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

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Post by mindcrime »

martindale wrote: post #229

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.

This is amazingly cool. I was excited about this from the first time Elliot mentioned it to me, and I'm thrilled to see how far you guys have come. Way to represent the Triangle!

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Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #100

Currently working on an open source implementation of Minecraft [1] - a server, client, and various related things. The new Minecraft update released this week and radically changed how networking works, so it's a bit tough to get it all working again. It's cool because it's a totally open source recreation of everything . It's got a server, a client, terrain generation, physics simulation, level editing, classic sup…

Currently working on an open source implementation of Minecraft [1]

Sweet! Looking forward to playing with this. :-)

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Post by deadlysyntax »

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 cool. I could see another application for it - Teachers delivering music lessons to students. As a drum teacher this would be a perfect platform for me to deliver my lessons, assuming you could support drum music (but there's probably a market for this among guitar tutors). I'm imagining a billing system where students pay to subscribe to my lessons and you guys take a slice of the pie.

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Post by chasb »

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…

What's a use case for this?

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Post by ghc »

I'm working on http://algorithmic.ly -- algorithms as a service.

It's cool because I get to help startups who don't always have the resources to hire someone like me who specialized in implementing and scaling certain kinds of algorithmic features. These startups need help with everything from geospatial search up to anomaly detection and predictive analytics.

It's bootstrapped, so while I'd love it if it was a public offering, at this point it's still a hybrid consulting/data-services company. Eventually it will be a public platform, and I hope we can help a lot more people!

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Post by mattmcegg »

metral wrote: post #34

I'm working on an aggregated information panel for the novice Bitcoin day trader. It's great for Bitcoin buyers & sellers because the panel is consolidated around the more popular exchanges & wallets, its cleaner & easier to read than most financial-type sites, & all the data is real-time. Also, I'm working on supplemental features such as a live balance & calculator page to help make more informed decisions without…

Sounds awesome! I'm not only interested in the day trading application, but your software stack sounds awesome as well. I couldn't find how to PM you on here, but you should email me at at gmail. best of luck!

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Post by bedatadriven »

ActivityInfo - allow non0technical humanitarian and other NGO workers to define indicators, collect results, map, share, and overlay from dozens of different sources. Open-Source AppEngine/GWT app with OLAP-ish database that syncs to local WebSQL for offline usage. http://about.activityinfo.org, or http://github.com/bedatadriven/activityinfo

Renjin - new interpreter for the R language built on the JVM (http://www.renjin.org) - includes a gcc-based Fortran/C to JVM compiler tool chain to leverage and transform existing scientific code.

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Post by mtdewcmu »

philbo wrote: post #201

Currently I'm working on a few different developer tools, as part of my continuing mission to make my own life easier. I figure they're probably cool because if I'm scratching my own itch then I should be scratching itches for other devs too. * GitHubReminder - serendipitous email reminders about your starred repos on GitHub. https://githubreminder.org/ * JSComplexity - code complexity metrics for JavaScript. http://…

Have you tried using Lucene for the source code search engine?

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Post by mercuryrising »

cwal37 wrote: post #96

Nothing to do with coding, but I recently started writing energy things at www.btus.us It's just Wordpress for now, but I want to talk about energy generation and consumption related things using EIA and other data sources in ways people haven't seen before. Maps, charts, tables, I think there are a lot of fun things to look at in the energy industry, and most people don't have a strong grasp on it. I'm working on a…

If you haven't seen NPR's visualizing the grid, check it out - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109973...
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