What's a software project you've worked on that's had a positive impact in people's lives, or made it better in some way?
Ask HN: What's a software project that made people's lives better?
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#2My trading algorithms have been profitable, and I enjoy the freedom that money brings. I appreciate the things it allows me to buy and the experiences it unlocks. More importantly, it positively impacts the people around me
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#3My trading algorithms have been profitable, and I enjoy the freedom that money brings. I appreciate the things it allows me to buy and the experiences it unlocks. More importantly, it positively impacts the people around me
Would you mind giving some insight to your approach?
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#6I've gotten early feedback that my project https://exoroad.com is helping people find US places that are a better match for them to move to.
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#7I did a re-write of a website for a highly-rated charity organization. They solicit monies to fund orphanages, build homes, and sponsor individual children in one specific country.
They were changing processors and backend CRMs and it was a big project that I handled as the only dev in a small shop.
The transition went well and I didn't disrupt the millions in donations the site takes in each year.
My work was small compared to that of the volunteers in the organization, though. It's cool to see what you can do with code--really some powerful leverage we wield.
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#8I did a re-write of a website for a highly-rated charity organization. They solicit monies to fund orphanages, build homes, and sponsor individual children in one specific country. They were changing processors and backend CRMs and it was a big project that I handled as the only dev in a small shop. The transition went well and I didn't disrupt the millions in donations the site takes in each year. My work was small…
I also recently volunteered to do a digital project for a volunteer group I'm part of. I built a feature for their website that shows local River levels in a color-coded manner to determine if it's a good time to float or not.
The USGS data is hard to read, this makes it easier.
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#9I've had 2 (so far)
I was part of a team which built a very early telehealth platform. A bunch of the work was open-sourced as rtc.io (though I didn't have much to do with that). The resulting company and tech is used by a few million people a month (I think).
I built an ML system used at a large drop-ship retailer which ingested huge excel spreadsheets of products from suppliers and added them to the retailers database in a consistent manner. This made a painstaking and horrible job for 12 people into a job that was done by 2 people 2 hours per week. Yes, we replaced people in their jobs, and I hope they all went on to get better jobs, because everyone hated that job, and most people only lasted a few months.
I also was founder of Ayvri (3d mapping sports tech for paragliders) - I don't put this in the same category as the others, though it was the most lucrative for me, because though paragliders loved it, as did a few ultramarathoners, etc. I don't think it really had the level of impact.
For the last 4 years the team I worked with in telehealth have returned to our health roots and are working on improving sleep with affectablesleep.com
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#10I've had 2 (so far) I was part of a team which built a very early telehealth platform. A bunch of the work was open-sourced as rtc.io (though I didn't have much to do with that). The resulting company and tech is used by a few million people a month (I think). I built an ML system used at a large drop-ship retailer which ingested huge excel spreadsheets of products from suppliers and added them to the retailers datab…
> I also was founder of Ayvri (3d mapping sports tech for paragliders) - I don't put this in the same category as the others, though it was the most lucrative for me, because though paragliders loved it, as did a few ultramarathoners, etc. I don't think it really had the level of impact.
I used to paraglide, and I remember it as Doarama. It was quite used by paragliders, especially in some videos. Personally I liked it in the beginning, but people started to abuse it, and sometimes the videos would consist mostly on the doarama scene (with a voice over). I would skip those parts of the video, or close the video after some time. It wasn't the same as watching a real video capture from the terrain, which I did prefer..