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

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Post by tommoor »

imtu80 wrote: post #569
tommoor wrote: post #115

Sqwiggle https://www.sqwiggle.com - It's cool because we're making peoples lives genuinely better by enabling them to work from wherever they want. We're also doing our part to rid the world of commuting and grey cubicles.

Cool! Its amazing what we can do with WebRTC. I create this site ( https://github.com/imomin/videoChat ) just for fun. Are you guys trying to replace Skype? Because, that is what most freelancers and contractors are using it.

We definitely see people swapping for Skype, yes. We're not trying to replace it for general communication - as an internet phone Skype is excellent - but for collaboration, not so much :-)

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Post by edh649 »

Am currently just in the conceptual stages but some sort of device where you plug in a bunch of ipods and then can select a song from any of them to play as well as queuing music etc.

Is cool because at parties etc. means you don't have to continually switch ipods to put on 'That song'

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Post by adyus »

rexf wrote: post #129

GeoGraph - http://geographapp.com/ Like imgur for location. No sign up & 1 click to share your current location. If you sign up, you can save your location privately (only you can see it). Use cases are wide open. Save your parking spot. Share location to meetup with a friend. Save a special spot in a forest. Etc. If you use check-in services, GeoGraph may interest you. If you never share your location online, you sh…

I had the idea a while back, it's great to see it implemented so well!

One suggestion though, the fact that use cases are wide open could stifle growth. I'd suggest a few different landing pages you could A/B test, each covering a very specific use case.

You could have one page explain that you can save your parking spot and share it with others. Another for sharing a meetup location. Another for saving your favorite locations. Yet another (where you may win big) would be easy location saving for photo and film location scouting.

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

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Post by samweinberg »

mafuyu wrote: post #489

I'm working on a credit card sized e-paper device. It has an Arduino, USB, Real Time Clock, and a battery, and fits in your wallet. Still doing hardware designs. Some potential applications: * Replace all the barcodes in your wallet (loyalty/membership) * Google Auth TOTP * QR Codes (links/BTC wallets) * Interactive nametag * e-book/text display * date/time display with wireless phone sync over BTLE * act as a USB de…

This sounds pretty cool. Would the hardware be open source so that other people can build their own?

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Post by lukaseder »

tynan wrote: post #598
lukaseder wrote: post #596

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I just use sett to syndicate my Wordpress blog posts, the way I'm currently doing with DZone, JCG (as an affiliate) or StumbleUpon, GetPrismatic, Tech.Pro (manually)? Or is sett intended to compete with (hosted) Wordpress directly?

It's intended to compete directly with hosted Wordpress. You can import directly from Wordpress XML, too.

Hmm, that's gonna be tough. I find the Wordpress+GetPrismatic or even Disqus kind of combination quite competitive to get traffic, and in a tech area, as I said, there are lots of great syndicators. I agree that your USP is subtly better though. Are you already profitable?

Also, why did you call it Sett? The metaphor isn't very obvious from your website.

And you should think of a better headline. Here's a good article: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/ultimate-home-page-headline/

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Post by camperman »

swatkat wrote: post #548
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…

Cool! I was experimenting on something similar with BeagleBoneBlack and libVLC. However, the 3.8 kernel doesn't have drivers for onboard SGX GPU; and I couldn't get decent resolution with software decoding. Are you using OMX libs on Pi? With hardware decoding?

Yes - I decode a raw stream in a thread using OMX. I don't need sound so I don't have to worry about a demux library, it's just a raw H264 stream I hand off to the hardware.

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Post by nathanathan »

timmclean wrote: post #54

http://www.timmclean.net/json-editor/ A code editor that uses knowledge of a programming language's grammar. It's cool because it should be significantly more efficient than working in vim/emacs, and will allow powerful scripting capabilities and macros to transform code structurally, instead of as text.

I experimented with using cfgs in a code editor before but with the aim of making it easier to code on touch screen devices where curly braces and the like are difficult to type. Here's a prototype I started for writing Json. http://nathanathan.com/cfg-gen/

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Post by babby »

mazumdar wrote: post #595
Jack5500 wrote: post #582

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why so much for international Shipping? Seems a lot to me for such a little package

Hey Jack. You'll be surprised how expensive international shipping can be. We've done our research and it comes to a minimum of $25 for most countries. Since domestic shipping is included in the shirt pricing, we've subsidized the international shipping by $5 to be fair to all customers.

Nice. I think the price you're charging for the shirts is overall quite reasonable. Keep it up, ill keep my eye on the kickstarter.

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

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Post by camperman »

randomhunt wrote: post #85
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…

Any idea how you're going to release it? (productise/monetize or open source) I hacked up in the past a temporary solution using PowerPoint running on stripped down older laptops in the foyer and outside meeting rooms in my old company which worked well but I always thought it was a bit overkill and would like to see something like R-Pi in those kind of uses. I imagine yours is a lot more powerful but still think it…

We have a lot of customers lined up already: two fast food outlets who want it as a digital menu system, a local council who want it as a digital signage product and some SMEs who want it for reception-based product display. So we're going to be supplying complete solutions with internet connections for updates and each customer will get their own content of course. Pis are incredibly cheap so we'll be highly competitive against other digital signage products.

I will definitely release the framework as LGPLed code when its good enough for public consumption. It's nothing technically very special: a C API to create graphics elements using old style OpenGL behind the scenes, a video decoder pinched from hello_videocube.c and a LuaJIT wrapper around it all with ideas from Cocos-2D. Flash will never be supported on the Pi so this is my attempt at an open alternative.

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