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Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by superplussed »

An app that teaches languages through speaking and listening. It's goal is to make users conversational as quickly as possible.

I have a landing page up at http://seedlng.net

And I'll be starting to "seed" content in a week or so. Then hopefully within a month or so I'll be opening up access for the first few modules.

As an American living in Berlin, I've found the online tools for improving your conversational skills in German to be seriously lacking. So I'm building this for myself first :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by projectdelphai »

I'm been working on providing a service to recommend manga. The only other existing alternatives are myanimelist and mangaupdates and I feel my project has a greater potential to be more comprehensive, up to date, and personalized.

http://mangarecs.herokuapp.com

explanation and writeup:

first writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/2eejdt/rmanga_heres_...

second writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/2fhlfl/rmanga_mangar...

There's definitely been some changes since then, so a third writeup is in the works. I know this project isn't very polished or professional, but it's something that I've wanted to work on for a long time and I feel that it solves a very niche problem in an interesting way.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by dmarlow »

I've been working on http://www.smscmd.net/ It's a service that allows you to SMS enable anything. Do you have an app/service/website/device you wish to add SMS capabilities to? Use SMSCMD. It's based on MQTT and focused for devs wanting to use it in their IoT projects. I'm working on a site redesign right now.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by abell »

http://www.file4life.org/ - a CLI program for file backups, written in Haskell.

After trying a few existing solutions over the years, I decided to build my own to keep track of the various copies of emails, pictures etc. that are spread across my computers and external drives.

The approach is:

- append information to a single metadata file, recording where a file was seen, what priority it was given etc.

- when starting, load all the information, building efficient in-memory data structures

- allow backups into any dir in a transparent format

It avoids the need of a dedicated server, treats existing copies of a file as de facto backups and is suitable for heterogeneous storages.

I have only compiled and tested it for Linux (Debian wheezy, AMD64), but it should build on other POSIX systems which have the Haskell platform installed. It's currently in beta and I have a long TO-DO list, but I've been using it for a few weeks now and it's been doing its job keeping track of over 200k unique files.

Feedback would be really welcome. I set up no issue-tracking interface yet, but you can contact me at the email address reported on the website and I'll be happy to help.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by ashraful »

syed123 wrote: post #89
hashtag wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't used LetsLunch in years but the last time I did it was random pairing. You couldn't actually decide who to meet although you could submit who you'd be interested in and what general areas of interest were. If they changed that aspect then it sounds like you're building the original LetsLunch concept.

Hey guys! I'm the founder of http://LetsLunch.com we still have the automatching feature which schedules your lunches two days in advance. infact it is the most popular feature on our site. We do have a mobile app coming up in few weeks that will have same day matches and other geolocation/mobile based stuff. Good to see other sites coming up in this field.

Oh sorry, I never used letslunch and always thought you needed to request lunches with people. Glad to know the automatching is a popular feature, since that is what my entire product is.

Any thoughts or advice on HackerLunch? I'm sure you have a lot of interesting insights into the space since you guys have been doing it so long.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by ashraful »

ashraful wrote: post #43
richev wrote: post #24

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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…

Since posting this I've had a few people advice me to limit the launch to one or a few cities.

It seems like a good suggestion, since the app wouldn't be too useful until there's a least a few users nearby. Focusing my attention on one city would definitely help with that.

I'm still considering the best strategy, so if you have any advice, comment here or email me at ashrafulsf@gmail.com

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