A mini online store that will sell just one product, at a decent price - one of the world's best and rarest beers.
Ask HN: What are you building?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#52I'm a data scientist who is building Slipper, an iOS app that uses algorithms to reconnect and recommend missed connections. In beta now, but ~5% of new users are matched on sign-up with a real post written about them. Launching later this month, perhaps early October.
Feedback most definitely welcome!
(also sneakily available in the App Store if you feel like checking it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slipper-find-your-missed-con...)
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#53http://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…
This is a really cool idea! Glad you're launching worldwide. Good luck with the launch.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#54http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck.
Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git.
To illustrate my point:
- Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/
- The devo.ps button that allows you to do a one-click deploy of a full infrastructure (not unlike the Heroku deploy button, but we deploy your own servers and automated tasks): http://devo.ps/blog/one-click-deploy-of-your-infrastructure/
We' haven't officially launched but have already been signing up a few hundreds developers. At this stage we're mostly ironing out a few bugs and expanding on the documentation/tutorials (http://docs.devo.ps).
If there's anybody out there who want to come in and break stuff up, I'm happy to pay for some Digital Ocean/AWS/Rackspace/Linode credit.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#55I'm building a wooden computer case.
I realised this summer how much I miss having something tactile to show for my labour. As a youngster I enjoyed working with wood but in the last 15 years I've given up everything to write web applications.
I'm really enjoying learning about different kinds of wood/plywood and making cardboard prototypes. My woodworking knowledge isn't great and I could do with some design advice - if you'd like to help please shoot me an email (in profile).
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#56I've been building the Android version of my ambient noise / productivity website A Soft Murmur [1]. It's for people who find that ambient noise helps them concentrate or relax. It lets you mix together different types of background noise (rain, thunder, fireplace, cafe etc.)
It's my first Android or Java project and my first serious programming project. No programming experience apart from learning js/jQuery to build the web version. It looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/3vntZwL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/wzdNdey.jpg
Features:
* mix together 10 different ambient sounds
* timers to stop, start or fade out sounds over arbitrary time
* save mixes
* share mixes via FB, twitter, SMS etc. and have them open in the app if the other person has it installed (or in the website if they don't)
I had planned to launch already, but life gets in the way. Hopefully launching in ~2 weeks.
I really had no idea what I was letting myself in for when I started this project. It's been really challenging but incredibly educational. Getting details right (like making the looping of samples genuinely seamless, or getting the background service to behave nicely) was difficult but really satisfying.
If you have any questions / suggestions, would love to talk.
If you'd like a reminder when this launches, there's a mailing in the top-right corner of [1]
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#57I'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.
Great idea - I'll add screenshots and a video too. And yes, a good API is on the cards. I've mentioned it on the homepage.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#58I'm working on a Chrome extension for Gmail. The main feature is Tab completion of templates. If you do a lot of Gmail it might save you a lot of time: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicktext-for-chro...
This looks v. cool (not tried it yet).
What would be awesome would be if the templates could have a bunch of {placeholders} within. So I type the initial prompt and press tab and it autofills the text, then I can tab through the placeholders filling them in.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#59I'm working on a Chrome extension for Gmail. The main feature is Tab completion of templates. If you do a lot of Gmail it might save you a lot of time: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicktext-for-chro...
This looks v. cool (not tried it yet). What would be awesome would be if the templates could have a bunch of {placeholders} within. So I type the initial prompt and press tab and it autofills the text, then I can tab through the placeholders filling them in.
Thanks for the suggestion! It's definitely something on the roadmap: https://github.com/humanfromearth/quicktext-chrome/issues/22
Re: Ask HN: What are you building?
#60https://github.com/StrykerKKD/dartrocket is an open source 2D HTML5 game engine in Dart.
I started doing this, because I always liked Dart better than any other programming language and because at that time Dart didn't have any HTML5 game engines.
I also developing it, because I really like doing it and because I want to make a living out of this.