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Devpost Teams - http://devpost.com/teams We're trying to give developers a better look at dev teams & answer their most common questions about dev process, benefits, who else works there, what it's great, etc -- before they apply.

Really nice! Good luck to you guys.

thanks! any suggestions / ideas for improvement?

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I'm spending some time creating a logo generator tool targeted at idea/early stage products and companies, or for side projects, open source projects, etc. It's called Logocaster - https://logocaster.com Logocaster is meant to help you explore a huge universe of logo designs when brainstorming your brand/logo. It makes it quite easy to scan a bunch of style/font/palette options and then "drill down" and see designs w…

Dude, that is perfect timing! We need a logo for NeuralObjects (see my other thread here), so this is great for us.

I'd totally pay for this if you had your Stripe integration going. But since you don't, I can offer this: if you plan to use Machine Learning for anything, shoot me an email and I can offer up a discount or something once NeuralObjects is live, or maybe some free consulting or something.

Do you have a feel for how the pricing is going to work yet? Will you charge per logo, or will it be a monthly subscription, etc? FWIW, I'd definitely be willing to pay a monthly fee if it came with unlimited (or a large number) of downloadable logos. I say that not because I need zillions of logos, but because I think you'll always want to iterate and experiment with a lot of different permutations until you find the "Just right" fit.

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

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CPAP.com

Unlike 98% of the industry, we sell CPAP equipment for cash prices. This means that you, not the insurance company, are the respected and valued customer.

The "cash CPAP" space means:

1. A market incentive to build people first instead of billing code first products.

2. A market comfort items that would never be produced in a billing code world.

3. A system where it pays to pick up the phone and know all about the product you are selling, which is different from the model where I ship it, bill it and don't get paid to support it.

4. $189 CPAPs (way cheaper than your copay and deductible through insurance) and $1000 machines (way better than what an insurance provider could give you profitably). The best of both worlds, whatever you need it available.

Insurance is great for heart surgery and awful for OTC and sub $1000 medical products. We don't think that change is understood in our healthcare debate and we've built a sustainable market that is the change we want to see.

When we're done, people with Sleep Apnea will have access to buy CPAP stuff like they buy Amazon stuff and they won't think twice about it. It'll "just" work and be nothing special. That may not be as sexy as building a drone or going to Mars, but fixing a chunk of healthcare is difficult and worth it. If we can do it, and we will do it, we'll have a huge and lasting impact.

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I'm working on UbNb (www.ubnb.com) which is "AirBNB for Uber" or "Uber for AirBNB" (not sure which is which). Elevator pitch: UBNB.com lets you rent someone else's car to stay in for the night. Optionally you can request food service and in this case the concept also ties in delivery hero in which the car you rent is being used for pizza delivery at the same time. The company tag line is "UBNB, sleep well, travel wel…

that's actually brilliant - possible way to stay somewhere cheap, but be safe and protected from the weather! could also help with the homeless problem

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I created http://www.get3w.com with golang and js, and just put it online couple days ago. Get3W is Github for websites, combines site editor and web hosting. the vision is to build a creative community for discovering, sharing, and creating inspiring website. The most awesome part for me was static page editor. Get3W can edit static page(html, css, js) WYSIWYG.

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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…

I'd love an invitation too.

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https://whoishiring.io It started as HN's "Who is hiring" thread but on the map and with better search. Mainly to solve the mess with suff like: SOMA, SF, valley, San Francisco, there is way too many ways to describe this one location ;) Also there not much of a difference when you are looking from Europe if it's Palo Alto or San Francisco. Although right now it is more than that, I've wrote parsers for 8 major IT re…

"SOMA, SF, valley, San Francisco, there is way too many ways to describe this one location ;) Also there not much of a difference when you are looking from Europe if it's Palo Alto or San Francisco."

I would venture that the lifestyle is far different from one or the other, and that "valley" is distinct from the other three terms you list. Similarly if I'm looking at Dublin or Kildare there's a pretty substantial difference.

However, your site is AWESOME and I use it often. Thanks for making it!

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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.

Maybe not so computerish, but it reminded me of the Biathlon World Championship 2016 Title Sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1jHiptBZoo

Result: https://youtu.be/a1jHiptBZoo?t=594

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

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Hook Forms – https://hookforms.com

Super simple form processing that starts attacking spam the moment a user (or bot) hits your page. Captchas, no matter how "smart" are no longer necessary with Hook Forms.

Just generate a form, copy the id into your own tag, embed the JS and it starts working.

See all form submissions in one place, and have people emailed any time a form submission passes our crazy spam checks.

We're in beta for a very short time and almost going live, so TRY IT FOR FREE and let us know what you think!

Thanks YC :D

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