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Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

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Re: Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

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Post by bendmorris »

JoshCole wrote: post #7

I put up two sites this month, but I'm not sure they qualify. They don't have any chance at growing into a startup, but I'm going to list them anyway. The first is a little game that lets you try to unscramble words [1]. It's hardest word list is from a post about the 1000 most useful words that came up here a while ago. My favourite thing about the site is that it fetches definitions and the like from wordnik so you…

I enjoyed playing anagramscramble for a bit, and I think it's great timing as I'm prepping for the GRE in a couple weeks - playing your game might help my verbal score. A couple comments:

1. You mentioned this, but it would be great if focus stayed on the input box. That would make it easy to play with just the keyboard, without having to tab.

2. Sometimes there are more than one legitimate solution (for example: scalp, clasp) - you could try checking if the submitted word is real or not instead of matching it to the word you originally scrambled.

Thanks for an amusing 10 minutes or so.

Re: Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

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Post by startupmike »

I launched http://publiclog.com

(The original post is here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891808)

It's a fun way to "log" every activity that you do (eating, drinking, working, playing, ...).

You can also see the "history" of all of your activities (Past, Present and Future)

Re: Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

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Post by xtrycatchx »

i launched http://www.adobocode.com

it's my way of sharing back to the community what i learned from it. a set of tutorials. hoping this will help some of my people here in the Philippines but sad to know that most people browsing it are from India and US. but still im hoping they'll learn from my site..

Re: Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

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Post by JoshCole »

bendmorris wrote: post #11
JoshCole wrote: post #7

I put up two sites this month, but I'm not sure they qualify. They don't have any chance at growing into a startup, but I'm going to list them anyway. The first is a little game that lets you try to unscramble words [1]. It's hardest word list is from a post about the 1000 most useful words that came up here a while ago. My favourite thing about the site is that it fetches definitions and the like from wordnik so you…

I enjoyed playing anagramscramble for a bit, and I think it's great timing as I'm prepping for the GRE in a couple weeks - playing your game might help my verbal score. A couple comments: 1. You mentioned this, but it would be great if focus stayed on the input box. That would make it easy to play with just the keyboard, without having to tab. 2. Sometimes there are more than one legitimate solution (for example: sca…

I fixed the bug that was stealing focus. In case your curious the problem was that the code would always think the word had changed due to trying to select the current anagram with the wrong jquery selector (div instead of span).

As to allowing multiple words for the same anagram. Umm.. that not a bug that is a feature! It uhh.. it helps you to be more.. creative.. year that is what it does. More seriously though, I'm busy right now and don't think it really ruins the experience like the focus bug does, so I'm going to hold off on implementing that till I'm finished with my previously mentioned 'interesting project.

Oh and one more thing, thanks for playing!

Re: Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

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Post by ashraful »

I launched http://www.hackerlunch.com

It lets hackers meet up with each other for lunch (and hopefully an interesting chat). You basically make a post stating when and where you are free to have lunch and others can join in.

Launched it a few days ago but unfortunately haven't received much interest or feedback. I will probably release another polished version in a month and see if it gets more traction.

Re: Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

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Post by iworkforthem »

ashraful wrote: post #18

I launched http://www.hackerlunch.com It lets hackers meet up with each other for lunch (and hopefully an interesting chat). You basically make a post stating when and where you are free to have lunch and others can join in. Launched it a few days ago but unfortunately haven't received much interest or feedback. I will probably release another polished version in a month and see if it gets more traction.

Make it more social. Once a lunch slot is posted, give it an unique url, encourage users to publish it to facebook/twtter, etc. Store user's location, advice if the new lunch slot can invite any existing users in the same region, etc.

Keep on working on it. Nice to have, can't see how it could be acquired, or make enough for ramien, or anything like that.

Re: Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

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Post by s3graham »

http://droppic.com/ (https://droppic.com/ too)

Drag-and-drop gallerys for designers to show mockups and comps.

Feedback appreciated! Was just about to post an RMS, but maybe I'll wait until the Nov rush has died down a bit. :)

(Idea from @glenmurphy's Dropmocks project from a couple months back + PSD support + big files + revisions + ipad viewer + ...)

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