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Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)

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Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)

#17
At work I create a lot of flowcharts, e.g. http://www.freshfreestuff.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/gli... . I usually use Gliffy or UMLet. The problem is, all of these have drag-and-drop interfaces where you have to use the mouse all the time-and moving back and forth from the mouse to keyboard is painful for me. It also means that making flowcharts takes much longer than necessary-it would be really useful to have sane default keyboard shortcuts like "create a node beneath the currently selected node."

So some method of using, say, Gliffy without having to use the mouse would be awesome.

Disclaimer: I am not a programmer and have no idea how interesting this is, I can only speak to how much it would help me.

Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)

#18

a software that help us to download all our pictures,data,comments,etc. from facebook, so we can have it for us, and then be able to delete our accounts from that evil web...

They already kindof let you do that, the thing I can't find any simple way to do is download all of my friends photo albums that I'm tagged in somewhere. I don't really take photos, so most of my precious memories are in other people's photo collections. If someone makes that I may well even give them money.

It shouldn't be too hard, just a few graph API queries and a loop to call curl, but I've never got around to it.

Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)

#19

At work I create a lot of flowcharts, e.g. http://www.freshfreestuff.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/gli... . I usually use Gliffy or UMLet. The problem is, all of these have drag-and-drop interfaces where you have to use the mouse all the time-and moving back and forth from the mouse to keyboard is painful for me. It also means that making flowcharts takes much longer than necessary-it would be really useful to have…

you should look into graphviz, this article posted a few weeks ago comes to mind: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=119

Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)

#20
post #16

Say you do build something for someone, for free, who owns the work at the end?

He says it will be MIT licensed.

Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4769947

Edit: witch means he owns the original code but you can do (almost) anything with it.

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