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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)

#31

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

I think some of us are already having fun over there :)

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

#34

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?

No way. Ad-supported.

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

#35
I recently shipped WOPR, a subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with an embedded Game of Life grid. The GoL modulates the various parameters in time with an internal (or now, external) clock. It's for iPad 2 and up. I started it a year ago to learn a bit more about iOS and DSP. It had 9 months of sporadic evening & weekend development over a very busy year, with a 3 month hiatus over the summer.

It's had pretty decent reception so far. Beer money only, but enough that I could have a few every day if I wanted to! It's done better than I ever thought it would; I think because no musician can ever resist another synth.

Subsequent versions will increase in price as more features are added. Right now I'm working on a huge v1.2 upgrade with a ton of stuff people have requested.

http://www.omnivoresoft.com

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

#36
A kind of Google Now for Movies. Instead of searching for movies, new releases automatically land in your inbox once available as stream and you just need to sort them into "Want-watch", "Saw-and-liked", "Saw-and-disliked" or "Dismiss" folders (for later auto-sorting). A beta version is available at http://exkino.de for all you native German speaker and learner.

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

#37
post #29

We're working on Farmly, a website & app that aims to make finding and buying from local food producers in the UK much easier: http://farmly.net/

Good take! Been thinking about it for some years. What's your plan on handling distribution?

Thanks! Us too – it's something that we feel just hasn't been executed in the right way yet.

We're focussing first on creating a platform for local producers & consumers to connect before we tackle distribution. We've got some interesting ideas on the cards though when the time comes. Would be great to hear your thoughts on it.

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