http://engineering.foursquare.com/2012/08/16/checking-in-at-...
Roughly 30k active users, about 1 qps of live stream foursquare data. Not sure what to do with it, I'm not currently storing any of it.
Thoughts?
Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
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Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#162I created Devoired ( http://devoired.com ), an academic-assistance freelance contracting site targeted toward college and high-school students. Backend is written in Django, front-end is a clean, slightly modified version of Bootstrap 2. Features include a user account system, fully editable subject tree, private messaging with support for attachments, and a PayPal-integrated chained payment system with configurable…
And by academic assistance you of course mean academic dishonesty/plagiarism/contract cheating. Who would go near this as a business? Certainly unethical, possibly illegal?
In the United States, such sites, are actually in a great legal position. Google 'essay mills' if you want more information, or just search for essay help sites if you want proof that there's no shortage of such sites.
The differentiating factor here is that we do not limit ourselves to just essays, and we crowdsource help rather than doing the work ourselves. There is also a fairly specific Terms of Service in place that puts the burden on the user.
Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#163I created Devoired ( http://devoired.com ), an academic-assistance freelance contracting site targeted toward college and high-school students. Backend is written in Django, front-end is a clean, slightly modified version of Bootstrap 2. Features include a user account system, fully editable subject tree, private messaging with support for attachments, and a PayPal-integrated chained payment system with configurable…
Is this something that a novice nube like me can manipulate into a different subject contracting site? Also could it easy be copied into dozens of other websites with little technical savvy?
Yes, what sorts of different subjects did you have in mind?
Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#164http://www.rankique.com/ is a price-tracking site for Amazon. It would probably need a renaming and some SEO-love, as it's currently generating about 5$/month (with zero time spent on it). Was once supposed to evolve into a better product search engine, but I've lost interest a while ago (except for personal use, it really can save a lot of money).
Just wondering: How much did you think you would earn when you started it?
It's nicely built.
Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#165I've written a HTTP Proxy for Mac. nothing special so far, but it's intented to be used for debugging &&/|| development. It features a quite flexibel filter/modifier architecture, a working gui and a non-existant memory footprint. Since I just didn't have the dedication to finish the project but still think there's a market for that, I'd gladly sell it for a fair price. If anyone is interested in just seeing the app…
I'm interested. What is the best way to get in touch?
@derwildemomo (twitter) or mo (at) superflomo dot cooooom.
Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#166I've written a HTTP Proxy for Mac. nothing special so far, but it's intented to be used for debugging &&/|| development. It features a quite flexibel filter/modifier architecture, a working gui and a non-existant memory footprint. Since I just didn't have the dedication to finish the project but still think there's a market for that, I'd gladly sell it for a fair price. If anyone is interested in just seeing the app…
Do you know about http://www.charlesproxy.com/ and if so, have you done anything particularly differently?
Yes. Charles is a perfectly valid go-to solution for all problems solved by proxy, too. But Proxy aims to be more user friendly – Charles GUI is a bit messy and outdated.
The core of Proxy are it's filters and modifiers. Filters give you the ability to select specific requests/response pairs from the list of all of them, and modifiers make it possible to change the behavior and data a request/response pair carries. Modifiers are implemented in only a few lines and the idea was that they could be done in almost any language (read: ruby and other lightweight stuff), so the low-memory footprint along with simple, extensible filters would make a powerful developer tool – or the most configurable ad blocker that there is.
Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#167http://multiversi.es/
No users (needs marketing), but solid code base (Node.js, Socket.io). It comes with a half finished iOS app.
Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#168I have a mashup web app http://tripoptimizer.heroku.com for looking up points of interests (Tourist attractions, Restaurants, hotels, etc) and their ratings and reviews.
The technology stack is RoR, jquery, jquery-mobile and PostgreSQL. It uses Yahoo Local Search APIs and Google search APIs.
I also own www.tripoptimizer.com domain.
Let me know if interested.
Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#169I've developed http://whos.it . The source code has a really nice architecture - it supports more TLDs than other services like it - it supports web scraping for TLDs that don't have a standard whois server - parsing data is also implemented. I wanted to convert it into a API to sell subscriptions, but I already busy with other projects.
Your service tells me that my website is available for registration. that's not correct.
What is your website?
Re: Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#170Place to find recommendations from friends - www.stuffrage.com Recently finished, wasn't built to make money (affiliates seem like a good fit to monetize it). Am now moving on to other things. Seeing as tho it doesn't make any money I'm willing to entertain all offers. Email is in profile.
The awesomeness is in your video...explains your idea so beautifully. Did you do entire the video yourself, or outsourced a part of it?
The video (and the rest of the site) was done by a designer friend. The guy does amazing work