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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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A cross-platform dual-pane file manager [1]. It made the front page and top 10 on Product Hunt last month. I'm busy implementing feature requests and figuring out a way to grow it sustainably. [1]: https://fman.io

Ps. Search everything on Windows searches through NTFS. Which is insanely fast ( thought it could be usefull)

Thanks! I'll keep it in mind.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Thanks for the signup! My initial target is short-form content such as blog posts and essays. I'm going to wait to see how that goes to decide what to focus on next, but odds are that it'll be more structured content like academic papers or technical reports. I'm definitely not ruling out an eventual focus on creative writing, but it'll take a bit for the system to get to that stage. That said, I'm designing it with…

Looks very interesting. I guess I might be fighting a loosing battle here - but any plans for an offline solution? This is the kind of thing that I'd probably love to use on the train (many tunnels, no 4g/spotty in-train wireless) - and on flights (wifi is comming, but not always) -- or other places without good network coverage (composing a blog post on a hike..).

Yeah, I understand, it's a completely valid use case. I'm personally much more productive when I'm completely disconnected, so I really identify with the request.

I had, in the past, also been thinking a bit about how the system could work offline because it would avoid a lot of security issues for something like a medical office that wants to create content that's then copied into a medical records system.

My initial thought was to bundle a local copy of the server with pre-trained models, but that becomes problematic on mobile clients. I'm writing the server in Go, so if I go that route I'd probably need to reimplement parts of it in another language and avoid using any remote APIs.

So the answer is: very likely yes, but not initially. You've definitely moved the functionality up my planned features list.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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While working with clients and partners at Alaris Prime, my co-founder and I realized a big under-served market. These are projects that are too large for UpWorks, Freelancer, Gigster, Guru, Project4Hire but too low for IDEO, Leo Burnett, Razorfish, and other digital agencies of the world. When we work with our customers we make sure that their projects get done. Even with the involvement of other partners, we make s…

FWIW, the product by Upwork Global Inc (formerly Elance-oDesk) is now "Upwork", not "UpWorks". May want to adjust that if this is part of a pitch elsewhere. :)

Got it. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks very interesting. I guess I might be fighting a loosing battle here - but any plans for an offline solution? This is the kind of thing that I'd probably love to use on the train (many tunnels, no 4g/spotty in-train wireless) - and on flights (wifi is comming, but not always) -- or other places without good network coverage (composing a blog post on a hike..).

Yeah, I understand, it's a completely valid use case. I'm personally much more productive when I'm completely disconnected, so I really identify with the request. I had, in the past, also been thinking a bit about how the system could work offline because it would avoid a lot of security issues for something like a medical office that wants to create content that's then copied into a medical records system. My initia…

A self-contained binary would work fine for me (If it could run on a Surface Pro 4 - or as a VM image - eg. hyper-v and/or virtual box).

I always prefer a Free software/open source solution - but I'm not sure how you'd monetize that. Maybe charge for the app (ios/android) - and provide a free/open self-host server solution, along with a subscription service and a web client? (The payment for the app would also grant access to the subscription, and for those that didn't want to self-host/wanted to support the project could pay for the subscription and use the web SaaS solution?).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm building myself a publishing platform which I'd like to make available to others for $12/yr. It'd be a GUI for static-code generators, where you can write markdown in a browser, hit "publish", and Jekyll/Middleman will generate content for you + push the newly generated article to the GitHub repo. I'm spitting out tools, as a side-effect of that: https://github.com/wkoszek/lastpass-ansible https://github.com/wkos…

I'm also working on something similar, check http://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I am building a search engine for a mind map I am working on. ( https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map ) I want to make a collaborative mind map where one can see all the knowledge of the world at a glance and be provided with the resources on learning any of the topics there. I really dislike the black box nature of Google/DuckDuckGo where you first have to know the question before getting an answer. It wou…

really cool stuff!

PS: damned, I had already starred it on gh :D

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