2 projects:
1) Easily save jobs - http://bucketjobs.com/ (live)
2) SAAS Dashboard - http://helicopter.io/ (closed beta)
Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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#752Creating a non-intrusive task management application. For example, you mail what the guy has to do and add this mail in cc: in_15_days@maildo.me . When the task is finished, he responds to you and adds: finished@maildo.me in CC. You can set up options for a weekly overview of tasks with their current state. Still developing the system though, but if your interested just add your mail to this form https://docs.google.…
Followupthen.com recently added support for tasks, which is basically this, I think?
Not exactly, i'm working with a employer - employee relationship.
Followupthen seems to be personal
Edit: Grmbl, you're right :(
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#753Blogvio ( http://www.blogvio.com ) - add beautiful widgets to your website. It's cool because you don't need to do any coding to add beautiful and custom galleries, video players, mp3 players, and any other types of widgets to your website. Just copy/paste an embed code and you're done. This helps you a lot especially if you're an agency or freelancer, or if you're using a publishing tool such as Wix, SquareSpace, We…
It's a cool tool! I used it a few weeks ago to create some slick picture widgets.
Cool, can you share some feedback?
We'll be new widgets and improvements soon. :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#754a MUD (multiplayer text-based RPG) written in Ruby. It's cool because MUDs are awesome. But I'm doing this in Ruby because it's a language I'm somewhat familiar with but I don't really consider myself an expert on (as opposed to PHP and Javascript, both on which I do consider myself to be an expert). I figured that building a Ruby project from scratch would be the best way to learn the language. So far, so good. Thou…
Another MUD lover here; I have a full JS MUD (WebSockets) engine I hack on from time to time for fun. Generally speaking its modeled after a flavor of diku.
I have another big commit planned with some significant refactoring but was holding off for nodejitsu to update their supported node version (you can try an early version of the mud with the link on the github page) and for socket.io to move to 1.0.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#755Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried using Lucene for the source code search engine?
It's still pretty early days with it at the moment so things are liable to change, but I have elastic set up right now. I'm completely new to search though, so I don't really know the ins and outs of different solutions. Plenty of time to learn though, as I'm still working on the crawler part right now.
Google wrote a regex code search engine based on trigrams, and you can download it[1]. I don't think Lucene supports regexes, but it can do some somewhat simpler pattern matches, and I don't necessarily see why regexes are necessary for searching code. Lucene does a lot more for search than match strings, and I don't necessarily see why searching code is fundamentally unlike searching other kinds of documents, so a lot of those features might help you get much better results.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#756http://99tests.com - a marketplace for getting the most skilled manual testers to find bug in your software. Idea is that you can set a price for each bug ($10-$500) that you would like to see, then pay our testers based on accepted bugs.
Nice, i will probably try it soon
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#757Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#758Clef ( https://getclef.com ) — a replacement for usernames and passwords on the web. It's cool because it allows the 99% of people who aren't technical to use public key cryptography to log in to websites.
Wow, this is awesome ! :) Good job, mate.
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#759Spreadsheet forumlas that build a Web Application
Story: When a business needs custom software to solve a particular business problem, such as a special inventory management issue, a recruitment process, expense management or whatever is custom for their company. Normally they would have to go out and hire a custom programming company to use a very high level technology to create a solution. This is very time intensive, complicated and because the programmers don't understand your business, often there is a massive communication gap and projects often fail. Cell Master is a much easier way for business owners and people inside of your business to create custom business software. It is effective because you understand the business, you understand what the software needs to do and how it needs to work. All you need is just some basic excel skills, knowing how to use excel formulas, and you can have the same potential as the expert programmer. So this means you are going to be able to create the software faster, you will be able to modify and adapt the software, it will be a lot more cost efficient and you will be able to create the solution that you want, not the solution that the programmers think you want. You will be able to create an interactive web application that solves your business problem with your own custom software. You will be able to do it with only excel skills, you don't need HTML skills, web server skills etc. With only spreadsheet skills, you can create your own custom web application.
Hello world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oogKKfbRyMQ
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#760Just started working on something to attack SharePoint that is based on sensible standards (REST, JSON, etc.) with the front end completely in something like AngularJS or Ember. This is cool as, in my opinion, SharePoint Must Die.
Open source it, I'd gladly jump on board in the war against SharePoint. Arghhhh, I have to put up with this junk every single day !