging etc.

It's been quite a bit of fun ... hopefully when I start back at work can use some of this knowledge and not be just 100% back on the backend work.

Doing all this has been really good, and if you are a contractor and have the chance I'd recommend doing something similar, have been very lucky !

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by bphogan »

I'm writing http://codecaster.io, a tool for teachers to help students in software development classes. Been working on it for over a year and been using it in my classes. I'm looking for other teachers interested in using it so I can get feedback.

I have plans for pricing, but before I can approach that, I need more data on how people will use it.

For technical folks, it uses Phoenix and Elixir, and a lot of JS.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by danielvf »

simoncion wrote: post #39
danielvf wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good visualization is super helpful. The current levels don't require that much infrastructure. The level descriptions do deceive a little - just figure your own ways to the winning conditions. (I finished level 6. Now building a limit order book in golang for the heck of it)

Urrgh. I should have put up a "Be dreadfully careful with your replies, lest they maybe contain spoilers." warning. Mea culpa. :P

Zero spoilers in my replies, I think. The order book has nothing to do with winning the levels, just for fun.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by chc4 »

I made an image upload site powered by Urbit around Christmas. It's currently very barebones (just image uploading and a feed), but I plan on adding voting and fun stuff like that. Being able to leverage Urbit's built-in identity system and having all messages between browser and server be strongly typed is awesome.

https://github.com/chc4/urporn (the name is tongue-in-cheek, please don't actually use it for porn)

For fun, check out https://github.com/chc4/urporn/blob/master/home/ape/porn.hoo... and see if you can actually figure out what the hell is going on :D

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by olegp »

https://meetabit.com - an easier way to run tech and startup meetups

As the organizer of HelsinkiJS and a new dad I find it takes too much effort to organize monthly events. Meetabit makes this easier by letting companies offer sponsorship & speakers submit talk proposals. All that organizers need to do is pick a date. The service handles sending out invitations, handling registrations, providing a wait list and even getting speakers to add links to their slides after the event.

To see some of the features available, check out the HelsinkiJS community profile: http://helsinkijs.org. If you're an organizer yourself, it would be great to hear from you - just drop me a line via the feedback link in the footer.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by acesubido »

I've been writing a self-hosted Rails application where a company can upload their binaries/product-files for their customers. Having accounts, their customers can privately comment or bring up issues on what releases/products they purchased from the company.

It's somewhat like the "Releases" feature of Github, without everything else. A minimalistic selfhosted-internal-appstore-slash-customer-service-desk if you will.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by miguelrochefort »

I'm rethinking the computer. The hardware, the software, the UI paradigms, everything. Xerox PARC 2.0.

- We must stop writing UI by hand

- We must adopt a new language that's less ambiguous

- We must prefer graphs to trees

- We must not build service-specific apps and websites

- We must stop thinking of computer hardware as a personal device, and make switching from a device to another completely seamless

- Local storage must be nothing but a local cache of sections of the ONE universal knowledge base

- Speech and text must not be the primary way to interact with a machine/AI

- Service providers must never have a say when it comes to UI/UX, as services must be completely decoupled from UI

- Everything is an agent, the system shouldn't make a distinction between human users, AI, smart contracts, APIs, etc.

- There must be no difference between creating software and using software

- Money shall be replaced by a social currency, a form of trust score (based on reliability, honesty and predictability)

- Businesses must adapt their practices and models to software, not the opposite

- Brands must be eliminated and replaced with a trust score

- We must allow for non-precise facts to exist (ranges, set of weighted values, conditional constraints)

- We must allow for non-universal facts (opinions, contradicting values, different weight/credibility based on the user's trust graph)

- "Undo" and "Predict next" functionalities must be ubiquitous and present everywhere

- Intentions and Predictions are communicated by logging events in the future (where the date doesn't need to be precise as allowed above)

- A cooking recipe, GPS directions, task dependencies, a playlist, IKEA directions, a tutorial, must all use the same model

- ...

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by chc4 »

matiasb wrote: post #82

An experimental, proof-of-concept, distributed forum built on top of Ethereum[1]. This means all the posts are cryptographically signed and stored in the blockchain. [1] https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/etherforum

That's awesome! I tried signing up, but it's lagging out my browser a little bit and it doesn't look like any forums are up yet. I'll definitely keep an eye on this though.

Did you post it to /r/ethereum yet? Cuz you totally should.

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