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Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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#762Shellshare ( http://shellshare.net ) -- live streaming of your terminal Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCXnIgsEqK0 It's cool because: * It lets you share your terminal session, read-only, using just one command. Easy to get (or give) help. * Many people can watch the same session. If you pair it with Hangouts OnAir, you could do live trainings. * It's not as powerful as tmux or screen sharing (as it's readonly)…
Awesome ! :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#763BabyDigest ( https://www.getbabydigest.com ) - Share baby pictures safely My baby's timeline/Demo: https://www.getbabydigest.com/timeline/santiago It's cool because: * It solves a key problem for parents: How do I easily share my baby's pictures & videos privately without requiring my friends and family to sign up or install something? * It automatically finds pictures of your baby on your Facebook feed and pulls the…
Very cool! My wife and I have this issue. We and my parents want to share pictures without posting our child's life for facebook to control, but still have that convenience.
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#764WPCmdCtrl (http://wpcmdctrl.com) - Simplifying managing multiple WordPress installs.
It's cool because:
* It takes the headache out of maintaining multiple WordPress sites.
* The main plan is that everything is "set and forget". Install one plugin and that site is covered:
* Automatic updates for both point (3.7.1, 3.7.2, etc) and major releases (3.8, 3.9). The point releases should actually happen 1-2 days sooner than the 3.7 auto updates from Wordpress.
* Automatic plugin updates
* Automatic file and DB backups that are stored in S3
* Uptime and response time monitoring.
* "white screen of death" alerts
* Malware / blacklist scans and comparisons of core and plugin files against WordPress.org versions.
This was built for my own internal uses. I had one consulting client that managed around 600 sites and could not get their heads around the other management tools on the market, but could work from a Excel sheet that had the urls / usernames / passwords for all of their sites. When an update was ready, their procedure was: downloading all of the files via FTP, downloading a SQL dump, pressing the "update" buttons, looking at the home screen to make sure it loads, updating the excel sheet with the date and install version and moving on to the next site. They averaged 4 sites per hour. I'll let you do the math on how long that took to get through all of their sites.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#765A Pivotal and Trello hybrid for agile software development teams. Pivotal works but lacks the idea of "stages", which is very useful because it actually reflects the real world. Trello is cool but it isn't made specifically for software. For example, it doesn't have acceptance workflow. Combining ideas from both of these results in a very compelling and (I think) useful product. Version 1 will be ready next week.
hpvic - not sure if you're working this solo, or as a bigger team, but I'm a PM, I love Trello, haven't used Pivotal, and can't stand Jira. I've been considering building out a Jira-killer myself as a side project. Might be good to chat and hear more of what you're working on. If you want to connect my email is cameron.norgate at the gmail. Cheers!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#766Proper ( https://properapp.com ) - Easy to understand contracts for freelancers. Cool because it makes the process of creating, sending, and signing freelance contracts much less difficult. Ultimate goal is to get it to a point where a freelancer can pick from a series of pre-loaded templates related to their type of work (e.g. a brochure website, developing an application, wedding photography, etc.) and send their c…
You have an almost 1 megabyte image on the homepage (the octopus). On my internet the image alone took about 4 seconds to load. You should consider optimizing it
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I was thinking about doing something similar. One of the things I wanted to incorporate was an reputation ability (beyond just blocking). It would be similar to a referral engine in Netflix or Amazon. So, I'm user A. I mark user B as a high-value poster. User B marks user C as a high-value poster. When I run across a post by user C, I see they have a good reputation. If many people I ranked as high-value, also ranked…
This is cool, but you're making assumptions about information that is outside of your immediate connections. This could work in a network where one could trust that all the information one receives from immediate connections about others is true, but that is not the case. In your case, user B could mark everybody as a high value poster, and it be successful in diverting your attention. This causes problems even in th…
You're right, user B could make incorrect (to me) ratings about other users.
Similar to what you say about derived and produced information, I would have "personal" and "external" ratings. My personal rating for user C (that I make after reading some of their posts) would override all my other external contacts ratings of user C.
Over time, if I have a high percentage of different personal ratings from user B's ratings, then the system would apply less weight to his ratings for other users.
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#768Dead By Zombie: a Python Rogue-like about a zombie apocalypse. I first created it several years ago as a commercial closed-sourced game and it actually sold copies. Now I've open sourced it on GitHub, and am upgrading the engine and giving it a facelift, transforming it into a more serious game of survival and a sandbox for rebuilding civilization. Survivalists, anarcho-capitalists and libertarians may like it. "Day…
thumbs up for you
thanks!
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In regards to the first one: Sounds like a cool idea. Might I also suggest an overall fuzzing engine? Sulley and Peach Fuzzer both have fairly ugly APIs and config formats, in my opinion. A pretty DSL that lets you describe a template, also with the ability to add custom Python functions and integrate them on the fly, would be great.
It, more or less, has a separate "Fuzzing Template" system which it uses to generate the brute force test cases. It was never meant to rise to the complexity of Sulley's fuzzing system. I wanted an in between complexity for the dumbest fuzzing and something completely flexible like Sulley and Peach. To solve that 80% problem of, "OK, I just grabbed an HTTP request, let's turn it into a quick and dirty fuzzing templat…
Certainly sounds interesting. I'll be sure to check it out.
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This sounds pretty cool. Would the hardware be open source so that other people can build their own?
Yeah, definitely. The whole point would be to have a completely open hardware design and software library so that people can build off of it.
I'm interested in the idea for sure. Is there any way I can get updates on the project (github, website, newsletter)?