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

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Post by rdoherty » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

Realtime telemetry for race and street cars. Open source firmware, hardware and mobile app. https://github.com/autosportlabs . Our tech is used by many people, from car enthusiasts, to professional race teams to even race boats that go nearly 200mph.

I focus mainly on the website and telemetry infrastructure. It's awesome because we work with people who are passionate about racing, we truly do mean 'realtime' when we say it and we get to race and go to track days :)

Most of the incumbents are using 1990s tech and have 0 web presence. The next available realtime telemetry systems cost > $30k, and ours is $600.

We have some big plans for the future, if you're interested in racing check us out!

https://github.com/autosportlabs - Code

http://www.autosportlabs.net - Wiki

https://www.autosportlabs.com - Store

http://www.autosportlabs.org - Forums

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

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Post by Rainymood » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:24 PM UTC

JamesMcMinn wrote: post #81

Scoop https://scoopanalytics.com Automatically detects breaking news through social media (Twitter). Breaking news, before it breaks. We're often able to beat the mainstream media by several minutes (sometimes hours), and we're particularity good at natural disasters, bombings, explosions, shootings and celebrity deaths. There's no human in the loop, no key word lists, just real-time algorithms figuring out what was…

You guys have access to the twitter firehose?

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

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Post by dtwest » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:24 PM UTC

Narretz wrote: post #196

dtwest wrote: post #29

Menucamp - Online ordering for restaurants ( https://menucamp.com ) Restaurants pay way too much for bad online ordering systems. Menucamp is a simple, inexpensive system that gets the job done.

Some Feedback on the site: "Free demo" makes you register and the description makes it sound like you have to link your account to Stripe right aways. This is quite misleading, imo. "Demo" in my mind doesn't even include registration, it should be a demo of how the service would operate. "Sample Menu" is something that looks like a demo, but it is quite worthless, because it's not a bit interactive. You can't even ad…

The registration description was inaccurate, you don't need to sign up for Stripe right away to look around the members area, thanks for pointing that out. Also, I agree with the free demo comment, I'll change the button to "Sign Up".

The add to cart functionality on the sample menu should work, what browser are you using?

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

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Post by tonyhb » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:25 PM UTC

iamleppert wrote: post #108

Kespry - http://www.kespry.com/ We provide a drone to the (primarily aggregates/mining) industry that can create highly detailed survey quality maps. Our customers can use the data in measuring the volume of their material (stockpiles) and in planning a big project, construction, etc. Basically anything you can imagine someone would need information about a physical location from above. We develop the full stack in h…

This looks amazing.

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

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Post by LLG » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:25 PM UTC

rdoherty wrote: post #211

https://www.race-capture.com Realtime telemetry for race and street cars. Open source firmware, hardware and mobile app. https://github.com/autosportlabs . Our tech is used by many people, from car enthusiasts, to professional race teams to even race boats that go nearly 200mph. I focus mainly on the website and telemetry infrastructure. It's awesome because we work with people who are passionate about racing, we tru…

Does this work for motorcycles as well?

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

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Post by dangrossman » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:26 PM UTC

eps wrote: post #203

dangrossman wrote: post #92

I rewrote https://www.w3counter.com from scratch over the past month, and just put it online two days ago. W3Counter was a 12-year-old website offering web stats reports and hit counters with 30-something-thousand users. I ditched all the old code, and the data model, and the business model, and started from scratch. New framework, new way of storing and analyzing stats that scales better and provides more value, and…

Any plans for a self-hosted version?

No. It wouldn't be very practical, nor very useful. The overlap between people who could self-host it (node.js data collectors, Redis caches, EC2 and Aurora instances, background workers, etc) and whose analytics requirements aren't more advanced than what it offers, is probably nonexistent. There's already a bunch of good self-hosted options out there.

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

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Post by callumlocke » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

pcmaffey wrote: post #200

https://www.bicycl.com Bicycl is a calendar for your life's work. Record what you learn and accomplish each day (or week, month, etc). Organize these micronotes into stories of progress over time. See lots of cool data come to life. Screenshots coming. I'm testing things out right now in beta, but if you want to give it a twirl, I can send out a few invitations to first comers. A couple notes: As someone who's strugg…

Sounds interesting, requested an invite

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

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Post by boyter » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

http://searchcode.com/product/

A downloadable self hosted version of searchcode. I had gotten a lot of requests for something like this and after getting a largish mailing list went ahead and implemented. Slow uptake right now but hopefully in time and with improvements will become more useful for more people.

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

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Post by mixmastamyk » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

doki_pen wrote: post #210

Tubing is a Python I/O library. I've been using it for batch data transformation tasks at Embedly. It's still early and things can still change, but it's starting to stabilize. Tell me what you think about the gross abuse of the __or__ operator. I love it, but if I'm alone, I can remove it, or at least remove it from example code. https://tubing.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Needs an introductory paragraph. Had to read the whole page before I started to understand what it is, and even then it is a bit vague. Looks like piping of data like the shell in python.

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

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Post by bazillion » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

I created a completely new branch of advertising, which basically superimposes advertisements directly over images in a way that actually benefits consumers: http://pleenq.com/.

Here's a demo video (fairly old, have to still update with the latest look): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfKBvs53Ss

Say you have a picture on a blog post showing a car engine, explaining how to fix something inside of it. You could highlight/link all the individual parts in that car to where your users can buy them on O'Reilly Auto Parts, and make a commission each time they make a purchase (affiliate marketing). I think this type of advertisement is 1) beneficial for users for its informative nature, 2) leads to bloggers being able to focus on content instead of worming offputting advertising into their blogs (such as banner ads), and 3) could lead to a more interactive internet where things in any image can be purchased or even just linked to for informative purposes[1].

[1] A video showing how my product could link to wikipedia items: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwmbBa3TPgg

Edit: I appreciate the support votes! Feel free to ask any questions you have. There's also a support forum at https://www.reddit.com/r/pleenq/ if you want to subscribe and follow the progress along as we grow.