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

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Post by adrianh »

PabloOsinaga wrote: post #139
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…

Really cool stuff. Did you think about adding the feature of producing a combined video with the original video plus the overlaid tabs? That'd be nice so that people that transcribe can post back to YouTube. I guess a lot of people will just search in YouTube and it'd be nice if those searchers could discover the content that the people at Soundslice are creating. BTW (100% unrelated) - I took one of your YouTube gui…

Thanks! A few people have suggested that idea -- creating a new YouTube video with the tabs overlaid -- but it's a low priority for us, given everything else we want to do.

Nice work with BandHub!

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

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Post by goyalpulkit »

Shyahi (http://shyahi.com) - Your Social Homepage. Its like about.me with extended information about social profiles beautifully summarized on your profile.

Its free, easy to set up and pulls in your stats directly from Dribbble, Github, Stackoverflow, Twitter and your blog feed which means that your Shyahi profile is always up to date. This is something that's really cool about Shyahi, you set it up once and then its automatically updated based on your social activity. It provides the most precise and relevant information to your audience at one central online location. And its bootstrapped and made by two people.

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

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Post by mililani »

carleverett wrote: post #181
mililani wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

That is a sick looking plane! I would fly that thing in a heartbeat. Make no mistake though, if that plane makes it to the market it will be extremely expensive and will burn a whole lot of fuel. The engine they're using, the 200 HP Deltahawk, costs more than our entire plane at $70,000,[1] and while it is very fuel efficient for an engine with that power, it will still be burning 7-11 gph in flight.[2] It is unreaso…

Thanks for the response! Yeah, after doing more research, I realized that the Synergy plane would guzzle way more gas than your plane. However, I think it's a dual seater vs. the Sky Craft plane. I would need a dual seater to haul me and my wife across the country.

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

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Post by ogreyonder »

sherm8n wrote: post #146
ogreyonder wrote: post #111

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I signed up to check it out and created a campaign. I can't tell if it's doing anything, though. Should I expect an email of some sort? Or do I need to check back to look at your page later?

Sorry it's so confusing. If you created a campaign then it is already working. There's nothing else for you to do inside the product. Now all you have to do is interact with the people that are starting to engage with you. It's not an instant thing. Our system detects when relevant conversations are going on using fancy algorithms based around machine learning, sentiment analysis and POS tagging.

Sorry but I still don't quite understand. How are people going to engage with me? Does your system tweet / follow people for me?

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

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Post by nkg »

gfodor wrote: post #176

http://babygra.ms Mail photo postcards of the kids to grandparents. It's cool because people like it and pay for it. It's also nerd-cool because it uses AWS SWF for order processing and gave me a chance to see if I could design, ship, and scale up a successful iOS app myself.

I like your idea very much, but don't forget the Droid legion. I would definitely pay for it.

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

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Post by vilva »

mkramlich wrote: post #102

Dead By Zombie: a Python Rogue-like about a zombie apocalypse. I first created it several years ago as a commercial closed-sourced game and it actually sold copies. Now I've open sourced it on GitHub, and am upgrading the engine and giving it a facelift, transforming it into a more serious game of survival and a sandbox for rebuilding civilization. Survivalists, anarcho-capitalists and libertarians may like it. "Day…

thumbs up for you

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

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Post by k4st »

I'm working on https://github.com/Granary/granary. It is a Linux kernel dynamic binary translation framework. It's cool because it lets you rewrite the Linux kernel (at different granularities) while it's running. This is useful for analysis, debugging, etc. Right now I'm putting together benchmarks for an upcoming paper deadline.

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

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Post by mercuryrising »

tsumnia wrote: post #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…

Have you used your AWS free tier up yet? If not, you should consider jumping on it. Free 24/7 micro server for a year - and you host the webserver, so you can install Apache, Nginx, whatever you want. I used it for a while, and the most I got charged was a couple quarters for going over on disk usage (DB was doing unnecessary reads / writes).

Also - this is a cool idea. As I've grown up in the same area, it seems like fewer and fewer people go all out for decorations around Halloween and Christmas, it who does with minimal effort. I can't find any examples (none in my area), but does it support pictures of the decorations?

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

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Post by jph »

sunspeck wrote: post #30

A biodiverse, edible forest garden in the center of an public high school. We are breaking ground with a team of students in about an hour. This is (very) cool because it will expose adolescents to a variety of concepts, perspectives, and phenomena that are severely lacking from most urbanized places.

A+ amazing project. Would love to know more, donate money if you need it, and tell people about your project.

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

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Post by computeloops »

dxm wrote: post #144
computeloops wrote: post #56

http://www.remotewaker.com A tool to save computer power consumption. It is cool because, it could contribute to keep earth cool :)

Nice. But why have you added the horrible photoshop effect to those images?

I bought the theme from Wrap Bootstrap and the images are supposed to be replaced. The site will be revamped soon. Thanks
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