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Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)

#24
http://notegraphy.com

Because a simple tool to write & share beautifully is attracting a lot of people (+250k iOS users) and generating a different way of sharing text (+600k notes, now 12k daily). Also, technically speaking it's a nice example of technology marriage: the web and the native app enviroments. Android version soon, if you want to test drive, /android and suscribe.

I never got bored in the project. I've designed both iOS and the web applications and also helped to code LESS/HTML and SVG to create the base product and automated many things. It's fun as hell.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)

#25
Heard of the video game Starbound? http://playstarbound.com

I'm pretty heavily involved in Minecraft reverse engineering, and I've started a new website for reverse engineering Starbound. Dissecting the networking protocol, file formats, or whatever else fits in, it's fair game for the site. Come help out? http://starbound-dev.org

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)

#27

http://spout.co -- We're trying to make building finance apps alot less scary for the average developer. To be honest I see no reason why the average person can't add p2p payments into their app or why an accounting software should have to wait years before adding bank syncing. We're making all of this do-able in a weekend or even at a hackathon. We just launched to a few live customers last week and already we have…

I am interested. Do you guys cover european banks?

FYI, your signup for a private beta makes it very hard to click send. there is like 1 pixel on the send-button that actually triggers the action.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)

#29
http://www.quantumbiosystems.com an IC that can read DNA without any complicated chemistry and on a device that costs dollars.

It's cool not only because it could revolutionize medical research and diagnostics. But also because it gives the world a fundamental new class of sensor on which new applications will be developed for years to come.

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