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Re:Show HN: Introducing CircleUp - group photo sharing made simple on Friday May 17, 2013 @11:50PM (#5727859)
Facebook provides a lot of public info (profile pic, first name and last name) that would otherwise be really annoying for the user to type in. Of course, to each his/her own.
Re:REST framework 2 released: Simple, beautiful, browsable Web APIs fo... on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @02:17PM (#4718649)
Django-Piston is not longer being worked on. It may be risky to use a tool that isn't being regularly maintained.
Re:Show HN: My afternoon project, Clustergram on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:49PM (#3825828)
thats interesting. thanks!

Show HN: My afternoon project, Clustergram

Posted by vaf on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @12:12PM
from the show-hn dept.

I built this in an afternoon. It simply lets user quickly create pages of instagram photos that correspond to tags (selected by the user).The font I use renders great on Safari and Chrome. Some have told me that it renders a bit differently on Firefox but is otherwise ok. Let me know if you run into any issues like this or if you have any general suggestions!Thanks!http://clustergram.torehan.me

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Re:Show HN: Eventivore - Our Submission to the 36 hour Hacka2thon on Sunday November 13, 2011 @09:02AM (#3230743)
This is really cool, a nice style touch would be to be able to see what happening "this week" or "this weekend". If you sign in and your facebook event is set to private or closed does it aggregate it?
Re:Drag And Drop Image Editing & Sharing With WebGL on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @04:24PM (#3155726)
This is sick. Great work!

Show HN: I want to find the best of everything (my weekend project)

Posted by vaf on Thursday October 06, 2011 @04:52PM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey HN! I built this over the weekend. It is basically an extremely rudimentary crowd sourced recommendation system for anything in any city. I know that I could easily look this information up on Yelp but I thought it might be nicer to simply look up something like "the best steak in new york" and get that information.The database is almost empty but if you look up the "best coffee in ann...

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project on Monday September 05, 2011 @08:58AM (#2962068)
Wow! These are actually great. I tried googling what I was building but I didnt get anything. Thanks!
Re:Show HN: My weekend project on Monday September 05, 2011 @08:57AM (#2962066)
I dont think you can do the same on Twitter.

Show HN: My weekend project

Posted by vaf on Monday September 05, 2011 @12:20AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey HN! I had some extra time this weekend and I built a prototype of a concept I had for a social network.The idea is based around a concept I call "microevents". Basically I want to be able to quickly generate an event like "I want to grab a coffee". This event will be posted in a stream where others can say "Hey! I wanna join in!" and be listed in that event. The original poster can then...

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Ask HN: What does a hacker house need?

Posted by vaf on Friday August 26, 2011 @09:57AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a student at the University of Michigan and this year I will be living with a bunch of EECS (electrical engineering and computer science) majors in a 6 bedroom house. We want to do what the Palo Alto hacker house does and start inviting hackers in the area to just come over and hang out. Before we do this what does HN think we need in our house to make it hacker friendly?

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup idea on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:20PM (#2925661)
I was thinking of allowing users to login with an already established social network like Twitter or Facebook. Im not sure how I would integrate it with wordpress/tumblr/posterous. Any suggestions?
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup idea on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:19PM (#2925653)
I havent built anything yet, I've just been mocking it up at talking to people about it.

A potential way to make money is to allow people to map out their trip before hand. Airline companies and travel agencies would surely be interested in offering coupons for potential travelers.