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Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

• wvenable 16y ago
  http://www.fruitshow.org http://www.fruitshow.org - A simple forum Mainly implemented at http://www.crazyontap.com http://www.crazyontap.com The original version was built in 3 hours after Joel Spolsky closed his off topic forum ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/01/25.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/01/25.html ). The name itself comes from Joel, he called us a "3rd rate fruit show". I put a bunch more hours into it and open sourced it -- a few people still download occasionally. I had intended to make it a much better forum following Joel's own design philosophy ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswi... ) but sadly life got in the way. I'm still thinking I might revisit it someday.
• cloudwalking 16y ago
  Khoi Vinh (http://subtraction.com http://subtraction.com) and I made something called Shorty (http://get-shorty.com http://get-shorty.com). It was the first URL shortener you could install on your own server. I built Shorty in high school. It's absolutely dreadful code; hopefully I'll rewrite it sometime after I graduate college. Last Christmas I built a webapp that displays my iTunes music library. I can't show it to you though, because then you'd max my home's bandwidth.
• aarongough 16y ago
  http://RobotsMadeToKill.com/ http://RobotsMadeToKill.com/ This has been worked on in various forms for over a year now. The main issue was always with getting quality data. No attempts at optimization have been made yet, but it's fairly usable even so...
• bradly 16y ago
  http://lightpack.heroku.com/ http://lightpack.heroku.com/ A site to manage your backpacking gear and track your pack weight for different trips. A very needed service for ultra-light backpackers. Still needs a little polish, but it's usable.
• Inviz 16y ago
  http://mootools.net/forge/p/lsd http://mootools.net/forge/p/lsd (Demos: http://inviz.github.com/lsd-examples/Demos/index.html http://inviz.github.com/lsd-examples/Demos/index.html http://jsfiddle.net/inviz/htmmv/ http://jsfiddle.net/inviz/htmmv/) New wave interface library that uses SVG to draw graphics, html as a templating language and a superset of css for theming. Already spent 1 year on this and have like maybe 5 months to go (add IE support, more polished features). The thing is my very state of art code that i'm putting my soul into. Every day, even a small tweak makes me feel like I'm moving to the right direction. Proud half baked product (not public production ready, but is used in several small projects) seeks for interested organizations and contributors, invizko@gmail.com :)
• mtoader 16y ago
  http://www.uberadviser.com http://www.uberadviser.com I want to make learning (for a self learner) easier by matching learning intent with materials specific for someone's learning style. Basically if you are visual learner the system will try to suggest more visually oriented materials for the courses you are taking right now. I think it should be really valuable to a busy student :).
• dools 16y ago
  http://smsmyride.com http://smsmyride.com http://smscard.com.au http://smscard.com.au i also have this half-baked search engine that has no content: whatwhere.com.au :) but you can't really do anything with that!! (incidentally when you're ready to add "rest of the world" you can use my 8centsms.com API ;)
• JesseAldridge 16y ago
  Haha, my project couldn't be a better fit for your description: http://valuegrapher.com/ http://valuegrapher.com/
  • dools 16y ago
    Looks great! I do all my timesheeting via an IRC bot - will plug this thing in and then blog about it when I get the chance :)
    • JesseAldridge 16y ago
      Cool, thanks!
    • kolinko 16y ago
      hey - can you say more about the IRC bot? I'm working on ohMore.com and the idea is somewhat similar, but with web/mobile interface instead of irc.
  • geekam 16y ago
    Trying to incorporate wakoopa anytime?
    • JesseAldridge 16y ago
      Hadn't thought about that... I'll look into it.
• abraham 16y ago
  HN extension for Google Chrome that adds profile hovercards and instant search. I really dislike the current hovercards and the code is dirty but it works. http://github.com/abraham/hackernews-extension http://github.com/abraham/hackernews-extension
• pg 16y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com
  • dools 16y ago
    Gold.
    • deleted 16y ago
      [deleted]
  • dkokelley 16y ago
    This was something that always impressed me with HN. Instead of using a robust, proven forum system, you created a new project that grew with the community, and opened the whole thing up for us to see and even hack ourselves.
    • phlux 16y ago
      code.reddit.com
  • code_duck 16y ago
    Ha ha. Comment of the year.
    • code_duck 16y ago
      Okay, I know this is a reply to a pg post. And that complaining about downvoting is poor HN etiquette. I realize that therefore, this post is double sacrilege. I am choosing to note right here that I'm quite tired of the uptight comment nazis on this site. I THINK IT'S THE COMMENT OF THE YEAR SO GO FUCK YOURSELVES
      • MisterWebz 16y ago
        The thing is, if we stop downvoting comments like the one you posted (even though it was a completely harmless comment), people would start to think such comments are acceptable and we'd soon have useless comments on HN that would add absolutely no value to the discussion.
• zaidf 16y ago
  http://69.197.166.101:2261/ http://69.197.166.101:2261/ Helping freelancers find new work. Going live tomorrow :) Edit: if you want to know soon as it's live, add your email here: http://tekbob.wufoo.com/forms/notify-me-when-tekbobs-live/ http://tekbob.wufoo.com/forms/notify-me-when-tekbobs-live/
  • geekam 16y ago
    wow this is amazing
  • flacon 16y ago
    How can I list on this?
    • zaidf 16y ago
      Hey, drop me an email at zaid.farooqui at gmail and I will let you know soon as we are love! Edit: or add yourself here: http://tekbob.wufoo.com/forms/notify-me-when-tekbobs-live/ http://tekbob.wufoo.com/forms/notify-me-when-tekbobs-live/
      • subbu 16y ago
        The wufoo link goes to a 404 page.
        • zaidf 16y ago
          Wow thanks. Wufoo changed the link URL because I edited the title of the form.
  • rubyrescue 16y ago
    cool idea. double "within within" 24 hours for each listing.
    • zaidf 16y ago
      great catch thanks:)
• JesseAldridge 16y ago
  Some feedback for your site: You might want to put up a message promising not to do unethical things with my phone number. It would give me a little peace of mind.
  • dholowiski 16y ago
    Good point. fwiw I do promise.
• agentargo 16y ago
  Tasterator.com Neat toy I think, but pretty buggy and really no business potential
• jarsj 16y ago
  www.appcanvas.com. I posted it here a few days back and was blasted for poor and unintuitive usability. Have been working my ass off on the UX since then. For what's it worth it definitely fits the description here.
  • dools 16y ago
    I think this is an incredible concept! I tried to use it but couldn't actually enter in any text (FF 3.6.11) but keep at it! This is a really great idea and already well on the way to being a great execution.
    • jarsj 16y ago
      Yeah the usability sucks. Right now the problem is that one can use it after 15 minutes of training and become expert in may be few hours of training, after which you can create super complex sites like twitter/HN. I am doing a UX rewamp and trying to minimize the learning curve. The next version with some major UI modifications and support for all browsers should be out in 2 weeks. Do follow me on twitter or drop a line and I will make sure you know.
      • dools 16y ago
        Will follow for sure. Hey - Harsh Jain - were you on Google SOC 2005? Or is that just a really common Indian name :)
        • dools 16y ago
          haha far out, I was in that too :) I did this: http://rubyforge.org/projects/koto/ http://rubyforge.org/projects/koto/ and then never looked at it since :( As far as I know, there was ONE GUY in Germany that managed to install it and get it running. He blogged about it under the title "That's Real RAD!" in German - but my lack of autotools skill and inabiilty to properly use qtruby as a "lib" meant that the install process was pretty diabolical. What did you work on? Did you ever do anything with it after SOC?
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• psawaya 16y ago
  A HTML5 puzzle game: http://www.sokogame.com http://www.sokogame.com Got some very useful feedback when I posted it here, update coming soon.
• rooshdi 16y ago
  ChatPatio.com - I just embedded a bunch of chatrooms into different topics people would want to discuss. It's been sitting on the side untouched for a few months now. I just created it as a quick mockup and may launch a real app sometime. http://chatpatio.com http://chatpatio.com
• catechu 16y ago
  I wanted to be able to see products on Amazon side-by-side with their pros and cons: http://silvos.com http://silvos.com. I need to add more products, product specs, and fix the way the pros/cons work, but I'm already using it to start thinking about which digital camera to get.
  • Jun8 16y ago
    This looks useful. It would be a good idea to have the pros and cons lists next to each other so that one doesn't need to scroll down long lists.
  • happybuy 16y ago
    Interesting idea - in a similar space to my startup http://www.happybuy.com/ http://www.happybuy.com/ It may be good if the site was able to, based upon the metadata and extraction from the product description, show the relative differences in the specs of the products. For instance, if I compare a Macbook 13" and a Macbook Pro 15" it would be great if it listed all of the differences - such as screen size: 2", price: $300, speed: 0.4Ghz, weight: 700gms, popularity: 200 difference in sales rank etc. It would allow objective comparisons to go along with the subjective comparisons of the reviews you currently show.
    • catechu 16y ago
      That's a great point -- currently, I'm in the process of scraping specs from other sites, and I really like your idea of putting a layer of understanding over that to simplify the display for the user. Kind of like Google Squared, but easier to generate the table.
• jiganti 16y ago
  http://www.crushtease.com http://www.crushtease.com Anonymous matching site with a twist.
  • dools 16y ago
    This is cool - and kids will love it. I don't get the "50%" thing though - why complicate this any further?! I mean I know I'm FARRRR far far from being the target market here - but it just seems to make no sense to me and doesn't add anything to the usefulness of the program.
    • jiganti 16y ago
      We were thinking about omitting the actual percentages and just telling them that any four of those possibilities will happen. So far we haven't gotten any traction, but we haven't spent much time marketing it because we have been working on another more exciting project that will probably be ready for launch by next week.
• kam 16y ago
  http://vps.kevinmehall.net:8123/hn http://vps.kevinmehall.net:8123/hn An Operational Transformation (like Google Wave / EtherPad) implementation in node.js and coffeescript. Source at http://github.com/kevinmehall/OTpad http://github.com/kevinmehall/OTpad . It's much cleaner and lighter-weight than the EtherPad open source project. Chrome recommended for now, FF sort-of supported.
  • sgrove 16y ago
    That's really very incredible. I started implementing it in clojure, but I node is really well suited for this. Thank you for sharing the code!
  • jaksprats 16y ago
    what are you using as backend? mysql? postgres? couchdb? redis?
• fictorial 16y ago
  http://playrelay.io http://playrelay.io I wish I had some time to finish it (client work first)! It also might be a miniscule market.
  • benologist 16y ago
    I don't think it would be a miniscule market, someone was asking me about multiplayer on iphone the other day and I don't even make iphone games.
    • fictorial 16y ago
      Sorry I was unclear. Multiplayer on iOS is a huge market. But with Apple providing peer-to-peer built-in a hosted solution such as PlayRelay might not find many fans. Game Center might be "good enough". That is why I am trying to add things like accountability (opponent is losing and quits the game with no punishment) and tournaments.
• rubyrescue 16y ago
  http://inboxSEO.com http://inboxSEO.com - daily or weekly SEO emails - see where does your site rank, lots of little UI bugs but it works and we have some paying customers despite the poor UX...
  • dools 16y ago
    o_O word!! This is what you call half-baked? /me signs up and begins using it immediately
    • rubyrescue 16y ago
      cool. would love feedback. we haven't really 'launched' it yet as we've just too busy on other projects, and for instance when you do google analytics integration you can end up with WAY too many keywords and some weird behavior on the dashboard page...
      • dools 16y ago
        Well - feedback so far is: I signed up and setup a profile/keywords etc. in under 2 minutes. I'll email you when I start getting information in my inbox :)
      • bvi 16y ago
        Looks great. Who did the design for you?
        • rubyrescue 16y ago
          A designer who works for me part time here in Buenos Aires...email me if you want me to introduce you (scared to introduce you as she's busy for me right now :)
  • zach 16y ago
    This is fantastic. I've also signed up and am glad you shared this. Something I've always wanted but figured it was out of reach. This post is great, too. We should make this a regular feature because, how many frequent HN users end up launching a neat product like this and it languishes among blah-blah news links? Tragic. I've never even posted a launch on HN, but I love seeing them -- it seems like they should be highlighted on the new page or something.
• geekam 16y ago
  It is just a small plugin but there you go, just uploaded it... http://github.com/amanjeev/histriki http://github.com/amanjeev/histriki
• aaronblohowiak 16y ago
  http://toylanguage.com http://toylanguage.com - it is kind of like jsfiddle + pubsub
• misterhaywood 16y ago
  WeatherLoop° - http://weatherloop.com http://weatherloop.com Receive Weather Texts Everyday.
• kiba 16y ago
  Mine is http://www.soulplaying.com http://www.soulplaying.com It's a web app that integrate RPG elements with a TODO list.
  • catechu 16y ago
    I'd like to check it out, but it doesn't seem to be up.
    • kiba 16y ago
      Oh sorry. For some reason, it only like www.soulplaying.com not soulplaying.com. Try the link again. It'll work.
• terryjsmith 16y ago
  http://www.jaxified.com/ http://www.jaxified.com/
• decadentcactus 16y ago
  http://oddalerts.com http://oddalerts.com Made it for my gf and I, but never got around to polishing it. It still tentatively works. Basically it sends reminders at odd times because I felt when you set a reminder, you automatically remember it anyway, and wind up staring at the clock. So this comes at different times. Bit fuzzy around the edges and I haven't worked on it in months :(
  • aik 16y ago
    Cool idea actually. I'd use something like this for daily notes to self.
• jackfoxy 16y ago
  http://www.facster.com http://www.facster.com
• kaffeinecoma 16y ago
  http://quickbrownfoxtutor.appspot.com http://quickbrownfoxtutor.appspot.com It's an HTML5 typing tutor that I'm working on. Also planning to sell the tools I use to build it as a jump-starter API for folks wishing to create GWT/App Engine products: http://gwtquickstarter.appspot.com http://gwtquickstarter.appspot.com
• dyogenez 16y ago
  http://movief.ly http://movief.ly Wanted a place to keep track of what movies I was watching, when and who I was watching them with, and then be able to recall them later. For instance: Recent movies watched http://movief.ly/users/adamfortuna/viewings http://movief.ly/users/adamfortuna/viewings Movies first seen in 2009 http://movief.ly/users/adamfortuna/lists/first-seen-in-2009 http://movief.ly/users/adamfortuna/lists/first-seen-in-2009 Never went beyond the 'scratch my own itch' stage, but gomiso seems to like the idea of checking in to TV/movies.
  • Swoopey 16y ago
    i like this idea. my husband and i are always watching tons of movies and can never keep track.
    • dyogenez 16y ago
      Thanks! I really want to get it to the point where it can look into your friends lists to generate lists as well. For instance -- What're my girlfriends favorite movies that I've never seen? Or What are my friends favorite movies of all time (that I have seen or haven't seen)? In the end it's all about keeping track of what you've seen, and helping decide what you should see next though, so it might have Netflix integration so I don't have to reinvent the recommendation wheel either. What movies you'll like is only half the equation though -- the other half is what people you know are actually watching!
  • sibsibsib 16y ago
    Nicely done. I made something vaguely similar as a weekend project. Mine is a lot more minimal and focused more on just tracking things to watch. Perhaps I'll post it if i can find enough time to get it online.
• daeken 16y ago
  regvex.py -- http://gist.github.com/641688 http://gist.github.com/641688 Regvex is a proof of concept timing attack against regex engines. To make a long story short, the timing characteristics of regex engines make it perfectly suited to timing attacks, allowing you to (locally or remotely) create data that matches a given regex, and potentially even reconstruct the actual regex you're matching against. The current version works locally against Python's sre, but I plan to take it further when I have time.
  • tectonic 16y ago
    Fascinating, could you explain how this works?
    • daeken 16y ago
      I'm planning on writing up a blog post exploring the attack and possibilities, but from a high level: When you pass data into a regex engine for matching, it works character-by-character. When it reaches a character that doesn't match, the matching is terminated. That means that if you have the regex /^foo$/, "f" will take slightly longer to parse than "b", since it'll move on to the next character for "f", but not "b". Due to this, you can produce matching data for a regex in a fairly small number of samples. Interestingly, it takes fewer samples to reliably get characters further down the string -- however, this may be a result of my horrid statistics code. Not sure yet. As far as I'm aware, no one has ever done this before.
      • mentat 16y ago
        As someone who has made regular expression acceleration products, we were aware of this possibility but we didn't ever implement a proof of concept. The range of applications is pretty staggering just in network and host security. I'm interested to see what you come up with.
  • Toucan 16y ago
    http://emerose.com/timing-attacks-explained http://emerose.com/timing-attacks-explained For others, this helped me understand the basis of timing attacks.
• chaosmachine 16y ago
  http://bigbooksearch.com http://bigbooksearch.com A visual search engine for Amazon products. It needs some work, and I don't have a scalable way to get traffic..
• thethimble 16y ago
  http://courserail.com http://courserail.com A project to revamp the online course directory for UCLA. For reference, the original directory is here: http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/schedulehome.aspx http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/schedulehome.aspx
• amanuel 16y ago
  http://promoappcodes.com http://promoappcodes.com A site that lets developers share promo codes for their iOS apps to bloggers and app reviewers. It does the job, but there is so many things I want to do with it.
• mmb 16y ago
  http://urls.matthewm.boedicker.org/ http://urls.matthewm.boedicker.org/ code http://github.com/mmb/murlsh http://github.com/mmb/murlsh Right now a link blog for those who want to self-host and customize. May build a site that hosts these or add some kind of federation.
• yummyfajitas 16y ago
  Half baked (it currently mostly works): http://github.com/stucchio/Idli http://github.com/stucchio/Idli An attempt to make bug reporting more git-like, in terms of UI. Use the command line (not a browser) to file bug reports. Currently interfaces with github and trac, bugzilla support is next. 1/10 baked (command line part not yet written): http://github.com/stucchio/Sqlite-Diff http://github.com/stucchio/Sqlite-Diff It will be exactly sounds like, a diff utility for sqlite databases. It's something I've wanted on a number of occasions, but had to hack around. Currently I compare table headers, not table contents yet. (Currently it's only a library and some tests.)
• qqqq2010 16y ago
  A service that has no backend (no server calls, DB, 'scary' stuff to consumers) that lets you back up your tweets on your own terms. Basically gives you ownership of things you write, without relying on any third party to access, store, or send you your own writing. Eventually will be given out as a folder with some .js and .html files, all self contained. http://www.mcphersonindustries.com/bucket/tweets/RunMe.html http://www.mcphersonindustries.com/bucket/tweets/RunMe.html
• brlewis 16y ago
  Overall, http://ourdoings.com/ http://ourdoings.com/ is beautiful once you've uploaded hundreds of photos. But there are still ugly parts: I'm still not 100% satisfied with the registration page. The headlines page for any given year is ugly. Several features (e.g. using a custom domain) are not self-explanatory. But I'm definitely proud of it.
• jashkenas 16y ago
  http://internettypewriter.com http://internettypewriter.com Just screwing around with HTML5 SQL storage a couple years ago, so it only works with Webkit-variants... Saves your pages as you type, listed on the left, flip the lights on the right.
  • Raphael 16y ago
    227px empty vertical space?
  • icco 16y ago
    That's really cool. Nice work.
• megamark16 16y ago
  http://www.apprabbit.com http://www.apprabbit.com - Turn spreadsheets into web apps. Kinda like Wufoo, except our forms aren't pretty. But we do support setting up relationships between your datasets and we auto generate the views for you. We also have a fairly robust security model that lets you restrict user/group access to datasets both vertically (filters records meeting criteria) and horizontally (restrict access to certain fields). Plus what you're actually creating are Django apps, so (in theory) you can export them when you're done building them and host them on your own servers. Go to /beta-signup/ to skip the mailing list and go right to creating a real account.
• thechangelog 16y ago
  http://lyrica.heroku.com/ http://lyrica.heroku.com/ so I can have a way to view my chords and lyrics on the go. Also an excuse to play with jQuery Mobile. http://www.github.com/alexdunae/lyrica http://www.github.com/alexdunae/lyrica
• WesleyJohnson 16y ago
  http://tackynotes.com http://tackynotes.com - An idea I had for a couple years as a browser extension for Firefox but never implemented. When Chrome hit, the ease of writing extensions was too luring to pass up. I'm not the fastest coder and my motivation wanders easily so after sitting on this for months and finally releasing it, I found out someone beat me to the Chrome Gallery with the same idea. I think both have their strong points, but he has 200k installs and has been "featured". I've barely got 600. There's more I've wanted to do with it, but still it sits. I guess that qualifies (for me at least) as half-baked.
• swalberg 16y ago
  http://smallpayroll.ca http://smallpayroll.ca - an online payroll site that does the paperwork and calculations, you write the checks. I have some paid users, but I'm still working on a few key features that are holding me back with a large part of the market.
• reidman 16y ago
  http://artistorm.com http://artistorm.com I started the website as a senior design project in 2005. My team won a $10k entrepreneurship contest, but we were all finishing college and drowning in debt, so we split the prize up and went our separate ways. I intended to sell, but never got around to it. A year later: Etsy.
• skybrian 16y ago
  http://code.google.com/p/testgal/ http://code.google.com/p/testgal/
• sahillavingia 16y ago
  http://reworder.appspot.com/ http://reworder.appspot.com/
• bdr 16y ago
  http://www.seddit.com/ http://www.seddit.com/ -- Realtime chat using your Reddit identity. It works, there were just a couple more things I wanted to add (mostly room discovery, based on subreddits) before announcing it. Got caught up in something else...
• DavidPP 16y ago
  http://electopinion.ca/ http://electopinion.ca/ About two years ago, me and my partner gave ourself 48h to launch a project. We never touched it since then and the database has more than 1 gig of data by now... I guess there should be something to do with it but we never had the time and/or motivation to touch it again after that. We still managed to get some coverage (press, tv, etc.) on that so even if it's not something really complicated, I'm still proud of it.
  • the_unknown 16y ago
    Too bad I didn't see this sooner - it would have made a nice simple way to keep track of the various municipal elections happening across the country at the moment. If this could be customized for the user's location (or per account) so that the local Toronto/Calgary/Durham/Ottawa/etc election was covered this could gain huge traction. This is great - maybe you can push it further for the next federal election?
    • DavidPP 16y ago
      Maybe, we had good coverage but almost no visits. I think Twitter wasn't popular enough two years ago. But the real problem is that we aren't really motivated by politics so that the real reason why we didn't add any features yet.
• conesus 16y ago
  http://www.newsblur.com http://www.newsblur.com An RSS feed reader with intelligence. Got half of the intelligence part working. Still lots of bugs and not quite ready for primetime. But soon, hopefully. It's also open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/ http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/
  • follower 16y ago
    You should consider promoting this more widely. Bloglines is closing at the end of the month and there's multiple people who aren't happy with using Google Reader for various reasons. I'd be happy with a nice online RSS reader with no intelligence. :)
    • conesus 16y ago
      I'm planning to submit it to Hacker News at the end of the week when I have premium accounts turned on and many more of the bugs worked out. Thanks for the advice!
  • natep 16y ago
    Very nice. I really like every single screen, up until I went to look at my Hacker News 100 feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc100 http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc100) I was expecting it to break, because the title links to the content, and the body of the rss item links to the comments, but not quite that badly.
• ronnier 16y ago
  http://viewtext.org http://viewtext.org Pulls article text out of html pages Populates RSS feeds Save text to PDF Extract text from PDF's API to pull article text in XML, JSON, JSONP formats
  • spiffworks 16y ago
    I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your service. Thank you.
    • ronnier 16y ago
      Thank you, I'm happy to hear that!
  • kapilkale 16y ago
    This is awesome. Thanks.
  • jcfrei 16y ago
    doesn't seem to work 100% right now, but I really like the concept.
  • techbio 16y ago
    May I link to it from another page? http://viewtext.org/api/text?url=techbio.org&format=html&rl=false&mld=1.01 http://viewtext.org/api/text?url=techbio.org&format=html...
    • ronnier 16y ago
      Sure, that's the main reason I built it. So other sites could easily link to it. I'm doing just that with http://ihackernews.com http://ihackernews.com
      • justinchen 16y ago
        ihackernews is probably the most visited site on my iphone. nice work.
• dan_sim 16y ago
  http://timetracking.im http://timetracking.im : time-tracking and timesheets on IM
  • dtwwtd 16y ago
    This is a great project! I'd like a way to be able to list existing tasks / projects and then I would probably use it
    • dan_sim 16y ago
      when writing "select project" (shortcut : sp) or "select task" (shortcut : st), it lists them so you can choose a task already created.
      • dtwwtd 16y ago
        Great, thanks! I was just typing project names after the command.
  • techbio 16y ago
    timetapper (see another post) aims to be about as simple
• wanderful 16y ago
  http://imissafri.ca/ http://imissafri.ca/ Not a business project, just a fun aside to share hi-res wallpaper from Africa. Other projects on the go, of course.
• reynolds 16y ago
  Achieve.ly. I had a few people interested in using it but I took a contracting position and had to stop working on it. I have a few people waiting to use it too. I'm probably just going to open it up publicly to let the handful of people use it. I'm also working on some client/server stuff for automated web deployments.
• jasonlotito 16y ago
  http://ductmail.com http://ductmail.com Email reminder system. Dead simple. Has an mobile-client that's also easy to use. I use it all the time. It works.
• pjscott 16y ago
  A really simple web app that lets you create and take multiple-choice quizzes: http://koalaquiz.appspot.com/ http://koalaquiz.appspot.com/ Some friends were talking about making such a thing, and I'm tired of discussions of "hey we could do this cool thing" that ultimately go nowhere, so I just jumped in and did it.
• systemtrigger 16y ago
  http://drunsen.com http://drunsen.com (instant search), http://dealhill.com http://dealhill.com (daily deals), http://audiothink.com http://audiothink.com (narration), http://videothink.com http://videothink.com (video editing)
• revoltingx 16y ago
  An Android MMORPG Maker (sort of). Blog: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/ http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/ Temp Website: http://diastrofunk.com/ http://diastrofunk.com/ (Test credentials: mytest/mytest) Currently working on the area editor, maybe someday it'll be good.
• chime 16y ago
  http://bulletxt.com http://bulletxt.com - take notes/outlines easily (collapse indented text).
  • hedgehog 16y ago
    Awesome, especially the checklist feature (when it arrives).
  • dkokelley 16y ago
    Bookmarked. This reminds me of OneNote but brought online. Feature suggestion: annotations for your notes. I think students and 'paper-replacement' users might find something like that convenient combined with the regular note-taking tools. I wouldn't recommend putting too much time into this. After thinking about it, I'm not sure how many of your users would find the feature useful. I have a tablet which includes a pen, but that makes me an outlier.
  • tuacker 16y ago
    This looks great. One minor problem I had while trying the demo: press [`] key (key to the left of #1) to hide/show subtasks This doesn't work on a German keyboard layout where ^ is next to 1. Pressing the ` key doesn't work either.
  • slowpoison 16y ago
    Great app. I love its simplicity.
• alokt_ 16y ago
  http://bit.ly/callbreak http://bit.ly/callbreak and http://fishinmyhead.com:3000 http://fishinmyhead.com:3000 . It's a popular card game in Nepal, similar to Spades here. One is a rails app another Seaside.
• jot 16y ago
  http://digestly.com http://digestly.com A way for people overwhelmed by Twitter to ensure they don't miss tweets from a special someone. I use it to follow my wife. A way for people underwhelmed by Twitter to follow someone without creating an account. My mother uses it to follow me.
• danfitch 16y ago
  http://www.squarechat.com http://www.squarechat.com This is just a room so you can see others on and not just yourself http://squarechat.com/hackernews http://squarechat.com/hackernews
• rob_r0 16y ago
  Claycloud: Sharing and Executing Python Scripts in the Browser http://claycloud.appspot.com/about http://claycloud.appspot.com/about
• Nogwater 16y ago
  http://www.SpellingThing.com/ http://www.SpellingThing.com/ Improve your spelling through daily practice.
• jayliew 16y ago
  http://rapidsocialresponse.com http://rapidsocialresponse.com - An automated response system for Twitter @mentions (not canned responses). That is, you preset a response to a specific @mention to you. I'm using Django + Python AIML at the back-end, so there's some NLP involved (although that knowledge is not needed on the for end-users). The name is from Jeremiah Owyang's post here: http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/03/05/altimeter-report-the-18-use-cases-of-social-crm-the-new-rules-of-relationship-management/ http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/03/05/altimeter-repo...
• chops 16y ago
  http://www.triviathing.com http://www.triviathing.com - Trivia game inspired by IRC trivia bots. Very early, still needs a TON of questions, and a handful of bugfixes. But it's semi-functional, and I've played it with my friends and family for a smashing good time (until we start getting duplicates).
  • chops 16y ago
    Oh, and it's written entirely in Erlang (runs on the Nitrogen Web Framework), except for a bit of javascript.
  • nowarninglabel 16y ago
    Yeah, including a bugfix for it to work on Chrome in Linux. I choose a game, submit, then get a blank page with just the header.
    • chops 16y ago
      Thank you for the feedback. It's worth noting that if you don't have flash, it won't work. It currently relies on flash for persistent socket connections. I'm working on getting it working with websockets. But it should work on chrme, which is also my browser of choice.
      • nowarninglabel 16y ago
        Interesting, I do have flash block, but disabled it for your site. I still didn't get anything, but perhaps flashblock is still at fault.
• patrickaljord 16y ago
  http://cahuma.com http://cahuma.com Get a page for your community with events, jobs, groups, members and filter everything right on the map to see what's near you. It also has live chat using websocket (done in two days with 3 other guys for railsrumble). It also integrates with facebook, twitter, gmail, linkedin and more.
• jeffclark 16y ago
  http://www.playlookit.com http://www.playlookit.com === A daily scavenger hunt you play with your cell phone camera.
• sjs 16y ago
  Heh, just take a look at my github repos: http://github.com/samsonjs http://github.com/samsonjs Highlights: * http://github.com/samsonjs/Mojo.Ext http://github.com/samsonjs/Mojo.Ext * http://github.com/samsonjs/compiler http://github.com/samsonjs/compiler * http://github.com/samsonjs/elisp.js http://github.com/samsonjs/elisp.js * http://github.com/samsonjs/elschemo http://github.com/samsonjs/elschemo
• benjoffe 16y ago
  http://pocketodds.com/ http://pocketodds.com/ Poker odds calculator (texas holdem), the plan is for the website version to get linked around and soon release a phone version for a couple of bucks (starting with iphone, not finished yet).
  • rjett 16y ago
    I really like this. I'll share it with my poker buddies (or next time someone complains about a bad beat on Full Tilt).
  • jcfrei 16y ago
    fantastic, gonna save a bookmark on my phone for the next round of poker.
  • Kilimanjaro 16y ago
    Nice! Just add a 'Deal' button so it deals some random cards as you press it. Sometimes I want to guess what the odds would be of any random game.
• gaza3g 16y ago
  http://offbudget.heroku.com http://offbudget.heroku.com Simple and no-nonsense budgeting app using mostly inline editing. Theres only like 4 main pages planned namely 'Dashboard', 'Budgets', 'Daily Expenditure' and 'Reports'. I have only coded 'Budgets' at this point. Signing up doesn't require email confirmation at this point. Screenshot: http://offbudget.heroku.com/images/screenshot.png http://offbudget.heroku.com/images/screenshot.png
• benjoffe 16y ago
  http://www.mickjoffe.com/ http://www.mickjoffe.com/ Got lots of original content (interviews, 1500 of them); not sure the best way to make money out of this, in fact if you have some good ideas to monetize this stuff please let me know. Do you think ads would be best or some arrangement like 10% of the content free and pay to access the rest?
• michaelchisari 16y ago
  Appleseed - An open source, distributed social networking framework. http://opensource.appleseedproject.org http://opensource.appleseedproject.org My Appleseed profile: http://developer.appleseedproject.org/michael.chisari/ http://developer.appleseedproject.org/michael.chisari/ Most recent code: http://gotham.appleseedproject.org/bruce/ http://gotham.appleseedproject.org/bruce/ (Yes, I use comic book characters for testing... Don't judge)
  • nowarninglabel 16y ago
    Nice, I was just telling some college students about Appleseed yesterday when I gave a presentation about securing your online profile. I expressed that Appleseed, along with other competitors, would be a viable contender to Facebook (a couple years down the road). Prove me right =)
• benatkin 16y ago
  Not quite half-baked: http://benatkin.github.com/outliner.js http://benatkin.github.com/outliner.js Anywhere from just a name to README Driven Development[1] to the aforementioned: http://github.com/benatkin http://github.com/benatkin [1]: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...
• mmmmax 16y ago
  http://vol.ly http://vol.ly - Volly ~ Plans made easy An app to help friends get together quickly for casual events. iPhone app just released.
• vito 16y ago
  http://darcsden.com/ http://darcsden.com/ I fell in love with darcs (switched from git) and wanted a place to put my stuff, since github would no longer be of much use to me. So I made it. Right now I just add things as I need them, or think they'd be a good idea (like "ssh username@darcsden.com init reponame"). Been meaning to get around to built-in issue tracking, but I'm busy working on other projects. Source here: http://darcsden.com/alex/darcsden http://darcsden.com/alex/darcsden
  • danohuiginn 16y ago
    you should call it 'darcshed'. [darcs shed, with bonus darcs head]
• cvg 16y ago
  http://frutell.com http://frutell.com - Daily Deal Aggregator
• nicelios 16y ago
  http://www.goblabble.com http://www.goblabble.com Instant voice recording over the phone. Listen by phone or web.
• argon 16y ago
  http://www.distobs.org/ http://www.distobs.org/ Using the CCDs on Androids or iPhones to detect cosmic rays, and in the process making the world's largest cosmic ray telescope (see http://www.auger.org http://www.auger.org for the most similar big physics project). Unfortunately, this project has been dead for awhile now.
  • geuis 16y ago
    This is an absolutely fascinating idea. Why have you stopped working on it? I know that astronomy fans are a small subset of HN readers, but this is the most interesting project I've heard of in a while.
    • argon 16y ago
      Thanks! I just had too much on my plate at the time, and the hobby project got cut first. If you'd like to help with it, all the source is here: http://github.com/cloudchamber/Distributed-Observatory/ http://github.com/cloudchamber/Distributed-Observatory/
• slantyyz 16y ago
  Hacker News Safari Extension: http://github.com/braintapper/Hacker-News-Safari-Extension http://github.com/braintapper/Hacker-News-Safari-Extension My attempt at a prettified Safari Extension for reading HN - for fun, not money. Lets you star items, follow sources and or user submissions etc. Uses Safari's SQLite db to store stuff. Some explanation of how/why: http://blog.braintapper.com/update_hacker_news_safari_extension http://blog.braintapper.com/update_hacker_news_safari_extens... Only about halfway there, got busy with contract work. The source is all there if you want to build it though. Still buggy. Some edge cases are breaking my page scraping code (i.e. HN Poll items, etc.).
• softlaunched 16y ago
  Image-focused chat: http://popchat.org http://popchat.org
• tpwong 16y ago
  Granary (granary.heroku.com) Very much half-baked. Granary is sort of an online Access/Bento webapp. It started off with an emphasis on making data publicly available and editable (Wikipedia for data?), but that's faded into the background somewhat with private databases available. Probably ideal for small websites/non-technical people who want to make their data available via web interface and API (like a hosted database?). Feel free to signup with a fake email to mess around with it, this is the dev site (and also, the only site). Some simple examples of what it can do: * http://granary.heroku.com/public/pj8lF5uM http://granary.heroku.com/public/pj8lF5uM - pictures (of fruit) * http://granary.heroku.com/public/GKhdmAFt http://granary.heroku.com/public/GKhdmAFt - links (bookmarking) * http://granary.heroku.com/public/8aHsg1cZ http://granary.heroku.com/public/8aHsg1cZ - information (the planets) * http://granary.heroku.com/public/iiIPmf2H http://granary.heroku.com/public/iiIPmf2H - maps (quasi restaurant reviews) * http://granary.heroku.com/public/07meNTGa http://granary.heroku.com/public/07meNTGa - information (caltrain schedule, partial)
• ChristianMarks 16y ago
  This is more like unbaked: http://wallstdollar.com http://wallstdollar.com
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• dbingham 16y ago
  http://www.fridgetofood.com http://www.fridgetofood.com StackExchange meets TasteSpotting and hopefully, eventually LocalHarvest
  • hnkevin 16y ago
    holy mouse-clicks batman! that's an awesome site/project.. sending to the wife now
    • dbingham 16y ago
      Thanks :) I'm working on the second beta version and am almost ready to take it live.
  • mr_twj 16y ago
    If you ever want any help developing this or need someone to bounce a feature idea off of let me know.
• maneesh 16y ago
  http://nearestburrito.com http://nearestburrito.com - Enter your address, find a burrito
  • malyk 16y ago
    Worked perfectly for me! Burritos, yum!
  • r0s 16y ago
    This is amazing.
  • ydant 16y ago
    May I suggest using the W3C geolocation API to get the user's location and pre-populate that? It's Simple to get the Coordinates, and then you can probably use Google's geocode API to get the address. I just tried to use this while traveling and I don't really know my address.
    • natep 16y ago
      Agreed. I don't really see myself using this from my laptop, but if I could use my phone's already known location...
  • zackfern 16y ago
    Is there a way I can input burritos? I entered my address, and nothing came up. There's a great hole-in-the-wall not to far from here that'd be perfect.
• seanmccann 16y ago
  http://scoopbase.com http://scoopbase.com - It's just the landing page right now. Working hard tonight to get something people are use.
• Concours 16y ago
  http://www2.mcsquare.me http://www2.mcsquare.me
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• anildigital 16y ago
  http://planetrubyonrails.net/ http://planetrubyonrails.net/
• patio11 16y ago
  I actually didn't use source control back when I started, so I can't show you what it looked like on launch day, but this is what BCC looked like in February 2007. Static HTML, written in notepad. The web application wouldn't exist for another year yet, and the software shipped with less than 20 bingo card activities written (it now ships with about 1,000). http://www.bingocardcreator.com/old-site/index.htm http://www.bingocardcreator.com/old-site/index.htm Sales from February 2007 were about the same as my sales from today.
  • die_sekte 16y ago
    A classic case of worse is better.
    • techbio 16y ago
      http://www.snapspans.com/Baltimore-MD/Florists http://www.snapspans.com/Baltimore-MD/Florists Explanation: a big list of business info, in which the AdSense links are often the most useful, relevant content.
  • TheSOB88 16y ago
    Hm - are you saying your sales haven't grown, or that they've grown 28x?
    • patio11 16y ago
      http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month
• zenocon 16y ago
  http://biblioflip.com http://biblioflip.com -- just a landing page right now. this is a cross-platform (mac/linux/win) desktop elibrary app. drag-n-drop pdf, chm, etc. into it and it 'figures out' what the content is and populates all the meta-info (i.e. authors, isbn, publisher, cover image, etc.). edit meta-info in bulk. lightweight, clean ui, easy to use. will also have lucene full text search (todo). will also expose RESTful web service so that apps like Stanza on iPad can browse and d/l the content to the devices. i've been pouring my time into this from 8PM to 2-3AM on/off while not doing my day job. if anyone wants a peek, i can send you an installer. would love help building the website ;)
• alavrik 16y ago
  http://piqi.org http://piqi.org -- a better alternative to XML, JSON, CSV, S-expressions, etc.
• dprice1 16y ago
  http://www.propgrok.org/ http://www.propgrok.org/ -- A (nonpartisan) guide to 2010 California Propositions. I would appreciate any feedback, and I realize it's not too pretty. My bigger issue is that I'm at a loss as to how to get people to come visit the site since this is a hobby project. Any ideas?
  • hedgehog 16y ago
    Make it easy for someone with an opinion on an issue to type in their analysis and share it to Facebook (with a "more" link back to your site). Recently I've had several conversations about voting behavior, I think many people vote mostly based on advice from their friends. Maybe you can help the politically minded friends share their issues and in the process build a community for them.
    • dprice1 16y ago
      Took me a while, but I have that implemented! Thanks for the great suggestion.
• abrown28 16y ago
  http://destructivegenius.com/game2/ http://destructivegenius.com/game2/ right click to turn, left click to fire, 0 - 9 to set speed. It's just me playing around with node and canvas. I can't decide if I should spend the time on it to turn it into an actual game.
• oogoog 16y ago
  http://iijo.org http://iijo.org Chinese flashcards
• Swoopey 16y ago
  http://sayonarastuff.com http://sayonarastuff.com personal project for the expat community in Tokyo.... needs a lot of work, loads slowly, very buggy.
• makeramen 16y ago
  http://www.makeramen.com http://www.makeramen.com
• thedigitalengel 16y ago
  http://github.com/sanjoy/L http://github.com/sanjoy/L A call-by-name untyped lambda calculus evaluator. I have no clue what to do with it.
• lr 16y ago
  http://socialcorral.com/ http://socialcorral.com/ I can't say it's my worst work, but I never felt like it was ready to post to HN as a "Ask HN: Review my new...". But here it is...
  • netaddict 16y ago
    Looks useful and impressive. May be "Show details" should be "About Me". And instead of forcing "login\signup", a page allowing direct customization of the widget and embed code would be more impressive.
    • lr 16y ago
      Thanks for the feedback! "About Me" is a great suggestion, and I have always wanted to make a site that allows someone to be able to immediately start using the site without signing up. I should spend some time to figure out how to do that...
• icco 16y ago
  Uhm, This was about three hours worth of work, and never came back to it. http://prj-megan.heroku.com/ http://prj-megan.heroku.com/ source is here: http://github.com/icco/Project-Megan http://github.com/icco/Project-Megan. I have no doubt someone could blow this up.
• hedgehog 16y ago
  It's awesome to see so many building so much cool stuff. I just got lost for 20 minutes in benjoffe's site. Here are a few of mine: Track lunch debts (turns out I'd rather just buy people lunch but I got to play with some JS): http://lunchng.appspot.com/ http://lunchng.appspot.com/ Save clippings from web pages (2008, seems like someone builds one of these every six months, could use a refresh with ideas from http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com): http://www.clipng.com/ http://www.clipng.com/ Make Myst-like walkthroughs with photos you took (2009, might be fun for someone outside of real estate): http://www.pictourist.com/ http://www.pictourist.com/
  • cloudwalking 16y ago
    This pagestack thing looks cool, thanks!
  • techbio 16y ago
    Great! "someone builds one of these every six months" :) http://snapnotate.com/ http://snapnotate.com/ just might be available in 6 months then
  • richardw 16y ago
    Pictourist could be quite fun for seeing how others live. Imagine following a person in a foreign country around their guided tour...assuming it's different enough from your own!
• atomon 16y ago
  After spending a ton of time trying to think of a name for a web app, I spent a couple hours writing this short domain name generator. It's a bit buggy and it doesn't generate the world's greatest names, but it's something. http://shortdomains.heroku.com/ http://shortdomains.heroku.com/
• dustyreagan 16y ago
  http://memeoclock.com http://memeoclock.com - Stuff I find funny equipped with a "next" button.
• dteoh 16y ago
  http://hg.dteoh.com/treasuremap http://hg.dteoh.com/treasuremap It's a stand-alone version of Swing appframework 1.03's ResourceMap implementation. I didn't want to use their entire framework and also needed a few extra resource loaders.
• techbio 16y ago
  http://www.timetapper.com/ http://www.timetapper.com/
• techbio 16y ago
  http://www.abcredo.com/ http://www.abcredo.com/
• techbio 16y ago
  http://jectoo.com/ http://jectoo.com/
• kabuks 16y ago
  http://videoheatmaps.com http://videoheatmaps.com See which part of your youtube videos users are watching. A poor man's wistia.
• fudge 16y ago
  http://illustrend.com http://illustrend.com - Self hosted, real-time Erlang/GWT metrics system. Uses Munin plugins, log files, HTTP GET, or a TCP socket to get the metrics into the system. Drag and drop chart and trend-list building to get the data back out.
• mise 16y ago
  http://www.irishionary.com http://www.irishionary.com - a collaborative Irish dictionary. It's been up a couple of years now, but developing new bits is a pain in the ass specifically due to my complex implementation of a multi-lingual interface.
• bjhess 16y ago
  http://scrawlers.com http://scrawlers.com 100-word stories and workshopping. My first Rails project from 2007. http://pasteforward.com http://pasteforward.com A Sinatra project from over last weekend. Forward an email, get a reply with a private Pastie link. Working but not polished.
• rfugger 16y ago
  http://ripplepay.com/ http://ripplepay.com/ - mutual credit payments through a social network. First site I ever made 5 years ago, proud of it, but never really made it very usable or useful. Just started working on a rewrite so I can start adding new features, like a marketplace...
• jcfrei 16y ago
  http://askcue.com http://askcue.com a self-organizing stream of conversations, pretty useless since there's no traffic at the moment.
• mgz 16y ago
  http://emojiblog.com http://emojiblog.com - blogging for introverts. Waiting for my designer to make it nicer. And have to create a switch to make Sunday the first day of week instead of Monday for you americans:)
• davidmurphy 16y ago
  Murphy on Luxury: http://murphyonluxury.com http://murphyonluxury.com. Seeking to emulate the success of email newsletter verticals like DailyCandy & Thrillist, but with a refined editorial tone and a focus on luxury travel (news/reviews of resorts, hotels, spas, first class/private aviation, etc). High CPMs for this sort of audience (that's the goal at least), and it's a topic I love. I've focused most of the design on the email templates so far, so the website remains very alpha. Trying to decide whether to bootstrap or try to get F/F/F or angel/seed $. (DailyCandy, for example, apparently had $300K seed funding only later raised money from Bob Pittman (after 250K subscribers, I think I read).
• c00p3r 16y ago
  Diaspora
• kevinburke 16y ago
  http://rssafter5.appspot.com http://rssafter5.appspot.com
• rokhayakebe 16y ago
  http://contexium.com http://contexium.com business phone calls analytics
• bambax 16y ago
  Ok, I'll bite. It's a little app that lets you find Imdb scores and release years for movies: you type a list of titles in a textbox and it responds with info that you can then export as .csv It's in the form of a Chrome extension for now (because I want it to be a Chrome app as soon as possible) that you have to use on a specific page. The extension is here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bjkkhgcacicbgbknagdacnlnnckghajf https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bjkkhgcacicbgbkn... The page you use it from is here: http://moviemagic.adgent.com/ http://moviemagic.adgent.com/ I built it for a friend that has a big collection of movies on disks, that he has yet to watch, and who wanted to know which movies were worth his time. It still needs a lot of work, but I lack motivation to improve it since I don't watch many movies myself and the friend I built it for found it met his needs as is. But if anyone is interested I could go back to it.
• lenary 16y ago
  http://morethantheyneed.org http://morethantheyneed.org - it's a project for reporting rubygems that use >= in their dependencies (this is considered a faux pas)
• ericbb 16y ago
  http://norstrulde.org/tty/tty.html http://norstrulde.org/tty/tty.html An ASCII-art, note-taking, {box,line}-drawing thing. Was the first thing I made with Javascript. Drag-n-drop to draw. Type to insert text. Edit: I think Safari is the only browser it kind of works in.
• maserati 16y ago
  http://jamafriend.com/LargeMap.aspx http://jamafriend.com/LargeMap.aspx - a project I built during my free time and I'm still working on it.
• csomar 16y ago
  http://onlineqrlab.com http://onlineqrlab.com This is the first iteration. Actually re-coding it to fit into Fat-Free. Will add a decoder, other functionalities, a sharing tool... I really have nothing specific about it and will see how it goes and will decide later. Grabbing the QrCodes that get coded and seeing what people are looking for ;) this would help me later on deciding my QrCode product.
• dclaysmith 16y ago
  This belongs more in a "Ask HN: Show us your 'dead on the vine' projects": http://www.jooque.com/d_clay_smith/band_of_horses_everything_all_the_time/184/ http://www.jooque.com/d_clay_smith/band_of_horses_everything... You could play videos and keep searching while the video played, make and share playlists, etc. It stopped working when YouTube started muting copyright songs and then made some tweaks to their API and now there are dozens of similar sites so never had any real drive to fix it. That was 3 years ago. It was one of my first php and ajaxy projects and is a bit dreadful code wise. It wouldn't have taken anytime to improve it and who knows, if I had kept it in running order it might have done something. As it is, I think I made about ten bucks in Adwords and Amazon affiliate money...
• user24 16y ago
  http://www.gifexplode.com http://www.gifexplode.com is pretty half baked, I've never put enough effort into tidying it up, but it does the job, and reddit love it (~30k uniques/month, mostly due to reddit spikes).
• danielh 16y ago
  http://analytics4i.appspot.com http://analytics4i.appspot.com Access your Google Analytics account from the iPhone. More prototype than half baked
• ewjordan 16y ago
  One of my first programming projects, a physics game done with Processing: http://www.ewjordan.com/RGBApplet/ http://www.ewjordan.com/RGBApplet/ (warning, that link is a Java applet, don't blame me if your browser crashes!) Buggy as hell (won't work if you reload the page, I think the applet viewer doesn't reset statics?), and really rough. Probably one of the toughest control schemes imaginable.
• zackattack 16y ago
  http://readerluv.com/ http://readerluv.com/ - yes, that's R Kelly on the home page
• teh 16y ago
  http://gitblogs.com/ http://gitblogs.com/ - there is a long to-do list and I'm still working on it at least once a week. Not investing too much energy though.
• chrischen 16y ago
  http://Like.fm http://Like.fm - people always ask me how is it different from last.fm. It's a work in progress so frankly at the moment not too much, but there will be!
• zimro 16y ago
  D*&n, this is why I love this place, overwhelming creativity. My entry would be http://listward.com http://listward.com . Still much left to do.
• c1sc0 16y ago
  http://pitchpower.appspot.com http://pitchpower.appspot.com
• danparsonson 16y ago
  http://dambr.com http://dambr.com - a quick and simple RSS/Atom feed reader I'm writing to replace Bloglines when it dies at the end of the month.
• savrajsingh 16y ago
  Http://hitbio.com - your bio in your search hits. Search for yourself, tag and reorganize the results, and share. Solves problem of people searching for you and not being sure about which results apply to you.
• terra_t 16y ago
  http://ookaboo.com/ http://ookaboo.com/ I've got an amazing image acquisition pipeline that finds thousands of images a day with little human intervention, but there's barely any user-visible categorization, the navigation sux, the full text search sux, and there's a lot of infrastructral stuff that sux too, but at least you can't see it. Not only that, but to make the site successful I need to promote it to the sky. I expect to chip away at some of those issues over the next year or so.
  • iamgoat 16y ago
    I really like this site! Good job.
• bluedevil2k 16y ago
  http://nxtpass.com http://nxtpass.com A web app that handles two-factor authentication systems for web sites that want to add it. Let's you use an API to generate a password that gets SMS'ed or voice called to your user, then let's you validate what they typed. I figured if Google, Facebook, and Chase banks have them, then many other sites will want them too. And they don't want (or know how) to do it themselves. Tough to market though.
• hvdm 16y ago
  http://www.weathermap.eu/ http://www.weathermap.eu/ Weather forecast based on free data. Only rain forecast for now. I had (still have) plans to make it much better with wind, temperature etc., nicer graphics, better animation and an Android App. I am working on too many other side project, but I hope to start working on this one soon again.
• lnanek 16y ago
  http://bunnyland-tactics.appspot.com/ http://bunnyland-tactics.appspot.com/ It's a two player, turn based, web strategy game. It's like Stratego, but with bunnies instead of soldiers, and fog of war instead of not being able to see what a piece is. It's my first AppEngine app, so a lot of it was just learning to use the Data Store, which is quite different from the RDBMSs that I'm used to. Source code and screenshots are available here: http://code.google.com/p/bunnyland-tactics/ http://code.google.com/p/bunnyland-tactics/
• sga 16y ago
  http://www.antiqueway.com http://www.antiqueway.com - antique store listings with a dose of mapping. The ultimate goal is to have pricing for improved listings (description, couple pics, link to website) and tiered pricing for the listing of antiques that the antique store has for sale. Example of a site doing the former is www.antiquesincanada.com and the latter www.sellingantiques.co.uk/ I think the main challenges here are SEO and pounding the pavement. If you have any thoughts or ideas for improvement, fire away!
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• iisbum 16y ago
  http://www.iwatchedit.com http://www.iwatchedit.com -- easy way to track the movies that you've seen and what you thought of them
• pistoriusp 16y ago
  http://billable.co.za http://billable.co.za It's getting there - Despite design I'm practically the only person working on it. Desperately trying to finish paying jobs so that I can get it done.
• maresca 16y ago
  http://www.openpoll.us/ http://www.openpoll.us/ openpoll is an electronic direct democracy that will allow Americans to vote on state and federal bills and elections. It is currently in development and has been for the past 2 years (I work on it in my spare time as getting funding isn't a viable option). I am in the data acquisition stage right now. That means writing parsers to pull legislation information from every state's website. As of right now, the site isn't much more than a UI slapped on top of a DB. It has registration, basic voting, and commenting. I would like to hear any potential ideas from the internet community for this site. I plan on having beta testing in the first quarter of 2011. Some point after that, I will open source the code. Then I will add a Web API that will allow smartphone applications to be built. And if I get enough traction, eventually turn my LLC into a non-profit. My target market is every single American. My eventual goal is to turn phone booths into voting booths. Pretty lofty goals, but I believe it will make America a much better place.
• epi0Bauqu 16y ago
  http://watrcoolr.us/ http://watrcoolr.us/ - most discussed news in a few min http://hacker.watrcoolr.us/ http://hacker.watrcoolr.us/ - hacker version
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• miGlanz 16y ago
  http://www.gatcka.com http://www.gatcka.com It's a simple discussion board, w/o registration, very (too?) clean.
• pornel 16y ago
  http://pornel.net/gamejam/ http://pornel.net/gamejam/
• josegonzalez 16y ago
  http://github.com/josegonzalez/git-php http://github.com/josegonzalez/git-php Crappy re-implementation of git-web in php. Yes, I realize it looks like github. Yes, I realize the code is from various existing frameworks/blogs. But git internals are so cool!
• bgrohman 16y ago
  Bizzybe - http://bizzybe.com/ http://bizzybe.com/ This is my first project using Web.py. I wanted to get a feel for the framework and see how difficult it would be to build a minimalist twitter-like site. Not sure if I'm going to give it any more time.
  • bgrohman 16y ago
    I'm the only user so far: http://bizzybe.com/bgrohman/ http://bizzybe.com/bgrohman/
• rb2k_ 16y ago
  It's not a real "startup" type of project, but these are some of my half-finished projects that I'd like to bring to a stable and releasable point some time: ----------------- At http://blog.marc-seeger.de/ http://blog.marc-seeger.de/ , I'm trying to get a blog based on serious (http://github.com/colszowka/serious http://github.com/colszowka/serious) (ruby, sinatra + flat files) up and running. I don't seem to find the time (or muse) to keep doing some improvements such as: - start adding more CSS and beef up the HTML semantically - publish some new papers (e.g. my M.Sc. thesis) - Introduce tags - Create a cellphone-friendly version by just using CSS3 media queries ------------------ http://fitness.marc-seeger.de/category/joggen http://fitness.marc-seeger.de/category/joggen (aka: http://github.com/rb2k/run-a-log http://github.com/rb2k/run-a-log ) is another side project that works, but could need some polish. I scratched my own itch after I couldn't find a simple way to visualize gpx files recorded with my cellphone (simple = just upload via scp) ------------------ http://github.com/rb2k/viddl-rb http://github.com/rb2k/viddl-rb A plugin-extendable commandline downloader for video sites. Currently does Youtube, Vimeo and Megavideo. I basically hacked it together and never got arround to properly document or package it... :(
• kolinko 16y ago
  ohMore.com - it's supposed to be a health tracker, but with a new kind of input. You write down everything in plain text and let the system behind it generate stats etc. Something like twitter, but with no followers.. Or like wolfram-alpha, but remembering the user. Currently I'm gathering various kinds of inputs and trying to find some free time to implement first analysis (caffeine intake & spendings). I worked with bots & ai before, so hopefully I know what I'm doing :) what do you think?
  • Mz 16y ago
    If you can get it to deliver the stats, I like it a lot and will be happy to promote it on my health site.
    • kolinko 16y ago
      thanks! I'll get back to you once it actually works.
• dpapathanasiou 16y ago
  http://www.stealthmodewatch.com/ http://www.stealthmodewatch.com/ Just four days after I "soft-launched" by telling a few friends, the site wound up on TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/04/stealth-mode-watch-another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-stealth/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/04/stealth-mode-watch-another-...), and now I'm adding more features with the goal of creating a freemium/pro-upgrade business model.
• tcc619 16y ago
  http://nextsprocket.com http://nextsprocket.com Pay and get paid to complete open source tasks, bugs, etc. We are having trouble figuring out why the idea is not catching on. Is it fundamentally the idea of paying for open source, the traction or other?
  • sgrove 16y ago
    Fixing bugs is a much less glamourous task than implementing features, and people aren't as inclined to take on the dull and frustrating task of fixing other's mistakes. Beyond payment, how do you build up the pride and reputation of bug-fixers? How do you make them heroes in the community? Or rather, just heroes in general?
    • tcc619 16y ago
      I thought of the application as a way for freelancers to get paid for relatively short tasks in between jobs while helping the open source community. The site isn't geared just for bug fixes. It's any task for any open source project that needs to be done for a price. For example, this recent task http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/python-for-enunciate http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/python-for-enunciate wants to port enunciate from ruby to python.
  • flapjack 16y ago
    A major problem with it for me is the high complexity to low pay for most of the projects I see.
• endlessvoid94 16y ago
  ThatHigh.com - pun intended!
• ideamonk 16y ago
  I'm toying with a gmail chat backup/offline sync tool, calling it Gattic - gmail chats attic. PoC is ready, yet to glue it to the gui and resolve some issues with UI. http://appstokill.com http://appstokill.com
• neilxdsouza 16y ago
  Can you take the create table sql statements and create a complete web application? I.e. sql queries ( if there are foreign key relationships - automatically construct the inner joins ?) to insert, view, update then expose the SQL queries in the target language (my target language is C++) as an API which can be called from the Business layer, automatically construct the User interface ( for example - Web UI/ Text UI (ncurses ui) / GUI ) and retarget it for any database ? If you marked the fields in the create table statements as "search_key" can you automatically add the search facility in the sql stored procedure all the way up to the UI. That's what my application is trying to do: Target language=C++, target UI = Web UI using wt, target database = postgres git://github.com/neilxdsouza/codehelper.git Currently it generates a makefile in the output directory which compiles with a Wt (witty) UI which can be run as a standalone web server. Still a work in progress - I've done it in C++ - but you need not be restricted to C++ (You should be able to emit code in any language once you have parsed the modified sql grammar which my parser already does). Sample inputs available in the inputs folder. To see the Web UI working you need wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt) and the extjs-2.1 library
  • ntoshev 16y ago
    Rails scaffolding does this for Rails. You need to provide a way to implement custom functionality on these pages though.
• donohoe 16y ago
  http://beta621.com/projects/dayinpictures/ http://beta621.com/projects/dayinpictures/
• crawshaw 16y ago
  http://www.estful.com/ http://www.estful.com/ A site for recipes. No-one uses it, and I feel that it needs a lot more work.
• Chico 16y ago
  www.faceflow.com - Mix of desktop programs like Skype and online website like ChatRoulette. Still some bugs to fix right now and improvements coming.
• frankus 16y ago
  http://3wdm.blogspot.com/ http://3wdm.blogspot.com/
• natep 16y ago
  Nobody's going to look at my response at this point, but github.com/nsp/JSkills So far it's just a port of Microsoft Research's TrueSkill rating algorithm. Next up is to learn SQL so I can test the accuracy of the algorithm, and once that's done, a web site to allow you to track games with friends (I'll probably end up porting it again to Python or Ruby)
• pontifier 16y ago
  http://www.crossies.com http://www.crossies.com is a media marketplace. It is very ugly, but try it out and let me know what you think. Each of the codes below will allow you to create an account with an initial balance of $10 on the site. They are one time use so first come first served.<br> T2S6DUTW XYF9ZYR6 BP5T5CX5 WMDWXGWF 9ECCZWZN K7MBV47X G3GC658T GCE6J3BH 7DMWZCAB 9MDVFBHP
• zeemonkee 16y ago
  http://whatsmycallsign.appspot.com/ http://whatsmycallsign.appspot.com/ When you're on the phone and you need to spell your name, address etc. It will print out the international call sign (Alpha, Delta, Lima etc). Took me about 30 mins or so, running on Google App Engine but almost all JavaScript. Was going to make it into an Android app instead as a learning exercise, but never got round to it.
• smackjer 16y ago
  http://www.twackit.com http://www.twackit.com Track any numeric metric over time using your Twitter account. People have used to to track their weight, mpg, jogging, movie ratings, etc. Most of the users right now are Japanese, tracking their "hakaru diet" (whatever that is). Here's an example report: http://www.twackit.com/yishibashi01/hakarudiet http://www.twackit.com/yishibashi01/hakarudiet
• oms2010 16y ago
  http://www.organizemysearch.com http://www.organizemysearch.com I developed organizemysearch.com after being tired of keeping tons of car ads and notes all over the place while I was looking for a used car a few years ago. I wanted an application that will let me enter all the data I wanted to keep track of when searching for something (eg. color, miles, make) and later be able to quickly and easily sort through everything so I can compare things based on my priorities. The idea is to let you compare properties of items you are considering buying across multiple websites. It's a shopping comparison tool The official definition from the website is this: "organizemysearch.com helps you organize your searches, keep track of them, and provide you quick tools to sort and display all the information your are considering when making a final decision. In other words it helps you manage searching for information in the real world, regardless of what you are actually searching for." The project is public but I have been caught up with other projects recently and didn't get around to market it (part of it being that the app falls into the caregory of 'people don't know it's useful until they use it'.
• pretz 16y ago
  http://alex.turnlav.net/yarg/ http://alex.turnlav.net/yarg/ OS X interface for rsync. One of those pet projects I never found the time to give the polish it needs. Github: http://github.com/Pretz/Yarg http://github.com/Pretz/Yarg
• sjs382 16y ago
  http://isshort.com http://isshort.com I wrote a blog post about it here: http://sjstrutt.com/is-short http://sjstrutt.com/is-short
• gschorno 16y ago
  http://www.pixiim.com http://www.pixiim.com
  • gschorno 16y ago
    Here's a screenshot: http://www.pixiim.com/images/screenshot_hn_small.jpg http://www.pixiim.com/images/screenshot_hn_small.jpg
• zszugyi 16y ago
  I just started mine recently, uploaded the first version on heroku yesterday. I got the initial idea from challenge.greplin.com. http://codingchallenge.heroku.com http://codingchallenge.heroku.com
• dpritchett 16y ago
  http://dpritchett.github.com/chatbox/ http://dpritchett.github.com/chatbox/ I had an idea to build a chatroom-flavored MUD that is played through the browser. There's a live demo on no.de that you can find at the top of the docs. I've currently paralyzed myself with a desire to reimplement the backend in other languages including Clojure. The Node development cycle is really fast though - getting onto the JVM has slowed me down.
• thedangler 16y ago
  www.campusdl.com goto the course planner part
• nreece 16y ago
  Weekis - http://weekis.com http://weekis.com A Minimal, Unobtrusive and Focused Week Planner.
• redrory 16y ago
  http://www.Filmbet.com http://www.Filmbet.com
• slowpoison 16y ago
  A bit late to the party, but here's mine. It's an online shop list management web-app. It's not open to the public. You'll need to send me your email address for me to set you up an account. http://shopsmart.lifeinlists.net http://shopsmart.lifeinlists.net PS: ShopSmart needs a Google account to work. So, whatever email you send needs to be associated with a Google account.
• ajayjapan 16y ago
  http://www.croowd.com/ http://www.croowd.com/ A search engine that allows you to check-in and comment on sites in search results -> can you be the future mayor of hacker news? Essentially Google + Foursquare. Suggestions welcomed.