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Post by cprayingmantis »

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…

Hey that's pretty awesome have you thought about applications of this tech in agriculture? Perhaps keeping an eye out on crops and trying to predict yields or crop health?

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Post by nakodari »

Jumpshare - https://jumpshare.com/

An incredibly fast, real-time file sharing app. You drag and drop your files to the menu bar (in Mac) / system tray (in Windows) and a link is automatically copied to your clipboard, ready to be shared. If you're looking for a more personalized way of sharing, you can send the files via email directly from the app with advanced sharing options, such as, expire link after x number of days, views or downloads, or simply disable downloading for recipients.

The app comes with a slew of built-in tools, such as, capture and annotate screenshots, record screen, bookmark, compose notes, and record audio clips. You can upload "any content" from your clipboard using a simple hotkey.

We've built the product in such a way that we can offer the most advanced enterprise level file sharing features to professionals and small businesses at a very affordable price, while also making sharing dead-simple and easy!

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Post by theseanstewart »

Election Runner - https://electionrunner.com The idea came to me after my wife (a High School teacher) told me about how her students complained that the school's election software (Voting4Schools) was hard to use. After doing more research I found that every single competitor in this space sucked (ElectionBuddy, VoteNet), so I decided to build Election Runner. It started as a fun side project, but has taken off A LOT faster than I anticipated. Next step is to hire someone to handle sales to K12 Schools and Universities, but I'm not sure how to start that process.

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Post by cprayingmantis »

hoodoof wrote: post #274

I'm not working on it but one idea is "camp country" in which farmers, country and rural landowners offer their land for camping for a small fee. Anyone this this is a good idea?

It depends. A lot of farmers/landowners don't want random folks on their property but they'd love to have a little extra money. Just so long as the guest review system I'd say go for it.

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Post by jtreminio »

PuPHPet: A web-based GUI that allows developers to quickly and easily create a highly customized virtual machine for local development as well as deployment to any SSH-enabled host in the world.

https://puphpet.com

Instead of having to learn the ins and outs of virtualization, Vagrant and Puppet, you simply fill in some form fields, click a few buttons and download a zip archive containing your choices. A simple `vagrant up` and a few minutes later you have your virtual machine up and running, either on your local machine or on a remote host.

PHP 5.4 - 7.0, Ruby, Node, Python. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo (and more). Apache/Nginx (or none).

Helps eliminate the tired "it works on my machine" excuse by allowing a team to share exact replicas of a VM. Any changes made on one VM can easily be shared with others because it's all driven through a single, simple YAML file. Just check it into your repo and push, and everyone else can then replicate your changes themselves.

It's MIT FOSS and contributors are welcome!

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Post by zvanness »

Scoper - See where you want to be!

http://scoper.video/

Scoper is awesome because instead of watching a random stream, you can request one anywhere, for whatever reason.

An example use case would be if you were going to be moving to a new city that's far away. Instead of making a deposit for an apartment based on pics you find online, you could send a request on Scoper to someone nearby the area you want to move to, get a live interactive stream, where you can talk back and forth with streamer.

Also, Scoper is launching at SXSW: http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/awards/releaseit-at-sxsw

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Post by LAMike »

LAMike wrote: post #275
marketforlemmas wrote: post #269

www.guessthekarma.com It's a simple game where I show you two images from Reddit (SFW of course) and ask you to guess which was more popular. I'm using the data from the site as part of my research into the dynamics on internet popularity. It's awesome because it's showing that Reddit is a pretty random/fickle thing. In the first iteration of the experiment (we're on the second now), people couldn't really do much be…

I'm 3/3 so far! Cool site man

One UI suggestion: make the images bigger!

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Post by jtreminio »

krapp wrote: post #50

I decided, against my better judgement, that I should teach myself Hack (because why not), and by extension, how to set up a Vagrant box (since I'm using Windows and the tutorials I found for that assume Vagrant.) As an experiment, I'm porting over a HN clone I had written in PHP to it. So far, I'm able to get the box working, get the database up and get everything running, and a basic XHP based layout, but the actua…

Hi! I created a tool that may help speed you along! https://puphpet.com

You can spin up a VM with Hack installed and get to learning HAck, not how to manage a VM!

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