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

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Post by nav »

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

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Post by jredwards »

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…

This is really, really excellent. I'll be learning a new song or two today.

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

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Post by flyinglizard »

mercuryrising wrote: post #221
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 situati…

Hey, thanks for the feedback.

As for ATMEGA328P-PU-ND, did you try using the optimization slider? :) Drag it all the way to its "Aggressive" setting, it will bump the quantity up to 25, and the total down to $48 - just like you said.

As for package deals - you are right, this is what needs to be done. We're thinking about that.

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

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Post by julien421 »

We are working on HNWatcher.com, a tool for everyone (community managers, growth hackers, devs, devops...) to track keywords and users on Hacker News.

It is cool because you can be alerted on:

- any mention of your name, company, product or competitors on Hacker News and join the conversation.

- any submissions or comments of users you like

This way you can upvote while it's still time and join conversations on subjects that matter to you.

https://www.hnwatcher.com/

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

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Post by younata »

carleverett wrote: post #90

A high performance, affordable personal airplane: http://www.skycraftairplanes.com It's extremely fuel efficient, can fly 575 miles on a tank, cruises at 118 mph, and comes standard with really nice instrumentation including GPS, collision avoidance, synthetic flight, and an auxiliary input for your iPod. They sell for $55k. Here's the HN post I made a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826062

Holy shit, that is awesome! If only I had 55k to spend on that sort of thing, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

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

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Post by mercuryrising »

dan335 wrote: post #135

A simple algorithmic stock trader. https://green-machine.us Give it a set of rules and it will buy and sell stock for you. I got interested in algorithmic trading and built this site to find out if it works. If it does I'll add real money trading.

You should add a demo or something - that landing page is a bit ominous, and I don't really want to sign up for something that I haven't seen yet.

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

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Post by sherm8n »

chrisduesing wrote: post #211
sherm8n wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But what does it "do". What is causing these people to start engaging with me? (I signed up and am completely bewildered)

Thanks for pointing this out. I do need more copy there stating exactly what the system will do.

In case you didn't catch my response to someone else, the "social etiquette" on each social media channel is different to begin a conversation. For Twitter, it can be as simple as a "favorite".

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

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Post by mercuryrising »

cmyr wrote: post #36

I'm moving to zambia for the winter to start an after-school program doing basic computer and internet literacy skills with kids. It has been really fascinating watching all of the tools and projects that have popped up over the past few years attempting to make really high quality educational resources widely available, but these tools remain generally out of reach for those people that would most benefit from them.

Awesome, good luck! Are you doing it with a program or going solo? Do they have access to computers, or are you bringing some in?

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

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Post by mercuryrising »

camperman wrote: post #57

A Raspberry Pi-based multimedia display solution for SMEs, large corporates and municipalities. It displays nearly all video and image formats and real time news feeds at 50fps in almost any layout combination while using less than 20% CPU at full tilt. It's cool because most people are blown away at how fast and smooth it is when they first see it. A lot of the code is in C, the video decoder is in a thread (and it…

Make a demo and put it on online!
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