Ask YC: What are you working on these days? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by RKlophaus » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:02 PM UTC

rrival wrote: post #46

RKlophaus wrote: post #33

Great question :) Mostly working on Stitcho.com ( http://stitcho.com ) Stitcho is a desktop notification widget for your website, with support for Windows and Mac. Add desktop alerts to your web app in less than 30 minutes. Also, trying to build an Erlang community in the DC area (search for Erlang on meetup.com) Finally, putting together a presentation for BarCampDC this Saturday.

We've been doing something like this with Growl - how does it compare?

Stitcho is basically "Growl for the Web", but NOT in the sense of being another Javascript-to-Growl bridge (a few of those exist out there, protoGrowl, Growl mootools, etc.)

Rather, Stitcho lets you send notifications from server side code that are delivered to your users via the Stitcho widget. The Stitcho server sits in the middle to route and deliver the notifications.

Also, Stitcho provides widgets for Mac and Windows. (The Mac version can use Growl if it's available.)

Does that answer your question? If not, please clarify.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by teej » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:15 PM UTC

Finishing my distributed memory list caching system. Think Memcached, but instead of storing an object, you store an array, and can CRUD it in an atomic way. Fast, simple, non-persistent. Usage case: caching a one-to-many relationship in a relational database.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by Shamiq » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:24 PM UTC

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #45

Working as a researcher on the DARPA URGENT project.

How can I get to do something similar?

DARPA has all of the amazing stuff coming out of it...

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by timcederman » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:31 PM UTC

Integrating www.trovix.com to www.monster.com

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by fallentimes » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:33 PM UTC

toby wrote: post #48

* Working on my second book for O'Reilly * Speaking about, and generally pushing for more interest in Open Data * Putting my entire life in a semantic graph: http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=73 * Trying to figure out what programmers can do about risk management failures

What was your first book?

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by fallentimes » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:34 PM UTC

shafqat wrote: post #35

Fundraising for NewsCred! It's actually fun and not as depressing as all the blog posts make it out to be.

I agree. So many free breakfasts, lunches, dinners, beers and even paintball too. All while meeting some very intelligent people.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by kaens » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:36 PM UTC

Working on:

* a web-site-as-service for customizing installation / install cds for different flavors of Ubuntu.

* a customizable tetris-like game editor done in javascript, allowing people to create their own shapes / rules / etc.

* slowly making an emacs-like editor in python

* working on a web based store for the various media produced by the house I live in

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by lliiffee » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:37 PM UTC

maryrosecook wrote: post #12

http://theperceptron.com - astute music recommendations And a site where you create your audio autobiography by uploading mp3s. Hello, RIAA.

I got: Radiohead -> The Beach Boys

You should remove that my any means necessary.

I think the UI is pretty nice, actually. Very functional, feels like a "tool". Don't lose that when you make it more fancy.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by delano » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:41 PM UTC

tricky wrote: post #32

1) a new/obscure music blog - www.audioindie.com 2) a data tracking app for medical stats 3) clinical trial data management 4) getting my car ready for a DE event.

What is a DE event?

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by catone » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:44 PM UTC

Blogging at SitePoint.com, switching RailsForum.com over to vBulletin (no, Beast won't cut it), and working on a utility for educators (K-12 and post secondary).