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

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by AldousHaxley » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:18 PM UTC

Building a social, collaborative creation platform. Starting with vector images, with other media types coming soon: https://www.formgraph.com

Working on a market where users can sell prints of collaborated-on works. Also in the process of building similar web based tools for composing music.

Also, I'm dangerously close to running out of money and having to go back to getting a job, so if you have any full stack web or iOS work you want done on contract, reach out to me! (jwatson@formgraph.com)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by hankewi » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:19 PM UTC

elhalyn wrote: post #120

==== When is your PRODUCTIVE HOUR ? ==== Started as a StartupWeekend Project ( still young ) http://www.dailyhigh.co

This is a nice way to check your CNS activity - which in turn is a very good predictor of athletic performance. I think the crossfit world is very eager for a cool solution.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by ploggingdev » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:19 PM UTC

searchhn wrote: post #119

Project: Hosted & On-Prem fast full-text search with faceting, filtering, multiple ranking algorithms and plenty of other features. Not yet ready for launch but built a simple demo trying to get into startupschool ( failed unfortunately :( ), which lets you search every hackernews post while letting you filter based on domain / user / story type. http://searchhn.com

Cool project. Could you briefly talk about

* the backend you use and how it will scale to sites with large amounts of data across servers

* can third party sites integrate your search service?

* How is it different from eg- Algolia

Good luck with the project!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Slaul » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:21 PM UTC

joshdotsmith wrote: post #131

Slaul wrote: post #127

Working on a spend management tool geared toward understanding and managing spend on SAAS services.

Do you have anything you can share about this? I'm very interested to see and am happy to provide feedback.

I'm only about 60% done my MVP, probably a few weeks more before I am ready to put anything out there (just working evenings and the odd weekend atm).

If you are interested, send me an email and I'll forward you a link when I have something a little more ready to go!

ben(dot)pottle(at)gmail.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by nkristoffersen » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:21 PM UTC

Project: Resume builder that is very opinionated. More focused on underemployed and unemployed. Folks who don't know how to sell themselves well. http://jobhero.org It is open sourced on github.

Problem: Need more (good) resume template designs. Want to move to react to learn react (angular 1.6 currently). Will move to JSON Resume standard for storing the resume. Will include a login provider instead of the current uuidv4 url as auth. Need to build a landing page and better on-boarding.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lowglow » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:22 PM UTC

Immediate: RadBots (https://radbots.com/) - Tools for Bots - We're looking for devs that want to join the team.

Slow Baking: Asteria (https://getasteria.com/) - AI Companion device - looking for AI/ML people and a Hardware engineer.

Recently launched: Baqqer - (https://baqqer.com/) Platform for connecting makers and makerspaces to the resources around them, while facilitating collaboration and fundraising.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by rawrmaan » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:22 PM UTC

I'm working on a tool to help dating app users get more matches in an honest and organic way: https://www.picbot.co/

Problem: People are really bad a choosing the right dating app photos and often end up frustrated thinking there's something wrong with them when they just have awful photos.

Launching in a few days on iOS.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by technothirst » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:22 PM UTC

Project: http://upmilk.com/ app design microservice by reusing UI elements to ship apps faster and cheaper.

Problem: design and dev cycle of an app is too long.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by hankewi » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:24 PM UTC

We built a simple web app which helps plan group activities which normally end in chat hell (find a date, a place to meet, how brings what etc) and discovered that the mechanisms required solve a problem of current collaboration tools just as well:

No more searching for important info, URLs or whatnot - a simple mix of Slack Group Chat and Post-Its get the job done for us.

URL: https://jaypad.de/

Screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLQxPaM5Jao

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jessriedel » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:24 PM UTC

I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of the actual words rather than mentally parsing them.

Some software already removes complete silences, but this is a 10% effect and I think this could be taken much further. I would love audio software that could manipulate high-speed human speech to improve intelligibility by preferentially compressing parts with low information content (like vowels and "ughs") and uncompressing, or even "repairing", info-dense parts like sequential consonant sounds.

I've looked around and haven't been able to find anything like this. Could make a nice stand-alone app, or a library to sell to a podcast player.

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/27175/video-...