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Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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

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Post by plinkplonk »

Besides the day job (Program Manager),

(a) Working through Cormen et al's Algorithms book. (b) Trying to learn how 3D game engines work by building one (in java). Rendering is completely in software. (c) Working through Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis"

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

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Post by jeffgreco »

jfornear wrote: post #65

I'm working on http://rawberry.tv - somewhat of a platform for creating your own music video mix reel. It's not even close to being done, but I'm hoping to finish it by the time I graduate to help me land a job or something.

It's a nice looking design - what sort of functionality are you rolling in?

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

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Post by greaterscope »

tocomment wrote: post #41
greaterscope wrote: post #6

I've been working on an online storefront product that should serve as a great starting point for web developers that need to roll some custom functionality for clients. All text can be multi-lingual, support for complex product options and pricing, multiple storefronts using the same code, and more. nothing to show yet, but more info here http://greaterscope.com

How will you find the customers for it?

A friend of mine runs http://www.udm4.com and we've talked about running an ad on there since its primary audience is developers (nevermind the fact that I don't really like the menu). Other than that, try to partner with good development shops that do online stores ... I have a few in mind.

Any other ideas, besides taking out the obvious ad on google? I really don't want to screw with trying to get high keyword ranking via the SEO black-magic route.

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

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Post by greaterscope »

robdor wrote: post #22

Making online customer support easy with Candlelight -- http://www.candlelightapp.com I've been working on it nights and weekends. Great respite from some of the less than pleasant activities of coding at my day job.

sounds interesting and probably something I could use since I plan to offer email-only support at first for my online storefront product.

i'll be keeping tabs on you guys. :-)

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

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Post by JMiao »

maryrosecook wrote: post #12

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

typed in "frank sinatra" and got, among others: queen, bob dylan, and coldplay. one issue with music recommendation is how people (subjective creatures!) usually demonstrate low-tolerance for "bad" recommendations.

nevertheless, i love your vibe.

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

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Post by jfornear »

jeffgreco wrote: post #73
jfornear wrote: post #65

I'm working on http://rawberry.tv - somewhat of a platform for creating your own music video mix reel. It's not even close to being done, but I'm hoping to finish it by the time I graduate to help me land a job or something.

It's a nice looking design - what sort of functionality are you rolling in?

Thanks, I think it's going to be fairly straightforward with twitter-like functionality at first. I'm not really planning to introduce anything technically groundbreaking. I just need to have a project to work on.

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

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Post by unalone »

rickmode wrote: post #23

I'm working on an open platform for cloud storage. Imagine something like MobileMe, Microsoft Strata, or Carbonite, but without your data being trapped by a single vendor. At the moment we are considering Celeste as the basis for this platform. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/celeste/ I've got the partner (alexkravets), now we're looking for funding to mitigate the risk of having no day job. We don't have a wri…

Question: how do you plan on making things sync as effortlessly as they do on MobileMe? I'm sure it can be done - look at Dropbox - but do you have any ideas on how to beat something that's built in to the system?
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