Ask YC: What are you working on these days? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by maryrosecook » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 12:32 PM UTC

lliiffee wrote: post #58

maryrosecook wrote: post #12

http://theperceptron.com - astute music recommendations And a site where you create your audio autobiography by uploading mp3s. Hello, RIAA.

I got: Radiohead -> The Beach Boys You should remove that my any means necessary. I think the UI is pretty nice, actually. Very functional, feels like a "tool". Don't lose that when you make it more fancy.

The "tool" feel was exactly what I was going for. Kind of the Google of music recommendations.

However, I am desperately in need of someone who can work with me to make things both more functional and more attractive.

Thanks very much for the feedback.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by j2d2 » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 12:51 PM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #69

fallentimes wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was your first book?

'Programming Collective Intelligence' http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210132 Thanks Toby. Awesome book.

Dang. I really liked this book.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by nuclear_eclipse » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 1:14 PM UTC

RKlophaus wrote: post #51

rrival wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've been doing something like this with Growl - how does it compare?

Stitcho is basically "Growl for the Web", but NOT in the sense of being another Javascript-to-Growl bridge (a few of those exist out there, protoGrowl, Growl mootools, etc.) Rather, Stitcho lets you send notifications from server side code that are delivered to your users via the Stitcho widget. The Stitcho server sits in the middle to route and deliver the notifications. Also, Stitcho provides widgets for Mac and Wi…

Any plans for a Linux Gtk/Qt client?

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by hhm » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 1:16 PM UTC

maryrosecook wrote: post #12

http://theperceptron.com - astute music recommendations And a site where you create your audio autobiography by uploading mp3s. Hello, RIAA.

Great site, thank you. It will be useful for me (I know nothing about music, so my musical variety is very limited... a good recommendation engine that goes out of the typical genres is like gold for me).

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by EliAndrewC » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 1:28 PM UTC

My friends and I run the Music and Gaming Festival (MAGFest: http://magfest.org/ ) and for the past few years I've been tinkering with a webapp to help us get more organized. I've been to a lot of conventions, mostly anime conventions, and no one has a good integrated system for tracking attendees, staffers, shifts, events, inventory, budget, etc.

My webapp does all of this, and I've spent a lot of my free time lately making the code cleaner and easier to read. After the next MAGFest in early January I'm planning on releasing this webapp as an open source project on Sourceforge or somewhere similar.

I think a lot of other conventions might find this useful if they can find a programmer or sysadmin to make the small changes necessary to adapt the code for their purposes. I'm excited that some of our staffers are already planning on recommending this system to some of the other conventions they staff.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by maryrosecook » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 1:38 PM UTC

hhm wrote: post #104

maryrosecook wrote: post #12

http://theperceptron.com - astute music recommendations And a site where you create your audio autobiography by uploading mp3s. Hello, RIAA.

Great site, thank you. It will be useful for me (I know nothing about music, so my musical variety is very limited... a good recommendation engine that goes out of the typical genres is like gold for me).

Fantastic. Do let me know how you get on with the site.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by davidkellis » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 2:08 PM UTC

A Masters degree in CS at Texas Tech.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by steveplace » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 2:19 PM UTC

rms wrote: post #95

known wrote: post #92

I am setting up a Bank.

Seriously?

I hope so. There's a serious vacuum when it comes to small, niche investing banks. All the big firms are no longer in that category. Total i-bank market cap has been cut down by billions.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by steveplace » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 2:22 PM UTC

LukeG wrote: post #82

steveplace wrote: post #10

Just started a video blog about stock options. Pretty fun so far. www.investingwithoptions.com

Do you know Zecco? They're always looking for good content, and I'm happy to put you in touch with someone there if you're interested. Disclaimer: didn't [listen] to your videos cause the I/O board on my MBP is fried and audio output doesn't work.

I've been a big fan of Zecco's business model. I'd be more than happy to generate exclusive content for major providers. Any networking you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

My main brokerage is thinkorswim and that's the platform I do screencasts from.

Hopefully (crossing fingers) when I get some good traffic going I can get some advertising contracts with some financial service companies.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 2:22 PM UTC

I've launched (with Dan Grigsby) a blog for iPhone application developers - http://www.mobileorchard.com/ - or follow us at http://twitter.com/MobileOrchard :)