Ask HN: What projects are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by ecesena » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:37 PM UTC

ftfish wrote: post #70

Nothing as interesting as many of the projects here, but I've had around 10k visits this month and plenty of returning visitors, so I guess it's useful enough. It's a very simple generator for static social media sharing buttons with support for Font Awesome: http://simplesharingbuttons.com/ Quite useful for mobile websites or email newsletters.

Nice! I'm reworking our sharing buttons right now, this will totally help!

If I can propose 2 features:

1. I'd consider adding sharing services (e.g., we use addthis). The major plus is that they track analytics for each share.

2. Twitter also supports the "related" intent to propose followers after sharing. I think that's pretty useful (and in general it's pretty hard to configure in the before mentioned services ;)

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by silentinteract » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:44 PM UTC

Been working on growing this new blog at http://silentinteraction.com and testing out some new product ideas I have. Currently working on a lot of client work. Doing contract gigs in the meantime, while trying to build some online products.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by mstipetic » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

A friend and I are finishing an iPhone app right now, it should be out soon http://getlooksgood.com/ (the website is still work in progress)

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by digitalmentat » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

I'm working on a solution to multi-device sync and display of org-mode data. Opensource software for self-install if you like and if there's wide enough adoption I might try monetizing it.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

I recently built a website to track product availability online: http://www.purchazen.com

It's rough, but is functional enough to have helped me purchase the nigh on impossible to find Fuji XF 56mm f/1.2 lens. I'm in the process of adding SMS alerts to the website.

Also, I'm aware of other websites like http://www.nowinstock.net, but I hate their design, among other things.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by shadesandcolour » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

A side project iOS app that keeps track of movies, tv shows, books and video games you want to watch/read/play. Mostly because it will let you know with a notification when something is releasing or when it is added to netflix/iTunes/paperback etc.

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Post by kephra » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:51 PM UTC

My main sideproject is still w3dig, a domain specific language to describe the semantics of web sites for a distributed and censor free search engine. Thats my big cathedral, with the final goal to get rid of evil google.

Other side projects are Tibetan input for Qt, or detecting herons and cormorants with OpenCV to shoot them with a water canon.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by Dnguyen » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:51 PM UTC

I'm working on a todo list with a Seinfeld calendar. My take is that there are only three categories: Work, Home, Personal. There are two buckets of tasks, Short term and long term. You'd move long term tasks into the short term when you start working on them. At the beginning of the week, you'd move the tasks from the short term into the day of the week that you planning to work on them. The catch is, you can only work on three tasks per day. Each task has an associate cost or reward. Get enough done you can reward yourself a nice purchase. Or don't get things done and you'll owe your friend a fancy dinner. There are more details and reasoning behind it, but my idea is to keep the number of tasks small so we can get them done and keep the calendar line going. Other todo lists I used I ended up putting too much on there and it turned into list of lists.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by madprops » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:52 PM UTC

https://github.com/madprops/lindora

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by wslh » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

A social data flow engine called Egont. You can take a look at these articles:

- Egont, A Web Orchestration Language: http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration-...

- Egont Part II: http://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/

You can define things like this using s-expressions: (let mytwitter (twitter "databigbang")

Then you can do (twitterdb store (twitter.tweets)) and for every tweet your defines db is updated. Then imagine that your user is called "wslh" you can share your whole db via egont.users.wslh.twitterdb.

Building a service like IFTTT is trivial with this engine, you can also add processing rules to this stuff and share the whole data. For example, if every friend "connects" this service with their IMDB Movies Ranking, you can send all this information to a recommendation engine or just do an average of the scores between all your friends. When a friend adds a new movies everything is recalculated like in a spreadsheet.

Another use is sharing summarized information within a specific market. Imagine you work on selling ruby on rails services, you and others in your market can connect their google analytics information to Egont and provide summarized information for this specific market that helps other to take decisions based on it. You can also restrict how the information is distributed.