https://www.syncany.org/ - A secure open-source cloud storage and filesharing application.
Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
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Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#32I am currently working on establishing a company builder (high equity ownership of each venture, lots of shared resources, mostly internal ideas, quick and lean implementations, an experimental approach).
Not ready for public exposure yet. Always looking for feedback and tips on this approach to solving problems!
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#33I am working on a online newsreader that allows you to quickly read only important articles from websites and blogs of your choice.
Every article gets analyzed and evaluated, and uninteresting articles get filtered out. So you don’t have to read all articles of your favorite websites and blogs – only the important ones will be shown to you.
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#34It started out as a clone of http://nightchamber.com . That functionaluty was simple to emulate. Now I am trying to build a complete loginless social network. Although, the logging in process is highly device dependent, it will involve making the user approve the devices he intends to use the network from. What's fun is the number of ways I had to come up with that will make sure that the correct user is logged in re…
Interesting... Care to explain the concepts behind your loginless auth? In a sentence or two? Thanks! (do not have time to go through code myself :( )
Whenever a user visits the website, a session cookie is created in the user's system, that is set to expire after 15 years. Using this cookie data, I identify and authenticate the user.
The user also has a private url which he can use to login using other devices. Once logged in from this unidentified device, another cookie is created for the user but with a short time span. The user has the option to set the device as trusted which will result in the cookie expiry to be set at 15 years.
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#35I am working on this: http://www.fillburt.com. A tool to fill out job apps faster. I am in the process of validating it. Any feedback is welcome.
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#36working on Frontend as a Service project - http://frontendy.com still a lot of work to do )
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#37I am working on this: http://www.fillburt.com . A tool to fill out job apps faster. I am in the process of validating it. Any feedback is welcome.
This looks great - nice landing page, explains clearly what it does, and may actually help some people to apply for jobs
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#38I am working on a online newsreader that allows you to quickly read only important articles from websites and blogs of your choice. Every article gets analyzed and evaluated, and uninteresting articles get filtered out. So you don’t have to read all articles of your favorite websites and blogs – only the important ones will be shown to you. http://zebrello.instapage.com
Great looking landing page!
So how does filtering work? I guess user would need to provide custom set of keywords? Can they specify Regex? Are keywords used against article title or against the whole body?
If you are matching against article body, do you have any logic that would determine location of "article meat" or "article body boundaries", i.e. would strip out header / footer / ads / comments / navigation links etc?
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting... Care to explain the concepts behind your loginless auth? In a sentence or two? Thanks! (do not have time to go through code myself :( )
Whenever a user visits the website, a session cookie is created in the user's system, that is set to expire after 15 years. Using this cookie data, I identify and authenticate the user. The user also has a private url which he can use to login using other devices. Once logged in from this unidentified device, another cookie is created for the user but with a short time span. The user has the option to set the device…
OK, got it.
You probably ask for user's email and send them their secret special link that could be used over and over to restore the cookie? in case if they accidently delete their cookie?
Re: Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – April
#40My project may be a bit different from most as it is hardware. I've been building a photo booth and associated photo booth hire business over the last few months.
Had the first event two weeks back which ran great. Made a few improvements and had it out again last weekend. Next 4 weekends have bookings, and starting to fill up for bookings late this year and early next year.
Professional photography was taken of the booth yesterday which will be used for marketing purposes (it was quite hard to get the bookings without having a completed unit!). I am now ready to start ramping up the marketing (/bookings).
Next step is to improve the website (which I made in Webflow). If you are interested, clickable link is https://readysteadybooth.com.au