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

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Post by rokhayakebe »

heidar wrote: post #103

Working on TruckPlease https://www.truckplease.com/ If you need to move something you can post it there and guys with trucks and moving companies around you will put down quotes for the job. Then you can accept/decline the quotes and get connected to the mover. It's a Rails app. The focus is on stuff within the same city (or county at least) so shorter local moves. It's mostly in Vancouver, BC right now although we g…

You should put a picture of different trucks on your home page to drive to point "further" home. Excellent idea.

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Post by mgrouchy »

As always, hammering away on new ideas for Pycoder's Weekly (http://pycoders.com), a fairly popular Python newsletter.

Also doing some work on a basketball news site, HoopsMachine(http://hoopsmachine.com), which currently isn't much more then a pretty awful looking up to date feed of Basketball news (with accompanying RSS feed). Keep an eye out though, lots of stuff to come there soon.

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

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Post by contingencies »

maz1b wrote: post #176

I haven't been a fan of most music blogs out there, so I started one alone with a different focus and combined my passion for music with coding to help us stand out. Now, my team has grown to 34 people and we're building our own platform to help people discover all kinds of music. http://radcircle.com New completely custom platform built from scratch in it's Alpha stages, using Ruby, Rails and possibly SailsJS. Would…

This is a great problem to attempt to solve, for a few reasons. First, there's heaps of audio content out there with friendly licensing already. Second, there's huge amounts of metadata and related text available. Third, there's so many different angles of analysis to tie things together with. Fourth, everyone's got at least a few devices that can access some or all of that content.

I share your belief that someone can do better than the current offerings in this area.

However, right now your site is not giving me a lot of useful response. I am seeing no results for some pretty popular instruments (I searched 'hang' and 'sitar' and neither had any results). I am seeing very little of a lot of genres out there. And when I do get results, they are not presented in an easily reviewed manner (eg. with Google-style text snippets, many results visible per page in an uncluttered, single-direction-scannable results list).

Here's some random ideas: - consider search by artist, individual within an artist group, instrument, instrument genre, time, event, venue, genre, review text, reviewer rating or location or age or something - consider limit by 'has upcoming events near me' (good monetization path) - timeline of genres - timeline of releases by an artist - links to wikipedia background - metadata from same (+wikidata, etc.)

Good luck developing this further, I think there's a lot of great work to be done.

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Post by sergiotapia »

Dnguyen wrote: post #118

I'm working on a todo list with a Seinfeld calendar. My take is that there are only three categories: Work, Home, Personal. There are two buckets of tasks, Short term and long term. You'd move long term tasks into the short term when you start working on them. At the beginning of the week, you'd move the tasks from the short term into the day of the week that you planning to work on them. The catch is, you can only w…

Please add me to your mailing list, I'm interested in using this. All of the "Seinfeld-todo's" on the play store or app store look HORRIBLE and work just barely.

Someone should build something that works but also looks and feels nice.

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Post by SnowProblem »

Voodoo.js - a Javascript library to integrate 3d controls seamlessly into 2d pages, and be able to mix them with other peoples 3d controls. You get a nifty parallax effect, too. Its all open source, and IMO the best option if you want non-intrusive 3d elements in your design.

Specifically, I'm working on a components library for Voodoo that works with Polymer. Meshes, 3d text, etc. It'll have 2d fallback support on slower devices. Long term, I'd love to grow a marketplace for controls like we have with Wordpress themes today.

Check it out! And let me know what you think.

http://www.voodoojs.com

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Post by tehwebguy »

Royalty-free music site specifically for YouTube + independent musicians. Two months old, 3200 users, 181 tracks and ~350 videos (YouTube search count is fuzzy)

Site: http://www.sovndwave.com

Screenshot of my dashboard for fun: http://i.imgur.com/icmw74u.png

To use a track you must include an attribution that includes a unique URL. That's what the "clicks" on that page refer to.

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Post by arkitaip »

adamonduty wrote: post #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 nu…

This could be huge. I've tried using Skype and Viber when talking to people in different countries and they are absolutely terrible in terms of audio quality.

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

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Post by finspin »

prakster wrote: post #131
finspin wrote: post #78

My weekend project is a script which tracks prices of used cars which I'm interested in and saves the data to a Google spreadsheet. It will also notify me via email if price for a car has dropped. I'm about half-way done.

Finspin, Interested in learning more. Could connect you to the ex-cofounder of a popular car parts company.

Yes, sure. Feel free to hit me up on my email, it's in my profile.
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