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Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
So many news posts, so few people talking about what they are doing. What website are you working right now?
- thomaspaine 17y agoI just finished building this for a client: http://sftheaterbuzz.org/ http://sftheaterbuzz.org/ It's a little sad because there are no reviews yet...but I don't think he's had time to promote it yet.
- jlgosse 17y agoThat, is awesome.
- JustRick 17y agoI like this site. Question: I can't tell from the source if you are using a CMS of any kind or if this is custom developed in Django or similar. Care to reveal what you used?
- thomaspaine 17y agoIt's all custom Django, good guess on that one. I do use my fair share of external Django apps though. Ignoring the built in Django apps, My INSTALLED_APPS list has 10 unmodified external reusable apps, and 11 internal apps, which include ones I built myself and a few reusable apps I had to modify. Thanks to everyone for the positive comments.
- ubernostrum 17y agoA minor tip: create a 404.html that matches the look of the site. Right now you're serving the one from the Django admin :)
- uvince 17y agoI like the look of this site. Who did the visual design/graphics?
- thomaspaine 17y agoMy friend Kim Nguyen did the design: http://twitter.com/3am_studio http://twitter.com/3am_studio She's pretty awesome.
- jlees 17y agoThat's cool, I'm working on a 'buzz' site as well for the edinburgh festivals, though we're doing some AI magic to pull in crowdsourced reviews and classify them with star ratings. It's jolly good fun, though working with thesps is doing my head in. (No URL 'cos it ain't finished yet!)
- nwjsmith 17y agoI'm working on an app to track work orders for a client. Not exactly riveting, but it's my first real gig and it feels really good to get paid to program.
- maneesh 17y agoworking on the beta version of Leftos (LEssons For The Opposite Sex) http://leftos.com http://leftos.com -- an online dating/relationship advice social network. Building this for a client.
- plucas 17y agoDid you build that on a framework or do it from scratch? I'm trying to see how many people go with existing frameworks for this sort of thing.
- maneesh 17y agobuilt completely from scratch, no framework.
- Shooter 17y agoThe name sounds like it's a site for liberals...or an operating system for left-handed people. Or a cereal. Or something. It doesn't sound like a name for what it is.
- MatthiasW 17y agohttp://woodgears.ca http://woodgears.ca http://chartgame.com http://chartgame.com
- karanbhangui 17y agoOh hello fellow UW-er :)
- rgiar 17y agovery nice, i will come back to the woodworking site when life allows me to put it to use. thx.
- dan_the_welder 17y agohttp://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html Awesome!
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- shaunxcode 17y agofun little text editor called WHOAD (sort of like woah dude or word heuristic occurrence analysis diagram). Trying it in flex v.s. the jquery version I currently have.
- hikari17 17y agoStill working nights and weekends on http://www.genlighten.com http://www.genlighten.com, our "Etsy for Genealogy Document Retrieval" app.
- kyfhon 17y agohttp://www.you-compete.com http://www.you-compete.com
- paulsingh 17y agoBuilding a noise filter for Twitter: http://www.philtro.com http://www.philtro.com
- smokinn 17y agoVery very interesting. If it's not supposed to be secret, how does it work? Does it look for similarity of what you like or does it weight people in your feed and just skip x% of tweets from heavy low-value tweeters?
- jlees 17y agoMy instant thought is it simply trains a naive Bayes or similar spam classification algorithm on the tweets you label ;)
- paulsingh 17y agoActually, that's exactly what I did in the early stages of the project. Once I started getting some traction earlier this year, it made sense to start putting some real effort into building a much better engine. Today, that's still one of the methods we employ but it's certainly not enough to make solid recommendations or wrap IP around... so, I've built a team of people much smarter than me to help take this thing to the next level. :)
- paulsingh 17y agoWell, most of the "secret sauce" is wrapped into the algorithms that we've built so I can't say too much. In general, we're able to learn what topics you're interested in via data that we collect through your implicit and explicit actions. (i.e., we're learning about you by watching who you tend to interact with, retweet, what topics you tend to click through on, who you follow, etc.) We've been building and improving the algorithm for a few months now -- it's certainly got a long way to go still but, on the other hand, it's certainly come along way so far. :)
- swaroop 17y agoFYI for others, there's also http://filttr.com http://filttr.com
- knobish 17y agoMy 1st ever site! =) http://www.ComoEstaEso.com http://www.ComoEstaEso.com Check it out tomorrow during daylight!
- elguason 17y agoJAJAJAJAJAJAJA JAJAJA -elguason
- ironblunt 17y agohttp://benchcoach.com http://benchcoach.com
- larryfreeman 17y agoThis week, at http://hubpages.com http://hubpages.com we rolled out a table capsule that fits in nicely with our hubtool, our user interface for designing wikipedia-like articles.
- eserorg 17y agoInteractive map of United States midcontinent onshore oil and natural gas wells: http://hydrocarbon.search.eser.org/ http://hydrocarbon.search.eser.org/ Used for identifying infill drilling locations. Updated daily with new well locations. Working on adding Canada, shale plays, and Gulf of Mexico offshore wells. Using Memcached on Amazon EC2 + openlayers + Google WGS84 tiles.
- riso 17y agoWhen I have time after work. http://leaguesmart.com http://leaguesmart.com
- smmcbride 17y agoMany years ago (just as the web was taking off) I was the database guy for a local soccer association. I always liked the idea of abstracting all that out to a general purpose application but never acted on it. Good luck!
- rgiar 17y agohttp://socialfact.com http://socialfact.com -- collaborative thinking and blogging
- mmb 17y agourl sharing and personal archiving framework http://urls.matthewm.boedicker.org/ http://urls.matthewm.boedicker.org/
- nir 17y agoPlaying with Google App Engine (& hence Python), very nice platform for quickly putting together small web apps: http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ - SMS notes (reminders etc) to your inbox http://therealurl.appspot.com/ http://therealurl.appspot.com/ - send a URL, get a JSON response with the unshortened version + page title
- jacktasia 17y agohttp://mancalatime.com http://mancalatime.com where you can play your friends online over the internet. Good or Evil db - in "private" beta you can use this link if you're really interested. http://goodorevildb.com/do/register?key=chestermcgester http://goodorevildb.com/do/register?key=chestermcgester And then a bizarre jython app that I will probably open source. Yeah, I know I should concentrate on just one thing. Oh well.
- whalesalad 17y agoJust launched our latest version of SchoolRack a few days ago. It connects teachers with their students and parents. Lets them upload files, create discussion boards, create homework assignments, etc... http://schoolrack.com http://schoolrack.com
- jakewolf 17y agoA little gardening website - http://gardenobserver.com http://gardenobserver.com Trying to track late blight on tomatoes. http://gardenobserver.com/report/map http://gardenobserver.com/report/map. Anyone having pest problems in their gardens? Hook me up!
- zkinion 17y agosome awesomeness that lets companies make money whenever people go to their competitor's websites. there is no site at all and no user interaction
- dhpmx 17y agohttp://www.vivapixel.com http://www.vivapixel.com - Photo and video hosting/sharing site. Currently working on simple posting to tumblr and posterous
- mannicken 17y agohttp://taskulus.com http://taskulus.com. It's barely working right now and mainly for testing deployment and such
- ryszard99 17y agohttp://confess2.me/ http://confess2.me/ a personal project i whipped up in a weekend as a learning exercise (and a blatant rip off of similar sites out there)
- jaddison 17y agoI, with my partners, am working on http://www.snapact.com/ http://www.snapact.com/ in the midst of creating a better API in order to create more clients for more platforms. Fun and exciting (to me) stuff.
- rrival 17y agohttp://tshirtthis.com/ http://tshirtthis.com/ - rss to headline tshirts on demand - not yet in beta
- tlrobinson 17y agoNot sure if I understand this. The title of each RSS item can be purchased as a tshirt? Also, how do you get the tshirts printed? Do you do it yourself or outsource to another company? (curious for my own tshirt needs)
- rrival 17y agoRss feed titles in a specific font & a logo. We have a special arrangement with a facility that does this.
- rdoherty 17y agoI'm working on http://www.getpersonas.com http://www.getpersonas.com, trying to make it better for the community. Small release tomorrow! Also working on http://www.mozilla.com/mobile http://www.mozilla.com/mobile, got some updates for a future release.
- dan_the_welder 17y agoGetpersonas is pretty. It pleases my eyes.
- eelinow 17y agoAfter years of writing Manufacturing, Retail and Financial Backend/Middleware, I'm working on the following exclusively (for better or worse). Maintaining Version 2.x & Building the All New Version (3.0) of http://www.inkedmag.com http://www.inkedmag.com Continuing the build of Version 2.x of http://www.surfacemag.com http://www.surfacemag.com and soon to be working on a brand new Version 2.x of http://www.tokion.com http://www.tokion.com (currently a simple set of splash pages) All for publishers in NYC. I do so wish they would acquire a technical journal, or some form of academics research journal(s). Fashion & Sub Cultures are interesting for those in said cultures but it doesn't mean that I wouldn't find more scholarly/research minded content/environments more interesting.
- imack 17y agohttp://www.whichishotter.com http://www.whichishotter.com Simple site for me to learn Rails. Took the "solve a problem" idea to "which of these two [X] look better?" (for outfits, haircuts...whatever). Get a crowd to vote to get more opinions. The initial people are uploading some unexpected things though.
- hypotize 17y agoJust in my spare time, but working on a subway/train route finder for the Tokyo trains http://trains.jp/ http://trains.jp/ There are others out there, but trying to make one that is super easy to use. Still very much a work in progress, but any feedback would be appreciated!
- mrshoe 17y agoWorking on a new homepage for http://shoptalkapp.com http://shoptalkapp.com, since you helpful HN reviewers pointed out last week that it is lacking. :)
- wooster 17y agohttp://tweeteorites.com/ http://tweeteorites.com/ It tracks your friends' favorites on Twitter, and suggests interesting people for you to follow based on favorites and your social network structure.
- catch404 17y agoThis is cool :) Really clean design!
- mikeytown2 17y agoModule called Boost for Drupal. http://drupal.org/project/boost http://drupal.org/project/boost In short it's a poormans-squid/poormans-varnish; it creates a html cache for dynamic pages. It's fairly sophisticated, going to have it support the caching of AJAX JSON in the near future; among other things.
- holdenk 17y agoI'm working on two things right now ( http://web2.0collage.com http://web2.0collage.com & http://pcfspam.com http://pcfspam.com ) I'm hoping to wrap up the first (a lot of it was an experiment into how to do basic PR) and get started on the second after exams.
- mcastner 17y agoWorking on the site for the club I'm in at school: http://urbangaming.org http://urbangaming.org Not much info on there but the new site will be up in exactly 1 week so stay tuned. You can check out our Facebook page for more info: http://facebook.com/urbangaming http://facebook.com/urbangaming
- NoBSWebDesign 17y agoWorking on http://www.ratemystudentrental.com http://www.ratemystudentrental.com and a new tool that stemmed from our internal systems, http://www.leadnuke.com http://www.leadnuke.com
- rs 17y agoStill working hard on http://xp-dev.com/ http://xp-dev.com/ Just opened up sign-ups for a new platform release which is going to begin next week: http://www.xp-dev.com/blogs/view/704/xp-dev-com-version-40-beta-testing/ http://www.xp-dev.com/blogs/view/704/xp-dev-com-version-40-b...
- bernzilla 17y agoJust launched Merecal, a site for tracking upcoming and new releases in books, movies, music and video games. It uses your favorite artists, authors, actors, directors, publishers, etc. to notify you when the releases you're likely to care about become available for pre-order or actually release. http://merecal.com/ http://merecal.com/
- dan_the_welder 17y agoVery useful, well done. Hope you don't live in North Carolina.
- joepestro 17y agoJust finished building an iPhone app that is awaiting Apple's approval now: http://www.pinglater.com/ http://www.pinglater.com/ We're doing a 1 day web app event this weekend, so I'll be able to share more about everyone's apps soon!
- kineticac 17y agoprobably going to do a One Day App on saturday, thinking of using our short url as the domain. http://post.ly/1WGW http://post.ly/1WGW
- dipankarsarkar 17y agoworking on http://mosambe.com http://mosambe.com :) It will hopefully get some traction soon.
- callmeed 17y agoJust wrapping up new home and pricing page for our photo sales app: http://www.nextproof.com/pricing/ http://www.nextproof.com/pricing/
- costan 17y agoGot energized again to work on my Web service-backed iPhone app http://istockplay.com http://istockplay.com Does this count? I'll admit that, right now, it's little more than a tech demo for my iPhone libraries: http://github.com/costan/zergsupport http://github.com/costan/zergsupport - iPhone-side http://github.com/costan/imobile http://github.com/costan/imobile - Rails server-side
- davecardwell 17y agoCompleting a redesign of http://www.localphone.com/ http://www.localphone.com/ — a VoIP start-up I work for.
- enra 17y agohttp://www.flowdock.com/ http://www.flowdock.com/, real-time communication & collaboration app for teams. Still work to do before open beta.
- jasonkester 17y agohttp://www.twiddla.com/ http://www.twiddla.com/ Mostly working on the social interface around the pricing model, trying to get the subscription process smoothed out. It's a fun little puzzle, trying to get people from "this is cool" to "I should sign up for this" to "I should pay money for this". After that, there are a couple new big pieces in the works...
- mh77 17y agohttp://webgeek.io/ http://webgeek.io/ - Shipped one day ago..
- dvv 17y agohttp://send2twitter.com http://send2twitter.com - a very simple but efficient email-to-twitter gateway using oauth.
- hopeless 17y agohttp://shutterscouts.com http://shutterscouts.com -- an idea management and weather forecasting service for (landscape) photographers.
- flooha 17y agoWe just did a "Review my app" here on HN. http://flooha.com http://flooha.com It's a place where open source developers can upload their add-ons (and apps in the future) and users can add their software to their website just by clicking. We hope to bring a much bigger, immediate, and organized user base to open source developers.
- danielh 17y agohttp://analytics4i.appspot.com http://analytics4i.appspot.com Google Analytics web interface for the iPhone. Feature list is still very short and I'm having some trouble with OAuth on GAE.
- gvasilei 17y agoWorking on http://www.beachionary.com/ http://www.beachionary.com/ a social guide for beaches and organizing summer holidays. It's the middle of the summer and still on private alpha though :|
- smmcbride 17y agoI'm a cubicle-dweller by day, but in my nights and weekends I'm building: http://www.familymatic.com http://www.familymatic.com
- idleworx 17y agoI've been working on http://totdo.com http://totdo.com a very simple todo manager. Pronounced TooTeeDoo :). It's in beta of course.
- v2interactive 17y agohttp://www.mybroadwaydreams.com http://www.mybroadwaydreams.com small joomla project i'm working on for a broadway foundation http://www.v2interactive.net http://www.v2interactive.net working onmy design firms webpage in joomla to meet web 2.0 standards
- wushupork 17y agoI just created http://stonertweets.com http://stonertweets.com for a client. This is to build buzz around a community and help promote a movie.
- Akram 17y agoI'm working on http://www.mosambe.com http://www.mosambe.com a place where people and companies network to find better opertunities. Feedback is highly appriciated. Thanks :)
- mschaecher 17y agohttp://www.rockdex.com http://www.rockdex.com