I've been learning rails and recently began a personal project to build an app to automate the reinvestment of cex.io profits (i.e. bitcoins into bitcoin mining contracts - Gigahashes/sec). It's very minimalistic at the moment, but it works! http://lazycexio.herokuapp.com/
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#32I've been working on Educator News, a clone of HN for the education community.
It's been tried before and was well-received initially, but the people behind the project were not developers. They tried to build it on a framework that wasn't really designed for building web apps, and the project disappeared pretty quickly.
I need to optimize some of the queries before the project gets too large, but the most basic functionality is there. It's pretty satisfying to have a project that I'm confident will fit a pretty significant need.
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#33FairTutor went through a nice little closed Beta, got a bunch of good feedback, had a good group of remote tutors interviewed and ready to go... ... and then I had a kid. It's still that ready. I just need to kick myself back in to gear and find a couple spare weeks to re-interview a new crop of teachers, fix what needs fixing, and flip it live. Any day now... http://www.fairtutor.com/
How old is your kid? The hardest part I have with building a second career as a programmer is making time around my (fairly new) family's needs. My motivation to make meaningful projects is higher than it has ever been though, because I want to help make a better world for my son.
As he grows up, which is happening as fast as everyone says it does, I will have plenty of time again. I enjoy every day with my family now, but I also look forward to having enough time to polish some of the projects I have started.
I get an hour or two in the morning before I have to go to work, and maybe an hour at night if I'm not exhausted by then.
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#34Working on a CRM for small business owners. Currently aligned towards the pet service industry and in the future other small business verticals
Production - www.petworkslabs.com QA - www.petworkslabsqa.com (admin login - sp1@pwl.com/password)
Feel free to forward it to your dog walkers!
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#35We are going live with our Toothbrush Subscription company in a few weeks and I would love your candid feedback before our launch: http://maverickbrothers.com/ Please comment on pricing, product, website design or anything else that you like or dislike. Thanks in advance! Marcos Founder
This is funny. I was pretty skeptical when I read your post, but when I looked at your site I realize how seldom I replace my toothbrush if my wife doesn't buy me a new one. Then I remember how much better a new toothbrush feels. So I think this might work!
I wouldn't use the service, but a little feedback:
- I couldn't tell the difference between what you get for $1/month, and what the $19 is for. Is the $19 for your first toothbrush with a stand?
- The images of "classic" toothbrushes kind of turn me off. They look like objects I would not want going near my mouth. I understand the appeal of a classic razor, but I have never thought of toothbrushes as having any historical appeal at all.
Good luck!
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#36Working on a compiler for data collection. It's a simple programming language that allows you to launch surveys on android devices. We can also compile to an embedded webserver using (webtoolkit.eu) or a desktop survey using wxWidgets, but are they are lagging behind the mobile device at the moment, and building this is not documented
We are Open Source, the project is here
https://github.com/neilxdsouza/xtcc-qscript
I just update the readme with build instructions and this was done in a hurry, I will be happy to clear any issues people face (but's it's late night here and about to head out to sleep). Lots of dependencies - emscripten, bison, flex, g++, node, phonegap (2.7.0 is what we are currently using) and android dev kit.
If you want a test account, please write to me, we have compiled and built the compiler on our server (http://xtcc-qscript.com). Please don't use the account for anything serious and please use a different password as we do not have a ssl certificate in place.
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#37https://www.dawndata.com - Google Analytics on Google Glass. Positive response so far so thinking of adding more like YouTube Analytics, AWS CloudWatch metrics/alarms, Heroku data clips, etc. Very open to feedback, critiques, comments, and questions!
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#38A game - I haven't worked on it in exactly ten months now :'(. My willpower is drained. Here's the pathfind & boid/flocking - I am going to rewrite it, it's incredibly buggy and ugly as of now :( https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1367825/coop_pathfinding... - sorry for the dirty screen, I couldn't record the screen because of performance. Here's the menus - saw a presentation by Martin Johansson on "Make it jucy" (…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg
Here's the presentation. It's a pretty fantastic watch that shows what just a few small design decisions can do for a product's impressions on an audience.
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#39I'm developing a notification service that lets people sign up to be notified when something they are interested in occurs, and most importantly only when that occurs. The goal is to be agnostic and let people be notified any way they like (email, app notification, SMS, phone call, letter in the post box etc) and for developers to be able to send notifications for a wide range of specific events (e.g. tickets on sale for this band in this city) using an API in their language of choice.
A basic version of the website is up right now:
I'm really looking for feedback on what to work on next. Is this a service that you could use in your company? If not, what's missing?
The next directions I'm looking at are:
0. Improving the look of the website.
1. Adding API support starting with REST.
2. Adding more notification methods (e.g. SMS).
3. Adding ability to create multiple-fire notifications and parameter based notifications (e.g. notify me whenever the weather in TOWN is > TEMPERATURE).
4. Adding built-in notifications such as weather, stock, etc.
Comments welcome.
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#40We are going live with our Toothbrush Subscription company in a few weeks and I would love your candid feedback before our launch: http://maverickbrothers.com/ Please comment on pricing, product, website design or anything else that you like or dislike. Thanks in advance! Marcos Founder
That's kind of cool. I'm in Australia so can't sign up. Concerns I'd have before signing up:
1 How good are the toothbrush heads compared to the better ones you get in the shop? I'd be concerned about downgrading.
2 I don't know which frequency option is best. What frequency do dentists recommend? Could you guide people here?
3 Does this work out cheaper than buying them in the store? Is there a saving here, or is it just about convenience?