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

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lzell » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:12 AM UTC

lzell wrote: post #27

I quit my job a month ago for my second crack at bootstrapping a business: http://www.shirtstastegood.com I'm in nyc and I would love to hear any feedback! Thanks.

If you like any of the shirts, I made a coupon for HN readers: http://www.shirtstastegood.com/coupons/lXgcYWo4XEQ9fVAq

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by timinman » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:13 AM UTC

I'm creating an online spiritual-learning (Christian) site for kids: http://kidbuilder.net.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by gruseom » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:15 AM UTC

jimmyrcom wrote: post #23

A free ear training and music theory software http://www.trainear.com/ that few people use because no one cares about ear training and music theory

I do. I'll give it a try.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by babyboy808 » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:17 AM UTC

I'm just working my day job over at eirestudio.net - design/dev work. I have a few side projects going which are mostly for fun and learning more JavaScript.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by sdesol » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:17 AM UTC

I'm working on a solution to unify all the major SCMs (ClearCase, Git, Perforce, Subversion, etc.) and abstract the data it in such a way that I can provide information that can be digested by all levels of an organization. I'm calling this my full spectrum tool as it's intended to be as useful for developers as it is for executives and everybody in between. Basically I'm trying to change how we communicate and access information when it comes to software development.

I've been working on this fulltime for over a year now and it seems like I can't make a dent in it. Don't get me wrong, I have a very solid foundation so far that includes an indexer and a very flexible server/client framework that should work for any organization. However, even with this I still have a boat load of work to do.

There are definitely days where I think I've gotten way over my head, but I figure I've invested too much to walk away now.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by bmelton » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:17 AM UTC

Working my 9 to 5 (which is more like an (8 to 8), and trying to learn Django well enough to start an open source product I think Django makes sense for.

Django is fun, and surprisingly productive even while learning, though with little free time it's going slower than I'd like.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by gruseom » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:18 AM UTC

Making a new spreadsheet. Trying to make it fast enough. Learning about spatial data structures.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tptacek » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:19 AM UTC

I just got Ming, the Flash library, working in Ruby. I'm instrumenting the pure-ruby Ruby-AES library to "snapshot" each transformation of the AES round function, and playing with different ways to visualize substitution and permutation. I'm hoping to lay out step-by-step transformation of AES blocks, left-to-right, on a 34"x24" poster for Black Hat.

Our Chicago intern, who we found on Hacker News, is going to be helping me with this project this week. He doesn't know it yet, though.

I'm also finishing our "official" poster for Black Hat, which is a hex/ASCII chart with "interesting" characters highlighted (like a calendar with holidays).

Starting sometime in the next couple weeks, I'm coming off a solid 18+ months of back-to-back consulting projects and moving back to product work for Playbook (http://runplaybook.com), Matasano's product. I have a lot of customer calls to make. Another thing that entails: recruiting a jQ/frontend Ruby developer in Chicago. Leads welcome!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by MoeDrippins » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:19 AM UTC

Small company. Financial software. Yeah, that seemed a lot better a year or so ago.

But I've been at this a few years, this recession too shall pass.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by alex_c » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:19 AM UTC

lzell wrote: post #27

I quit my job a month ago for my second crack at bootstrapping a business: http://www.shirtstastegood.com I'm in nyc and I would love to hear any feedback! Thanks.

Those are pretty good! I can definitely see the appeal (which probably means I spend way too much time online).

How tough is the online t-shirt market? It seems like every time something goes even remotely viral, everyone and their dog tries to sell t-shirts. Do you even see random websites and opportunists as real competition (do they actually sell much?), or does your competition consist mainly of the other large t-shirt sites?