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

Post by chrisduesing » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 7:05 PM UTC

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.

Post by heyimwill » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 7:06 PM UTC

spartango wrote: post #188

heyimwill wrote: post #79

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That sounds incredibly cool, but as someone who lost their sister to cancer I wish this would've existed earlier.

I'm so sorry to hear it. This is why we're working in cancer. We all work as fast as we can, but I've already seen too many cases with poor prognoses. The hope is that in growing this technology, we can catch cancers earlier when they are more treatable.

Post by carleverett » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 7:07 PM UTC

mililani wrote: post #193

carleverett wrote: post #181

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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.

Post by praxeologist » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 7:08 PM UTC

Post by bharad » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 7:10 PM UTC

vorador wrote: post #205

I'm working on a gmail replacement to deploy on my own server. It's called kite. It uses a lot of cool techs like vagrant, puppet, angularjs and of course, postfix for mail handling. For the moment, it doesn't do much besides displaying a list of emails in a maildir but in a week or two I should have thread handling written. The source is at: http://github.com/khamidou/kite (sorry for the lack of readme, I should get…