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?
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:
* 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]
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.
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.
We have a community moderator and strict guidelines to insure Glassbreakers is a safe place for women. Women.com is also gender gated and thus far, it's been full of really great conversations absent from trolls. Of course, both men and women can be trolls or write threatening things online. However, the vast majority of threats of violence or misogynistic rhetoric in online forums does stem from men. Check out #feminism on quora- total nightmare.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Thanks for posting this. You know, if you can agree on the order, you don't have to specify dates...
"It's done when it's done" is perfectly acceptable for any particular feature. Just chunk them roughly into 'releases' and only ever make firm commitments about the stuff you're working on now.
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.
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)
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.
Keep in mind that women buy a lot of clothes for men. So even if you're just making menswear, don't forget to target women in your marketing and research.
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.
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.
Since posting this I've had a few people advice me to limit the launch to one or a few cities.
It seems like a good suggestion, since the app wouldn't be too useful until there's a least a few users nearby. Focusing my attention on one city would definitely help with that.
I'm still considering the best strategy, so if you have any advice, comment here or email me at ashrafulsf@gmail.com
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".
I haven't used LetsLunch in years but the last time I did it was random pairing. You couldn't actually decide who to meet although you could submit who you'd be interested in and what general areas of interest were. If they changed that aspect then it sounds like you're building the original LetsLunch concept.
Hey guys!
I'm the founder of http://LetsLunch.com
we still have the automatching feature which schedules your lunches two days in advance. infact it is the most popular feature on our site. We do have a mobile app coming up in few weeks that will have same day matches and other geolocation/mobile based stuff. Good to see other sites coming up in this field.
Oh sorry, I never used letslunch and always thought you needed to request lunches with people. Glad to know the automatching is a popular feature, since that is what my entire product is.
Any thoughts or advice on HackerLunch? I'm sure you have a lot of interesting insights into the space since you guys have been doing it so long.
I'm in a similar space as the founder of Glassbreakers. We're automating the process of connecting women who can mentor each other. We should all lunch -
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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 :).
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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://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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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!
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
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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