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Post by pcmaffey »

ahmedbaracat wrote: post #548
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…

I would love an invite...I already asked for this a few days ago on HN and Reddit, post it there :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166892 https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/47ct2k/how_do...

I'm curious when you say "publish to the web", do you have a specific output/platform in mind?

One key difference with Bicycl from those other tools is that it's based on micronotes (think tweeting vs blogging). This is intentional. I use Evernote to go into detail about my work. But that makes serendipitous discovery more difficult, when the jewel of your content is buried...

Also, this allows you to focus on just what's important. As any good procrastinator know how easy it is to sidetrack yourself in details. Of course, sometimes that's wonderful and creative. But there are lots of tools out there already for that.

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Post by stunthamsterio »

Rezo wrote: post #379
stunthamsterio wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks! There's generic blocks and icons in different colors and sizes available too, and more networking gear coming up, but right now I'm still trying to stay focused on AWS. With the massive service catalog AWS has, I feel something like this is required to make sense of it.

Makes sense... I'll have a play with the generics, but my hat goes off to you - great looking tool.

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Post by giulianob »

muraiki wrote: post #223
archagon wrote: post #127

Composer's Sketchpad — http://composerssketchpad.com It's basically an iPad sequencer with the UI of a drawing app. You're given a canvas that can be panned and zoomed like any scroll view, with a grid indicating time on the horizontal axis and pitch on the vertical axis. You draw notes with your finger, and although you can snap to the grid like in most sequencers, you can also choose to start your notes at any poin…

You might enjoy this; it uses a similar visual representation, but for sample playback: http://at.or.at/hans/solitude/

Looks great but the App Store link doesn't seem to work FYI

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Post by WithDom »

I'm working on a new social media app called With. It's about who you're with. You physically tap phones with the people around you to tell the world you're with them. On your profile page it shows everyone you've met... so let's say you tap phones with Jay-Z, everyone will know you're a pretty big deal because you've met Jay-Z!! Check it out. http://apple.co/1SdYMhV

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Post by parterburn »

Dabble Me (https://dabble.me) is a private journal that can be done all through email. It emails you daily, you reply. As you build up entries it will start sending you past entries in the daily emails.

Some of the better use cases include: * Keeping a developer journal (I see a few others here are working on something along those lines as well) * New parenting journal * Daily journaling

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Post by ryanckulp »

Online reviews for ecommerce products are the only way that potential customers knows if they should purchase something.

This strategy is one-dimensional and fading; just ask Yelp. People need more than a 3-, 4-, or 5-star gesture before punching in their credit card and feeling good about it.

So I'm working on a new kind of "social proof as a service," currently live and integrated with Shopify. It's called Notify (https://apps.shopify.com/notify).

Notify shows recent orders as they occur on a storefront, compelling future visitors to make a purchase.

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Post by pushpaithal »

http://advo.ninja

I have seen even large companies with big marketing budgets have difficulty getting eyeballs on their social content. Short lived sponsored ads fail them with lack of virality, personal touch and being expensive. Why not utilize employees’ social networks to spread the word. But, it’s painful to share company posts regularly. So, I created Advo.Ninja to make it extremely effortless to share content by ZERO-CLICK (auto posting) of company posts on multiple social networks instantly. Set up and forget! or choose to share every time.

This is proving to be a win-win situation - employees get to improve their thought leadership and help companies ace branding by their best advocates - employees!

Startups and mid-size companies are realizing the highest value with their small marketing teams spending just a few mins every week and proud employees sharing content.

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Post by theseanstewart »

csense wrote: post #532
theseanstewart wrote: post #284

Election Runner - https://electionrunner.com The idea came to me after my wife (a High School teacher) told me about how her students complained that the school's election software (Voting4Schools) was hard to use. After doing more research I found that every single competitor in this space sucked (ElectionBuddy, VoteNet), so I decided to build Election Runner. It started as a fun side project, but has taken off A LO…

Edtech startups are #7 on the list of "requests for startups" YC published a few months ago [1]. From what I hear it's a good space to be in right now. [1] https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

Very cool! I had no clue. I had been wanting to launch a SaaS company for the last few years and realized that it's easier to get people (school administrators) to spend other people's money (district, university, tax payers, etc), than to spend their own money.

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Post by effektz »

I am working on GitMonitor which is a tool for developers to watch over their GitHub repositories, and setup custom rules. Like "No merging pull requests without an LGTM" or "No force-pushing to any of these branches: "

It has worked well in my experience when junior and even mid-level developers join a team, helping expose them not only to git best practices, but to the custom rules of their development team as well.

https://gitmonitor.com

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Post by tmaly »

benwills wrote: post #397
tmaly wrote: post #387

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do you use regular expression parsing, xml, or some state machine type parsing? What do you store all the data parsed in?

the parser is all hand-written c. the only library i use outside of libc, is xxhash. documents are read and parsed byte by byte, where "sections" (e.g. side nav) and "contexts" (e.g. comment author) are maintained in a stack of states. part of the speed comes from writing a custom hashing tool that creates compact, very fast hash tables with few or no collisions. so identifying html tags, etc, is very fast and keeps…

I have used xxhash before, its very impressive for speed.

Do you tie sphinx to a database backend to store the data in?

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