Ask HN: What are you building?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8306896

by mukgupta • 12 years ago

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Got anything you've been working on in the last few weeks/months? Go ahead give us a short demo of it! What does it do? What problem does it solve? When will it launch?

ggarg88• 12 years ago

I can answer this. We are working on a do-it-yourself SaaS tool that marketers can use to create mobile engagement campaigns like incentive-based mobile contests, games, surveys, etc. To create one, marketers currently have to rely on developers and designers which can cost them a lot of time and money. With our tool, marketers will be simply able to pick a ready-made campaign, customize with content, rules and difficulty levels, and simply publish it in a matter of minutes for a fraction of the cost. We are actually working on a demo video as I write this and hopefully you'll be able to see it over the weekend. So keep your eyes open.

ashraful5• 12 years ago

http://www.hackerlunch.com

I am working on an iOS app that lets hackers meet up with each other and have lunch.

I moved to San Francisco from Bangladesh last year and found it tough to meet other hackers. Being rather introverted, tech meetups didn't really work for me. I felt that a one-on-one meetup would be ideal. So that's what I'm building.

I'm hoping to launch within a few weeks. If it sounds interesting to you, you can sign up for an email notification when I launch, just go to hackerlunch.com. I'll probably do a Show HN once I launch as well.

zkirill4• 12 years ago

Sounds like a great idea, sort of like a non-romantic version of Tinder for hackers.

richev3• 12 years ago

Are you launching this specific to SF, or other cities as well?

ashraful5• 12 years ago

No, It'll be open to everyone. I originally intended to limit this to SF but have changed my mind since.

I initially tested out this idea by creating a simple form that asks users for their name, email and zipcode and manually pairing them up myself via email. I limited that to San Francisco zipcodes only, since I figured it not doing so would mean that I would have a bunch of users who may not have anyone nearby to get paired with.

A lot of people who weren't in SF actually emailed me and expressed their disappointment in not being able to try it out. So this time I'm opening it up to everyone.

If you are the only one in your city, you'll get a message telling you so and you'll be paired whenever a new user in your city signs up.

If anyone has any better ideas, I'm open to suggestions regarding this.

waizrahim• 12 years ago

Sounds great man! Let me know if I can help out from USC. -fellow Bangladeshi

TomAnthony4• 12 years ago

This is a really cool idea! Glad you're launching worldwide. Good luck with the launch.

hashtag2• 12 years ago

Reminds me of letslunch.com

ashraful5• 12 years ago

The basic idea is fairly similar. The key difference is that, instead of you requesting someone to have lunch, the app automatically pairs you with someone.

I believe this would make the experience much more natural and fun.

Also it solves the problem, where a large number of users are only interested in having lunch with a few people (VIPs on LetsLunch).

I'm hoping this will make HackerLunch more about meeting interesting people and less about "networking".

mkdir_home4• 12 years ago

Awesome idea, but the background image (the cityscape) takes about 7 seconds to load for me. Try optimising it down to a smaller filesize?

mappu• 12 years ago

A toy native code compiler for a made-up language where all functions are anonymous.

All programming languages are horrible in certain crippling ways. It's my hope that this one will be slightly less bad in some areas (undoubtedly with the expense of some glaring deficits). It's pretty cool to have first-class functions, type extension methods, PHP-like vectors/maps, and still end up with a sub-4KB exe.

eps2• 12 years ago

You forgot a link to the Hello world example :)

scscsc• 12 years ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ovaludi.no...

I've been working (and still am) on an Android puzzle game using libgdx. The puzzle requires to fill a board with Xs and Os while obeying the no-three rule (no three Xs or Os in a row) and the same number rule (same number of Xs and Os on each line and column).

The puzzle turned out to be quite challenging and addictive, similar to sudoku. The most difficult part of development was that I would start the game to see check a new feature and I wouldn't get back to development until I finished filling the board.

The most interesting part of development was writing the algorithm that generates the board in order to ensure a unique solution and account for the various levels of difficulty.

I've already published a version of the game and I'm currently working on adding some features to it.

ivanca2• 12 years ago

http://cutcss.com

Creating responsive CSS with flexible layouts is still ridiculously hard, mostly done by hand and I want to fix that with a GUI.

richev3• 12 years ago

I think you have a small layout bug on your website: When you mouseover the animated stick man at the bottom of the page some text pops up, but it's in the top-left corner of the page and half off the page (tested in IE11, Chrome and Firefox).

ivanca2• 12 years ago

I told you CSS is hard haha. Thanks for the heads up, it's now fixed.

richev3• 12 years ago

I am working on a free Windows application for Nest products (Learning Thermostat and Protect Smoke & CO alarm).

Primarily a notifier (heating on, Smoke or CO emergency etc), it also gives you thermostat temperature and home/away control.

You can see the status of your Nest devices at-a-glance by means of a series of icons (one for each device) down in the taskbar notification area (aka system tray).

Currently seeking beta testers!

More details at http://richardeverett.com/Nest

All feedback (good and bad) as well as feature suggestions welcomed.

Sambdala• 12 years ago

Credits - A built from scratch cryptocurrency that seeks to solve a few pain points with current cryptocurrencies.

* Aiming for instantaneous(ish) transaction confirmations.

* Much easier and safer to develop against the protocol than Satoshi clients.

* New consensus algorithm that doesn't require paying $2 million per day in electricity and hardware to secure the network.

http://getcredits.io https://github.com/CryptoCredits/credits

humanfromearth2• 12 years ago

I'm working on a Chrome extension for Gmail. The main feature is Tab completion of templates. If you do a lot of Gmail it might save you a lot of time:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicktext-for-chro...

TomAnthony4• 12 years ago

This looks v. cool (not tried it yet).

What would be awesome would be if the templates could have a bunch of {placeholders} within. So I type the initial prompt and press tab and it autofills the text, then I can tab through the placeholders filling them in.

humanfromearth2• 12 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion! It's definitely something on the roadmap: https://github.com/humanfromearth/quicktext-chrome/issues/22

hugocaracoll• 12 years ago

Very cool!!!

zkirill4• 12 years ago

http://dineserve.com

We're building a marketplace where chefs buy local ingredients directly from purveyors.

Our complementary back-of-the-house app for iOS has 500+ MAU and we're adding ordering functionality to it this month!

We'll also open our API once we have enough restaurants and purveyors onboard that will allow developers to mine our growing dataset.

Looking for help and also would love to hear how developers want to use our data! Shoot me an email if you're interested in chatting at kirill@[projectname].com.

qhoc• 12 years ago

More like what am I "writing"!

I am writing a free ebook on Ionic Framework / Angular / Firebase. Check it out http://www.innovie.com/

I will post on Amazon soon but subscribe to get early preview.

tilt• 12 years ago

We're scratching our own itch and we're building Pushline

http://www.getpushline.com/

It's an Android to Mac/PC notification mirroring and device control app.

Still in some sort of public beta, accepting feedbacks, enjoying the engineering challenge behind it, figuring out what matters most to us in order to build it next.

anilgulecha• 12 years ago

Linux too, please? An REST API would be sweet.

biomimic2• 12 years ago

A Biomimetic high-dimensional vector space : deep learning JSON API http://admin.infrno.net/startup_job_explorer/api.html

indiepop12• 12 years ago

http://rushapp.co

Rush is Spritz powered speed reading app for iOS. I've always been fascinated with speed reading. Decided to build this a couple of months back.

Dev work is finished. Getting ready for launch.

WasimBhai• 12 years ago

I am writing a Wavelet Transform and de-noising library over OpenCV. Its fun but tough.

saraha• 12 years ago

We launched a jobs board for the Finance industry earlier this week:

  https://www.financejobs.co :)

If you're in the finance space, email me (in my profile) for a great deal you can't refuse!

donw• 12 years ago

A how-to guide for technical founders that suddenly have to hire and manage a development team.

NaNaN• 12 years ago

A reStructuredText derivative – Kaj Markup Language. (My personal taste. :P)

https://github.com/jakwings/Kaj-Markup-Language (demo including)

It is almost done, and has a JavaScript/Node.js implementation), but documentations are not ready.

dturnbull• 12 years ago

Software-wise, just got a few scrappy demos I've thrown together. One creates an RSS feed for YouTube channels so you can subscribe to them as video podcasts. Problem is, it relies on hot-linking Google's servers and I'm sure it breaks all sorts of conditions in their Terms of Service. Still, want to finish it so I can at least use it myself.

Outside of that, I'm working on a screencast series for the Meteor JavaScript framework:

http://meteortips.com/screencasts

Launches in a few days. Then I'll start working on the next update to my (free) book about Meteor:

http://meteortips.com/book

biomimic2• 12 years ago

JobCrawler: http://admin.infrno.net/startup_job_explorer/

panorama• 12 years ago

Built and launched http://www.encorebeat.com in the past couple weeks. We found that finding new, good electronic dance music is very time-consuming/difficult, so we built a Product Hunt for EDM.

It got a great reception on PH itself!

mazumdar2• 12 years ago

http://yathletics.com - a men's activewear company that's going to make only one product per category.

I think apparel brands offer too many choices so I'm creating a brand that keeps it simple but at the same time invests in making very high quality products. For ex: the first product we launched is our athletic shirt - SilverAir. It's made using silver which kills the odor-causing bacteria in your sweat, so you can wear the shirt for the entire day and feel fresh, or reuse the shirt more often (i do).

The fabric is completely new and something we made from scratch. Without letting cost be a factor, we sourced some of the best yarns you can buy and achieved a feel that is super comfortable while being lightweight and breathable. To manufacture, we use seamless knitting machines so the body of the shirt does not have any stitches on it. (trust me, the silver is what sells but the most loved feature by our customers is the material and how you feel as if you're not wearing anything - in a good way)

zkirill4• 12 years ago

This is awesome but why do you only target men?

mazumdar2• 12 years ago

1) I started building this out for myself and for some of my male friends who shared the same sentiment.

2) Men and women shop differently and I feel as if women want more choices so the model does not necessarily work for them. That said, I've received a lot of interest from women for the first product we launched so plans may change in the future.

patio11• 12 years ago

I've been working on a video course for conversion optimization in software companies, and it's been taking much longer than I expected. There's no convenient way to show-and-tell, other than an email mini-course I made for it, and I don't want to link to that for fear of shilling.

What does it do? Ideally, get J. Random Product Person at a software company up to the point where they can confidently A/B test the marketing site and increase sales of the company.

What problem does it solve? "We know we should be A/B testing but we don't know how to get started." and "So we did A/B tests, and had a few results, and we think the business is better off than it was before, but we're not sure, and we're not confident that 'throw stuff at the wall' is the best way to go about this. Do you have any suggestions?", which are the two most common pieces of feedback from software companies about A/B testing I've had in the last, oh, five years or so.

When will it launch? Last August ^H^H December ^H^H May ^H^H July ^H^H I'm really hoping to ship it before Halloween.

wavesum• 12 years ago

An integrated party lighting / video projection software that listens to music real-time and allows synchronization to different metrical levels.

Website: http://wavesum.net

Here I tutorial for some of the video control stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02TU6ysHIW4 The DMX lighting part is in progress.

All feedback is welcome.

TomAnthony4• 12 years ago

This looks really cool, thanks for sharing.

My immediate feedback would be adding a short, to the point, explanation of what it does on the homepage. Also the video looks cool but takes too long to begin showing the product in action, I think. If I arrived at the site I'd be unsure why I want to hear the AIs explain themselves before I understood what they did.

Good luck with it!

ajaygupta2790• 12 years ago

I am developing a a bucket list application, http://calm-gorge-2271.herokuapp.com Is a web application which creates a bucketlist for you and provides you a list of ideas which user can add to their list. It allows user to add a target date and date of achievement for their ideas. Still under development phase and looking to complete within a month,also figuring out other featu res like giving ratings when user completes their bucketlist idea!

ganarajpr• 12 years ago

I am working on a platform that helps you to write unit tests for your application code. Unit testing is currently yet another code base that you have to maintain and change each time you change your main code base. There is surely value in it, but I believe that we dont extract extra value out of them than mere assertions.

http://www.dhi.io

coppolaemilio2• 12 years ago

I'm working on a game that reads the files and folders in your computer and generates a Huge castle based on it: http://adventuros.evelend.com/blog/

NKCSS• 12 years ago

Looks and sounds cool!

coppolaemilio2• 12 years ago

Thank you! we are taking a lot of time to get it working as we want it. We should be less perfectionist and release faster, but it is hard :(

boksiora• 12 years ago

Me and few more guys are working on Microweber, drag and drop CMS in PHP.

https://microweber.com/

Its also open source https://github.com/microweber/Microweber

galenko2• 12 years ago

I'm assuming that you're sort of doing the wordpress.org/.com model with paid hosted and free, open source self hosted options, right?

I did spend a few minutes on the site figuring this out.

imho the free trial is too close/similar looking to the download now and unless you know how wordpress plays, this can be confusing. Also, the fact that you can donate to the same site you have to pay for is a little weird.

Wordpress has a clear separation for a good reason.

I'm not saying what you're doing is wrong, I just think how it's presented can be improved upon.

revorad2• 12 years ago

I'm building a spreadsheet app - http://gini.io. It's a project I started last year, then stopped working on it and now am back on it.

The key differentiating features right now are super easy importing of data from web apps and doing joins between sheets.

The basic free personal plan is live now, but I'll be adding paid plans for businesses over the coming weeks. Please give it a spin and share your feedback! - http://gini.io

TomAnthony4• 12 years ago

I would love to see some screenshots on the homepage, such that I can get a feel for the product. I think that might also encourage more people to sign up.

A cool idea would be a really easy to use API as I know a lot of people have issues with the GDocs Spreadsheet APIs. Have methods such as 'appendRow' and make it super simple to push data there and share the sheets, and it has immediate value to lots of people.

revorad2• 12 years ago

Great idea - I'll add screenshots and a video too. And yes, a good API is on the cards. I've mentioned it on the homepage.

jain_chirag04• 12 years ago

I'm building http://pluginbag.com - a marketplace for selling and buying plugins & themes. Sellers keep 80% of their sale here. No exclusive lock-ins.

If you are a seller and interested in selling with us, email me at info@pluginbag.com

fidor• 12 years ago

Currently working on an app for organising amateur sports clubs and teams.

http://teamsheet.io

Still early in development but hoping to get the basic function in a beta soon.

Terpaholic• 12 years ago

http://www.campusjobs.org - it allows businesses to hire students from any school, and aims to become a one-stop job center/career center for higher education in the long run.

conroy• 12 years ago

https://calltospeakers.com/ - a site for conferences which are looking for speakers.

I was fed up having to continually check conference sites for new entries, so I automated the collection process and wired it up to a weekly newsletter and a Twitter account.

My hope is that it becomes the authoritative source for CFPs, so we can all check one site instead of hunting around the web.

stevekemp• 12 years ago

I've spent the past month or two doing random projects, (a secret server, a self-hosted disqus-lite system,etc), but my main project is a git-based DNS host.

I use Amazon's route53 for the hosting, and have written a simple hook-receiver to massage public DNS repositories into the Amazon system. It's pretty neat. https://dns-api.com/

diasp• 12 years ago

https://encrypt.to - Send encrypted messages by one click

It encrypts the message with PGP (client-side) and sends it on to the mail account. A user who does not use PGP can send fairly secure mails to PGP-users. A simple vanity-style URL can be given to such users for easy access to the secure contact form.

colorcoded• 12 years ago

I am repairing an old analog synthesizer (Siel Kiwi) with a missing CPU and the CPU board in a bad state.

I can't get such a CPU in the right package anymore, so I'm writing an emulator for it which will run on a more modern, much faster MPU. That alone replaces the CPU, RAM, and ROM. The remaining stuff on the board is lots of I/O both analog and digital which I'm planning to replace with something more modern, like a DAC with 32 channels instead of the many chips and opamp sample-hold circuits that are on the original board.

Stoo• 12 years ago

I'm building a couple of things.

Storytella (http://storytel.la/) is a tool for writers and self publishers. It makes it easy to manage novels you're working on, has an online editor, has an entity system (variable insertion in the text) and can save everything to a couple of different formats. I've been working on it for a while and have just got a payment process in place (thanks Stripe!).

Sunstone (http://sunstone.stoogoff.com/) is a map making tool aimed mainly at roleplayers. It's a bit restricted at the moment. I'm planning on adding different themes, more stamps, and a means to store different maps.

stef25• 12 years ago

A mini online store that will sell just one product, at a decent price - one of the world's best and rarest beers.

elliottburris• 12 years ago

I'm a data scientist who is building Slipper, an iOS app that uses algorithms to reconnect and recommend missed connections. In beta now, but ~5% of new users are matched on sign-up with a real post written about them. Launching later this month, perhaps early October.

Feedback most definitely welcome!

https://slipperapp.com

(also sneakily available in the App Store if you feel like checking it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slipper-find-your-missed-con...)

eps2• 12 years ago

data scientist

What is this exactly?

mkdir_home4• 12 years ago

I am finding it a bit difficult to properly understand what this app does.

So it uncovers lost connections between the user and other people, where do the stories come into this?

hunvreus8• 12 years ago

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck.

Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git.

To illustrate my point:

- Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/

- The devo.ps button that allows you to do a one-click deploy of a full infrastructure (not unlike the Heroku deploy button, but we deploy your own servers and automated tasks): http://devo.ps/blog/one-click-deploy-of-your-infrastructure/

We' haven't officially launched but have already been signing up a few hundreds developers. At this stage we're mostly ironing out a few bugs and expanding on the documentation/tutorials (http://docs.devo.ps).

If there's anybody out there who want to come in and break stuff up, I'm happy to pay for some Digital Ocean/AWS/Rackspace/Linode credit.

galenko2• 12 years ago

Helping with setup is great, but config is where the real pain is. So maybe some pre-defined config files? Or a generator of sorts? So if I have a nginx or apache web server and I spin up a 16gb DO instance just for that, the config by default would actually use all of the ram, instead of being capped to small defaults.

hunvreus8• 12 years ago

We have default settings for the services you add to your servers, but you can tune everything. Look at our Nginx doc for example (http://docs.devo.ps/services/nginx/), you can set up pretty much anything. The example section also shows you what config file we generate (if you're interested in this).

We give you all the tools to manage your infrastructure: provisioning, configuration management, variable management and automation.

porker• 12 years ago

If this could replace PuPHPet and other Vagrant-config-generators out there I'd be interested. Finding PuPHPet very buggy, and something that 'just works' to quickly set up local dev machines would be very cool

hunvreus8• 12 years ago

We're already using the Vagrant export feature internally and testing it with a few developers. It's still not as automated and smooth as we'd like (requires 1 manual step).

Our plan is to enable you to add a repo, define your infrastructure and be able to move anything to any type of cloud provider (move from Rackspace to AWS? Search and replace, git commit, git push and voila). The VM export should be in in the next few weeks and allows you to point at a server to be built as a VM and available on S3.

Come nag me in the chat: https://www.hipchat.com/gyHEHtsXZ. Happy to add you as a beta tester for this feature.

Outlaw11A2• 12 years ago

Very nice looking website, love it!

webmaven5• 12 years ago

No GCE?

hunvreus8• 12 years ago

It's on the roadmap with many other thigns (S3 for example).

edit: we'll be pushing the roadmap on the site this week so that people know what's in the works.

mkdir_home4• 12 years ago

It is hard for me to read the grey text on the white background, maybe darken it up a little?

hunvreus8• 12 years ago

I'm redoing the site and this won't be grey anymore.

pbowyer• 12 years ago

I'm building a wooden computer case.

I realised this summer how much I miss having something tactile to show for my labour. As a youngster I enjoyed working with wood but in the last 15 years I've given up everything to write web applications.

I'm really enjoying learning about different kinds of wood/plywood and making cardboard prototypes. My woodworking knowledge isn't great and I could do with some design advice - if you'd like to help please shoot me an email (in profile).

gabemart• 12 years ago

I've been building the Android version of my ambient noise / productivity website A Soft Murmur [1]. It's for people who find that ambient noise helps them concentrate or relax. It lets you mix together different types of background noise (rain, thunder, fireplace, cafe etc.)

It's my first Android or Java project and my first serious programming project. No programming experience apart from learning js/jQuery to build the web version. It looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/3vntZwL.jpg

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

Features:

* mix together 10 different ambient sounds

* timers to stop, start or fade out sounds over arbitrary time

* save mixes

* share mixes via FB, twitter, SMS etc. and have them open in the app if the other person has it installed (or in the website if they don't)

I had planned to launch already, but life gets in the way. Hopefully launching in ~2 weeks.

I really had no idea what I was letting myself in for when I started this project. It's been really challenging but incredibly educational. Getting details right (like making the looping of samples genuinely seamless, or getting the background service to behave nicely) was difficult but really satisfying.

If you have any questions / suggestions, would love to talk.

If you'd like a reminder when this launches, there's a mailing in the top-right corner of [1]

[1] http://asoftmurmur.com

StrykerKKD• 12 years ago

https://github.com/StrykerKKD/dartrocket is an open source 2D HTML5 game engine in Dart.

I started doing this, because I always liked Dart better than any other programming language and because at that time Dart didn't have any HTML5 game engines.

I also developing it, because I really like doing it and because I want to make a living out of this.

NhanH• 12 years ago

I'm building Stripe/Balance for Calendar, taking inspiration from one of the "Idea Sunday" in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582524).

The idea is to provide a simple API that allow you to store data with timestamp (event) and calendars, handling all the plumbing that comes with timezone and date time in general. While providing simple utility like web hook and cron job, or simple calendar html widget.

It's not ready yet, and we're aiming to be launching at the end of this year. But I'd love to hear what features you would be interested in using, or what kind of use cases we could provide value for. My email is in profile if anyone want to talk about it.

If you're interested, please leave your email on http://plaid.launchrock.com/ , and I will let you know when the API is ready!

koenbok• 12 years ago

http://framerjs.com - A new kind of creative tool to invent interaction. We still mostly design digital products with tools that were made for print. We're looking to improve that.

gxespino• 12 years ago

http://juicetilt.com a kickstarter clone. I want to eventually make complete kickstarter clone repo that others can use.

Happy2Help• 12 years ago

http://CrowdFooty.com - a mobile app that allows you to predict football match scores and track your prediction accuracy against the crowd. Prediction leagues with friends coming soon.

wcchandler• 12 years ago

https://github.com/wcchandler/swamp

swamp - super web app monster pinger.

it's slow in the making. main things i focused on was ease of use and quickness to deploy. it's designed to be a quick and easy way to monitor a bunch of stuff via ping or port checks.

jamesisaac• 12 years ago

https://nachapp.com

Personal goal-setting / task management platform which is more in-depth and feautre rich than the typical to-do list app. Unlimited hierarchies, analytics, email/SMS reminders, etc.

wilsonfiifi• 12 years ago

Building Bytengine https://github.com/johnwilson/bytengine in my spare time. Started out as a back end for a DMS but it made sense later to develop it to be a CMS repository.

I initially wrote it in python but when I needed to write a query language and saw Rob Pike's talk on a lever for the Go template language, I rewrote it in Go. It was/is a good way to learn Go!

It borrows a few ideas from couchdb and mongodb and I'm in the process of changing the architecture so it can use other storage engines such as rethinkdb or tiedot for the json docs and couchdb for the BLOBs.

steedsofwar• 12 years ago

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/smartass-the-wacky-brain-gam...

My friend and i have been working on this for 18 months, contending with family and our day to day job, it's been a bit of struggle to finish it. Just released a week or two ago, still working on polishing the website (outsourced but that was a disaster), and video. Once that's done we're going to do marketing a litte more aggressively. I'm currerntly working on an android port.

edit: Forgot video link: http://youtu.be/DW6TWF1_QUE

dawie• 12 years ago

I am working on a site to match professionals with professional referral partners: http://refermatchhq.com

I am launching next week.

Outlaw11A2• 12 years ago

Currently making a website that tracks the prices of Counter Strike: Global Offensive items in the Steam Market. http://i.imgur.com/fvm4HHK.png

Uses a Python backend which I am very proud of, as it works very well and simply.

Its's a work in progress, but really excited to get it up and running.

WorldWideWayne• 12 years ago

I'm building a payment management system for a trust fund. It's a responsive web app that mostly does data entry and reporting.

quaiks• 12 years ago

I am building just another AWS automation tool but hiding any AWS related concept. Integrating a lot of services like MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra and all this cool hyped stuff.

APIs, REST, distributed, fault tolerance... Loving Netflix OSS!!

jbrooksuk• 12 years ago

I'm working on a CI service for PHP & GitHub, Anorak - http://anorakci.com

It's similar as to how HoundCI works, but it's for PHP and will provide repository owners with a lot more information regarding bad pull requests etc.

robbs• 12 years ago

I've been making a fun way to look at GIFs. You pick the best GIF of two and then another two GIFs show up.

It's pre-alpha quality but still fun.

https://maythebestgifw.in

The top GIFs right now: https://maythebestgifw.in/#/top

superplussed• 12 years ago

An app that teaches languages through speaking and listening. It's goal is to make users conversational as quickly as possible.

I have a landing page up at http://seedlng.net

And I'll be starting to "seed" content in a week or so. Then hopefully within a month or so I'll be opening up access for the first few modules.

As an American living in Berlin, I've found the online tools for improving your conversational skills in German to be seriously lacking. So I'm building this for myself first :)

dangrossman• 12 years ago

Working on an API for Improvely (https://www.improvely.com)

It's a conversion analytics and click fraud detection platform. The API will allow it to better support metrics for businesses with recurring bills, and bulk create tracking URLs for businesses with thousands of ads.

projectdelphai• 12 years ago

I'm been working on providing a service to recommend manga. The only other existing alternatives are myanimelist and mangaupdates and I feel my project has a greater potential to be more comprehensive, up to date, and personalized.

http://mangarecs.herokuapp.com

explanation and writeup:

first writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/2eejdt/rmanga_heres_...

second writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/2fhlfl/rmanga_mangar...

There's definitely been some changes since then, so a third writeup is in the works. I know this project isn't very polished or professional, but it's something that I've wanted to work on for a long time and I feel that it solves a very niche problem in an interesting way.

mkdir_home4• 12 years ago

Looks good, have you heard of twitter boostrap? Its a easy to use library to spice up the UI of web apps.

dmarlow• 12 years ago

I've been working on http://www.smscmd.net/ It's a service that allows you to SMS enable anything. Do you have an app/service/website/device you wish to add SMS capabilities to? Use SMSCMD. It's based on MQTT and focused for devs wanting to use it in their IoT projects. I'm working on a site redesign right now.

abell• 12 years ago

http://www.file4life.org/ - a CLI program for file backups, written in Haskell.

After trying a few existing solutions over the years, I decided to build my own to keep track of the various copies of emails, pictures etc. that are spread across my computers and external drives.

The approach is:

- append information to a single metadata file, recording where a file was seen, what priority it was given etc.

- when starting, load all the information, building efficient in-memory data structures

- allow backups into any dir in a transparent format

It avoids the need of a dedicated server, treats existing copies of a file as de facto backups and is suitable for heterogeneous storages.

I have only compiled and tested it for Linux (Debian wheezy, AMD64), but it should build on other POSIX systems which have the Haskell platform installed. It's currently in beta and I have a long TO-DO list, but I've been using it for a few weeks now and it's been doing its job keeping track of over 200k unique files.

Feedback would be really welcome. I set up no issue-tracking interface yet, but you can contact me at the email address reported on the website and I'll be happy to help.

unohoo• 12 years ago

Working on http://www.buzzerati.io - I crawl, mine and discover tech news and rank them based on fb shares/number of tweets and linkedin shares. So, you can see what is the hottest content being shared on social networks.

hiroshi3110• 12 years ago

Alternative way to see thumbnails of photos in Google Drive.

https://hiroshi.github.io/PhotoHistoryCloud/

https://hiroshi.github.io/PhotoHistoryCloud/about

edoceo• 12 years ago

http://WeedTraQR.com/ which is a recreational marijuana compliance, grow managment, inventory control and POS solution.

brickcap• 12 years ago

I am working on wrinq

http://www.wrinq.com/

wrinq allows landlords to collect rent online from their tenants and issue rent slips once it has been received. Besides that it allows the landlords to keep a track of their expenses (on the property) and see how much they profits they earn monthly ,yearly etc. Admittedly this would be much more useful for people who manage more than one tenant.

It will also keep a track of tenants who pay on time so in case if wrinq ever gets successful I would have an opportunity of doing a spin off that "hooks" potential landlords with good tenants (but that is distant future)

Target audience : Landlords who don't live in the same house as the tenants and who possibly have more than one tenant to manage.

Launch Date: Well I want to collect a few emails this time around before launching. See if there is any interest for what I am doing. Right now I am working about 25% on the product (technology wise it is pretty simple) 75% on it's marketing (haven't started actively yet).

But I am thinking December should be a good time to launch.

Trivia:

wrinq is an acronym

Wield Rent and Issue Normative Quittance.

To be honest I only made it up after I decided wrinq sounded cool and got the domain for it :)

Tech stack :

I am using openresty and couchdb on the server side.

Jquery and simple grid[1] on the client side.

[1] https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid

rnnbrk• 12 years ago

I’ve been working on a bot monitoring platform - hoping to launch soon.

Problem: Up to 61.5 percent[1] of website visitors are bots, of which 30.5% are malicious. The presence of bots lead to content theft, malware injection, server hijacking, spam links and DDoS attacks. Website owners are often unaware of their existence and the extent of their effects.

Solution: A platform to monitor and analyse bot traffic. We alert you to attacks, pinpoint affected pages and identify and analyse all bots. To retrieve traffic data we use pixel tracking & JavaScript tracking code. To detect bots we look for abnormalities in a series of traffic data such as HTTP header fingerprinting, JavaScript footprint, timestamps, IP reputation etc.

With the results from our platform you can better implement methods of prevention such as blocking IP addresses/user agents or go about including CAPTCHAS or similar where necessary.

If this is something you would be interested in I’d love to hear what you think :).

[1] http://www.incapsula.com/blog/bot-traffic-report-2013.html

archagon• 12 years ago

I'm building a clone of the official iPhone software keyboard for use as a base for 3rd party keyboards: https://github.com/archagon/tasty-imitation-keyboard

Instead of fixed images and positioning, it uses CoreGraphics and Autolayout, making it adaptable to portrait/landscape of any size. (It's really slow on device ATM, but hopefully that will be fixed shortly.)

In the end, I intend for it to have most of the looks and functionality of the existing iPhone keyboard (when possible) except for iOS8 suggestions. Release date for beta-ish 1 should optimistically be a week or two after the iOS8 release date.

Also, unrelated, I had an idea for a human-readable passphrase generator, in the vein of diceware, but I need to find a good algorithm for generating grammatical sentences and correctly conjugating verbs, etc. Also, I have yet to limit my wordlist to the most commonly used words. Right now, it's... silly: http://archagon.github.io/grammatical-passphrase-generator/

Possible future features: arbitrary length, rhyming schemes, other mnemonic features.

(Give it 30 seconds or so to load — everything is done in JS, including wordlist parsing.)

_tlf75• 12 years ago

I've been working with a team of four amazing women on Glassbreakers - a mentorship platform for women. Glassbreakers connects women in the workforce who can help each other. Our minimal lovable product is a mentor matching service for women based on skill sets. Ie imagine an OKCupid for women in the work force. We've built a content publishing platform to inspire our community as well as a forum network for women to publicly or anonymously crowd source career advice.

Glassbreakers is focused on solving the problem of gender disparity in the global work force. Our platform is gender gated to insure women in business will have a safe place on the Internet to talk about work. Finding a female mentor is hard so we're automating the process of connecting women with other women who we know can help each other with their careers. Mentorship comes in many sizes. With Glassbreakers, we're facilitating mentorship both online via our forums and content as well as offline via our mentor matching service in an effort to make mentor relationships more casual and skill based.

We're applying to YC's winter batch so we can launch our product as soon as possible. We already have 1,000 women signed up for beta and enterprise customers interested in using our tool for their organizations. Tell your female colleagues and friends to sign up for beta at www.glassbreakers.co.

zkirill4• 12 years ago

This is great! Best of luck. Can men help and, if so, in what ways?

_tlf75• 12 years ago

Thanks! Right now this product is just for women. We really want to make a safe place for women to self publish via our content platform and post anonymous questions on our forums amongst a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior. We're even targeting our beta communities based on industry so we can test the mentor matching product in more concentrated subgroups. Audiences and products always have the possibility of change though. For now please just tell your female friends and colleagues to sign up and we'll be sure to connect them with some amazing local women with shared career passions.

nickfox• 12 years ago

I built an anonymous android tracker. It allows people to track an android cell phone for 4 hours without having to use a user name, password or email. Just a disposable tracker.

https://www.mycelltracker.com/

buttscicles• 12 years ago

I've been working writing a Python API client for the undocumented web APIs being used by Microsoft on the Xbox one. It came about as I wanted to work with the game clips people have been recording but didn't want to give passwords to the only other similar project I'm aware of, who turned it into a webservice and charge per usage.

It's MIT licenced, repo https://github.com/buttscicles/xbox

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