http://examtime.com - it is cool because it is helping people (100,000 so far) study and pass exams.
Great job guy. Sometime ago I was using a quiz-like site and I imagined how cool could be a page like this one.
Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#232I'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?
Europe, but in theory it shouldn't matter (except for RL meetups).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#233I am working on a side-project in my spare time - GetSSL.me [1]. The idea is to sell inexpensive certificates and offer friendly support. All certificates are hand picked and we only offer the best of them.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#234I'm building a distributed network, called Aether, that allows people to create and participate in reddit-like forums anonymously. It's fully encrypted. Take a look at http://www.getaether.net
It's cool because:
* It's anonymous. The posts jump from one node to another with no author information except a nickname. They cannot be traced back to the origin.
* It's encrypted with TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA cipher suite using 2048bit RSA keys. The connections most likely cannot be eavesdropped.
* It gives people an unfiltered, unmodified feed of information directly from the sources, with no intervention or censorship.
* It's unmoderated, so there is nobody that's deciding what you should and should not see. You can block people, however. Every client has a threshold of blocks for each node after which it stops showing that node to the user.
* Zero infrastructure.
This is a tool that can be used to either experience / exercise full free speech here in the west, or can be used for more essential two-way mass communication purposes where other venues are blocked, banned or self-censoring.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#235I'm working on a POSIX-ish OS in Brainfuck. I'm working on it because brainfuck is awesome and writing a kernel in it is even moar awesome. I'm currently trying to figure out how to port several basic GNU coreutils to the system. The kernel boots and hangs in QEMU. That's good for now; at least it boots. Now, the important thing is actually getting it to run bash, and a few basic coreutils, specifically cat, mkdir, e…
What compiler are you using? and will this be open source?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#236Soundslice ( 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…
I wish you made this sooner!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#237I want to build a marketplace for electronic cigarette vendors/individuals. I've been a vendor for almost 3 years and have a unique product which is even more effective than others in helping people quit smoking (even though we are not allowed to market it this way). I think that looming regulation will destroy a lot of small businesses, so I am trying to find a way to respond to that. Getting someone to take payment…
Your contact info?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#238We are working on a fun & cozy team management web app - https://hiburo.com. Try the one-click demo on front page to get the feeling.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#239Soundslice ( 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…
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#240libgroove[1] - a generic music player backend C library.
The goal is to provide a powerful yet simple API for building a music player app. It's the backend for Groove Basin[2], a music player app written in Node.js with a web interface.
It's cool because everybody who uses it as the backend for their music player app benefits from the shared maintenance burden and increased robustness.
[1]: https://github.com/superjoe30/libgroove [2]: https://github.com/superjoe30/groovebasin