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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 so…
By making the system of production computer accessible we can run businesses at cost.
I'd like to start with the information systems for the One Acre Cafe. They are a pay-how-you-can restaurant opening in Johnson City, TN. (I wish it was pay-what-you-can rather than volunteer for food, but that's something to worry about later.)
Their initial need is for a volunteer management system. Apart from three people, the entire staff is volunteer. I've not done any coding on it yet, but it will almost certainly be a rails app.
https://github.com/wholcomb/volunteer_schedule
Eventually I'd like to integrate this with an inventory and pos system, so you get a bill that tells you what the meal cost the cafe to provide based on the accumulated cost information associated with the business.
You get a receipt that includes a QR linking to a profile for your server. You are able to give feedback by entering adjectives and ranking them -1–1.
There is also the ability to give a tip in bitcoins. I'd like to have a service where the money can be conditionally given. I'm interested particularly in housing.
I want people to be able to give specifically for shelter and they get it back if it isn't used.
Phase two would involve mortgaging a house and then renting the space at cost and payable in bitcoins. What I'm trying to work toward is the ability to sustainably travel. A chain of restaurants that accepted each others' electronic work reputations combined with easily accessible housing could allow a new sort of nomadic life.
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Why not try and make a kickstarter campaign? - You have a working prototype. - You have a problem where there is a real need for a solution. - People on this thread are interested. Now you just need to interview a few people who cycle around, show off your gizmo and make it part of the video on your kickstarter page ;)
I've thought about Kickstarting a bit. I guess my hesitation is that I'm terrified of pulling the trigger to get something injection molded. I don't trust my 3D modeling abilities enough to know that when I get something injection molded it will work. And injection molding is a lot money, so if I mess it up, I might not have enough money for a redo. That scares me, a lot. I'm not sure, I guess I'm scared of actually…
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
SilverAir - An athletic shirt that doesn't smell and designed to be worn at the gym and for everyday wear. demo@ http://www.yathletics.com It's cool because: It's made using pure silver which kills the odor-causing bacteria in your sweat, so you can -wear this shirt for your entire day and feel fresh, -reuse the shirt more often (i do). The fabric is completely new and something I made with my manufacturers from scra…
Non v-neck option? Cool concept. The video mentions musty smell persists after washing clothes. Wrong detergent choice or washing habits? I've never had that problem even after running 24KM in gym clothes.
As for the musty smell, that's a problem I personally face and I've validated that problem with a lot of my friends, peers, and customers. It doesn't happen on cotton but it happens mostly on the 100% polyester athletic clothing (which is the majority of all sportswear).
You're right though. Not everyone has this problem and maybe wrong detergent choice or washing habits play a part in that phenomenon. We just wanted to make sure we have the best anti-odor performance and the silver technology is the best in the industry. If you end up getting a shirt from us though, what you'll find to be the best feature is the feel and performance of the material we developed with the anti-stink part being the cherry on the top. That has been the case with 100% of our users so far.
A Selenium Grid ( http://testingbot.com ) I love working on this because I get to learn a variety of things. Right now I'm switching from Amazon EC2 to my own setup with KVM/Qemu VMs. It's been quite the experience prototyping with kvm/qemu, overall I'm really happy with it. From tuning libvirt, to loading RAM images straight into the VM in order to avoid boot-storms, learning about the various VM disk formats, virti…
Because: * Google Docs is the best WYSIWYG on the internet; * blogging can be just about writing on a cool interface, without having to setup blog platforms AND go on their messy interface to write; * regular people can use this; * the written content stays on Google Drive, so you can delete your blog and keep everything without dealing with strange database backups; * almost-compatible with Jekyll-Octopress themes (some changes on the code have to be made, and for now only I can add themes to the pool of themes, but we will see what happens); * custom CSS (tomorrow javascript) files (automatically fetches from Google Drive) embedding.
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…
Are you using OMX libs on Pi? With hardware decoding?
They can drag to set their schedule or set it based on days and we let them start earning morning and do all of the legwork. Our parkers can open up the app and book a spot on an hourly basis instantly.
DocsBlogger ( http://www.docsblogger.com/ ) -- blog from Google Drive. Because: * Google Docs is the best WYSIWYG on the internet; * blogging can be just about writing on a cool interface, without having to setup blog platforms AND go on their messy interface to write; * regular people can use this; * the written content stays on Google Drive, so you can delete your blog and keep everything without dealing with stran…