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Code: https://github.com/kpocza/thriot
Documentation: http://portal.thriot.io/
Demo site: http://central.thriot.io/
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…
I'm working on a programming language which will allow fully automatic distributed computing by having everyone using the language participate in a SETI@HOME-style p2p network. I'm under no illusions about it being fast, but it's certainly fun. Not really ready to share the URL yet, things are still coming together.
Easy Office phonebooths ----- | | | | | | ----- I've found lots of startups want more private spaces for individuals to work and do calls, but most solutions cost thousands of dollars or require builders. Does anyone want to test and give feedback on a better office phone booth?
I'm building tools to simplify building and managing distributed systems based on my experiences at Google and Hailo.
It's cool because it works across accounts and across regions, which their API doesn't do, and it adds new information like cost, so you can do stuff like 'select instance_id, monthly_cost from ec2.instances order by monthly_cost desc'.
https://cloudnative.io/yeobot/
Oh and we had to make a bunch of tools to make this work, since we're building it all on AWS Lambda, so there's these too:
The Work Explorer - http://theworkexplorer.com/ It's a personal photojournalism project to learn more about different occupations and the people who work in them. "We spend about 30% of our waking adult lives working. During that time, many of us experience only a small fraction of the available varieties of work. We may have some understanding of the occupations held by our friends, family, and coworkers. Outside of…
EdScore - A school ratings website for parents. https://edscore.org/ GreatSchools has a monopoly in this space but their 1-10 ratings scale is opaque and their website hard to navigate. EdScore has a more granular 50-100 rating scale, modern search, better mapping, and soon will feature search filters by distance and home price so parents can evaluate, say, top schools within a 1hr commute of SF with a median home pr…
What separates this from something state sponsored like the Illinois Report Card (illinoisreportcard.com) that would make me want to use it? It appears a flat % score is the main draw, but without any sort of information on what that score means, or how it stacks up, it's sort of useless.
I built EdScore out of frustration that this data is all public but buried in disparate state/federal databases and not accessible to parents, even though we're paying for it to be compiled/collected.
I think ratings (controversial as they are no matter what methodology you use) help parents do a quick sort of local options. And our goal with EdScore is to add search filters like commute distance, home price, school size, special ed offerings etc so that parents can search for the "right" school for their individual child based on various inputs, not a simple "best" rating or 1-10 scale that, absent other factors, is not very informative.