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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Countism! http://countism.com/ [iOS + Android] Tally counter mobile app with timelines, graphs and averages. Count/track anything and see how you're doing over time. You can even export your data to CSV.

Ah, much more robust than our https://itunes.apple.com/ml/app/watchful-counter/id999352003... , inspired by: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tally-things/id387650080?mt=... Great job!

Thanks! I see you already have an Apple watch app though, so you beat me there :).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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I'm working on PyWE, which is a set of batch scripts that help install and switch between multiple pythons, as well as manage virtual environments. It's inspired by pyenv, but it works in Windows. It's awesome because it's a heck of a lot easier than doing all this by hand

PyWE: https://github.com/monknomo/pywe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes these are proprietary ratings. This is typically the first question we get: how credible/accurate are these scores. Since this is HN I can dive into this a bit more than with a typical parent: -There are fundamentally two data sets in play here, a national one, NCES, that provides basic school information: name, # of students, demographics, etc. And a State data set. - Each state administers their own state asses…

Awesome. It'd be a huge value if you can really help parents understand the scores and how to interpret them instead of giving a flat result with no explanation.

Thanks for this feedback. We will add info on this. Perhaps a high-level overview and then a detailed one for parents that are interested in delving deeper.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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StateBook

http://statebook.com

StateBook aggregates data from a wide variety of governmental and proprietary sources to provide a geovisual platform that companies use to decide where to launch businesses and create new jobs. We have great customers and are looking forward to addressing a broader market.

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post #58

Rddt.tv - http://rddt.tv Reddit.tv was an app to watch videos posted to reddit but shut down back in January. Haven't been able to find a replacement that I liked, so I built my own. Made the videos full-screen by default and added extra stuff like support for Soundcloud embeds (so you could listen to music subreddits), a directory of video-posting subreddits, multireddits, keyboard shortcuts.

Wow, this is such an awesome idea!

I'd never heard of Reddit.tv.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

#77
Working on Market.Space (https://market.space): a competitive monitoring tool. We gather data from a lot of sources (news, social, youtube, apps, etc) and give high-level views of companies and their competition.

I spend nights/weekends working on Turtl (https://turtl.it) , an encrypted note-taking app (Evernote alternative).

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#78
Symmetry Labs! http://symmetrylabs.com/

I'm working on a new paradigm for creating generative content for 3D displays (at the moment with LEDs). I'm also working on real-time, single-angle virtual reconstruction and registration of 3D LED structures using computer vision techniques.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

#80
ScriptCat

http://www.scriptcat.io

Currently it's a "pingdom for ports", and emails you if a new port opens up on your server. I'm working on making it a fuzzer for basic web vulnerabilities that automatically scans your site on deployment. Basically, ScriptCat will be your script kiddie in the cloud.

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