A project manager for the low-budget film industry. It imports a script and generates the production board, call sheets, and budget. Hopefully saves filmmakers time and money and lets them focus more on the creative aspects of production.
Ask HN: What are you Building?
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#62I'm working on step 2 of a naming company (we create names for new startups and products). The plan is to offer a package with a name, logo, and business card, so I'm working on my logo design skills and bringing in some more designers. Also, I'm building an copy editing service that's more transparent and straightforward. Most editors have complicated pricing schemes that vary depending on the topic, document type a…
I have to ask: Does your naming company have a name?
Yep, Nomvilla. (http://nomvilla.com)
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#63http://wikisherpa.com/ - online/offline Wikitravel/OpenStreetMap mash-up travel-guide app. Been picking at it part-time for a couple of years now, have about 12,000 active users split roughly evenly between Android/iOS, am trying to work out what to do with it next.
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#64An open source WYSIWYG CMS and plugin platform running on Node.js and CoffeeScript, along with a hosting service and simple virtual hosting control panel.
The main advantages over other similar systems are:
* open source: MIT license
* ease of use: everything is a widget, including layout/design aspects
* efficiency: virtual hosting for many sites on one server/VPS, Node.js, caching, reduced requests etc.
* easy to extend: just enter Github user and repo name and hit publish to add a plugin
Right now I have tools/widgets for adding text (with lots of Google fonts), adding images, email address collection, pages (tabs), editing code, installing plugins, managing files, and a button to play Groove Salad. I am planning on finishing the EtherCalc (collaborative spreadsheet) widget, the EtherPad widget, and then recording a video.
The video will demo all of those things above and also show me quickly coding (with the code editor) and publishing a widget for a live updating collaborative data list that takes advantage of the built-in NowJS and Mongolian Deadbeef libraries.
When that stuff is ready I will start trying to raise money on KickStarter, and hopefully will have some funds to tighten up some basic things like security and hosting features. Then when its sort of Beta ready I will try to publicize the github repo again. I gave it out before but its really not ready to share the code at this point, very messy and pre-alpha.
Anyway I am interested to know what people think of the concept or my plan.
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#65I recently deployed my own bootstrapped application called Mucho Support (http://muchosupport.com). It let's you build a contact list of team members and gives you a hotline (local phone number). When a business emergency occurs, a concerned party dials the number and Mucho Support will cycle through your list of supporters until you reach someone. You can also text your phone number and it will blast message everyone on your team with that message. It also emails everyone and tracks emergency activity.
I guess the idea is that automated systems are great in detecting hardware failure, but they lack the analytical skills your people have. "Crap we marked everything 80% off, instead of just one item" is a hard problem to automate around.
Only $10 a month for unlimited supporters (30 day trial). Keeping it simple for now as I drum up interest. Would love it if you guys would check it out.
I've also used this as a proxy for automated services like Pingdom. It texts your hotline, and Mucho Support blasts your entire team, not just one phone number.
Thanks.
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#66I just finished building a widget, for beta testing, that startups can grab from my website that has a built in screen recording tool. So once they embed this on their own website they can entice users to record their interactions and it will even pick up on audio feedback as well. You can see the widget on my site http://betapunch.com . The widget is the little punch icon in the right corner of the page. It's not gr…
Added to a wordpress theme footer in a few different places. Couldn't get it to work & doesn't look like there's any way to contact you via the betapunch site. Email in my profile if interested.
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#67I'm writing a little Sinatra app for my fiancee's birthday. It's nothing complicated, it just displays a different reason I love her each time the page loads (or you can permalink to a specific reason).
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#68I'm working on a tool that helps you find the webpages you've previously come across. This is primarily done by showing large screenshots with each bookmark. I plan to add a variety of page-browsing tools to help you find that page quickly (from color palettes to cover-flow-esq flow). http://folindux.com
If you could do that well, that would be amazing. There was a post years ago from a Mozilla intern on "Lifestream." It's a little bit like your idea, but I've wanted this for so long. Still haven't figured out how to do this, so I shall wait to see how yours turns out instead. Take a look: http://weizhou.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/prototype/ I personally think some of the ideas there are amazing. I attempted to contact…
You can tag things, which hopefully serves the same purpose as foldering.
I'll add some tools in the future to rename batch tags.
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#69I'm building a book recommendation engine. You rate books you have read and we recommend other books you might like. We don't care about anything that doesn't improve the quality of the recommendations, so no book clubs, no author blogs, no user book lists...
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#70pgXplorer - http://pgxplorer.com
An open source GUI for PostgreSQL databases.