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

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Post by praxeologist »

yabbadabbadoo wrote: post #237
praxeologist wrote: post #217

I 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?

My email is in my profile, 9nine9//gmail

(302) 990-8273 and my name is Ethan if you prefer to call.

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

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Post by freehunter »

adrianh wrote: post #185
freehunter wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the things I enjoy about traditional tabs, though, is that I can sit down and review them at my own pace. In your demo, I didn't see a way to view the entire tab at once. Also with ASCII tabs, I can repeat a section over and over at the speed I want. I've played with Rocksmith, which is a video game similar to Soundslice, and it has the same drawbacks for me. It's really, really hard to play a song when you're…

Totally understand. We're pretty close to launching a "stacked" display that shows the tab in rows, with vertical scrolling instead of horizontal scrolling. I suspect this will address that for you nicely. To answer your questions: you can repeat/loop stuff by dragging on the timeline (or clicking annotations). You can view the whole tab by using the zoom UI in the lower left corner.

Awesome, thanks for responding! I'll be watching this project to see where it goes, it has a good potential to upset Ultimate Guitar and Songsterr.

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

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Post by adrianh »

deadlysyntax wrote: post #263
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.

Thanks. We're definitely interested in making something for music teachers. I teach gypsy-jazz guitar at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, and I've used Soundslice with my students a teeny bit but so much more is possible.

Could you and I connect via email so that I can get more thoughts? Contact info in my profile.

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Post by Goopplesoft »

pla3rhat3r wrote: post #250
Goopplesoft wrote: post #147

GAuthify ( http://www.GAuthify.com ), Aims to make two factor authentication dead simple for the masses. I love two factor authentication and want to see everyone else use it too :)

I'm confused about this one. Wouldn't it be cheaper to use a solution like Twilio to do all this?

Very very doubtful. The base plan is $24 and covers 5000 users (a fairly large amount). If it saves 1 hour of developer time a month to maintain the code/infrastructure/bugs/issues/scaling you're already looking at a 50% price savings. Through building this I can guarantee that it will save way more than 1 hour a month.

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/13/silicon-valley-salaries-de...

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Post by tynan »

Sett (http://sett.com)

It's a new blogging platform that helps people build audiences. Our oldest users (1 year) have seen roughly 100% increase in daily traffic, twice as many comments, etc. My personal blog has doubled daily visitors and growth rate for subscribers went from 1% to 10%.

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Post by shravvmehtaa »

http://www.hshacks.com. Introducing hacking to the younger generation. Our goal is to introduce as many people to computer science as possible with our hackathon, and promote computer science education to as many females as possible. Companies are looking for more computer science talent and want more to see more females in their company ranks. There are almost 30% less females in computer science compared to males. We are here to provide the mentorship and training needed to become a great developer. We aim to teach students the basics of computer science by holding workshops, teaching the basics of web development, developing iPhone and Android applications, and integrating third party products (APIs) into applications.

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

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Post by pla3rhat3r »

Goopplesoft wrote: post #274
pla3rhat3r wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm confused about this one. Wouldn't it be cheaper to use a solution like Twilio to do all this?

Very very doubtful. The base plan is $24 and covers 5000 users (a fairly large amount). If it saves 1 hour of developer time a month to maintain the code/infrastructure/bugs/issues/scaling you're already looking at a 50% price savings. Through building this I can guarantee that it will save way more than 1 hour a month. Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/13/silicon-valley-salaries-de...

But you could create a very simple response and add numbers pretty easily. And at .075 cents per message I gotta think, in the long run, Twilio is a cheaper alternative.

I should add that I work for Twilio so I'm a bit biased. However, I love your idea. Just trying to do the math. :)

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Post by sm01 »

Working on an Android app to communicate with dolphins, )s) Dolphin Communicator http://goo.gl/7H6wh - it's cool because it works and it could help setup first-aid stations in the oceans for dolphins, once we learn how to refer to body parts and ailments, and it may help us understand ourselves better by showing that there are other sentient beings here. Understanding ourselves is required for us to survive this century.

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Post by pavlov »

daeken wrote: post #39

My weekend project for the last few weeks is a new Shader language. It's a twisted version of Forth, with some APL-inspired pieces. https://github.com/daeken/Shaderforth The macro facilities and compile-time arrays make many things super, super compact and beautiful. A great example is a raymarcher: https://github.com/daeken/Shaderforth/blob/master/examples/r... You can see it in action on Shadertoy here: https://www…

PostScript for GPUs? Awesome.

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Post by mercuryrising »

Ettolrahc wrote: post #206

I'm teaching myself JavaScript so this weekend I'm working on a basic app using Express, Node and the Twilio API. Learning on each little bit and will write about to help others too.

If you learn well with books, check out "Javascript: The Good Part" by Douglas Crockford. I don't usually learn well with books, but that one really clicked with me.
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