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snapcard - Allows people to spend their bitcoins on any website at anytime, regardless of whether the merchant has it integrated.

Like Amazon 1 click, except it works on every website and requires no merchant integration.

Video Demo - https://vimeo.com/76122291

It's cool because - Spend bitcoins anywhere you want - No merchant integration - 1 click checkout so you don't flood a million websites with your personal data.

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Wow this looks nice! I wonder how complicated this would become for songs from Satriani, Malmstein or Steve Vai? Why did you choose tabs which is rather weak (correct me if I'm wrong) notation?

Thanks! The software scales up to that stuff. There's a bunch of complicated stuff transcribed on Soundslice. Here's an arpeggio exercise in the style of Satriani et al: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/4976/electric-guitar-solo-cra... The slow-down feature helps. :) I chose tabs to start because (1) it's easier to implement than standard notation, (2) most guitarists use tab instead of notation, and (3) classic tab re…

Did you consider/play with Lilypond at all?

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

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I've just completed Dailybbble http://dailybbble.herokuapp.com/ it sends you emails with best Dribbble designs of the day. It's cool because I always visited dribbble.com to see populars, now they're at my inbox at every 9am.

There are already hundreds of subscribers in the list. That excites me.

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

#125
Gingerbread and Candy Corn (http://gingerbread-and-candy-corn.appspot.com) - A one-stop spot for finding houses with holiday decorations. Sadly, I don't think it'll be ready for Halloween :( Though it should be ready for a launch near Black Friday :)

As a kid, I always loved driving around looking at Halloween/Christmas lights and as I've gotten older and moved to a bigger city, its been a little difficult knowing where to go to see good houses. The only real way to do it right now is YouTube videos or hoping your local newspaper has it covered.

The reason I think its cool is I'm learning to use Google App Engine on a responsive HTML5 style page. Since I'm not too graphic oriented, I'm learning how to use Flat UI to my advantage (as you can see in the nowhere near done demo). I'm going to get to learn a lot of web hosting stuff, like the official webpage currently is hosted with Dreamhost, but how do I get GAE to play nice with that, managing/handling requests, how to appropriately display houses without killing my GAE free package. If it generates enough success this Christmas, I'm hoping to spend next year learning mobile development for an app that does the same thing, but also gives you directions.

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

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http://jaunt-api.com

It's a (free) headless browser API for web automation, creating web-bots, scrapers, and talking to REST-ful web services. I just released Beta version 0.9.5 last night.

It's cool because it's far more lightweight than the most obvious alternatives, which means (for example) that it's possible to run many, many browser instances at once, such as one per thread. As an API, it's very developer-friendly with extensive documentation and simple examples for every concept, making it very easy to get started writing java-based scrapers/bots/etc.

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

#127

i'm developing a mobile web interface & a SaaS architecture for my buddy's greenhouse & hydroponics controller business [1]. the backend comm is MODBUS/TCP (ethernet) or MODBUS/RTU (serial). he's currently in Long Beach at the Maximum Yield expo showing off the early alpha I ummm, "polished off" at 4am last night :) [2] it's cool because his customers and oems have been hounding him for some time for an Android and i…

Is there any wireless communication? I've been building a similar pH monitor using XBee communication. If your buddy would like to someone else to work with, I've been doing this in my free time.

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

#129
GeoGraph - http://geographapp.com/

Like imgur for location. No sign up & 1 click to share your current location. If you sign up, you can save your location privately (only you can see it).

Use cases are wide open. Save your parking spot. Share location to meetup with a friend. Save a special spot in a forest. Etc.

If you use check-in services, GeoGraph may interest you. If you never share your location online, you shouldn’t use this.

Working on new features to make location more useful.

Edit - Link to site.

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

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That sounds useful! I signed up for your newsletter. I'm curious if you have a series of screenshots or something showing it in use?
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