http://www.campusjobs.org - it allows businesses to hire students from any school, and aims to become a one-stop job center/career center for higher education in the long run.
Ask HN: What are you building?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#42https://calltospeakers.com/ - a site for conferences which are looking for speakers.
I was fed up having to continually check conference sites for new entries, so I automated the collection process and wired it up to a weekly newsletter and a Twitter account.
My hope is that it becomes the authoritative source for CFPs, so we can all check one site instead of hunting around the web.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#43http://www.hackerlunch.com I am working on an iOS app that lets hackers meet up with each other and have lunch. I moved to San Francisco from Bangladesh last year and found it tough to meet other hackers. Being rather introverted, tech meetups didn't really work for me. I felt that a one-on-one meetup would be ideal. So that's what I'm building. I'm hoping to launch within a few weeks. If it sounds interesting to you…
Are you launching this specific to SF, or other cities as well?
No, It'll be open to everyone. I originally intended to limit this to SF but have changed my mind since.
I initially tested out this idea by creating a simple form that asks users for their name, email and zipcode and manually pairing them up myself via email. I limited that to San Francisco zipcodes only, since I figured it not doing so would mean that I would have a bunch of users who may not have anyone nearby to get paired with.
A lot of people who weren't in SF actually emailed me and expressed their disappointment in not being able to try it out. So this time I'm opening it up to everyone.
If you are the only one in your city, you'll get a message telling you so and you'll be paired whenever a new user in your city signs up.
If anyone has any better ideas, I'm open to suggestions regarding this.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#44I've spent the past month or two doing random projects, (a secret server, a self-hosted disqus-lite system,etc), but my main project is a git-based DNS host.
I use Amazon's route53 for the hosting, and have written a simple hook-receiver to massage public DNS repositories into the Amazon system. It's pretty neat. https://dns-api.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#45https://encrypt.to - Send encrypted messages by one click
It encrypts the message with PGP (client-side) and sends it on to the mail account. A user who does not use PGP can send fairly secure mails to PGP-users. A simple vanity-style URL can be given to such users for easy access to the secure contact form.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#46I'm building a spreadsheet app - http://gini.io . It's a project I started last year, then stopped working on it and now am back on it. The key differentiating features right now are super easy importing of data from web apps and doing joins between sheets. The basic free personal plan is live now, but I'll be adding paid plans for businesses over the coming weeks. Please give it a spin and share your feedback! - htt…
I would love to see some screenshots on the homepage, such that I can get a feel for the product. I think that might also encourage more people to sign up.
A cool idea would be a really easy to use API as I know a lot of people have issues with the GDocs Spreadsheet APIs. Have methods such as 'appendRow' and make it super simple to push data there and share the sheets, and it has immediate value to lots of people.
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#47I am repairing an old analog synthesizer (Siel Kiwi) with a missing CPU and the CPU board in a bad state.
I can't get such a CPU in the right package anymore, so I'm writing an emulator for it which will run on a more modern, much faster MPU. That alone replaces the CPU, RAM, and ROM. The remaining stuff on the board is lots of I/O both analog and digital which I'm planning to replace with something more modern, like a DAC with 32 channels instead of the many chips and opamp sample-hold circuits that are on the original board.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#48http://yathletics.com - a men's activewear company that's going to make only one product per category. I think apparel brands offer too many choices so I'm creating a brand that keeps it simple but at the same time invests in making very high quality products. For ex: the first product we launched is our athletic shirt - SilverAir. It's made using silver which kills the odor-causing bacteria in your sweat, so you can…
This is awesome but why do you only target men?
1) I started building this out for myself and for some of my male friends who shared the same sentiment.
2) Men and women shop differently and I feel as if women want more choices so the model does not necessarily work for them. That said, I've received a lot of interest from women for the first product we launched so plans may change in the future.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#49http://www.hackerlunch.com I am working on an iOS app that lets hackers meet up with each other and have lunch. I moved to San Francisco from Bangladesh last year and found it tough to meet other hackers. Being rather introverted, tech meetups didn't really work for me. I felt that a one-on-one meetup would be ideal. So that's what I'm building. I'm hoping to launch within a few weeks. If it sounds interesting to you…
Sounds great man! Let me know if I can help out from USC.
-fellow Bangladeshi
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#50I'm building a couple of things.
Storytella (http://storytel.la/) is a tool for writers and self publishers. It makes it easy to manage novels you're working on, has an online editor, has an entity system (variable insertion in the text) and can save everything to a couple of different formats. I've been working on it for a while and have just got a payment process in place (thanks Stripe!).
Sunstone (http://sunstone.stoogoff.com/) is a map making tool aimed mainly at roleplayers. It's a bit restricted at the moment. I'm planning on adding different themes, more stamps, and a means to store different maps.