Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

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by quellhorst • 17 years ago

46 90 17 years ago

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So many news posts, so few people talking about what they are doing. What website are you working right now?

thomaspaine3• 17 years ago

I just finished building this for a client: http://sftheaterbuzz.org/

It's a little sad because there are no reviews yet...but I don't think he's had time to promote it yet.

jlgosse• 17 years ago

That, is awesome.

eznet• 17 years ago

Agreed.

JustRick• 17 years ago

I like this site. Question: I can't tell from the source if you are using a CMS of any kind or if this is custom developed in Django or similar. Care to reveal what you used?

thomaspaine3• 17 years ago

It's all custom Django, good guess on that one. I do use my fair share of external Django apps though. Ignoring the built in Django apps, My INSTALLED_APPS list has 10 unmodified external reusable apps, and 11 internal apps, which include ones I built myself and a few reusable apps I had to modify.

Thanks to everyone for the positive comments.

uvince• 17 years ago

I like the look of this site. Who did the visual design/graphics?

thomaspaine3• 17 years ago

My friend Kim Nguyen did the design: http://twitter.com/3am_studio

She's pretty awesome.

jlees2• 17 years ago

That's cool, I'm working on a 'buzz' site as well for the edinburgh festivals, though we're doing some AI magic to pull in crowdsourced reviews and classify them with star ratings. It's jolly good fun, though working with thesps is doing my head in.

(No URL 'cos it ain't finished yet!)

nwjsmith• 17 years ago

I'm working on an app to track work orders for a client. Not exactly riveting, but it's my first real gig and it feels really good to get paid to program.

maneesh2• 17 years ago

working on the beta version of Leftos (LEssons For The Opposite Sex) http://leftos.com -- an online dating/relationship advice social network. Building this for a client.

plucas• 17 years ago

Did you build that on a framework or do it from scratch?

I'm trying to see how many people go with existing frameworks for this sort of thing.

maneesh2• 17 years ago

built completely from scratch, no framework.

Shooter• 17 years ago

The name sounds like it's a site for liberals...or an operating system for left-handed people. Or a cereal. Or something. It doesn't sound like a name for what it is.

MatthiasW• 17 years ago

http://woodgears.ca http://chartgame.com

karanbhangui• 17 years ago

Oh hello fellow UW-er :)

rgiar2• 17 years ago

very nice, i will come back to the woodworking site when life allows me to put it to use. thx.

dan_the_welder3• 17 years ago

http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html

Awesome!

shaunxcode• 17 years ago

fun little text editor called WHOAD (sort of like woah dude or word heuristic occurrence analysis diagram). Trying it in flex v.s. the jquery version I currently have.

hikari17• 17 years ago

Still working nights and weekends on http://www.genlighten.com, our "Etsy for Genealogy Document Retrieval" app.

dfazaeli2• 17 years ago

would be interested in talking to you about an upcoming project. nice job!

dfazaeli2• 17 years ago

info at zoodlabs dot com

kyfhon• 17 years ago

http://www.you-compete.com

paulsingh3• 17 years ago

Building a noise filter for Twitter: http://www.philtro.com

smokinn2• 17 years ago

Very very interesting.

If it's not supposed to be secret, how does it work? Does it look for similarity of what you like or does it weight people in your feed and just skip x% of tweets from heavy low-value tweeters?

jlees2• 17 years ago

My instant thought is it simply trains a naive Bayes or similar spam classification algorithm on the tweets you label ;)

paulsingh3• 17 years ago

Well, most of the "secret sauce" is wrapped into the algorithms that we've built so I can't say too much. In general, we're able to learn what topics you're interested in via data that we collect through your implicit and explicit actions. (i.e., we're learning about you by watching who you tend to interact with, retweet, what topics you tend to click through on, who you follow, etc.)

We've been building and improving the algorithm for a few months now -- it's certainly got a long way to go still but, on the other hand, it's certainly come along way so far. :)

swaroop• 17 years ago

FYI for others, there's also http://filttr.com

knobish• 17 years ago

My 1st ever site! =) http://www.ComoEstaEso.com

Check it out tomorrow during daylight!

elguason• 17 years ago

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ironblunt• 17 years ago

http://benchcoach.com

larryfreeman• 17 years ago

This week, at http://hubpages.com we rolled out a table capsule that fits in nicely with our hubtool, our user interface for designing wikipedia-like articles.

eserorg• 17 years ago

Interactive map of United States midcontinent onshore oil and natural gas wells: http://hydrocarbon.search.eser.org/

Used for identifying infill drilling locations.

Updated daily with new well locations.

Working on adding Canada, shale plays, and Gulf of Mexico offshore wells.

Using Memcached on Amazon EC2 + openlayers + Google WGS84 tiles.

riso• 17 years ago

When I have time after work. http://leaguesmart.com

smmcbride2• 17 years ago

Many years ago (just as the web was taking off) I was the database guy for a local soccer association. I always liked the idea of abstracting all that out to a general purpose application but never acted on it. Good luck!

rgiar2• 17 years ago

http://socialfact.com -- collaborative thinking and blogging

mmb• 17 years ago

url sharing and personal archiving framework

http://urls.matthewm.boedicker.org/

nir• 17 years ago

Playing with Google App Engine (& hence Python), very nice platform for quickly putting together small web apps:

http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ - SMS notes (reminders etc) to your inbox

http://therealurl.appspot.com/ - send a URL, get a JSON response with the unshortened version + page title

jacktasia• 17 years ago

http://mancalatime.com where you can play your friends online over the internet.

Good or Evil db - in "private" beta you can use this link if you're really interested.

http://goodorevildb.com/do/register?key=chestermcgester

And then a bizarre jython app that I will probably open source. Yeah, I know I should concentrate on just one thing. Oh well.

whalesalad• 17 years ago

Just launched our latest version of SchoolRack a few days ago. It connects teachers with their students and parents. Lets them upload files, create discussion boards, create homework assignments, etc...

http://schoolrack.com

jakewolf• 17 years ago

A little gardening website - http://gardenobserver.com

Trying to track late blight on tomatoes. http://gardenobserver.com/report/map. Anyone having pest problems in their gardens? Hook me up!

zkinion• 17 years ago

some awesomeness that lets companies make money whenever people go to their competitor's websites. there is no site at all and no user interaction

dhpmx• 17 years ago

http://www.vivapixel.com - Photo and video hosting/sharing site.

Currently working on simple posting to tumblr and posterous

mannicken• 17 years ago

http://taskulus.com. It's barely working right now and mainly for testing deployment and such

ryszard99• 17 years ago

http://confess2.me/ a personal project i whipped up in a weekend as a learning exercise (and a blatant rip off of similar sites out there)

jaddison• 17 years ago

I, with my partners, am working on http://www.snapact.com/ in the midst of creating a better API in order to create more clients for more platforms. Fun and exciting (to me) stuff.

rrival2• 17 years ago

http://tshirtthis.com/ - rss to headline tshirts on demand - not yet in beta

tlrobinson• 17 years ago

Not sure if I understand this. The title of each RSS item can be purchased as a tshirt?

Also, how do you get the tshirts printed? Do you do it yourself or outsource to another company? (curious for my own tshirt needs)

rrival2• 17 years ago

Rss feed titles in a specific font & a logo. We have a special arrangement with a facility that does this.

rdoherty• 17 years ago

I'm working on http://www.getpersonas.com, trying to make it better for the community. Small release tomorrow!

Also working on http://www.mozilla.com/mobile, got some updates for a future release.

dan_the_welder3• 17 years ago

Getpersonas is pretty. It pleases my eyes.

eelinow• 17 years ago

After years of writing Manufacturing, Retail and Financial Backend/Middleware, I'm working on the following exclusively (for better or worse).

Maintaining Version 2.x & Building the All New Version (3.0) of http://www.inkedmag.com

Continuing the build of Version 2.x of http://www.surfacemag.com

and soon to be working on a brand new Version 2.x of http://www.tokion.com (currently a simple set of splash pages)

All for publishers in NYC. I do so wish they would acquire a technical journal, or some form of academics research journal(s). Fashion & Sub Cultures are interesting for those in said cultures but it doesn't mean that I wouldn't find more scholarly/research minded content/environments more interesting.

imack• 17 years ago

http://www.whichishotter.com

Simple site for me to learn Rails. Took the "solve a problem" idea to "which of these two [X] look better?" (for outfits, haircuts...whatever). Get a crowd to vote to get more opinions. The initial people are uploading some unexpected things though.

hypotize2• 17 years ago

Just in my spare time, but working on a subway/train route finder for the Tokyo trains

http://trains.jp/

There are others out there, but trying to make one that is super easy to use. Still very much a work in progress, but any feedback would be appreciated!

mahmud• 17 years ago

How on earth did you nail that domain name? .jp must be virgin lands!

hypotize2• 17 years ago

A little - tho most of the good ones are taken. Just lucky I think - it was previously registered, but lapsed.

mrshoe• 17 years ago

Working on a new homepage for http://shoptalkapp.com, since you helpful HN reviewers pointed out last week that it is lacking. :)

wooster• 17 years ago

http://tweeteorites.com/

It tracks your friends' favorites on Twitter, and suggests interesting people for you to follow based on favorites and your social network structure.

catch404• 17 years ago

This is cool :) Really clean design!

mikeytown2• 17 years ago

Module called Boost for Drupal. http://drupal.org/project/boost In short it's a poormans-squid/poormans-varnish; it creates a html cache for dynamic pages. It's fairly sophisticated, going to have it support the caching of AJAX JSON in the near future; among other things.

holdenk• 17 years ago

I'm working on two things right now ( http://web2.0collage.com & http://pcfspam.com ) I'm hoping to wrap up the first (a lot of it was an experiment into how to do basic PR) and get started on the second after exams.

mcastner• 17 years ago

Working on the site for the club I'm in at school: http://urbangaming.org

Not much info on there but the new site will be up in exactly 1 week so stay tuned. You can check out our Facebook page for more info: http://facebook.com/urbangaming

NoBSWebDesign• 17 years ago

Working on http://www.ratemystudentrental.com and a new tool that stemmed from our internal systems, http://www.leadnuke.com

rs2• 17 years ago

Still working hard on http://xp-dev.com/

Just opened up sign-ups for a new platform release which is going to begin next week:

http://www.xp-dev.com/blogs/view/704/xp-dev-com-version-40-b...

clistctrl• 17 years ago

This is the site where the GS employee uploaded his "stolen" code, right?

rs2• 17 years ago

yeah..

some more details (if you want to know):

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aSDx...

bernzilla• 17 years ago

Just launched Merecal, a site for tracking upcoming and new releases in books, movies, music and video games. It uses your favorite artists, authors, actors, directors, publishers, etc. to notify you when the releases you're likely to care about become available for pre-order or actually release.

http://merecal.com/

dan_the_welder3• 17 years ago

Very useful, well done.

Hope you don't live in North Carolina.

joepestro• 17 years ago

Just finished building an iPhone app that is awaiting Apple's approval now: http://www.pinglater.com/

We're doing a 1 day web app event this weekend, so I'll be able to share more about everyone's apps soon!

kineticac• 17 years ago

probably going to do a One Day App on saturday, thinking of using our short url as the domain. http://post.ly/1WGW

dipankarsarkar• 17 years ago

working on http://mosambe.com :)

It will hopefully get some traction soon.

callmeed• 17 years ago

Just wrapping up new home and pricing page for our photo sales app: http://www.nextproof.com/pricing/

costan• 17 years ago

Got energized again to work on my Web service-backed iPhone app http://istockplay.com

Does this count?

I'll admit that, right now, it's little more than a tech demo for my iPhone libraries:

http://github.com/costan/zergsupport - iPhone-side

http://github.com/costan/imobile - Rails server-side

davecardwell• 17 years ago

Completing a redesign of http://www.localphone.com/ — a VoIP start-up I work for.

enra• 17 years ago

http://www.flowdock.com/, real-time communication & collaboration app for teams. Still work to do before open beta.

jasonkester• 17 years ago

http://www.twiddla.com/

Mostly working on the social interface around the pricing model, trying to get the subscription process smoothed out. It's a fun little puzzle, trying to get people from "this is cool" to "I should sign up for this" to "I should pay money for this".

After that, there are a couple new big pieces in the works...

mh77• 17 years ago

http://webgeek.io/ - Shipped one day ago..

dvv• 17 years ago

http://send2twitter.com - a very simple but efficient email-to-twitter gateway using oauth.

hopeless• 17 years ago

http://shutterscouts.com -- an idea management and weather forecasting service for (landscape) photographers.

flooha• 17 years ago

We just did a "Review my app" here on HN. http://flooha.com

It's a place where open source developers can upload their add-ons (and apps in the future) and users can add their software to their website just by clicking. We hope to bring a much bigger, immediate, and organized user base to open source developers.

danielh• 17 years ago

http://analytics4i.appspot.com Google Analytics web interface for the iPhone.

Feature list is still very short and I'm having some trouble with OAuth on GAE.

gvasilei• 17 years ago

Working on http://www.beachionary.com/ a social guide for beaches and organizing summer holidays. It's the middle of the summer and still on private alpha though :|

smmcbride2• 17 years ago

I'm a cubicle-dweller by day, but in my nights and weekends I'm building:

http://www.familymatic.com

idleworx• 17 years ago

I've been working on http://totdo.com a very simple todo manager. Pronounced TooTeeDoo :). It's in beta of course.

v2interactive• 17 years ago

http://www.mybroadwaydreams.com small joomla project i'm working on for a broadway foundation

http://www.v2interactive.net working onmy design firms webpage in joomla to meet web 2.0 standards

wushupork• 17 years ago

I just created http://stonertweets.com for a client. This is to build buzz around a community and help promote a movie.

Akram• 17 years ago

I'm working on http://www.mosambe.com a place where people and companies network to find better opertunities.

Feedback is highly appriciated.

Thanks :)

mschaecher• 17 years ago

http://www.rockdex.com

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