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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?

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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

If I had the cash, I would buy in an instant.

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

#515

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…

LOVE. Thank you. Might sign up soon.

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

#518

I'm working on a few projects. Firstly, I've developed a suite of Python libraries to deal with NFL data, including play-by-play statistics and slicing game footage into its play-by-play components. A demo of my work is here: http://demo.nflfan.burntsushi.net/?week=5 (excuse the slowness, my web server is crappy) Everything is on GitHub: https://github.com/BurntSushi/{nflgame,nfldb,nflvid,nflfan} Secondly, I'm also w…

Great stuff! Where do you get the game footage from?

Here's a rough breakdown: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflvid/blob/master/notes

Any gaps should be easily filled by looking at the source of nflvid. It's pretty small and should be fairly straight-forward (even if you don't know Python).

TL;DR - NFL's content delivery network (Neulion) hosts the game footage and it is publicly accessible.

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

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Tharunopayam (http://upayam.tharuni.org/), a laravel/android-powered SMS helpline for adolocent girls, women and the aged in Warangal, India.

It uses an android device as an SMS server and a laravel based responsive front-end which allows our experts in various fields like nutrition, psychology, law, etc to answer peoples' queries from wherever and whenever they find it most comfortable.

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

#520
Gumroad (https://gumroad.com) — enabling any type of creator to earn a living selling what they make directly to their audience.

See: https://gumroad.com/demo

It's cool because I got started really seriously making stuff when I realized that there was not nearly as much of a difference between making stuff and making a living as I thought there was.

It was only getting cheaper and easier to make software. Making software (products!) has been democratized.

This has happened to software/startups, but not really to music nor film nor comedy nor photography nor publishing (yet!).

But it will soon and I'm happy to that Gumroad can contribute.

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