Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by natural219 » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:01 PM UTC

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…

This is amazing. Awesome work. How much trouble have you ran into licensing / obtaining tabs for popular copyrighted songs? I think a legitimate tab database itself would be incredibly valuable and could power awesome services like this.

I look forward to hearing more about this project, I think this is absolutely great.

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

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Post by LeicaLatte » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

Updated my app today. A geeky stopwatch - http://logwatch.co

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

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Post by antoniuschan99 » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

Tools to help people who are located far away from each other to collaborate in rich and interactive ways just as if they were together in the same room.

http://www.teamchat.me

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

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Post by dxm » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

computeloops wrote: post #56

http://www.remotewaker.com A tool to save computer power consumption. It is cool because, it could contribute to keep earth cool :)

Nice. But why have you added the horrible photoshop effect to those images?

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

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Post by bbrian » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

cliveowen wrote: post #11

Nothing, and it's cool because it gives me a ton of time to go out and meet people.

Then you might like the app I made that maps the events your friends have been invited to:

http://apps.facebook.com/sortonsevents

Which is tied in with a page tab app I'm working on that watches a list of other pages for events they've created or posted:

http://www.facebook.com/UCDEvents/app_123069381111681

Most of the work for that being on the admin end:

http://imgur.com/f1BuKYA

And I've just started the android client.

I'm using GWT on App Engine and trying to keep generic Facebook stuff in a separate project, which will some day be amazing:

https://github.com/BrianHenryIE/GwtFBplus/

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

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Post by sherm8n » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

ogreyonder wrote: post #111

sherm8n wrote: post #17

A legit way to get more followers on social media. Helps you build high quality one-to-one relationships with new people. Pick a keyword like "startup school". Our system will detect when "startup school" type conversations are going on in real-time and performs sentiment analysis. That's a highly targeted opportunity for you to start engaging with that user. And we deliver that user to you on a silver platter. It's…

I signed up to check it out and created a campaign. I can't tell if it's doing anything, though. Should I expect an email of some sort? Or do I need to check back to look at your page later?

Sorry it's so confusing. If you created a campaign then it is already working. There's nothing else for you to do inside the product.

Now all you have to do is interact with the people that are starting to engage with you. It's not an instant thing. Our system detects when relevant conversations are going on using fancy algorithms based around machine learning, sentiment analysis and POS tagging.

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

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Post by Goopplesoft » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

GAuthify (http://www.GAuthify.com), Aims to make two factor authentication dead simple for the masses. I love two factor authentication and want to see everyone else use it too :)

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

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Post by adrianh » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

dochtman wrote: post #122

adrianh wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 re…

Did you consider/play with Lilypond at all?

Yes, definitely looked into Lilypond. It produces beautiful sheet music, but I can't use it because (1) it's GPL and I intend to license the technology, (2) I'm generating the notation client-side (for responsive design) and (3) I need the ability to highlight certain notes in real time to show the user which notes are being played.

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

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Post by adrianh » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

rl12345 wrote: post #119

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…

Dude, I love you! I started playing guitar again after a 10 year break and I'm learning new songs via youtube mainly nowadays. Just the other day I was thinking about how cool it would be if there was an app available just like yours. That slow-mo thing is a killer feature for sure, I always wanted that. You may want to check these guys called Cifra Club over youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZUuCyyQe0 , they…

Hey, thanks! I hadn't come across Cifra Club -- much appreciated.

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

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Post by itsosman » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 6:06 PM UTC

BusyConf (http://www.busyconf.com) -- Conference planning SaaS

It's cool because conferences are great of networking and learning (especially in the tech industry), but current event planning tools don't handle a lot of the things that conference organizers need.