Ask HN: What are you working on?
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#512I'm building a wholesale order sheet that is shareable with a link. https://www.deliteapp.com Businesses are purchasing millions of dollars of product through paper order sheets or PDFs passed through email. Delite takes out the hassle for the buyer - they can fill out quantities and submit the order right on the form rather than download, scan, fax, send back, etc. The vendor can share these orders through text, ema…
As a small eCommerce site, i'd LOVE to have feeds from all my suppliers, but unless you're selling millions a year for them few suppliers bother with the effort. Most suppliers create feeds by having an FTP server, and they periodically throw a csv file on it.
Then as a consumer of the feed, since so many of these solutions are "home grown" you learn to not trust the data. So you have to build up really sophisticated systems. For example if a supplier tells me in a feed he had 10 widgets, and I got that feed 2 hours ago. My algorithm might tell me he only has a reliable supply of 2.
I've thought about building something like this, but I didn't want to get into the business of selling software to suppliers (they're notorious cheap skates).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#513What I often want is not a search engine, not a recommender, but a filter. Something that would allow me to look at the distributions of content on the Web rather than trying to answer my questions. I badly wanted to pay someone a few quid for a service like this, but had to build it myself.
Feel free to piggyback on the next batch job; use fBd7guQLDLx6RIm00GE7uH5h0Lk1CKKl as access key.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#514I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of t…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#515Project: Hosted & On-Prem fast full-text search with faceting, filtering, multiple ranking algorithms and plenty of other features. Not yet ready for launch but built a simple demo trying to get into startupschool ( failed unfortunately :( ), which lets you search every hackernews post while letting you filter based on domain / user / story type. http://searchhn.com
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#516http://www.nhs.uk/transformation/
"We are designing a service that better connects people to the health information and services they need, when they need them. Our tools will help people care for themselves and relieve pressure on frontline services."
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#517Problem: My experience taking audio tours at various museums showed the use of antiquated and expensive hardware. Most alternate solutions used mobile apps which are inconvenient to download and take more time to release. Project: I went about developing a web app that allows anyone to quickly create an audio tour for free: https://www.youraudiotour.com/create I also integrated Amazon Polly to automatically generate…
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#518https://github.com/fogleman/ribbon
Also been plotting them with my AxiDraw v3 plotter:
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#519As a hardware side project I've been designing and building an open source split-flap display - the kind of electro-mechanical displays you used to see in train stations and airports that loudly flip through letters and numbers as they update. https://scottbez1.github.io/splitflap/ Have a few working prototypes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslkflVv-Hw ), but I'm currently redesigning the electronics/PCB to make…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#520Project: Hosted & On-Prem fast full-text search with faceting, filtering, multiple ranking algorithms and plenty of other features. Not yet ready for launch but built a simple demo trying to get into startupschool ( failed unfortunately :( ), which lets you search every hackernews post while letting you filter based on domain / user / story type. http://searchhn.com
really cool! is there a way to search by domain?
Will probably fix the UI this weekend and do a proper 'Show HN' with more options, charts and analytics.