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Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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http://viewtext.org Pulls article text out of html pages Populates RSS feeds Save text to PDF Extract text from PDF's API to pull article text in XML, JSON, JSONP formats

May I link to it from another page? http://viewtext.org/api/text?url=techbio.org&format=html...

Sure, that's the main reason I built it. So other sites could easily link to it. I'm doing just that with http://ihackernews.com

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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http://viewtext.org Pulls article text out of html pages Populates RSS feeds Save text to PDF Extract text from PDF's API to pull article text in XML, JSON, JSONP formats

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your service. Thank you.

Thank you, I'm happy to hear that!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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It's awesome to see so many building so much cool stuff. I just got lost for 20 minutes in benjoffe's site. Here are a few of mine: Track lunch debts (turns out I'd rather just buy people lunch but I got to play with some JS): http://lunchng.appspot.com/ Save clippings from web pages (2008, seems like someone builds one of these every six months, could use a refresh with ideas from http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com…

Pictourist could be quite fun for seeing how others live. Imagine following a person in a foreign country around their guided tour...assuming it's different enough from your own!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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It's not a real "startup" type of project, but these are some of my half-finished projects that I'd like to bring to a stable and releasable point some time:

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At http://blog.marc-seeger.de/ , I'm trying to get a blog based on serious (http://github.com/colszowka/serious) (ruby, sinatra + flat files) up and running. I don't seem to find the time (or muse) to keep doing some improvements such as:

- start adding more CSS and beef up the HTML semantically

- publish some new papers (e.g. my M.Sc. thesis)

- Introduce tags

- Create a cellphone-friendly version by just using CSS3 media queries

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http://fitness.marc-seeger.de/category/joggen (aka: http://github.com/rb2k/run-a-log ) is another side project that works, but could need some polish.

I scratched my own itch after I couldn't find a simple way to visualize gpx files recorded with my cellphone (simple = just upload via scp)

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http://github.com/rb2k/viddl-rb

A plugin-extendable commandline downloader for video sites. Currently does Youtube, Vimeo and Megavideo. I basically hacked it together and never got arround to properly document or package it... :(

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