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

#162
I've been working a personal finance web app focused on measuring and improving spending behavior. It goes beyond merely "how much did you spend" and addresses the context and decision making process which drives good or bad spending.

The big challenge has been keeping it simple yet providing the appropriate prompts for folks to reflect on and improve their spending decisions. In other words, the code is easy; the product design has been harder for me.

Teaser: http://www.spendlight.com/

With luck I'll bring the first batch into the beta in the next few days. Invite code "HN" will bump you to the front of the line.

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

#163
I'm working on PhoneCard, a service to make cheap international phone calls without requiring a data connection. You enter the phone number in the webapp and it calls you.

Next time you're using poor hotel wifi or you're frustrated with skype (e.g. multiple disconnects per hour), try PhoneCard for a high-quality call.

PhoneCard can call most places in the world, and in some countries you can also purchase incoming numbers that will forward calls to you internationally.

Still very much a beta product, but check it out at https://www.getphonecard.net

Also working on an Android app which I hope to release soon.

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

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I've just launched an app for building D3.js charts online. Getting some interesting people sign. https://app.chartblocks.com/tryme

Looks cool. You should make some sample datasets available for the trial accounts to play with.

There are some if you go through the chart wizard but that's actually a good idea - we should at least have one sample dataset in the dataset list.
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