Ask HN: What projects are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by aaronandy » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

We just launched http://andersonspeed.com, where we combine automotive data from several different APIs and home-grown databases to create custom service logs for specific vehicles, which we sell as actual printed books.

It's been fun to take the "low technology" solution (i.e., printed pen-on-paper record keeping) and inject it with some high-technology magic (customized dynamic content creation, etc).

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by miguelrochefort » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

I'm designing the future of communication.

A few related topics:

- Semantic Web

- Internet of Things

- UI/UX

- Knowledge Representation

- Big Data

- Smart Contracts

Evoluton of communication:

- Facial emotions

- Sign language

- Verbal communication

- Writing

- Printing

- Photography

- Telephone

- Radio

- Television

- Computers

- Internet

- Smartphones

- ... <- What I'm working on

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by mrfusion » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:34 PM UTC

Nation chess! Once at least ten people from a country are logged in they'll matched up in a chess game with people from a different country. The entire nation (or at least those who are logged in) votes on each move.

I'd love some help if anyone is interested. I'm still in the planning phase.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by zachlatta » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:34 PM UTC

I'm working on hackEDU. We help high school students start and lead programming clubs at their high schools.

https://hackedu.us - current website, new one will be online in mid-July

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by bennesvig » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

Dnguyen wrote: post #118

I'm working on a todo list with a Seinfeld calendar. My take is that there are only three categories: Work, Home, Personal. There are two buckets of tasks, Short term and long term. You'd move long term tasks into the short term when you start working on them. At the beginning of the week, you'd move the tasks from the short term into the day of the week that you planning to work on them. The catch is, you can only w…

I like this idea.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by shanth » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

A time table generation app in Haskell using Yesod :)

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by aashaykumar92 » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

Skanout, an Uber for your annoying searches. We run product searches to help people get the products they want for the price they want.

http://skanout.com/

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by mlawren » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

I've been working on bif (http://bifax.org/bif/) for the past 3 years.

Bif is a project management tool with a command-line interface. It helps you track tasks, issues and bugs using a local database, exchanging updates with remote databases on demand. The tool has several features of interest to distributed project teams:

* Offline Operation - Many bif actions work offline; you can create and update tasks and issues while disconnected from the network.

* Inter-project Cooperation - Bif issues (and tasks) can be linked with (or copied to) multiple projects, mirroring the inter-project relationships that exist in the real world.

This flexibility comes with minimal additional complexity; bif commands are designed for consistency and ease of use.

Bif runs on any system that supports Perl and SQLite.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by fallenhitokiri » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

Most of my private project time goes to Leeroy CI[1], an open source, continuous integration service. Since releasing the first stable version which provides the basic functionality to run tests / builds and get the results communicated back via web, mail or Slack I started working on a web based configuration system, which also requires adding some kind of authentication and authorization system.

[1] https://github.com/fallenhitokiri/leeroyci

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by mlawren » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 5:41 PM UTC

mlawren wrote: post #148

I've been working on bif ( http://bifax.org/bif/ ) for the past 3 years. Bif is a project management tool with a command-line interface. It helps you track tasks, issues and bugs using a local database, exchanging updates with remote databases on demand. The tool has several features of interest to distributed project teams: * Offline Operation - Many bif actions work offline; you can create and update tasks and issu…

I should probably also mention that bif, while functional is still alpha quality software. And so far tests only pass on Linux and the *BSDs. Testers/bug-hunters for MacOS would be appreciated.