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#381
BaseDeploy.com

Build web apps focused on user generated content, without coding.

- Register users - Create pages for user generated content. - Connect to Stripe.com for Subscriptions, Payments, Transactions fees, etc.

It's a builder like weebly or squarespace, except it allows you to build your own communities or marketplaces like Etsy. I think it's cool.

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#382

CPAP.com Unlike 98% of the industry, we sell CPAP equipment for cash prices. This means that you, not the insurance company, are the respected and valued customer. The "cash CPAP" space means: 1. A market incentive to build people first instead of billing code first products. 2. A market comfort items that would never be produced in a billing code world. 3. A system where it pays to pick up the phone and know all abo…

I have a suggestion that you replace the box+ basketball image with box + a product you sell, so that dumb people like me who look first then read later don't think it is a sports site. :-)

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#383
https://www.iprevail.com

Online CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) program for helping people with stress / depression / anxiety. We've built these modules (videos, exercises, etc) & a community for everyone to interact and find ways to improve their mental health. Feel free to check it out.

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#384

info-beamer - https://info-beamer.com/pi I build a digital signage platform based on the Raspberry PI. It started as an open source "for fun" project ( https://github.com/dividuum/info-beamer ) but has now evolved into the most powerful software to build animated, hardware accelerated visualizations on the PI. As using the software on its own can be complicated (if you're not a programmer) I built a complete SaaS aro…

Well done, that looks fantastic. I can immediately think of a bunch of uses for it around the office and even at home!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

#385
Sentinel Marine Solutions - http://www.sentinel.hr/

A boat & fleet tracking solution, tailored fit for chartering companies.

What is it?

The device, once installed on a boat, starts tracking the GPS position (high frequency measurements) as well as all the sensors which are connected to it (bilge, battery voltage, motion sensors, etc. All this data is presented to the charter owner on web and mobile dashboards. Additionally, the service sends push notification if anything unusual occurs (like the battery voltage being too low). It also offers virtual anchoring and locking functions, which add an additional layer of safety to boats.

Why is it cool?

It improves safely on board. You are instantly notified of anything bad happen, like the battery depleting rapidly. Who wants to get stuck in an island without replacement battery?

It helps resolve conflicts between charters and guests in the case of an accident. If a guests damages the boat (for example by cruising in shallow waters), the charter can quickly find this out by glancing on where the boat was travelling.

It produces beautiful data (trip history maps which can be shared by the charter/guest on social networks) and enables services previously impossible to imagine.

As a boat owner, it helps you keep a peaceful mind while you are away. You are notified of the bilge operation, so you know it was working correctly during a heavy storm.

We are soon releasing a B2C boat monitoring solution - stay tuned (bookmark the website)

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#387

ontolo.com : a fast, customizable search engine for marketing opportunities. Written entirely in C, except for the front-end. Took 18 months. Didn't know C before and was a hack programmer. Just released a major update yesterday. The crawler, parser, and indexer can process over 250,000 web pages per minute on commodity hardware and a gigabit connection. The parser is unlike any other I've seen, in that it parsers a…

do you use regular expression parsing, xml, or some state machine type parsing?

What do you store all the data parsed in?

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#388
Missive — https://missiveapp.com

Started as a collaborative email client, but expanding to offer chat and general team communication features. Your inbox already acts as a todo list, so it’s the best foundation to build a powerful and unified collaboration platform. We’ll ultimately become your one true todo list. One that gathers tasks from all channels: email, chat, etc. This pretty much makes us competitors to email clients, Slack, Basecamp, help desks, CRMs… name it. Big ambitions! ;)

Read more here: https://medium.com/missive-app/building-the-team-communicati...

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#389

Zatresi - http://www.zatresi.si/ It's a map of sport clubs (gyms, karate dojos, swimming pools, etc) in Slovenia. Why I made it? After moving back to Slovenia I started looking for a traditional Karate dojo. My choice would be constrained by hour of training and dojo philosophy (traditional karate vs sports karate). It turned out to be really difficult to find all the dojos nearby, as they neither on Google Maps, and…

You're using Mapbox map tiles with an API key of another company (that's costing them money). You're also not showing the Mapbox and Openstreetmap copyright which you are required to do. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

#390
http://lot49.com/oversight

About a year ago, I finished my second novel, Oversight, about advertising, virtual reality, and terrorism. It got some recognition recently from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. It's awesome, if you accept a fairly flexible definition of the term. Mostly, it has affirmed that promoting books is as difficult as promoting apps.

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