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Post by bazillion »

vincentbarr wrote: post #444
bazillion wrote: post #424

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You, my friend, are spot-on with this. It's a part of the long-term plan of PLEENQ, but requires enough market penetration to make sense.

Seems like your offering differs in that it caters to visual inventory and you can segment an image by its pixels to distinguish unique products, which is cool. What sort of customers are using Pleenq so far?

Blogs, a couple online forums, content sites (largest one we're testing on is worldlifestyle.com -- disabled currently) and a couple sites who are building their functionality based on PLEENQ (women's lookbooks, houzz-like functionality, etc.).

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Post by bazillion »

drewm1980 wrote: post #449
bazillion wrote: post #220

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…

It's still impossible to search for a consumer good (say, a refrigerator, or a bicycle), and quickly see what brands are available in what stores in your town, and what they have in stock. Why are so many people in advertising trying to get people to buy stuff when they are just trying to read some article on the internet, while it is still hard to actually buy stuff when you want to and your wallet is wide open?

The vast majority of advertising is very active advertising that is designed to draw your eye to something. The difference between us and them is that this only does something when you interact with the image (hovering your mouse over it). If you don't do that...it's as if it doesn't exist on the page. The state of advertising I want to get to is one where it doesn't degrade the user experience and only enhances it.

While what you're talking about sounds logical, the implementation details of having a live inventory of stores that are local to you are so infeasible, as to be completely ruled out without a huge technology overhaul backing stores. Maybe in the future. But until then, we're here now.

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Post by bgrohman »

imperialdrive wrote: post #318
bgrohman wrote: post #199

The Work Explorer - http://theworkexplorer.com/ It's a personal photojournalism project to learn more about different occupations and the people who work in them. "We spend about 30% of our waking adult lives working. During that time, many of us experience only a small fraction of the available varieties of work. We may have some understanding of the occupations held by our friends, family, and coworkers. Outside of…

Nice work - I enjoyed reading the front page posts!

Thanks!

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

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Post by charlesportwood »

Modern Message Exchange Protocol - https://github.com/charlesportwoodii/mmxp-server

A self hosted, distributed, secure communication "protocol" (server/app) for exchanging messages. Think of it like a distributed, platform agnostic, self-hosted iMessage. MMXP differs from email and other chat systems by encrypting both the message and the metadata. Messages are encrypted and signed using user public keys for verification. The server and application components are open source for transparency.

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Post by kartikkumar »

apawloski wrote: post #436

"Live" views of the Earth from Himawari-8 (a geostationary Japanese satellite). Latest image: http://earth.apawl.com Video of the previous 24 hours at: http://earth.apawl.com/recently Bonus: Video of the eclipse earlier this week. http://earth.apawl.com/eclipse

Amazing views! Have you considered trying to do some sort of change detection based on the image stack?

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Post by ClickQuestion »

tperry98 wrote: post #160

Live Recorder: http://www.undo-software.com Record a process on Linux and save an exact copy of the program's execution; replay it later on a different machine, and step backwards and forwards through the recording at the source level to figure out where it went wrong. There are a few main things that make this possible: - lightweight copy-on-write process snapshots - re-executing (rather than recording) code we know…

This is incredibly cool. I saw http://rr-project.org/ on here recently.

Am I to understand this is basically the same, except you've added the ability to follow along in source code? That sounds very very cool.

What capabilities do you have if no source is available?

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

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Post by ClickQuestion »

blklane wrote: post #293

Churndown: https://www.churndown.com One click to get customer feedback, connected directly to Stripe. Easy to get feedback and reach out to customers about to churn.

How do you decide which customers are about to churn?

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

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Post by lolive »

A visual tool for the Linked Data - http://datao.net/

A visual tool to create SPARQL queries and browse SPARQL endpoints. Plus a Linked Data search engine of all the resources available in SPARQL endpoints.

One more thing : queries created in the visual tool are, when relevant, displayed under each search result, and can be run upon it.

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Post by bobwaycott »

BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #134

Prelude - https://www.getprelude.net/ A progressive web app for improving music sight reading skills. (Also perfect pitch identification ability.) I wasn't happy with my sight reading speed, so I've been building this to help myself practice. Some distinguishing features: - Web MIDI, to connect to a MIDI keyboard you can use to "answer" the practice questions (works in Chrome for Android or Desktop) - Web App Manifes…

That's pretty well done. I really need to practice my sight-reading more.

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Post by bobwaycott »

benjismith wrote: post #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 betw…

Out of curiosity, why an ongoing monthly fee for a desktop app, instead of a one-time purchase?
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