Over the holidays I built a site which returns foods with the highest amount of a given nutrient. So for example you can get all the foods highest in potassium, vitamin d, iron, etc.
http:/www.getnutrient.com
Ask HN: What are you currently building?
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#212I'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…
The idea seems very interesting. Would you care explaining how you tackle these issues?
Basically I'm tunnelling on SSL.
I'm close to launch a first version of the service, it's got some already identified issues, but I'd like the customers to tell me what seems to be more pressing to them after using the service.
Anyway, when I launch I'll also write a guide on how do this yourself with open source software. My service would be aimed to those who can't or don't want to maintain their own deployment :)
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#213I'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 tha…
One way to alleviate this concern is to know your audience and not sign up for a product like Mailscope if your audience is privacy-minded.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
I intend to do that too. Why don't we all get on a chat room and work at it?
Let's do this. Feel free to join: https://bettercomputer.slack.com
I've been pondering how to attack the problem of making better UIs for going on 10 years now. Half the time I think I'm completely out of touch and that my ideas are irrelevant (with good reason), the rest of the time I wonder what would happen if I actually tried to implement some of the stuff I've come up with. (I strongly suspect I'd get a rude shock and realize how much iteration would be needed to make it usable, heh.)
I'd love to bounce ideas back and forth, but... agh, a Slack URL. I tried Slack once, felt too stifled, and bolted. The poor team I joined still has no idea where I went or why I left.
I'm torn between asking for an invite and just passing because, ironically, the software being used grates too much (XD)... maybe you could enable the IRC gateway?
One thing at a time though; if you're using Slack, so be it. My public email is in my profile. The private email I'd want to sign up under is different.
Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?
#215I'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…
Why not list pricing?
Maybe pre-launch and pricing not figured out yet?
He mentions that he just started working on it, so he could be in some sort of private beta.
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#216I write software in C# so I took on building an extension to make my life a little easier by allowing different background colors to be applied to methods in classes (Visual Studio) based on the kind of method that they are: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/91cb9cc4-13a3...
Wow, this looks really cool.
Two things.
1. Will this work in Express? I plan to get back into Windows at some point soon, Express is where I'd probably start.
2. Is the vertical function naming thing part of the engine, or did you add that?
I don't think the reference / date / change count thing is part of VS itself. That looks really awesome.
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#217I have been writing a FAT32 driver to understand the FAT32 file system. It is very exciting as this is my first time I am dabbling with file systems. I will be porting this to my baremetal firmware for the MINI2440 SBC.
This tiny thing may be interesting: https://gist.github.com/ryancdotorg/9f557d3513710ce91aed
I stumbled on it randomly several months ago. I suspect that a) it might be interesting to read through and b) might help add resiliency.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool idea! Is it open source?
Yeah, you can find it in my note-taking-experimentation github repo https://github.com/Azeirah/note-taking-experimentation It's in the infinite-canvas folder. Just open the index.html file and it should simply work, as there is no set-up needed yet. Drag + left click = draw Drag + right click = pad the world I'm not planning whatsoever to support or document this. It's open source, but I leave it at that.
Very interesting. For a while I've been meaning to explore the idea of infinite canvases within the context of UI engines - so you can eg have a scrollable region with infinite content in it that gets intelligently cached to disk etc. ("Been meaning to" and "while" are the key words here. :P)
One thing I noted with this is that window resizes seem to affect the stroke width. This is not a bug report, I'm just mentioning in case it's useful to you.
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#219In know its a crowded space but I really wanted to "build my own lightsaber" and design a productivity tool to my custom needs It's based on the google calendar api. It serves the purposes of a calendar, todo list, evernote and emacs org-mode as well as being a really pretty time visualizer. The idea is to be able to visualize your time, from the scale of minutes to decades. It also tracks your "focus", that is- whic…
This sounds very very interesting.
Some suggested ideas for next steps, in ascending order of responsibility and burden:
- Release screenshots for educational/inspirational/as-is purposes (yes please yes please :D I need ideas for exactly this)
- Do a code dump in the style of "Have at it. Updated when I add/fix features I want. I praise PRs and ignore all else. Wanted: maintainer, apply within"
- Reach the point where you're ultimately answering GitHub issues and closing tickets at 2:15AM
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#220I'm building a Flexible Editor - A Flex-Box based layout creator: http://briandiehr.com/#/layout-editor Source: https://github.com/BDiehr/briandiehr
While basic, the tangibility and interactivity this provides would promote flexbox to a lot of people who would otherwise shy away from it.
Definitely a concept worth throwing at /r/css, /r/webdesign, places like that... after it's been tidied up a little. It's still rough around the edges: the thick dashed borders and color scheme could do with a little polish; text and image blocks (both customizable and lorem-ipsum/stock-image-based) would be great; adjusting margin/padding would be a good idea; and being able to add arbitrary CSS declarations (like font-family, color, background, etc) would be good too.