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Ask HN: Who launched something in December?
I was impressed by the work done for "Launch an App Month" in November: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398
and the results: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962465
So, I thought it might be time to ask again. What products were launched by HNers in December?
- hugonsantos 16y agohttp://mydogbarks.com http://mydogbarks.com For dog owners: Dogs barking all over the web
- kylebragger 16y agoHeh, I barely missed the mark, but just launched Facto.me (http://facto.me http://facto.me)
- mbenjaminsmith 16y agohttp://www.getvectorpro.com http://www.getvectorpro.com It's an iPhone app that does raster to vector conversion similar to Adobe Live Trace. It started out with a friend saying 'I want an app that does this'. My response was 'ok, cool' and then 'wow, I have absolutely no idea how'. It was challenging and lots of fun (what more can you ask for). I used a computer vision library for some of the image filtering but ended up having to write the blob extraction algorithm from scratch. The final version (the one that shipped) came to me in a bout of insomnia. I actually had it out a few days before Xmas and found a bug that had somehow made it through my testing (and Apple's) and made the unpleasant decision of pulling it until it was sorted. Since they lock down over Xmas I missed the best sales of the year. The fixed version went up just a few hours after iTC went back online (they were graciously fast approving the fixed version).
- cloudwalking 16y agoOut of curiosity, what's the point of doing this on the phone?
- mbenjaminsmith 16y agoI find it useful for two things: I use it for digitizing sketches when I'm out of the house (I use my iPhone more than a laptop when I'm out). Tracing is an inexact (lossy) process so I appreciate the tight feedback loop of drawing/tracing. I use it at home too (instead of Live Trace) since it handles photos better. Live Trace really expects even lighting to get usable results (scanner is the easiest way) whereas I've designed this specifically to handle photos from the iPhone's camera. I don't have (or want) a scanner so the photograph->sync->place->trace->repeat process I was going through with Illustrator got a bit tedious. That's not where the idea of the app came from but what I had in mind when I designed it.
- car 16y agoCongratulations, great Job! I once wrote such a program for Atari ST computers, and recall vividly how challenging and fun it was. It was called Convector, and could tie into a bitmap/vector drawing program that friends had written (called Arabesque). This was with 4 MB of RAM :) It also used outlining, which you seem to use too, judging from the Vectorpro demo video. Do you convert into Bezier curves?
- mbenjaminsmith 16y agoI can't remember the lineup (where the ST fit in) but I learned how to program on an Atari 400. I'll never forget jamming my fingers into that terrible 'membrane keyboard'. I spent much more of my time playing Star Raiders though. It does convert the polygons to Bezier curves in the last step, although you can turn that off by changing the 'Curve' parameter to zero. Thanks, happy New Year
- jcfrei 16y agohttp://0x01.in http://0x01.in nothing big - just an online sketch pad that looks like an old terminal.
- thinkcomp 16y agohttp://www.facecash.com http://www.facecash.com We released integrated bill splitting and coupons on the FaceCash iPhone application, soon to follow on Android and BlackBerry.
- railsjedi 16y agohttp://www.heroscale.com http://www.heroscale.com Allows easy autoscaling of heroku dynos and workers. It's in for some major updates in early jan as well (realtime autoscaling, better pricing model).
- shykes 16y agohttp://dotcloud.com http://dotcloud.com An application hosting platform for any language, any database. We host a whole bunch of HN and YC products.
- swax 16y agohttp://www.locacha.com http://www.locacha.com A seamless chat room that connects you to the 30 closest people geographically. No sign up and anonymous.
- audyyy 16y agohttp://www.haikuwik.com http://www.haikuwik.com I wouldn't call it a launch but I made it during my break. It's microblogging for haikus.
- terryjsmith 16y agohttp://www.thumbomatic.com/ http://www.thumbomatic.com/ An API based website thumbnail service with Amazon like pricing and without random or account based size restrictions.
- niles 16y agohttp://app.timessquareball.net http://app.timessquareball.net Launched and went off without a hitch. Should be good fun for years to come.. (suggestions for next year welcome!)
- sep 16y agohttp://bitorama.com http://bitorama.com a Hacker News-like site in Hebrew. Did this as a learning excercise and it's yet to pick up steam. Israeli HNers, where are you?
- quizbiz 16y agoThere's a good number of Israeli tech/biz guys on Twitter. Spread the word there. Be'hatzlacha
- sep 16y agoThanks. I put the feed of the site on twitter, but I haven't found the magic formula to pull attention to it. Ideas and paticipation are welcome! My contact details are at the website.
- iisbum 16y agoNot fully launched yet, but it is in private beta: http://www.mubdo.com/ http://www.mubdo.com/
- JamesDB 16y agohttp://www.carbuzz.co.uk http://www.carbuzz.co.uk - Not strictly launched in Dec, but v.late November. A site to make it easier for people to choose which new car to buy.
- Staydecent 16y agoI launched http://www.cookitlocal.com http://www.cookitlocal.com (serving Metro Vancouver only right now) Dec 21st. I've got a couple users, but found it much easier to get people to sign up for a newsletter I ran to promote the site. The newsletter offered seasonal recipes and links to find the required ingredients locally.
- joshkaufman 16y agoI launched a business book: "The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business." Basically, business fundamentals for hackers. http://personalmba.com/personal-mba-book-launch/ http://personalmba.com/personal-mba-book-launch/
- coffeedrinker 16y agoI stand guilty of Fresh Faces app http://itunes.apple.com/app/id407376811 http://itunes.apple.com/app/id407376811 for iOS and http://headthirst.com http://headthirst.com as the rally point. Have the whole suite of Faces apps waiting approval.
- ismaelsow 16y agoI launched http://typeroulette.com http://typeroulette.com : a fun way to practice touch typing using tweets. Now, I need to spread the word!
- Kilimanjaro 16y agohttp://boog.me http://boog.me Disposable email accounts. Give any email@boog.me and go check your inbox for the email you need, then forget about it. We take care of all the spam they will send you. Keep your real inbox spam free!
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoBtw we should do this the first day of every month to give some exposure to all projects developed by HN members.
- austinbirch 16y agohttp://musicmenu.heroku.com/ http://musicmenu.heroku.com/ I created and launched MusicMenu in the last few days of December, it's just a little weekend project. You design a three course menu of music for others to listen to.
- ndbw000 16y agohttp://vbseed.com/ http://vbseed.com/ Relaunched vBulletin Skins website
- sudhirj 16y agohttp://mapfaire.com http://mapfaire.com Business map creation app
- pontifier 16y agohttp://www.ToDoWiki.com http://www.ToDoWiki.com I hope it will become a place where people can find ready made to do lists for a wide variety of common events and situations.
- cheald 16y agohttp://1r7.net/ http://1r7.net/ Not technically inspired by Launch An App Month; when the story about Delicious broke, I sat down and write a clone that evening. First line of code to launch was < 24 hours.
- itay 16y agoWe launched WikiPanda, what we believe to be the best Wikipedia browser for the Windows Phone: http://wiki.pandabits.com http://wiki.pandabits.com
- ttrashh 16y agoJust downloaded it. Nice work! My only constructive criticism would be to make the text a little bigger in some areas.
- combiclickwise 16y agoI launched http://www.dealzfull.com http://www.dealzfull.com in November and http://www.readevery.com http://www.readevery.com in December HNers had a ton of feedback for ReadEvery. Now I am implementing them one by one
- whiskers 16y agohttp://flightlite.com http://flightlite.com - live flight tracker with Google Earth integration.
- koichirose 16y agoI launched http://www.dinnerdiner.com/ http://www.dinnerdiner.com/ It's my very first Rails project: a service that helps you find restaurants close to you (using HTML5 Geolocation API and the very good geokit-rails gem). Suggestions and reviews appreciated :)
- quickprez 16y agohttp://QuickPrez.com http://QuickPrez.com Share and comment documents in real time with your website visitors.
- stephenou 16y agohttp://ohboard.com http://ohboard.com - Basically, a piece of whiteboard, but for Google Chrome. It is my attempt to learn more about the business aspect because I've been developing stuff but barely handles serious business matter. So I am trying to get better and better on marketing, promotion, customer service, etc.
- fezzl 16y agohttp://zuupy.com http://zuupy.com - Group deals add-on for retailers