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A very simple, quick movie rating app. Functional but not quite production ready.
Basically I wanted a list of every movie I've ever watched along with a quick star rating, and it was taking too long to go through the other sites or collect in a spreadsheet. I wanted something that I could browse through and very quickly say whether I've watched it.
www.truecaller.com Because 250M users!
250M is a huge number.
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 abo…
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.
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…
We're building merchant and consumer tools for using digital gift certificates on the bitcoin blockchain. Our first use case is to enhance crowdfunding by letting projects sell redeemable gift certificates to backers that can be traded or sold before the product exists.
When you crowdfund Oculus Rift, you get a secure OCULUSRIFT token instead of just a promise. If you change your mind you can sell it to someone else who wants it even before the product releases. Or you can buy 10 at the pre-order price and sell 9 at 80% of the retail price right before the product launches.
This is a side project of mine and has been for a few years. It is very gratifying to get emails from random users telling me how much they love the app (and asking for additional features). Just a couple of weeks ago I added an important feature: the ability to securely share FIX logs.
I'm pretty proud of the fact that the interface is pretty simple, yet hides lots of functionality the users probably don't even notice. For example, the logs you paste can be surrounded by other garbage, such as timestamps or log4j noise and the correct message will still be extracted. It will guess delimiters. Users can drag and drop a file on to the text field. Click on a message (very subtly) highlights related messages. I'm sure I'm forgetting many more.
There is plenty (plenty!) more I could add. Just a small matter of having no time :)
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…
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> What other data set is there that exists state/nationally given we're working with 100,000+ schools? You could try to crowdsource this information, or contact schools in an effort to get them to self report.
True, that has worked well for NPR's Playground app, for example. http://www.playgroundsforeveryone.com/ The two main issues when we've thought of this are: 1) how do you ensure the data is accurate/up-to-date? 2) the graveyard issue where you don't want to show what's NOT on your site. As an example (and I know I'm probably picking on them unfairly) check out GreatSchool's crowd-sourced photos here: http://www.great…
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> What other data set is there that exists state/nationally given we're working with 100,000+ schools? You could try to crowdsource this information, or contact schools in an effort to get them to self report.
True, that has worked well for NPR's Playground app, for example. http://www.playgroundsforeveryone.com/ The two main issues when we've thought of this are: 1) how do you ensure the data is accurate/up-to-date? 2) the graveyard issue where you don't want to show what's NOT on your site. As an example (and I know I'm probably picking on them unfairly) check out GreatSchool's crowd-sourced photos here: http://www.great…