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Post by kieranr »

napoleond wrote: post #434
kieranr wrote: post #398

We're building an SMS chatbot for the Canadian cannabis market. It allows you to purchase marijuana directly from dispensaries and licensed producers in a few messages. We’re adding NLP and a basic recommendation engine to help increase retention and drive purchases. We built out the infrastructure in a hackathon and are grinding away at an MVP. Starting to demo for dispensaries soon. I think we’re really on to somet…

Hey, not sure if this is helpful but I have a side project that might save you some work: https://www.smsinbox.net

Very cool - I'll look into it

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Post by paulgb »

After wishing for years for a better way to get an overview of Twitter conversations, I decided to give it a go myself. One problem is that the Twitter API is very limiting, so I built an extension that sits on top of the existing UI. It's been a fun toy project. I'm not a UI designer by trade so a lot of this was new to me.

GitHub: https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse/

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/treeverse/aahmjdad...

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Post by noughth »

I'm working on a web application for tracking personal finances (think GnuCash for the web or an open source mint.com). My main issue with GnuCash is that I can't enter transactions from anywhere (if I eat out, I have to keep the receipt until I get home instead of being able to enter it on my phone).

https://github.com/aclindsa/moneygo

I'm currently sidetracked implementing a Golang library to request bank and investment transactions from financial institutions using OFX. Automatically pulling transactions from banks is important for any project like this and I couldn't find a suitable library in Golang (or really at all - most open source OFX parsers I could find only support parsing, not making requests, and don't support investment transactions).

https://github.com/aclindsa/ofxgo

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Post by kbyatnal »

nickster wrote: post #330
kbyatnal wrote: post #311

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 get…

That's cool I've been kind of thinking building something like this. Are you using Twilio? How are the transcriptions?

Thinking of removing them since honestly, they aren't very good. Yep using Twilio. Would love to chat more if you're interested.

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Post by wordpressdev »

wcchandler wrote: post #432

I'm building a 21st century farm. I'm working towards building an ag farm that nets $100,000/yr with only 8hrs/week of actual work. No clue how I'm going to get there but that's the fun stuff. Right?

Interesting. If it can be implemented in an apartment, I am game :)

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Post by NetOpWibby »

I'm working on V2 of my domain portfolio management system (you can check it out here: https://beachfront.digital). It'll be free during beta, after which it'll be $11/year.

I have CSV import/export working for those currently keeping track of their domains in a spreadsheet. When adding new domains into Beachfront, there's a WHOIS search run on the backend and the registrar/expiration fields are automatically filled in. Price is manual entry but when you do, you'll begin to see how much money you spend per month/year and by TLD on domains.

I'm just trying to add value any way I can while also eliminating friction points. I'm hoping that domain management and personal analytics will be appealing to people.

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Post by kermittd »

ncantelmo wrote: post #29

Problem: The process of getting thoughts from your head into an organized, written draft form isn't as fast or accessible as it could be. Project: I'm building a conversational UI / bot ( https://writing.ai ) that helps people write faster. The basic idea is that it asks you a series of questions about a topic, asks follow-up questions for more detail as needed, and when it's done outputs a completed draft. You're st…

I just signed up and am awaiting launch!️️dkermitt@gmail.com

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Post by foopod »

I get bogged down super easy, so only pick up really small personal projects.

I have been working on tutorials for the newly released Construct 3 beta. The kids I teach at codeclub have been begging for Construct 2 tutorials, but now that all of them can participate (some are on chromebooks/macbooks and Construct 2 was windows only).

https://jonoshields.com/tutorials/construct-3/

Also working on making the shadows more realistic in my procedurally generated mountainscape thing.

https://jonoshields.com/2017/03/29/creating-procedurally-gen...

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