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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by imdsm »

garraeth wrote: post #92

Terra Ex ( http://www.terraexgame.com/ ) * Terra Ex is a 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), online game. * We are raising money for STEM education from the game's profits (see our foundation: http://www.odinfoundation.org/ ). * We've got 20+ years of experience in making games and wanted to leverage this expertise to make a game that will help fund our charity. * We're a completely new and indie company.…

Looks interesting. You say you're a group who brought us WoW, SC, C&C and more, but no names. Would be interesting to see the actual team behind the game, portraits and brief blurbs etc!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by mkramlich »

Dead By Zombie: a Python Rogue-like about a zombie apocalypse. I first created it several years ago as a commercial closed-sourced game and it actually sold copies. Now I've open sourced it on GitHub, and am upgrading the engine and giving it a facelift, transforming it into a more serious game of survival and a sandbox for rebuilding civilization. Survivalists, anarcho-capitalists and libertarians may like it. "Day is for the living. Night is for the dead."

links: https://github.com/mkramlich/Dead_By_Zombie http://synisma.neocities.org/deadbyzombie.html

In theory I'm also writing a sequel to my sci-fi comedy novella The Dread Space Pirate Richard. (http://www.reddit.com/r/DSPR/) And fleshing out the outline and first chapters of my first attempt at a technical book, tentatively titled Software Performance and Scalability.

I also solve challenging technical problems for clients around the world. I make things. I ship.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by creativeone »

burntsushi wrote: post #94

I'm working on a few projects. Firstly, I've developed a suite of Python libraries to deal with NFL data, including play-by-play statistics and slicing game footage into its play-by-play components. A demo of my work is here: http://demo.nflfan.burntsushi.net/?week=5 (excuse the slowness, my web server is crappy) Everything is on GitHub: https://github.com/BurntSushi/{nflgame,nfldb,nflvid,nflfan} Secondly, I'm also w…

Very impressed with your NFL data tool, check out this company, they may be interested in your technology: http://www.hudl.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by davidw »

I'm working on http://www.liberwriter.com - and it's not cool. But it makes money.

It's cool to work on something that's both cool and makes money, but I'm at a point in my life where I'm happy to work on something that makes money even if it's not cool. But getting paid regularly is pretty cool in its own way.

LiberWriter is a product/service to help authors, primarily by converting Word files to eBooks, as well as providing cover design services.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by sparktree »

QuietThyme(http://www.quietthyme.com) is like DropBox for your ebooks.

We let you access your eBook library anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Its great because we allow our users to convert their ebooks from one format to another with ease, its simple enough that my mother and father could do it. We also let you keep complete control over your library, if you want, by allowing you to store it on Dropbox or Google Drive

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by adrianh »

monsterix wrote: post #93
adrianh wrote: post #73

Soundslice ( http://www.soundslice.com/ ) -- animated guitar tabs / sheet music. Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/5680/bohemian-rhapsody-for-so... It's cool because: * The state of the art in guitar tabs is horrible ASCII crap (example: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eagles/hotel_california_ta... ). Soundslice is a 1000x improvement. * It solves a key problem for musicians, which is: when you're learning a new…

Wow this looks nice! I wonder how complicated this would become for songs from Satriani, Malmstein or Steve Vai? Why did you choose tabs which is rather weak (correct me if I'm wrong) notation?

Thanks! The software scales up to that stuff. There's a bunch of complicated stuff transcribed on Soundslice. Here's an arpeggio exercise in the style of Satriani et al: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/4976/electric-guitar-solo-cra...

The slow-down feature helps. :)

I chose tabs to start because (1) it's easier to implement than standard notation, (2) most guitarists use tab instead of notation, and (3) classic tab really needs to be brought into the 21st century.

With that said, I'm working on a standard notation version now, and it's going to be amazing. It's a surprisingly tricky technical challenge to render sheet music in the browser -- there are centuries' worth of special cases!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by jjsz »

trey_swann wrote: post #48

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by rraychaudhuri »

mgl wrote: post #42

http://codedose.com We are working on a small side project (codename: market colors) that will make daily analysis of stock price movements and trend discovery super easy. You will be able to analyze and compare literally thousands of stocks from US, European and Asian markets in a few minutes. AJAX frontend with interesting high volume batch processing in the back end. (if you are interested in more details, drop us…

Here is a Project I am working on : http://lovasz.cs.fsu.edu/stocks (My contact is given in the website)

Please take a look, I think we are working on similar lines, if you are interested let me know.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by possibilistic »

Laser projection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs (Pong on a 20 story building, billboards, etc.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S5_v2By3Ec (Multiple laser projectors)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-A9LvPbmg (Canny edge detector)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-jf-ans (Asteroids on a 4 story building)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF_OCvjq3ps (Reddit's Snoo on a 20 story building)

I've just added a second projector and a few more dacs (thanks to a very generous donor). I'm doing multiprojection and rectification/distortion now. I'm planning to get Skyscraper Tetris and Breakout going with some additional hardware.

I need about ten projectors at 60kpps (or 80kpps at low scan angle) with a combined wattage of 20W or so. I have endless ideas: I'll bring it online, do live art/graffiti, turn buildings into twitter feeds, multiplayer gaming, and NES emulator, etc.

I wish I could afford more hardware and the ability to work on this full time. :(

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ronilan »

PlaceUnit (http://www.placeunit.com/) -- an iOS app to build a mini-responsive website.

Download here: http://www.appstore.com/placeunit

Just the video: https://vimeo.com/68029789

Demo: http://fantastic-vancouver.placeunit.com/

It's cool because:

* It is very very simple to use. Any person with an iPhone/iPad can build something in minutes.

* It's a PhoneGap app (HTML5/JavaScript) which integrates Open Source components with a hand rolled framework.

* It uses a no-password pattern. It supports offline work. You can use bidi-languages. It has CSS based themed "filters". Mini-sites are customizable and embedable.

* Bootstrapped. I'm sole developer/designer.

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