Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by Zak » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:38 PM UTC

mirkules wrote: post #53

Zak wrote: post #34

I'm working on text classification. I have a decent classifier that's especially suited to author identification. I can think of a few good uses for it; the first one I'm trying to commercialize is academic anti-cheating.

You are probably aware of it already, but a lot of universities (mine included) use MOSS (Measure Of Software Similarity) to detect plagiarism in CS classes. Link: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/

I am. There are also a large number of services that detect plagiarism in essays, but most (all?) only detect direct copying from published sources and sometimes re-use of an essay previously turned in by another student.

I'm targeting the custom essay - services like http://essaymill.com ("our writing, your success"), as well as students paying other students to write their papers.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by yv » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC

An affiliation and cross-promotion network for mobile apps

http://ovozo.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by dannyr » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:40 PM UTC

I'm working on a new version of my app, http://www.launchset.com.

It is actually inspired by HackerNews particularly threads like this and 'Review my app/startup'.

I have several HN guys on the site. If you are interested in being one of the early users, email me at hackernews -at- launchset.com.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by dannyr » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:43 PM UTC

njl wrote: post #24

My Django hosting service. I looked at Heroku and thought, "I want that for Python." Yesterday, I got most of the http request path finished. There is some node.js work left, and I still need to do some more work on Varnish. I'm hoping to get to the Postgresql stuff next week, then on to the website and API...

njl,

I hear people asking for a Django-equivalent of Heroku. You definitely have a market for this.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by benjamind » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:46 PM UTC

Putting the finishing touches on an Canvas based LED Matrix animation editor for a Burning Man 2010 art project. http://cwd.co.uk/illuminatrix

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by jtchang » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:49 PM UTC

An online tool to do business intelligence and analytics that doesn't require a team of consultants to setup.

Should add that I am looking for a cofounder so post/msg if interested.

Edit: E-mail is jeff.tchang (at) gmail

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by tbeseda » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:54 PM UTC

A Safari extension for my company for common operational tasks, should increase efficiency and take a little load off our systems.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by bgrohman » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:59 PM UTC

I'm working on a nano-blogging platform that reduces posts to short, one-at-a-time messages. Each user gets only one visible post at a time. Think twitter minus all the clutter.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by reduxredacted » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 4:06 PM UTC

I'm working with a friend on a text based bulletin board system written in C# that uses SSH rather than Telnet or a modem and supports many of the features of an early 90's -ish DOS based Dial-up BBS.

... I and a few of my friends miss the old days so we'll probably be the only ones to make reasonable use of it, but it's a fun hack project for me and I'm learning a lot about SSH in the process. It's not OpenTG and I'm not that developer (he's doing one in Ruby so his project is probably more interesting to folks around here). Still in the very early stages so nothing works yet and I don't have a code repo setup.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by mleonhard » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 4:10 PM UTC

kno wrote: post #71

I’m working on building a better Business search service with a strong emphasis on mailing list. The idea is to give small to mid size businesses a tool to generate geographically and/or category based well targeted mailing list for their marketing campaign. Mailing list are generally huge files pretty much unusable by a small business owner with a constant contact account, we are looking to change that.

A friend of mine runs http://www.doorknobads.com/, selling physical adverts by neighborhood. Your geographically targeted email marketing service sounds very promising. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it.