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Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
I'm getting ready to launch my first rails app, and I thought it would be interesting to hear about the software projects people are developing. It's amazing and inspiring to see what problems people are solving through software. So, what product or app have you developed or are you working on? It can be anything from a full-blown startup to a small side-project to a quick hack.
- drew82 14y agohttp://www.sofreakinannoying.com http://www.sofreakinannoying.com - a place to vent
- alvins 14y agoWorking on a personal finance startup here in Sydney, Australia - https://www.pocket.bo/ok https://www.pocket.bo/ok
- dotmanish 14y agoMobile Data Collection for the Vernacular Languages world: MobQuery : http://www.mobquery.com http://www.mobquery.com
- Nomon 14y agoRecord and share your gameplay http://everyplay.com http://everyplay.com launched just a few days ago.
- dakoller 14y agoWorking on http://rapidslides.com http://rapidslides.com - a way generate business presentations based on visual input such as photos, whiteboards, flip charts & sketches. We use your CI / your website as basis and deliver the result back to you in max. 24h.
- yamalight 14y agoWe're doing some crazy AI-powered music recommendation service based on user location, activity, mood and some other stuff.
- mheap 14y agoWe're working on a realtime filtering engine for Twitter. Think "gmail filters + labels", but for Twitter. http://tweetdig.com http://tweetdig.com
- d0m 14y agoI help families finding home-care help for their loved ones.
- jjets718 14y agoThanks for your response! What you're doing sounds very rewarding and interesting. I'm assuming that the families you are helping have loved ones who are elderly or may suffer from conditions that prevent them from properly taking care of themselves. Is this the market you're addressing?
- urthen 14y agoIt's always nice to hear about someone doing some real, hands-on good. Keep it up!
- gawker 14y agoKudos to you! Are you working as an agent-basis or developing some software?
- wj 14y agoI created and am continually improving Indie Intern which is software intended to help filmmakers go from script through production. http://www.indieintern.com http://www.indieintern.com You didn't say what you were working on.
- urthen 14y agoHey, this looks fun! If only I had time to actually work on the movie I wanted to make :-)
- jjets718 14y agoThanks for sharing your site. I'm not someone who produces or films movies, but I do have some friends that enjoy making movies. I'm working on an application called PillHQ, which will be a reminder service to help people remember to take their medications.
- ReKognition 14y agoWe just launched our ReKognition API - best Face.com alternative. (Face Detection/Recognition, plus Gender)& Scene Understanding. And, will launch our 1st App by the end of this Month. http://rekognition.com/ http://rekognition.com/
- tsumnia 14y agoI was playing with your demo page and was curious, how do you handle gender classification? Follow-up would be what are you results in broad ethnicity recognition (based on what I've seen, I can tell you at least tried it). Any attempts into age?
- ReKognition 14y agoThanks for testing our api. We have trained our system so that it knows typical/common female and male facial features. Our machine learning algorithm will generate a score from 0.0 to1.0 representing gender. We are still tuning our age and emotion recognition. We will release (most likely in just a couple of weeks) it when we feel it's good and reliable enough for public use.
- Ride120 14y agoWow...that is something bit interesting and i would love to use this API in near future
- jjets718 14y agoIt's great to see a service like ReKognition offering a Face Recognition API in the wake of Face.com closure. Keep on doing what you're doing!
- ReKognition 14y agoIt's really encouraging to hear you saying so! Also, we will launch age detection and FB training API soon. Your feedback is always welcome.
- pjnewton 14y agoI'm working on creating a "School of Crossfit" http://wodacademy.com http://wodacademy.com to bring functional fitness and nutrition to those who don't have the time or the funds to pay for high quality personal training.
- tnorthcutt 14y agoInteresting. I'd suggest focusing more on benefits (get in shape, feel better, whatever) that "learn about the WOD" on your splash page.
- pjnewton 14y agoYeah I agree... I'm still working through the concept and I've landed on the Coadcademy for Fitness and Nutrition.
- jjets718 14y agoNice! I'm looking forward to see WODAcademy launch.
- factorialboy 14y agoReview19 - http://review19.com http://review19.com - Collaborative decision making for teams
- jjets718 14y agoThanks for sharing. Review19 looks interesting and the site design is fantastic. Keep up the great work!
- Ride120 14y agoI am working on creating a service called "Visifoo" at http://www.visifoo.com http://www.visifoo.com and its a service which will help you find correct answer online.
- spydertennis 14y agoAdd filters to your facebook photos and mail photo postcards. http://airbrush.io http://airbrush.io
- jjets718 14y agoThis looks pretty cool; thanks for sharing!
- urthen 14y agoJust finished the minimum viable prototype for a identity and permissions brokering network: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLU1TJmMSjo&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLU1TJmMSjo&feature=plcp I'll be initially offering services such as single sign on and aggregated micropayments... think being able to charge as low as $0.25 / month / user for your service, without requiring users to sign up for a long period (which can hurt signup rates) or being hit with a $0.30 fee per transaction. You can poke at the first demo yourself at http://prototype.projectmaelstrom.com http://prototype.projectmaelstrom.com
- jjets718 14y agoNeat. What types of scenarios do you see where site owners would be looking to charge people very low prices for software like $0.25/month?
- urthen 14y agoMy first target market will not necessarily be for software, but for subscriptions to content. I'm thinking webcomics, small online news outlets, professional blogs, etc. Anywhere that is traditionally supported by advertising.
- jjets718 14y agoAh, okay. That makes sense and sounds like it has the potential to be pretty lucrative.
- lsiebert 14y agoI'm working on advertising supported niche tools/game aides on Android. Though honestly, that's more a vehicle to build my resume.
- jjets718 14y agoThat sounds good. Building apps to boost your resumé is never a bad thing.
- VuongN 14y agoI'm working http://officecheese.com http://officecheese.com, a community on a mission to help increase smile count in the work environment through funny jokes as well as resources on how to be funny and stay positive.
- jjets718 14y agoVery nice! I think this could help out lots of different offices.
- matvoz 14y agoWorking on "helping you drive economically, everywhere". http://www.mylpg.eu http://www.mylpg.eu
- jjets718 14y agoThis looks like a great tool. I think changing the domain name might be a good idea since some people may not infer that mylpg = miles per gallon.
- kevinrpope 14y agonitpicking: mylpg = my Liquified Petroleum Gas, as this is a site for lpg-fueled cars. Also, given the context of the site (x stations in Europe, .eu TLD), it's unlikely he'd want 'mpg' in the domain name as Europeans don't use miles or gallons.
- gqgy 14y agoWill soon be launching site with information on products releasing in the future and to gauge level of anticipation of people. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379664 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379664 Wish you the best of luck with your app!
- jjets718 14y agoThanks for the kind words! What you're working on sounds neat; is it focused more on tech products than physical products?
- sprobertson 14y agoA meta-startup, rapid web application development for early stage entrepreneurs. Prontotype - http://prontotype.us/ http://prontotype.us/
- jjets718 14y agoThanks for sharing! What do you mean by rapid web application development? Does Prontotype have a drag-and-drop interface or does it involve programming?
- sprobertson 14y agoWell Prontotype isn't a product, it's a service -- we do the web development (rapidly) for clients.
- bharani_m 14y agoResumonk - http://www.resumonk.com http://www.resumonk.com - Beautifully simple online resume builder
- jjets718 14y agoWow, the design for Resumonk is beautiful and the functionality looks great as well. May I recommend requiring people to pay for the product up-front instead of doing a free offering? I feel business-wise that freemium might not be as profitable. Of course though, I could be wrong!
- adam-_- 14y agoI'm still assessing the viability of a new social media analytics and monitoring solution - http://twitcherhq.com http://twitcherhq.com
- anujkk 14y agoI was thinking that I have seen that design somewhere and I was right. https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/its-beta-landing-page-WB00G9306 https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/its-beta-landing-page-WB00G9...
- adam-_- 14y agoYes I needed something To get started quickly. I highly recommend buying a template.
- jjets718 14y agoThanks for your comment! This looks interesting, but I think the market you're trying to enter is fairly crowded.
- adam-_- 14y agoIt is but my hypothesis is that most products are aimed for large businesses and not easy to use/buy for smaller companies (I could still be wrong - we'll see).
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- wallawe 14y agoRecommended --> margin-top: -7px (I think) on your signup button
- adam-_- 14y agoThanks, I will check this out.
- fezzl 14y agoWe are a daily deal platform. We host Groupon clones: http://www.zuupy.com http://www.zuupy.com.
- freshfey 14y agointeresting, do you have any revenue?
- fezzl 14y agoCertainly, and growing too.
- wallawe 14y agoSince most of the people who are going to be your customers will likely not be in the business long (let's be realistic), why not charge a large up front fee for them to purchase the software as opposed to letting them pay a monthly subscription? The daily deal business is extremely difficult (I work at livingsocial) and most of those clones won't last more than a couple months.
- fezzl 14y agoBecause that's not in our interest long term. If we charge upfront a large amount (and inevitable disincentivize ourselves from providing great support and upgrade to them thereafter -- which are crucial since it's an "extremely difficult" business), we will get negative word of mouth that will not be great for our sales and marketing.
- jjets718 14y agoThis looks great. I'm curious as to how long on average people who sign up for your site stay with it? Thanks for sharing, and the best of luck with your venture!
- fezzl 14y agoIt varies greatly, but most stay for at least 3 months, empirically.
- hemantv 14y agoWe are online test and interview platform. http://simplyhire.in/ http://simplyhire.in/
- Ecio78 14y agoService Temporarily Unavailable
- hemantv 14y agoSorry for unavailable. I am in process of moving the website to new datacenter. You can check back in 12 hours. I don't know why linode is so slow for traferring machine.
- jjets718 14y agoThe site is still down for me, but I'm looking forward to checking it out. Thanks for sharing!
- splatcollision 14y agoEdit Room is the fastest way to build production-ready responsive web design prototypes. http://www.edit-room.com http://www.edit-room.com Solo founder, bootstrapping in my spare time. Rails and lots and lots of Javascript. Ask me anything!
- jjets718 14y agoVery cool! How many paying customers do you have, if you don't mind me asking?
- wallawe 14y agoReally cool, you should re-post as "show HN" (recommend later in the day) and make an effort to get exposure on the front page.
- splatcollision 14y agoThanks, look for it in a couple of weeks at the latest.
- viniciusfbm 14y agoGuchex is a free social platform intended for knowledge exchange between Professionals, Students, Scientists, Researchers and Geeks in general. http://www.guchex.com http://www.guchex.com Self-funded, bootstrapping , 7 partners
- caw 14y agoI'm working on a side project where you can configure various Linux server setups by answering a few questions. It will automatically generate the proper config files and install the software for you. Similar to AWS Marketplace, but more geared towards single installs for dev or production servers.
- jjets718 14y agoWhat you're working on sounds like it will make hosting much easier. Keep up the great work!
- parthshah 14y agoI am working on social recruiting solution here is the link http://yayaid.phpfogapp.com http://yayaid.phpfogapp.com
- alliem 14y agoSeedTG is like a wider breadth yC clone focused on transgender founders, and is designed to bring down the high unemployment rate in the transgender community as a long term side effect of helping trans-owned businesses become successful. Seedtg.com/wordpress
- true_religion 14y agoHelping you make fact-based trading decisions at TradingClearly - http://tradingclearly.com/ http://tradingclearly.com/
- tdorrance 14y agohttp://neufit.com http://neufit.com We are launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF next month. NeuFit is a social fitness entertainment platform. We are looking to solve the issues of chronic diseases caused by obesity and a sedentary lifestyle by delivering a platform that lets users encourage and motivate each other to get and stay active. We've partnered with device manufacturers and mobile app companies to integrate their products as well. For instance if you are a RunKeeper user or have a Fitbit we automatically pull in your actvity data. We translate your real-world activity into fun game mechanics that allow you complete quests, challenge and motivate others and earn real world rewards.