Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by endlessvoid94 » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

I'm working on an improved version of Heroku Dataclips called QueryClips (https://www.queryclips.com).

It supports MySQL and Postgres, supports organizations (invite your non-engineer colleagues), sharing to google sheets, JSON, CSV, email, and is secure (encrypted credentials, read-only transactions, etc).

I have much bigger plans, but for now I'm bootstrapping it and so far customers seem pretty happy! Give it a try!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by joering2 » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

ciscoriordan wrote: post #35

https://oneminutefax.com - Send free faxes online without having to create an account. Proof-of-concept is up.

Please don't! Efax owns patent for sending faxes online and they troll/bully other website into sometimes buying them out sometimes shutting them down. There is 99% chances you will receive their C&D letter :(

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by matthoiland » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:08 PM UTC

alexwebb2 wrote: post #16

I'm working on a voice-driven rapid prototyping tool for web development. The goal is to be able to say things like "give me a header element at the top - height 250, width 100%", and it'll inject it immediately. Combined with mouseover inspection and positional guidance (e.g. moving the mouse to a particular spot and saying "put a folder icon here").

I like this! Would help to sit back and layout the overall structure from a distance to get a proper feel.

Also, reminds me of the Celery Man sketch from Tim and Eric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWBEK8w_YY

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by eljimmy » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:08 PM UTC

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #36

I am working on my own startup (since 12 months, but we incorporated only in August 2017). I am not here to publicize what we are doing, but rather to share a very important consideration. I used to work at Amazon Web Services (6 years), then VMware (2 years), then at a startup as an early employee/CTO (1 year). My job satisfaction decreased at every step. I feel so lucky and blessed to be able to work on something t…

I feel like I'm on the same path. Is this something you'd built up over time and managed to make profitable so you could go full-time?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by SpyKiIIer » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

ciscoriordan wrote: post #35

https://oneminutefax.com - Send free faxes online without having to create an account. Proof-of-concept is up.

Gave it a try, got this error:

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by tablet » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:10 PM UTC

I'm working on http://fibery.io

Fibery is work management platform that should replace all PM tools in the next 10 years :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by zachkatz » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

I'm working on https://www.framedtweets.com — it's an easy, beautiful way to preserve and remember your favorite tweets forever (to save them from the internet's ephemerality).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by kalkaDev » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

PerryCox wrote: post #37

kalkaDev wrote: post #34

Im making an aggregate site for youtube mixes - house, lofi, ect. https://ytradio.xyz/ It started with only live streams (24/7 youtube music channels) I enjoy lofi youtube mixes when coding, and theres a lot of them. Currently im adding functionality for users to curate the mixes I think its cool bc its kind of like a shared youtube playlist for a particular niche, with nice ui, and soon with curation

Are you worried about the recently announced changes that YouTube will start showing more ads to people who only watch music videos? [1] [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/21/17147800/youtube-streamin...

Not really ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - personally i use adblock, and most of these mixes are 1-2 hours long, so even people having an add in between each would seem not too bad

Also i havent really put this site out there before, so any feedback or ideas are welcome:)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ovrdrv3 » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

I'm working on a simple cooking site targeted for millenials and beginners. No long blog posts about how you used to make this with your (insert family member here) and (insert more useless information here), no bloat. Just ingredients and steps. If a recipe suggestion is voted high enough, that new recipe will replace what was originally posted.

Vue front end, back end will be Laravel!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by spython » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

I'm working on interaction designs that take full user's body into account.

It's great because we are not just made of minds and fingers. We perceive the world with our bodies and we shouldn't exclude them from interaction.

Also, it's fun.