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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ogreyonder »

sherm8n wrote: post #17

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by kpao »

gjulianm wrote: post #72
kpao wrote: post #45

Infinite Flight: it's a flight simulator for mobile platforns I had been working on on the side for almost 7 years before finally deciding on joining forces with a friend to ship it on Windows Phone, then iOS and Android. What's cool about it is that it's written entirely in C# while and we still get decent performance on most devices. Also, we're slowly gaining traction with users that prefer flying with us rather t…

You're just two developers? That's amazing, I thought there was a full studio behind that game. I really love Infinite Flight, I didn't know it was C# on every platform and one of the few games going Windows Phone first. Congrats and keep up the great work :)

Thanks! Yep we're just a team of two, for now at least. It's starting to be a bit too much and we need to bring in more people at some point.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by hcm »

I'm working on CodeCube (http://codecube.io) - a pastebin that allows you to run the code snippets and see the output live in your browser.

It's built on Docker. I posted an article about how I built it here: http://hmarr.com/2013/oct/16/codecube-runnable-gists/

The source is up on GitHub at https://github.com/hmarr/codecube

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by Achshar »

A local media player in the browser. I mean to make it full media player with video support but for now it's audio only. I also want to make it web app instead of chrome app but some apis are not available anywhere else. And background running is a key feature. It has about 7k users, which is more than I expected TBH. Also the occasional support email is the best thing to happen to me that day. It shows that people actually use what I made.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/achshar-player/fdd...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by skwp »

http://reverb.com - a musician's marketplace.

It's cool because we're putting the care into hand curating our listings so that we have really cool collections (you can check em out here: http://reverb.com/handpicked-collections).

It's also cool because we're experimenting with machine learning (poking at prediction.io currently) to see if we can give people more of what they want. And we're building Ruby services and we have an iPhone app. And all this with only two developer, a UX designer and an intern. And it's cool because we're actually making money. And, we're hiring ;)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by mililani »

carleverett wrote: post #90

A high performance, affordable personal airplane: http://www.skycraftairplanes.com It's extremely fuel efficient, can fly 575 miles on a tank, cruises at 118 mph, and comes standard with really nice instrumentation including GPS, collision avoidance, synthetic flight, and an auxiliary input for your iPod. They sell for $55k. Here's the HN post I made a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826062

That's awesome. I was thinking about buying a personal plane to fly back and forth from Canada to California. I came across this, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDIXDRBJis

It's called the Synergy plane, and I think it will supposedly the most fuel efficient personal plane. Thoughts?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by rl12345 »

adrianh wrote: post #73

Soundslice ( http://www.soundslice.com/ ) -- animated guitar tabs / sheet music. Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/5680/bohemian-rhapsody-for-so... It's cool because: * The state of the art in guitar tabs is horrible ASCII crap (example: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eagles/hotel_california_ta... ). Soundslice is a 1000x improvement. * It solves a key problem for musicians, which is: when you're learning a new…

Dude, I love you! I started playing guitar again after a 10 year break and I'm learning new songs via youtube mainly nowadays. Just the other day I was thinking about how cool it would be if there was an app available just like yours. That slow-mo thing is a killer feature for sure, I always wanted that.

You may want to check these guys called Cifra Club over youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZUuCyyQe0 , they pretty much are doing the best of whats possible to do on youtube in terms of animated tabs.

Best of luck for you on this project!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by jkestner »

davidw wrote: post #104

I'm working on http://www.liberwriter.com - and it's not cool. But it makes money. It's cool to work on something that's both cool and makes money, but I'm at a point in my life where I'm happy to work on something that makes money even if it's not cool. But getting paid regularly is pretty cool in its own way. LiberWriter is a product/service to help authors, primarily by converting Word files to eBooks, as well as…

Solving a problem that people find valuable enough to pay you for is very cool.
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