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

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Post by Fiahil »

xavi wrote: post #334

I'm working on BankBotsBank ( https://github.com/bankbotsbank/bankbotsbank ), an open effort to develop a collection of open-source bots that provide API access to accounts on any bank. I developed the first bot, which can be used as a sample, with JavaScript (ES6, and ES7's async/await) and Nightmare (based on Electron, so on Chromium). It's awesome because free API access to this data for any bank in the world may…

Nice!

I'm currently experimenting with classifiers to make semi-automated expenses classification. My bank don't offer API access (of course. Because they still live in the dark ages), but they do have an "usable" CSV export. What would be really awesome is a raspberry pi running a bot once a day to grab a fresh CSV, then parse, classify, aggregate and historize it.

The funny thing is, they do have mobile/tablet applications and other "new" stuff, but they just completely sucks.

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Post by stevesearer »

Flammy wrote: post #315
fblp wrote: post #305

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?

Its something the startup I work for needs, I'd be happy to provide feedback (I'm a user researcher). Email in profile.

Here's some phone booths I've tried that are pretty awesome: http://www.frameryacoustics.com/en/home/

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Post by brobinson »

tezzer wrote: post #119

Wave Gliders: http://www.liquid-robotics.com It's a wave-powered, autonomous sensor platform built for longevity at sea. We do things like monitor salinity in the arctic, circle oil platforms looking for leaks, track tagged mammals on migration, and do coordinated fleet maneuvers for ocean floor mapping and exploration.

Wow, your ASW platform is great. I'm assuming it's passive sonar? People definitely do not appreciate the fact that a single boomer sub could effectively end a country on 30 minutes notice.

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Post by andrew-lucker »

Test all the things! https://jad.subarctic.org/services

Startups usually don't have much time or budget for testing, so we're improving the core technology to bring issue visibility to more businesses.

We manage writing tests/scenarios and customers get alerts, a dashboard, and optionally a public service-status page.

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Post by tmoullet »

sbauch wrote: post #364

https://vcardme.com My current side project is Vcardme. It's a service for hosting your contact information at a URL where it can be accessed or saved. Idea being you should put your Vcardme URL in your email sig. For me, what really makes it awesome, is the iOS app that allows you to save Vcardme links to your iOS phone book and also subscribes you to updates for the contacts you saved. So your iOS Contacts would st…

Just tossing this out there. Could be an awkward name: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=V+card

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Post by benwills »

tmaly wrote: post #387
benwills wrote: post #375

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?

the parser is all hand-written c. the only library i use outside of libc, is xxhash.

documents are read and parsed byte by byte, where "sections" (e.g. side nav) and "contexts" (e.g. comment author) are maintained in a stack of states. part of the speed comes from writing a custom hashing tool that creates compact, very fast hash tables with few or no collisions. so identifying html tags, etc, is very fast and keeps everything as close to l1 as possible.

data is stored exclusively in sphinx. i don't know if it's a secret or not, but i've seen no one talk about it: elasticsearch crumbled horribly under this kind of load. sphinx performs beautifully.

depending on the path i take from here, creating my own index and engine is becoming a serious consideration.

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Post by wsvincent »

Flammy wrote: post #346
wsvincent wrote: post #36

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…

Some quick feedback: When a user clicks on a map indicator, the school name (at minimum) should be a link to open the full description It would be nice to have either a search next to the filter (so searching only within the city) or have the main site search maintain location. I expect a very significant % of your users will be looking at a single location, or at least one at a time. It is a bit weird to start with…

This is fantastic feedback. Thank you!

* Yup, about to add a bigger hit radius on map indicator

* City zoom...we're working on some ways to improve this.

* Interesting about city demographic data...certainly have it. I can see how it would help. We display it on the school page a bit, but can do so here as well.

Thanks again for the feedback.

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Post by gxespino »

http://melthq.com

I'm building the API for physical gifting.

Want to reward your best customers with chocolates, flowers, company swag, etc. but don't want the operational overhead?

Automate making a call to Melt's API and we'll handle the buying, customizing, and logistics.

The goal is to increase customer engagement, customer satisfaction, word-of-mouth growth and lifetime value.

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Post by Huhty »

A HN/Reddit alternative: http://snapzu.com

Snapzu innovates on all the things that Reddit is lacking, such as:

1. Your home feed provides all raw/live posts and activity from tribes you join, people you follow, and/or posts you save. This is similar to how twitter does it.

2. You can post links and content into more than one tribe (community) at a time which helps keep 're-posts' at a minimum.

3. You can post images without using a 3rd party service like Imgur, and you can embed Youtube and Vimeo videos directly.

4. Instead of link/comment karma (yes, of the "karmawhoring" variety), you earn Experience Points (XP) for participation used for leveling up your profile, and Reputation, a percentage score based on how other users vote on your posts.

5. All members can contribute to your posts by adding "related links", which add value to the post and are voted on by other members, just like comments.

6. Each member has a limit on how many tribes (communities) they can operate, based on XP level reached. No "power mods" here.

7. A Partnership Referral Program (http://snapzu.com/referralprogram) provides additional tools and incentives to help you grow your tribes (if you have a blog, website, forum, or other social influence)

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