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Post by rohan404 »

adamonduty wrote: post #163

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…

This is product that really solves a need for me! Right now I use a google voice number that I have set to forward to my Canadian and American numbers, however I cannot have it forward to my Indian number or some of my other VOIP numbers. I get an error when I try to purchase a number though, so not sure if the functionality for that is completely built out. Either way, will keep tabs on this to see when I can switch over completely.

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

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Post by maz1b »

xavierxf wrote: post #258
maz1b wrote: post #176

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…

Are you going to be adding more genres yourself? Or are you waiting for more people to submit songs? I think it would be cool to have a search by band member so you could see what other bands someone has played in. I do have to say, it looks pretty cool, but with a bit more features it could be a kick-ass site.

We have two launches coming up in this year, and the first one will see a lot of genres added by us as a team.

The second one will be our new platform, and that's where we'll let people define their own genres and whatnot.

Would you be interested in giving us feedback when these launches occur? I really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with me :)

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

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Post by maz1b »

contingencies wrote: post #194
maz1b wrote: post #176

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…

This is a great problem to attempt to solve, for a few reasons. First, there's heaps of audio content out there with friendly licensing already. Second, there's huge amounts of metadata and related text available. Third, there's so many different angles of analysis to tie things together with. Fourth, everyone's got at least a few devices that can access some or all of that content. I share your belief that someone c…

Thank you very much for your feedback. I agree, the site is very basic right now, and we have grand visions for it that we're actively working on to make a reality.

We do believe that we can fine tune and help people discover all kinds of music, and some of the things that you mentioned were absolutely terrific ideas.

Would you be interested in reviewing at a later date to see how we did?

If not, I truly appreciate you taking the time out to let us know what you think :)

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

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Post by ThePhysicist »

chrismorgan wrote: post #81
ThePhysicist wrote: post #41

I'm working on a document-oriented database engine written purely in Python: BlitzDB! https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb My motivation was that I needed (wanted?) a pure-Python document database that does not have any dependencies (like pymongo) and provides querying capabilities similar to MongoDB. Currently, Blitz is under active development and comes with a file-based backend as well as a MongoDB backend. Contribut…

Have you heard of ZODB? You might find it interesting to look at—perhaps you might even find it does all you want, and more.

Yeah I know ZODB, but it's not what I want for several reasons:

-Requires C extensions to run (makes it complicated to install on other systems) -Does not provide advanced querying capabilities (to my knowledge) -Does not have transparent references and lazy loading (to my knowledge) -Does not interoperate with MongoDB and other DB systems (to my knowledge)

The nice thing about Blitz is that it allows me to switch from a file-based backend to MongoDB (and SQL in the future) without changing any of my code, and I can write stuff like this:

al_pacino = backend.get(Actor,{'name' : 'Al Pacino'}) robert_de_niro = backend.get(Actor,{'name' : 'Robert de Niro'})

joint_movies = backend.filter(Movie,{'cast' : {'$all' : [al_pacino,robert_de_niro]}})

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

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Post by archagon »

adamonduty wrote: post #370
archagon wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you say this compares to a "virtual calling card" service like KeepCalling.com? (Dial a local KC number, enter your pin, and then dial your desired phone number in the US or wherever.)

Actually it looks fairly similar! PhoneCard has multi-ring on incoming calls which I don't see there, but I didn't investigate deeply. How is the call quality?

It's, ehh, OK, but not that much worse than normal cell service. I also think there's a bit of delay, at least sometimes.

Prices are great, though.

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

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Post by ddorian43 »

supercoder wrote: post #307
miguelrochefort wrote: post #142

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

you seem like the kind of guy who'd be asking for someone to simply build the future of communication for you , for only 50% of equity.

49% !

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

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Post by rakoo »

findjashua wrote: post #215
rakoo wrote: post #23

I'm building a Bittorrent Sync alternative aimed at ease of use to solve http://www.xkcd.com/949/ : https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare

Just out of curiosity, why not just share it through Google Drive? 15 gb is more than enough even for bluray.

I want a Free-as-in-free-speech alternative. I also don't want users to depend on yet another third-party (do you remember Megaupload ?), and I certainly don't want someone to know who shares what with you.

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Post by tectonic »

tree_of_item wrote: post #321
wslh wrote: post #120

A social data flow engine called Egont. You can take a look at these articles: - Egont, A Web Orchestration Language: http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration-... - Egont Part II: http://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/ You can define things like this using s-expressions: (let mytwitter (twitter "databigbang") Then you can do (twitterdb store (twitter.tweets)) and for every tweet your defines db…

Very nice. IFTTT was a nice first step, and I've been hoping more sophisticated solutions to the same problem would arrive. Do you see this being commercial software as a service or self-hosted?

See also Huginn: https://github.com/cantino/huginn
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