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Ask HN: What are you working on?
33 points by bra-ket on July 13, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 72 comments
follow-up on similar threads from the past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032699 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700662


http://www.one-tab.com - save up to 95% memory in Google Chrome and reduce tab clutter. It launched on HN a couple months ago, and am currently adding multi-PC sync.


Thank you! I've been using it for almost a month, and I love it.

I currently have more than 2000 tabs in OneTab. They used to all be open and in memory. I can now watch videos without too much lag (I still have 500 open tabs that I should transfer to OneTab).

This sure makes being a hoarder easier.


I started using OneTab after seeing the post on HN, and I gotta admit that it has been really useful. Thanks for making it!


I love one tab. Thank you.


An open source game for the Apple II, written in 6502 assembly language. Original music transcribed from public domain scores (played with the 2-tone Electric Duet software). It's been very mind-opening to have to think about every byte of memory, learn bit twiddling tricks, design efficient data structures to fit game data on a 140KB floppy disk, etc.


Any Screenshots?


Coming soon! (But not today.)


I'm currently working on three "different" applications/use-cases using a single platform:

- "Terms and Agreements" as a service. Applications and websites can delegate the Terms and Agreements process to my system. All contracts and agreement are signed and stored on my side.

- One-stop semantic contract management social network. A single location where you can track and manage all of your contracts, agreements, transactions. There is no limit to what kind of contract you can store and manage using this. The social aspect let people send offers to each other (and accept them). Contracts can have semantic data added to them, to make search, navigation and organization easier.

- One-click classified advertisement listing. List any item for sale with a single click (or in that case, picture).

Again, these are all interfaces to the same platform. They will eventually converge to be the same things.



Working on becoming a better programmer, as a full time network engineer i've never really put too much effort into learning coding standards. Been the only person that maintains my applications it's fairly easy to be slack on the admin side of things...

Recently I've been doing a lot of coding, and noticed that my version control and testing could do with some improvement, also been playing around with a few frameworks to see if they make my coding any faster, or more efficient.

Once that's done i'll probably look at improving some of my current application code base, then learn another (none web based) language.



My largest current project is writing a book about neural networks and deep learning.


I'm creating a distributed network project based on a combination of recent AI and fractal findings. Can you share some sentences from your book? And where to get it when it's done?


Sounds interesting. Are you working with a traditional publishing company?


No, I've published two books previously with traditional companies, and wanted to try something new.


I just got my first job as a programmer in Barcelona. I don't have any education about the field so I've mostly play around with programming from 15 years age up until lately (20). Right now, I'm sucking in all information I can get from my co-workers (and the experience overall) while working on a product that will improve the income of people doing vacation rentals.


http://carros.com.co - Its becoming the biggest used car portal in Colombia.


HTML/JS/CSS desktop environment. https://github.com/Lerc/notanos

Posted a Show HN a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932209

Currently in thinking mode about how to structure the client frame APIs.


Just launched http://channeltotals.com a couple of months ago (YouTube statistics tool, only has like 1 feature)

Working on http://memes.io here and there for fun, thinking of making a "launch your own meme site" type of thing.


I like your slogan.


I'm trying to investigate the learning of artificial neural networks by using methods from mathematical logic.


whew! Can you tell me more? I work in a very related field.


Sorry for the delay of this answer.

I'm still at the very beginning with this project and have no interesting results yet :(

There is a model relationship between artificial neural networks and sets of sentences in a formal language. One idea is to track sets of sentences during the training of a network and see if something interesting can be found.


http://simplerses.com - A hosted email solution and newsletter delivery tool powered by Amazon SES. Been working on it as a side project for a while. Trying to put more time over the weekends now that I have a few paying customers.


Just launched http://www.textrep.com Text marketing for real estate agents.

Working on meeting with potential customers and am also taking real estate agent license classes nights to learn more about my market.


I got an internal server error when I tried to access that.

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eu6ON48...

Edit: Yes, it is OK now.


All good now. Database server was restarting.


Hacking Health (hackinghealth.ca) Pair up health professionals and hackers to make better healthcare. We provide multiple events such as hackatons, cafes, consults and we're working on an accelerator to link team to real clinics and hospitals.



A 3d film about a 12th century bishop and his crazy ideas about the expanding universe. I'm taking the simulations a physicist has written of them and trying to render them in an attractive way.


http://i.imgur.com/GcQMa0d.jpg

First venture, trying to earn some side money through personal 'tech solutions' style consulting.


More info if anybody is interested/has suggestions: http://bit.ly/14QlG3N


Why is the email "learnsoft352@"? Why not something like "learnsoftconsulting@"?


Good thought. LearnSoft@ wasn't available, so I just included the local area code at the end as an alternative. Just finished this mockup today, so it's still rough. Thanks for your input.


If you're advertising tech solutions, then surely you should have something better than a gmail account. Kind of suggests that you don't know how to set up email for your own domain name.


Is that 90's design style on purpose? That way you can attract older users?


Currently I am working on a startup that is solving problem of flat rentals for college students in Mumbai, India. http://flat.to

We are getting good traction and focusing on a niche market is helping us gain word-of-mouth publicity. And of course there are already a few big players already in the market.

I am the lead developer and designer. We are trying to build the best UI in the market. Please share your thoughts on the current UI and give your suggestion on where we can improve it.


In my spare time, machine learning. I'm working through Bishop's book and testing out a few ideas of my own (a new way to ensemble models and a way for ANN's to communicate).


I have been working on a service that provides build automation for mobile apps. I welcome any feedback.

https://appramp.io/

Right now working on ironing out some kinks in the build system and making some UI changes. I should be ready to do an official Show HN very soon.

PS this is the second time I'm posting this in as many days [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6027434


http://getairy.com - alpha, works for American hotels for now. Building it to improve my Ember.js skills.


Ok, I see people are testing it. When you search for a city, you have to then select it from the dropdown, otherwise it won't work (I'll fix it tomorrow).


Making progress on my hfsdebug replacement. http://github.com/ahknight/hfsinspect

Woo!


Mobile educational language games: http://penyopal.com Our latest is a mystery game that you play by speaking: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/speak-mandarin-chinese-priva...

Also working on a startup board game modeled after Agricola.


I'm working on my company's second product, Signal: http://signalapp.io/


http://www.fishnet.in - Bookmarks with annotations. They're grouped into folders that you can make public/private to use as personal bookmarks, to assemble a portfolio, build a reading list, save your thoughts on articles, etc.

It's my first web app, built on Flask, and driven by my own need for such a tool.


A crowd-sourced alternative to Rosetta Stone http://www.babelmatch.com


http://transporteactivo.com/ (in spanish) alpha, open source.


https://starthq.com - a web app directory and browser new tab replacement


Wow. Some really cool projects on here.

I just completed (today) git-sync-ec2, a set of utility scripts for deploying my website (http://flagrantsystemerror.com) to S3 via a dynamic EC2 instance.

I just restarted a stack based STL allocator. I'm writing unit tests for it and hope to have it finished by Monday.


A mobile app for my wife's political campaign for a city council seat. Handles canvasing (door knocking) and phone banking.


I am trying to find a new (jr) Android developer position so I spend every minute searching through job postings, writing cover letters, following up with recruiters and applying to positions. It feels like I am going to have more free time when I find a job. I am looking forward to the day when I can just code and not worry.


Google Reader + Twitter = http://vimeo.com/69376016


E commerce platform selling typical food that uses "group buying" to bring down shipping cost


http://www.hostedgraphite.com - exactly what it sounds like.

(For those who don't know what Graphite is, it's a popular open source tool for recording and graphing metrics, typically server and app performance stuff)


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=igordcard.taba...

Tabata Trainer - An app for HIIT workouts. Designed with simplicity in mind.


Hoping to launch http://protocases.com soon - it's a site that allows users to design iPhone cases for 3D printing with an editor, templates or uploading an image.


https://sshwizard.com - A web-based SSH-Client that is purely implemented in javascript, so people don't have to trust a 3rd party.


I'm trying to imagine someone that doesn't want to "have to trust a 3rd party" typing their ssh credentials into your web page.


This weekend;

7min.io

MultiplayerChess.com

github.com/azer/boxcars

github.com/azer/onejs

github.com/azer/shell-jobs

github.com/azer/fox


http://checkup.io - It's a simple idea, we monitor your sites and let you know when they are down.


I'm working on a new blog about product design: http://www.thomazz.com


turning the world into a virtual game board with a new toy http://manifestoagency.com/turning-the-world-into-a-virtual-...


Complete rewrite and update for www.whatportis.com , long overdue!


mobile app for animating and visual programming on tablets


reinventing the wheel, because http://i.imgur.com/WACN2ST.jpg


Replacement for email.


machine vision


Please tell us more.


In my "free" time lately writing a book on Software Performance and Scalability. After that will write a sequel to a sci-fi comedy I published earlier this year titled The Dread Space Pirate Richard.

Also want to put more time into 2 experimental/speculative software projects, one that does election processing, the other involving taxes and electronic transactions. Not expecting to make money with either. Mainly for the experience, more career feathers in the hat, and to concretely apply some ideas around architecting for maximum performance and scalability.

My "day job" work is confidential, and therefore a secret between me, myself, I, and my employer. (And whichever employees/contractors of the NSA that the NSA/FISA sees fit to share it with, haha.)


I've spent a lot of time learning and experimenting in the are of performance and scalability. I am curious about your book, willing to share 2-3 paragraphs?


Yes! It's mostly in the outline stage now, gathering test readers and P&S experts for feedback, and only a few pages of actual chapter content have been written. Please send an email to the address in my HN profile, if you're interested in seeing more.


Working through Communicating Sequential Processes paper to understand the fundamentals behind core.async. Have a strong understanding of Clojure but need to fill out core.{logic, async, match} as well as the array libraries.




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