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Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by hanula »

Few things:

- http://wwwino.pl - wine search engine for Polish market. [Python/Pyramid/ElasticSearch]

- http://betafrontpage.com/ - Startup frontpages easily browse lots of startups and gather ideas for your own product/startup. [Python/Pyramid/Docker]

- https://thingr.com/ - Collaborative Knowledge Organizer. Early stage. [Python/Pyramid/PostgreSQL/ElasticSearch/Celery/MicroServices/Docker/NLTK]

- Python microservice framework. A work in progress on small personal-use framework to run micro services that help in everyday life/work.

Everything actually first announced here right now.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by augustflanagan »

https://cronitor.io

It's a simple monitoring service for cron and other scheduled jobs (also works well for heartbeat monitoring).

It was launched on HN a couple months ago. We've been slowly improving our keyword rankings on a few key terms, and are finally to the point where we are consistently signing up new users everyday.

We've also been surprised to see the users who upgrade to paid accounts are split pretty evenly between the $6.99 plan and the $19.99. Our pre-launch guess was that it would be a 90/10 split on those plans.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by BjoernKW »

ericmarcos wrote: post #22

I'm woking on a AI/NLP interface to connect enterprises to customers through whatsapp and other messaging apps. I'm using Python/Django and Yowsup (a python lib that reverse engineered whatsapp's protocol) with PostgreSQL/Redis. I wonder what you guys think about building a company around this idea. I have a prototype and a couple of customers, so the market is there, but I don't know if whatsapp could sue me or some…

I wouldn't worry so much about WhatsApp suing you. If they don't like what you're doing (or others for that matter) they can more just change their protocol.

The problem with building a company around such a solution rather is this: Is there a market? Sure, having a machine automatically answer customer requests is a nice parlour trick but what's the benefit for the customer?

Just saving money on call centre agents? Or does the software actually solve a real problem in a novel way that can't be tackled using existing solutions?

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by ankurpatel »

I have been working on a reminder site which can send email, text message, voiced phone call and physical mailed postcard reminder at a schedule time on recurring basis or one time ad hoc basis like a broadcast. The site is called HelloReminder - https://www.helloreminder.com

There is also an open source Swift project that I am actively maintaining on github. It is a port of Underscorejs which gives helpful utility methods useful when programming in Swift. The project is on github - github.com/ankurp/Dollar.swift

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by bnb »

mkremer90 wrote: post #27

I'm currently working on Kobra, a realtime collaborative code editor, mostly during my lunch breaks. https://Kobra.io Tech Used: AngularJS, Firebase, Firepad, EasyRTC Statistics: Just broke 700 registered users and 5000 file collaborated on. Have made a little over $2000 from 125 people going Pro. History: I started back in December, but gave up too soon. I've since relaunched it as a smaller product and am super hap…

This is really god damn cool. Totally going to start using this every time I talk about code on my social networks. Thanks a ton.
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