I've been working on a windows app to pull data in tables from PDF files into Excel http://www.3xfour.com I am a financial analyst in my day job and spend a lot of time pulling data out of annual reports and investor presentations into financial models, so it mainly focused on solving that use case for myself. Previous solutions exist but its a hard problem to get 100% right, I still have a way to go.
The more interesting part is to be able to automatically populate missing data in an Excel table that comes from a PDF, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYzN_elbjWo
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#22https://github.com/coreyp1/defiant If you want to know why, check out this blog post (part 1 & 2 are the why, part 3 is the what): https://cscrunch.com/blog/corey-pennycuff/its-2016-and-youre...
I like your motto. Be defiant! Why the heck not! :) Definitely giving it a test drive.
Thanks, but be warned, this is only the start of a bigger project, and needs A LOT of work to be ready for anything stable.
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#23Lately got interested in DevOps and learning/working on Chef and AWS migration.
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#24An innovative methodology calls 5 Day Hacks to bring smart solutions to tricky problems - in just 5 days! Companies will achieve concrete results, greater knowledge, efficient strategy and develop a better functioning team within 5 days. http://nerdic.co/5dayhacks
This is interesting idea. I was thinking about something similar - to be an facilitator during solving technical problems with system approach methodology.
I am wondering, how big is demand for your services? If it's not secret you can shoot me an email.
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#25I'm designing an interface to allow cars that only display digital video to display analog video from rear view cameras.
One selection bit (car on reverse) to multiplex two inputs (video from car control unit and video from rear view camera) to one output (car screen).
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#26There's something in the pipeline for me on innovating on how we type, as in articles and web content. To me, it seems like the QWERTY keyboard has been around forever, its layout was specifically designed to make people type slower when the first typewriters were introduced. Why aren't we seeing more innovation on the software side of things? That's where I come in :)
And I also launched my first startup, upperhound.com, this morning - eyes bloodshot just before I went to bed. I decided I don't want to be a wantrepreneur any longer. Procrastination is such a killer. I mainly negotiate 50% + SaaS membership discounts for interested subscribers.
Btw, asimuvPR, what are you working on currently?
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#27Not a startup nor code, but I'm working on starting a solo consultancy or something as my first real business. I'm having issues figuring out: * How to position myself * What specific service I'd offer instead of just plain old commodity coding. I'm thinking about perhaps working with non technical business owners. * How to reach the people I'd like to work with I'm in the research phase at the moment.
I am interested in this as well. If anyone have any good read on the topic please share!
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#28https://www.highelobuilds.com/
A website to search for League Of Legends builds from challenger games. I had a lot of ideas, that's the one who made it because it's small enough so I can do it all by myself and I can keep it alive for a long time spending very little on it.