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Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

134 points by screenshot 12y ago

Please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation about what you have been working on for the past week.

robinhoodexe 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/F58XeiU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/F58XeiU.jpg Finishing a project (Synthesis and analysis of vanillin from eugenol for those interested). Looking at some NMR-spectra. I love LaTeX for collaborating, makes everything much easier to manage.
Freeboots 12y ago
I published my first chrome extension the other day. Its a very simple UI tweak (http://i.imgur.com/QoTK0N6.png http://i.imgur.com/QoTK0N6.png) that adds buttons to move through Youtube videos frame by frame. You can also use mouse wheel to scroll through frames, which has lent it the name 'Frame Scroll'. Its on the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/frame-scroll-for-youtube/llinnoiobmohhbhnkflcflojcomgonge https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/frame-scroll-for-y... and I wrote a short blog post: http://michaelyockney.com/frame-scroll-extension-for-chrome/ http://michaelyockney.com/frame-scroll-extension-for-chrome/
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strooltz 12y ago
It's not really a side project but I spent today rebuilding the website for our asbury park, nj based coworking space - http://cowerks.com http://cowerks.com - would love some feedback/copy editing. disclaimer - it is built on squarespace.
CSDude 12y ago
http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa PAGS: Programming Assignment Grading System. I'm a Msc student and a teaching assitant. Grading programming assignments of students takes so much time because of preparing files, environments, viewing code, multipe outputs etc. Besides my research, I developed this Docker based web application, where assignments are Dockerfile + run script + required/supplied/output files. Main motivation: I can grade ~80 student projects in at most 1 hour, even looking at code besides their output. It took almost 2 days before, and repetitive tasks made me lose my mind. It keeps me sane, and saves me tremendous time. http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr
- nickstinemates 12y ago
  This is brilliant. We recently showcased another course doing something very similar. Looks like an area someone could create a company :)
- Freeboots 12y ago
  This looks pretty polished. The custom pricing plans is cool, maybe you want to set up presets or suggested plans?
  - CSDude 12y ago
    Yeah, that would be nice, i.e. Java assignments may need larger RAM
- lalos 12y ago
  Guessing the use of docker is to mitigate possible harmful student code executing in the server?
  - CSDude 12y ago
    Yes, and they can open same ports, same message queues, semaphores concurrently without problem, and makes it easy to define custom build environments. As a bonus, students can replicate my exact environment, so they cannot say "But it works on my machine"
- Pezmc 12y ago
  Really like the idea, my uni is currently investigating use of domjudge to mark assignments, but couple that with face to face feedback while reviewing the code.
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- danpalmer 12y ago
  It's a really good idea to have something like this to create a canonical build environment. We've had quite a few issues on my course of "it works on my machine". The only thing I'm wondering about is GUI programs. Currently it looks like those wouldn't be possible, which is unfortunate, because several of the main programming assignments I've had have been Java GUI applications, C++ and OpenGL programs, etc. I wonder how these could be done?
joshmn 12y ago
In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point. While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit more friendly, as well as features. The current iteration is http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png
- hack_edu 12y ago
  Great site! I'd really recommend you change the name though. 'EDM' is pretty cringe-worthy word these days (much like 'electronica' and 'alternative'), and just generally doesn't roll off the tongue too well.
  - joshmn 12y ago
    Thanks! I'm usually much more cautious about branding/naming but for the life of me, I couldn't hit a sweet spot. So I went with whatever I could think of. Open to suggestions :)
    - glomph 12y ago
      Just listen2dance?
    - rbobby 12y ago
      Listen2ItAll
- dsl 12y ago
  This is AWESOME.
- copperx 12y ago
  Looks great! I had the same problem and then I found HypeMachine (hypem.com).
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krapp 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/rSMME2e.jpg http://i.imgur.com/rSMME2e.jpg Homework - a basic CRUD app in VB to manage reservations for a movie theatre, through a remote database connection.
- dsschnau 12y ago
  Do you have a customer for this, or just making it for the heck of it?
  - krapp 12y ago
    This is a final class project (Advanced VB.) After the semester's over i'll probably rewrite it in C# (because I really am not a fan of VB) and find some use for it. Edit: I just realized my last post made it look like the name of the app was "Homework"... no, it literally is homework :)
serverascode 12y ago
I've been working on an project called Swiftacular that uses Ansible to deploy OpenStack Swift to Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 6, and Ubuntu 14.04. https://github.com/curtisgithub/swiftacular https://github.com/curtisgithub/swiftacular
pedrokost 12y ago
I am working on a personal project: book reading logger http://imgur.com/APYWfLn http://imgur.com/APYWfLn The back-end is a Rails API, the front end is an Ember app. This was a nice project to learn Ember.
callmeed 12y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7010clm7smjfxs/_20140426_145022_20140426_145042.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7010clm7smjfxs/_20140426_145022_2... I'm working on an iOS app that lets you run Apache Bench (and dig & ping) from your phone. It has a Rails back-end that actually performs the ab command and parses the results into a JSON response.
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  - waj8792 12y ago
    Hey callmeed! Shoot me an email at whostherellc@gmail.com. I have a project I'd like to discuss with you!
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dang 12y ago
All: it's not clear yet whether we should have "Screenshot Saturday" and "Idea Sunday" as regular features, or whether they should be weekly if we do. Happy to hear arguments pro and con, though perhaps not in this thread. (Edit: On second thought, we might as well discuss it here and keep it at the bottom.) If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the only account currently allowed to make bot submissions, and it seems better to extend an existing system than create a new one. In the meantime, we changed both the title and the text of this submission to be closer to previous editions.
- coffeecodecouch 12y ago
  Currently I like the idea of Screenshot Saturday. If I'm not mistaken Hacker News wants more user created content. Screenshot Saturday allows the community to know what each other is working on, and can even help people build traction for their projects. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future people have their weekly Saturday posts prepared in advance with links to their email list sign up and Twitter handles. I do still think though that it should be named "Side Project Saturday"[0]. I'm indifferent about Idea Sunday, so if you were to remove one to keep the automated submissions to a minimum I would ask that it be that. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580150
- seizethecheese 12y ago
  One pro argument is that if the quality of these goes down hill they will fail to make the front page anyway, so what's the down-side?
  - dang 12y ago
    I suspect that's wrong and that they'll make it to the front page regardless.
    - seizethecheese 12y ago
      Wrong from whose perspective? It's strange that "wrong" things make it to the front page. By definition wouldn't that make them "right?"
anmonteiro90 12y ago
I've been working on a simple news scraper to make a custom news aggregator for the websites I usually read. I published an alpha version today on npm, and would really appreciate your feedback. https://github.com/anmonteiro/mns https://github.com/anmonteiro/mns
foofoobar 12y ago
Simple photoalbum sharing service to host on your own (I use it for friends/family). Main purpose was to allow groups to collaborative upload and create albums. Also wanted to test some new things (koajs, reactjs). Feedback appreciated! http://imgur.com/a/92W2u http://imgur.com/a/92W2u https://github.com/rverton/circlephotos https://github.com/rverton/circlephotos
return0 12y ago
I 've been working on 2 things past week: 1) http://i.imgur.com/S6gv2Gt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/S6gv2Gt.jpg http://hopgenie.com/ http://hopgenie.com/ - Community for travelers with travel tips, advice, questions etc. 2) http://i.imgur.com/DI2sO5o.png http://i.imgur.com/DI2sO5o.png http://sciboards.org/ http://sciboards.org/ - News aggregator / Q&A for scientific research
cj 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/KpULrEs.png http://i.imgur.com/KpULrEs.png Localize.js, a javascript library for translating websites. It detects and translates text on your website, and provides a UI for ordering and managing translations. Docs: https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation
- andrewlouis93 12y ago
  This is sick. I haven't looked into other website localizing solutions, but how is this approach better than what's currently being used in industry?
  - cj 12y ago
    The traditional localization approach is very time intensive, and requires a large time commitment to implement properly. Localize.js automates most of the localization process, which lets you localize your site in ~10% of the time it would normally take. The traditional way you'd localize a website is by replacing text in your template files with string keys. For example: <h1>Hello world!</h1> . becomes... <h1>{{ t 'homepage.hello_world' }}</h1> You'd then maintain dictionary files that maps "homepage.hello_world" to "Hello world!", with a separate dictionary for each language. Additional complications arise when you want to pluralize phrases, since different languages pluralize phrases differently, etc. It's a pain to setup an effective localization workflow using the traditional approach. Localize.js handles all of this automatically, and removes the need to convert your template files or manage your own phrases and translations. If you're interested in trying it out, I'd love to get in touch :) bp@brandonpaton.com
    - gbog 12y ago
      Can't check your site because I'm on a phone. I would interested to know how you solve this issue.
- tluyben2 12y ago
  Very nice work. Definitely something we'll be using.
erik 12y ago
Life Goes On! A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles. http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/) I thought that after the game launched I would have some time to relax. But support, bug fixes, responding to media requests, and planning next steps has kept me very busy. http://www.LifeGoesOnGame.com http://www.LifeGoesOnGame.com
- ew 12y ago
  I was at that game jam! Glad to see this released :)
- Legend 12y ago
  Amazing concept! :) Good luck with the game.
  - erik 12y ago
    Thanks!
- suby 12y ago
  Congratulations on the release, the game looks awesome. I hope it does well.
- bm1362 12y ago
  Any advice on getting started with Unity? I've always tried to start a weekend project and get inevitably get bogged down in the details of Unity/Mono.
  - erik 12y ago
    We started by hacking up the 2d platform sample game project that Unity bundles. Getting started was a bit rough, and the results from the first weekend were pretty buggy. Once we got to know Unity we were pretty happy with the decision though. I'm sure that there are good resources for getting up to speed quickly, but unfortunately I don't have any recommendations for how to do it. One suggestion that I can make is to stick to C#. Unity offers "Javascript", but Unityscript isn't really Javascript, and is more headaches than it is worth in my experience.
andrewlouis93 12y ago
Been working on my first Rails app for a few http://sixtasks.heroku.com http://sixtasks.heroku.com because I think the idea of a to-do list is powerful, but the concept needs refining. Also, I wanted to be able to track my productivity in a tangible way, and Six Tasks helps me do that: http://i.imgur.com/5bbLxJo.png http://i.imgur.com/5bbLxJo.png Trying to add features like smarter task recording, and maybe tagging list items, idk I'm just making it up as I go along
RMarcus 12y ago
http://imgur.com/ax8oMxe http://imgur.com/ax8oMxe A semi-social stat tracking website for DOTA players. More advanced statistics than gathered by DOTABUFF, but those aren't shown in the screenshot.
- babby 12y ago
  Thats actually pretty amusing, though I can't help but wonder whether it will only be convenient if actually integrated into DOTA/Facebook etc. At the moment, isn't it just DOTA: Stalker?
  - RMarcus 12y ago
    I'm really not sure. It emerged from a few of my friends noticing that we often check each other's DOTABUFF pages, especially after a few of us moved to the opposite coast. I suppose it's basically just DOTA stalking at the moment. That's also a potentially interesting title... DOTAstalker.
bunkerbewohner 12y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cflduw99mys261/22.04.2014.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cflduw99mys261/22.04.2014.png Together with my brother I've been working on our little passion project "Nations Online" (still very early stage). The goal is basically a decent Civilization-like game that runs in the browser and on tablets with improved and larger scale multiplayer (at least up to 32 players) and 3D graphics. It was mostly born out of frustrations with Civ 5's slow and buggy multiplayer mode. The server is based on Scala & Akka, the client is plain JavaScript and WebGL/ThreeJS.
- Pezmc 12y ago
  For early stage it looks pretty good! Would move to see it completed. It suit Civ style play particularly well if it could be set up to notify everyone when it was their turn (similar to how some online chess apps function).
  - bunkerbewohner 12y ago
    Thanks, we definitely plan notifications via email and if possible other messenging services.
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Pezmc 12y ago
A web application for my Computer Science dissertation (I'm writing up the report at the moment). The idea was to produce a web app that you upload your bank statements to, the system categorises the transactions and then predicts how much money you will spend in each category next month. Underneath the system is using machine learning techniques to model the spending, deciding whether or not a particular transaction will occur and triple exponential smoothing to predict how much would be spent. Screenshot of the homepage (fake data): http://i.imgur.com/Tr05dfd.png http://i.imgur.com/Tr05dfd.png I'm currently seeking research participants if any UK based (not tested with non UK data) users would like to give it a try: http://secure.pezcuckow.com/register http://secure.pezcuckow.com/register. There's a survey link on the home page. -- Edit: I also put together a biblatex checker which I've been using to validate my reference files for my report. http://i.imgur.com/an054GS.png http://i.imgur.com/an054GS.png https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex-check https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex-check
wingerlang 12y ago
Neat. I just posted on reddit so I guess I'll just grab the same text. ----------- This is still an expense tracker "Spendy". - Multiple currencies are handled smooth. You have one main currency but you can add multiple others and set up exchange rates for them. You can add expenses/incomes for them in any currency and in the log-view it will automatically show you both the entered currency and a smaller converted amount in your main currency. Perfect for travellers. - Easy, quick. Non verbose UI. - Data will not be locked in in any way. Dropbox sync, email data in CSV etc. - Pretty? Color theme can be changed. - Basic basic basic charts for now. 14 days overview is implemented. Will do more later. ----------- So I've worked a bit more on the app and I thought I'd put it here again. This is the previous version: http://i.imgur.com/L54TV4O.jpg http://i.imgur.com/L54TV4O.jpg And this is the new one: http://imgur.com/EtcpEqp http://imgur.com/EtcpEqp (excuse the layout and/or the large res) I'll see if I can sum up the changes: - Changed color to green, although I've made the color-theme chooseable by the user (see the bottom). The color theme is on the buttons, the "tints" (such as some text colors and etc). - Made the Money log entries bigger/more space. - Less stuff in the menu. - Added a "settings" panel. - Chart is now colored and includes both incomes and expenses. - Before I had alertviews for lots of things. This has been replaces by inline buttons (see: delete/edit). These are also affected by the users chosen color btw. - The tag-view is still bare-bones, but centered and alternating row-colors. - The Currency-view is completely remade, see the bottom for how it looks. I tried to make "more" out of virtually no info and I do think it worked pretty well. Any feedback is welcome! ------- And a short GIF of the app in action. http://imgur.com/PFnRae7 http://imgur.com/PFnRae7 ------- EDIT: Format. Sorry about the length of this text.
jackhammons 12y ago
Just doing a little Saturday afternoon verilog. http://i.imgur.com/gkB6FMh.png http://i.imgur.com/gkB6FMh.png
- Patrick_Devine 12y ago
  I'm not sure this is what ESR meant with Linus's Law when he said "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law
dougmccune 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/quhpXWi.png http://i.imgur.com/quhpXWi.png NodeJS module to convert maps (shapefiles, geojson, topojson, or KML) into 3D models that are suitable for 3D printing. I've done a lot of 3D printing of map data before, but mostly using a pretty manual process to create the models. This auomates the whole thing. The posted image is population by census block group in the bay area. The raw data is shown on the left and my converted 3D model for the 3D printer is on the right.
- xemoka 12y ago
  This is cool. I work in GIS at a college and would be interested in seeing / hearing more about this... do you have a repo or a blog about it?
  - dougmccune 12y ago
    Getting it ready for github and I'm also planning to publish it to npm. It's still pretty rough around the edges, so hopefully in another weekend or two I'll get it out there.
_davidchambers 12y ago
https://github.com/davidchambers/dotfiles/pull/1 https://github.com/davidchambers/dotfiles/pull/1 Fix for ugly `npm` output.
cocoflunchy 12y ago
Working on an iOS game with a friend, built with cocos2d. It's my first time doing native iOS development, and also my first time building a 'real' game (ie that moves). The performance concerns are really interesting, even with such simple graphics. http://i.imgur.com/YBUEHhw.png http://i.imgur.com/YBUEHhw.png http://i.imgur.com/VoIu5sq.png http://i.imgur.com/VoIu5sq.png
covercash 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/3fcnnfS.png http://i.imgur.com/3fcnnfS.png Help fund life changing medical procedures for people in need while you sleep! Stream this album while you sleep and 100% of royalty payments go directly to watsi.org I really liked the Spotify hack from a few weeks back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550), but didn't really have any interest in supporting that band. So I took the concept and uploaded pink noise (distrokid kicks back silent tracks) that I've been streaming while I sleep. Right now I'm just testing it with a handful of people and won't have results for another month or so due to a delay in royalty reporting. If we end up raising decent money, I plan to roll this out on a larger scale. It's not technical by any means, but it's still a fun hack and I'm learning a lot about the streaming music business along the way. Based on what I've read, we can potentially earn $2-5 per user per night. I've already been in contact with watsi and will be linking the distrokid account directly to the official watsi paypal so all funds will automatically get deposited to them.
pa7 12y ago
I've been working on an interactive data visualization about the scale of the brain. It is supposed to educate people about parts of the brain and its depth. ETA: next Tuesday http://imgur.com/cthoD4n http://imgur.com/cthoD4n
- rokhayakebe 12y ago
  Interesting, I guess you could expand into other areas and end up having the entire body. While you at it, I hope you are building it as a platform allowing others to create something similar for anything physical: cars, trees, whatever...
ortuna 12y ago
My side project: http://arturo.io http://arturo.io Automated book builds on commits and PRs: http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#0 http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#0 Automatic diffs for PRs/Commits: http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#1 http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#1 Stylesheet support here is the base output with custom link colors: http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#2 http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#2
tulsidas 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/1LZNRg7.png http://i.imgur.com/1LZNRg7.png multiplayer hacking game
louisstow 12y ago
I've been working on a "web app builder". It lets users create a web app based on a pre-built template and tweak it to their hearts content. Examples are link-sharing apps like reddit, image sharing like Dribbble, blogs, cms, pastebins etc. Link here: http://getsproute.com http://getsproute.com It's also open-source: http://github.com/sproute/sproute http://github.com/sproute/sproute
- petersouth 12y ago
  Can't wait to use this! Thanks for making it!
- jtokoph 12y ago
  Just an FYI that you're heartbleed vulnerable: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=getsproute.com https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=getsproute.co...
  - louisstow 12y ago
    Oops forgot to restart Nginx after updating. Thanks!
- chrisrickard 12y ago
  Very cool, I have been tinkering with something similar.
Spearchucker 12y ago
https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/images/interact.png https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/images/interact.png A database that synchronizes across desktop and phone. It uses client-side encryption and syncs via a zero-knowledge server. It keeps a record of all changes made to any data (like records management, but for database rows). This week was about reducing the 40 KLOC by optimising some code that's four years old. This thing started many years ago, and I'm working towards getting a first release in out the summer. Background: https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441a-9894-70784f43f8a0 https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441...
nraynaud 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/izk5Rbr.png http://i.imgur.com/izk5Rbr.png online g-code simulator. http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/ http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/ and a pocketing toolpath generator http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html
Edmond 12y ago
http://jasymchat.com http://jasymchat.com It is a computer algebra system (CAS) mobile web app with built in chat. Suitable for highschool,undergrad and grads school work. basically it would be like if matlab had chat built in :)
y3di 12y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%202014-04-26%20at%206.35.53%20PM.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020... A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary) The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results) What I wanna do eventually: - Permalinks to analysis for specific songs (and which current combo's are being viewed in that song) - Speed up the core algorithm - Allow people to add new words to the pronunctiation dictionary - Move away from the barebones bootstrappy look - Explain the process visibly on the site
- darushimo 12y ago
  looks great!
- NamTaf 12y ago
  You should incorporate the metre of the music itself to help wtih identifying rhymes. For example, the middle chunk of your example is missing the full picture of the rhyming from the 'reality' part onwards, specifically where it's missed 'he won't have it, he' with 'have it, he' being on the same beat as 'reality' before it. I think the timing will help you a lot rather than just trying to notice punctuation. After all, music is about the rhythm.
  - y3di 12y ago
    The reason 'have it' wasn't matched is because the vowel phoneme in the word 'have' is: "AE" whereas the example in the screenshot was matching combos with successive vowels "AH - IH". So 'have' didn't match that scheme. I agree that these should match, and have been throwing around the idea of matching similar sounding phonemes together. I completely agree though, the metre/rhythm plays a huge part in a poet or rapper's flow and you don't get the full story without incorporating it. The issue is that I haven't found a way to programmatically pull the metre from a song, and rapper's don't generally keep track of their metre, let alone put it online in a machine readable format (though I'm sure you could find ones for hugely popular songs like 'Lose Yourself' online!). I am interested in figuring this out though, and have been throwing around ideas for people to simply generate metre for songs by having a tool that simply allows users to match words to times in a song. Though I'm not sure how scalable that is, or how to create such a tool that is drastically simple and fast to use, because otherwise it defeats the point. My hope is that there'd be a way to algorithmically parse the audio and look for inflection points in a song for where words might lie but I've done no research towards that end. digression: This kinda tech would probably be useful for generating 'sing-a-longs'
larrybolt 12y ago
I know about Kimsufi, don't know how reliable those are though. http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/ http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/
maresca 12y ago
LottoLane / http://www.lottolane.com http://www.lottolane.com Lottery Pools for the 21st Century. LottoLane handles all aspects of lottery pools. Keep friends/family/colleagues in the loop with upcoming drawings. Track who has paid to play. Share pics of tickets with pool members. Find out if you've won instantly after a drawing without checking the numbers yourself. Screenshot of a lottery drawing page: http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png Screenshot of sending emails to users: http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png
- rokhayakebe 12y ago
  This should be 100% mobile first, even if mobile web. I do not play lottery, but I can see this being very very valuable to people who play in groups. Or even just for individuals who want to keep track of the combinations they played in the past.
  - maresca 12y ago
    I agree. I'm using bootstrap for the layouts, so it should translate to mobile fairly easily. The nice thing is the players in a pool won't have to sign up. Only the lottery pool manager has to sign up. It's pretty convenient. We have a pool at work but aren't allowed to use our work emails for it. So this was born out of necessity.
imwhimsical 12y ago
Bake Making to-do lists better. http://arsln.co/VCsx http://arsln.co/VCsx
holic 12y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bglsyo0tnwp6ddd/Screenshot%202014-04-27%2012.09.56.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/bglsyo0tnwp6ddd/Screenshot%202014-... I needed a better way to visualize upcoming music events at a given location, filtered by genre. This is a project I've been working on bit by bit over the last few years, has been rewritten several times, and is about to get a design overhaul once the functionality is finished (getting close!).
- mrmondo 12y ago
  Neat! I'll keep an eye on this.
jw2013 12y ago
gittribute (http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/ http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/) Gittribute saves your time on getting help on your open-source project. Need help on your project? All you need is to add one line on your Github project's README.md & click your link there, and then everyone in the world will see you need help and they will find you. It is under MIT license here: https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute I want to post a screenshot, but currently there is only one project listed on the website, so may be it is better if those interested care to check the website itself: http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/ http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/
w4 12y ago
Auto Miles: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic-mileage/id817598888?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic-mileage... It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on custom tax system support for international users since a bunch of users are looking for it, plus a bunch of minor bug fixes (ugh): https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png As an aside, I would kill for iOS to have a static maps API like Google does. MKMapViews are way too resource intensive to have multiple on screen at a time like Auto Miles needs, and I found MKMapSnapshotter to be really finicky and still use too much memory.
- car 12y ago
  Awesome, thank you! As an aside, searching in the app store with "automiles" doesn't bring up the app. I've been using 'Moves' to track contracting hours. In that vein, would be great if you could add hour tracking, e.g. for the time spent at a client location.
  - w4 12y ago
    Huh, thanks for pointing that out! May have to add the misspelled name into the keywords for the next version (iTunes keywords are a PITA: they're limited to 100 characters, and can't be edited between versions). What do you mean by hour tracking? Like time-sheets functionality (which seems a bit out of the scope), or something simple you could type in how long you spent at the location? I've been considering adding a notes option for logs, which might work for something like that.
    - car 12y ago
      Right now I will look up how long I've spent at a client location to prepare the timesheet for billing. If the app, like Moves, knew where 'work' is, it could do this automagically. Could be out of scope depending on perspective, but for me it would be killing two birds with one stone.
asanwal 12y ago
The Business Social Graph It maps relationships between companies, their investors, acquirers, competitors & customers/partners. http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_graph/amex.png http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_gra...
- tomek_zemla 12y ago
  Interesting... Are you familiar with theyrule.net - the art project of futurefarmers from few years ago? Note that it seems to be Java driven so you need a desktop browser to see it.
davidpolberger 12y ago
http://imgur.com/qc0zTnJ http://imgur.com/qc0zTnJ I've spent a few hours today dealing with the fallout from the landing page we launched a few months ago. The landing page is for the cloud-based calculator app builder Calcapp Creator that we're hoping will replace Excel for a good many use cases. (Build a calculator app using the service and have it generate apps for iOS, Android, desktop computers and the web.) I do customer development by responding to every sign-up and asking people their precise requirements. That invariably leads to people sending me obfuscated Excel calculators, which I then analyze. A couple of months ago, I spent a lot of time having lunch with businesses interested in our service, now I mostly interact with people that have found the landing page. That thankfully leaves more time for product development. I spent the rest of the day playing with the browser-based app builder -- which is implemented using AngularJS -- and on modifying our custom compiler (which produces the apps) to accept JSON data from the app builder.
J_Darnley 12y ago
Not the usual faire for this site, or this thread but... I was tinkering with using the solarized colour scheme in vim which led me onto hacking on mintty. I added some GUI controls for the 16 ANSI colours. https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=193#c12 https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=193#c12 and a small screenshot https://mintty.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=1930012000&name=mintty-gui-colour-controls.png&token=ymrS60K9uldpZfKhDXISu4Y5BUk%3A1398558560801&inline=1 https://mintty.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=19300120...
bound008 12y ago
http://git-paid.gitescrow.com http://git-paid.gitescrow.com Payments for freelancers You can have your clients pre-fund your contract. You push milestones at tags on git, and when they approve your milestone you get paid instantly, and they get a zip of the code http://i.imgur.com/VSRueph.png http://i.imgur.com/VSRueph.png gulping it up, and get ready for deployment.
PabloOsinaga 12y ago
Making http://bandhub.us http://bandhub.us grow http://i.imgur.com/TDndNDJ.png http://i.imgur.com/TDndNDJ.png
mafuyu 12y ago
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_003.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_003.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png https://github.com/hylian/arducard https://github.com/hylian/arducard Just soldered this up. It's a small e-paper device with USB, buttons, a real-time clock, FRAM, an ATmega32u4, and a rechargeable battery. I'm trying to get USB CDC virtual serial up right now, so that I can test and debug the rest of the board, but it's proving to be a bit difficult...
- plingamp 12y ago
  looks awesome! it's always great to see hardware stuff on hn :)
- whiskers 12y ago
  Hey that is really nice! Are you interested in looking for a way to get them manufactured?
  - mafuyu 12y ago
    If there is community interest, I definitely would! I love the Pibow, by the way. ;)
    - whiskers 12y ago
      Drop me an e-mail (details in profile) we're definitely looking for e-paper/ink options at the moment! Glad you're a fan of the Pibow! :-)
girasquid 12y ago
I've been teaching myself actionscript 3 so that I can build games - right now I'm working on a game where you run a pizza shop, because I used to like playing lemonade stand: http://d.pr/i/zJh4 http://d.pr/i/zJh4 Today has mostly been spent working on getting some of my UI in order, although there's still a lot of work to do as I hammer down the design for that page.
city41 12y ago
I've been adding notifications to Metamorfus. They are all done, going to deploy it out to the site tomorrow http://i.imgur.com/kFSbfLI.png http://i.imgur.com/kFSbfLI.png https://metamorf.us https://metamorf.us
yan 12y ago
My WebKit hack from two years ago that splits the rendering area into N joined columns, such that you scroll content Up->Down->Left->Right. https://vimeo.com/59463521 https://vimeo.com/59463521 The intuition was that screens are almost all wide-screen, but content is all narrow, due to readability. This was an attempt to add a mode to browsers that can let you use more of your screen real estate. I have a draft of a blog post from a year ago explaining my reasoning and a diff of the hack, but I kept putting it off. If people are interested, I'll port it to Blink and write something up about this.
- tomek_zemla 12y ago
  It's an interesting concept and intuitively it might seem desirable to fit in more text/information on the screen, but after some thought I think it would diminish user experience. The supporting arguments come from the principles of graphic design and book publishing. Digital screens are very much evolution of print. Two examples. Think of the well designed art books or hard covers. Large pages with significant areas taken by blank margins. This is easier and more pleasant to look at. Cheap pulp fiction paperbacks on the other hand had little margin space. Second example is the latest redesign of the digital version of the New York Times. It takes advantage of the fact that having blank/white pixels is free in comparison to unused spaces in the print edition and many changes were aimed at reducing number of items on each page not increasing. So in my humble opinion it's an interesting experiment, but in the wrong direction...
  - Renaud 12y ago
    That view seems a bit restrictive. There are cases where having more on screen is useful and actually helps readability, in particular for technical and scientific documentation. Reading an article or a story is pretty much a linear activity: you progress onward and never have to go backward. In that case, readability is very much influenced by a page layout that reduces noise. For other types of documentation, the surroundings of what you are reading are important, and having to actually move the page up/down or flip pages on a book makes you easily loose context. So maybe this n-column reflow is not for everything or everyone, but if it was an option available in my browser, I know I would use it quite often. Another thing to note: newspapers and magazines have multiple columns of text, and they are still very readable. So that n-column layout in a browser might not even be bad for reading articles on website that don't have busy side panels.
TeMPOraL 12y ago
Side project: refactoring an IRC bot I'm writing after hours for fun (both mine and of our local hackerspace). http://i.imgur.com/nAGkbF3.png http://i.imgur.com/nAGkbF3.png The bot is written in Common Lisp and it's intention is to pretend to be human (i.e. parse natural-language requests instead of typical commands) while still providing useful functions for the channels it sits in. By "pretending to be human" I mean that I'm trying to add some personality and emotional model (yet to be done) to the program. It's a playground to test my ideas of creating programs that you can relate emotionally to, as well as some basic machine learning stuff. The "personality" of the bot is based on Alice Margatroid from Touhou Project series. Currently working code at https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice. I'm doing a huge rework of the codebase on https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice/tree/feature/style https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice/tree/feature/style branch right now. An interesting side effect is that after deploying Alice on few channels I have several people asking me for Lisp books/tutorial. It would seem that showing some working, fun project is a good way to get people interested in the language :).
sfalbo 12y ago
I just finished a dice game for iOS called Tripps (also known as 3s). The point is to score less than your opponent and 3s count as zero points. My friends and I often played this at parties so I decided to turn it into an app. Screenshots: http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/56/ad/7c/56ad7c61-b461-10ab-72da-e4b8717962ac/screen568x568.jpeg http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/56/ad/7c/56ad7c61-b... http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/e9/c4/a0/e9c4a0f8-a9d5-e0f6-6378-c4963a0fafae/screen568x568.jpeg http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/e9/c4/a0/e9c4a0f8-a... App Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripps-dice-game/id856299408?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripps-dice-game/id856299408...
felipemnoa 12y ago
Have been working on a Road Engine[1]. Below is a really simple road I created with it: http://imgur.com/GkBq8Oz http://imgur.com/GkBq8Oz The graphics are not great yet but most of the work on the engine itself is almost done. Will be using this for the game I'm currently working on [2] [1] A road engine is a tool for creating a system of roads in just a matter of minutes. [2]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnologies.android.flyingfighterbeta&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnol...
sfalbo 12y ago
The second project that I've been working on is RepairMyRentalPro.com which is a site to help connect landlords and contractors when work is needed on a rental property. The site is in beta but went 'live' a week ago. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/HKHPsqi.png http://i.imgur.com/HKHPsqi.png
- rokhayakebe 12y ago
  I would try to purchase rentalrepair.com, it is a premium domain available for $1000, or buy rentalrepair.net for $9.
  - sfalbo 12y ago
    Thanks for the tip. I picked up rentalrepair.net and rentalrepair.co today.
osmosissupport 12y ago
Working on adding a analytics feature in a side project (https://www.getosmosis.com https://www.getosmosis.com). Right now you can send people questionnaires to set up projects - I'm working on making it so you can see if the person viewed from their computer / mobile, etc and from where. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgzjh9r54da4n5x/Screenshot%202014-04-26%2020.47.44.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgzjh9r54da4n5x/Screenshot%202014-... I'm hoping will help me get a better read on how people use the site and help customers do the same with their clients - obviously similar to Google analytics but tied to events in this application, and should help make sure we're not sending notification emails if some bot hits the site.
oky 12y ago
a to b! an anonymous textboard for people: http://i.imgur.com/vjEfiwI.png http://i.imgur.com/vjEfiwI.png sometimes, it is hard to be wrong when one's name is on the line - anonymous discussions can remove the ego from the discussion. http://atob.kthxb.ai http://atob.kthxb.ai
- krapp 12y ago
  It looks like you have an interesting take on tripcodes, although users with colorblindness issues might have some trouble differentiating.
  - oky 12y ago
    that's a great point. here's what it looks like in BW: http://i.imgur.com/p84tu3f.png http://i.imgur.com/p84tu3f.png i'm wondering what a good way to work for colorblind people would be.
    - AustinDizzy 12y ago
      Replace the colors with patterns in a colorblind mode (e.g. A left striped replaces blue, a right striped replaces green, a vertical striped for red, a right horizontal stripe with dots in the brighter spaces for yellow, etc.).
antrix 12y ago
I've been working on a fun side project that takes a light-hearted dig at all the _[] driven development_ processes that our field comes up with. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Tl7NCje.png http://i.imgur.com/Tl7NCje.png Link: http://devdriven.by/ http://devdriven.by/
Scotrix 12y ago
Great idea, I did really a lot this week, very productive :-) #1 https://imupa.com/v/Aplag1t5M8X https://imupa.com/v/Aplag1t5M8X my game analytics company some huge changes in our event processing and storage system to load real time data much faster. #2 https://imupa.com/v/w7EOFP8qOWI https://imupa.com/v/w7EOFP8qOWI https://imupa.com/v/sOlf93ldjjN https://imupa.com/v/sOlf93ldjjN my payment aggregator company added some new features to our new accounting panel and some new payment methods for our new api as well, some weeks after the first release of our new system a lot of work still left as usual :-). #3 https://imupa.com/v/5yrGG82tOtw https://imupa.com/v/5yrGG82tOtw A strategy space game I'm working on since 5 month, this week i implemented the whole localisation things with jsgettext and php-gettext #4 https://imupa.com/v/N8RbEXXDwjo https://imupa.com/v/N8RbEXXDwjo image upload / effect / sharing web-app for free as a side project started 3 weeks ago was looking for a web-app which gives me easily access to some interesting imagemagick effects but everything i found was just not as comprehensive as it would be possible, so I built it on my own during a weekend and I optimized the UI last days.
dan335 12y ago
Massive multiplayer browser game I've been working on with meteor.js. http://imgur.com/cryCE2s http://imgur.com/cryCE2s
- determinant 12y ago
  This looks cool. Is there more or a development web site for this?
  - dan335 12y ago
    Thanks. I should have a early test up in a month or two. Just registered dominusgame.net.
- mbrock 12y ago
  That looks awesome. Would you mind briefly describing what technologies you're using for the graphics?
  - dan335 12y ago
    I rendered .png files with the 3d program Maya. Then used svg to draw them. Meteor.js handles updating them. Here's an example https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/02/06/a-reactive-svg-demo https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/02/06/a-reactive-svg-demo
innoying 12y ago
I've been working on a site dedicated to informing the public about net neutrality. It's using the new EFF data about legislators too! http://i.imgur.com/ML4rmKQ.png http://i.imgur.com/ML4rmKQ.png
eltaco 12y ago
TwitterHealth http://i4.minus.com/ibmjeJLRAFCB0Q.png http://i4.minus.com/ibmjeJLRAFCB0Q.png Crowdsourcing the classification of tweets as sick related or not for my Data/Visual Analytics class. Classified tweets from users are sent to our machine learning alg. Originally was supposed to show where and what ailments people were dealing with around the world but having only cities doesn't give that great of a visualization. Using node, d3, cubism, redis. App: http://twitterhealth.herokuapp.com http://twitterhealth.herokuapp.com Code: https://github.com/eltacodeldiablo/twitterhealth https://github.com/eltacodeldiablo/twitterhealth
donohoe 12y ago
Nothing big, a side-project that is work related. http://i.imgur.com/TxLS6GN.png http://i.imgur.com/TxLS6GN.png I've been thinking more about 'cards' and started playing around with something akin to Twitter's embedded tweets but for The New Yorker. Drop a link into a page and it gets re-done. Glorified oEmbed in a way.
tonglil 12y ago
Working on a Venmo like money tracking app that evolved out of a school project. Adding some features and making it more performant on mobile. Learning backbone.js right now to make the switch to a fully API backed service instead of a server render site. Reason is because a) Venmo doesn't exist in Canada and b) school is boring. http://i.imgur.com/OS0A7B7.png http://i.imgur.com/OS0A7B7.png http://i.imgur.com/6K9iD8w.png http://i.imgur.com/6K9iD8w.png http://moneytrackr.ca http://moneytrackr.ca
elchief 12y ago
No screenshots, because just code, but this is what I'm working on: Project PiGNWhiStle: Postgresql NOTIFY to WebSocket sample app. Project VAN: Validation, Analysis, and Normalization library for common types in PL/V8. Just in case you need to validate 5000 phone numbers per second in-database. Project Ted: Annotation-driven in-database PL/PGSQL unit test framework for Postgres. Project Hedgehog: a DIY web analytics app done w Spring and Postgres. Poor man's GA.
- angersock 12y ago
  Shine on you crazy diamond! Remember, elephants never forget--and they never forgive.
eswat 12y ago
Working on improving the layout of a project I’m working with a friend on, where we translate Ukrainian & Russian media into English and interview Ukrainians ourselves. Progress: http://i.imgur.com/Vch8UDO.png http://i.imgur.com/Vch8UDO.png Site: http://zasiv.ca http://zasiv.ca
siavosh 12y ago
http://imgur.com/1xfJRbq http://imgur.com/1xfJRbq http://woodspotting.com/ http://woodspotting.com/ Been a pet project for a few months. It started out as a hacker news for woodworking (my obsessive hobby), and it ended up being a hybrid with a web crawler that auto posts from about 100 blogs I like to follow. I'm its biggest user, but it seems to be slowly growing in terms of traffic.
- cube_yellow 12y ago
  What's the advantage over /r/woodworking?
  - siavosh 12y ago
    Funny, I got the same exact question when I posted it there. Honestly, not much until it morphed into an rss feed of my favorite blogs.
    - cube_yellow 12y ago
      Ha, then I guess just make sure it's linked in their sidebar.
lettergram 12y ago
BasicBookReader A book interest tracker for my eBook application: application: http://i.imgur.com/wTTBxw1.png http://i.imgur.com/wTTBxw1.png data analysis: http://i.imgur.com/QyOJAPw.png http://i.imgur.com/QyOJAPw.png log (Dates): http://i.imgur.com/78b4jmf.png http://i.imgur.com/78b4jmf.png log (pages): http://i.imgur.com/uoac6K3.png http://i.imgur.com/uoac6K3.png times per page: http://i.imgur.com/U6W2zAQ.png http://i.imgur.com/U6W2zAQ.png ----- website: http://austingwalters.com/basicbookreader/ http://austingwalters.com/basicbookreader/ github: https://github.com/lettergram/basicbookreader https://github.com/lettergram/basicbookreader
aweyl 12y ago
A restaurant recommendation web app: http://imgur.com/iTKXwrC http://imgur.com/iTKXwrC
egypturnash 12y ago
Same thing I've been working on for most of the past few years: my graphic novel about a robot lady dragged outside of reality by her ex-boyfriend. http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/08/Screen-Shot-2014-04-26-at-8.04.41PM.png http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/08/Scre... - the WIP page of the moment http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/04/photo-e1398531964119.jpg http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/04/phot... - I woke up with a crazy idea about the final printed volume this morning http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ - the comic itself A lot of the past couple of weeks have been taken up with getting the second printed volume to bed. For the second time, as I managed to let a terrible show-stopping mistake get past me until I was sitting back reading the advance copy, with 399 more on a loading dock in China. My first $6k mistake! Which I have done my best to make sure will never happen again.
- galvan 12y ago
  This is fantastic. Love the art style! Looks like I'm going to be spending the next few hours reading through this now...
dougedey 12y ago
Android Homebrew (as in beer) recipe application: http://imgur.com/ESyqCeq http://imgur.com/ESyqCeq Currently in read only mode, it reads recipes from the phone and I'm halfway through adding in the ability to download recipes. Links in with the desktop version of Strangebrew (available in Java and QT for all platforms), which extends to a Brewery controller, to allow users to send mash temperatures and times to the system.
rbanffy 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg Today I tested https://github.com/rbanffy/testable_appengine https://github.com/rbanffy/testable_appengine on Windows and thought I should add a mention to the README. This is completely unrelated to my day job, but we all have hobbies. Also, about a week ago, I fixed https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font so now it works with https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell
- manish_gill 12y ago
  Could you tell me what that font is? :)
  - rbanffy 12y ago
    It's https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font, which is based on the x3270 bitmap fonts which were, in turn, copied pixel by pixel from an IBM 327x terminal, IIRC, from an undergrad student in Georgia Tech. The idea is to bring back some of the 3270 terminal aesthetics.
notduncansmith 12y ago
I built, and am continuing to refine, a site that features one link (and accompanying discussion thread) per day. http://puu.sh/8p3D5.png http://puu.sh/8p3D5.png I got the idea from an Idea Sunday thread, built the first version in a few hours, and I've been working on it on and off all week. http://threadaday.github.io http://threadaday.github.io
- rokhayakebe 12y ago
  Awesome. A few things to think about: 1) Would it not be better to have one-topic per day as opposed to one link. With one topic, users can submit multiple links/sources. 2) Have you started to think about acquiring users? You definitely need to grab an email address and email the daily topic so we can get remember to come back. 3) Related to 2. I think when selecting links, topics, it is important to select something ultra-controversial/interesting if you want to sparkle discussion.
  - notduncansmith 12y ago
    Thanks for the feedback! 1 & 3. I thought about this approach, but right now I like the idea of having one link, that way all discussion is centralized to the particular article at hand (and of course comments with links are allowed if someone would like to link to an outside resource). I have been trying to pick articles that have a strong thesis or present an idea that I feel would spark some discussion. I don't want to ignite any flamewars so I try to stay away from topics that are too controversial/not actually likely to produce useful insight (i.e. "Javascript Sucks Because X"). What are some topics you would recommend? 2. Collecting email addresses is definitely on my list of TODOs, right now I'm still roughing out the MVP.
GreenZapdos 12y ago
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GreenZapdos/reel/master/screenshot.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GreenZapdos/reel/master/sc... A simple flask app to stream movies over HTTP, like XBMC for web browsers. Works good on mobile! https://github.com/GreenZapdos/reel https://github.com/GreenZapdos/reel
danbucholtz 12y ago
First time, long time. I'm the creator of PaperBox (http://www.gopaperbox.com http://www.gopaperbox.com), a document scanning and organization system for mobile (iPhone only right now) and the web. There are lots of similar solutions, but ours has a few unique features that make it stand out (web interface, fundamentally dependent on Dropbox, sharing, reminders, etc). I'd love some feedback on it! The screenshots are a little old, FYI. Please checkout the free iPhone app! http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#0 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#0 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#1 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#1 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#2 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#2
vbsteven 12y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oxn36sidtubcvhi/w5km41TbaY/beta%20screenshots https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oxn36sidtubcvhi/w5km41TbaY/beta%2... AndroidFocus, an Android app that syncs with OmniFocus. Currently I have a read only beta out where you can browse your projects, contexts, actions and forecast. Creating and completing actions are next on the list and those features should be ready by next week. The beta can be joined through this G+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/103938802070518069711 https://plus.google.com/communities/103938802070518069711
armansu 12y ago
I'm posting an inspiring quote from the masters who changed the world at Instagram.com/BeTheCrazyOnes and doing that daily following the Seinfeld's 'don't break the chain' method: one rare black & white picture + quote first thing in the morning, one picture + quote last thing at night. http://imgur.com/TqTCMmh http://imgur.com/TqTCMmh
throwaway7784 12y ago
insaana.com - A real estate marketplace. Connects buyers and sellers directly and provides necessary services to complete the transaction (from connecting buyers and sellers to handing over the key to the buyer). Still in beta, tons of things to do, built with Django/Postgres.
arkokoley 12y ago
Goliath. An alternative Dashboard for Wordpress, based on Wp-Svbtle with a medium.com like editor. https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot1.png https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot1... https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot2.png https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot2... https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot3.png https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot3... I really liked the simplicity of svbtle, medium's editor and wordpress's raw power. QSo i built this scounging from the discontinued wp-svbtle project.
arthurk 12y ago
http://imgur.com/5PIv59x http://imgur.com/5PIv59x a customization to the Django admin to track my food intake. It supports recipes (group of foods) and custom serving sizes (e.g. specifying that a middlesized apple is xx grams).
bhashkarsharma 12y ago
Nothing fancy, just a bouncing ball in canvas that follows the laws of gravity and elasticity. http://i.imgur.com/6fZaanU.png http://i.imgur.com/6fZaanU.png Site: http://bhashkar.me/stuff/physics/ http://bhashkar.me/stuff/physics/ Needs some fixes.
shurcooL 12y ago
A small change to add line highlighting for git diffs. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/Conception/images/Go/git-diff-line-highlighting.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/...
agurha 12y ago
I built screenshot service as a side project. https://urlbox.io https://urlbox.io Fortunately we got some big customers recently. So it started to generate little bit of profit. Hoping to get couple more big customers and turn it into my full-time job.
- bmilleare 12y ago
  This looks cool. Any plans to add support for posted HTML (as opposed to a target URL) too? The reason I ask is that sometimes I need to screenshot pages that I've crawled - but you might not see exactly the same page I did at the time.
vsergiu 12y ago
A sales CRM that is similar to Pipedrive http://i.imgur.com/MFHYTQ4.png http://i.imgur.com/MFHYTQ4.png
seyz 12y ago
I'm working on solving business meeting nightmares. I'm bored about ineffective meetings. http://i.imgur.com/5yiMnqq.png http://i.imgur.com/5yiMnqq.png
omgmog 12y ago
A theme for LightDM Webkit that's a mashup of the Google login and Chrome OS login. Repo: https://github.com/omgmog/lightdm-webkit-google https://github.com/omgmog/lightdm-webkit-google Screenshot: http://uk.omg.li/VE7v http://uk.omg.li/VE7v
zwack 12y ago
Product configurator built with AngularJS. Pretty complex ruleset for allowed combinations. https://i.imgur.com/FfeWmt1.png https://i.imgur.com/FfeWmt1.png
mrmondo 12y ago
URLDiff - a small ruby app (and my very first!) that computes and renders the visual differences between two (or a list of) URLs: https://github.com/sammcj/urldiff https://github.com/sammcj/urldiff (screenshots included) whipped it up to check for visual differences in a bunch of pages I moved to a new platform, worked a treat.
mcjiggerlog 12y ago
Mountain Mapper A map-based web app for discovering the world's mountains http://i.imgur.com/LE2X6Fz.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LE2X6Fz.jpg http://www.tomjwatson.com/projects/mountain-mapper http://www.tomjwatson.com/projects/mountain-mapper Zoom and pan around the map to find the locations of significant peaks in an area. Click a marker to reveal information about each mountain, including images, descriptions, height etc. Data is sourced using the Freebase API and displayed using Google Maps Javascript API.
SchizoDuckie 12y ago
Working on finalizing the new UI and uTorrent plus Chromecast integration for the Chrome Extension that i'm building with Angular.js The aim of DuckieTV is help make the lives of TV Show freaks easier by providing a calendar that lists your favorite shows and is always up-to-date (Think sickbeard, but without the setup hastle) Current v0.5 progress: http://imgur.com/a/ZLHkU http://imgur.com/a/ZLHkU v0.43 (live): http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV
wesley 12y ago
A client for a java based cryptocurrency: http://nxtra.org/mac/NxtWallet.png http://nxtra.org/mac/NxtWallet.png More info about the cryptocurrency at http://www.mynxt.org http://www.mynxt.org / http://nxt.org http://nxt.org (PS: Looking for java developers, if you're interested email me via wesleyh _ at _ telenet.be
sfalbo 12y ago
Here's the 3rd side project I've been working on with a friend that was just released (I've been busy!). The iPhone app is called 'Run the World' and it lets you create goal based on running from one city to another (for example run from San Francisco to Dallas). Here are some screenshots: http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/50/ea/e5/50eae50f-79ae-ec88-2623-28c5025cf184/screen568x568.jpeg http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/50/ea/e5/50eae50f-7... http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/6e/5d/08/6e5d0849-3a17-c115-d7be-650ca16bcb65/screen568x568.jpeg http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/6e/5d/08/6e5d0849-3... http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/f0/28/0f/f0280ff7-fa3f-0692-e9a0-b352808cf4ee/screen568x568.jpeg http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/f0/28/0f/f0280ff7-fa... http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/c2/7c/f7/c27cf75b-99d7-8754-b065-4e7a3cee3a70/screen568x568.jpeg http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/c2/7c/f7/c27cf75b-9... http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/cc/dd/97/ccdd97cd-30ab-e5bb-399a-f6c8e54ed02d/screen568x568.jpeg http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/cc/dd/97/ccdd97cd-30... Here is the App Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/run-the-world/id832500937?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/run-the-world/id832500937?mt... We both realize the benefits of running but find it hard to get motivated so we made this app as a way to get off the couch.
cweiske 12y ago
phancap, a self-hosted website screenshot service API. JPG, PNG and PDF output. Useful for web-based bookmark managers. Homepage: http://cweiske.de/phancap.htm http://cweiske.de/phancap.htm Screenshot: http://cweiske.de/graphics/phancap/www.bogo-029bd33b9f01eccf3cc97c1b3b213024.png http://cweiske.de/graphics/phancap/www.bogo-029bd33b9f01eccf...
garethsprice 12y ago
http://tinypic.com/r/4jampz/8 http://tinypic.com/r/4jampz/8 (original: http://www.damienhirst.com/minoxidil http://www.damienhirst.com/minoxidil) http://tinypic.com/r/o0tcug/8 http://tinypic.com/r/o0tcug/8 (original: http://www.eyestorm.com/Pages/Product.aspx/Damien_Hirst/Valium__2000/4575921 http://www.eyestorm.com/Pages/Product.aspx/Damien_Hirst/Vali...) Learning D3.js by implementing Damien Hirst's spot painting techniques. Fun way to learn about D3 and to appreciate the complexity behind seemingly simple modern art. The latter uses a phyllotaxis algorithm that models how sunflower florets replicate (even though I think Hirst traced his from a textbook it's fun to implement the algorithm). Random color selection is also a much harder problem than you'd think (how to avoid repeating patterns) and I'm seeing that Hirst's allocation is not quite so random (rumours of steganography - http://www.damienhirst.com/controlled-substance-key-paint http://www.damienhirst.com/controlled-substance-key-paint for the key if anyone is good at cryptanalysis).
widgetic 12y ago
We're rebranding as Widgetic. We're called Blogvio now (http://blogvio.com/ http://blogvio.com/). So personally I've been focused on building the new identity and securing the domain name, Twitter username (had to purchase this one from an existing user), Facebook vanity URL, Google, Vimeo and all the other accounts we needed. The icon we've been working on, although not final, should help users see two things depending on where they look from (front, sides) - I'd love to hear your guesses - what do you see? http://o7.no/1fhXfoX http://o7.no/1fhXfoX Here's a more fine tuned / in progress version: http://o7.no/1hE7mOY http://o7.no/1hE7mOY Once the rebranding is done we can finally release our API under the new name, so we don't break any integrations with our product.
olegp 12y ago
Been working on adding new search providers to StartHQ cloud search. Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqe7yy4ledz82hc/screenshot2.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqe7yy4ledz82hc/screenshot2.png API docs: https://github.com/starthq/search#readme https://github.com/starthq/search#readme Sign up link: https://starthq.com/signup https://starthq.com/signup
nickfox 12y ago
My Gps Tracker is an open source project that allows you to track android, ios, windows phones and java me phones using various mapping providers such as google, bing and OpenStreetMaps. MIT licensed. Here is the android version: https://www.websmithing.com/images/gpstracker3.2.1.png https://www.websmithing.com/images/gpstracker3.2.1.png and the source code: https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker
kinj28 12y ago
I have been working towards creating some content for our product teamgum. And trying to reach the influencers is patience testing job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kKfbbGUH48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kKfbbGUH48

134 points by screenshot 12y ago

Please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation about what you have been working on for the past week.

http://i.imgur.com/F58XeiU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/F58XeiU.jpg Finishing a project (Synthesis and analysis of vanillin from eugenol for those interested). Looking at some NMR-spectra. I love LaTeX for collaborating, makes everything much easier to manage.

Freeboots 12y ago

I published my first chrome extension the other day. Its a very simple UI tweak (http://i.imgur.com/QoTK0N6.png http://i.imgur.com/QoTK0N6.png) that adds buttons to move through Youtube videos frame by frame. You can also use mouse wheel to scroll through frames, which has lent it the name 'Frame Scroll'. Its on the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/frame-scroll-for-youtube/llinnoiobmohhbhnkflcflojcomgonge https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/frame-scroll-for-y... and I wrote a short blog post: http://michaelyockney.com/frame-scroll-extension-for-chrome/ http://michaelyockney.com/frame-scroll-extension-for-chrome/

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strooltz 12y ago

It's not really a side project but I spent today rebuilding the website for our asbury park, nj based coworking space - http://cowerks.com http://cowerks.com - would love some feedback/copy editing. disclaimer - it is built on squarespace.

CSDude 12y ago

http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa PAGS: Programming Assignment Grading System. I'm a Msc student and a teaching assitant. Grading programming assignments of students takes so much time because of preparing files, environments, viewing code, multipe outputs etc. Besides my research, I developed this Docker based web application, where assignments are Dockerfile + run script + required/supplied/output files. Main motivation: I can grade ~80 student projects in at most 1 hour, even looking at code besides their output. It took almost 2 days before, and repetitive tasks made me lose my mind. It keeps me sane, and saves me tremendous time. http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr

nickstinemates 12y ago
This is brilliant. We recently showcased another course doing something very similar. Looks like an area someone could create a company :)
Freeboots 12y ago
This looks pretty polished. The custom pricing plans is cool, maybe you want to set up presets or suggested plans?
- CSDude 12y ago
  Yeah, that would be nice, i.e. Java assignments may need larger RAM
lalos 12y ago
Guessing the use of docker is to mitigate possible harmful student code executing in the server?
- CSDude 12y ago
  Yes, and they can open same ports, same message queues, semaphores concurrently without problem, and makes it easy to define custom build environments. As a bonus, students can replicate my exact environment, so they cannot say "But it works on my machine"
Pezmc 12y ago
Really like the idea, my uni is currently investigating use of domjudge to mark assignments, but couple that with face to face feedback while reviewing the code.
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danpalmer 12y ago
It's a really good idea to have something like this to create a canonical build environment. We've had quite a few issues on my course of "it works on my machine". The only thing I'm wondering about is GUI programs. Currently it looks like those wouldn't be possible, which is unfortunate, because several of the main programming assignments I've had have been Java GUI applications, C++ and OpenGL programs, etc. I wonder how these could be done?

joshmn 12y ago

In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point. While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit more friendly, as well as features. The current iteration is http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png

hack_edu 12y ago
Great site! I'd really recommend you change the name though. 'EDM' is pretty cringe-worthy word these days (much like 'electronica' and 'alternative'), and just generally doesn't roll off the tongue too well.
- joshmn 12y ago
  Thanks! I'm usually much more cautious about branding/naming but for the life of me, I couldn't hit a sweet spot. So I went with whatever I could think of. Open to suggestions :)
  - glomph 12y ago
    Just listen2dance?
  - rbobby 12y ago
    Listen2ItAll
dsl 12y ago
This is AWESOME.
copperx 12y ago
Looks great! I had the same problem and then I found HypeMachine (hypem.com).
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krapp 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/rSMME2e.jpg http://i.imgur.com/rSMME2e.jpg Homework - a basic CRUD app in VB to manage reservations for a movie theatre, through a remote database connection.

dsschnau 12y ago
Do you have a customer for this, or just making it for the heck of it?
- krapp 12y ago
  This is a final class project (Advanced VB.) After the semester's over i'll probably rewrite it in C# (because I really am not a fan of VB) and find some use for it. Edit: I just realized my last post made it look like the name of the app was "Homework"... no, it literally is homework :)

serverascode 12y ago

I've been working on an project called Swiftacular that uses Ansible to deploy OpenStack Swift to Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 6, and Ubuntu 14.04. https://github.com/curtisgithub/swiftacular https://github.com/curtisgithub/swiftacular

pedrokost 12y ago

I am working on a personal project: book reading logger http://imgur.com/APYWfLn http://imgur.com/APYWfLn The back-end is a Rails API, the front end is an Ember app. This was a nice project to learn Ember.

callmeed 12y ago

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7010clm7smjfxs/_20140426_145022_20140426_145042.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7010clm7smjfxs/_20140426_145022_2... I'm working on an iOS app that lets you run Apache Bench (and dig & ping) from your phone. It has a Rails back-end that actually performs the ab command and parses the results into a JSON response.

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- waj8792 12y ago
  Hey callmeed! Shoot me an email at whostherellc@gmail.com. I have a project I'd like to discuss with you!
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dang 12y ago

All: it's not clear yet whether we should have "Screenshot Saturday" and "Idea Sunday" as regular features, or whether they should be weekly if we do. Happy to hear arguments pro and con, though perhaps not in this thread. (Edit: On second thought, we might as well discuss it here and keep it at the bottom.) If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the only account currently allowed to make bot submissions, and it seems better to extend an existing system than create a new one. In the meantime, we changed both the title and the text of this submission to be closer to previous editions.

coffeecodecouch 12y ago
Currently I like the idea of Screenshot Saturday. If I'm not mistaken Hacker News wants more user created content. Screenshot Saturday allows the community to know what each other is working on, and can even help people build traction for their projects. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future people have their weekly Saturday posts prepared in advance with links to their email list sign up and Twitter handles. I do still think though that it should be named "Side Project Saturday"[0]. I'm indifferent about Idea Sunday, so if you were to remove one to keep the automated submissions to a minimum I would ask that it be that. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580150
seizethecheese 12y ago
One pro argument is that if the quality of these goes down hill they will fail to make the front page anyway, so what's the down-side?
- dang 12y ago
  I suspect that's wrong and that they'll make it to the front page regardless.
  - seizethecheese 12y ago
    Wrong from whose perspective? It's strange that "wrong" things make it to the front page. By definition wouldn't that make them "right?"

anmonteiro90 12y ago

I've been working on a simple news scraper to make a custom news aggregator for the websites I usually read. I published an alpha version today on npm, and would really appreciate your feedback. https://github.com/anmonteiro/mns https://github.com/anmonteiro/mns

foofoobar 12y ago

Simple photoalbum sharing service to host on your own (I use it for friends/family). Main purpose was to allow groups to collaborative upload and create albums. Also wanted to test some new things (koajs, reactjs). Feedback appreciated! http://imgur.com/a/92W2u http://imgur.com/a/92W2u https://github.com/rverton/circlephotos https://github.com/rverton/circlephotos

return0 12y ago

I 've been working on 2 things past week: 1) http://i.imgur.com/S6gv2Gt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/S6gv2Gt.jpg http://hopgenie.com/ http://hopgenie.com/ - Community for travelers with travel tips, advice, questions etc. 2) http://i.imgur.com/DI2sO5o.png http://i.imgur.com/DI2sO5o.png http://sciboards.org/ http://sciboards.org/ - News aggregator / Q&A for scientific research

cj 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/KpULrEs.png http://i.imgur.com/KpULrEs.png Localize.js, a javascript library for translating websites. It detects and translates text on your website, and provides a UI for ordering and managing translations. Docs: https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation

andrewlouis93 12y ago
This is sick. I haven't looked into other website localizing solutions, but how is this approach better than what's currently being used in industry?
- cj 12y ago
  The traditional localization approach is very time intensive, and requires a large time commitment to implement properly. Localize.js automates most of the localization process, which lets you localize your site in ~10% of the time it would normally take. The traditional way you'd localize a website is by replacing text in your template files with string keys. For example: <h1>Hello world!</h1> . becomes... <h1>{{ t 'homepage.hello_world' }}</h1> You'd then maintain dictionary files that maps "homepage.hello_world" to "Hello world!", with a separate dictionary for each language. Additional complications arise when you want to pluralize phrases, since different languages pluralize phrases differently, etc. It's a pain to setup an effective localization workflow using the traditional approach. Localize.js handles all of this automatically, and removes the need to convert your template files or manage your own phrases and translations. If you're interested in trying it out, I'd love to get in touch :) bp@brandonpaton.com
  - gbog 12y ago
    Can't check your site because I'm on a phone. I would interested to know how you solve this issue.
tluyben2 12y ago
Very nice work. Definitely something we'll be using.

erik 12y ago

Life Goes On! A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles. http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/) I thought that after the game launched I would have some time to relax. But support, bug fixes, responding to media requests, and planning next steps has kept me very busy. http://www.LifeGoesOnGame.com http://www.LifeGoesOnGame.com

ew 12y ago
I was at that game jam! Glad to see this released :)
Legend 12y ago
Amazing concept! :) Good luck with the game.
- erik 12y ago
  Thanks!
suby 12y ago
Congratulations on the release, the game looks awesome. I hope it does well.
bm1362 12y ago
Any advice on getting started with Unity? I've always tried to start a weekend project and get inevitably get bogged down in the details of Unity/Mono.
- erik 12y ago
  We started by hacking up the 2d platform sample game project that Unity bundles. Getting started was a bit rough, and the results from the first weekend were pretty buggy. Once we got to know Unity we were pretty happy with the decision though. I'm sure that there are good resources for getting up to speed quickly, but unfortunately I don't have any recommendations for how to do it. One suggestion that I can make is to stick to C#. Unity offers "Javascript", but Unityscript isn't really Javascript, and is more headaches than it is worth in my experience.

andrewlouis93 12y ago

Been working on my first Rails app for a few http://sixtasks.heroku.com http://sixtasks.heroku.com because I think the idea of a to-do list is powerful, but the concept needs refining. Also, I wanted to be able to track my productivity in a tangible way, and Six Tasks helps me do that: http://i.imgur.com/5bbLxJo.png http://i.imgur.com/5bbLxJo.png Trying to add features like smarter task recording, and maybe tagging list items, idk I'm just making it up as I go along

RMarcus 12y ago

http://imgur.com/ax8oMxe http://imgur.com/ax8oMxe A semi-social stat tracking website for DOTA players. More advanced statistics than gathered by DOTABUFF, but those aren't shown in the screenshot.

babby 12y ago
Thats actually pretty amusing, though I can't help but wonder whether it will only be convenient if actually integrated into DOTA/Facebook etc. At the moment, isn't it just DOTA: Stalker?
- RMarcus 12y ago
  I'm really not sure. It emerged from a few of my friends noticing that we often check each other's DOTABUFF pages, especially after a few of us moved to the opposite coast. I suppose it's basically just DOTA stalking at the moment. That's also a potentially interesting title... DOTAstalker.

bunkerbewohner 12y ago

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cflduw99mys261/22.04.2014.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cflduw99mys261/22.04.2014.png Together with my brother I've been working on our little passion project "Nations Online" (still very early stage). The goal is basically a decent Civilization-like game that runs in the browser and on tablets with improved and larger scale multiplayer (at least up to 32 players) and 3D graphics. It was mostly born out of frustrations with Civ 5's slow and buggy multiplayer mode. The server is based on Scala & Akka, the client is plain JavaScript and WebGL/ThreeJS.

Pezmc 12y ago
For early stage it looks pretty good! Would move to see it completed. It suit Civ style play particularly well if it could be set up to notify everyone when it was their turn (similar to how some online chess apps function).
- bunkerbewohner 12y ago
  Thanks, we definitely plan notifications via email and if possible other messenging services.

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Pezmc 12y ago

A web application for my Computer Science dissertation (I'm writing up the report at the moment). The idea was to produce a web app that you upload your bank statements to, the system categorises the transactions and then predicts how much money you will spend in each category next month. Underneath the system is using machine learning techniques to model the spending, deciding whether or not a particular transaction will occur and triple exponential smoothing to predict how much would be spent. Screenshot of the homepage (fake data): http://i.imgur.com/Tr05dfd.png http://i.imgur.com/Tr05dfd.png I'm currently seeking research participants if any UK based (not tested with non UK data) users would like to give it a try: http://secure.pezcuckow.com/register http://secure.pezcuckow.com/register. There's a survey link on the home page. -- Edit: I also put together a biblatex checker which I've been using to validate my reference files for my report. http://i.imgur.com/an054GS.png http://i.imgur.com/an054GS.png https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex-check https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex-check

wingerlang 12y ago

Neat. I just posted on reddit so I guess I'll just grab the same text. ----------- This is still an expense tracker "Spendy". - Multiple currencies are handled smooth. You have one main currency but you can add multiple others and set up exchange rates for them. You can add expenses/incomes for them in any currency and in the log-view it will automatically show you both the entered currency and a smaller converted amount in your main currency. Perfect for travellers. - Easy, quick. Non verbose UI. - Data will not be locked in in any way. Dropbox sync, email data in CSV etc. - Pretty? Color theme can be changed. - Basic basic basic charts for now. 14 days overview is implemented. Will do more later. ----------- So I've worked a bit more on the app and I thought I'd put it here again. This is the previous version: http://i.imgur.com/L54TV4O.jpg http://i.imgur.com/L54TV4O.jpg And this is the new one: http://imgur.com/EtcpEqp http://imgur.com/EtcpEqp (excuse the layout and/or the large res) I'll see if I can sum up the changes: - Changed color to green, although I've made the color-theme chooseable by the user (see the bottom). The color theme is on the buttons, the "tints" (such as some text colors and etc). - Made the Money log entries bigger/more space. - Less stuff in the menu. - Added a "settings" panel. - Chart is now colored and includes both incomes and expenses. - Before I had alertviews for lots of things. This has been replaces by inline buttons (see: delete/edit). These are also affected by the users chosen color btw. - The tag-view is still bare-bones, but centered and alternating row-colors. - The Currency-view is completely remade, see the bottom for how it looks. I tried to make "more" out of virtually no info and I do think it worked pretty well. Any feedback is welcome! ------- And a short GIF of the app in action. http://imgur.com/PFnRae7 http://imgur.com/PFnRae7 ------- EDIT: Format. Sorry about the length of this text.

jackhammons 12y ago

Just doing a little Saturday afternoon verilog. http://i.imgur.com/gkB6FMh.png http://i.imgur.com/gkB6FMh.png

Patrick_Devine 12y ago
I'm not sure this is what ESR meant with Linus's Law when he said "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law

dougmccune 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/quhpXWi.png http://i.imgur.com/quhpXWi.png NodeJS module to convert maps (shapefiles, geojson, topojson, or KML) into 3D models that are suitable for 3D printing. I've done a lot of 3D printing of map data before, but mostly using a pretty manual process to create the models. This auomates the whole thing. The posted image is population by census block group in the bay area. The raw data is shown on the left and my converted 3D model for the 3D printer is on the right.

xemoka 12y ago
This is cool. I work in GIS at a college and would be interested in seeing / hearing more about this... do you have a repo or a blog about it?
- dougmccune 12y ago
  Getting it ready for github and I'm also planning to publish it to npm. It's still pretty rough around the edges, so hopefully in another weekend or two I'll get it out there.

_davidchambers 12y ago

https://github.com/davidchambers/dotfiles/pull/1 https://github.com/davidchambers/dotfiles/pull/1 Fix for ugly `npm` output.

cocoflunchy 12y ago

Working on an iOS game with a friend, built with cocos2d. It's my first time doing native iOS development, and also my first time building a 'real' game (ie that moves). The performance concerns are really interesting, even with such simple graphics. http://i.imgur.com/YBUEHhw.png http://i.imgur.com/YBUEHhw.png http://i.imgur.com/VoIu5sq.png http://i.imgur.com/VoIu5sq.png

covercash 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/3fcnnfS.png http://i.imgur.com/3fcnnfS.png Help fund life changing medical procedures for people in need while you sleep! Stream this album while you sleep and 100% of royalty payments go directly to watsi.org I really liked the Spotify hack from a few weeks back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550), but didn't really have any interest in supporting that band. So I took the concept and uploaded pink noise (distrokid kicks back silent tracks) that I've been streaming while I sleep. Right now I'm just testing it with a handful of people and won't have results for another month or so due to a delay in royalty reporting. If we end up raising decent money, I plan to roll this out on a larger scale. It's not technical by any means, but it's still a fun hack and I'm learning a lot about the streaming music business along the way. Based on what I've read, we can potentially earn $2-5 per user per night. I've already been in contact with watsi and will be linking the distrokid account directly to the official watsi paypal so all funds will automatically get deposited to them.

pa7 12y ago

I've been working on an interactive data visualization about the scale of the brain. It is supposed to educate people about parts of the brain and its depth. ETA: next Tuesday http://imgur.com/cthoD4n http://imgur.com/cthoD4n

rokhayakebe 12y ago
Interesting, I guess you could expand into other areas and end up having the entire body. While you at it, I hope you are building it as a platform allowing others to create something similar for anything physical: cars, trees, whatever...

ortuna 12y ago

My side project: http://arturo.io http://arturo.io Automated book builds on commits and PRs: http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#0 http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#0 Automatic diffs for PRs/Commits: http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#1 http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#1 Stylesheet support here is the base output with custom link colors: http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#2 http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#2

tulsidas 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/1LZNRg7.png http://i.imgur.com/1LZNRg7.png multiplayer hacking game

louisstow 12y ago

I've been working on a "web app builder". It lets users create a web app based on a pre-built template and tweak it to their hearts content. Examples are link-sharing apps like reddit, image sharing like Dribbble, blogs, cms, pastebins etc. Link here: http://getsproute.com http://getsproute.com It's also open-source: http://github.com/sproute/sproute http://github.com/sproute/sproute

petersouth 12y ago
Can't wait to use this! Thanks for making it!
jtokoph 12y ago
Just an FYI that you're heartbleed vulnerable: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=getsproute.com https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=getsproute.co...
- louisstow 12y ago
  Oops forgot to restart Nginx after updating. Thanks!
chrisrickard 12y ago
Very cool, I have been tinkering with something similar.

Spearchucker 12y ago

https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/images/interact.png https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/images/interact.png A database that synchronizes across desktop and phone. It uses client-side encryption and syncs via a zero-knowledge server. It keeps a record of all changes made to any data (like records management, but for database rows). This week was about reducing the 40 KLOC by optimising some code that's four years old. This thing started many years ago, and I'm working towards getting a first release in out the summer. Background: https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441a-9894-70784f43f8a0 https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441...

nraynaud 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/izk5Rbr.png http://i.imgur.com/izk5Rbr.png online g-code simulator. http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/ http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/ and a pocketing toolpath generator http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html

Edmond 12y ago

http://jasymchat.com http://jasymchat.com It is a computer algebra system (CAS) mobile web app with built in chat. Suitable for highschool,undergrad and grads school work. basically it would be like if matlab had chat built in :)

y3di 12y ago

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%202014-04-26%20at%206.35.53%20PM.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020... A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary) The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results) What I wanna do eventually: - Permalinks to analysis for specific songs (and which current combo's are being viewed in that song) - Speed up the core algorithm - Allow people to add new words to the pronunctiation dictionary - Move away from the barebones bootstrappy look - Explain the process visibly on the site

darushimo 12y ago
looks great!
NamTaf 12y ago
You should incorporate the metre of the music itself to help wtih identifying rhymes. For example, the middle chunk of your example is missing the full picture of the rhyming from the 'reality' part onwards, specifically where it's missed 'he won't have it, he' with 'have it, he' being on the same beat as 'reality' before it. I think the timing will help you a lot rather than just trying to notice punctuation. After all, music is about the rhythm.
- y3di 12y ago
  The reason 'have it' wasn't matched is because the vowel phoneme in the word 'have' is: "AE" whereas the example in the screenshot was matching combos with successive vowels "AH - IH". So 'have' didn't match that scheme. I agree that these should match, and have been throwing around the idea of matching similar sounding phonemes together. I completely agree though, the metre/rhythm plays a huge part in a poet or rapper's flow and you don't get the full story without incorporating it. The issue is that I haven't found a way to programmatically pull the metre from a song, and rapper's don't generally keep track of their metre, let alone put it online in a machine readable format (though I'm sure you could find ones for hugely popular songs like 'Lose Yourself' online!). I am interested in figuring this out though, and have been throwing around ideas for people to simply generate metre for songs by having a tool that simply allows users to match words to times in a song. Though I'm not sure how scalable that is, or how to create such a tool that is drastically simple and fast to use, because otherwise it defeats the point. My hope is that there'd be a way to algorithmically parse the audio and look for inflection points in a song for where words might lie but I've done no research towards that end. digression: This kinda tech would probably be useful for generating 'sing-a-longs'

larrybolt 12y ago

I know about Kimsufi, don't know how reliable those are though. http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/ http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/

maresca 12y ago

LottoLane / http://www.lottolane.com http://www.lottolane.com Lottery Pools for the 21st Century. LottoLane handles all aspects of lottery pools. Keep friends/family/colleagues in the loop with upcoming drawings. Track who has paid to play. Share pics of tickets with pool members. Find out if you've won instantly after a drawing without checking the numbers yourself. Screenshot of a lottery drawing page: http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png Screenshot of sending emails to users: http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png

rokhayakebe 12y ago
This should be 100% mobile first, even if mobile web. I do not play lottery, but I can see this being very very valuable to people who play in groups. Or even just for individuals who want to keep track of the combinations they played in the past.
- maresca 12y ago
  I agree. I'm using bootstrap for the layouts, so it should translate to mobile fairly easily. The nice thing is the players in a pool won't have to sign up. Only the lottery pool manager has to sign up. It's pretty convenient. We have a pool at work but aren't allowed to use our work emails for it. So this was born out of necessity.

imwhimsical 12y ago

Bake Making to-do lists better. http://arsln.co/VCsx http://arsln.co/VCsx

holic 12y ago

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bglsyo0tnwp6ddd/Screenshot%202014-04-27%2012.09.56.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/bglsyo0tnwp6ddd/Screenshot%202014-... I needed a better way to visualize upcoming music events at a given location, filtered by genre. This is a project I've been working on bit by bit over the last few years, has been rewritten several times, and is about to get a design overhaul once the functionality is finished (getting close!).

mrmondo 12y ago
Neat! I'll keep an eye on this.

jw2013 12y ago

gittribute (http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/ http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/) Gittribute saves your time on getting help on your open-source project. Need help on your project? All you need is to add one line on your Github project's README.md & click your link there, and then everyone in the world will see you need help and they will find you. It is under MIT license here: https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute I want to post a screenshot, but currently there is only one project listed on the website, so may be it is better if those interested care to check the website itself: http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/ http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/

w4 12y ago

Auto Miles: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic-mileage/id817598888?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic-mileage... It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on custom tax system support for international users since a bunch of users are looking for it, plus a bunch of minor bug fixes (ugh): https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png As an aside, I would kill for iOS to have a static maps API like Google does. MKMapViews are way too resource intensive to have multiple on screen at a time like Auto Miles needs, and I found MKMapSnapshotter to be really finicky and still use too much memory.

car 12y ago
Awesome, thank you! As an aside, searching in the app store with "automiles" doesn't bring up the app. I've been using 'Moves' to track contracting hours. In that vein, would be great if you could add hour tracking, e.g. for the time spent at a client location.
- w4 12y ago
  Huh, thanks for pointing that out! May have to add the misspelled name into the keywords for the next version (iTunes keywords are a PITA: they're limited to 100 characters, and can't be edited between versions). What do you mean by hour tracking? Like time-sheets functionality (which seems a bit out of the scope), or something simple you could type in how long you spent at the location? I've been considering adding a notes option for logs, which might work for something like that.
  - car 12y ago
    Right now I will look up how long I've spent at a client location to prepare the timesheet for billing. If the app, like Moves, knew where 'work' is, it could do this automagically. Could be out of scope depending on perspective, but for me it would be killing two birds with one stone.

asanwal 12y ago

The Business Social Graph It maps relationships between companies, their investors, acquirers, competitors & customers/partners. http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_graph/amex.png http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_gra...

tomek_zemla 12y ago
Interesting... Are you familiar with theyrule.net - the art project of futurefarmers from few years ago? Note that it seems to be Java driven so you need a desktop browser to see it.

davidpolberger 12y ago

http://imgur.com/qc0zTnJ http://imgur.com/qc0zTnJ I've spent a few hours today dealing with the fallout from the landing page we launched a few months ago. The landing page is for the cloud-based calculator app builder Calcapp Creator that we're hoping will replace Excel for a good many use cases. (Build a calculator app using the service and have it generate apps for iOS, Android, desktop computers and the web.) I do customer development by responding to every sign-up and asking people their precise requirements. That invariably leads to people sending me obfuscated Excel calculators, which I then analyze. A couple of months ago, I spent a lot of time having lunch with businesses interested in our service, now I mostly interact with people that have found the landing page. That thankfully leaves more time for product development. I spent the rest of the day playing with the browser-based app builder -- which is implemented using AngularJS -- and on modifying our custom compiler (which produces the apps) to accept JSON data from the app builder.

J_Darnley 12y ago

Not the usual faire for this site, or this thread but... I was tinkering with using the solarized colour scheme in vim which led me onto hacking on mintty. I added some GUI controls for the 16 ANSI colours. https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=193#c12 https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=193#c12 and a small screenshot https://mintty.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=1930012000&name=mintty-gui-colour-controls.png&token=ymrS60K9uldpZfKhDXISu4Y5BUk%3A1398558560801&inline=1 https://mintty.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=19300120...

bound008 12y ago

http://git-paid.gitescrow.com http://git-paid.gitescrow.com Payments for freelancers You can have your clients pre-fund your contract. You push milestones at tags on git, and when they approve your milestone you get paid instantly, and they get a zip of the code http://i.imgur.com/VSRueph.png http://i.imgur.com/VSRueph.png gulping it up, and get ready for deployment.

PabloOsinaga 12y ago

Making http://bandhub.us http://bandhub.us grow http://i.imgur.com/TDndNDJ.png http://i.imgur.com/TDndNDJ.png

mafuyu 12y ago

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_003.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_003.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png https://github.com/hylian/arducard https://github.com/hylian/arducard Just soldered this up. It's a small e-paper device with USB, buttons, a real-time clock, FRAM, an ATmega32u4, and a rechargeable battery. I'm trying to get USB CDC virtual serial up right now, so that I can test and debug the rest of the board, but it's proving to be a bit difficult...

plingamp 12y ago
looks awesome! it's always great to see hardware stuff on hn :)
whiskers 12y ago
Hey that is really nice! Are you interested in looking for a way to get them manufactured?
- mafuyu 12y ago
  If there is community interest, I definitely would! I love the Pibow, by the way. ;)
  - whiskers 12y ago
    Drop me an e-mail (details in profile) we're definitely looking for e-paper/ink options at the moment! Glad you're a fan of the Pibow! :-)

girasquid 12y ago

I've been teaching myself actionscript 3 so that I can build games - right now I'm working on a game where you run a pizza shop, because I used to like playing lemonade stand: http://d.pr/i/zJh4 http://d.pr/i/zJh4 Today has mostly been spent working on getting some of my UI in order, although there's still a lot of work to do as I hammer down the design for that page.

city41 12y ago

I've been adding notifications to Metamorfus. They are all done, going to deploy it out to the site tomorrow http://i.imgur.com/kFSbfLI.png http://i.imgur.com/kFSbfLI.png https://metamorf.us https://metamorf.us

yan 12y ago

My WebKit hack from two years ago that splits the rendering area into N joined columns, such that you scroll content Up->Down->Left->Right. https://vimeo.com/59463521 https://vimeo.com/59463521 The intuition was that screens are almost all wide-screen, but content is all narrow, due to readability. This was an attempt to add a mode to browsers that can let you use more of your screen real estate. I have a draft of a blog post from a year ago explaining my reasoning and a diff of the hack, but I kept putting it off. If people are interested, I'll port it to Blink and write something up about this.

tomek_zemla 12y ago
It's an interesting concept and intuitively it might seem desirable to fit in more text/information on the screen, but after some thought I think it would diminish user experience. The supporting arguments come from the principles of graphic design and book publishing. Digital screens are very much evolution of print. Two examples. Think of the well designed art books or hard covers. Large pages with significant areas taken by blank margins. This is easier and more pleasant to look at. Cheap pulp fiction paperbacks on the other hand had little margin space. Second example is the latest redesign of the digital version of the New York Times. It takes advantage of the fact that having blank/white pixels is free in comparison to unused spaces in the print edition and many changes were aimed at reducing number of items on each page not increasing. So in my humble opinion it's an interesting experiment, but in the wrong direction...
- Renaud 12y ago
  That view seems a bit restrictive. There are cases where having more on screen is useful and actually helps readability, in particular for technical and scientific documentation. Reading an article or a story is pretty much a linear activity: you progress onward and never have to go backward. In that case, readability is very much influenced by a page layout that reduces noise. For other types of documentation, the surroundings of what you are reading are important, and having to actually move the page up/down or flip pages on a book makes you easily loose context. So maybe this n-column reflow is not for everything or everyone, but if it was an option available in my browser, I know I would use it quite often. Another thing to note: newspapers and magazines have multiple columns of text, and they are still very readable. So that n-column layout in a browser might not even be bad for reading articles on website that don't have busy side panels.

TeMPOraL 12y ago

Side project: refactoring an IRC bot I'm writing after hours for fun (both mine and of our local hackerspace). http://i.imgur.com/nAGkbF3.png http://i.imgur.com/nAGkbF3.png The bot is written in Common Lisp and it's intention is to pretend to be human (i.e. parse natural-language requests instead of typical commands) while still providing useful functions for the channels it sits in. By "pretending to be human" I mean that I'm trying to add some personality and emotional model (yet to be done) to the program. It's a playground to test my ideas of creating programs that you can relate emotionally to, as well as some basic machine learning stuff. The "personality" of the bot is based on Alice Margatroid from Touhou Project series. Currently working code at https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice. I'm doing a huge rework of the codebase on https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice/tree/feature/style https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice/tree/feature/style branch right now. An interesting side effect is that after deploying Alice on few channels I have several people asking me for Lisp books/tutorial. It would seem that showing some working, fun project is a good way to get people interested in the language :).

sfalbo 12y ago

I just finished a dice game for iOS called Tripps (also known as 3s). The point is to score less than your opponent and 3s count as zero points. My friends and I often played this at parties so I decided to turn it into an app. Screenshots: http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/56/ad/7c/56ad7c61-b461-10ab-72da-e4b8717962ac/screen568x568.jpeg http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/56/ad/7c/56ad7c61-b... http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/e9/c4/a0/e9c4a0f8-a9d5-e0f6-6378-c4963a0fafae/screen568x568.jpeg http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/e9/c4/a0/e9c4a0f8-a... App Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripps-dice-game/id856299408?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripps-dice-game/id856299408...

felipemnoa 12y ago

Have been working on a Road Engine[1]. Below is a really simple road I created with it: http://imgur.com/GkBq8Oz http://imgur.com/GkBq8Oz The graphics are not great yet but most of the work on the engine itself is almost done. Will be using this for the game I'm currently working on [2] [1] A road engine is a tool for creating a system of roads in just a matter of minutes. [2]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnologies.android.flyingfighterbeta&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnol...

sfalbo 12y ago

The second project that I've been working on is RepairMyRentalPro.com which is a site to help connect landlords and contractors when work is needed on a rental property. The site is in beta but went 'live' a week ago. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/HKHPsqi.png http://i.imgur.com/HKHPsqi.png

rokhayakebe 12y ago
I would try to purchase rentalrepair.com, it is a premium domain available for $1000, or buy rentalrepair.net for $9.
- sfalbo 12y ago
  Thanks for the tip. I picked up rentalrepair.net and rentalrepair.co today.

osmosissupport 12y ago

Working on adding a analytics feature in a side project (https://www.getosmosis.com https://www.getosmosis.com). Right now you can send people questionnaires to set up projects - I'm working on making it so you can see if the person viewed from their computer / mobile, etc and from where. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgzjh9r54da4n5x/Screenshot%202014-04-26%2020.47.44.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgzjh9r54da4n5x/Screenshot%202014-... I'm hoping will help me get a better read on how people use the site and help customers do the same with their clients - obviously similar to Google analytics but tied to events in this application, and should help make sure we're not sending notification emails if some bot hits the site.

oky 12y ago

a to b! an anonymous textboard for people: http://i.imgur.com/vjEfiwI.png http://i.imgur.com/vjEfiwI.png sometimes, it is hard to be wrong when one's name is on the line - anonymous discussions can remove the ego from the discussion. http://atob.kthxb.ai http://atob.kthxb.ai

krapp 12y ago
It looks like you have an interesting take on tripcodes, although users with colorblindness issues might have some trouble differentiating.
- oky 12y ago
  that's a great point. here's what it looks like in BW: http://i.imgur.com/p84tu3f.png http://i.imgur.com/p84tu3f.png i'm wondering what a good way to work for colorblind people would be.
  - AustinDizzy 12y ago
    Replace the colors with patterns in a colorblind mode (e.g. A left striped replaces blue, a right striped replaces green, a vertical striped for red, a right horizontal stripe with dots in the brighter spaces for yellow, etc.).

antrix 12y ago

I've been working on a fun side project that takes a light-hearted dig at all the _[] driven development_ processes that our field comes up with. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Tl7NCje.png http://i.imgur.com/Tl7NCje.png Link: http://devdriven.by/ http://devdriven.by/

Scotrix 12y ago

Great idea, I did really a lot this week, very productive :-) #1 https://imupa.com/v/Aplag1t5M8X https://imupa.com/v/Aplag1t5M8X my game analytics company some huge changes in our event processing and storage system to load real time data much faster. #2 https://imupa.com/v/w7EOFP8qOWI https://imupa.com/v/w7EOFP8qOWI https://imupa.com/v/sOlf93ldjjN https://imupa.com/v/sOlf93ldjjN my payment aggregator company added some new features to our new accounting panel and some new payment methods for our new api as well, some weeks after the first release of our new system a lot of work still left as usual :-). #3 https://imupa.com/v/5yrGG82tOtw https://imupa.com/v/5yrGG82tOtw A strategy space game I'm working on since 5 month, this week i implemented the whole localisation things with jsgettext and php-gettext #4 https://imupa.com/v/N8RbEXXDwjo https://imupa.com/v/N8RbEXXDwjo image upload / effect / sharing web-app for free as a side project started 3 weeks ago was looking for a web-app which gives me easily access to some interesting imagemagick effects but everything i found was just not as comprehensive as it would be possible, so I built it on my own during a weekend and I optimized the UI last days.

dan335 12y ago

Massive multiplayer browser game I've been working on with meteor.js. http://imgur.com/cryCE2s http://imgur.com/cryCE2s

determinant 12y ago
This looks cool. Is there more or a development web site for this?
- dan335 12y ago
  Thanks. I should have a early test up in a month or two. Just registered dominusgame.net.
mbrock 12y ago
That looks awesome. Would you mind briefly describing what technologies you're using for the graphics?
- dan335 12y ago
  I rendered .png files with the 3d program Maya. Then used svg to draw them. Meteor.js handles updating them. Here's an example https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/02/06/a-reactive-svg-demo https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/02/06/a-reactive-svg-demo

innoying 12y ago

I've been working on a site dedicated to informing the public about net neutrality. It's using the new EFF data about legislators too! http://i.imgur.com/ML4rmKQ.png http://i.imgur.com/ML4rmKQ.png

eltaco 12y ago

TwitterHealth http://i4.minus.com/ibmjeJLRAFCB0Q.png http://i4.minus.com/ibmjeJLRAFCB0Q.png Crowdsourcing the classification of tweets as sick related or not for my Data/Visual Analytics class. Classified tweets from users are sent to our machine learning alg. Originally was supposed to show where and what ailments people were dealing with around the world but having only cities doesn't give that great of a visualization. Using node, d3, cubism, redis. App: http://twitterhealth.herokuapp.com http://twitterhealth.herokuapp.com Code: https://github.com/eltacodeldiablo/twitterhealth https://github.com/eltacodeldiablo/twitterhealth

donohoe 12y ago

Nothing big, a side-project that is work related. http://i.imgur.com/TxLS6GN.png http://i.imgur.com/TxLS6GN.png I've been thinking more about 'cards' and started playing around with something akin to Twitter's embedded tweets but for The New Yorker. Drop a link into a page and it gets re-done. Glorified oEmbed in a way.

tonglil 12y ago

Working on a Venmo like money tracking app that evolved out of a school project. Adding some features and making it more performant on mobile. Learning backbone.js right now to make the switch to a fully API backed service instead of a server render site. Reason is because a) Venmo doesn't exist in Canada and b) school is boring. http://i.imgur.com/OS0A7B7.png http://i.imgur.com/OS0A7B7.png http://i.imgur.com/6K9iD8w.png http://i.imgur.com/6K9iD8w.png http://moneytrackr.ca http://moneytrackr.ca

elchief 12y ago

No screenshots, because just code, but this is what I'm working on: Project PiGNWhiStle: Postgresql NOTIFY to WebSocket sample app. Project VAN: Validation, Analysis, and Normalization library for common types in PL/V8. Just in case you need to validate 5000 phone numbers per second in-database. Project Ted: Annotation-driven in-database PL/PGSQL unit test framework for Postgres. Project Hedgehog: a DIY web analytics app done w Spring and Postgres. Poor man's GA.

angersock 12y ago
Shine on you crazy diamond! Remember, elephants never forget--and they never forgive.

eswat 12y ago

Working on improving the layout of a project I’m working with a friend on, where we translate Ukrainian & Russian media into English and interview Ukrainians ourselves. Progress: http://i.imgur.com/Vch8UDO.png http://i.imgur.com/Vch8UDO.png Site: http://zasiv.ca http://zasiv.ca

siavosh 12y ago

http://imgur.com/1xfJRbq http://imgur.com/1xfJRbq http://woodspotting.com/ http://woodspotting.com/ Been a pet project for a few months. It started out as a hacker news for woodworking (my obsessive hobby), and it ended up being a hybrid with a web crawler that auto posts from about 100 blogs I like to follow. I'm its biggest user, but it seems to be slowly growing in terms of traffic.

cube_yellow 12y ago
What's the advantage over /r/woodworking?
- siavosh 12y ago
  Funny, I got the same exact question when I posted it there. Honestly, not much until it morphed into an rss feed of my favorite blogs.
  - cube_yellow 12y ago
    Ha, then I guess just make sure it's linked in their sidebar.

lettergram 12y ago

BasicBookReader A book interest tracker for my eBook application: application: http://i.imgur.com/wTTBxw1.png http://i.imgur.com/wTTBxw1.png data analysis: http://i.imgur.com/QyOJAPw.png http://i.imgur.com/QyOJAPw.png log (Dates): http://i.imgur.com/78b4jmf.png http://i.imgur.com/78b4jmf.png log (pages): http://i.imgur.com/uoac6K3.png http://i.imgur.com/uoac6K3.png times per page: http://i.imgur.com/U6W2zAQ.png http://i.imgur.com/U6W2zAQ.png ----- website: http://austingwalters.com/basicbookreader/ http://austingwalters.com/basicbookreader/ github: https://github.com/lettergram/basicbookreader https://github.com/lettergram/basicbookreader

aweyl 12y ago

A restaurant recommendation web app: http://imgur.com/iTKXwrC http://imgur.com/iTKXwrC

egypturnash 12y ago

Same thing I've been working on for most of the past few years: my graphic novel about a robot lady dragged outside of reality by her ex-boyfriend. http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/08/Screen-Shot-2014-04-26-at-8.04.41PM.png http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/08/Scre... - the WIP page of the moment http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/04/photo-e1398531964119.jpg http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/04/phot... - I woke up with a crazy idea about the final printed volume this morning http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ - the comic itself A lot of the past couple of weeks have been taken up with getting the second printed volume to bed. For the second time, as I managed to let a terrible show-stopping mistake get past me until I was sitting back reading the advance copy, with 399 more on a loading dock in China. My first $6k mistake! Which I have done my best to make sure will never happen again.

galvan 12y ago
This is fantastic. Love the art style! Looks like I'm going to be spending the next few hours reading through this now...

dougedey 12y ago

Android Homebrew (as in beer) recipe application: http://imgur.com/ESyqCeq http://imgur.com/ESyqCeq Currently in read only mode, it reads recipes from the phone and I'm halfway through adding in the ability to download recipes. Links in with the desktop version of Strangebrew (available in Java and QT for all platforms), which extends to a Brewery controller, to allow users to send mash temperatures and times to the system.

rbanffy 12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg Today I tested https://github.com/rbanffy/testable_appengine https://github.com/rbanffy/testable_appengine on Windows and thought I should add a mention to the README. This is completely unrelated to my day job, but we all have hobbies. Also, about a week ago, I fixed https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font so now it works with https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell

manish_gill 12y ago
Could you tell me what that font is? :)
- rbanffy 12y ago
  It's https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font, which is based on the x3270 bitmap fonts which were, in turn, copied pixel by pixel from an IBM 327x terminal, IIRC, from an undergrad student in Georgia Tech. The idea is to bring back some of the 3270 terminal aesthetics.

notduncansmith 12y ago

I built, and am continuing to refine, a site that features one link (and accompanying discussion thread) per day. http://puu.sh/8p3D5.png http://puu.sh/8p3D5.png I got the idea from an Idea Sunday thread, built the first version in a few hours, and I've been working on it on and off all week. http://threadaday.github.io http://threadaday.github.io

rokhayakebe 12y ago
Awesome. A few things to think about: 1) Would it not be better to have one-topic per day as opposed to one link. With one topic, users can submit multiple links/sources. 2) Have you started to think about acquiring users? You definitely need to grab an email address and email the daily topic so we can get remember to come back. 3) Related to 2. I think when selecting links, topics, it is important to select something ultra-controversial/interesting if you want to sparkle discussion.
- notduncansmith 12y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! 1 & 3. I thought about this approach, but right now I like the idea of having one link, that way all discussion is centralized to the particular article at hand (and of course comments with links are allowed if someone would like to link to an outside resource). I have been trying to pick articles that have a strong thesis or present an idea that I feel would spark some discussion. I don't want to ignite any flamewars so I try to stay away from topics that are too controversial/not actually likely to produce useful insight (i.e. "Javascript Sucks Because X"). What are some topics you would recommend? 2. Collecting email addresses is definitely on my list of TODOs, right now I'm still roughing out the MVP.

GreenZapdos 12y ago

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GreenZapdos/reel/master/screenshot.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GreenZapdos/reel/master/sc... A simple flask app to stream movies over HTTP, like XBMC for web browsers. Works good on mobile! https://github.com/GreenZapdos/reel https://github.com/GreenZapdos/reel

danbucholtz 12y ago

First time, long time. I'm the creator of PaperBox (http://www.gopaperbox.com http://www.gopaperbox.com), a document scanning and organization system for mobile (iPhone only right now) and the web. There are lots of similar solutions, but ours has a few unique features that make it stand out (web interface, fundamentally dependent on Dropbox, sharing, reminders, etc). I'd love some feedback on it! The screenshots are a little old, FYI. Please checkout the free iPhone app! http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#0 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#0 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#1 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#1 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#2 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#2

vbsteven 12y ago

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oxn36sidtubcvhi/w5km41TbaY/beta%20screenshots https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oxn36sidtubcvhi/w5km41TbaY/beta%2... AndroidFocus, an Android app that syncs with OmniFocus. Currently I have a read only beta out where you can browse your projects, contexts, actions and forecast. Creating and completing actions are next on the list and those features should be ready by next week. The beta can be joined through this G+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/103938802070518069711 https://plus.google.com/communities/103938802070518069711

armansu 12y ago

I'm posting an inspiring quote from the masters who changed the world at Instagram.com/BeTheCrazyOnes and doing that daily following the Seinfeld's 'don't break the chain' method: one rare black & white picture + quote first thing in the morning, one picture + quote last thing at night. http://imgur.com/TqTCMmh http://imgur.com/TqTCMmh

throwaway7784 12y ago

insaana.com - A real estate marketplace. Connects buyers and sellers directly and provides necessary services to complete the transaction (from connecting buyers and sellers to handing over the key to the buyer). Still in beta, tons of things to do, built with Django/Postgres.

arkokoley 12y ago

Goliath. An alternative Dashboard for Wordpress, based on Wp-Svbtle with a medium.com like editor. https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot1.png https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot1... https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot2.png https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot2... https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot3.png https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot3... I really liked the simplicity of svbtle, medium's editor and wordpress's raw power. QSo i built this scounging from the discontinued wp-svbtle project.

arthurk 12y ago

http://imgur.com/5PIv59x http://imgur.com/5PIv59x a customization to the Django admin to track my food intake. It supports recipes (group of foods) and custom serving sizes (e.g. specifying that a middlesized apple is xx grams).

bhashkarsharma 12y ago

Nothing fancy, just a bouncing ball in canvas that follows the laws of gravity and elasticity. http://i.imgur.com/6fZaanU.png http://i.imgur.com/6fZaanU.png Site: http://bhashkar.me/stuff/physics/ http://bhashkar.me/stuff/physics/ Needs some fixes.

shurcooL 12y ago

A small change to add line highlighting for git diffs. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/Conception/images/Go/git-diff-line-highlighting.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/...

agurha 12y ago

I built screenshot service as a side project. https://urlbox.io https://urlbox.io Fortunately we got some big customers recently. So it started to generate little bit of profit. Hoping to get couple more big customers and turn it into my full-time job.

bmilleare 12y ago
This looks cool. Any plans to add support for posted HTML (as opposed to a target URL) too? The reason I ask is that sometimes I need to screenshot pages that I've crawled - but you might not see exactly the same page I did at the time.

vsergiu 12y ago

A sales CRM that is similar to Pipedrive http://i.imgur.com/MFHYTQ4.png http://i.imgur.com/MFHYTQ4.png

seyz 12y ago

I'm working on solving business meeting nightmares. I'm bored about ineffective meetings. http://i.imgur.com/5yiMnqq.png http://i.imgur.com/5yiMnqq.png

omgmog 12y ago

A theme for LightDM Webkit that's a mashup of the Google login and Chrome OS login. Repo: https://github.com/omgmog/lightdm-webkit-google https://github.com/omgmog/lightdm-webkit-google Screenshot: http://uk.omg.li/VE7v http://uk.omg.li/VE7v

zwack 12y ago

Product configurator built with AngularJS. Pretty complex ruleset for allowed combinations. https://i.imgur.com/FfeWmt1.png https://i.imgur.com/FfeWmt1.png

mrmondo 12y ago

URLDiff - a small ruby app (and my very first!) that computes and renders the visual differences between two (or a list of) URLs: https://github.com/sammcj/urldiff https://github.com/sammcj/urldiff (screenshots included) whipped it up to check for visual differences in a bunch of pages I moved to a new platform, worked a treat.

mcjiggerlog 12y ago

Mountain Mapper A map-based web app for discovering the world's mountains http://i.imgur.com/LE2X6Fz.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LE2X6Fz.jpg http://www.tomjwatson.com/projects/mountain-mapper http://www.tomjwatson.com/projects/mountain-mapper Zoom and pan around the map to find the locations of significant peaks in an area. Click a marker to reveal information about each mountain, including images, descriptions, height etc. Data is sourced using the Freebase API and displayed using Google Maps Javascript API.

SchizoDuckie 12y ago

Working on finalizing the new UI and uTorrent plus Chromecast integration for the Chrome Extension that i'm building with Angular.js The aim of DuckieTV is help make the lives of TV Show freaks easier by providing a calendar that lists your favorite shows and is always up-to-date (Think sickbeard, but without the setup hastle) Current v0.5 progress: http://imgur.com/a/ZLHkU http://imgur.com/a/ZLHkU v0.43 (live): http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV

wesley 12y ago

A client for a java based cryptocurrency: http://nxtra.org/mac/NxtWallet.png http://nxtra.org/mac/NxtWallet.png More info about the cryptocurrency at http://www.mynxt.org http://www.mynxt.org / http://nxt.org http://nxt.org (PS: Looking for java developers, if you're interested email me via wesleyh _ at _ telenet.be

sfalbo 12y ago

Here's the 3rd side project I've been working on with a friend that was just released (I've been busy!). The iPhone app is called 'Run the World' and it lets you create goal based on running from one city to another (for example run from San Francisco to Dallas). Here are some screenshots: http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/50/ea/e5/50eae50f-79ae-ec88-2623-28c5025cf184/screen568x568.jpeg http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/50/ea/e5/50eae50f-7... http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/6e/5d/08/6e5d0849-3a17-c115-d7be-650ca16bcb65/screen568x568.jpeg http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/6e/5d/08/6e5d0849-3... http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/f0/28/0f/f0280ff7-fa3f-0692-e9a0-b352808cf4ee/screen568x568.jpeg http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/f0/28/0f/f0280ff7-fa... http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/c2/7c/f7/c27cf75b-99d7-8754-b065-4e7a3cee3a70/screen568x568.jpeg http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/c2/7c/f7/c27cf75b-9... http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/cc/dd/97/ccdd97cd-30ab-e5bb-399a-f6c8e54ed02d/screen568x568.jpeg http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/cc/dd/97/ccdd97cd-30... Here is the App Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/run-the-world/id832500937?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/run-the-world/id832500937?mt... We both realize the benefits of running but find it hard to get motivated so we made this app as a way to get off the couch.

cweiske 12y ago

phancap, a self-hosted website screenshot service API. JPG, PNG and PDF output. Useful for web-based bookmark managers. Homepage: http://cweiske.de/phancap.htm http://cweiske.de/phancap.htm Screenshot: http://cweiske.de/graphics/phancap/www.bogo-029bd33b9f01eccf3cc97c1b3b213024.png http://cweiske.de/graphics/phancap/www.bogo-029bd33b9f01eccf...

garethsprice 12y ago

http://tinypic.com/r/4jampz/8 http://tinypic.com/r/4jampz/8 (original: http://www.damienhirst.com/minoxidil http://www.damienhirst.com/minoxidil) http://tinypic.com/r/o0tcug/8 http://tinypic.com/r/o0tcug/8 (original: http://www.eyestorm.com/Pages/Product.aspx/Damien_Hirst/Valium__2000/4575921 http://www.eyestorm.com/Pages/Product.aspx/Damien_Hirst/Vali...) Learning D3.js by implementing Damien Hirst's spot painting techniques. Fun way to learn about D3 and to appreciate the complexity behind seemingly simple modern art. The latter uses a phyllotaxis algorithm that models how sunflower florets replicate (even though I think Hirst traced his from a textbook it's fun to implement the algorithm). Random color selection is also a much harder problem than you'd think (how to avoid repeating patterns) and I'm seeing that Hirst's allocation is not quite so random (rumours of steganography - http://www.damienhirst.com/controlled-substance-key-paint http://www.damienhirst.com/controlled-substance-key-paint for the key if anyone is good at cryptanalysis).

widgetic 12y ago

We're rebranding as Widgetic. We're called Blogvio now (http://blogvio.com/ http://blogvio.com/). So personally I've been focused on building the new identity and securing the domain name, Twitter username (had to purchase this one from an existing user), Facebook vanity URL, Google, Vimeo and all the other accounts we needed. The icon we've been working on, although not final, should help users see two things depending on where they look from (front, sides) - I'd love to hear your guesses - what do you see? http://o7.no/1fhXfoX http://o7.no/1fhXfoX Here's a more fine tuned / in progress version: http://o7.no/1hE7mOY http://o7.no/1hE7mOY Once the rebranding is done we can finally release our API under the new name, so we don't break any integrations with our product.

olegp 12y ago

Been working on adding new search providers to StartHQ cloud search. Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqe7yy4ledz82hc/screenshot2.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqe7yy4ledz82hc/screenshot2.png API docs: https://github.com/starthq/search#readme https://github.com/starthq/search#readme Sign up link: https://starthq.com/signup https://starthq.com/signup

nickfox 12y ago

My Gps Tracker is an open source project that allows you to track android, ios, windows phones and java me phones using various mapping providers such as google, bing and OpenStreetMaps. MIT licensed. Here is the android version: https://www.websmithing.com/images/gpstracker3.2.1.png https://www.websmithing.com/images/gpstracker3.2.1.png and the source code: https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker

kinj28 12y ago

I have been working towards creating some content for our product teamgum. And trying to reach the influencers is patience testing job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kKfbbGUH48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kKfbbGUH48