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An algorithmic trading model. I have been investing for 2 months on my own and hope to open an investing firm in 2 years or less

You trading equity, options, futures? What's your strategy, stat arb, directional, delta-neutral? What's your broker? Lime/IB/Lightspeed/DMA? What's your tech stack? C/Java/Scala/GPU?

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I'm working on PhoneCard, a service to make cheap international phone calls without requiring a data connection. You enter the phone number in the webapp and it calls you. Next time you're using poor hotel wifi or you're frustrated with skype (e.g. multiple disconnects per hour), try PhoneCard for a high-quality call. PhoneCard can call most places in the world, and in some countries you can also purchase incoming nu…

Similar App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.ringo&hl=en

Thank you for pointing me to this! To date I had not seen anything similar.

Perhaps the biggest differentiator is that PhoneCard works in the opposite direction, too. For example, you can purchase a phone number in the UK and have it forward to a US number. Also, PhoneCard calls you, while Ringo appears to make an outgoing call. In much of the world besides the US/Canada, incoming calls are free (even on a mobile/cell phone), so this means you pay for the call once instead of twice.

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There are a whole bunch of projects on http://DoerHub.com looking for contributors from code to medicine (and you can soon have private and public project sections over there to manage open contributions and core team stuff).

A few of the projects:

http://www.doerhub.com/for/robopaint

http://www.doerhub.com/for/securityfirst

http://www.doerhub.com/for/hello-tractor

http://www.doerhub.com/for/theodinproject

http://www.doerhub.com/for/highstride

http://www.doerhub.com/for/www-roomva-com

http://www.doerhub.com/for/www-farmstacker-com

http://www.doerhub.com/for/message-impossible

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I'm working on a programming language. It's a reimagining of Python as a statically-typed, compiled language. The compiler is written in Python and targets LLVM IR. Currently working towards support for exceptions; raising already works, currently trying to work my way through all the stuff that needs to work for catching.

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Working on TruckPlease https://www.truckplease.com/ If you need to move something you can post it there and guys with trucks and moving companies around you will put down quotes for the job. Then you can accept/decline the quotes and get connected to the mover. It's a Rails app. The focus is on stuff within the same city (or county at least) so shorter local moves. It's mostly in Vancouver, BC right now although we g…

You should put a picture of different trucks on your home page to drive to point "further" home. Excellent idea.

We're working on having a new photo taken for a redesign of the front page that is coming up. Different trucks is a neat idea. We toyed round with some ideas and ended up with just wanting a photo of people moving. Not sure what we'll go with yet but different trucks is cool since it tells you that we have variety!

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Working on TruckPlease https://www.truckplease.com/ If you need to move something you can post it there and guys with trucks and moving companies around you will put down quotes for the job. Then you can accept/decline the quotes and get connected to the mover. It's a Rails app. The focus is on stuff within the same city (or county at least) so shorter local moves. It's mostly in Vancouver, BC right now although we g…

I think it's a great service, and was really toying with the idea of creating something like this when I was living in the UK. But mostly for ebay purchases. There are lots of bargains for furniture and heavier stuff which is 'pick-up-only'. If you can get a quote for picking it up and delivering it before you even bid on an auction, this will open up loads more opportunities for both buyers, sellers, and local deliv…

Thanks! You might already know but the UK has AnyVan which is similar but perhaps more for long distance stuff. I think they have eBay integration too. You're right that is a huge market though.
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