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Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by Delphiki »

http://i.imgur.com/zmrDFoY.png

I'm a day late, but I had this tab open all yesterday, so close enough. Currently working on Fortune, an iOS app. The premise is that sometimes you just need some sort of fortune/pick-me-up/inspirational message. Fortune sends you a random user-submitted fortune at a random time during the day, and also allows you to submit fortunes that will be sent out to users.

Pulling the screen up (http://i.imgur.com/CC5OKar.png) reveals the interface for giving a fortune, while pulling the screen down (http://i.imgur.com/Cm3qgJs.png) reveals the interface for taking a fortune.

It uses Parse.com as a backend, and I'm currently working on reducing the total number of API requests.

One of the problems I'm anticipating is how to prevent users from submitting negative fortunes. I'm looking into doing sentiment analysis on fortunes as they're submitted, but I'm open to any suggestions.

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by jackgolding »

bemmu wrote: post #2

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.

Hey mate,

Awesome idea and they look great. My only caveat would be the logo might put off corporate customers (who may be your biggest customers.)

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by _xhok »

alltakendamned wrote: post #90
_xhok wrote: post #4

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 like this idea. But where do you place the orders for your gifts, or is this something you handle yourself as well ?

Most of the gifts right now are pretty generic and we have software that automates it. Later we'll have to figure out how to scale this.

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by _xhok »

ejstronge wrote: post #14
_xhok wrote: post #4

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.

Maybe. That's what most people use GiftsOnTime (our biggest competitor) for, actually.

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by wingerlang »

ashwinne wrote: post #89
wingerlang wrote: post #33

http://imgur.com/a/U6W2r Nothing really special here. Being a perfectionist I haven't been able to find any expense-tracker apps that I like. Most have either to much stuff going on, or are too focused on being pretty. Or are too 'budget' inspired. I don't have any spend-too-much problems, I just want to keep track of my expenses out of pure interest in recording stuff. So there is no budget-functionality, only pure…

Spendy looks like something I would love to use too. Where is it available?

It's not available yet, I am still building it. I've been using the "prototype" for myself. I am hoping to have v1.0 done in a couple of weeks though.

If you want I can notify you on email/twitter/etc when it's done.

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by exadeci »

gabemart wrote: post #135
frozenport wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I value your app at 99 cents.

That's valid, I haven't thought too hard about pricing yet. At any price, it's extremely unlikely to pay for the time I've put into it ^_^

Depends of it's popularity a good paid app can have thousands of downloads so even at 1$ you could get a real profit.

Your app could be nice but please follow theming guidelines:

http://developer.android.com/design/style/themes.html

Some inspiration

http://holoeverywhere.tumblr.com/

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by exadeci »

carlesfe wrote: post #62

I'm working on feenbox, a service to receive feeds on your inbox, with geek-friendly features. It's about a week close to alpha launch. Would you be interested if I make a call for alpha users on HN? https://www.dropbox.com/s/gcdsdivdk6d5lxt/feenbox.png

I would be interested, I'm getting daily HN mail and I use http://theoldreader.com/ but I have to many feeds to read them all so a mail would be nice.

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by exadeci »

sfdev14 wrote: post #30

http://i.imgur.com/TKez9Wi.png Finding a job can be difficult and managing the application / search process has always been a pain point for me. I'm working on a personal app to help me find a job and manage the application process for it. I've scraped and indexed all of the Hacker News "Who is hiring" threads since January 2013 and am putting support in for Github Jobs and Careers 2.0 to get a pretty decent list of…

Do you plan on making it public at some point ?

Looks like a really good idea.

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by flexd »

wingerlang wrote: post #165
ashwinne wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spendy looks like something I would love to use too. Where is it available?

It's not available yet, I am still building it. I've been using the "prototype" for myself. I am hoping to have v1.0 done in a couple of weeks though. If you want I can notify you on email/twitter/etc when it's done.

I would like to be notified too. Spendy seems like a great app for keeping track of what you have spent while traveling. :-) @flexd on Twitter.

Re: Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by wingerlang »

flexd wrote: post #169
wingerlang wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not available yet, I am still building it. I've been using the "prototype" for myself. I am hoping to have v1.0 done in a couple of weeks though. If you want I can notify you on email/twitter/etc when it's done.

I would like to be notified too. Spendy seems like a great app for keeping track of what you have spent while traveling. :-) @flexd on Twitter.

In case I accidentally forget about the newly created notify-list you can follow me at @jontelang. I rarely post so I won't be any clutter. ^
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