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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

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Post by bretpiatt »

I'm helping us build a common open cloud computing foundation so everyone can focus on building applications that solve business problems.

Sure, this sounds like "marketing speak" but it isn't about that. People write apps that solve problems and they want wide distribution of those apps.

The best way for that to happen is by having a common foundation layer for all of them to run on. Is the project I'm working on the answer, I sure hope so. If not I hope you help start a better project to do it.

Re-inventing the wheel is a waste of all of our time. Having to re-architect or re-code an app to deploy it in different places is reinventing the wheel.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

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Post by aberkowitz »

RDDavies wrote: post #31
RDDavies wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Send an email to ryandavies@gmail.com and I'd be happy to talk with you.

Any reason this was downvoted? Typically in the 40-60/per hour range depending upon the work, if your objection was to me not posting this.

It was probably downvoted because people like numbers and formulas upfront versus having to email you.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

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Post by GVRV »

dpcan wrote: post #6

Working on my next Android game, hopefully it will come out this week - maybe Thursday ;) Then going back to do some updates to my other games. In my personal experiences in the Android market, the more polish I put on my games, the more they sell. Hoping to keep the ball rolling.

Awesome, could share your experiences regarding selling Android apps (Hours put in to sales made)?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

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Post by i386 »

I work for Atlassian and I'm hacking away on Bamboo 2.7, a CI server. Previously we only offered a way to execute a single build but through our own dogfooding we thought a more powerful way of doing it would be to allow a developer to have a single build that runs many distributed parellel builds.

The cool part: functional test runs for some of our products have gone from about an hour to about 20 minutes because of this rewrite - so we are hoping to shorten build times for our customers too :)

http://blogs.atlassian.com/devtools/2010/10/bamboo-27-beta-p...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

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Post by aberkowitz »

prawn wrote: post #51

Mostly doing client work but put up a personal site to summarise my side-projects and also built this one afternoon the other week: http://languagesplit.com/ Had never built a bookmarklet before and not sure if it's too embarrassingly basic to try and promote, or worth doing more with. Would appreciate any suggestions/feedback.

As far as bookmarklets go people generally care what they do, not how they're made.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

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Post by andrewtbham »

clemesha wrote: post #69
andrewtbham wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that game is cool... i think you might could clean up the front page a little... to make it more obvious... but the idea for the game is great! did you make it yourself? do you make lots of games? do you do this full time?

Thanks. Yeah, the front page is pretty messy/busy - any simple ideas to make it cleaner? It's just me working on the game, part time right now, and it's the first game I've made.

here are some ideas: 1) integrate the "Play the game now" box with the "How to play The Wiki Game" box.

So be one box that has: " click as few links as possible to get from "Banana" to "Britney Spears", as fast as you can!"

where Banana and Britney Spears are replaced with your actual words.

2) have a very clear "start" button. It's not clear without spending a few moments to understand to click the first term to start the game.

good luck. it's a cool game... another thing might be to show an example or some strategy tips. that might not should be on the first page though...

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