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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#31

Putting the real Multiple Listing Service back in the hands (literally) of real estate professionals and combining it with tools that helps them make sense of the real estate market. It's part listing syndication, analytics and social networking.

I'm actually doing something quite similar at the moment, though for a different MLS system in a different country...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#33
I'm learning Ruby and I'm working on an app that gives you email alerts on CrunchBase updates, my first taste of Rails. And I'm also working through SICP, albeit slowly.

I'm also waiting to get my Firefox add-on fully reviewed by Mozilla, which I built a while ago. Check it out, the Web Startup Toolbar - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-startup-t...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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My next idea is one I'm going to work on for StartupWeekend. It's killing me NOT working on it, but I don't want to 'cheat' by showing up with a previously-worked-on product.

Work on it. It's not cheating. There's a good chance that you'll walk in with the idea of working on it and end up working on something completely different. When I did the DC Startup Weekend I walked in with a product and then ended up getting an idea from a comment someone made, went up, pitched it and ended up with a team to work on that. In the end we didn't win, primarily because we were told to keep the pitch d…

You may be right, but 1) if feels like cheating and 2) I specifically asked the event organizer, and he said:

"you should really just be bringing your ideas and not a product-in-development."

So that's why I'm holding off. I mean, on the one hand, I'd happily commit to the idea, whether StartupWeekend was on or not, but since I'm going, and my team agrees that it's a great idea, I really want to see how far we can get in the time allotted.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#36

I'm in the preliminary research stages of building a series of stock tools that allow users to do arbitrary searches on the intarwebs and then correlate the data with historical price data on equities. I registered tinystocktools.com but nothing is up there yet as I'm just tinkering with what sort of free API's I have available to me at the moment before I start seriously building it. There will be social aspects to…

So your tool correlates historical trends in search results with historical equity price trends?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#37
post #31

Putting the real Multiple Listing Service back in the hands (literally) of real estate professionals and combining it with tools that helps them make sense of the real estate market. It's part listing syndication, analytics and social networking.

I'm actually doing something quite similar at the moment, though for a different MLS system in a different country...

Maybe we can connect and share ideas.

marco[at]marcomonteiro[dot]com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #36

I'm in the preliminary research stages of building a series of stock tools that allow users to do arbitrary searches on the intarwebs and then correlate the data with historical price data on equities. I registered tinystocktools.com but nothing is up there yet as I'm just tinkering with what sort of free API's I have available to me at the moment before I start seriously building it. There will be social aspects to…

So your tool correlates historical trends in search results with historical equity price trends?

That might be where it goes. I started out by looking at news alerts on stock charts and thinking that I'd like to be able to define my own search terms for certain equities instead of just looking for news stories that mention the company or the ticker symbol directly. If I actually manage to get something serious up and running it will eventually turn into more of a data-mining service.
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