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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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I'm working on ticket on rails http://www.ticketonrails.com an easy customer support tool dedicated to startups. Check it out, it's free!

Is it really free? I need a customer support tool for a new project and this looks good!

yeah, absolutely! Feel free to register and try the service, any feedback is appreciated.

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

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DailyCrunch (http://dailycrunch.mobi) - a "Flipboard for the Kindle".

Building it "to scratch my own itch" of having something to read on the subway and getting rid of the "infinite streams of news" devices such as the iPad suck you into.

Still pretty alpha, but everyone's welcome and feedback is appreciated :-)

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

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I, with some friends, created DOM: a bookmarklet that turns websites into 3D platformers using jQuery, Three.js and an accompanying multiplayer server with Node and Socket.io With it we won HackNY and presented it at NYTM http://tiny.cc/domjs

Clicking 'Instant Demo' on the landing page doesn't seem to work...

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

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An iPhone app for skiing/snowboarding. Track the stats for your runs on the mountain. Add friends and see where they are on the mountain you're on. Send meet up notifications. Download detailed maps of various mountains. Free to download, with options for upgrading to PRO version and obtaining additional maps. E-mail me at jordan [AT] kingofthemountainapp [DOT] com if you're interested in testing!

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

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I'm plugging away on a service to allow mobile developers to add messaging and location services (and some simple online storage) to their apps without having to write the backend themselves - and provides high availablility.

Sadly I feel like its become moot, with some rather big players doing that as well. But I might be able to white label it in some fashion.

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

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I made AppLens (formely AppSnap) a iphone app that lets you install any other iphone app by taking a picture of its icon (on other phones or laptop screens or anything else). It's a free app + ads, most of its users are from china and japan. Money-wise definitely not an hit! I spent quite a bit on time to develop the backend part (in C) and optimized it to query 3mil icons in few ms on a commodity server (cheap). htt…

Cool idea, liked it! Can you give some hints about the image processing you have done or what kind of trick did you use?

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

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I've been doing http://priceflurry.com for quite some time now (I posted about my progress on HN couple of times). It's a service where people can collaborate on prices and deals. It's finally getting some traction (not that big of, but who said it's going to be easy) and I'm really happy to see that :-)

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

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post #69

I've been doing http://priceflurry.com for quite some time now (I posted about my progress on HN couple of times). It's a service where people can collaborate on prices and deals. It's finally getting some traction (not that big of, but who said it's going to be easy) and I'm really happy to see that :-)

Besides really pretty Russian girl, there is very little benefit to that video. Maybe add some subtitles or spend more seconds on video portions that have text? I couldn't figure out why some things she scrolls have price tags of $250 and some $30 - what is she seeking in such wide price range?
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