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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kbyatnal »

Currently a student in college and I'm working on https://www.60secondseveryday.com, the fastest way of keeping track of your memories.

You get a phone call every night and record your 60-second response to the question "How did your day go?". From there, your response is archived into your private online journal and displayed alongside your photos, twitter posts, check-ins, etc from that day.

Soon, you'll start getting Flashback emails (ex. "Here's what you were doing 6 months ago") with all of those cool things so you can reflect on your past.

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Post by alehul »

Project: A city marketplace of local retailers of all kinds, listing their in-store products for 1 hr delivery facilitated by our couriers, which offers more quality assurance and quicker delivery times, and it'll be cheaper than shipping. We're starting in NYC and would love any input/suggestions.

Problem: It's been frustrating to wait days after a purchase to receive the item from major retailers; also, everybody here has complained about Amazon recently, whether it's counterfeits or unreliability, but it's still commonly used due to avoiding a store visit. It'd be great to combine the conveniences of receiving the item quickly and avoiding a visit to the store for it.

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Post by Ono-Sendai »

demonshalo wrote: post #37

Prime Factorization - Just as a fun side project. I do not expect that I will ever be able to solve it but at least once a week I learn something new about math! I've Been working on it for 3 years now and It's getting more and more fun every day. In fact, I have rediscovered so many things on my own that I thought never existed. My biggest "Eureka" moment was when I discovered factorization via the difference of squ…

What exactly is the problem? Finding the prime factors of numbers? Or doing it fast?

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Post by codemati »

sourc3 wrote: post #303
germinalphrase wrote: post #98

Problem: in aggregate, k12 teachers spend enormous amounts of time creating (redundant) curriculum content which in turn limits how effectively they can personalize this curriculum for each student. Project: starting with assessment - intending to move into lesson planning and performance - our project allows teachers to curate assessment elements from a collaborative library (on the subject area/school level initial…

Interested in this due to my wife working in the space. Signup link?

Also interested!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by khc »

https://github.com/kahing/goofys/

I've been spending what free time I have on this. It started out as a curious project to learn Go and to prove that a useful and good s3fs like project can be done relatively quickly. These days it's used by companies moving PBs of storage into S3 to research labs trying to analysis RNA sequences with 100s of machines.

A couple things I hope to get done this year:

* a reasonably easy way to use it in conjunction of docker

* a reasonably easy way to expose this over NFS/CIFS (for devices/OSes that don't support fuse)

* a reasonably easy way to do caching

A bigger vision is to build more things on top of relatively commoditized web services so free software can adapt to the 21st century without a large operating budget.

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Post by simonduponte »

Im working on http://www.OfShops.com I decided to apply different organic growth techniques to an ecommerce project, to test out the different maxims that are being taught in Digital Marketing nowadays. I figured that if you're going to try to grow something, your best bet is to grow something that can be monetized. In the long run, if it grows enough, it could potentially become an interesting acquisition option for one of the bigger players in the ecommerce business.

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Post by ruslan_talpa »

agentultra wrote: post #290

A couple... 1. Record one album a month. An album must consist of no less than four songs. At least one song must be an original. I can only record on a 4-track cassette recorder. Problem: I'm getting older and find myself nostalgic for the days when I was running my record label and playing in bands. A small, manageable project with no expectations or demands to scratch that itch and get me away from computers for a…

It's going to take more then a couple of weeks, been working on it for more then 1 year :) https://subzero.cloud/

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rawrmaan wrote: post #187

I'm working on a tool to help dating app users get more matches in an honest and organic way: https://www.picbot.co/ Problem: People are really bad a choosing the right dating app photos and often end up frustrated thinking there's something wrong with them when they just have awful photos. Launching in a few days on iOS.

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by germinalphrase »

codemati wrote: post #314
sourc3 wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interested in this due to my wife working in the space. Signup link?

Also interested!

Too early for a sign up - but we will surely do a Show HN when the time comes.

Feel free to drop me an email (in profile) if you'd like to hear a little more about what we're thinking.

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