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Screenshot Saturday

85 points by screenshot 12y ago

I really enjoyed last weeks Screenshot Saturday[1]. So here is this weeks post: "If you like the idea, please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation on what you have been working on for the past week." [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7579982)

karangoeluw 12y ago
After the huge success [1] of SoundCloud Instant [2], I started working something else using the SoundCloud API. For the purpose of surprise, I'll just leave the screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/PP4LN2J.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PP4LN2J.jpg The prototype is ready and it does what it's supposed to, but it's not ready to be released yet. If you'd like to know when it's ready, you can join my (new) email list: http://eepurl.com/SRIPT http://eepurl.com/SRIPT [1] https://twitter.com/TheKaranGoel/status/457563836225056768 https://twitter.com/TheKaranGoel/status/457563836225056768 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602045
- UweSchmidt 12y ago
  So it plays 6 songs at the same time? Neat. C'mon, what does it do? :)
  - karangoeluw 12y ago
    You're almost right! :p EDIT: Hint - it makes music discovery easier and less time-consuming.
- dk8996 12y ago
  Do you know if there is a Pandora like app for SoundCloud music. Where you can create "radio stations" from SoundCloud artist then plays similar sounding music from SoundCloud.
  - karangoeluw 12y ago
    No I'm not aware of any. Though it's not hard to build something like that (in theory).
mkal_tsr 12y ago
I've been working on https://thesquatrack.com/ https://thesquatrack.com/ It does workout, nutrition, and body measurement tracking and I'm in the midst of deploying the routines and meta-routines - https://thesquatrack.com/soon https://thesquatrack.com/soon over the next few weeks. * Better search result info - http://i.imgur.com/RassIwF.png http://i.imgur.com/RassIwF.png * Flexible nutrition goals - http://i.imgur.com/8dabrHg.png http://i.imgur.com/8dabrHg.png * Some meal fast logging - http://i.imgur.com/PdOBm0U.png http://i.imgur.com/PdOBm0U.png * Improved the dashboard a bit - http://i.imgur.com/hbs8ZTS.png http://i.imgur.com/hbs8ZTS.png I'm not a UI/UX or business person, but I love code, so as long as it's functional, I'm happy. 100% solo founder and 100% bootstrapped ... it's been a heck of a fun journey :-)
- suhailpatel 12y ago
  I've been following your stuff at /r/fitness. Definitely keep working on it, looks real solid!
  - mkal_tsr 12y ago
    Will do, I've got a lot planned so long as I can keep it going
- theboss 12y ago
  I've used i[T] since early beta, shorty. Much better than fitocracy and I think you really hit the nail on the head that your website should help me be more effective (with wil[K]s calc, program templates, and nutrition [2]), instead [o]f just [G]iving me MORE e-points. Best 5 bucks a month I spend. I should also say that your site is one of the few startups that I've seen that doesn't completely neglect security. Not sure if it's just part of your framework (symfony?), but I rarely look at startups sites that I can't break in less than a minute.
  - mkal_tsr 12y ago
    Thanks for the support it means the world to me (literally, you're keeping me fed!). On a more serious note, I've got a lot of things planned and I hoped the announcement of the automated meta-routines shows I'm not dicking around with making an entirely new platform ... I just need to get some people on marketing it if I want to go faster :-/
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- karangoeluw 12y ago
  So, how's it different from the gazillion SE's?
  - mikkom 12y ago
    sorry, I just realised this wasn't a screenshot so I removed it - you were fast :-)
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- Mankhool 12y ago
  Downvoted? I'm crushed by that kind of response. Deleting now. Apologies. I'll post again next week. Thanks for this great thread.
adambard 12y ago
Edit: Ah, I missed the point. Here it is in screenshot form: http://adambard.com/img/screenshots/extsearch.png http://adambard.com/img/screenshots/extsearch.png My idea is to deliver a fully-customizable drop-in search widget in the form of a javascript snippet. I saw a gap in Adwords coverage for similar searches (I hope it wasn't just Google quashing competition), and thought there might be potential. I did a bit of proof-of-concept coding, and now I'm trying to validate the market. --- Before edit: A competitor to Google Custom Search (yeah, I know) called ExtSearch. Right now there's just a lander at http://getcustomsearch.com/ http://getcustomsearch.com/
- TheBiv 12y ago
  Good luck! In terms of competition, all I know of is one https://swiftype.com/ https://swiftype.com/ (2 yrs old ~$10MM raised)
  - kennywinker 12y ago
    There's also Searchpath http://searchpath.io http://searchpath.io
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- fnbr 12y ago
  Have you spoken to Snapchat devs about your project? It seems like it violates the ToS, and I suspect that they will shut it down once they hear about it.
JamieLewis 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/PnmDT5z.png http://i.imgur.com/PnmDT5z.png I have had some time off this week so decided to work on something a bit different. I have been working on a concept fuzzing framework for security testing. In the screenshot you can see some of the files produced by it - The bottom right is the configuration used to generate the file format (for this case Bitmap, although I have tested a few others like WAV) Bottom left is a bitmap produced with no defects. The top shot is a bitmaps produced with some random changes - you can see the green bitmap is now corrupted due to a change somewhere in the format.
- tptacek 12y ago
  Neat. Have you found any bugs with it yet? Any sense of where you're going to take it?
do 12y ago
A QA test case management tool integrated with Github Issues. http://imgur.com/a/0oqGO http://imgur.com/a/0oqGO Designed to be easy to navigate with the keyboard and replace the spreadsheets I normally use on projects. If anyone out there needs something like this please shoot me an email. Planning on launching a V1 this weekend.
bichiliad 12y ago
I'm working on a music and member management system for my university's radio station [1] as part of an independent study. I'm cheating and using FlatUI [2] for the interface. Using Bookshelf.js + MySQL/Express/Angular/Node Screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/uw8I1#0 http://imgur.com/a/uw8I1#0 [1]: http://www.wrct.org/ http://www.wrct.org/ [2]: http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/ http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/
- bichiliad 12y ago
  Huh, been getting a lot of hits on imgur. If anyone's curious, the repo is here. I'd totally love any suggestions! I'm doing a lot of this stuff for the first time. https://github.com/bichiliad/warmd https://github.com/bichiliad/warmd
ac1294 12y ago
I'm working on my first (major) project -- an app that will show live winning probabilities for each team in ongoing NBA games. I'm hoping to get it done before this year's NBA playoffs are over. I just started, and I'm scraping JSON play-by-play data. This is my first experience with databases, so hopefully it works out well. http://i.imgur.com/1OafJuj.png http://i.imgur.com/1OafJuj.png
- Aaronn 12y ago
  Where can we follow this?
- joshmn 12y ago
  Hey that's some Golden Gophers stats right there!
qsun 12y ago
It's Easter break in Australia - 4 days weekend. I'm working on http://www.hackathonwatch.com http://www.hackathonwatch.com It's a hackathon discovery site - it helps you discover new hackathons. http://imgur.com/CQU4TGU http://imgur.com/CQU4TGU I've been working on it for several months, but did not really get a chance to add "watch/monitor" feature. [1]: optimize contractor work flow to increase my ROI [2]: adding "watch/monitor" feature
- hayksaakian 12y ago
  I wish it was easier to browse by locations E.g.: hackatonwatch.com/seattle
  - qsun 12y ago
    Thanks! I totally missed this critical feature.
ttty 12y ago
UPDATE: WOW! Thanks, currently there are more users than the whole week. :D I've been working on a minimalistic game collection site with Flash and HTML5 games: http://playszone.com/ http://playszone.com/ Why to play here? - Big images that actually shows the real game at almost 1:1 scale; - Social integration: when you like an item, like on facebook, share on facebook or tweet about it, it will be stored on my server. (You have to be logged in in order to work.) - Why this is cool? - You have a feel of accomplishment as you will always try to do all the social tasks. - Where exactly is this? - Everytime you play a game, you have a right navigation with 6 buttons. Those are the buttons. (The only problem is the like button which takes a lot longer to get accounted) - No ads, at least not in my site. The flash games and some html5 games comes bundled with ads (Any way to remove them?). - Minimalist UI, which can be closed (Click on the 3 bars at top right of the page). - Played games have an watermark (Only for logged in.). Interesting views: - Main: http://playszone.com http://playszone.com - In game (flash) Road of Fury: http://playszone.com/games/id:5334632f8984d74232b8925d/road-of-fury http://playszone.com/games/id:5334632f8984d74232b8925d/road-... - In game 2 (flash) The Peacekeeper: http://playszone.com/games/id:5339d19cc6af0b434c2dc9d2/the-peacekeeper http://playszone.com/games/id:5339d19cc6af0b434c2dc9d2/the-p... - In game (non-flash): http://playszone.com/games/id:5332e034775c56a02cc4a1cf/flappy-hearts http://playszone.com/games/id:5332e034775c56a02cc4a1cf/flapp... - Submit game: http://playszone.com/submit-game http://playszone.com/submit-game - Login or register: http://playszone.com/login-or-register http://playszone.com/login-or-register - Categories: http://playszone.com/games http://playszone.com/games Login required: - Manage games: http://playszone.com/manage-games http://playszone.com/manage-games Technology used: - Node.js + Express - MongoDB + Mongoose - Server side rendering with React.js Anyway, I find very very very hard to promote such a site. :/
- AlexMuir 12y ago
  Well that just cost me 30 minutes. Excellent. Well done.
  - ttty 12y ago
    Thanks, man ;) hope you come again :D
realrocker 12y ago
I'm working on a mini-spreadsheet app for Android. The core idea is to keep notes in a key-value format and do basic spreadsheet functions. I have a prototype but not sure if anyone wants it and if I should invest more time to finish it. Here's a screenshot: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B17zGMpsqZu-clk1RkNfSnNxLXc/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B17zGMpsqZu-clk1RkNfSnNxLXc/.... So, anyone wants this?
Pfiffer 12y ago
http://a.pomf.se/fbbmlu.png http://a.pomf.se/fbbmlu.png I'm busy adding splay tree[1] support to OlegDB[2]. The idea is to use them for searching/cursor iteration. If you haven't seen them before they're basically binary trees with the caveat that newly inserted elements are at the top of the tree. Of course, segfaults abound until I get it working... [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree [2] - https://olegdb.org/ https://olegdb.org/
clxl 12y ago
This should be an automated post (like whoishiring). I'm working on a command line spreadsheet app. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/snyBhYH.png http://i.imgur.com/snyBhYH.png
robhack 12y ago
Real-time FFT analysis of mic/line-in, with logarithmic scale showing the corresponding music notes. http://i.imgur.com/3WJcXTK.png http://i.imgur.com/3WJcXTK.png
- hexa- 12y ago
  This looks nice. Any chance this is going to be open source?
  - robhack 12y ago
    Thanks, I might open source the prototype/early version here, but not the whole project (I intend to add a lot more stuff and make it gaming-oriented)
- gue5t 12y ago
  This is really cool. It looks a lot like baudline; have you ever used that?
  - robhack 12y ago
    Thanks, no I have not, but always interesting to look at similar tools. I'm more interested in going in the gaming direction though (like trying to follow a song singing/whistling, or by making it multiplayer somehow) I was inspired by plink (by dinahmoe)
tarpman1 12y ago
I am working on a new dating site: http://dump.fm/images/20140419/1397946451238-dumpfm-bendover-Screen-Shot-2014-04-19-at-6.29.44-PM.png http://dump.fm/images/20140419/1397946451238-dumpfm-bendover...
- rschmitty 12y ago
  I'm sad that domain did not work :(
granttimmerman 12y ago
http://imgur.com/JJVvmy9 http://imgur.com/JJVvmy9 I just finished my portfolio website http://grant.cm http://grant.cm Github: https://github.com/grant/grant.cm https://github.com/grant/grant.cm
- ecolner 12y ago
  nice
- ekmartin 12y ago
  Extraordinary beautiful.
sfdev14 12y ago
I'm working on an app to help me find a job: http://i.imgur.com/sam9Cgt.png http://i.imgur.com/sam9Cgt.png I'm using it right now to search through a year's worth of HN "Who's hiring" threads and starring places that I want to work at / hiding those that match criteria that I don't want. Pretty soon I'll be adding the "application management" piece to it so that I can start to track my applications, correspondences, phone screens, etc. https://medium.com/@sfdev14 https://medium.com/@sfdev14 Backbone.js frontend powered by a Rails API with MongoDB as the datastore. Wanna hire me? sfdev14@gmail.com
syjer 12y ago
Working on a agile task tracker with some friends (similar to trello, but more dev oriented): http://imgur.com/a/4PF4z http://imgur.com/a/4PF4z . (written with spring mvc for the server side, angularjs for the client side, use websocket/socks.js). Will be available as a open source project.
- hrbrtglm 12y ago
  I like the UI a lot actually. Really nice. What are the parts making this one more dev oriented ?
  - syjer 12y ago
    It's still work in progress, but compared to trello: - it has a flexible tagging system which combined with the search can provide some nice filtering views (on the board view the filtering is done client side and it's applied in real time on new or updated content) - use of github flavored markdown for comments and description (and code highlight) - multiple login are supported (at the moment we have oauth2 for google/github/bitbucket, mozilla persona, ldap) - support for categorizing the tickets in milestones (and a dedicated milestones view) - a permission system which is quite fine grained - it's not a SaaS
- foolinaround 12y ago
  nice, please provide github link we could bookmark...
  - syjer 12y ago
    Hi, it will be available at https://github.com/digitalfondue/ https://github.com/digitalfondue/ in a few months.
leemcalilly 12y ago
Working on a Shopify backend for my startup http://originalfuzz.com http://originalfuzz.com. We make handwoven Peruvian guitar straps. Here's my local dev setup: http://i.imgur.com/cb0WuDH.png http://i.imgur.com/cb0WuDH.png New backend uses node and grunt along with the shopify theme manager. I can develop locally and keep it in git. Grunt watches the changes and the shopify theme manager uploads the new files. So I'm able to develop locally with haml and sass and deploy to my Shopify store as I work. Also using https://github.com/toolsforliving/foundationify https://github.com/toolsforliving/foundationify to integrate Foundation with Shopify. It's a good setup for anyone that needs to make an e-commerce site.
fiblye 12y ago
I'm working on a game titled Aerannis about a female assassin who may or may not be schizophrenic. She fears that she's losing touch with reality entirely and trapped in a world of her own delusions, but comes to realize that she may really just be the center of a global conspiracy. http://i.imgur.com/Li0guL8.png http://i.imgur.com/Li0guL8.png http://i.imgur.com/Sstch17.gif http://i.imgur.com/Sstch17.gif http://i.imgur.com/j0yUGI8.png http://i.imgur.com/j0yUGI8.png http://i.imgur.com/tE5nfAU.png http://i.imgur.com/tE5nfAU.png Nothing as complex or inventive as the other projects here, but it's all that I'm working on at the moment.
- omarhegazy 12y ago
  Fucking awesome art, dude. Any gameplay vids? Demos? What are you deving in? What platforms do you hope to release for?
  - fiblye 12y ago
    I'm a few months away from releasing a demo and I haven't recorded any videos in a while. I'm making fairly rapid progress on it, so any videos I have are tremendously out of date. I'm making it in Lua/Love2d and I'll be releasing it for Windows/OS X/Linux. Love apparently works on Android as well, so I'll see if I can port it to that after I finish it.
    - mden 12y ago
      Awesome work! How do you plan to distribute it? Also I love how the traffic light seems to have eyes. Pretty creepy.
      - fiblye 12y ago
        If all goes well, being greenlit and selling through Steam would be nice. The Humble Store seems to be another good option. And yeah, every object in this universe serves as a sentient surveillance device.
- ttty 12y ago
Ryel 12y ago
This has been my first project working server-side. It's like, more complex than Pinterest and less complex than Tumblr. http://imgur.com/sQkJPcI http://imgur.com/sQkJPcI One thing I have really enjoyed in this app is having built something in an industry which I have 0 knowledge and almost 0 interest. (fashion, beauty, health). I believe it's allowed me to build much more effectively and detach many of the emotions from building and any preconceived ideas about a particular industry. I normally work in front-end and because I'm looking for a job now I've seen a lot of employers give me a stink eye when I dont have experience in a particular industry or even an interest. I think it's odd and I can see their concerns but I also sometimes like to point out that I can also add to the team something nobody else can, a fresh perspective. In order to stay motivated I have found inspiration not through the industry and the space itself, but through efficiency and learning new tools that power this website. One of the things I'm most proud is a prototype of a client side feature in which I'll be allowing users to create 'hotspots' anywhere in the image they upload. A typical use-case would be for a user to create a hotspot over a particular item of clothing or accessory and reference a referral link to that product. I've also re-created this hotspot feature in mobile and in videos on top of the Youtube API.
cagriaksay 12y ago
I have been working on a salary crowdsourcing platform http://salaryfairy.com http://salaryfairy.com After receiving great feedback from a show HN, we are glad to have been able to implement almost all of the suggestions we received from HN. screenshot: http://salaryfairy.com/static/fairy/images/report_page_new.png http://salaryfairy.com/static/fairy/images/report_page_new.p...
stripeofmirrors 12y ago
Working on a mitre sled experiment for use on a table saw. This will allow me to get precise mitres between wood panels. Using Rhino3D/Grasshopper. A few more real-world tests before I redesign it parametrically. http://i.imgur.com/McFWvHl.png http://i.imgur.com/McFWvHl.png
brandonhsiao 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/XFyKSak.png http://i.imgur.com/XFyKSak.png Trying to filter oDesk job postings using a naive Bayesian filter. Using method described in pg's A Plan for Spam.
- kyzyl 12y ago
  Naive bayes seems like it would get clobbered on this task... unless maybe you're taking a more simplified approach than I'm imagining. How's it working out for you?
  - brandonhsiao 12y ago
    It's pretty good at tossing out posts that are completely irrelevant, which is most of the crap on oDesk. I.e. I'm a web developer who writes custom code, so it tosses out anything about design or Wordpress. But "web developer who writes custom code" is as good as it gets. It scored "MVC" a 77% chance of being good even though I don't use MVC frameworks.
    - kyzyl 12y ago
      Yeah I see. If you're essentially doing a multi-round elimination test based on your custom keywords, you might be able to reduce your noise a bit by preprocessing the 'phrase' stream with something like tf-idf (it looks like your working with the raw data right now?). Then you get a list of the keywords in the document, an estimate of how important they are to that document, and you know how important certain keywords are to you. With that info you can try to classify s.t. you admit jobs with a high intersection if keywords that are important to both of you. I think something along the lines of a knn classifier be pretty efficient at doing that. Anyhow, just a suggestion, I'll leave you alone now ;-)
RyanHamilton 12y ago
Working on sql dashbaords that allow charting databases in real time: http://www.sqldashboards.com/help/video-tutorial/kdb-database-live-charting http://www.sqldashboards.com/help/video-tutorial/kdb-databas...
hrbrtglm 12y ago
http://imgur.com/a/qryZL http://imgur.com/a/qryZL The CRM webapp I'm working on with the basic features I think such a system should have : - Customers, suppliers and leads management. - Calendar - Tasks (billable time tracking) - Opportunities, Quotes, invoices, credit notes and purchases - Expenses (rebillable) - Products and services with inventory and moving average costs - reporting - customer dedicated page
- tuananh 12y ago
  do you have a blog or sth on the detail of making this web app? I would love to follow.
  - hrbrtglm 12y ago
    I should definitely open a blog detailing the progress on the webapp. It's just I never felt having the writing skills to do it. But these kind of skills do not come without practicing, so I will surely go ahead and see ...
icolor 12y ago
I'm working a new product addition for my startup, here's an example of what job postings will look like. We're marketed as a "dating site for companies and people", we help people get their dream jobs and help companies grow in the best way possible. http://i.imgur.com/HQhMUkV.png http://i.imgur.com/HQhMUkV.png
- kennyledet 12y ago
  This looks pretty cool. I like how it shows potential coworkers.
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jamesisaac 12y ago
I'm working on a web-app which starts like a feature-rich to-do list app, but shifts the focus towards planning out larger life goals, and tracking progress: http://imgur.com/a/tSPHP http://imgur.com/a/tSPHP In particular this week, I've been working on solidifying the quantification side of the app (see the first two screenshots) - i.e. making day-to-day productivity (and lack of productivity!) towards big goals something that's measurable and the user can be held accountable for as they look back over past performance. I've added more of an explanation to the imgur captions. The site's currently in a launched-but-heavy-iterating stage at https://nachapp.com https://nachapp.com
- maineldc 12y ago
  That's a great idea though I worry that it would totally tickle my OCD productivity crazy side...
  - jamesisaac 12y ago
    Thanks! Hmm, well, if you leverage that attribute in the right way, it could be a big asset. The thing which I'm trying to do differently from other habit-building apps is get users to put a real focus on making tangible progress towards goals. So instead of just ticking "go to the gym" of a to-do list every day for the sake of feeling productive, actually setting a target and monitoring progress towards it. If all your goals are set up in this way, then having an internal drive to come back and keep up the routine day-to-day, will mean you're consistently improving yourself, which surely can't be a bad thing!
- PeterOliver 12y ago
  Does this support recurring tasks?
  - jamesisaac 12y ago
    Yup, repeating every X days, or following a weekly schedule. Run-down of all the different types here: https://nachapp.com/help/guides/repeating https://nachapp.com/help/guides/repeating - and you can access those options with the Edit button in the top corner of a step's page.
krapp 12y ago
apologies for the repost (had to fiddle with something), but here is a quick and dirty userscript to display imgur links in hacker news threads. I thought it would make screenshot saturdays nicer. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/471215 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/471215 the screenshot i'm posting is everybody's screenshots ^^
Adrock 12y ago
I've been doing a lot of 3D modeling recently and have wanted to sign my work, so I added text rendering to the Clojure library I've been using: https://twitter.com/adereth/status/457217237313925120/photo/1 https://twitter.com/adereth/status/457217237313925120/photo/... Learned a bit about font rendering and Java's awt packages.
- Snail_Commando 12y ago
  I've been using this library, it's quite nice.
bemmu 12y ago
Added a set of questions that customers can answer after starting their Candy Japan subscription. Hopefully this will let me understand them better and help with setting the tone in the way I write, possibly influence product choices and help with marketing. http://i.imgur.com/3wNZrSN.png http://i.imgur.com/3wNZrSN.png It's amazing what a nice bunch my customers are. Out of 500 subscribers already 70 have volunteered their time to answer the question set that I just sent out. For typical ecommerce emails, 14% might be the number of people who open an email, but here they not only opened, but clicked through some obscure link on the bottom and spent time answering a long questionnaire for me. I haven't collected the answers yet, but here are the questions. - Why they subscribed - Who will eat the candies? - Do they have kids? - Are they into anime? - Have they been to Japan? - What are their hobbies? Also included some that might help with online advertising: - Age - Gender - Education level - Married? - Social networks they use - Other websites they visit (5 people mentioned Hacker News) I'm thinking of writing up a blog post describing what I learned, will post it later.
- Joyfield 12y ago
  As soon as my economy clears up i gonna subscribe.
jplur 12y ago
Working on a design & layout app for html. I recently switched to om/react.js and it's been a huge improvement in my workflow. http://i.imgur.com/fvUiUpa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fvUiUpa.jpg
clay_to_n 12y ago
I'm building a book-reader app using the Spritz API. I started this at LAHacks with help from Spritz developers, but I've decided to keep working on it and try to get it in the App Store. Main view when paused: http://imgur.com/2IyQkSG http://imgur.com/2IyQkSG Main view when reading: http://imgur.com/yukcvyW http://imgur.com/yukcvyW If you don't know what Spritz is, it's a technology / service to let you read more efficiently, by displaying each word in the same place. Your eyes don't need to scan to find the next word, and most people can increase their reading speeds by a lot because of this. Many dyslexics find reading with Spritz far more comfortable than reading printed text. I'm not going to argue it's use for reading in ranges upwards of 1000 wpm, but I do think it's comfortable and usable for general reading (300 - 400 wpm personally). Features already integrated: - Chapters. - Change the speed as you're reading with a slider. Most Spritz applications don't have this, and it's a shame. - Pause, play, jump back a few words. Things left to do: - EPUB & MOBI support. Shouldn't be too hard. Currently it just reads TXT documents. - Add Books. From URL initially, next step will be GDrive + Dropbox. - Bookmarks. Very easy to do with .txt documents, maybe a bit different for e-book formats.
will_lam 12y ago
Been learning Ruby via Learn Code The Hard Way for a part time Rails course that I'm taking over at BrainStation.it https://www.evernote.com/shard/s51/sh/b463df04-03b4-44cc-9f03-972a4df29797/6b2dd34cf8e86fd85874237d88f4c4e1/deep/0/Exercise-38--Doing-Things-To-Lists---Learn-Ruby-The-Hard-Way.png https://www.evernote.com/shard/s51/sh/b463df04-03b4-44cc-9f0...
TD-Linux 12y ago
Javascript-based axial flux motor simulator. http://imgur.com/Iv5qbFC http://imgur.com/Iv5qbFC Being used to play with parameters for an in-hub solar vehicle motor. The next step is integrating it with FEA-derived flux densities for higher accuracy.
kevinsundar 12y ago
Highschooler here building a reddit bot that can be summoned to create posters, tshirts, mugs, mousepads, etc from images and comments posted on reddit. It's around 70% done. The hard parts: creating the posters from comments (imagemagick) and creating a product page (zazzle api) are both done. Now i'm just working on getting a rabbitmq cluster up and running so that it can process multiple comments at once. Also working on the design of the the items because right now it's pretty bland with just b/w text. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/8SOMHBl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/8SOMHBl.jpg
- bglazer 12y ago
  This is super awesome. That's a great idea and your code (what's in the screenshot at least) looks nice as well.
  - kevinsundar 12y ago
    Thanks! I've been working on this on and off for the last couple of weeks and getting more ideas and feedback before releasing an initial version. Also here's a better screenshot of what a poster might look like: http://imgur.com/YMGwlCo http://imgur.com/YMGwlCo
mnicolosi 12y ago
I'm working on a parallel EEPROM programmer using Arduino. I'm not using the Arduino IDE since it's a pain and instead using vim and cmake. http://imgur.com/a/IxQs5 http://imgur.com/a/IxQs5 https://github.com/manicolosi/ardburno https://github.com/manicolosi/ardburno I'm experimenting with SPI to transfer the addresses to the shift registers faster and as you can see by the serial output, it's not quite reliable yet. Debugging timing issues is tricky. I'm also making a PCB. I plan on making it using toner transfer method once some blank PCBs arrive.
dclowd9901 12y ago
Working on getting a '94 miata I recently bought track ready. So far I've installed a rollbar, bled and replaced the brake fluid and fixed a leaky valve cover. I have a brake rotor dial indicator coming in soon so I can diagnose whether the rotors need replacing or not (which will probably be next Saturday's project).
Simucal 12y ago
I'm writing an iPad app for Mediabrowser 3 (mediabrowser3.com) with another developer. Mediabrowser is in the same space as Plex and XBMC. If everything goes well we plan on launching later this month. http://i.imgur.com/xCyfnjt.png http://i.imgur.com/xCyfnjt.png http://i.imgur.com/RNAUaNN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RNAUaNN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/n3j11jI.png http://i.imgur.com/n3j11jI.png http://i.imgur.com/mA4JTNu.png http://i.imgur.com/mA4JTNu.png We have invested a lot of time and effort into making the app fast. Our mantra from the very beginning was that speed was going to be a keystone feature for our app. The fluidity of scrolling in our views was one of the main things we focused on. We wrote test code that continuously scrolls our views up and down while we profile it. We are utilizing Path's FastImageCache along with a lot of other caching to get the performance levels that we wanted. We are considering writing a new backend for our client app so we can launch a similar app for XBMC as well.
- antr 12y ago
  Really cool, I love the UI. As a Plex user I look forward to some alternatives and competition. I will certainly download this app
tsumnia 12y ago
I love the idea, didn't see last week's but I'll join in today. Currently working on a project known as Senescere, latin for 'to grow old'. Before working in HVAC optimization, for grad school I was a research assistant to a face recognition laboratory that specialized in digitally aging the face based on statistical data such as race/age/gender. Recently, our system was used by Allure magazine to get the opinions of plastic surgery from college-aged women; we're looking to piggy back the exposure with a web app that you can use to see how you age. Right now, I have a base front-end built up, though we are tweaking to think of better wording. Front-end Top Portion (Image from PlaceIt by Breezi)- http://imgur.com/50zZgs3 http://imgur.com/50zZgs3 Front-end Second Portion - http://imgur.com/f48NGGF http://imgur.com/f48NGGF After an image gets uploaded, we ask to point out the eyes and nose so we can align all 252 'landmark points' to the face through affine transformation. As of right now, I'm in the process of switching where the payment part comes into play. If someone uploads an image, it is added to their dashboard (where I am currently cleaning up). Uploaded Face Labeling - http://imgur.com/JvtTcoB http://imgur.com/JvtTcoB User Dashboard - http://imgur.com/Rk95jTI http://imgur.com/Rk95jTI Affine Transformation - http://imgur.com/eBeVydI http://imgur.com/eBeVydI Once everything is squared away, I'll be looking towards automating our aging process, since it currently is very 'hands on'. If we get enough traction through this, I'd like to branch out from the 'app' area into working with cosmetic companies to build something they can use to show makeup/aging creams without wasting product.
- sehr 12y ago
  Oh wow that is awesome, the makeup idea is especially solid. Even if you don't end up partnering with a large company, hobbyists and door to door salesmen/women would be a possible market. More and more of them are already using things like Square in their purchase processes, I imagine having an app on hand to transform clientele beforehand would be pretty enticing.
  - tsumnia 12y ago
    Yup! My thought process is to have a standalone system installed at cosmetic kiosks in malls. Then, you're not wasting product on someone that doesn't buy, and if someone does want to buy, you've already got a list of products they've tried you can ring them up for. Payment-wise, I'm going with Stripe, but also going to be adding Paypal into the fold tomorrow. I want to steer away from the app market since its already overwhelmed with AgeBooth and the like. We're marketing this as more than just slapping a Photoshop filter on your face (ala AgeBooth).
jlahijani 12y ago
Continuing to work on my bookmarking / high performance link management and archiving system called Metamarks. Will be done in ~2 months. http://imgur.com/ihULyxb http://imgur.com/ihULyxb higher res: http://jonathanlahijani.com/metamarks/metamarks_screenshot_001.png http://jonathanlahijani.com/metamarks/metamarks_screenshot_0...
acesubido 12y ago
I'm working on a simple expense/income tracker that me and my wife can use. Excel sheets/templates and other finance apps are way too complicated, we both agreed that in the end accounting is as simple as taking down notes in a ledger -- why not enter those entries just as easy as tweeting (categorize expense/income in hashtags, etc.) http://imgur.com/a/fCJJv http://imgur.com/a/fCJJv It's not as complex or innovative as other accounting systems and projects in here, but it's working out for the both of us and we're using it.
pyvek 12y ago
Nothing really fancy like other people here. I'm making an admin template based on bootstrap. It's my first attempt at it and I plan to sell it on wrapbootstrap/themeforest (if they find it good enough for their marketplace). http://i.imgur.com/Q12ACJu.png http://i.imgur.com/Q12ACJu.png http://i.imgur.com/7gqyQiN.png http://i.imgur.com/7gqyQiN.png http://i.imgur.com/sEVu6lG.png http://i.imgur.com/sEVu6lG.png
- ttty 12y ago
  Love the minimalist flat design
- alexgaribay 12y ago
  Love the design. What are you using to make your graphs?
  - pyvek 12y ago
    Thanks! Sorry for the late reply. I'm using flot charts [1] for the big traffic graph and peity [2] for the smaller ones. Apart from that, there are some other good options like morris.js [3], Chart.js [4], flotr2 [5], xCharts [6] and sparklines [7]. There are more if you search for them but I've used the ones I mentioned in the template. Added more screenshots of the charts pages. [8] [9] [10] [11] [1] http://www.flotcharts.org/ http://www.flotcharts.org/ [2] http://benpickles.github.io/peity/ http://benpickles.github.io/peity/ [3] http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/ http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/ [4] http://www.chartjs.org/ http://www.chartjs.org/ [5] http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/ http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/ [6] http://tenxer.github.io/xcharts/ http://tenxer.github.io/xcharts/ [7] http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ [8] http://i.imgur.com/MvaDsJk.png http://i.imgur.com/MvaDsJk.png [9] http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2875/k3uv.png http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2875/k3uv.png [10] http://i.imgur.com/SKhFxiC.png http://i.imgur.com/SKhFxiC.png [11] http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5030/jygx.png http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5030/jygx.png
motyar 12y ago
Got lobi.mobi domain, Have no idea.

Screenshot Saturday

85 points by screenshot 12y ago

karangoeluw 12y ago

After the huge success [1] of SoundCloud Instant [2], I started working something else using the SoundCloud API. For the purpose of surprise, I'll just leave the screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/PP4LN2J.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PP4LN2J.jpg The prototype is ready and it does what it's supposed to, but it's not ready to be released yet. If you'd like to know when it's ready, you can join my (new) email list: http://eepurl.com/SRIPT http://eepurl.com/SRIPT [1] https://twitter.com/TheKaranGoel/status/457563836225056768 https://twitter.com/TheKaranGoel/status/457563836225056768 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602045

UweSchmidt 12y ago
So it plays 6 songs at the same time? Neat. C'mon, what does it do? :)
- karangoeluw 12y ago
  You're almost right! :p EDIT: Hint - it makes music discovery easier and less time-consuming.
dk8996 12y ago
Do you know if there is a Pandora like app for SoundCloud music. Where you can create "radio stations" from SoundCloud artist then plays similar sounding music from SoundCloud.
- karangoeluw 12y ago
  No I'm not aware of any. Though it's not hard to build something like that (in theory).

mkal_tsr 12y ago

I've been working on https://thesquatrack.com/ https://thesquatrack.com/ It does workout, nutrition, and body measurement tracking and I'm in the midst of deploying the routines and meta-routines - https://thesquatrack.com/soon https://thesquatrack.com/soon over the next few weeks. * Better search result info - http://i.imgur.com/RassIwF.png http://i.imgur.com/RassIwF.png * Flexible nutrition goals - http://i.imgur.com/8dabrHg.png http://i.imgur.com/8dabrHg.png * Some meal fast logging - http://i.imgur.com/PdOBm0U.png http://i.imgur.com/PdOBm0U.png * Improved the dashboard a bit - http://i.imgur.com/hbs8ZTS.png http://i.imgur.com/hbs8ZTS.png I'm not a UI/UX or business person, but I love code, so as long as it's functional, I'm happy. 100% solo founder and 100% bootstrapped ... it's been a heck of a fun journey :-)

suhailpatel 12y ago
I've been following your stuff at /r/fitness. Definitely keep working on it, looks real solid!
- mkal_tsr 12y ago
  Will do, I've got a lot planned so long as I can keep it going
theboss 12y ago
I've used i[T] since early beta, shorty. Much better than fitocracy and I think you really hit the nail on the head that your website should help me be more effective (with wil[K]s calc, program templates, and nutrition [2]), instead [o]f just [G]iving me MORE e-points. Best 5 bucks a month I spend. I should also say that your site is one of the few startups that I've seen that doesn't completely neglect security. Not sure if it's just part of your framework (symfony?), but I rarely look at startups sites that I can't break in less than a minute.
- mkal_tsr 12y ago
  Thanks for the support it means the world to me (literally, you're keeping me fed!). On a more serious note, I've got a lot of things planned and I hoped the announcement of the automated meta-routines shows I'm not dicking around with making an entirely new platform ... I just need to get some people on marketing it if I want to go faster :-/

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karangoeluw 12y ago
So, how's it different from the gazillion SE's?
- mikkom 12y ago
  sorry, I just realised this wasn't a screenshot so I removed it - you were fast :-)
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Mankhool 12y ago
Downvoted? I'm crushed by that kind of response. Deleting now. Apologies. I'll post again next week. Thanks for this great thread.

adambard 12y ago

Edit: Ah, I missed the point. Here it is in screenshot form: http://adambard.com/img/screenshots/extsearch.png http://adambard.com/img/screenshots/extsearch.png My idea is to deliver a fully-customizable drop-in search widget in the form of a javascript snippet. I saw a gap in Adwords coverage for similar searches (I hope it wasn't just Google quashing competition), and thought there might be potential. I did a bit of proof-of-concept coding, and now I'm trying to validate the market. --- Before edit: A competitor to Google Custom Search (yeah, I know) called ExtSearch. Right now there's just a lander at http://getcustomsearch.com/ http://getcustomsearch.com/

TheBiv 12y ago
Good luck! In terms of competition, all I know of is one https://swiftype.com/ https://swiftype.com/ (2 yrs old ~$10MM raised)
- kennywinker 12y ago
  There's also Searchpath http://searchpath.io http://searchpath.io

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fnbr 12y ago
Have you spoken to Snapchat devs about your project? It seems like it violates the ToS, and I suspect that they will shut it down once they hear about it.

JamieLewis 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/PnmDT5z.png http://i.imgur.com/PnmDT5z.png I have had some time off this week so decided to work on something a bit different. I have been working on a concept fuzzing framework for security testing. In the screenshot you can see some of the files produced by it - The bottom right is the configuration used to generate the file format (for this case Bitmap, although I have tested a few others like WAV) Bottom left is a bitmap produced with no defects. The top shot is a bitmaps produced with some random changes - you can see the green bitmap is now corrupted due to a change somewhere in the format.

tptacek 12y ago
Neat. Have you found any bugs with it yet? Any sense of where you're going to take it?

do 12y ago

A QA test case management tool integrated with Github Issues. http://imgur.com/a/0oqGO http://imgur.com/a/0oqGO Designed to be easy to navigate with the keyboard and replace the spreadsheets I normally use on projects. If anyone out there needs something like this please shoot me an email. Planning on launching a V1 this weekend.

bichiliad 12y ago

I'm working on a music and member management system for my university's radio station [1] as part of an independent study. I'm cheating and using FlatUI [2] for the interface. Using Bookshelf.js + MySQL/Express/Angular/Node Screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/uw8I1#0 http://imgur.com/a/uw8I1#0 [1]: http://www.wrct.org/ http://www.wrct.org/ [2]: http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/ http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/

bichiliad 12y ago
Huh, been getting a lot of hits on imgur. If anyone's curious, the repo is here. I'd totally love any suggestions! I'm doing a lot of this stuff for the first time. https://github.com/bichiliad/warmd https://github.com/bichiliad/warmd

ac1294 12y ago

I'm working on my first (major) project -- an app that will show live winning probabilities for each team in ongoing NBA games. I'm hoping to get it done before this year's NBA playoffs are over. I just started, and I'm scraping JSON play-by-play data. This is my first experience with databases, so hopefully it works out well. http://i.imgur.com/1OafJuj.png http://i.imgur.com/1OafJuj.png

Aaronn 12y ago
Where can we follow this?
joshmn 12y ago
Hey that's some Golden Gophers stats right there!

qsun 12y ago

It's Easter break in Australia - 4 days weekend. I'm working on http://www.hackathonwatch.com http://www.hackathonwatch.com It's a hackathon discovery site - it helps you discover new hackathons. http://imgur.com/CQU4TGU http://imgur.com/CQU4TGU I've been working on it for several months, but did not really get a chance to add "watch/monitor" feature. [1]: optimize contractor work flow to increase my ROI [2]: adding "watch/monitor" feature

hayksaakian 12y ago
I wish it was easier to browse by locations E.g.: hackatonwatch.com/seattle
- qsun 12y ago
  Thanks! I totally missed this critical feature.

ttty 12y ago

UPDATE: WOW! Thanks, currently there are more users than the whole week. :D I've been working on a minimalistic game collection site with Flash and HTML5 games: http://playszone.com/ http://playszone.com/ Why to play here? - Big images that actually shows the real game at almost 1:1 scale; - Social integration: when you like an item, like on facebook, share on facebook or tweet about it, it will be stored on my server. (You have to be logged in in order to work.) - Why this is cool? - You have a feel of accomplishment as you will always try to do all the social tasks. - Where exactly is this? - Everytime you play a game, you have a right navigation with 6 buttons. Those are the buttons. (The only problem is the like button which takes a lot longer to get accounted) - No ads, at least not in my site. The flash games and some html5 games comes bundled with ads (Any way to remove them?). - Minimalist UI, which can be closed (Click on the 3 bars at top right of the page). - Played games have an watermark (Only for logged in.). Interesting views: - Main: http://playszone.com http://playszone.com - In game (flash) Road of Fury: http://playszone.com/games/id:5334632f8984d74232b8925d/road-of-fury http://playszone.com/games/id:5334632f8984d74232b8925d/road-... - In game 2 (flash) The Peacekeeper: http://playszone.com/games/id:5339d19cc6af0b434c2dc9d2/the-peacekeeper http://playszone.com/games/id:5339d19cc6af0b434c2dc9d2/the-p... - In game (non-flash): http://playszone.com/games/id:5332e034775c56a02cc4a1cf/flappy-hearts http://playszone.com/games/id:5332e034775c56a02cc4a1cf/flapp... - Submit game: http://playszone.com/submit-game http://playszone.com/submit-game - Login or register: http://playszone.com/login-or-register http://playszone.com/login-or-register - Categories: http://playszone.com/games http://playszone.com/games Login required: - Manage games: http://playszone.com/manage-games http://playszone.com/manage-games Technology used: - Node.js + Express - MongoDB + Mongoose - Server side rendering with React.js Anyway, I find very very very hard to promote such a site. :/

AlexMuir 12y ago
Well that just cost me 30 minutes. Excellent. Well done.
- ttty 12y ago
  Thanks, man ;) hope you come again :D

realrocker 12y ago

I'm working on a mini-spreadsheet app for Android. The core idea is to keep notes in a key-value format and do basic spreadsheet functions. I have a prototype but not sure if anyone wants it and if I should invest more time to finish it. Here's a screenshot: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B17zGMpsqZu-clk1RkNfSnNxLXc/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B17zGMpsqZu-clk1RkNfSnNxLXc/.... So, anyone wants this?

Pfiffer 12y ago

http://a.pomf.se/fbbmlu.png http://a.pomf.se/fbbmlu.png I'm busy adding splay tree[1] support to OlegDB[2]. The idea is to use them for searching/cursor iteration. If you haven't seen them before they're basically binary trees with the caveat that newly inserted elements are at the top of the tree. Of course, segfaults abound until I get it working... [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree [2] - https://olegdb.org/ https://olegdb.org/

clxl 12y ago

This should be an automated post (like whoishiring). I'm working on a command line spreadsheet app. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/snyBhYH.png http://i.imgur.com/snyBhYH.png

robhack 12y ago

Real-time FFT analysis of mic/line-in, with logarithmic scale showing the corresponding music notes. http://i.imgur.com/3WJcXTK.png http://i.imgur.com/3WJcXTK.png

hexa- 12y ago
This looks nice. Any chance this is going to be open source?
- robhack 12y ago
  Thanks, I might open source the prototype/early version here, but not the whole project (I intend to add a lot more stuff and make it gaming-oriented)
gue5t 12y ago
This is really cool. It looks a lot like baudline; have you ever used that?
- robhack 12y ago
  Thanks, no I have not, but always interesting to look at similar tools. I'm more interested in going in the gaming direction though (like trying to follow a song singing/whistling, or by making it multiplayer somehow) I was inspired by plink (by dinahmoe)

tarpman1 12y ago

I am working on a new dating site: http://dump.fm/images/20140419/1397946451238-dumpfm-bendover-Screen-Shot-2014-04-19-at-6.29.44-PM.png http://dump.fm/images/20140419/1397946451238-dumpfm-bendover...

rschmitty 12y ago
I'm sad that domain did not work :(

granttimmerman 12y ago

http://imgur.com/JJVvmy9 http://imgur.com/JJVvmy9 I just finished my portfolio website http://grant.cm http://grant.cm Github: https://github.com/grant/grant.cm https://github.com/grant/grant.cm

ecolner 12y ago
nice
ekmartin 12y ago
Extraordinary beautiful.

sfdev14 12y ago

I'm working on an app to help me find a job: http://i.imgur.com/sam9Cgt.png http://i.imgur.com/sam9Cgt.png I'm using it right now to search through a year's worth of HN "Who's hiring" threads and starring places that I want to work at / hiding those that match criteria that I don't want. Pretty soon I'll be adding the "application management" piece to it so that I can start to track my applications, correspondences, phone screens, etc. https://medium.com/@sfdev14 https://medium.com/@sfdev14 Backbone.js frontend powered by a Rails API with MongoDB as the datastore. Wanna hire me? sfdev14@gmail.com

syjer 12y ago

Working on a agile task tracker with some friends (similar to trello, but more dev oriented): http://imgur.com/a/4PF4z http://imgur.com/a/4PF4z . (written with spring mvc for the server side, angularjs for the client side, use websocket/socks.js). Will be available as a open source project.

hrbrtglm 12y ago
I like the UI a lot actually. Really nice. What are the parts making this one more dev oriented ?
- syjer 12y ago
  It's still work in progress, but compared to trello: - it has a flexible tagging system which combined with the search can provide some nice filtering views (on the board view the filtering is done client side and it's applied in real time on new or updated content) - use of github flavored markdown for comments and description (and code highlight) - multiple login are supported (at the moment we have oauth2 for google/github/bitbucket, mozilla persona, ldap) - support for categorizing the tickets in milestones (and a dedicated milestones view) - a permission system which is quite fine grained - it's not a SaaS
foolinaround 12y ago
nice, please provide github link we could bookmark...
- syjer 12y ago
  Hi, it will be available at https://github.com/digitalfondue/ https://github.com/digitalfondue/ in a few months.

leemcalilly 12y ago

Working on a Shopify backend for my startup http://originalfuzz.com http://originalfuzz.com. We make handwoven Peruvian guitar straps. Here's my local dev setup: http://i.imgur.com/cb0WuDH.png http://i.imgur.com/cb0WuDH.png New backend uses node and grunt along with the shopify theme manager. I can develop locally and keep it in git. Grunt watches the changes and the shopify theme manager uploads the new files. So I'm able to develop locally with haml and sass and deploy to my Shopify store as I work. Also using https://github.com/toolsforliving/foundationify https://github.com/toolsforliving/foundationify to integrate Foundation with Shopify. It's a good setup for anyone that needs to make an e-commerce site.

fiblye 12y ago

I'm working on a game titled Aerannis about a female assassin who may or may not be schizophrenic. She fears that she's losing touch with reality entirely and trapped in a world of her own delusions, but comes to realize that she may really just be the center of a global conspiracy. http://i.imgur.com/Li0guL8.png http://i.imgur.com/Li0guL8.png http://i.imgur.com/Sstch17.gif http://i.imgur.com/Sstch17.gif http://i.imgur.com/j0yUGI8.png http://i.imgur.com/j0yUGI8.png http://i.imgur.com/tE5nfAU.png http://i.imgur.com/tE5nfAU.png Nothing as complex or inventive as the other projects here, but it's all that I'm working on at the moment.

omarhegazy 12y ago
Fucking awesome art, dude. Any gameplay vids? Demos? What are you deving in? What platforms do you hope to release for?
- fiblye 12y ago
  I'm a few months away from releasing a demo and I haven't recorded any videos in a while. I'm making fairly rapid progress on it, so any videos I have are tremendously out of date. I'm making it in Lua/Love2d and I'll be releasing it for Windows/OS X/Linux. Love apparently works on Android as well, so I'll see if I can port it to that after I finish it.
  - mden 12y ago
    Awesome work! How do you plan to distribute it? Also I love how the traffic light seems to have eyes. Pretty creepy.
    - fiblye 12y ago
      If all goes well, being greenlit and selling through Steam would be nice. The Humble Store seems to be another good option. And yeah, every object in this universe serves as a sentient surveillance device.
ttty 12y ago

Ryel 12y ago

This has been my first project working server-side. It's like, more complex than Pinterest and less complex than Tumblr. http://imgur.com/sQkJPcI http://imgur.com/sQkJPcI One thing I have really enjoyed in this app is having built something in an industry which I have 0 knowledge and almost 0 interest. (fashion, beauty, health). I believe it's allowed me to build much more effectively and detach many of the emotions from building and any preconceived ideas about a particular industry. I normally work in front-end and because I'm looking for a job now I've seen a lot of employers give me a stink eye when I dont have experience in a particular industry or even an interest. I think it's odd and I can see their concerns but I also sometimes like to point out that I can also add to the team something nobody else can, a fresh perspective. In order to stay motivated I have found inspiration not through the industry and the space itself, but through efficiency and learning new tools that power this website. One of the things I'm most proud is a prototype of a client side feature in which I'll be allowing users to create 'hotspots' anywhere in the image they upload. A typical use-case would be for a user to create a hotspot over a particular item of clothing or accessory and reference a referral link to that product. I've also re-created this hotspot feature in mobile and in videos on top of the Youtube API.

cagriaksay 12y ago

I have been working on a salary crowdsourcing platform http://salaryfairy.com http://salaryfairy.com After receiving great feedback from a show HN, we are glad to have been able to implement almost all of the suggestions we received from HN. screenshot: http://salaryfairy.com/static/fairy/images/report_page_new.png http://salaryfairy.com/static/fairy/images/report_page_new.p...

stripeofmirrors 12y ago

Working on a mitre sled experiment for use on a table saw. This will allow me to get precise mitres between wood panels. Using Rhino3D/Grasshopper. A few more real-world tests before I redesign it parametrically. http://i.imgur.com/McFWvHl.png http://i.imgur.com/McFWvHl.png

brandonhsiao 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/XFyKSak.png http://i.imgur.com/XFyKSak.png Trying to filter oDesk job postings using a naive Bayesian filter. Using method described in pg's A Plan for Spam.

kyzyl 12y ago
Naive bayes seems like it would get clobbered on this task... unless maybe you're taking a more simplified approach than I'm imagining. How's it working out for you?
- brandonhsiao 12y ago
  It's pretty good at tossing out posts that are completely irrelevant, which is most of the crap on oDesk. I.e. I'm a web developer who writes custom code, so it tosses out anything about design or Wordpress. But "web developer who writes custom code" is as good as it gets. It scored "MVC" a 77% chance of being good even though I don't use MVC frameworks.
  - kyzyl 12y ago
    Yeah I see. If you're essentially doing a multi-round elimination test based on your custom keywords, you might be able to reduce your noise a bit by preprocessing the 'phrase' stream with something like tf-idf (it looks like your working with the raw data right now?). Then you get a list of the keywords in the document, an estimate of how important they are to that document, and you know how important certain keywords are to you. With that info you can try to classify s.t. you admit jobs with a high intersection if keywords that are important to both of you. I think something along the lines of a knn classifier be pretty efficient at doing that. Anyhow, just a suggestion, I'll leave you alone now ;-)

RyanHamilton 12y ago

Working on sql dashbaords that allow charting databases in real time: http://www.sqldashboards.com/help/video-tutorial/kdb-database-live-charting http://www.sqldashboards.com/help/video-tutorial/kdb-databas...

hrbrtglm 12y ago

http://imgur.com/a/qryZL http://imgur.com/a/qryZL The CRM webapp I'm working on with the basic features I think such a system should have : - Customers, suppliers and leads management. - Calendar - Tasks (billable time tracking) - Opportunities, Quotes, invoices, credit notes and purchases - Expenses (rebillable) - Products and services with inventory and moving average costs - reporting - customer dedicated page

tuananh 12y ago
do you have a blog or sth on the detail of making this web app? I would love to follow.
- hrbrtglm 12y ago
  I should definitely open a blog detailing the progress on the webapp. It's just I never felt having the writing skills to do it. But these kind of skills do not come without practicing, so I will surely go ahead and see ...

icolor 12y ago

I'm working a new product addition for my startup, here's an example of what job postings will look like. We're marketed as a "dating site for companies and people", we help people get their dream jobs and help companies grow in the best way possible. http://i.imgur.com/HQhMUkV.png http://i.imgur.com/HQhMUkV.png

kennyledet 12y ago
This looks pretty cool. I like how it shows potential coworkers.

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jamesisaac 12y ago

I'm working on a web-app which starts like a feature-rich to-do list app, but shifts the focus towards planning out larger life goals, and tracking progress: http://imgur.com/a/tSPHP http://imgur.com/a/tSPHP In particular this week, I've been working on solidifying the quantification side of the app (see the first two screenshots) - i.e. making day-to-day productivity (and lack of productivity!) towards big goals something that's measurable and the user can be held accountable for as they look back over past performance. I've added more of an explanation to the imgur captions. The site's currently in a launched-but-heavy-iterating stage at https://nachapp.com https://nachapp.com

maineldc 12y ago
That's a great idea though I worry that it would totally tickle my OCD productivity crazy side...
- jamesisaac 12y ago
  Thanks! Hmm, well, if you leverage that attribute in the right way, it could be a big asset. The thing which I'm trying to do differently from other habit-building apps is get users to put a real focus on making tangible progress towards goals. So instead of just ticking "go to the gym" of a to-do list every day for the sake of feeling productive, actually setting a target and monitoring progress towards it. If all your goals are set up in this way, then having an internal drive to come back and keep up the routine day-to-day, will mean you're consistently improving yourself, which surely can't be a bad thing!
PeterOliver 12y ago
Does this support recurring tasks?
- jamesisaac 12y ago
  Yup, repeating every X days, or following a weekly schedule. Run-down of all the different types here: https://nachapp.com/help/guides/repeating https://nachapp.com/help/guides/repeating - and you can access those options with the Edit button in the top corner of a step's page.

krapp 12y ago

apologies for the repost (had to fiddle with something), but here is a quick and dirty userscript to display imgur links in hacker news threads. I thought it would make screenshot saturdays nicer. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/471215 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/471215 the screenshot i'm posting is everybody's screenshots ^^

Adrock 12y ago

I've been doing a lot of 3D modeling recently and have wanted to sign my work, so I added text rendering to the Clojure library I've been using: https://twitter.com/adereth/status/457217237313925120/photo/1 https://twitter.com/adereth/status/457217237313925120/photo/... Learned a bit about font rendering and Java's awt packages.

Snail_Commando 12y ago
I've been using this library, it's quite nice.

bemmu 12y ago

Added a set of questions that customers can answer after starting their Candy Japan subscription. Hopefully this will let me understand them better and help with setting the tone in the way I write, possibly influence product choices and help with marketing. http://i.imgur.com/3wNZrSN.png http://i.imgur.com/3wNZrSN.png It's amazing what a nice bunch my customers are. Out of 500 subscribers already 70 have volunteered their time to answer the question set that I just sent out. For typical ecommerce emails, 14% might be the number of people who open an email, but here they not only opened, but clicked through some obscure link on the bottom and spent time answering a long questionnaire for me. I haven't collected the answers yet, but here are the questions. - Why they subscribed - Who will eat the candies? - Do they have kids? - Are they into anime? - Have they been to Japan? - What are their hobbies? Also included some that might help with online advertising: - Age - Gender - Education level - Married? - Social networks they use - Other websites they visit (5 people mentioned Hacker News) I'm thinking of writing up a blog post describing what I learned, will post it later.

Joyfield 12y ago
As soon as my economy clears up i gonna subscribe.

jplur 12y ago

Working on a design & layout app for html. I recently switched to om/react.js and it's been a huge improvement in my workflow. http://i.imgur.com/fvUiUpa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fvUiUpa.jpg

clay_to_n 12y ago

I'm building a book-reader app using the Spritz API. I started this at LAHacks with help from Spritz developers, but I've decided to keep working on it and try to get it in the App Store. Main view when paused: http://imgur.com/2IyQkSG http://imgur.com/2IyQkSG Main view when reading: http://imgur.com/yukcvyW http://imgur.com/yukcvyW If you don't know what Spritz is, it's a technology / service to let you read more efficiently, by displaying each word in the same place. Your eyes don't need to scan to find the next word, and most people can increase their reading speeds by a lot because of this. Many dyslexics find reading with Spritz far more comfortable than reading printed text. I'm not going to argue it's use for reading in ranges upwards of 1000 wpm, but I do think it's comfortable and usable for general reading (300 - 400 wpm personally). Features already integrated: - Chapters. - Change the speed as you're reading with a slider. Most Spritz applications don't have this, and it's a shame. - Pause, play, jump back a few words. Things left to do: - EPUB & MOBI support. Shouldn't be too hard. Currently it just reads TXT documents. - Add Books. From URL initially, next step will be GDrive + Dropbox. - Bookmarks. Very easy to do with .txt documents, maybe a bit different for e-book formats.

will_lam 12y ago

Been learning Ruby via Learn Code The Hard Way for a part time Rails course that I'm taking over at BrainStation.it https://www.evernote.com/shard/s51/sh/b463df04-03b4-44cc-9f03-972a4df29797/6b2dd34cf8e86fd85874237d88f4c4e1/deep/0/Exercise-38--Doing-Things-To-Lists---Learn-Ruby-The-Hard-Way.png https://www.evernote.com/shard/s51/sh/b463df04-03b4-44cc-9f0...

TD-Linux 12y ago

Javascript-based axial flux motor simulator. http://imgur.com/Iv5qbFC http://imgur.com/Iv5qbFC Being used to play with parameters for an in-hub solar vehicle motor. The next step is integrating it with FEA-derived flux densities for higher accuracy.

kevinsundar 12y ago

Highschooler here building a reddit bot that can be summoned to create posters, tshirts, mugs, mousepads, etc from images and comments posted on reddit. It's around 70% done. The hard parts: creating the posters from comments (imagemagick) and creating a product page (zazzle api) are both done. Now i'm just working on getting a rabbitmq cluster up and running so that it can process multiple comments at once. Also working on the design of the the items because right now it's pretty bland with just b/w text. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/8SOMHBl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/8SOMHBl.jpg

bglazer 12y ago
This is super awesome. That's a great idea and your code (what's in the screenshot at least) looks nice as well.
- kevinsundar 12y ago
  Thanks! I've been working on this on and off for the last couple of weeks and getting more ideas and feedback before releasing an initial version. Also here's a better screenshot of what a poster might look like: http://imgur.com/YMGwlCo http://imgur.com/YMGwlCo

mnicolosi 12y ago

I'm working on a parallel EEPROM programmer using Arduino. I'm not using the Arduino IDE since it's a pain and instead using vim and cmake. http://imgur.com/a/IxQs5 http://imgur.com/a/IxQs5 https://github.com/manicolosi/ardburno https://github.com/manicolosi/ardburno I'm experimenting with SPI to transfer the addresses to the shift registers faster and as you can see by the serial output, it's not quite reliable yet. Debugging timing issues is tricky. I'm also making a PCB. I plan on making it using toner transfer method once some blank PCBs arrive.

dclowd9901 12y ago

Working on getting a '94 miata I recently bought track ready. So far I've installed a rollbar, bled and replaced the brake fluid and fixed a leaky valve cover. I have a brake rotor dial indicator coming in soon so I can diagnose whether the rotors need replacing or not (which will probably be next Saturday's project).

Simucal 12y ago

I'm writing an iPad app for Mediabrowser 3 (mediabrowser3.com) with another developer. Mediabrowser is in the same space as Plex and XBMC. If everything goes well we plan on launching later this month. http://i.imgur.com/xCyfnjt.png http://i.imgur.com/xCyfnjt.png http://i.imgur.com/RNAUaNN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RNAUaNN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/n3j11jI.png http://i.imgur.com/n3j11jI.png http://i.imgur.com/mA4JTNu.png http://i.imgur.com/mA4JTNu.png We have invested a lot of time and effort into making the app fast. Our mantra from the very beginning was that speed was going to be a keystone feature for our app. The fluidity of scrolling in our views was one of the main things we focused on. We wrote test code that continuously scrolls our views up and down while we profile it. We are utilizing Path's FastImageCache along with a lot of other caching to get the performance levels that we wanted. We are considering writing a new backend for our client app so we can launch a similar app for XBMC as well.

antr 12y ago
Really cool, I love the UI. As a Plex user I look forward to some alternatives and competition. I will certainly download this app

tsumnia 12y ago

I love the idea, didn't see last week's but I'll join in today. Currently working on a project known as Senescere, latin for 'to grow old'. Before working in HVAC optimization, for grad school I was a research assistant to a face recognition laboratory that specialized in digitally aging the face based on statistical data such as race/age/gender. Recently, our system was used by Allure magazine to get the opinions of plastic surgery from college-aged women; we're looking to piggy back the exposure with a web app that you can use to see how you age. Right now, I have a base front-end built up, though we are tweaking to think of better wording. Front-end Top Portion (Image from PlaceIt by Breezi)- http://imgur.com/50zZgs3 http://imgur.com/50zZgs3 Front-end Second Portion - http://imgur.com/f48NGGF http://imgur.com/f48NGGF After an image gets uploaded, we ask to point out the eyes and nose so we can align all 252 'landmark points' to the face through affine transformation. As of right now, I'm in the process of switching where the payment part comes into play. If someone uploads an image, it is added to their dashboard (where I am currently cleaning up). Uploaded Face Labeling - http://imgur.com/JvtTcoB http://imgur.com/JvtTcoB User Dashboard - http://imgur.com/Rk95jTI http://imgur.com/Rk95jTI Affine Transformation - http://imgur.com/eBeVydI http://imgur.com/eBeVydI Once everything is squared away, I'll be looking towards automating our aging process, since it currently is very 'hands on'. If we get enough traction through this, I'd like to branch out from the 'app' area into working with cosmetic companies to build something they can use to show makeup/aging creams without wasting product.

sehr 12y ago
Oh wow that is awesome, the makeup idea is especially solid. Even if you don't end up partnering with a large company, hobbyists and door to door salesmen/women would be a possible market. More and more of them are already using things like Square in their purchase processes, I imagine having an app on hand to transform clientele beforehand would be pretty enticing.
- tsumnia 12y ago
  Yup! My thought process is to have a standalone system installed at cosmetic kiosks in malls. Then, you're not wasting product on someone that doesn't buy, and if someone does want to buy, you've already got a list of products they've tried you can ring them up for. Payment-wise, I'm going with Stripe, but also going to be adding Paypal into the fold tomorrow. I want to steer away from the app market since its already overwhelmed with AgeBooth and the like. We're marketing this as more than just slapping a Photoshop filter on your face (ala AgeBooth).

jlahijani 12y ago

Continuing to work on my bookmarking / high performance link management and archiving system called Metamarks. Will be done in ~2 months. http://imgur.com/ihULyxb http://imgur.com/ihULyxb higher res: http://jonathanlahijani.com/metamarks/metamarks_screenshot_001.png http://jonathanlahijani.com/metamarks/metamarks_screenshot_0...

acesubido 12y ago

I'm working on a simple expense/income tracker that me and my wife can use. Excel sheets/templates and other finance apps are way too complicated, we both agreed that in the end accounting is as simple as taking down notes in a ledger -- why not enter those entries just as easy as tweeting (categorize expense/income in hashtags, etc.) http://imgur.com/a/fCJJv http://imgur.com/a/fCJJv It's not as complex or innovative as other accounting systems and projects in here, but it's working out for the both of us and we're using it.

pyvek 12y ago

Nothing really fancy like other people here. I'm making an admin template based on bootstrap. It's my first attempt at it and I plan to sell it on wrapbootstrap/themeforest (if they find it good enough for their marketplace). http://i.imgur.com/Q12ACJu.png http://i.imgur.com/Q12ACJu.png http://i.imgur.com/7gqyQiN.png http://i.imgur.com/7gqyQiN.png http://i.imgur.com/sEVu6lG.png http://i.imgur.com/sEVu6lG.png

ttty 12y ago
Love the minimalist flat design
alexgaribay 12y ago
Love the design. What are you using to make your graphs?
- pyvek 12y ago
  Thanks! Sorry for the late reply. I'm using flot charts [1] for the big traffic graph and peity [2] for the smaller ones. Apart from that, there are some other good options like morris.js [3], Chart.js [4], flotr2 [5], xCharts [6] and sparklines [7]. There are more if you search for them but I've used the ones I mentioned in the template. Added more screenshots of the charts pages. [8] [9] [10] [11] [1] http://www.flotcharts.org/ http://www.flotcharts.org/ [2] http://benpickles.github.io/peity/ http://benpickles.github.io/peity/ [3] http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/ http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/ [4] http://www.chartjs.org/ http://www.chartjs.org/ [5] http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/ http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/ [6] http://tenxer.github.io/xcharts/ http://tenxer.github.io/xcharts/ [7] http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ [8] http://i.imgur.com/MvaDsJk.png http://i.imgur.com/MvaDsJk.png [9] http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2875/k3uv.png http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2875/k3uv.png [10] http://i.imgur.com/SKhFxiC.png http://i.imgur.com/SKhFxiC.png [11] http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5030/jygx.png http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5030/jygx.png

motyar 12y ago

Got lobi.mobi domain, Have no idea.