I'm updating my CV so i can get a job for those days i am not in uni, also working on a small app made around someone elses work parsing Civilization 5 replay files into HTML5/JS in-browser replays. http://github.com/flexd/civ5replays -- Too little time, so many ideas!
Ask HN: What are you working on right now?
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a vast amount of discontent in the Etsy community, and this has been the case as long as I've been involved (2006). The complaints of their customers apply to nearly every area of the company and are well-founded.
Interesting. Etsy was the idea I had years before they actually did it, and always regretted not following it up. Hmm...
A large number of Etsy imitators have sprung up (ArtFire, CraftIsArt, Cargoh, Bonanza, SilkFair, Zibbet, Folksy, etc.) but none of them seem to be particularly great to me.
Etsy is pissing off their best customers every month, and thousands have already left in disgust. They have a large lead in terms of size and funding, but they don't seem particularly capable of getting anything done. The market is definitely ready for a polished craft market with decent management and good marketing.
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#184this is interesting. I had a similar idea. How much is your pricing point for this send message site.
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#185Mostly 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.
While it looks nice, I'm not so sure about learning a language by using Google Translate. The results produced are not always examples of good writing.
Oh, it wouldn't really be a primary method of learning a language, more like a supplement. e.g., take a course or online program at night, then at work you run this on some news articles for practice just to extend yourself on certain words.
I know very little Spanish but just by reading Cormac McCarthy books (which have some dialogue in Spanish only) I have picked up a few extra words and certainly enough to have a rough idea of what is being said in those books.
Thanks very much for taking the time to look at it though.
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#186Trying to get a bunch of features released for http://verbapp.com/ . Just launched http://hellohype.com/ and need to start getting the word out about it. Also need to release an iPhone app I made. Rebuilding my blog (using HTML5 and a whole bunch of fun new things). Getting the plans together with a co-founder for a secret new startup. Designing a whole new brand/site design for a current startup (and sorting out som…
Hey, I looked at http://verbapp.com and couldn't help but notice the text is generally a little small. I initially was struggling to read it. I opened up inspector and started fiddling. Would you ever consider doing it a bit more like this - http://i.imgur.com/ic5F8.png - or is it intentionally neat?
I've been redesigning the homepage (one of the many new things that need to be deployed). As monitor resolutions get higher I think font sizes will go up (there's certainly a trend that way). I'll have a bit more of a think about what's acceptable. Thanks for bringing that up.
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#187A ruby framework for hosting your own url sharing / archiving site.
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#188I'm selling the majority of my stuff and prepping my condo for sale. I expect my employer to go out of business soon and I have to leave the USA once that happens (my work permit is non-transferable and the green card application didn't work out).
Curious to know (and for entirely selfish reasons) what classification of work permit is non-transferable?
I had a H1b but just about maxed it out so now I hold a TN1 (I'm Canadian).
The upside of the TN is that I can (in theory) get an unlimited number of them and there is no cap on how many can be issued in a year.
The downside is that if I step off of US soil I immediately lose it and have to apply for a new one at the border when I attempt to re-enter. Should the INS agent dislike me for any reason (or for no reason), s/he can deny my application and deny me entry to the US. I would have no recourse if that happened... which makes crossing the border kind of stressfull (so I don't do it anymore).
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it would totally suck if we were carrying any unsecured debt. Luckily we live below our means so we have (some) money banked. So I'm considering taking the family for a 6 month world tour (while I'm still young enough to handle it)... if we're frugal we might be able to stretch it out to a full year. Guess I better put "get homeschool materials" on my todo list eh?
Do it. My parents took me (and my siblings) out of school at age 14 for four months in Asia (three months in China, rest of the time in Thailand, Malaysia, HK) and it was a great experience. Already had an appreciation of it but grew up with a massive appreciation of travelling to new places and seeing different parts of our planet. Will always be thankful for my parents having done that for us. Have been back to Chi…
My parents are totally opposite, I have only visited two states of my country (excluding the state where I live i.e. the awesomest gujarat). So now I totally lack any enthusiasm for traveling.
But I hadn't realized it till you pointed your enthusiasm out. Umm... don't know whether to thank you or hate you from my guts.
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#190This is not your kind of start-up (I have found HN to mostly work on SaaS applications), its more manufacturing based.
Right now working with another guy to make cheap mobile chargers to export to the USA. So, any cheap charger you may purchase 4-6 months from now may be from my design. But that's just helping a friend, I do not have any monetary gain from it. Apart from that, whenever I will get time I a company is ready to hire me as employee # 1 in there education department (its a software dev + CS education startup).
But on my own home front I am finally starting to work towards my own idea which has been appreciated by some industry people and entrepreneurs I have met. Its a localized hobby kits shop. I provide them with hobby kits which are cheap and have manuals which are in the customer's native language (right now just english, hindi and gujarati as my target right now is gujarat). I know its not that fancy, but hey you people gave me the bug to at least try something before giving up on it (i.e. if its not obviously stupid). Anyways, working on MVP kits for electronics, computer programming, robotics and (if I can manage it) maths.
I have a few slides prepared if anyone wants to see.
EDIT: And btw, I am in second year of engineering