Create a web app that offers, your offer. A portal for HN devs to take on jobs, possibly in tandem, to better their skills. Hackers helping hackers.
I like this idea too, but perhaps instead of just "hackers helping hackers," maybe you could open it up to something like "hackers helping charities" to do some more good.
Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
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Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#72I'd pay $20/year if you build a reliable HN e-mail comment gateway. I'd pay double if you convinced PG to let your app sync people's comment history. Use e.g. Gmail OAuth IMAP authentication, sync to a label, optionally sync bidirectionally (i.e. comment replies from Gmail), but that's only marginally more useful than getting e-mail archives of comments here. Hell, if you write it in Python then I'll even donate the…
Have you seen HN Notify? http://hnnotify.com/
http://notifo.com/hackernews
looks like another option
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately I don't know python, I'm ruby-rails-mysql for my day job. If you're interested in going down ruby (and even mysql or i can probably get up to speed on postgres, as it's a bit rusty), I can get involved.
If you want, the needed input cases and their desired output forms are in the repo, I would love to see how it's done in Ruby. https://github.com/2grep/CoPATH-Parser I'm not completely wed to postgresql, but I would hate to give up Joe, who has been tremendously helpful. And most of my admin experience is with postgresql (blogs, wikis, etc).
If the sequence of the last 3 numbers is not important (does not appear to be), then this appears to be relatively trivial. Unfortunatley, like the OP , I can only do this in ruby.
I'll attempt to do it tonight, and reply to you on here when its done.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#74I have an app written in ASP.NET MVC with an API. Would like to either convert it into, say, RoR (or Python/Django/whatever if you prefer). Or, write a separate web app that uses the existing API.
To explain further, I had the app built in ASP.NET and find I don't give it enough love because I'm a mac-using product person (design and front-end dev). But it's a nice app that has some potential. There's an iOS app in existence that utilises the API.
Would be nice to have a web-app to complement it that we could work on in unison perhaps. It probably won't amount to anything more than a side project, but I've always found it enjoyable to work on.
My twitter is @tomcavill if you'd like more details.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately I don't know python, I'm ruby-rails-mysql for my day job. If you're interested in going down ruby (and even mysql or i can probably get up to speed on postgres, as it's a bit rusty), I can get involved.
If you want, the needed input cases and their desired output forms are in the repo, I would love to see how it's done in Ruby. https://github.com/2grep/CoPATH-Parser I'm not completely wed to postgresql, but I would hate to give up Joe, who has been tremendously helpful. And most of my admin experience is with postgresql (blogs, wikis, etc).
sent you a mail with my attempt
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#76Here is an idea, - Upload multiple images - Add hot spots to them (annotations/marks, what ever you wish to call them) - Each hot spot gets set to link to a different image of the uploaded images It's a way to demo a UI prototype/mockup. So what happens is, once you are done, you'll share a link with someone. And they would click through the images as they would normally do if those weren't static images but an actua…
This seems pretty interesting. There are options that provide this functionality as a bonus (e.g. LucidChart), but its definitely secondary and to use it meaningfully often costs some sort of membership fee. A nice simple free solution for this might be popular with designers.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#77I need standalone code to read and write PVRTC files, to and from a simple 1-dimensional uint8 image-buffer -- "standalone" in this case means "something tied to neither Objective-C nor an insanely gigantic C++ game-programming framework". I will bake you a pie if it happens!
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#78At work I create a lot of flowcharts, e.g. http://www.freshfreestuff.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/gli... . I usually use Gliffy or UMLet. The problem is, all of these have drag-and-drop interfaces where you have to use the mouse all the time-and moving back and forth from the mouse to keyboard is painful for me. It also means that making flowcharts takes much longer than necessary-it would be really useful to have…
Also you can try this for the same purpose — http://yuml.me/
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#79May you find something interesting and in need of some help — ping me, I'll help you out. Skillset: LESS, HTML5, JS (Backbone.js), hardcore Java, Node.js, Hadoop, EC2.
Btw, I'm in Amsterdam, Netherlands; saw that you are from Eindhoven.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#80I'd like an iGoogle replacement. That's probably a lot to ask, but if it could do three columns of widgets that display RSS feeds of my choice, that'd be a good start.