Ask HN: What are you currently building? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by jaisonjustus » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 8:48 AM UTC

benjamincburns wrote: post #59

jaisonjustus wrote: post #15

We're currently building a desktop based time tracking application for ourselves, later we will release to everyone. Our main goal is to bring us back on track on our personal projects. Also billing solution for our consulting work.

Out of curiosity, have you seen Toggl? We use it at work for time tracking and find it mostly quite good. Would be curious to know what's different about your use case.

I had seen Toggl, But not yet used. What's new in my app? that's a good question. Time tracking is one of the main features in the app. but the main focus of the app is to help and keep track of personal projects. Normally in our case, (me & my friends) we have a lot of personal projects. Some are finished, some in prototyping state, some in debt. Now the main problem we are facing is to track and measure the effort that we put in our personal projects. Also, we need to bring back the project to track if it slips away. We observed the reason why your personal projects slip away and we found some reasons. First thing is the issue regarding the management and you are not aware of the effort that you put for the project like the time you took to think, design, structure, code etc. So we thought of an assistance/motivator who take can take care of managing the projects and provide you with vital information which proves that you are progressing. This is purely an experimental project, but we are trying our best to bring good solutions.

This you can still achieve in other apps like toggl or freckle. But they lack the management and we are focusing on the managing part. Once the beta is ready i will send it to you. Happy to get your feedbacks.

peace

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by weddpros » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 9:09 AM UTC

leesalminen wrote: post #134

lowglow wrote: post #61

Playa - Open service exchange for autonomous intelligent agents. https://getplaya.com/

iOS Safari 9 doesn't like your SSL setup and throws a certificate warning. This is usually due to a missing intermediate and/or chained certificate file.

Actually, it's because the DNS name doesn't match that of the cert.

My current side project tells me:

Hostname/IP doesn't match certificate's altnames: "Host: getplaya.com. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:www.baqqer.com, DNS:baqqer.com"

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by drakonka » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 9:44 AM UTC

This isn't something I just started, but I'm going on my third year of building a browser snail simulation.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by snowball2000 » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 10:02 AM UTC

Updating my website which provides services for students in Australia http://www.studentbees.com.au I've added the voat portal to replace the old forums.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by jiahen » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 10:33 AM UTC

I am working on a VR editor for Aframe https://aframe.io/

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by BjoernKW » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 10:53 AM UTC

charlieirish wrote: post #34

I've been having fun the last few months by creating and launching! The latest of which seems to have struck a chord: MailScope http://www.mailscope.io adds profile data to your existing mailing list. Why? Well, if you don't ask for firstname and lastname on signup, you'll get increased conversion. But if you then want to get increased open and click rates when you actually send email, you should start personalizing…

Interesting product. Good luck.

I had similar ideas about automatically enriching subscriber / profiler data but ended up not following them any further because behaviour like this is slightly creepy and might put subscribers off.

From your experience how do you alleviate such concerns? Is there a target audience? For instance, people subscribing to industry newsletters professionally might be less privacy-minded than say people interested in information technology subjects.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by widgetic » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 11:36 AM UTC

Over the past few months we worked on a simple web tool that allows anyone to create visual interactives on the spot.

http://www.vuzum.com/case-studies/widgetic/

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by highsea » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 12:26 PM UTC

http://whentoexchange.com - Know the right time to exchange your money.

Added a bunch of new features, Bitcoin support, etc. over the break.

It’s a website that calculates the best time to exchange one currency for another accounting for the various exchange rates involved.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by rayalez » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 12:32 PM UTC

http://fictionhub.io - the best place to share and discuss fiction.

http://orangemind.io - my personal project, comics series(started only recently).

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by NetStrikeForce » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 12:37 PM UTC

I'm working on a SaaS project to eliminate all the burden with VPN tunnels.

I'm planning to mainly target developers that have resources spread among different providers and need a secure way to either connect to them or connect resources to each other.

It will be easy to setup and seamless to use. You'll just have your VMs connected between them on the same local network, so all your application will seamlessly work with it. This will potentially unlock other ways of architecting your apps.

E.g. you might have some VMs in Amazon and some other in Azure, Linode, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, bare metal in any other hosting provider (OVH?) or locally in your DC. Each of those providers might offer something different and it'll be great if you could just use them all together without opening your services to the whole world or without having to tinker with IPsec VPN tunnels or firewall rules. You just need to create your new network in our system and deploy the client with the provided config file on each of them. I'm making it as simple as providing you with a DHCP server already, so you're ready to go after launching the client. Every machine you join will be part of this virtual network in a completely transparent way.