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

#401

ScreenSquid: http://screensquid.com/ Record the screen of every visitor to your website. Helps you see exactly what users are doing and understand where they're having trouble. Works on every website including Angular, React, AJAX, and private user pages.

Do services like this exist already? And if so, why did are you working on it. (asking as curious)

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#402
http://kitchenillness.com

Only for the UK minus Scotland (Sorry, Scotland!). It maps hygiene ratings for food establishments.

http://thismuchlonger.com

This one not so recent although I do plan on revisiting. Essentially it is a motivational tool by visually representing the number of days you have left to live with dots. A morbid motivational tool. I use it quite a lot personally, and the few number of dots never seizes to amaze me.

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#403

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 high…

Interesting.

This reminds me of VigLink and other players in the space that essentially sell link inventory to e-commerce companies. For example, you mention Microwave Model #3023 in a blog post, create a hyperlink, and then e-commerce companies selling Microwave Model #3023 bid on each new visit to point the destination URL to their product page.

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

#404
I'm working on an incentivized mesh network. Basically, routers pay each other to forward packets. A routing protocol takes price into consideration and tries to get packets over the cheapest routes. Intermediary routers pay each other over payment channels. End users pay backbone connections with multihop (lightning) payments over the payment channels of the intermediary nodes.

End result is that last-mile ISP's are replaced by individuals with network equipment on their roofs, "mining" the airwaves.

http://www.altheamesh.com

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

#405
A simple, plugin-based system for monitoring systems on a small scale. The idea is to make it super fast to make plugins that either monitor something or send data about what monitor plugins said through another service. It's not intended to be a full-fledged monitoring application, just a "send me a push notification if x breaks" sort of deal.

I use it myself since for my personal things I don't need a full fledged application like Nagios, I just want to get told if something like a hard drive fails. Right now there's plugins for checking systemd services, drives, IP address, sending data to/from other heartbeat instances (super janky), sending notices through pushbullet, dweet.io, blinkstick, and pulling URLs.

https://github.com/thenaterhood/heartbeat

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#406
I make a word-processor for fiction authors: http://www.shaxpir.com

There's a quick walkthrough video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFG8fpYkDxA

Every project includes a notebook alongside your manuscript, where you can organize all your character notes, plot outlines, etc. It's especially great for scifi or fantasy authors who do a lot of world-building.

Everything is stored in the cloud and synchronized between devices, and we keep a version history of all your edits, so that you never lose any of your work (even if you change your mind).

It keeps track of your daily word-count, so that you can set daily writing goals and stay motivated, and it lets you export your writing projects to HTML for publication (epub & kindle export are coming soon).

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

#408
ToroDB - https://github.com/torodb/torodb

It's both a NoSQL and SQL database in the same place. Has the best of both worlds.

Speaks the MongoDB protocol, stores the data in PostgreSQL.

You no longer have to choose either Mongo or PostgreSQL: you can have both!

There is a lot of detail on this recent FLOSS Interview: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/377?autostart=fa...

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

#409
I've been enjoying doing literate programming using org-babel inside of Emacs.

Writing literate programs allows me to easily keep my code and documentation synchronized. I make a update in one place and generate my "README.md" and project files from that one document.

Here is a sample application that I wrote to demonstrate OIDC: https://github.com/jpf/okta-oidc-beta

And here is another sample application I wrote to demonstrate implementing SCIM: https://github.com/joelfranusic-okta/okta-scim-beta

(All of the files in both of those projects are generated from the README.org file)

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

#410
A retro inspired computer, based on a 40 Mhz DLX/MIPS CPU, it got 640x480 1 byte per pixel graphics, Blitter, Sprites, DMA sound, raster co-processor. SD card as storage.

Written in VHDL, running a simple DOS like "OS" based on Lua. GCC cross compiler on Linux for writing demos/games and other fantastic software, for the Amiga killer of yesteryear :)

Hopefully with a 3D printed case and open source plans, everyone can build one in a few years :)

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