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

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Post by dchuk »

DLarsen wrote: post #162

I've been working a personal finance web app focused on measuring and improving spending behavior. It goes beyond merely "how much did you spend" and addresses the context and decision making process which drives good or bad spending. The big challenge has been keeping it simple yet providing the appropriate prompts for folks to reflect on and improve their spending decisions. In other words, the code is easy; the pr…

How are you handling the actual accessing of user's finance data? Automatically via API? Or having them maintain a ledger?

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

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Post by stevekemp »

0xeeeeeeee wrote: post #13

I'm working on an enterprise honeypot framework with an emphasis on internal honeypots that alerts a network administrator as soon as an attacker messes with it. An example would be a fake PHP myadmin page that alerts a security engineer as soon as it receives a POST request It's closed source but I've finished the architecture for the software and a couple of the services (MySQL, Web, FTP). They are really cool in m…

That does sound pretty interesting, though I'm not sure if the enterprise folk would pay for it.

I know on my personal hosts I tend to grep the access logs for requests to /wp-admin, /phpmyadmin, and blacklist IPs that make request to them. I should probably just switch to using fail2ban to do the processing, but I like the notices posted to my internal xmpp server.

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

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Post by DLarsen »

dchuk wrote: post #171
DLarsen wrote: post #162

I've been working a personal finance web app focused on measuring and improving spending behavior. It goes beyond merely "how much did you spend" and addresses the context and decision making process which drives good or bad spending. The big challenge has been keeping it simple yet providing the appropriate prompts for folks to reflect on and improve their spending decisions. In other words, the code is easy; the pr…

How are you handling the actual accessing of user's finance data? Automatically via API? Or having them maintain a ledger?

For now it's manual input. A lot of folks balk at this, but I find I do better when I'm forced to thoughtfully engage with my budget.

For example, my wife and I are primarily concerned about improving our grocery spending. This means that we only have to input spending 2 or 3 times each week. It's really not a burden, and really helps keep our use of the app simple. All of the other spending that goes through our checking account isn't mixed together. It allows us to be very focused.

I sometimes think of it in the same vein as workout/fitness apps. Manually recording some aspects of your activity shouldn't kill the deal. And in our case, we encourage you to do self-evaluation... and that wouldn't come through a feed from your bank anyhow.

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

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Post by maz1b »

I haven't been a fan of most music blogs out there, so I started one alone with a different focus and combined my passion for music with coding to help us stand out. Now, my team has grown to 34 people and we're building our own platform to help people discover all kinds of music.

http://radcircle.com

New completely custom platform built from scratch in it's Alpha stages, using Ruby, Rails and possibly SailsJS.

Would love feedback on our alpha stage or advice / feedback of any kind when it comes to music. I'm a college student and so are all people on the team. First time with a "startup" / web dev / design and everything that goes along with it. :)

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

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Post by hopeless »

jlhonora wrote: post #42

I'm connecting a Hedgehog to the Internet :) . I have a hedgehog that runs all night in a wheel. Counting the laps gives me the traveled distance, so every morning he'll tweet how much he ran. He runs up to 15 km./9 miles! Check him out at https://twitter.com/runhedgie This project is a combination of hardware and software. I'm using a Raspberry Pi, a custom-built wireless node based on Arduino, Python, Redis, and a…

That's really neat. My daughter is hedgehog-obsessed and we were watching videos from hedgehog owners: their nocturnal running was a common surprise (and annoyance if they were in a bedroom!)

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

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Post by hunt »

I'm working on an X11 tiling window manager that behaves quite similarly to vim. It is my first C project, so I am learning a lot as I go.

I feel it has unique features that were missing from other WMs, such as vim's use of operators, modes and motions.

For example, you can kill 3 clients with a command similar to q3c.

Project is hosted over at github: https://github.com/HarveyHunt/howm/tree/develop

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

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Post by acj »

An app for playing media on a Chromecast using AirPlay on an iOS device or Mac.

It's currently an Android app, which presents an odd set of hardware requirements; hoping Google releases a Cast SDK for Mac sometime soon.

First iteration is done and will be shipping soon.

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