Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by JustRick on Thursday July 23, 2009 @11:21PM
(#720883)
I like this site. Question: I can't tell from the source if you are using a CMS of any kind or if this is custom developed in Django or similar. Care to reveal what you used?
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by thomaspaine on Thursday July 23, 2009 @11:34PM
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It's all custom Django, good guess on that one. I do use my fair share of external Django apps though. Ignoring the built in Django apps, My INSTALLED_APPS list has 10 unmodified external reusable apps, and 11 internal apps, which include ones I built myself and a few reusable apps I had to modify.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by jlees on Friday July 24, 2009 @07:44AM
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That's cool, I'm working on a 'buzz' site as well for the edinburgh festivals, though we're doing some AI magic to pull in crowdsourced reviews and classify them with star ratings. It's jolly good fun, though working with thesps is doing my head in.
There are others out there, but trying to make one that is super easy to use.
Still very much a work in progress, but any feedback would be appreciated!
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by nwjsmith on Thursday July 23, 2009 @10:22PM
(#720812)
I'm working on an app to track work orders for a client. Not exactly riveting, but it's my first real gig and it feels really good to get paid to program.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by gvasilei on Friday July 24, 2009 @08:15AM
(#721301)
Working on http://www.beachionary.com/ a social guide for beaches and organizing summer holidays. It's the middle of the summer and still on private alpha though :|
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by mikeytown2 on Friday July 24, 2009 @01:23AM
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Module called Boost for Drupal.
http://drupal.org/project/boost
In short it's a poormans-squid/poormans-varnish; it creates a html cache for dynamic pages. It's fairly sophisticated, going to have it support the caching of AJAX JSON in the near future; among other things.
and soon to be working on a brand new Version 2.x of http://www.tokion.com (currently a simple set of splash pages)
All for publishers in NYC. I do so wish they would acquire a technical journal, or some form of academics research journal(s). Fashion & Sub Cultures are interesting for those in said cultures but it doesn't mean that I wouldn't find more scholarly/research minded content/environments more interesting.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by holdenk on Friday July 24, 2009 @01:36AM
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I'm working on two things right now ( http://web2.0collage.com & http://pcfspam.com )
I'm hoping to wrap up the first (a lot of it was an experiment into how to do basic PR) and get started on the second after exams.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by smokinn on Thursday July 23, 2009 @11:18PM
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Very very interesting.
If it's not supposed to be secret, how does it work? Does it look for similarity of what you like or does it weight people in your feed and just skip x% of tweets from heavy low-value tweeters?
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by paulsingh on Friday July 24, 2009 @07:49AM
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Well, most of the "secret sauce" is wrapped into the algorithms that we've built so I can't say too much. In general, we're able to learn what topics you're interested in via data that we collect through your implicit and explicit actions. (i.e., we're learning about you by watching who you tend to interact with, retweet, what topics you tend to click through on, who you follow, etc.)
We've been building and improving the algorithm for a few months now -- it's certainly got a long way to go still but, on the other hand, it's certainly come along way so far. :)
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by paulsingh on Friday July 24, 2009 @08:07AM
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Actually, that's exactly what I did in the early stages of the project. Once I started getting some traction earlier this year, it made sense to start putting some real effort into building a much better engine.
Today, that's still one of the methods we employ but it's certainly not enough to make solid recommendations or wrap IP around... so, I've built a team of people much smarter than me to help take this thing to the next level. :)
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by bernzilla on Friday July 24, 2009 @01:59AM
(#721061)
Just launched Merecal, a site for tracking upcoming and new releases in books, movies, music and video games. It uses your favorite artists, authors, actors, directors, publishers, etc. to notify you when the releases you're likely to care about become available for pre-order or actually release.
Not much info on there but the new site will be up in exactly 1 week so stay tuned. You can check out our Facebook page for more info: http://facebook.com/urbangaming
Simple site for me to learn Rails. Took the "solve a problem" idea to "which of these two [X] look better?" (for outfits, haircuts...whatever). Get a crowd to vote to get more opinions. The initial people are uploading some unexpected things though.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by whalesalad on Thursday July 23, 2009 @11:40PM
(#720913)
Just launched our latest version of SchoolRack a few days ago. It connects teachers with their students and parents. Lets them upload files, create discussion boards, create homework assignments, etc...
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by jaddison on Thursday July 23, 2009 @11:54PM
(#720928)
I, with my partners, am working on http://www.snapact.com/ in the midst of creating a better API in order to create more clients for more platforms. Fun and exciting (to me) stuff.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by maneesh on Thursday July 23, 2009 @10:24PM
(#720816)
working on the beta version of Leftos (LEssons For The Opposite Sex) http://leftos.com -- an online dating/relationship advice social network. Building this for a client.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by Shooter on Friday July 24, 2009 @12:20AM
(#720959)
The name sounds like it's a site for liberals...or an operating system for left-handed people. Or a cereal. Or something. It doesn't sound like a name for what it is.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by larryfreeman on Thursday July 23, 2009 @11:17PM
(#720875)
This week, at http://hubpages.com we rolled out a table capsule that fits in nicely with our hubtool, our user interface for designing wikipedia-like articles.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by shaunxcode on Thursday July 23, 2009 @10:49PM
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fun little text editor called WHOAD (sort of like woah dude or word heuristic occurrence analysis diagram). Trying it in flex v.s. the jquery version I currently have.
Mostly working on the social interface around the pricing model, trying to get the subscription process smoothed out. It's a fun little puzzle, trying to get people from "this is cool" to "I should sign up for this" to "I should pay money for this".
After that, there are a couple new big pieces in the works...
It's a place where open source developers can upload their add-ons (and apps in the future) and users can add their software to their website just by clicking. We hope to bring a much bigger, immediate, and organized user base to open source developers.
Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on?
by smmcbride on Friday July 24, 2009 @08:49AM
(#721331)
Many years ago (just as the web was taking off) I was the database guy for a local soccer association. I always liked the idea of abstracting all that out to a general purpose application but never acted on it. Good luck!
It's a little sad because there are no reviews yet...but I don't think he's had time to promote it yet.
Thanks to everyone for the positive comments.
(No URL 'cos it ain't finished yet!)
She's pretty awesome.
http://trains.jp/
There are others out there, but trying to make one that is super easy to use. Still very much a work in progress, but any feedback would be appreciated!
Awesome!
Just opened up sign-ups for a new platform release which is going to begin next week:
http://www.xp-dev.com/blogs/view/704/xp-dev-com-version-40-b...
some more details (if you want to know):
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aSDx...
Used for identifying infill drilling locations.
Updated daily with new well locations.
Working on adding Canada, shale plays, and Gulf of Mexico offshore wells.
Using Memcached on Amazon EC2 + openlayers + Google WGS84 tiles.
We're doing a 1 day web app event this weekend, so I'll be able to share more about everyone's apps soon!
Good or Evil db - in "private" beta you can use this link if you're really interested.
http://goodorevildb.com/do/register?key=chestermcgester
And then a bizarre jython app that I will probably open source. Yeah, I know I should concentrate on just one thing. Oh well.
Check it out tomorrow during daylight!
Maintaining Version 2.x & Building the All New Version (3.0) of http://www.inkedmag.com
Continuing the build of Version 2.x of http://www.surfacemag.com
and soon to be working on a brand new Version 2.x of http://www.tokion.com (currently a simple set of splash pages)
All for publishers in NYC. I do so wish they would acquire a technical journal, or some form of academics research journal(s). Fashion & Sub Cultures are interesting for those in said cultures but it doesn't mean that I wouldn't find more scholarly/research minded content/environments more interesting.
Trying to track late blight on tomatoes. http://gardenobserver.com/report/map. Anyone having pest problems in their gardens? Hook me up!
Also working on http://www.mozilla.com/mobile, got some updates for a future release.
It tracks your friends' favorites on Twitter, and suggests interesting people for you to follow based on favorites and your social network structure.
If it's not supposed to be secret, how does it work? Does it look for similarity of what you like or does it weight people in your feed and just skip x% of tweets from heavy low-value tweeters?
We've been building and improving the algorithm for a few months now -- it's certainly got a long way to go still but, on the other hand, it's certainly come along way so far. :)
Today, that's still one of the methods we employ but it's certainly not enough to make solid recommendations or wrap IP around... so, I've built a team of people much smarter than me to help take this thing to the next level. :)
Does this count?
I'll admit that, right now, it's little more than a tech demo for my iPhone libraries:
http://github.com/costan/zergsupport - iPhone-side
http://github.com/costan/imobile - Rails server-side
http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ - SMS notes (reminders etc) to your inbox
http://therealurl.appspot.com/ - send a URL, get a JSON response with the unshortened version + page title
http://merecal.com/
Hope you don't live in North Carolina.
Not much info on there but the new site will be up in exactly 1 week so stay tuned. You can check out our Facebook page for more info: http://facebook.com/urbangaming
Simple site for me to learn Rails. Took the "solve a problem" idea to "which of these two [X] look better?" (for outfits, haircuts...whatever). Get a crowd to vote to get more opinions. The initial people are uploading some unexpected things though.
http://schoolrack.com
I'm trying to see how many people go with existing frameworks for this sort of thing.
Currently working on simple posting to tumblr and posterous
http://www.familymatic.com
Mostly working on the social interface around the pricing model, trying to get the subscription process smoothed out. It's a fun little puzzle, trying to get people from "this is cool" to "I should sign up for this" to "I should pay money for this".
After that, there are a couple new big pieces in the works...
It's a place where open source developers can upload their add-ons (and apps in the future) and users can add their software to their website just by clicking. We hope to bring a much bigger, immediate, and organized user base to open source developers.
Also, how do you get the tshirts printed? Do you do it yourself or outsource to another company? (curious for my own tshirt needs)
http://www.v2interactive.net working onmy design firms webpage in joomla to meet web 2.0 standards
Feature list is still very short and I'm having some trouble with OAuth on GAE.
Feedback is highly appriciated.
Thanks :)
http://urls.matthewm.boedicker.org/
It will hopefully get some traction soon.