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Share your weekend/part-time startup (December 2012)

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Re: Share your weekend/part-time startup (December 2012)

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Post by jmanzano »

I've been some time developing a solution for most of us. It's a website called Parkuik that will use a wiki-like environment to make us easier to find parkings (some of you may have had this problem on your city :-P) with the help of all of us.

I can just develop it when I have some time on weekends, but it is starting to have some users and I hope sooner than later It'll be one of the reference websites for this :)

You can find it here: http://www.parkuik.com

Hope you can visit it and tell me whatever you think that can be done to improve it :)

Re: Share your weekend/part-time startup (December 2012)

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Post by lazerwalker »

I'm working on Scribe, web-based sheet music notation software for songwriters and composers. Right now the public-facing URL is just a landing page, but if you ping me (contact info in profile) I'd be happy to give you access to the prototype.

http://scribeapp.com

Re: Share your weekend/part-time startup (December 2012)

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Post by RyanZAG »

Experiment on making a browser/android-based MMO using GWT to offload a lot of heavy processing to the client (and save on those pricey cloud cpu charges)

http://www.gloopsh.com/

General idea is that each player controls a bunch of soldiers that they can equip and give battle tactics to (flank, use abilities, etc). Battles get auto-resolved with a nice graphical replay (you can check out an early version of that by clicking the bottom right button on the page), so anybody can attack anybody else on the map regardless of whether they're 'online' or not.

Currently coding up a stock exchange based economy for the game so that there are caravans moving between cities for players to raid and generally make the world seem a bit 'alive'.

Obviously a pretty big project to be doing with one guy and part time, but it's surprisingly coming along pretty nicely!

Re: Share your weekend/part-time startup (December 2012)

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Post by kh_hk »

Been involved in CityBikes[1] for a while, both an Android app to find stations on public bike schemes, and an API[2] that homogenizes and provides the same information for projects, applications and statistical research.

[1]: http://www.citybik.es

[2]: http://api.citybik.es

Re: Share your weekend/part-time startup (December 2012)

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Post by lyaunzbe »

kaffeinecoma wrote: post #28

In pursuit of a casual passive income generator, I've been working on a meme creator. It uses HTML5 canvas rather than Flash. I'm only a weekend or so into it, but would appreciate any constructive feedback. http://mememachin.es

How do you expect to generate income? Are you going to charge for creation?
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