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

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Post by mercuryrising »

flyinglizard wrote: post #76

http://sandsquid.com - A web app for quickly locating and purchasing electronic parts, specifically entire BOMs (all the components on one or more PCBs, instead of just a single part like other services out there). It's bootstrapped, and we just recently launched. So far we had good traction and virtually all positive responses. Notably, people report that we save them hours every time they use our app, and I firmly…

I was thinking about doing something similar for a bit :).

If I may make a couple of suggestions - I put in 24 ATMEGA328P-PU-ND. It found where they were, it found the lowest price. They're $3.16 PU - total ~$76. If I get one more, 25 of them, I hit the price break, and my order total come to $50. Definitely a better deal. When I'm getting parts, the price breaks always seem to make me spend more, but there's situations where it wouldn't (like above). Adding in recognition for those would be good.

Another suggestion (this is what I was going to work on, but I've moved onto other things) - create a package deal - PCB, parts, stencils, etc, all in one. Have rolling part shipments (orders every Friday). Get reels of components, fulfill some yourself - but charge the live lowest price (you make a little bit from the reel discount, they save a little bit from your utility). You handle the money in between, and disperse it out to the lowest combined cost. Having a one stop shop where I could dump a schematic & board file and get back a PCB, parts, and stencils would be pretty awesome.

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

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Post by AsmMAn »

eudox wrote: post #33

A statically-typed, JIT-compiled dialect of Lisp. I felt that there was a spot between performance and low-level control, and high-level metaprogramming that no language right now occupies (Except possibly Rust, which looks pretty promising). https://github.com/eudoxia0/Hylas-Lisp

Great job! Very interesting it's even written in lisp! Do you have any book list you have read before wrote this compiler?

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

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Post by ninetax »

triaged wrote: post #16

We're working on an app for developers that collates all of your saas products into one mobile feed. It helps you stay current on what's happening at work, both what your team and your machines are doing. It also helps you quickly dig deeper into issues & triage important events. It's cool because you can keep track of a lot more than previously possible, communicate with your team, and act on it - from your phone. A…

Neat! Got a link or something? Mailing list?

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

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Post by rexf »

mpwn wrote: post #177
rexf wrote: post #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 sh…

dig the simplicity and saving seems useful. any plans to let a user tag the location and maybe get their history via json.

Thanks, glad you're digging it.

Yes, I want to have a simple, powerful tagging interface for providing more context.

Getting data out via JSON is easy, just have to build a secure API endpoint.

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

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Post by rglover »

Proper (https://properapp.com) - Easy to understand contracts for freelancers.

Cool because it makes the process of creating, sending, and signing freelance contracts much less difficult.

Ultimate goal is to get it to a point where a freelancer can pick from a series of pre-loaded templates related to their type of work (e.g. a brochure website, developing an application, wedding photography, etc.) and send their client a contract (that's viable) in minutes.

Also makes signing easy for clients by just using a single button click.

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

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Post by trey_swann »

jjsz wrote: post #107
trey_swann wrote: post #48

https://www.truevault.com/ TrueVault is a HIPAA compliant data backend for apps, devices, and sites. Developers use TrueVault so they can develop healthcare apps without building out their own HIPAA compliant infrastructure. You access data in TrueVault via our API and native clients. Think of TrueVault as Stripe for confidential patient data. You use Stripe to store credit card data so that you are PCI compliant. Ou…

This is how I read this: HIPAA data backend as a service. Can also connect to Stripe for PHI and credit card storage. Most companies are not HIPAA. HIPAA API. Other companies are not HIPAA. We handle HIPAA. We know HIPAA. HIPAA (AWS, FireHost, Rackspace) is not enough. HIPAA. HIPAA! Visit truevault dot com: recent blog entries- Do I Need To Be HIPPA Compliant?

Pretty close.

Stripe is really just used for comparison purposes. Using Stripe makes you PCI compliant, and using TrueVault makes you HIPAA compliant. Also it demonstrates that TrueVault is not a consumer facing document storage solution (not a HIPAA compliant Dropbox). You access data in TrueVault via our API and native clients.

Bottom line, if your application needs to be HIPAA compliant it’s a pain. If you push your protected health information (PHI) to TrueVault, then you don’t have to spend months and months developing your own HIPAA compliant infrastructure.

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

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Post by pla3rhat3r »

Udo wrote: post #204

I'm building a community-based startup and project incubator with the goal of forming "classes" of founders who support and advise each other. It's called http://launchway.net - though it's been difficult to get people on board I'll keep trying. As an aside, I think we should have threads like this one more often, I'd love to learn what everone's been up to periodically.

Where is this based out of?

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

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Post by jaibot »

Powershame: Publicly precommit to being productive; your friends will get a timelapse of screenshots when you're done.

It's cool because I'm using the pre-alpha version to get myself to work on Powershame, sending out timelapses to my wife and facing shame when I break it and it fails to send.

http://powershame.com

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

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Post by martindale »

Coursefork (http://coursefork.org) -- github for education.

We're trying to open-source the entire education system, starting with creating an easy way for materials and processes to become "forkable".

- Fork, for example, an MIT OCW course.

- Make modifications.

- Submit a pull request back to MIT with your changes, or, just teach from your own fork.

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

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Post by mercuryrising »

kranner wrote: post #175

An iOS speed-reading app ( http://velocireaderapp.com ) for ebooks. I have a day job so this is an after-hours side project. It's cool to me because it's something I use myself, almost every day. It's so effective I even get ePubs for any book I've just bought in paperback, just so I can read it in my app. I've got an endless list of planned features to experiment with, so it's fun in more than one way. And I like to…

That's pretty cool. When you're reading, at any point did you feel 'choppiness' of what you were reading, or do you get used to it? When looking at the trailer, I was finding my inner voice was more robotic than reading normally.
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