Ask HN: What are you hacking these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4222222

by anujkk • 14 years ago

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Just curious to know what you guys are hacking these days.

daveid• 14 years ago

Just today decided that I'm done with this thing for the time being. Took a whole while. Built with Laravel PHP. It's a marketplace for art commissions (not finished art pieces, but artist services rather): https://artistsnclients.com/

yifanlu• 14 years ago

Kindles

ovi256• 14 years ago

Building an MVP for an SASS webapp, just me, bouncing ideas of my brother and friends. Basically team-shared and filtered Google Alerts. Learning and applying the principles of lean startup, so here's the launch page: http://signup.alertoid.com

Would love feedback on the concept, name, everything!

PS: Got the idea right here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3475193 PPS: How do I SEO webapp to bring in some visitors ? Baby's first SEO, basically. Reading Kalzumeus religiously, thanks for everything patio11.

mustardamus2• 14 years ago

Just started to hack on a bookmark (so 90s!) app (tell me more!) I had in mind for quite a while now. While bookmarking a page, it also caches it client side, so even if you're offline, you can view the bookmarked page as you were online.

The first evening was about getting the data from a x-origin page to the localStorage for the app's domain and serve it with HTML5 appcache. Got that. Now it's basically about encoding/decoding and putting back together the original page.

When this idea came to me, I build a self caching website to research it: https://github.com/mustardamus/self-caching-offline-website Tutorial: http://usejquery.com/posts/create-a-self-caching-website-rea...

What do you think?

alexzender• 14 years ago

The bookmarking idea indeed isn't new but still hasn't been solved fully yet.

Delicious is not that great anymore and others try to gain the ground. What will be your value proposition? Because there is a competition:

http://historio.us

http://linksandi.com

http://readability.com

http://getpocket.com

...

mustardamus2• 14 years ago

Good question. I haven't done any research because I am curious about the technology and not to interrupt the market.

But one thing I already noticed is that you don't need to register with my app since everything is done client-side (no plans about server persistence yet).

And, well, the caching of bookmarked sites. That also happens completely without a backend server.

mmihaljevic• 14 years ago

Working on smart fridge and health ideas.

jyothepro• 14 years ago

iPhone App

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