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#191

I'm working for a robotic toy startup and on the side designing an efficient & flexible radiant floor heating distribution & control system.

Let me know when you have the rfhd&cs done. I'm designing a house that will use radiant floor heating and I'd be interested to see your system. My email is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

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contact.ly which will use twillio, dropbox, and other services to build a more modern contact, calendar, file storage system (and for marketing to ride on the hype of other companies).

what makes it more modern?

Importing a csv list of contacts defines the contact mangers intial setup. You can then setup additional fields and group fields together into "sections" from an administrative interface. Each field can be further defined by purpose (email, text, phone number) so can group email's together by contact and soon you could do other things based upon type of field, you can also have sub-contacts and then the sub-contacts are further defined by contact types so you can group together emails of all contacts by a certain type.

It took me longer then expected to make (about a month) but now I have a totally customizable contact manger that is more like a database in itself, it is searchable and very flexible (no predefined fields).

On the contact list display where you see few fields from each contact you can define what fields are displayed on that list and each user can change that to there own preference. This way the data is out front and may save users an extra click to go see some piece of contact data they use the most.

I am working on building a billing system for the twillio api, keeping track of all of the sms messages sent, phone calls made, etc. Once I am done with that then I can add to the contact manager functionality, let's say you have a non-profit and you have 500 contacts that are going to be doing your charity "fun run" you can send them out a reminder via a phone call and sms to remember to show up, etc. Once you have your contact in the system, you can make "lists" and so your contacts here would be on the "fun run 2010" list for example. Then next year you can send them an email inviting them to do the 2011 fun run...

I feel this is more modern at least in what I am doing as this can be as big as or small as a person needs. If a company has 100 fields (like the cw tv network does they easily have 100 fields which is who I designed this for) then it will work for that and if a company only has a few fields they can grow out to the number of fields they need but without having that overhead right away.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

#193
I am working on a CMS that is "data first, design next". There is a large number of people saying people hate filling up forms. They hate wizards. But existing apps compounded the problem instead of solving it. Applications like Squarespace and Weebly are design first. This is where my app differs. I make it mandatory to have a required minimum data like images and company profile ready before they dive in to create a simple website.

I will be releasing this app in a few weeks. Thank you for asking. Bookmark http://getsetweb.in

I am located in Mumbai, India.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

#196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious to know (and for entirely selfish reasons) what classification of work permit is non-transferable?

I had a H1b but just about maxed it out so now I hold a TN1 (I'm Canadian). The upside of the TN is that I can (in theory) get an unlimited number of them and there is no cap on how many can be issued in a year. The downside is that if I step off of US soil I immediately lose it and have to apply for a new one at the border when I attempt to re-enter. Should the INS agent dislike me for any reason (or for no reason),…

I'm on a TN too. It's transferrable as far as I know because I've just done it (well I guess they just issue you a new one). I know the nightmare at the border fairly intimately. I always get secondary inspections. The second last time I got this whole giant grilling, with the officer threatening to not let me in. The last time the office said "I don't know why you're in here (secondary inspection), is there something you want from us?"

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

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post #150

http://github.com/jdodds/voussoir a node.js app for generating Arch linux livecds. It'll sit behind a pylons app in the near future, most likely. Making a website-as-service for making linux livecds is something I've wanted to do for a while, and the few projects out there that do it do it poorly, imo. I had the start of something like this using Ubuntu a while ago, but frankly there's not much more room on the Ubunt…

I've wanted to do this for so long, good luck, on the app and the interview
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