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Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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http://imgur.com/xnGYVgR Finally got a working sort for an implementation of a closure table for a forum project. Horribly inefficient though. Riveting, I know. Also, this is a great idea.

...wait, what?

It's a way of representing trees (like nested comments) in SQL: http://karwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/rendering-trees-with-clos...

Unfortunately, while it works, it requires extra effort to sort the results properly.

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Nice idea. Reminds me of those "post a screenshot of your desktop" threads you used to see on forums. I've been working on Rokumo, an automated gift-shopping service: [link redacted]

I think this could be a really useful tool for relationship management - almost like BloomThat with a schedule. Perhaps you could pitch this to businesses that need to impress their clients and create pre-scheduled gift sets. For example, send flowers for your prospective clients' birthday, send chocolates and a thank-you after a meeting, etc.

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http://imgur.com/a/agRne

The app is called Fora. At first glance, an open source version of Medium. But it's really much more. I am struggling with how to describe it (which is extremely important), perhaps HN could help here.

Idea: Most information (such as music, movies, blogs or products) is typically stored in database tables having various structures. Fora lets people define these tables, describe how it needs to be formatted on screen, and build communities around them. So for example, Medium.com will be a structure having Cover (image), Post Title(string), Content (html) and Comments (string).

Code: https://github.com/jeswin/fora

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice. Some large hi-res photos showing the design would be awesome.

Used the free trial of After Effects and a rotating display stand to make a spinning video of them: http://www.namechopsticks.com/static/chopsticks.mp4 I was thinking of using them as a moving background, but that didn't seem to work out on iOS as it won't autoplay videos. Was fun though.

How about http://www.divergentmedia.com/phosphor ? Always worked for our animated videos, anyway.

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This is somewhat late for Screenshot Saturday, however I have been working on Retailius. The goal is to disrupt the retail industry through the point of sale.

The website (in the process of learning front end development) is viewable at www.retailius.com. As of right now, it is a static prototype consisting of Keynote-linked wireframes.

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My personal thing is a landing page I am putting up for personalized chopsticks: http://i.imgur.com/DyFIItZ.png Hopefully I can get it launched next week and see if I can get some orders. I used these chopsticks as an extra gift to current customers and they seemed to like it and were wanting to order more, so that's why I decided to work on a separate page for those.

Slick idea. When you're thinking about marketing, don't forget weddings. Out of all the silly wedding schwag/gifts I've seen, chopsticks with my name on it would be pretty awesome.

The wedding blog/forum niche is tough to break into, but could be a great marketing avenue for you, as they /love/ merchandise that can be customized to guests, particularly products that are new and still unique/uncommon.

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Cool idea! Isomer, an isometric graphics library for HTML5 canvas. Screenshot: https://cloudup.com/ca2TeFocl6F I'm _almost_ ready to release. I've been working on the docs here ( http://jdan.github.io/isomer/ ), but the code is still private.

Very nice work. A suggestion: keep the generalized library open source and a separate implementation that lets you use your library for charting as something private that you sell.
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