JamesChevalier

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   by JamesChevalier 8y ago

   Do you feel the same way about the wine market? Or do you feel like that market is different somehow?
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   by JamesChevalier 10y ago

   This is cool! I built https://blizzalert.com a while back which does part of this - sends an SMS with snowfall alerts for mountains that you're watching. I didn't think to match it up with flight costs. Nice job!
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   by JamesChevalier 11y ago

   I've built a small Ansible role to generate a certificate and configure it for automatic monthly renewal. It isn't really set up to handle all possible scenarios, so I only made it available as a gist as opposed to a full role ava
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   by JamesChevalier 12y ago

   I'm getting about $50/month through an IFTTT/tumblr/AdSense setup that I have running. That pays the server costs for http://citystrides.com which hasn't generated much revenue, yet.
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   by JamesChevalier 12y ago

   I'm aiming to run every street in my city. I'm almost half way through, and I try to at least make progress on a street every time I'm out. I keep track of my progress here: http://citystrides.com/users/1
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   by JamesChevalier 13y ago

   I'm building http://citystrides.com ... It lets you track your running, city by city - the main purpose is to track the streets that you run in your city, but beyond that it also does shoe tracking, weather info, step count
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   by JamesChevalier 13y ago

   I've been speaking to them a bit about city-specific data, and they've been incredibly helpful & knowledgable.
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   by JamesChevalier 13y ago

   heh, true! I've been playing with place names & http://overpass-turbo.eu/ ... I seem to be getting the best results with "city|hamlet|metropolis|town|village", although some states like Alaska & Hawai
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   by JamesChevalier 13y ago

   Yeah - OSM goes a long way in categorizing different levels of "area in which people live" based on population density. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place
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    by JamesChevalier 13y ago

    True! Like Houston, TX ... which looks a little like the flying spaghetti monster ... http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=3675... The poly files that you get from the process outlined in the readme file
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    by JamesChevalier 13y ago

    Be aware that those extracts are squares around the cities - they're not exact city border outlines. This means that you can't just use the data without concern for whether the things you're gathering are actually within the
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    by JamesChevalier 13y ago

    The site came from the idea that I had to try & run every street in my city. There wasn't any way to track that, so I had to build it myself ... Since I was building it, I figured I might as well make it so that others could use it
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    Show HN: CityStrides - Track your running, city by city.(citystrides.com)

    3 points by JamesChevalier 13y ago|1 comments
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    Show HN: MyFollowerList. The easiest way keep in touch with your followers.(myfollowerlist.com)

    1 points by JamesChevalier 14y ago|0 comments
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    by JamesChevalier 14y ago

    Nice job! I had a similar idea with https://github.com/JamesChevalier/Launch-Soon but Syte is a much better execution. Thanks for this.
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    by JamesChevalier 14y ago

    I just updated it to use Foundation, so now it's redesigned & fully responsive.
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    Show HN: Launch-Soon, a Heroku-ready open source LaunchRock-type site(github.com)

    1 points by JamesChevalier 14y ago|1 comments
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    by JamesChevalier 15y ago

    This is my first open source project... It's an open source "LaunchRock"-type site: https://github.com/JamesChevalier/Launch-Soon