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Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

69 points by samratjp 16y ago

Thought it would be helpful for HN'ers to see what others are up to and potentially find cool projects to collaborate on. Bonus points for keeping it under a tweet + demo (or github,etc).

klbarry 16y ago
New recycled clothing line. Woo.
brlewis 16y ago
I'm drastically simplifying the setup process for OurDoings Dropbox integration. If you use Dropbox, just share a folder with box@ourdoings.com to try it.
Kilimanjaro 16y ago
http://www.hackerblogs.com http://www.hackerblogs.com Working on hackers white pages, events, jobs, consulting, startups database and stuff like that.
mdolon 16y ago
A new WordPress framework for a custom themes shop I'm building.
nico_h 16y ago
I'm working on an app that allows you to (smoothly, quickly) see full resolution images on your iPhone, by reading png tiles of the original image. The tiles are created on your pc using a java app that stores the tiles in a sqlite db, it can also rasterize pdf to images using the java.net pdf-renderer. Anyone knows a better pdf renderer that works well with java ?
wadner 16y ago
http://www.startupweekly.com http://www.startupweekly.com - Aggregating tweets based on topic hashtags. Find other people interested in your hashtag and other analysis.
chrismoos 16y ago
fastr - ruby web framework http://github.com/chrismoos/fastr http://github.com/chrismoos/fastr async-mysql - asynchronous mysql driver for ruby (native - no c extension) http://github.com/chrismoos/async-mysql http://github.com/chrismoos/async-mysql moostrax.com - gps tracking (just released iphone app...working on new version)
sendos 16y ago
http://soundkey.com http://soundkey.com : Will ideally become something like the Wikipedia of sounds (i.e. a central repository/global reference about anything that has to do with sounds)
- photon_off 16y ago
  Really cool idea. I have some feedback after visiting your site. "wikipedia of sounds" is not at all how I would describe it. It's more like "twitter for sounds". When I arrived at your site I was really quite confused as to what the hell soundkey did. The main part of the site shows a big list of social networks, and says "use soundkey here" ... Ok... but what exactly does soundkey do? I would focus more on the aspect that you can record sounds and then link to them (or embed them). It's really that simple, but you've managed to overcomplicate it and it took me way longer than it should have to figure out the following: Soundkey lets me record a sound, then link to it. My suggestion: put the record tool right smack in the middle of the front page. Make it the primary purpose of the site. That is, I should be able to go to "soundkey.com" and conveniently record and share a sound, rather than seeing a splash page. You don't visit bit.ly and see a whole page explaining the benefits of short links, and where you can use shorter links. You see a textbox that you can immediately use. At any rate, this all might sound very critical, but I love your idea. Put that recording thing front and center, emphasize "record sounds and share them" [twitter for sounds], and your users will figure out the rest.
  - sendos 16y ago
    Thanks for the feedback! We are currently working with a UX expert to help us re-design the look & feel and the functionality of the website, and the issues you bring up have been brought to our attention and will be addressed in the next iteration of the website. (We currently do have a "How this Works" section on the front page that says "Record Sound, Get SoundKey, Use Anywhere" with an explanation of what that means, but I guess it's not clear enough because lots of people complain about it. Hopefully the updated website will make things much more clear in much less time)
naba 16y ago
am working on building an customizable online dispute resolution platform. Using web services and a rule engine
sandis 16y ago
Doing small bits of work on the Twitter client I started a while ago – http://tweetby.com/ http://tweetby.com/ (lots of features are currently disabled)
sonnym 16y ago
I have been working on and off on a web-based (C#/.NET) front end for MSSQL to make working with the beast easier. http://github.com/sonnym/csmsadmin http://github.com/sonnym/csmsadmin Runs on IIS >= 5, and Mono on Apache. It does most of what I have needed for daily tasks, so it has been some time since I have worked on it; should probably get back to it in the near future . . .
yv 16y ago
An affiliation and cross-promotion network for mobile apps http://ovozo.com/ http://ovozo.com/
dannyr 16y ago
I'm working on a new version of my app, http://www.launchset.com http://www.launchset.com. It is actually inspired by HackerNews particularly threads like this and 'Review my app/startup'. I have several HN guys on the site. If you are interested in being one of the early users, email me at hackernews -at- launchset.com.
- photon_off 16y ago
  What does it do?
  - user24 16y ago
    seems to be something like twitter for projects, but it's giving me errors for a lot of things.
    - dannyr 16y ago
      fixed it. there was some invalid tag.
benjamind 16y ago
Putting the finishing touches on an Canvas based LED Matrix animation editor for a Burning Man 2010 art project. http://cwd.co.uk/illuminatrix http://cwd.co.uk/illuminatrix
- samratjp 16y ago
  That's awesome!What did you use for your microcontroller?
jtchang 16y ago
An online tool to do business intelligence and analytics that doesn't require a team of consultants to setup. Should add that I am looking for a cofounder so post/msg if interested. Edit: E-mail is jeff.tchang (at) gmail
- mleonhard 16y ago
  Please tell us more.
  - jtchang 16y ago
    I have been working on it by myself for a few months (so have a working proof of concept). The idea is a data aggregation service that helps small to medium online businesses analyze common sources of ecommerce data. Most small businesses do not have the time or manpower to implement complex business intelligence solutions such as SAP, Cognos, or Actuate (the big players in this space). My product serves to bridge this gap by providing an easy way to gather both traditional and non-traditional metrics. By traditional I mean gross sales, volume, margins, site traffic etc. Non traditional would be a lot of the "Web 2.0" metrics (tweets, buzz, etc). I'm at a point right now where a proof of concept is built but I need a lot of help in the marketing/business development department.
    - sandipagr 16y ago
      you should think of launching soon if you have a working proof of concept. I'd love to see it.
- bpourriahi 16y ago
  What's your email? Mine is anony304 at gmail
tbeseda 16y ago
A Safari extension for my company for common operational tasks, should increase efficiency and take a little load off our systems.
bgrohman 16y ago
I'm working on a nano-blogging platform that reduces posts to short, one-at-a-time messages. Each user gets only one visible post at a time. Think twitter minus all the clutter.
reduxredacted 16y ago
I'm working with a friend on a text based bulletin board system written in C# that uses SSH rather than Telnet or a modem and supports many of the features of an early 90's -ish DOS based Dial-up BBS. ... I and a few of my friends miss the old days so we'll probably be the only ones to make reasonable use of it, but it's a fun hack project for me and I'm learning a lot about SSH in the process. It's not OpenTG and I'm not that developer (he's doing one in Ruby so his project is probably more interesting to folks around here). Still in the very early stages so nothing works yet and I don't have a code repo setup.
Vindexus 16y ago
http://vaginagame.com http://vaginagame.com I know it's stupid but I can't stop working on it. Apparently my 7 year old mind finds it hilarious.
- sandipagr 16y ago
  it's hilarious! am sure it's something that can get tons of social buzz.
anonified 16y ago
Learning as much as I can about starting a startup. Scared and excited all wrapped into one, but the pull to jump in is getting strong.
misterbwong 16y ago
A personalized dashboard
mleonhard 16y ago
http://www.restbackup.com/ http://www.restbackup.com/ - Backup Web Service for Mobile & Native Apps I'm working hard to get the website and api ready for Private Beta. Tomorrow I'm coding the final api feature and more functional test cases to iron out problems with unicode filenames.
samps 16y ago
An (open source) music library manager and automatic tag corrector. http://beets.radbox.org/ http://beets.radbox.org/ It's Python and all command-line. I'm trying to make something that's both better than iTunes for managing music (not that hard) and smarter than MusicBrainz Picard for correcting tags (a little harder).
malyk 16y ago
At work...a sinatra api for an existing app that is currently a horrible mess of java and xml configuration files (more "code" is in xml than java, ugh!) After hours...working on features toward the launch of http://www.wanderphiles.com http://www.wanderphiles.com (teaser site...sign up!). So much to do and only a couple hours a day to work on it.
- user24 16y ago
  wanderphiles is a lovely idea. I didn't sign up because I decided I really didn't need one more distraction, but I wish you luck.
agentultra 16y ago
Adding support for JSON-RPC in Pylons. Eventually this will lead to integrating pyjamas as an alternative to templating for pure-AJAX applications. This will mean adding a setuptools plugin for compiling the pyjamas client before packaging the application, creating a paster template for generating the project structure, and extending the test framework to support functional tests. It might mean creating yet another framework built on pylons, but I'm hoping it will get folded into Pylons proper so that I don't have to maintain a separate project. http://bitbucket.org/agentultra/pylons/overview http://bitbucket.org/agentultra/pylons/overview
bonquesha99 16y ago
http://madlibber.com/ http://madlibber.com/ - Anonymous user generated madlibs. I can't stop working on this [adjective] app! http://webchiever.com/ http://webchiever.com/ - Web achievements http://inquiryapp.com/ http://inquiryapp.com/ - Hosted FAQs for your apps
- photon_off 16y ago
  madlibber.com is such an awesome idea. You need to take some time to populate (or copy) good mad libs and artificially vote them up so that it's not a ghost town when people arrive. Here's my contribution: http://madlibber.com/madlibs/21 http://madlibber.com/madlibs/21 Update: I just created an account with inqueryapp -- I cannot add a category. The AJAX response is a 500, you might want to check that out. Up to that, the experience was rather enjoyable and I was really looking forward to creating a FAQ page using your service.
  - bonquesha99 16y ago
    That's a good idea, I'll throw a bunch of samples up there. Now, I need to figure out how I should display a tag list or cloud on the homepage to navigate. Probably should make a little "syntax help" link when creating madlib stories too. Weird, I can't reproduce that inquiry error and Hoptoad didn't catch anything. Let me know if you run into that again. Thanks for your feedback and contribution!
knuckle_cake 16y ago
a javascript/web worker/canvas/svg/heatmap toy http://github.com/xxx/heatmap http://github.com/xxx/heatmap
Rust 16y ago
Getting a stable version of Noostr ready for release. Added multiple database options, plugin support, better themeing and pagination (big one) this release :)
tocomment 16y ago
Something like the Django admin feature but for MS Sql Server and more generic; to sell to companies. I figure a lot of companies have databases for internal purposes but don't have programmers to make CRUD apps for them. I'm still not sure how to locate potential customers or how much to charge. Any advice on that?
eande 16y ago
working on my startup for LED lighting products http://www.lellan.com http://www.lellan.com
resudne 16y ago
Currently working on setting up a high-quality content providing company. The business plan is just about complete but this is really just a work of love and the result of my general hate of content farms (yes I have a day job). Other than that I've been slowly putting together a site about bad dates for a friend of mine, maybe someone here will enjoy it enough to add a story ;) http://www.runawayscreaming.com http://www.runawayscreaming.com
MLnick 16y ago
Masters project on using bandit algorithms for optimising CTRs on website content. Also involves some search engine / text mining / dimensionality reduction stuff. A little bit of messing around with Android SDK too...
- equark 16y ago
  You're doing better than 90 percent of everybody else just by expressing this as a bandit problem rather than an AB testing problem.
  - MLnick 16y ago
    Hopefully! It is great to work with some real world customer click data... If anyone is interested in a technical intro to the setting there is a set of slides from John Langford at Yahoo Research (many good and standard reference papers cited in it): http://hunch.net/~exploration_learning/ http://hunch.net/~exploration_learning/ A/B testing could be thought of as a sort of epsilon-Greedy strategy (particularly if such testing is carried out at regular intervals initially). While not enjoying the optimality characteristics of other algorithms, such an approach can in fact outperform in many practical cases :)
reynolds 16y ago
I've been working on some Chicken Scheme stuff lately. Also playing with epoll and libevent some more. I'd like to eventually get scheme and mongrel2 working together rather than writing my own web server.
c-oreills 16y ago
A Mafia game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)) webapp that allows real time games between strangers. Because there just isn't enough shady intrigue on the web!
pierrefar 16y ago
Online education startup. MVP in a few weeks time hopefully. Join mailing list if you're interested: http://eepurl.com/MVat http://eepurl.com/MVat (previously people asked about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561599 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561599 ).
buro9 16y ago
Reporting for SharePoint... trying to federate multiple instances and make sense of the fact that every site/list has a different schema of potentially the same data. So it's a foray into reporting against federated semi-structured data.
Concours 16y ago
mobile site maker webapp http://www.gmbhnews.com/ http://www.gmbhnews.com/ , goes live next (or in 2) weeks, working on the backend http://www.gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/ http://www.gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/
transatlantic 16y ago
Journalism, with a focus on early-stage technology companies. Entrepreneurs are doing amazing things with small teams and relatively little capital, but the stories and lessons seem mostly lost in the stream of tech news about iPhones, the oldest Twitter user, or Facebook's privacy policies. I think there's a small but significant market for passionate, well-researched, educational content like this. I'll find out soon enough.
- Concours 16y ago
  This sounds good, care to share your website url and may be the kind of startups/tech area (ideal profile) you'd like to write about?
  - transatlantic 16y ago
    A simple version 1 comes out Sunday. I'll post it to HN then. The focus is on companies no older than two years, and generally on those with consumer-oriented products. But beyond that, they could be funded or bootstrapped, located in Silicon Valley or Pittsburgh or anywhere else, and led by startup veterans or total newcomers. Amazing stuff is happening everywhere; you just need to look for it.
    - user24 16y ago
      Another reader right here. This is what I used to read techcrunch for.
Derferman 16y ago
Stashboard, an open-source status dashboard. More at http://www.stashboard.org http://www.stashboard.org. Also hacking on some small App Engine sites.
chrisrhee 16y ago
Working on a design refresh for Tender's (http://tenderapp.com http://tenderapp.com) admin/supporter area. Got some snapshots on Dribbble (http://dribbble.com/players/chris http://dribbble.com/players/chris) and a blog post with design decisions in the works.
maushu 16y ago
Currently coding http://www.graphnode.com/ http://www.graphnode.com/ a cloud based hosting/prototyping web service powered with JavaScript.
- nhnifong 16y ago
  This looks promising
vosper 16y ago
My ongoing quest to make money predicting horse races. So far I've not made a dime, and don't really expect to, but the faint hope of future monetary rewards keeps me going. The real payoff has been that in the process I've learned all sorts of things: about Python, data mining, working with large datasets, machine learning...
- user24 16y ago
  I've been thinking of trying to write a machine learning app to do just that. Any hints?
  - vosper 16y ago
    I didn't implement the machine learning algorithms for myself, because there are some really good packages out there and I know I don't have the smarts to better them. Keep in mind that I didn't really have any success: There seem to be two main ML packages, Weka and Orange. I personally preferred Orange, it has a nice graph-based UI for linking various components together; when you've figured that out it can script in Python. Also Orange makes it easy to test your data set against various different learning systems, and compare the performance. Standard testing procedures like n-fold cross-validation are built-in and really simple to use. Also you need data. I'm pretty sure more is always better. I actually started with greyhounds* and skimmed mine (in Python use BeautifulSoup) from a website. I tried to come up with various statistics about the recent performance of the dogs. Unfortunately nothing I tried made the ML algorithms predict better than a random choice. A friend who's into gambling suggested greyhound racing was quite random by nature, so I've switched to horses recently. I'm still building that dataset, now trying out MongoDB just for fun. I think the trouble is that you can have as much raw data as you like, but generating the predictive statistics requires a lot of knowledge of the problem domain. I'm not actually into gambling at all so I don't know if the track conditions are important, how much breeding or the age of the animal really matters etc... This made it hard to pick likely stats (and rebuilding datasets and retraining learners can take some time). For horses there's a lot more information in forums and racing guides etc, so I'd start with horses. Just make sure you've tested your predictions with pretend bets before you commit any real money :) Good luck! *I began with greyhounds because of a dissertation posted on reddit where the authors suggested they'd had some success with a neural network and gave quite a lot of detail. That piqued my curiosity, and my initial version just re-implemented their work. EDITED: For clarity
fortes 16y ago
Paged, multi-column layouts for in-browser publications using HTML/CSS/JS
- user24 16y ago
  http://960.gs http://960.gs might be helpful to you.
iuguy 16y ago
In my spare time, working on a game for the 8-bit ZX Spectrum.
- SteveC 16y ago
  How do you do your development? Do you work on the actual hardware or use an emulator?
user24 16y ago
computer vision JSON webservice - you supply image, it returns tags/keywords super fast. Spare time project. Hoping to build a freemium model out of it for image libraries to use. Happy to speak to anyone with any kind of CV / object detection knowhow.
- tocomment 16y ago
  How far have you gotten on this? I didn't know that level of CV technology existed to tag arbitrary images. It sounds like a really cool project.
  - user24 16y ago
    thanks, it is a really fun project to work on :) At the moment I can return colour names and faces. Example: input: http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/91/63/mini-kim-kardashian-bikini-1-03.0.0.0x0.456x640.jpeg http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/91/63/mini-kim-kardashian-... output: face, yellow, blue, black. So just colours and faces at the moment. You're right that arbitrary images are ridiculously complicated, I'm hoping to start off on a smaller domain and build up :) (edit: obviously I can return the coords of the face too, as well as coords of empty parts of the image etc, but tagging is really what I'm focusing on at the moment)
- paulgeo 16y ago
  A company in Berkeley is doing this: www.iqengines.com (see Developer API), and demonstration app www.omoby.com. HTML Post image and JSON/XML return label (also face, barcode, ocr, etc).
  - user24 16y ago
    thanks! Hopefully I can kick their asses ;) edit: which doesn't seem like it'll be too difficult. On their developer test I just get {"data": {"error": 0}} back for any image I try to upload.
devonrt 16y ago
Harvesting as much sheet music as possible from free sources (Icking, Petrucci, etc) converting it to MusicXML and LilyPad and then doing... something with it. I have a few ideas, but harvesting it all is a start. I'd like to put it online wiki style since it will most likely need editing after being run through OMR.
- hnote 16y ago
  Sounds very interesting! How do you want to do the OMRing? It will probably take a lot of resources...
woid 16y ago
http://totalfinder.binaryage.com http://totalfinder.binaryage.com Also playing with the idea of using Google Docs as ad-hoc CMS for simple client projects.
singular 16y ago
http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/terse.html http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/terse.html A programming language where syntax and semantics are manipulable at run-time as well as compile-time and where you can define grammars in-line and use them immediately. I also intend to integrate the concepts of pattern calculus - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695 - to permit extreme levels of flexibility in the language. It's a huge project and I'm right at the start of it. But no matter how hard I try I can't get away from the desire to work on language design and compiler development. It's just my thing, and the wonderful thing about hacking is you can just do it :-)
- akkartik 16y ago
  I see you switched from racket to Go. Care to talk about your experiences? I've been playing with making the implementation of arc more timeless (e.g. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12057 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12057, http://arclanguage.org/item?id=11864 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=11864)
  - singular 16y ago
    I just found namespaces in Racket too painful (see [this blog post][1]), I spent hours and hours trying to do something I felt ought to be very simple, i.e. sharing a namespace between different files, yet Racket just utterly refused to do it. I RTFM but found it utterly confusing and nothing I tried, including their examples, worked. I asked on the freenode IRC channel, and even then nobody could help me. After a while I gave up, maybe I am simply not a good enough coder to understand how Racket namespaces work, but either way I worried that if this one aspect of the language is extremely difficult, what else am I going to uncover in the course of the project? On that basis I decided it'd be wise to switch. Initially I was going to switch to C for portability as I am also working on a parser generator, singular[2], which I thought could be useful to people even before I write it in Terse (I intend to self-host and bring singular into that too), however I worried that the many pitfalls that C brings to the party, e.g. the ease of segfaulting, null pointers, etc. and its lack of abstractions would overly slow me down, so I thought Go would be a better option, especially as it seemed tastefully designed. My experience of Go so far is one of great admiration and enjoyment, it really is a lovely language, nicely low-level and low-key yet still providing many useful abstractions including proper interfaces, i.e. by implementing the methods of an interface you can treat it as that interface without having to explicitly inherit from it. To be honest my decision to switch to Go is probably not that defensible as not many people are using it so the initial reason (portability) for switching to a lower-level language is less of an excuse now, so if I'm being honest I have to admit that I wanted a fast language that played nice with Linux (not that Racket wasn't either of these), and I wanted to play with Go, which kinda overrode other considerations. Most recently I've been very interested in implementing [pattern calculus][3] in the language somehow, as it provides enormous flexibility and offers a formal underpinning to a more fundamental means of expressing abstractions than oo, functional, etc. - in fact my ambition is to have an abstraction which can encompass these paradigms in itself if you want, i.e. you can implement oo or functional or whatever you want. Obviously I am very inspired by lisp in this and many other regards. The main thing is getting stuff done, this idea has been floating around in my mind for at least a couple years and I've changed my mind about things many times (and will carry on of course when necessary) causing me to throw away work more than once, so obviously I am somewhat focused on actually writing code and getting closer to actually having something rather than just the idea. Luckily I am pretty damn certain about the core ideas in the language (flexible syntax, the use of pattern calculus, etc.) so that looks to be quite likely. Anyway, it's really early days, but I am utterly committed to getting this done as I want the language for myself, want it to not be a toy language, and want it to actually do these things I think would be awesome, even if (as is most likely as with any personal language project) no one else uses it :-) I know I'm digressing from your question, but have to say that I really think one of the most wonderful aspects of programming is the ability to just hack on stuff, no matter how crazy, with just a cheap computer, some coffee and a willingness to put in the time. So glad I was born in a time where that was possible. [1]:http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/2010/06/28/Racket-Namespaces-Suck.html http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/2010/06/28/Racket-Namespaces-Suck... [2]:http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/singular.html http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/singular.html [3]:http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695
herrherr 16y ago
http://www.getmetricmail.com http://www.getmetricmail.com In one sentence: Get your Google Analytics data straight to your inbox. Build as part of my dissertation. Build on Google App Engine.
- balac 16y ago
  pretty cool! I just signed up.
- duck 16y ago
  Great looking site and very easy to use. Obviously the report is a lot nicer than that Google one that you can get emailed in PDF format, but what other advantages are there? To me the "best" setup would be to avoid the PDF and get the report directly in my mailbox. I know that would require unique graphics for each email, but is that the only barrier from going with that approach?
  - herrherr 16y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. The email-only option is definitely on our list, it will be a bit tricky due to the different mail clients but still doable.
    - pstinnett 16y ago
      I agree. I recently unsubscribed from Metric Mail because I didn't want to look at PDFs of my analytics. I want them right in the email. Once you push that feature I'll likely resubscribe!
- clstrfckr 16y ago
  just got the last beta key :) thanks!
  - timme 16y ago
    fortunately for everyone else, we just added another 50 beta accounts. thanks! :)
Vivtek 16y ago
http://search.cpan.org/~michael/Class-Declarative-0.06/lib/Class/Declarative.pm http://search.cpan.org/~michael/Class-Declarative-0.06/lib/C... A declarative framework for Perl that lets you set up complex data structures and code in an easy-to-read format. A complete working example GUI program, using a not-yet-published set of semantic classes: use Class::Declarative qw(Wx::Declarative); dialog (xsize=250, ysize=110) "Wx::Declarative dialog sample" field celsius (size=100, x=20, y=20) "0" button celsius (x=130, y=20) "Celsius" { $^fahrenheit = ($^celsius / 100.0) * 180 + 32; } field fahrenheit (size=100, x=20, y=50) "32" button fahrenheit (x=130, y=50) "Fahrenheit" { $^celsius = (($^fahrenheit - 32) / 180.0) * 100; }
- koenigdavidmj 16y ago
  Is that...significant indentation in Perl? Will you marry me?
  - Vivtek 16y ago
    Well, actually it's kind of like an unholy Python/Tcl mutant thing, since the one-word tag determines the parsing of its line and children - but yes, significant indentation using a Perl filter.
- cabalamat 16y ago
  I did something similar to that once -- a program that compiled GUI descriptions into a runable Python class, which could then be subclassed to provide functionality. The syntax looked like this: window @MyBigWindow "My Big Window" { menuBar { menu "File" { menuItem @New "New" menuItem @Open "Open..." menuItem @Save "Save" menuItem @Exit "Exit" } menu "Edit" { menuItem @Copy "Copy" menuItem @Cut "Cut" menuItem @Paste "Paste" } } rowLayout { button "Button 1" button "Button 2" button "Button 3" } } Laying out GUI components was done with the rowLayout, colLayout and table containers. The subclass would contain code to be executed for @New, @Open, @Save, etc.
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njl 16y ago
My Django hosting service. I looked at Heroku and thought, "I want that for Python." Yesterday, I got most of the http request path finished. There is some node.js work left, and I still need to do some more work on Varnish. I'm hoping to get to the Postgresql stuff next week, then on to the website and API...
- dannyr 16y ago
  njl, I hear people asking for a Django-equivalent of Heroku. You definitely have a market for this.
  - usaar333 16y ago
    What were there opinions of AppEngine? (the closest thing there is currently)
    - dannyr 16y ago
      AppEngine supports Django but just partially. You cannot use the ORM & also very few Django apps/plugins would work.
- jordanmessina 16y ago
  You have me sold, please give me the heads up when you're done. I've been looking for this for a long time.
- maushu 16y ago
  Funny, I thought the same thing but with JavaScript instead.
  - nicholaides 16y ago
    Heroku has Node.js support. http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_experimental/ http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_ex...
- mdg 16y ago
dangoldin 16y ago
Working on some facebook integration for my social calendar site: http://www.scenepeek.com http://www.scenepeek.com
- ritonlajoie 16y ago
  Hi, I'm interested in your website, is it live ? I have an error when trying to access it : Solr service not responding.
  - dangoldin 16y ago
    Yea - had some random issues with Solr indexing. That's the startup life =) It should be up and running now.
    - ritonlajoie 16y ago
      hm nop ! Good luck :)
owkaye 16y ago
In light of its recent meltdown I'm hacking the real estate industry to help stabilize the market, re-establish lost value, and avoid future foreclosures.
duck 16y ago
http://www.hackernewsletter.com http://www.hackernewsletter.com The past week I have been working on a back end tool to fully automate the creation of the newsletter (the selection of content is done by me). It has been fun working with the MailChimp API.
binarymax 16y ago
Reality Remixing Here is a sample low quality upload, working on getting somewhere cheap to host 1080p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT7CrlzVeCs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT7CrlzVeCs
johncoltrane 16y ago
A persistent web-based todo list for 10K apart : http://10k.aneventapart.com/ http://10k.aneventapart.com/ I needed a pretext to play with localStorage.
Zak 16y ago
I'm working on text classification. I have a decent classifier that's especially suited to author identification. I can think of a few good uses for it; the first one I'm trying to commercialize is academic anti-cheating.
- tocomment 16y ago
  That sounds fascinating. How did you come up with the algorithms to use?
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  - Zak 16y ago
    I experimented with existing text classification algorithms for an author identification project I was doing for fun. What I'm currently using is somewhere between KNN and SVM, but I'm not done tweaking it yet. I'm also working on boosting results using different feature sets.
    - user24 16y ago
      you might try looking at the BLEU metric. It's designed to test similarity between a machine-translated text and a human-translated one, but it could be a good starting point for detecting plagiarism too.
- atomical 16y ago
  I ran a site called that crawled Gnutella/Limewire for student papers. That's something you could consider adding to your database and quite easy since the Limewire code and RFC are opensource. You could write your own client or modify Limewire.
- mirkules 16y ago
  You are probably aware of it already, but a lot of universities (mine included) use MOSS (Measure Of Software Similarity) to detect plagiarism in CS classes. Link: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
k0ban 16y ago
Security for online banking
- smiler 16y ago
  Creating it or breaking it? :)
  - k0ban 16y ago
    It is similar things actually :) Once you know how to break it, you could improve it.
silas 16y ago
http://github.com/tidg/tyrion http://github.com/tidg/tyrion A lightweight systems management tool that uses XMPP for transport and is written in C++.
corruption 16y ago
Daftpunk suits. Go el wire!
noarchy 16y ago
I'm messing around with a Javascript text editor. Mostly it is to improve my chops with JS. By day, I am a Java developer, and don't get many chances to mess with other things, except during my free time.
daralthus 16y ago
I'm making a mashup of ebay and ustream, in node.js with a chat style ui.
tialys 16y ago
Working on an iPhone/iPad application that uses data from NASA's SDO/SOHO satellites to display hi-res images/movies of the sun based on 'solar events.' Sadly, no preview available yet, but the app should be out in a few weeks.
- nhnifong 16y ago
  What will it be called?
  - tialys 16y ago
    Helioviewer. I'm currently working with the backend team to get stuff pushed out on 8/20 and should be able to submit the app to Apple after that. This is my first app, so I suspect it may take me a little while to get it up there. If you do download it, please review :D Also, it will be free.
matt1 16y ago
I'm working on a web-based pixel perfect mockup tool called jMockups, which is built on top of HTML5's canvas element. Most web designers use Photoshop to do this right now, but Photoshop makes it much harder than it should be (the UX, lack of common HTML elements, difficult to share, etc). An early alpha version will be available in a week or two. If you're interested in helping test it, shoot me an email: matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com or leave a comment below.
- wdewind 16y ago
  i've been thinking about doing something like this, would def be interested in testing - contact info in profile.
foxtrot 16y ago
Simple online selling platform, Hosting Provider www.fusionservers.co.uk - coding the backend stuff, trying to create an app for the iPhone (dont own an iphone) and finding it very tricky.
vyrotek 16y ago
Working on the Rule Engine and API for our Achievements Service - http://www.IActionable.com http://www.IActionable.com
shin_lao 16y ago
I'm working on a high-performance persistent cache engine.
- user24 16y ago
  what language? Sounds useful.
  - shin_lao 16y ago
    C++ with C API. More information: - http://wrp.me/about.html http://wrp.me/about.html - http://www.facebook.com/wrpme http://www.facebook.com/wrpme - http://www.twitter.com/wrpme http://www.twitter.com/wrpme I've released two packages to play with one for Windows 64 and one for FreeBSD 8.x 64. More to come.
davidsantoro 16y ago
I'm working on a little social network for developers http://www.superdevs.com http://www.superdevs.com I'm not sure in what direction I want to go yet though :(
- swah 16y ago
  IMHO you could try doing something for the "hacker" public, to contrast with something like Linkedln, where (I guess) people take it very seriously.
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zck 16y ago
Minesweeper for Emacs. It's a pain, 'cause I'm new to programming elisp, which has some rough edges, and I haven't found great references for it.
- swah 16y ago
  The other games are good references.
  - zck 16y ago
    Yeah, I'm using gomoku extensively. But there are some questions that are more about the langauge -- for example, it took me a while to figure out you can't have a default value for an optional argument.
nhnifong 16y ago
What a goldmine of cool projects!
ashitvora 16y ago
Flipboard like personalized, local, online newspaper.
paulsingh 16y ago
MailFinch: on demand direct mail (www.mailfinch.com) NotaryCRM: simple software for mobile notaries (notarycrm.com)
sofuture 16y ago
A URL shortening service (as a slightly non-trivial exercise in Erlang).
- user24 16y ago
  hint: use base36 to convert numeric IDs to short strings. That's how I do it on http://gifexplode.com http://gifexplode.com You can use base64 if you're happy with case sensitive URLs.
jayrex 16y ago
Camelot! http://www.python-camelot.com/ http://www.python-camelot.com/
- atomical 16y ago
  This looks a lot better than wxWidgets. Is there a clear advantage?
jeffclark 16y ago
Mobile photo scavenger hunt: http://www.playlookit.com http://www.playlookit.com One topic a day, one pic per day.
- mdolon 16y ago
  This is a cool project, throw in an iPhone app and improve the design/UI a bit and I can see it getting even more traction.
  - tannerburson 16y ago
    It's funny you should say that... http://www.playlookit.com/how-to-play-lookit#j-mobileapps http://www.playlookit.com/how-to-play-lookit#j-mobileapps
jwoodbridge 16y ago
a small note site. Pages are written in markdown, and then displayed in HTML. It exports to plain text, and syncs with Simplenote. The goal is a super low barrier to entry. I want it to be a middle ground between my thoughts and my hard drive. I'm also working on my first iPad app.
kno 16y ago
I’m working on building a better Business search service with a strong emphasis on mailing list. The idea is to give small to mid size businesses a tool to generate geographically and/or category based well targeted mailing list for their marketing campaign. Mailing list are generally huge files pretty much unusable by a small business owner with a constant contact account, we are looking to change that.
- mleonhard 16y ago
  A friend of mine runs http://www.doorknobads.com/ http://www.doorknobads.com/, selling physical adverts by neighborhood. Your geographically targeted email marketing service sounds very promising. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it.
nir 16y ago
SMS gateway running on an Android device. Lets you setup an SMS service without messing with hardware/software installations. Particularly useful in developing regions with no Twilio/Textmarks/etc and strong need for SMS apps. * Looking for beta testers * (anywhere in the world...) http://wiki.github.com/niryariv/txtgate/ http://wiki.github.com/niryariv/txtgate/
zephyrfalcon 16y ago
A little rule engine (in Scheme), on top of which I can then build interactive fiction, card games, etc.
cabalamat 16y ago
I am designing a language I call ShowMe. The main idea behind ShowMe is "viewability", by which I mean that every object in a running ShowMe program can be navigated and displayed (and potentially altered) in a Viewer. By object I mean every entity within the system; ShowMe will be a pure object-oriented language. There will be multiple Views, so the user can view the same data in multiple ways (for for example a table of numbers could be displayed as ascii text, or as an HTML table or as a graph). One of the views will be a low-level ascii string, from which the object can be re-created; this format can therefore be used for serialisation. User-defined classes will be able to define their own views, or re-implement existing views for the new class. Like Clojure, a lot of data structures in ShowMe will be immutable. ShowMe will not be a pure functional language, but it will be possible to program in it in a functional style. There will be 2 syntaxes for writing ShowMe programs: one based on Lisp, the other similar to C. The C-like syntax will be compiled into the Lisp-like syntax.
tunaslut 16y ago
i'm working on http://coloringout.com http://coloringout.com intermittently. a bit rough around the edges at the moment and i'm in the middle of porting it to app engine just for the hell of it :)
rcavezza 16y ago
Recipe Website that emails you healthy recipes based on food you like to eat. Love burgers, pasta, and string beans, but hate hot peppers and anchovies? We'll give you personalized recipes in your inbox to keep you fit. Started yesterday, want to finish it tonight.
ezl 16y ago
http://quotesentinel.com http://quotesentinel.com -- Text message alerts for stocks. I used to not want to leave my desk for lunch because I'd need to come back if the market moved. I wrote a script that would tell me if the market moved past a certain threshold and would text me to come back. I was sort of shocked that it didn't exist in the wild (or at least wasn't easy to find) so I decided to see if I could make a web app of it. Hoping to "launch" in the next 2 weeks. Would love testers.
mrlyc 16y ago
I'm working on a program that uses the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface to stop charging my netbook battery to 100%, thus shortening its life. Instead, it will start charging at 40% and stop at 60%. There will be an option to charge to 100% in case I need a full charge to work off the grid. There will also be an option to turn off the charging as sometimes the dual load of charging the battery and running the computer trips the circuit breaker of the power supply at an airplane seat.
elmindreda 16y ago
The 2.7 release of GLFW (sort of like GLUT but different). http://www.glfw.org/ http://www.glfw.org/
nirav 16y ago
Writing MS-PST parser to centralize all my emails over the years in a single database: http://github.com/niravthaker/slibpst http://github.com/niravthaker/slibpst
wbond 16y ago
Noted (http://notedwiki.com http://notedwiki.com), a wiki that will be easy to use, attractivelly designed, simple to theme and have functionality focused on small business and freelancers. It will be a software product sold for a one-time fee and will be compatible with pretty much any environment that has PHP. The syntax will be based on the cross-wiki WikiCreole standard, but it will also support WYSIWYG. We have some great ideas and are gathering feedback from people who are interested in wikis or an easy way to store their information.
ddemchuk 16y ago
A CodeIgniter based Control Panel for ordering and managing SEO services. Has mailing list management, task list generation, status updates. Pretty sweet.
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iworkforthem 16y ago
I am working on a few finance/trading gigs; - something similar to timothy sykes' timalerts, with iphone/androoid email/sms option. much coding need to get data out to these platform. - my trading algorithm for forex and stock. working to translate all these algorithms to codes.
- arthurdent 16y ago
  i've been working on trading algos for stock. interested in collaborating?
tomotomo 16y ago
Working on a site to help name all of you guys's projects, by making it free and fun to crowdsource names: Needanym (http://www.needanym.com http://www.needanym.com) Beta testers welcome!
motters 16y ago
I'm looking at RobotVision to see whether it's something I could use or adapt. http://openslam.org/robotvision.html http://openslam.org/robotvision.html
- mirkules 16y ago
  I'm playing with AForge (http://www.aforgenet.com http://www.aforgenet.com) atm, and it's awesome. I'll have to explore OpenSLAM too, now, thanks
maserati 16y ago
I'm working on my social networking site where users can share music playlist, photos, exchange messages, real- time chat ala Facebook, and schedule their daily task. http://www.jamafriend.com http://www.jamafriend.com
al1 16y ago
I'm working on Plexibase, a database platform that makes it easy to create a knowledge base. Please try it out at http://plexibase.com http://plexibase.com. It's a work in progress; I welcome your thoughts. Smaller companies could use this to make data available to customers quickly without having to develop a web application or CMS.
csomar 16y ago
Photo Tagging script. Just published in Code Canyon (http://codecanyon.net/item/imgtag-easy-photo-tagging/116536 http://codecanyon.net/item/imgtag-easy-photo-tagging/116536) Review is down right now, so you may not be able to get a look.
avalore 16y ago
A crowd sourced checklist/todo app. Just a small extension of a little iPhone app I made for myself. Realized that most of my 'todo lists' are more like checklists... for launching a new site, compiling a distribution build of an iPhone app, etc. So I have a little app for myself that let's me quickly re-use these checklists. So now I'm building in a web based back end to allow everyone to share their checklists for other people to use. It would be a good place to store, and use, the 100's of different checklists i've seen on blogs, hackernews, etc.
nbrochu 16y ago
http://hnrecap.com http://hnrecap.com - Daily, Weekly and Monthly HN Summaries (Has: Its own point system, Instapaper support, Treemap visualisation and Archives). Thinking of maybe starting a weekly podcast! Also a project in the early stages which aims to make it easy to find great available domain names for projects/startups. A lot of hackery going on here. :)

69 points by samratjp 16y ago

Thought it would be helpful for HN'ers to see what others are up to and potentially find cool projects to collaborate on. Bonus points for keeping it under a tweet + demo (or github,etc).

klbarry 16y ago

New recycled clothing line. Woo.

brlewis 16y ago

I'm drastically simplifying the setup process for OurDoings Dropbox integration. If you use Dropbox, just share a folder with box@ourdoings.com to try it.

Kilimanjaro 16y ago

http://www.hackerblogs.com http://www.hackerblogs.com Working on hackers white pages, events, jobs, consulting, startups database and stuff like that.

mdolon 16y ago

A new WordPress framework for a custom themes shop I'm building.

nico_h 16y ago

I'm working on an app that allows you to (smoothly, quickly) see full resolution images on your iPhone, by reading png tiles of the original image. The tiles are created on your pc using a java app that stores the tiles in a sqlite db, it can also rasterize pdf to images using the java.net pdf-renderer. Anyone knows a better pdf renderer that works well with java ?

wadner 16y ago

http://www.startupweekly.com http://www.startupweekly.com - Aggregating tweets based on topic hashtags. Find other people interested in your hashtag and other analysis.

chrismoos 16y ago

fastr - ruby web framework http://github.com/chrismoos/fastr http://github.com/chrismoos/fastr async-mysql - asynchronous mysql driver for ruby (native - no c extension) http://github.com/chrismoos/async-mysql http://github.com/chrismoos/async-mysql moostrax.com - gps tracking (just released iphone app...working on new version)

sendos 16y ago

http://soundkey.com http://soundkey.com : Will ideally become something like the Wikipedia of sounds (i.e. a central repository/global reference about anything that has to do with sounds)

photon_off 16y ago
Really cool idea. I have some feedback after visiting your site. "wikipedia of sounds" is not at all how I would describe it. It's more like "twitter for sounds". When I arrived at your site I was really quite confused as to what the hell soundkey did. The main part of the site shows a big list of social networks, and says "use soundkey here" ... Ok... but what exactly does soundkey do? I would focus more on the aspect that you can record sounds and then link to them (or embed them). It's really that simple, but you've managed to overcomplicate it and it took me way longer than it should have to figure out the following: Soundkey lets me record a sound, then link to it. My suggestion: put the record tool right smack in the middle of the front page. Make it the primary purpose of the site. That is, I should be able to go to "soundkey.com" and conveniently record and share a sound, rather than seeing a splash page. You don't visit bit.ly and see a whole page explaining the benefits of short links, and where you can use shorter links. You see a textbox that you can immediately use. At any rate, this all might sound very critical, but I love your idea. Put that recording thing front and center, emphasize "record sounds and share them" [twitter for sounds], and your users will figure out the rest.
- sendos 16y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! We are currently working with a UX expert to help us re-design the look & feel and the functionality of the website, and the issues you bring up have been brought to our attention and will be addressed in the next iteration of the website. (We currently do have a "How this Works" section on the front page that says "Record Sound, Get SoundKey, Use Anywhere" with an explanation of what that means, but I guess it's not clear enough because lots of people complain about it. Hopefully the updated website will make things much more clear in much less time)

naba 16y ago

am working on building an customizable online dispute resolution platform. Using web services and a rule engine

sandis 16y ago

Doing small bits of work on the Twitter client I started a while ago – http://tweetby.com/ http://tweetby.com/ (lots of features are currently disabled)

sonnym 16y ago

I have been working on and off on a web-based (C#/.NET) front end for MSSQL to make working with the beast easier. http://github.com/sonnym/csmsadmin http://github.com/sonnym/csmsadmin Runs on IIS >= 5, and Mono on Apache. It does most of what I have needed for daily tasks, so it has been some time since I have worked on it; should probably get back to it in the near future . . .

yv 16y ago

An affiliation and cross-promotion network for mobile apps http://ovozo.com/ http://ovozo.com/

dannyr 16y ago

I'm working on a new version of my app, http://www.launchset.com http://www.launchset.com. It is actually inspired by HackerNews particularly threads like this and 'Review my app/startup'. I have several HN guys on the site. If you are interested in being one of the early users, email me at hackernews -at- launchset.com.

photon_off 16y ago
What does it do?
- user24 16y ago
  seems to be something like twitter for projects, but it's giving me errors for a lot of things.
  - dannyr 16y ago
    fixed it. there was some invalid tag.

benjamind 16y ago

Putting the finishing touches on an Canvas based LED Matrix animation editor for a Burning Man 2010 art project. http://cwd.co.uk/illuminatrix http://cwd.co.uk/illuminatrix

samratjp 16y ago
That's awesome!What did you use for your microcontroller?

jtchang 16y ago

An online tool to do business intelligence and analytics that doesn't require a team of consultants to setup. Should add that I am looking for a cofounder so post/msg if interested. Edit: E-mail is jeff.tchang (at) gmail

mleonhard 16y ago
Please tell us more.
- jtchang 16y ago
  I have been working on it by myself for a few months (so have a working proof of concept). The idea is a data aggregation service that helps small to medium online businesses analyze common sources of ecommerce data. Most small businesses do not have the time or manpower to implement complex business intelligence solutions such as SAP, Cognos, or Actuate (the big players in this space). My product serves to bridge this gap by providing an easy way to gather both traditional and non-traditional metrics. By traditional I mean gross sales, volume, margins, site traffic etc. Non traditional would be a lot of the "Web 2.0" metrics (tweets, buzz, etc). I'm at a point right now where a proof of concept is built but I need a lot of help in the marketing/business development department.
  - sandipagr 16y ago
    you should think of launching soon if you have a working proof of concept. I'd love to see it.
bpourriahi 16y ago
What's your email? Mine is anony304 at gmail

tbeseda 16y ago

A Safari extension for my company for common operational tasks, should increase efficiency and take a little load off our systems.

bgrohman 16y ago

I'm working on a nano-blogging platform that reduces posts to short, one-at-a-time messages. Each user gets only one visible post at a time. Think twitter minus all the clutter.

reduxredacted 16y ago

I'm working with a friend on a text based bulletin board system written in C# that uses SSH rather than Telnet or a modem and supports many of the features of an early 90's -ish DOS based Dial-up BBS. ... I and a few of my friends miss the old days so we'll probably be the only ones to make reasonable use of it, but it's a fun hack project for me and I'm learning a lot about SSH in the process. It's not OpenTG and I'm not that developer (he's doing one in Ruby so his project is probably more interesting to folks around here). Still in the very early stages so nothing works yet and I don't have a code repo setup.

Vindexus 16y ago

http://vaginagame.com http://vaginagame.com I know it's stupid but I can't stop working on it. Apparently my 7 year old mind finds it hilarious.

sandipagr 16y ago
it's hilarious! am sure it's something that can get tons of social buzz.

anonified 16y ago

Learning as much as I can about starting a startup. Scared and excited all wrapped into one, but the pull to jump in is getting strong.

misterbwong 16y ago

A personalized dashboard

mleonhard 16y ago

http://www.restbackup.com/ http://www.restbackup.com/ - Backup Web Service for Mobile & Native Apps I'm working hard to get the website and api ready for Private Beta. Tomorrow I'm coding the final api feature and more functional test cases to iron out problems with unicode filenames.

samps 16y ago

An (open source) music library manager and automatic tag corrector. http://beets.radbox.org/ http://beets.radbox.org/ It's Python and all command-line. I'm trying to make something that's both better than iTunes for managing music (not that hard) and smarter than MusicBrainz Picard for correcting tags (a little harder).

malyk 16y ago

At work...a sinatra api for an existing app that is currently a horrible mess of java and xml configuration files (more "code" is in xml than java, ugh!) After hours...working on features toward the launch of http://www.wanderphiles.com http://www.wanderphiles.com (teaser site...sign up!). So much to do and only a couple hours a day to work on it.

user24 16y ago
wanderphiles is a lovely idea. I didn't sign up because I decided I really didn't need one more distraction, but I wish you luck.

agentultra 16y ago

Adding support for JSON-RPC in Pylons. Eventually this will lead to integrating pyjamas as an alternative to templating for pure-AJAX applications. This will mean adding a setuptools plugin for compiling the pyjamas client before packaging the application, creating a paster template for generating the project structure, and extending the test framework to support functional tests. It might mean creating yet another framework built on pylons, but I'm hoping it will get folded into Pylons proper so that I don't have to maintain a separate project. http://bitbucket.org/agentultra/pylons/overview http://bitbucket.org/agentultra/pylons/overview

bonquesha99 16y ago

http://madlibber.com/ http://madlibber.com/ - Anonymous user generated madlibs. I can't stop working on this [adjective] app! http://webchiever.com/ http://webchiever.com/ - Web achievements http://inquiryapp.com/ http://inquiryapp.com/ - Hosted FAQs for your apps

photon_off 16y ago
madlibber.com is such an awesome idea. You need to take some time to populate (or copy) good mad libs and artificially vote them up so that it's not a ghost town when people arrive. Here's my contribution: http://madlibber.com/madlibs/21 http://madlibber.com/madlibs/21 Update: I just created an account with inqueryapp -- I cannot add a category. The AJAX response is a 500, you might want to check that out. Up to that, the experience was rather enjoyable and I was really looking forward to creating a FAQ page using your service.
- bonquesha99 16y ago
  That's a good idea, I'll throw a bunch of samples up there. Now, I need to figure out how I should display a tag list or cloud on the homepage to navigate. Probably should make a little "syntax help" link when creating madlib stories too. Weird, I can't reproduce that inquiry error and Hoptoad didn't catch anything. Let me know if you run into that again. Thanks for your feedback and contribution!

knuckle_cake 16y ago

a javascript/web worker/canvas/svg/heatmap toy http://github.com/xxx/heatmap http://github.com/xxx/heatmap

Rust 16y ago

Getting a stable version of Noostr ready for release. Added multiple database options, plugin support, better themeing and pagination (big one) this release :)

tocomment 16y ago

Something like the Django admin feature but for MS Sql Server and more generic; to sell to companies. I figure a lot of companies have databases for internal purposes but don't have programmers to make CRUD apps for them. I'm still not sure how to locate potential customers or how much to charge. Any advice on that?

eande 16y ago

working on my startup for LED lighting products http://www.lellan.com http://www.lellan.com

resudne 16y ago

Currently working on setting up a high-quality content providing company. The business plan is just about complete but this is really just a work of love and the result of my general hate of content farms (yes I have a day job). Other than that I've been slowly putting together a site about bad dates for a friend of mine, maybe someone here will enjoy it enough to add a story ;) http://www.runawayscreaming.com http://www.runawayscreaming.com

MLnick 16y ago

Masters project on using bandit algorithms for optimising CTRs on website content. Also involves some search engine / text mining / dimensionality reduction stuff. A little bit of messing around with Android SDK too...

equark 16y ago
You're doing better than 90 percent of everybody else just by expressing this as a bandit problem rather than an AB testing problem.
- MLnick 16y ago
  Hopefully! It is great to work with some real world customer click data... If anyone is interested in a technical intro to the setting there is a set of slides from John Langford at Yahoo Research (many good and standard reference papers cited in it): http://hunch.net/~exploration_learning/ http://hunch.net/~exploration_learning/ A/B testing could be thought of as a sort of epsilon-Greedy strategy (particularly if such testing is carried out at regular intervals initially). While not enjoying the optimality characteristics of other algorithms, such an approach can in fact outperform in many practical cases :)

reynolds 16y ago

I've been working on some Chicken Scheme stuff lately. Also playing with epoll and libevent some more. I'd like to eventually get scheme and mongrel2 working together rather than writing my own web server.

c-oreills 16y ago

A Mafia game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)) webapp that allows real time games between strangers. Because there just isn't enough shady intrigue on the web!

pierrefar 16y ago

Online education startup. MVP in a few weeks time hopefully. Join mailing list if you're interested: http://eepurl.com/MVat http://eepurl.com/MVat (previously people asked about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561599 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561599 ).

buro9 16y ago

Reporting for SharePoint... trying to federate multiple instances and make sense of the fact that every site/list has a different schema of potentially the same data. So it's a foray into reporting against federated semi-structured data.

Concours 16y ago

mobile site maker webapp http://www.gmbhnews.com/ http://www.gmbhnews.com/ , goes live next (or in 2) weeks, working on the backend http://www.gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/ http://www.gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/

transatlantic 16y ago

Journalism, with a focus on early-stage technology companies. Entrepreneurs are doing amazing things with small teams and relatively little capital, but the stories and lessons seem mostly lost in the stream of tech news about iPhones, the oldest Twitter user, or Facebook's privacy policies. I think there's a small but significant market for passionate, well-researched, educational content like this. I'll find out soon enough.

Concours 16y ago
This sounds good, care to share your website url and may be the kind of startups/tech area (ideal profile) you'd like to write about?
- transatlantic 16y ago
  A simple version 1 comes out Sunday. I'll post it to HN then. The focus is on companies no older than two years, and generally on those with consumer-oriented products. But beyond that, they could be funded or bootstrapped, located in Silicon Valley or Pittsburgh or anywhere else, and led by startup veterans or total newcomers. Amazing stuff is happening everywhere; you just need to look for it.
  - user24 16y ago
    Another reader right here. This is what I used to read techcrunch for.

Derferman 16y ago

Stashboard, an open-source status dashboard. More at http://www.stashboard.org http://www.stashboard.org. Also hacking on some small App Engine sites.

chrisrhee 16y ago

Working on a design refresh for Tender's (http://tenderapp.com http://tenderapp.com) admin/supporter area. Got some snapshots on Dribbble (http://dribbble.com/players/chris http://dribbble.com/players/chris) and a blog post with design decisions in the works.

maushu 16y ago

Currently coding http://www.graphnode.com/ http://www.graphnode.com/ a cloud based hosting/prototyping web service powered with JavaScript.

nhnifong 16y ago
This looks promising

vosper 16y ago

My ongoing quest to make money predicting horse races. So far I've not made a dime, and don't really expect to, but the faint hope of future monetary rewards keeps me going. The real payoff has been that in the process I've learned all sorts of things: about Python, data mining, working with large datasets, machine learning...

user24 16y ago
I've been thinking of trying to write a machine learning app to do just that. Any hints?
- vosper 16y ago
  I didn't implement the machine learning algorithms for myself, because there are some really good packages out there and I know I don't have the smarts to better them. Keep in mind that I didn't really have any success: There seem to be two main ML packages, Weka and Orange. I personally preferred Orange, it has a nice graph-based UI for linking various components together; when you've figured that out it can script in Python. Also Orange makes it easy to test your data set against various different learning systems, and compare the performance. Standard testing procedures like n-fold cross-validation are built-in and really simple to use. Also you need data. I'm pretty sure more is always better. I actually started with greyhounds* and skimmed mine (in Python use BeautifulSoup) from a website. I tried to come up with various statistics about the recent performance of the dogs. Unfortunately nothing I tried made the ML algorithms predict better than a random choice. A friend who's into gambling suggested greyhound racing was quite random by nature, so I've switched to horses recently. I'm still building that dataset, now trying out MongoDB just for fun. I think the trouble is that you can have as much raw data as you like, but generating the predictive statistics requires a lot of knowledge of the problem domain. I'm not actually into gambling at all so I don't know if the track conditions are important, how much breeding or the age of the animal really matters etc... This made it hard to pick likely stats (and rebuilding datasets and retraining learners can take some time). For horses there's a lot more information in forums and racing guides etc, so I'd start with horses. Just make sure you've tested your predictions with pretend bets before you commit any real money :) Good luck! *I began with greyhounds because of a dissertation posted on reddit where the authors suggested they'd had some success with a neural network and gave quite a lot of detail. That piqued my curiosity, and my initial version just re-implemented their work. EDITED: For clarity

fortes 16y ago

Paged, multi-column layouts for in-browser publications using HTML/CSS/JS

user24 16y ago
http://960.gs http://960.gs might be helpful to you.

iuguy 16y ago

In my spare time, working on a game for the 8-bit ZX Spectrum.

SteveC 16y ago
How do you do your development? Do you work on the actual hardware or use an emulator?

user24 16y ago

computer vision JSON webservice - you supply image, it returns tags/keywords super fast. Spare time project. Hoping to build a freemium model out of it for image libraries to use. Happy to speak to anyone with any kind of CV / object detection knowhow.

tocomment 16y ago
How far have you gotten on this? I didn't know that level of CV technology existed to tag arbitrary images. It sounds like a really cool project.
- user24 16y ago
  thanks, it is a really fun project to work on :) At the moment I can return colour names and faces. Example: input: http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/91/63/mini-kim-kardashian-bikini-1-03.0.0.0x0.456x640.jpeg http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/91/63/mini-kim-kardashian-... output: face, yellow, blue, black. So just colours and faces at the moment. You're right that arbitrary images are ridiculously complicated, I'm hoping to start off on a smaller domain and build up :) (edit: obviously I can return the coords of the face too, as well as coords of empty parts of the image etc, but tagging is really what I'm focusing on at the moment)
paulgeo 16y ago
A company in Berkeley is doing this: www.iqengines.com (see Developer API), and demonstration app www.omoby.com. HTML Post image and JSON/XML return label (also face, barcode, ocr, etc).
- user24 16y ago
  thanks! Hopefully I can kick their asses ;) edit: which doesn't seem like it'll be too difficult. On their developer test I just get {"data": {"error": 0}} back for any image I try to upload.

devonrt 16y ago

Harvesting as much sheet music as possible from free sources (Icking, Petrucci, etc) converting it to MusicXML and LilyPad and then doing... something with it. I have a few ideas, but harvesting it all is a start. I'd like to put it online wiki style since it will most likely need editing after being run through OMR.

hnote 16y ago
Sounds very interesting! How do you want to do the OMRing? It will probably take a lot of resources...

woid 16y ago

http://totalfinder.binaryage.com http://totalfinder.binaryage.com Also playing with the idea of using Google Docs as ad-hoc CMS for simple client projects.

singular 16y ago

http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/terse.html http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/terse.html A programming language where syntax and semantics are manipulable at run-time as well as compile-time and where you can define grammars in-line and use them immediately. I also intend to integrate the concepts of pattern calculus - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695 - to permit extreme levels of flexibility in the language. It's a huge project and I'm right at the start of it. But no matter how hard I try I can't get away from the desire to work on language design and compiler development. It's just my thing, and the wonderful thing about hacking is you can just do it :-)

akkartik 16y ago
I see you switched from racket to Go. Care to talk about your experiences? I've been playing with making the implementation of arc more timeless (e.g. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12057 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12057, http://arclanguage.org/item?id=11864 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=11864)
- singular 16y ago
  I just found namespaces in Racket too painful (see [this blog post][1]), I spent hours and hours trying to do something I felt ought to be very simple, i.e. sharing a namespace between different files, yet Racket just utterly refused to do it. I RTFM but found it utterly confusing and nothing I tried, including their examples, worked. I asked on the freenode IRC channel, and even then nobody could help me. After a while I gave up, maybe I am simply not a good enough coder to understand how Racket namespaces work, but either way I worried that if this one aspect of the language is extremely difficult, what else am I going to uncover in the course of the project? On that basis I decided it'd be wise to switch. Initially I was going to switch to C for portability as I am also working on a parser generator, singular[2], which I thought could be useful to people even before I write it in Terse (I intend to self-host and bring singular into that too), however I worried that the many pitfalls that C brings to the party, e.g. the ease of segfaulting, null pointers, etc. and its lack of abstractions would overly slow me down, so I thought Go would be a better option, especially as it seemed tastefully designed. My experience of Go so far is one of great admiration and enjoyment, it really is a lovely language, nicely low-level and low-key yet still providing many useful abstractions including proper interfaces, i.e. by implementing the methods of an interface you can treat it as that interface without having to explicitly inherit from it. To be honest my decision to switch to Go is probably not that defensible as not many people are using it so the initial reason (portability) for switching to a lower-level language is less of an excuse now, so if I'm being honest I have to admit that I wanted a fast language that played nice with Linux (not that Racket wasn't either of these), and I wanted to play with Go, which kinda overrode other considerations. Most recently I've been very interested in implementing [pattern calculus][3] in the language somehow, as it provides enormous flexibility and offers a formal underpinning to a more fundamental means of expressing abstractions than oo, functional, etc. - in fact my ambition is to have an abstraction which can encompass these paradigms in itself if you want, i.e. you can implement oo or functional or whatever you want. Obviously I am very inspired by lisp in this and many other regards. The main thing is getting stuff done, this idea has been floating around in my mind for at least a couple years and I've changed my mind about things many times (and will carry on of course when necessary) causing me to throw away work more than once, so obviously I am somewhat focused on actually writing code and getting closer to actually having something rather than just the idea. Luckily I am pretty damn certain about the core ideas in the language (flexible syntax, the use of pattern calculus, etc.) so that looks to be quite likely. Anyway, it's really early days, but I am utterly committed to getting this done as I want the language for myself, want it to not be a toy language, and want it to actually do these things I think would be awesome, even if (as is most likely as with any personal language project) no one else uses it :-) I know I'm digressing from your question, but have to say that I really think one of the most wonderful aspects of programming is the ability to just hack on stuff, no matter how crazy, with just a cheap computer, some coffee and a willingness to put in the time. So glad I was born in a time where that was possible. [1]:http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/2010/06/28/Racket-Namespaces-Suck.html http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/2010/06/28/Racket-Namespaces-Suck... [2]:http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/singular.html http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/singular.html [3]:http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695

herrherr 16y ago

http://www.getmetricmail.com http://www.getmetricmail.com In one sentence: Get your Google Analytics data straight to your inbox. Build as part of my dissertation. Build on Google App Engine.

balac 16y ago
pretty cool! I just signed up.
duck 16y ago
Great looking site and very easy to use. Obviously the report is a lot nicer than that Google one that you can get emailed in PDF format, but what other advantages are there? To me the "best" setup would be to avoid the PDF and get the report directly in my mailbox. I know that would require unique graphics for each email, but is that the only barrier from going with that approach?
- herrherr 16y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. The email-only option is definitely on our list, it will be a bit tricky due to the different mail clients but still doable.
  - pstinnett 16y ago
    I agree. I recently unsubscribed from Metric Mail because I didn't want to look at PDFs of my analytics. I want them right in the email. Once you push that feature I'll likely resubscribe!
clstrfckr 16y ago
just got the last beta key :) thanks!
- timme 16y ago
  fortunately for everyone else, we just added another 50 beta accounts. thanks! :)

Vivtek 16y ago

http://search.cpan.org/~michael/Class-Declarative-0.06/lib/Class/Declarative.pm http://search.cpan.org/~michael/Class-Declarative-0.06/lib/C... A declarative framework for Perl that lets you set up complex data structures and code in an easy-to-read format. A complete working example GUI program, using a not-yet-published set of semantic classes: use Class::Declarative qw(Wx::Declarative); dialog (xsize=250, ysize=110) "Wx::Declarative dialog sample" field celsius (size=100, x=20, y=20) "0" button celsius (x=130, y=20) "Celsius" { $^fahrenheit = ($^celsius / 100.0) * 180 + 32; } field fahrenheit (size=100, x=20, y=50) "32" button fahrenheit (x=130, y=50) "Fahrenheit" { $^celsius = (($^fahrenheit - 32) / 180.0) * 100; }

koenigdavidmj 16y ago
Is that...significant indentation in Perl? Will you marry me?
- Vivtek 16y ago
  Well, actually it's kind of like an unholy Python/Tcl mutant thing, since the one-word tag determines the parsing of its line and children - but yes, significant indentation using a Perl filter.
cabalamat 16y ago
I did something similar to that once -- a program that compiled GUI descriptions into a runable Python class, which could then be subclassed to provide functionality. The syntax looked like this: window @MyBigWindow "My Big Window" { menuBar { menu "File" { menuItem @New "New" menuItem @Open "Open..." menuItem @Save "Save" menuItem @Exit "Exit" } menu "Edit" { menuItem @Copy "Copy" menuItem @Cut "Cut" menuItem @Paste "Paste" } } rowLayout { button "Button 1" button "Button 2" button "Button 3" } } Laying out GUI components was done with the rowLayout, colLayout and table containers. The subclass would contain code to be executed for @New, @Open, @Save, etc.
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njl 16y ago

My Django hosting service. I looked at Heroku and thought, "I want that for Python." Yesterday, I got most of the http request path finished. There is some node.js work left, and I still need to do some more work on Varnish. I'm hoping to get to the Postgresql stuff next week, then on to the website and API...

dannyr 16y ago
njl, I hear people asking for a Django-equivalent of Heroku. You definitely have a market for this.
- usaar333 16y ago
  What were there opinions of AppEngine? (the closest thing there is currently)
  - dannyr 16y ago
    AppEngine supports Django but just partially. You cannot use the ORM & also very few Django apps/plugins would work.
jordanmessina 16y ago
You have me sold, please give me the heads up when you're done. I've been looking for this for a long time.
maushu 16y ago
Funny, I thought the same thing but with JavaScript instead.
- nicholaides 16y ago
  Heroku has Node.js support. http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_experimental/ http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_ex...
mdg 16y ago

dangoldin 16y ago

Working on some facebook integration for my social calendar site: http://www.scenepeek.com http://www.scenepeek.com

ritonlajoie 16y ago
Hi, I'm interested in your website, is it live ? I have an error when trying to access it : Solr service not responding.
- dangoldin 16y ago
  Yea - had some random issues with Solr indexing. That's the startup life =) It should be up and running now.
  - ritonlajoie 16y ago
    hm nop ! Good luck :)

owkaye 16y ago

In light of its recent meltdown I'm hacking the real estate industry to help stabilize the market, re-establish lost value, and avoid future foreclosures.

duck 16y ago

http://www.hackernewsletter.com http://www.hackernewsletter.com The past week I have been working on a back end tool to fully automate the creation of the newsletter (the selection of content is done by me). It has been fun working with the MailChimp API.

binarymax 16y ago

Reality Remixing Here is a sample low quality upload, working on getting somewhere cheap to host 1080p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT7CrlzVeCs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT7CrlzVeCs

johncoltrane 16y ago

A persistent web-based todo list for 10K apart : http://10k.aneventapart.com/ http://10k.aneventapart.com/ I needed a pretext to play with localStorage.

Zak 16y ago

I'm working on text classification. I have a decent classifier that's especially suited to author identification. I can think of a few good uses for it; the first one I'm trying to commercialize is academic anti-cheating.

tocomment 16y ago
That sounds fascinating. How did you come up with the algorithms to use?
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- Zak 16y ago
  I experimented with existing text classification algorithms for an author identification project I was doing for fun. What I'm currently using is somewhere between KNN and SVM, but I'm not done tweaking it yet. I'm also working on boosting results using different feature sets.
  - user24 16y ago
    you might try looking at the BLEU metric. It's designed to test similarity between a machine-translated text and a human-translated one, but it could be a good starting point for detecting plagiarism too.
atomical 16y ago
I ran a site called that crawled Gnutella/Limewire for student papers. That's something you could consider adding to your database and quite easy since the Limewire code and RFC are opensource. You could write your own client or modify Limewire.
mirkules 16y ago
You are probably aware of it already, but a lot of universities (mine included) use MOSS (Measure Of Software Similarity) to detect plagiarism in CS classes. Link: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/

k0ban 16y ago

Security for online banking

smiler 16y ago
Creating it or breaking it? :)
- k0ban 16y ago
  It is similar things actually :) Once you know how to break it, you could improve it.

silas 16y ago

http://github.com/tidg/tyrion http://github.com/tidg/tyrion A lightweight systems management tool that uses XMPP for transport and is written in C++.

corruption 16y ago

Daftpunk suits. Go el wire!

noarchy 16y ago

I'm messing around with a Javascript text editor. Mostly it is to improve my chops with JS. By day, I am a Java developer, and don't get many chances to mess with other things, except during my free time.

daralthus 16y ago

I'm making a mashup of ebay and ustream, in node.js with a chat style ui.

tialys 16y ago

Working on an iPhone/iPad application that uses data from NASA's SDO/SOHO satellites to display hi-res images/movies of the sun based on 'solar events.' Sadly, no preview available yet, but the app should be out in a few weeks.

nhnifong 16y ago
What will it be called?
- tialys 16y ago
  Helioviewer. I'm currently working with the backend team to get stuff pushed out on 8/20 and should be able to submit the app to Apple after that. This is my first app, so I suspect it may take me a little while to get it up there. If you do download it, please review :D Also, it will be free.

matt1 16y ago

I'm working on a web-based pixel perfect mockup tool called jMockups, which is built on top of HTML5's canvas element. Most web designers use Photoshop to do this right now, but Photoshop makes it much harder than it should be (the UX, lack of common HTML elements, difficult to share, etc). An early alpha version will be available in a week or two. If you're interested in helping test it, shoot me an email: matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com or leave a comment below.

wdewind 16y ago
i've been thinking about doing something like this, would def be interested in testing - contact info in profile.

foxtrot 16y ago

Simple online selling platform, Hosting Provider www.fusionservers.co.uk - coding the backend stuff, trying to create an app for the iPhone (dont own an iphone) and finding it very tricky.

vyrotek 16y ago

Working on the Rule Engine and API for our Achievements Service - http://www.IActionable.com http://www.IActionable.com

shin_lao 16y ago

I'm working on a high-performance persistent cache engine.

user24 16y ago
what language? Sounds useful.
- shin_lao 16y ago
  C++ with C API. More information: - http://wrp.me/about.html http://wrp.me/about.html - http://www.facebook.com/wrpme http://www.facebook.com/wrpme - http://www.twitter.com/wrpme http://www.twitter.com/wrpme I've released two packages to play with one for Windows 64 and one for FreeBSD 8.x 64. More to come.

davidsantoro 16y ago

I'm working on a little social network for developers http://www.superdevs.com http://www.superdevs.com I'm not sure in what direction I want to go yet though :(

swah 16y ago
IMHO you could try doing something for the "hacker" public, to contrast with something like Linkedln, where (I guess) people take it very seriously.

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zck 16y ago

Minesweeper for Emacs. It's a pain, 'cause I'm new to programming elisp, which has some rough edges, and I haven't found great references for it.

swah 16y ago
The other games are good references.
- zck 16y ago
  Yeah, I'm using gomoku extensively. But there are some questions that are more about the langauge -- for example, it took me a while to figure out you can't have a default value for an optional argument.

nhnifong 16y ago

What a goldmine of cool projects!

ashitvora 16y ago

Flipboard like personalized, local, online newspaper.

paulsingh 16y ago

MailFinch: on demand direct mail (www.mailfinch.com) NotaryCRM: simple software for mobile notaries (notarycrm.com)

sofuture 16y ago

A URL shortening service (as a slightly non-trivial exercise in Erlang).

user24 16y ago
hint: use base36 to convert numeric IDs to short strings. That's how I do it on http://gifexplode.com http://gifexplode.com You can use base64 if you're happy with case sensitive URLs.

jayrex 16y ago

Camelot! http://www.python-camelot.com/ http://www.python-camelot.com/

atomical 16y ago
This looks a lot better than wxWidgets. Is there a clear advantage?

jeffclark 16y ago

Mobile photo scavenger hunt: http://www.playlookit.com http://www.playlookit.com One topic a day, one pic per day.

mdolon 16y ago
This is a cool project, throw in an iPhone app and improve the design/UI a bit and I can see it getting even more traction.
- tannerburson 16y ago
  It's funny you should say that... http://www.playlookit.com/how-to-play-lookit#j-mobileapps http://www.playlookit.com/how-to-play-lookit#j-mobileapps

jwoodbridge 16y ago

a small note site. Pages are written in markdown, and then displayed in HTML. It exports to plain text, and syncs with Simplenote. The goal is a super low barrier to entry. I want it to be a middle ground between my thoughts and my hard drive. I'm also working on my first iPad app.

kno 16y ago

I’m working on building a better Business search service with a strong emphasis on mailing list. The idea is to give small to mid size businesses a tool to generate geographically and/or category based well targeted mailing list for their marketing campaign. Mailing list are generally huge files pretty much unusable by a small business owner with a constant contact account, we are looking to change that.

mleonhard 16y ago
A friend of mine runs http://www.doorknobads.com/ http://www.doorknobads.com/, selling physical adverts by neighborhood. Your geographically targeted email marketing service sounds very promising. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

nir 16y ago

SMS gateway running on an Android device. Lets you setup an SMS service without messing with hardware/software installations. Particularly useful in developing regions with no Twilio/Textmarks/etc and strong need for SMS apps. * Looking for beta testers * (anywhere in the world...) http://wiki.github.com/niryariv/txtgate/ http://wiki.github.com/niryariv/txtgate/

zephyrfalcon 16y ago

A little rule engine (in Scheme), on top of which I can then build interactive fiction, card games, etc.

cabalamat 16y ago

I am designing a language I call ShowMe. The main idea behind ShowMe is "viewability", by which I mean that every object in a running ShowMe program can be navigated and displayed (and potentially altered) in a Viewer. By object I mean every entity within the system; ShowMe will be a pure object-oriented language. There will be multiple Views, so the user can view the same data in multiple ways (for for example a table of numbers could be displayed as ascii text, or as an HTML table or as a graph). One of the views will be a low-level ascii string, from which the object can be re-created; this format can therefore be used for serialisation. User-defined classes will be able to define their own views, or re-implement existing views for the new class. Like Clojure, a lot of data structures in ShowMe will be immutable. ShowMe will not be a pure functional language, but it will be possible to program in it in a functional style. There will be 2 syntaxes for writing ShowMe programs: one based on Lisp, the other similar to C. The C-like syntax will be compiled into the Lisp-like syntax.

tunaslut 16y ago

i'm working on http://coloringout.com http://coloringout.com intermittently. a bit rough around the edges at the moment and i'm in the middle of porting it to app engine just for the hell of it :)

rcavezza 16y ago

Recipe Website that emails you healthy recipes based on food you like to eat. Love burgers, pasta, and string beans, but hate hot peppers and anchovies? We'll give you personalized recipes in your inbox to keep you fit. Started yesterday, want to finish it tonight.

ezl 16y ago

http://quotesentinel.com http://quotesentinel.com -- Text message alerts for stocks. I used to not want to leave my desk for lunch because I'd need to come back if the market moved. I wrote a script that would tell me if the market moved past a certain threshold and would text me to come back. I was sort of shocked that it didn't exist in the wild (or at least wasn't easy to find) so I decided to see if I could make a web app of it. Hoping to "launch" in the next 2 weeks. Would love testers.

mrlyc 16y ago

I'm working on a program that uses the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface to stop charging my netbook battery to 100%, thus shortening its life. Instead, it will start charging at 40% and stop at 60%. There will be an option to charge to 100% in case I need a full charge to work off the grid. There will also be an option to turn off the charging as sometimes the dual load of charging the battery and running the computer trips the circuit breaker of the power supply at an airplane seat.

elmindreda 16y ago

The 2.7 release of GLFW (sort of like GLUT but different). http://www.glfw.org/ http://www.glfw.org/

nirav 16y ago

Writing MS-PST parser to centralize all my emails over the years in a single database: http://github.com/niravthaker/slibpst http://github.com/niravthaker/slibpst

wbond 16y ago

Noted (http://notedwiki.com http://notedwiki.com), a wiki that will be easy to use, attractivelly designed, simple to theme and have functionality focused on small business and freelancers. It will be a software product sold for a one-time fee and will be compatible with pretty much any environment that has PHP. The syntax will be based on the cross-wiki WikiCreole standard, but it will also support WYSIWYG. We have some great ideas and are gathering feedback from people who are interested in wikis or an easy way to store their information.

ddemchuk 16y ago

A CodeIgniter based Control Panel for ordering and managing SEO services. Has mailing list management, task list generation, status updates. Pretty sweet.

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iworkforthem 16y ago

I am working on a few finance/trading gigs; - something similar to timothy sykes' timalerts, with iphone/androoid email/sms option. much coding need to get data out to these platform. - my trading algorithm for forex and stock. working to translate all these algorithms to codes.

arthurdent 16y ago
i've been working on trading algos for stock. interested in collaborating?

tomotomo 16y ago

Working on a site to help name all of you guys's projects, by making it free and fun to crowdsource names: Needanym (http://www.needanym.com http://www.needanym.com) Beta testers welcome!

motters 16y ago

I'm looking at RobotVision to see whether it's something I could use or adapt. http://openslam.org/robotvision.html http://openslam.org/robotvision.html

mirkules 16y ago
I'm playing with AForge (http://www.aforgenet.com http://www.aforgenet.com) atm, and it's awesome. I'll have to explore OpenSLAM too, now, thanks

maserati 16y ago

I'm working on my social networking site where users can share music playlist, photos, exchange messages, real- time chat ala Facebook, and schedule their daily task. http://www.jamafriend.com http://www.jamafriend.com

al1 16y ago

I'm working on Plexibase, a database platform that makes it easy to create a knowledge base. Please try it out at http://plexibase.com http://plexibase.com. It's a work in progress; I welcome your thoughts. Smaller companies could use this to make data available to customers quickly without having to develop a web application or CMS.

csomar 16y ago

Photo Tagging script. Just published in Code Canyon (http://codecanyon.net/item/imgtag-easy-photo-tagging/116536 http://codecanyon.net/item/imgtag-easy-photo-tagging/116536) Review is down right now, so you may not be able to get a look.

avalore 16y ago

A crowd sourced checklist/todo app. Just a small extension of a little iPhone app I made for myself. Realized that most of my 'todo lists' are more like checklists... for launching a new site, compiling a distribution build of an iPhone app, etc. So I have a little app for myself that let's me quickly re-use these checklists. So now I'm building in a web based back end to allow everyone to share their checklists for other people to use. It would be a good place to store, and use, the 100's of different checklists i've seen on blogs, hackernews, etc.

nbrochu 16y ago

http://hnrecap.com http://hnrecap.com - Daily, Weekly and Monthly HN Summaries (Has: Its own point system, Instapaper support, Treemap visualisation and Archives). Thinking of maybe starting a weekly podcast! Also a project in the early stages which aims to make it easy to find great available domain names for projects/startups. A lot of hackery going on here. :)