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Post by Semaphor »

dreadpirate wrote: post #372

http://dreadtv.com Tracks my/your favorite TV shows. I got tired of googling "Dr Who episodes" whenever I wanted to know if the next half-season was starting soon, or to see whether any more episodes remained before a hiatus. So I built a thing which monitors the data from Wikipedia episode list pages, normalizes it, and lets you easily view what's airing recently / soon. Also sends an (optional) email each week list…

There is followshows.com, I've been using it for over a year now and it has quite some features including an Android app. Do you wanna pitch your site vs them?

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Post by betimsl »

scottbez1 wrote: post #454

DIY open source hardware split flap display: https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap It's one of those cool mechanical displays that were common in train/airport terminals before digital signage took over. Demo video of my prototype so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslkflVv-Hw

Amazing. Though, downside of this is weight.

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Post by touristtam »

__mp wrote: post #195

I work on the 1km short range and on the 2km medium range probabilistic weather model at MeteoSwiss that is scheduled to go operational this month. It is awesome because MeteoSwiss is the first national forecaster that is going GPU for their full forecast. See: http://www.cscs.ch/publications/press_releases/2015/meteoswi... My line of work mainly consists of porting Fortran code of the Dynamical part of the model to…

That look like a very interesting field, thanks for sharing. :)

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Post by betimsl »

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…

Very cool thing.

One thing that I didn't see and would be easy to implement is a map of connections between objects such as characters with the chapters etc. It'd be great for the writer to see such connections in a visual way.

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Post by touristtam »

wirddin wrote: post #534

I'm working on Shuffl, a virtual jukebox which allows you to start a collaborative music station for your party where your guests can see the current playlist, vote on the tracks and add their own track. Here : http://shuffl.in

How do you create the virtual jukebox? I take that a lambda user has to have the necessary software to play the music and this is 'just' a voting system.

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Post by wirddin »

touristtam wrote: post #555
wirddin wrote: post #534

I'm working on Shuffl, a virtual jukebox which allows you to start a collaborative music station for your party where your guests can see the current playlist, vote on the tracks and add their own track. Here : http://shuffl.in

How do you create the virtual jukebox? I take that a lambda user has to have the necessary software to play the music and this is 'just' a voting system.

Once you create a hub, it fetches top songs from iTunes and starts playing from YouTube. All the songs added by users from their devices are then added as song meta data. I'm planning on making the YouTube player visible and adding soundcloud as well.

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Post by mazsa »

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?

PM me: youruserid at myuserid dot com

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Post by umut »

ClickQuestion wrote: post #472
umut wrote: post #370

www.truecaller.com Because 250M users!

How are you defining user? Someone that clicks on a link in a Google search because you have SEO juice? Or is there some kind of deeper relationship you have with these users. 250M is a huge number.

app users downloading the app from relevant appstores (plus some minor set of users logging in on our website with social login providers)

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Post by FlyingSnake »

woah wrote: post #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…

How do you handle illegal torrents, piracy etc?

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Post by jvanveen »

Developing a library to build p2p webapps with that runs in the browser and on nodejs using transport/connector adapters, ecdh/aes encryption, ractivejs templating/prerendering and js-data orm. Not near alpha quality yet. What I like about the project is the potential to easily connect users/systems to each other, without the need of a centralized webrtc sdp message broker and the fun of writing one codebase that runs simultaneously on the 'server' and the browser.See https://github.com/jvanveen/high5 for more info
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