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Post by d0m »

m52go wrote: post #270

BookStorm: an awesome way to explore the world of books. Why it's awesome: we're helping to maximize intellectual freedom in a world dominated by "smart" algorithms and "social" recommendations with old-fashioned serendipity. http://bookstormapp.com

I'd personally much rather get recommendation of books based on what people similar to me swiped.. This is how I discover new musics on streaming site (By searching for new playlists containing songs that I like). But I'm sure you know that already so what's the story behind the no "smart / social"? Is it because you feel those are too easily abused by marketers? Or that some books are just never suggested since they aren't yet recommended by friends?

Also, I see that you can rate books.. does that affect the algorithm? I.e. am I going to see lots of 5 star books or will it be random? E.g. I'll get to see lots of 1-3 star rated books. Again, I'd much rather have the rating of one person I trust than hundreds of people I don't know. For instance, SICP has a pretty amazing review by PG and a crap ton of 1 star reviews by students. I'd take the pg suggestion any day.

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Post by hluska »

Professional - I'm a generalist with Vivvo Application studios. Right now, I'm mainly doing deployment, but that is subject to change.

Personal - My girlfriend and I recently had a baby - Lauren turned 48 hours old at 01:15 local time this morning. When I'm not at work, I am changing diapers, holding the most incredibly cool thing I have ever helped create, and feeling the most incredible awe that I have ever experienced.

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Post by stephenhuey »

Here at Luminare in Houston we're tackling the most expensive reason for hospitalization in the USA.

http://www.luminaremed.com

Every day the country spends $55 million on sepsis and Sagitta is a tablet-based, bedside sepsis-screening app for acute care hospitals that aims to drastically reduce this problem!

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Post by yoo1I »

Xcelerate wrote: post #125
soheil wrote: post #79

Speech recognition and search API: https://app.loverino.com/ Highest quality engine out there. Personalized radio: https://loverino.com/beta/ everyone should have their own radio channel that they listen to.

> Speech recognition and search API I've been wanting to make something like this for a while. Really nice product you have! I think this kind of service will really take off in the future. Imagine having an app that constantly records everything and allows you to search it later. Questions like "What did James tell me last November about traveling to Europe?". It would also eliminate hearsay, since you would no long…

That technology has been commercially available at least since 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8jQy4nqLA

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Post by d0m »

zvanness wrote: post #288

Scoper - See where you want to be! http://scoper.video/ Scoper is awesome because instead of watching a random stream, you can request one anywhere, for whatever reason. An example use case would be if you were going to be moving to a new city that's far away. Instead of making a deposit for an apartment based on pics you find online, you could send a request on Scoper to someone nearby the area you want to move to,…

Reminds me of "localmind" where you could ask questions to people at a specific location. They were acquired by airbnb a few years ago.

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Post by ChrisDutrow »

Management software for small mobile service businesses (working demo): https://demo.enterprisejazz.com

Video of older, ugly version with way more features: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/enterprisejazz/website/de...

Got started on it cause I own a mobile auto detailing company: SharpDetail.com

Some features it has:

* Route optimization

* Call routing and call recording

* Track missed calls vs answered calls

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Post by leblancfg »

hoodoof wrote: post #274

I'm not working on it but one idea is "camp country" in which farmers, country and rural landowners offer their land for camping for a small fee. Anyone this this is a good idea?

Could be a future feature for airbnb.

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

giodamelio wrote: post #154
BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #134

Prelude - https://www.getprelude.net/ A progressive web app for improving music sight reading skills. (Also perfect pitch identification ability.) I wasn't happy with my sight reading speed, so I've been building this to help myself practice. Some distinguishing features: - Web MIDI, to connect to a MIDI keyboard you can use to "answer" the practice questions (works in Chrome for Android or Desktop) - Web App Manifes…

That's pretty neat. I have been meaning to work on my sight reading skills. I will have to give it a try with my keyboard later.

Let me know if you have any feedback! Issues/PRs welcome.

Note that Android is still a bit finnicky about connecting MIDI devices (using USB-OTG); After accepting the permission request, you might have to go through some permutation of refreshing the page and unplugging/replugging the cable to get it to work.

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