Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7652777

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

strooltz• 12 years 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 - would love some feedback/copy editing.

disclaimer - it is built on squarespace.

CSDude4• 12 years ago

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

nickstinemates• 12 years ago

This is brilliant. We recently showcased another course doing something very similar.

Looks like an area someone could create a company :)

Freeboots2• 12 years ago

This looks pretty polished. The custom pricing plans is cool, maybe you want to set up presets or suggested plans?

CSDude4• 12 years ago

Yeah, that would be nice, i.e. Java assignments may need larger RAM

lalos• 12 years ago

Guessing the use of docker is to mitigate possible harmful student code executing in the server?

CSDude4• 12 years 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"

Pezmc3• 12 years 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.

danpalmer• 12 years 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?

CSDude4• 12 years ago

I have already evaluted this; You can expose VNC through a port, and use NoVNC to play it on browser over websockets. The problem is, it is too slow and would generate a big burden on server.

noVNC: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC

joshmn8• 12 years ago

In early March I whipped up 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

hack_edu• 12 years 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.

joshmn8• 12 years 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 :)

dsl• 12 years ago

This is AWESOME.

copperx• 12 years ago

Looks great! I had the same problem and then I found HypeMachine (hypem.com).

rnbrady• 12 years ago

Very cool! First song it served me under minimal was both new and awesome.

joshmn8• 12 years ago

I'm glad.

ufmace• 12 years ago

I'll check yours out later, but have you tried Slacker? I got tired of Pandora because it tended to get too repetitive longer-term, but Slacker seems to have stations controlled by actual DJs that rotate new music in and out.

mjhagen• 12 years ago

This is perfect! If you need any testers, let me know.

joshmn8• 12 years ago

Could you shoot me a mail? josh@josh.mn :)

shpx• 12 years ago

Right on man! Can I suggest you add a Favourites list if the user is signed in?

joshmn8• 12 years ago

I'm actually planning to add "favorite playlists" so you can mix/match certain genres.

There's no back-end algorithm to determine what tracks you'll like... but developing a "likes"/"favourtites" system is easily doable. Will DEFINITELY consider it.

w44• 12 years ago

I fucking love this.

Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name.

EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (and you need a favicon!).

jeffbr13• 12 years ago

"EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology

Sure, it's widely-accepted terminology in the US or by people who are disinterested enough to label all electronic music as "EDM". It's also starting to refer to a very 'American' style of dance music, so it probably will turn off a lot of people, especially those most involved/interested in electronic music.

Music genres are one of those identity-defining topics[1], so it's best to sidestep the whole issue if there's any doubt!

[1] http://paulgraham.com/identity.html

joshmn8• 12 years ago

Thanks so much!

I'll consider adding a Spotify link in the next version (will be released soon, I hope).

RE: Favicon. I need a lot of design stuff! I'll whip up something for the next iteration too.

timthimmaiah• 12 years ago

Pretty cool site man. We launched an customizable SoundCloud player that could fit in pretty nicely here. We even have a player skin that would match your color scheme :)

Check it out at https://www.toneden.io/player. The repo is at https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk.

Just hit me up if you want some help integrating it.

joshmn8• 12 years ago

HA. So funny because I totally commented on the Facebook post you guys posted. ANDDDDDD I commented on the HN post :) something about volume control.

cube_yellow3• 12 years ago

I hate to be that guy, but nothing you have under IDM is actually IDM. It's decent glitchhop/dubstep, but I don't know how/why you created that sub-category to shoehorn IDM in there somewhere.

joshmn8• 12 years ago

I scraped a few blogs and then took in their tags thinking they would be accurate.

Evidently, they are not always accurate. :(

marlin• 12 years ago

awesome site! this'll be my coding playlist for a while!

krapp3• 12 years ago

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• 12 years ago

Do you have a customer for this, or just making it for the heck of it?

krapp3• 12 years 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 :)

robinhoodexe• 12 years ago

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.

Freeboots2• 12 years ago

I published my first chrome extension the other day. Its a very simple UI tweak (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-y...

and I wrote a short blog post: http://michaelyockney.com/frame-scroll-extension-for-chrome/

serverascode• 12 years 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

pedrokost• 12 years ago

I am working on a personal project: book reading logger

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• 12 years ago

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.

dang3• 12 years 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• 12 years 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

seizethecheese3• 12 years 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?

dang3• 12 years ago

I suspect that's wrong and that they'll make it to the front page regardless.

cjbarber• 12 years ago

I'd like to propose a Problem Thursday's, in addition to Idea Sunday.

Topic: What problems are you experiencing that you want solved? IMO this is more conducive to creation of solutions and idea generation than Idea Sunday.

1) Sharing of problems doesn't impose any constraints on the solution, allowing readers to identify their own solutions (and thus feel more attached to the potential solution). To explain another way, my hypothesis is that people would rather come up with their own idea (aka solution) to a stated problem, than build out someone else's idea of a solution. (Even if the leap from problem -> solution is one cognitive cycle and nothing revolutionary).

2) I'd rather see people solving problems

All that said, the Idea Sunday thread is great, too.

brudgers• 12 years ago

It seems like positive activity and reduces the pressure to try and game the 'Show HN' mechanism.

tomek_zemla4• 12 years ago

Personally, as somebody who constantly works on small side projects I find Screenshot Saturday both entertaining and educational. I would assume that it should be reserved for early concepts or work still very much in progress while Show HN be used for finished or at least MVP level projects. In other words I hope Screenshot Saturday stays here...

rokhayakebe5• 12 years ago

While we at it, I would love to see Seed-fund HN monthly. It would be quite easy at this point for 1 or 2000 HNers to throw $50 each each month and fund one or two projects.

Idea Sunday, Screenshot Saturday, Problem Thursday, etc, the Invisible Hand [1] will probably regulate their worthiness and the right frequency.

Some will be have more discussion around them (Ideas, Problems) than others (Screenshots, MVPs,etc..) just because it is easier to talk the idea than to implement it. However Screenshots and MVPs benefit from the exposure of a single thread on the front page, I call this co-Marketing.

I think what we see here is the HN community expressing a need for more tools and ways to fully benefit from the community. The community wants to share ideas, show off their work, get help in solving problems, hire hackers. I would like to see more of all these.

mirkules• 12 years ago

I love the idea, and it makes me push myself harder when I see submissions that are light-years ahead of my project. It's almost to the point of intimidating how good some of these are..

anmonteiro90• 12 years 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

foofoobar• 12 years 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

https://github.com/rverton/circlephotos

return0• 12 years ago

I 've been working on 2 things past week:

1) http://i.imgur.com/S6gv2Gt.jpg

http://hopgenie.com/ - Community for travelers with travel tips, advice, questions etc.

2) http://i.imgur.com/DI2sO5o.png

http://sciboards.org/ - News aggregator / Q&A for scientific research

cj3• 12 years ago

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

andrewlouis932• 12 years 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?

cj3• 12 years 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

tluyben2• 12 years ago

Very nice work. Definitely something we'll be using.

arthurk2• 12 years ago

this looks very nice! is it possible to translate messages that only show in specific use-cases (for example error messages)?

cj3• 12 years ago

Yes! Localize.js watches the page for changes, and immediately translates text that is added to the page (like an error message).

You can also translate text manually, like this: Localize.translate('Hello!');

erik6• 12 years 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/g1oFM31.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/)

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

ew• 12 years ago

I was at that game jam! Glad to see this released :)

Legend• 12 years ago

Amazing concept! :) Good luck with the game.

erik6• 12 years ago

Thanks!

suby• 12 years ago

Congratulations on the release, the game looks awesome. I hope it does well.

bm1362• 12 years 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.

erik6• 12 years 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.

jason_slack• 12 years ago

This looks nice!

TheCoreh• 12 years ago

Congrats for the awesome game! :D It's really fun — and I also had lots of fun watching the playthrough on Game Grumps. (where I originally found out about it).

One thing I wondered: do you have a random Knight name generator based on something like markov chains, or do you just have a very, very long list of knight names?

Also mad props on the visual effect of the lava heating up the rocks, it looks super realistic. Did you write a custom shader for that?

_frog• 12 years ago

I also picked this up after seeing it on Game Grumps. The combination of the game looking pretty interesting and them being really bad at it convinced me to just pick it up and finish it myself.

erik6• 12 years ago

Thanks!

Knight names are a mix of a list of names, and a random name generator that pulls from a pool of first names, surnames, titles, etc.

The lava heat on the rocks is indeed a custom shader, put together by our artist.

lettergram2• 12 years ago

That looks impressive, addictive, and fun. Congratulations!

nmikz• 12 years ago

Just checked out the game trailer and it looks really good! The concept seems fun and the graphics are amazing. However I have to admit that I feel the title is not appropriate and a better one should have been chosen.

joepie91_• 12 years ago

The style of that very strongly reminds me of that David vs. Goliath top-down shooter game: https://icreviews.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/giving_goliath...

Any connection to that, by any chance?

EDIT: Hmm, HN doesn't do Markdown?

erik6• 12 years ago

No, that one is new to me. I'll check it out.

KnightHawk3• 12 years ago

I saw your game on reddit a long time back, I really enjoyed it! Thanks for the reminder to go pick it up (I got the mailing list updates but ignored them)

Do you think you will be releasing another game under the same name?

erik6• 12 years ago

I hope you enjoy the game!

It's really hard to say what's next. There will probably be more work to do on Life Goes On first.

andrewlouis932• 12 years ago

Been working on my first Rails app for a few 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

Trying to add features like smarter task recording, and maybe tagging list items, idk I'm just making it up as I go along

RMarcus2• 12 years ago

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• 12 years 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?

RMarcus2• 12 years 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.

bunkerbewohner2• 12 years ago

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.

Pezmc3• 12 years 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).

bunkerbewohner2• 12 years ago

Thanks, we definitely plan notifications via email and if possible other messenging services.

Pezmc3• 12 years 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

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. 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 https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex-check

wingerlang• 12 years ago

Neat. I just posted on reddit so I guess I'll just grab the same text.

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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.

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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

And this is the new one: 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!

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And a short GIF of the app in action. http://imgur.com/PFnRae7

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EDIT: Format. Sorry about the length of this text.

jackhammons• 12 years ago

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

Patrick_Devine• 12 years 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

dougmccune2• 12 years ago

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• 12 years 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?

dougmccune2• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

https://github.com/davidchambers/dotfiles/pull/1

Fix for ugly `npm` output.

cocoflunchy• 12 years 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/VoIu5sq.png

covercash• 12 years ago

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), 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• 12 years 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

rokhayakebe5• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

My side project: http://arturo.io

Automated book builds on commits and PRs:

http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#0

Automatic diffs for PRs/Commits:

http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#1

Stylesheet support here is the base output with custom link colors:

http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#2

tulsidas• 12 years ago

http://i.imgur.com/1LZNRg7.png

multiplayer hacking game

louisstow2• 12 years 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

It's also open-source: http://github.com/sproute/sproute

petersouth• 12 years ago

Can't wait to use this! Thanks for making it!

jtokoph• 12 years ago

Just an FYI that you're heartbleed vulnerable: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=getsproute.co...

louisstow2• 12 years ago

Oops forgot to restart Nginx after updating. Thanks!

chrisrickard• 12 years ago

Very cool, I have been tinkering with something similar.

Spearchucker• 12 years ago

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-441...

nraynaud• 12 years ago

http://i.imgur.com/izk5Rbr.png

online g-code simulator. http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/

and a pocketing toolpath generator http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html

Edmond• 12 years ago

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 :)

y3di2• 12 years ago

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)

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 (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• 12 years ago

looks great!

NamTaf2• 12 years 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.

y3di2• 12 years 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'

SchizoDuckie2• 12 years ago

Super impressive!

larrybolt• 12 years ago

I know about Kimsufi, don't know how reliable those are though.

http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/

maresca2• 12 years ago

LottoLane / 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

Screenshot of sending emails to users:

http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png

rokhayakebe5• 12 years 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.

maresca2• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Bake

Making to-do lists better.

http://arsln.co/VCsx

holic• 12 years ago

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!).

mrmondo2• 12 years ago

Neat! I'll keep an eye on this.

jw2013• 12 years ago

gittribute (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

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/

w44• 12 years ago

Auto Miles: 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/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.

car2• 12 years 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.

w44• 12 years 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.

kennyledet• 12 years ago

This is very nice/useful. Good work

w44• 12 years ago

Thanks!

asanwal• 12 years ago

The Business Social Graph

It maps relationships between companies, their investors, acquirers, competitors & customers/partners.

http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_gra...

tomek_zemla4• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

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• 12 years 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

and a small screenshot

https://mintty.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=19300120...

bound008• 12 years ago

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 gulping it up, and get ready for deployment.

PabloOsinaga• 12 years ago

Making http://bandhub.us grow

http://i.imgur.com/TDndNDJ.png

mafuyu2• 12 years ago

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_003.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png

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• 12 years ago

looks awesome! it's always great to see hardware stuff on hn :)

whiskers2• 12 years ago

Hey that is really nice! Are you interested in looking for a way to get them manufactured?

mafuyu2• 12 years ago

If there is community interest, I definitely would!

I love the Pibow, by the way. ;)

girasquid• 12 years 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

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• 12 years 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

https://metamorf.us

yan• 12 years 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

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_zemla4• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years 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

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. I'm doing a huge rework of the codebase on 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 :).

sfalbo4• 12 years 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-b...

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...

felipemnoa• 12 years ago

Have been working on a Road Engine[1].

Below is a really simple road I created with it: 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.noatechnol...

sfalbo4• 12 years 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

rokhayakebe5• 12 years ago

I would try to purchase rentalrepair.com, it is a premium domain available for $1000, or buy rentalrepair.net for $9.

sfalbo4• 12 years ago

Thanks for the tip. I picked up rentalrepair.net and rentalrepair.co today.

osmosissupport• 12 years ago

Working on adding a analytics feature in a side project (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-...

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.

oky2• 12 years ago

a to b!

an anonymous textboard for people: 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

krapp3• 12 years ago

It looks like you have an interesting take on tripcodes, although users with colorblindness issues might have some trouble differentiating.

oky2• 12 years ago

that's a great point. here's what it looks like in BW: http://i.imgur.com/p84tu3f.png

i'm wondering what a good way to work for colorblind people would be.

antrix• 12 years 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 Link: http://devdriven.by/

Scotrix• 12 years ago

Great idea, I did really a lot this week, very productive :-)

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.

https://imupa.com/v/w7EOFP8qOWI

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 :-).

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

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.

dan3353• 12 years ago

Massive multiplayer browser game I've been working on with meteor.js.

http://imgur.com/cryCE2s

determinant• 12 years ago

This looks cool. Is there more or a development web site for this?

dan3353• 12 years ago

Thanks. I should have a early test up in a month or two. Just registered dominusgame.net.

mbrock• 12 years ago

That looks awesome. Would you mind briefly describing what technologies you're using for the graphics?

dan3353• 12 years 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

innoying• 12 years 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

eltaco• 12 years ago

TwitterHealth

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 Code: https://github.com/eltacodeldiablo/twitterhealth

donohoe• 12 years ago

Nothing big, a side-project that is work related.

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• 12 years 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/6K9iD8w.png http://moneytrackr.ca

elchief• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Shine on you crazy diamond!

Remember, elephants never forget--and they never forgive.

eswat• 12 years 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 Site: http://zasiv.ca

siavosh2• 12 years ago

http://imgur.com/1xfJRbq

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_yellow3• 12 years ago

What's the advantage over /r/woodworking?

siavosh2• 12 years 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.

lettergram2• 12 years ago

BasicBookReader

A book interest tracker for my eBook application:

application: http://i.imgur.com/wTTBxw1.png

data analysis: http://i.imgur.com/QyOJAPw.png

log (Dates): http://i.imgur.com/78b4jmf.png

log (pages): http://i.imgur.com/uoac6K3.png

times per page: http://i.imgur.com/U6W2zAQ.png

-----

website: http://austingwalters.com/basicbookreader/

github: https://github.com/lettergram/basicbookreader

aweyl• 12 years ago

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

egypturnash• 12 years 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/Scre... - the WIP page of the moment

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/ - 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• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Android Homebrew (as in beer) recipe application: 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.

rbanffy2• 12 years ago

http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg

Today I tested 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 so now it works with https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell

manish_gill• 12 years ago

Could you tell me what that font is? :)

rbanffy2• 12 years ago

It's 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.

notduncansmith2• 12 years 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

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

rokhayakebe5• 12 years 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.

notduncansmith2• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

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

danbucholtz• 12 years ago

First time, long time.

I'm the creator of PaperBox (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#1 http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#2

vbsteven• 12 years ago

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

armansu• 12 years 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

throwaway7784• 12 years 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• 12 years 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... https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot2... 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.

arthurk2• 12 years ago

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• 12 years ago

Nothing fancy, just a bouncing ball in canvas that follows the laws of gravity and elasticity.

http://i.imgur.com/6fZaanU.png

Site: http://bhashkar.me/stuff/physics/ Needs some fixes.

shurcooL• 12 years ago

A small change to add line highlighting for git diffs.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/...

agurha• 12 years ago

I built screenshot service as a side project. 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• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

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

seyz• 12 years ago

I'm working on solving business meeting nightmares. I'm bored about ineffective meetings.

http://i.imgur.com/5yiMnqq.png

omgmog• 12 years 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 Screenshot: http://uk.omg.li/VE7v

zwack• 12 years ago

Product configurator built with AngularJS. Pretty complex ruleset for allowed combinations.

https://i.imgur.com/FfeWmt1.png

mrmondo2• 12 years 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 (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• 12 years ago

Mountain Mapper

A map-based web app for discovering the world's mountains

http://i.imgur.com/LE2X6Fz.jpg

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.

SchizoDuckie2• 12 years 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

v0.43 (live): http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV

wesley• 12 years ago

A client for a java based cryptocurrency:

http://nxtra.org/mac/NxtWallet.png

More info about the cryptocurrency at http://www.mynxt.org / http://nxt.org

(PS: Looking for java developers, if you're interested email me via wesleyh _ at _ telenet.be

sfalbo4• 12 years 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-7...

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-fa...

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-30...

Here is the App Store Link: 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• 12 years 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 Screenshot: http://cweiske.de/graphics/phancap/www.bogo-029bd33b9f01eccf...

garethsprice• 12 years ago

http://tinypic.com/r/4jampz/8 (original: http://www.damienhirst.com/minoxidil) http://tinypic.com/r/o0tcug/8 (original: 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 for the key if anyone is good at cryptanalysis).

widgetic• 12 years ago

We're rebranding as Widgetic. We're called Blogvio now (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

Here's a more fine tuned / in progress version: 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• 12 years ago

Been working on adding new search providers to StartHQ cloud search.

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqe7yy4ledz82hc/screenshot2.png

API docs: https://github.com/starthq/search#readme

nickfox• 12 years 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

and the source code:

https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker

kinj28• 12 years 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

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