Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
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Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#122Richerd and I built http://sinkorship.com/ about a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3899231 . Got on the HN front page for 10+ hours, tons of attention, tweets, press etc. Except nobody paid.
heh, concept reminded me of:
http://bestofcalvinandhobbes.com/2011/10/a-swifty-kick-in-th...
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#123I created a site based off of the idea of Facebook Timeline, except for a professional player's career. It's called Player Career Timeline. It works for just about any NBA, NFL, MLB, or NHL player and the data goes back 5 years. For example, LeBron James' career timeline: http://careers.fantasysp.com/player/nba/lebron-james/ It works by aggregating thousands of stories over the years and assigns them to a specific pl…
Is most of the system automated? How much hand holding is actually required while creating the timeline?
It's entirely automated.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#124I created a site based off of the idea of Facebook Timeline, except for a professional player's career. It's called Player Career Timeline. It works for just about any NBA, NFL, MLB, or NHL player and the data goes back 5 years. For example, LeBron James' career timeline: http://careers.fantasysp.com/player/nba/lebron-james/ It works by aggregating thousands of stories over the years and assigns them to a specific pl…
Very cool. Some infinite scrolling (like Facebook) would be nice.
Agreed, I had originally planned to use infinite scrolling just like Facebook. Due to time restraints it had to be altered to what it is now.
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#125I launched http://www.notaplex.com for the iPad: "Nota plex - write notes, lists, and outlines." None of the note-writing apps that were available were what I wanted, so I learned iOS programming and wrote this one. Also I got to use old-school lex & yacc programming for the in-line calculator part.
That reminds me to this app: http://www.thinkbookapp.com/ (I used comic zeal, from the same publisher) I've always wanted to use something like that to take notes quickly, does it combine well with a bluetooth keyboard?
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#126I've released Gmelius ( http://gmelius.com ) a few months ago, a cross-browser extension that proposes a better and cleaner Gmail™ inbox. Gmelius made the first page of HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3878153 ) and has been featured on TechCrunch, Lifehacker and other tech related news sites since then. The idea was and still is to propose some enhancements to the new Gmail UI. Donations are welcome and are…
Awesome project. I've been using this since that hacker news post. How often do you find yourself updating the code due to gmail changes?
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
For very short phrases the data corpora are too shallow. I have to improve that, and the identifier logic, and... The most important part was discovering that django is amazingly fun & simple. Thanks for the encouragement :)
Right, that makes sense that you need a bigger chunk of data. You could fix that on the user end by just adding a note 'works best with more input'.
Yes, but I also want some kind of enforcement: for short phrases I want to check for being in corpora, if it is clearly in a language I don't want to say "write more," but just identify the language and only in dubious cases put the blame on the user. Ahh, if I had more time and less projects I'd finish this right now :)
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#128The iPad needed animated GIF creation, but nobody wants to pay for one. http://gifpl.us
I like the idea, but from the looks of it you're not using the video camera to capture the frames. Is that right? I think that's a deal-breaker.
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#129We started http://www.fantasy5live.com – a real-time fantasy sports game for GAA, rugby and soccer. It's early days though.
One suggestion: Can you add the player details. May be on hover or on click.
Also, I think site needs a bit more help in terms of what a user can do once he reaches the play page. May be a small tutorial or a help page might work.
Out of curiosity, how do you keep track of the events? Do you have a live feed that you parse for certain phrases?
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#130I launched Qatapult, a quicksilver like inspired launcher for windows http://emmanuelcaradec.com/qatapult . It still needs polish and it still needs more users, but it's already my favorite launcher for windows. (change the default skin if you try, I set the default to the wrong one )