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Post by angeliquetoque »

I'm 19 and I launched in January a productivity app Proud (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proud/id891726847?l=pl&ls=1&...) My main mission is just simply help people organize their life, goals in the easiest way. Proud contains all the best tools in one place. - through reminders we teach people how to create habits and routines. - timer lets you track your time workflow and remind you about the breaks. - destress superpower lets you be present for a while, tibetan bowls influence your thoughts and emotions. - weekly performance dashboard shows you how many tasks you did in the last 7 days.

I believe that our greatest asset is time, so we have to learn how to manage it to grow day by day.

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Post by brobinson »

cprayingmantis wrote: post #281
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?

My first thought was futures trading. I've heard of people using their own private satellites to do something similar. There was a company in SF building and launching small, shoebox-sized satellites inexpensively which could be used for it.

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Post by booleanbetrayal »

I have been working on a product called Smartly (https://smart.ly) for a couple of years now. It's an interactive learning platform aimed at teaching in short, mobile-accessible, "bite-sized" chunks. While the platform itself is novel in several aspects, the real value is in the content, which centers around a business / career development curriculum. We've landed on a business model which makes this content entirely free to individual learners, which is pretty awesome, I think! Please feel free to check it out.

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Post by necrodome »

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…

Comparison between old and business model? Was it worth it to rewrite?

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Post by konschubert »

I am working on a useful and compatible micropayment standard: https://konstantinschubert.github.io/pennytoken-spec//

I know this has been tried before and it will probably fail but I think the benefits are too plentiful to not try it.

I am also working on an example implementation: http://pennytoken-service.boosted.science/

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Post by Flammy »

wsvincent wrote: post #36

EdScore - A school ratings website for parents. https://edscore.org/ GreatSchools has a monopoly in this space but their 1-10 ratings scale is opaque and their website hard to navigate. EdScore has a more granular 50-100 rating scale, modern search, better mapping, and soon will feature search filters by distance and home price so parents can evaluate, say, top schools within a 1hr commute of SF with a median home pr…

Some quick feedback:

When a user clicks on a map indicator, the school name (at minimum) should be a link to open the full description

It would be nice to have either a search next to the filter (so searching only within the city) or have the main site search maintain location. I expect a very significant % of your users will be looking at a single location, or at least one at a time.

It is a bit weird to start with a zoomed out view of a city and only have a few schools marked. Perhaps having lots of small indicators?

Might be interesting to hook in say sity or zip code demographic info from the census bureau

'Average household income' and other stats like it... I see a place for them on the site, but probably don't need to dedicate the screen real estate to them.

Just a few points from a quick overview.

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Post by GavinB »

I just had my first novel released this month! It combines gaming and literacy for kids. It's themed around the idea of "becoming a player character in your own life." The main character, Josh, uses the ideas of experience points, quest hooks, and allies to get ahead in his life.

http://amazon.com/Josh-Baxter-Levels-Gavin-Brown/dp/05457729...

The reviews so far have been great, saying that it's "Smartly paced and emotionally engaging" (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gavin-brown/josh-...) and from "an author who gets his audience and knows his games (http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-545-77294-5)."

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Post by fatlasp »

yoha wrote: post #259

Spyce: Python in outer space! Basically, a very much work-in-progress pile of code to plan orbital trajectories and interplanetary travel. Its also quite handy when doing simple computations: >>> # distance to the Sun, in light-seconds >>> Earth.orbit.semi_major_axis / c 499.00650691887006 >>> # Martian year, in (usual Earth) days >>> Mars.orbit.period / Earth.solar_day 686.9944644093075 >>> # ping to New Horizons (l…

Very cool - going to hand this off to some of my colleagues to play around with

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Post by stunthamsterio »

Rezo wrote: post #336

Cloudcraft - https://cloudcraft.co It's a free tool for creating AWS architecture diagrams in an isometric style. You can snap together AWS services as if they were LEGO blocks. The latest development is that you can now scan an actual live environment and import your real resources. Right now (when not reading HN...) I'm working on making the grid infinite, adding zoom & pan, so it becomes usable for really large ar…

That's all kind of awesome - I'd pay some good money for a more generic version of the tool allowing me to draw out infrastructure for my clients that self host.

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Post by pcmaffey »

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…

Wow, thanks everyone for signing up. I was planning on sending out a few invites by hand... Yeah, so now I'm in the middle of writing up a script.

I'll send out the first batch of invitations here in a little.

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